Posted on 12/04/2007 3:36:50 AM PST by ohhhh
Raging ideological battles in both California and Iowa reached new levels last week when students packed up their backpacks and left their public schools. In California, parents staged a two-day boycott, pulling students from state schools in protest of SB 777, a bill force-feeding children perverse material and videos vile enough to garner an R-rating in the local multiplex. Meanwhile in Iowa, distressed parents removed up to 200 students after one public high school sponsored an event encouraging students to bend their gender by cross-dressing. Evidently, some are beginning to wake up to the fact that their children are no longer receiving true education, but are being clandestinely recruited into sick social movements threatening to tear families apart at the seams. As Barb Heki with the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators stated: "Kids are being saturated with anti-Christian teaching, touching not only their minds, but their hearts."
Yet tragically, while some Christian parents and pastors demonstrated courage in removing their children from the filth, the vast majority simply looked away and did nothing.
This is incredible considering that 85 percent of children from Christian families are being public schooled, and around 85 percent of them are losing their faith by the time they graduate. So the question must be asked: What is currently preventing most parents and churches from taking action as the nation's children are being soul murdered?
Child advocate Jody Wohlenhaus, working in tandem with the Iowa Family Policy Center, has observed that "non-believers possess a more clear vision of how to shape children than many Christian parents do." She said they not only get to children early, but they strongly appeal to the children's sympathy by distorting statistics on bullying. In short, they know how to take our children captive.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
I myself am not “bashing” but I do feel that the “we both neeeeed to work” excuse is just that. You do not HAVE to believe that home or private schooling is better but I hear the both-must-work mantra too often. It’s just not true. In most cases sacrifices can be made.
I posted before completing my thought.
From the link I sent you:
“According to Fritz, “Studies by George Barna, the Nehemiah Institute, and the Southern Baptist Convention show that 70 to 88 percent of children from Christian families will leave the faith after graduation.”
So go seek it out. I can’t hold your hand all day.
Nice to see I am not alone on that issue.
(1) It is the job of the author, not the reader, to cite the author's sources.
(2) It is the job of the responsible reader to be skeptical of broad statistical claims that are not cited.
Public schools are obsolete. Period.
They were a good paradigm in a pre-internet/computer world where the nation was creating a new middle class paradigm.
Their primary function today is day-care for working parents and free meals for bastards - children of poor single mothers. That is not why they were created, nor is it a noble vision.
I was one of those kids who lost their faith by graduation. We've been homeschooling ours since our oldest hit kindergarten. Best decision we ever made.
Absolutely. It's like the difference between Flip Wilson dressing up as Geraldine and Ru Paul dressing up as...well, Ru Paul.
Those parents have already been through the same public school system and have been brainwashed.
That is not from the linked article you sent me.
Perhaps it is located elsewhere on the Exodus Mandate site, but it certainly isn't in the linked page.
To explain this as elementarily as possible: if someone is going to cite a specific statistic when making an argument, they should tell their readers what authoritative source they got that statistic from.
Perhaps a citation is hidden on a different page somewhere else in his website or his employer's website, or somewhere out on the web.
The reader's responsibility is not to do the author's research for him.
You’re not alone. I wholeheartedly agree that college is not absolutely necessary, but should my son decide on a career in engineering, medicine or (God forbid) law, college is definitely in his future (and ours).
I’m a Christian parent with two children in public school. They are thriving and doing well. We researched schools before we built our home so that we could have them in what we consider the best district. It is a small 2A school. We are very involved, know what is going on and know what is being taught. We have a daughter in high school and a son in middle school. The school is not a babysitter. If a child is home schooled is the parent simply a babysitter?
I understand no place is perfect, neither is a home school. I could give you examples but I won’t.
You are very unusual.
Do you really believe that was the school’s fault?
With all buracracies there’s one thing they all understand above all others, that’s money.
Schools get matching funds from the Federal Government and their state governments. These funds are determined at a per student basis twice per annum. Simply remove your students on those days, the decrease in funding will take care of the problem.
You sound like a great parent.
It’s also the responsibility of the reader to accuse responsibly with facts, not with suppositions.
You were right to question the statistic, but not to assume it had no basis in fact unless proven otherwise.
LOL - good comparison.
You are right. The link I should have provided was: http://www.inplainsite.org/html/christianity_and_public_school.html
Search is your friend :)
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