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.
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Have you read their curriculum, especially their social studies, language arts, and math books ? Are you there every day to hear what they are taught ?
You’d be surprised how they slip it in - my kid’s math book in 4th grade contained highly biased and inaccurate stories on the rain forest, Africa etc. Her MATH book, for Pete’s sake.
As long as these decisions are justifiable. Otherwise, we'd be engaging in relativism.
However, it is true that particular familial circumstances make judgements regarding individual decisions impossible.
What we can practically debate here is the philosophical validity of various methods of education.
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This is not a “statistic on the fly”.
Bruce Shortt the leader of the Baptist Exodus Mandate reports that on 10% of Christian children are active in their faith 2 years after graduating from government high school. The retention rate for privately schooled children is far greater. The percentage for homeschooled is closed to 90% active.
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It’s like that classic Halloween film, “The Night of the Living Dead”. Before long the ghouls will be crawling through the basement windows. :-)
First, one man's assertion in the absence of any data being presented, isn't documentation.
Second, the author fails to even give us the "Well, Bruce says so" citation that you've given us.
If someone is going to cite a statistic, they should cite the data source.
Well I guess if you want to read it that way, that’s your choice. My comments were totally based on my decisions about MY KIDS, not yours or anyone elses.
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Congratulations! Your child beat the odds.
The facts are that it is very, very unlikely for a Christian youth to be active in his religion 2 years after graduating from government school. Bruce Short reports that is about 10%.
So...To the other parents who are considering government schooling I have a question:
How many AP courses and Summa Cum Laudes is a human soul worth?
What if one said, “I’d prosecute cowardly Christians for running from their duty to spread the Gospel, especially in hostile territory”? Fight the good fight my son, running to your safe haven will not change the world for the Gospel.
Look at those muslims who come to America, they are converting many people because good Christians are not there to fight back.
There’s no other way to read it.
We had that in the early ‘80s in my high school too. It was innocent then, just like seeing the “3 Stooges” in bed together. The left has and continues to bastardize innocence.
so much of what makes up a public school system depends on the locality in which it is located. i live in NoVA, suburbs of DC. all of my kids have been in private/Catholic schools. i would NEVER send my kids to public school here bc it is PC run amok, and there is a very defined agenda to what goes on there. But i grew up in the Pittsburgh area and attended public jr hi and HS, have friends with kids in public school there, have nieces and nephews in public school in Ohio, and for them, the situation is much like what it was when i was in HS in the late 70s. no problem at all. far too many freepers generalize about the educational choices that parents make and it just doesn’t work that way.
O.K. You have revealed your agenda. Now, where's YOUR "proof"?
Christian support of public education is completely inappropriate; even the Southern Baptist Convention is studying this problem. The public schools don’t “teach” anything; they prep for tests and indoctrinate Leftist ideology; they undermine parental authority at every given opportunity. The problem is that they are owned, operated and controlled by Leftist Teachers Unions and the only way to break the back of the Unions is to effectuate a mass exodus from their campuses.
If I’m understanding your post youre supposing it’s appropriate to use children in this “fight”? By leaving the kids in the swamp that is public schooling all that’s accomplished is that the kids are lost. You can’t win by aiding in the slaughter of innocents at an age so tender they can’t protect themselves much less aid in the conversion of those sworn to evil.
It's quite simple.
Gary North predicted in his newsletter that Y2K would be a global catastrophe. Fact: There was no global catastrophe on Y2K.
In his The 1980s: Countdown To Armageddon Hal Lindsey said that the world would end by 1988.
Fact: the world is still here.
“Journalists aren’t allowed to just make stuff up as long as they label their piece op/ed.
“Commentary” isn’t a license to create your own facts.”
An “opinion” is just that. They can make up anything they want to as long as it is THEIR OPINION.
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When my daughter was in kindergarden she came home disgusted one day. She was upset with the “supermarket” corner of the kindergarden room. She said ( very perplexed ), “Why don’t they just go to a REAL supermarket!”
Well,,,nothing is better than a REAL family.
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Only one in 10 Christian children remain active in their faith 2 years after graduating from their Secularist government school.
But,,,hey!...You are right. Some kids and some families beat the odds.
Not if they ever want to be taken seriously as commentators.
If I read an op/ed that says: "50% of Christian conservatives are repressed homosexuals like Ted Haggard" I will know the author of that piece doesn't have a truly informed opinion and thus his analysis is worthless.
I see sending a child to government school, like playing Russian Roulette. Yep! A lot of people who play that game beat the odds.
Well,,,only one in 10 kids who come from active Christian families are active in their faith 2 years after graduating from their Secularist Humanist government schools.
In my opinion using government schools is playing Russian Roulette with your child’s soul, only the odds and consequences are worse.
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