Posted on 12/19/2007 2:40:07 PM PST by wintertime
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Thanks!
Thanks.
Wintertime
Parents are the only people who can make a difference at the grass roots level. Public schools are a joke.
The money quote.
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One of the reasons that we don’t see more Christian schools is due to there being so many government school teachers sitting in the pews. The ministers are too afraid to offend them.
Follow the money.
Parents are the only people who can make a difference at the grass roots level.
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What is needed is a mass Exodus!
Interesting article, wintertime.
It is very sad but a true conclusion. Public schools are dying because of Democrats and courts.
I’m already out ... my kids that is ...
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Parents can NOT make a difference. Why? Answer: Because the Anti-Christianity is embedded in law. (Please read Bruce Shortt’s paragraph “All Public Schools, By Law, Are Anti-Christian”. Government schools can NOT be reformed.
Shortt also writes that there is no neutrality in education. This is a fundamental characteristic of all education, and, being axiomatic, can NOT be “reformed” by parents or anyone else.
There Is No Neutrality in Education
Often Christians attempt to argue it downs’t matter that the public school system is not for Christ – that education is somehow religiously “neutral.” Education, however, is never neutral.
Any Christian who believes that government schools operate on religiously neutral principles is simply deceived. There is no such thing as metaphysical or religious neutrality. If an institution rejects the Bible’s teaching about the nature of God, Man and the universe, then it necessarily accepts, implicitly or explicitly, some other worldview, whether it be the materialist metaphysics of secular humanism, the cosmic humanism of the New Age religions, or something else. Government schools are no exception.
On a practical level, the net result of nearly sixty years of Supreme Court rulings on the meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution has not been to create a level playing field for different beliefs, but simply to take all vestiges of Christianity out of government schools. Today, secular humanism, postmodernism, New Age mysticism, and other forms of paganism pervade government schools at all levels. The teachers’ unions, such as the NEA, are openly hostile to Biblical Christianity and its values, and the curricula of schools of education and teachers’ colleges, from which the overwhelming majority of teachers are drawn, are suffused with a mélange of postmodern and other nonchristian worldviews. Not surprisingly, textbook publishers accommodate the education establishment’s worldview by providing textbooks that conform to the prevailing anti-Christian perspective of the education establishment.
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The fundamental premise of government schooling was flawed from the very beginning.
1) Education can never be religiously neutral. ( In conflict with the First Amendment)
2) To have orderly government schools, the government must trash free speech, free press, free expression of religion, free assembly, and no school is religiously neutral. ( First Amendment, freedom of conscience, and human rights violations)
2)Consider your own children and the children of the parents in your congregation as your most important and urgent mission field.
3) Get your kids and the kids of your congregation out of the government schools.
4) Organize, and be teachers in, Christian schools in your own congregations....
6) Once your congregation has a viable and healthy education structure for its own children take in as many non-Christian children as possible ( provided that it would not overwhelm the Christian culture of the school). Mentor the parents of these children.
7) Work to organize private Christian scholarship foundations so that **every** child in the U.S. would have access to a private Christian education. Harvard has and endowment of $35 BILLION ,and small colleges like Amerhert or Williams $1.7 and $1.9 BILLION, respectively. We are a wealthy nation. If Christians REALLY WANTED they could do the same for children in this nation.
Nothing is more important than this. The church's first mission field has to be its own children. Lose that battle and nothing else much matters.
Um, parents can take their kids OUT of public schools.
Nothing is more important than this. The church’s first mission field has to be its own children. Lose that battle and nothing else much matters.
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That needs to be repeated, and repeated, and repeated,,,and,,,shouted from the roof tops!
The Christian teachers that are in public schools are tightly controlled so they make no difference anyway. They get to act like atheists in the classroom otherwise..they are out.
You hit on the bottomline..Lose your own kids, your culture dies. I had no idea Baptists were losing this many to the world. We have seminary and 2 year missions, but the world can still steal a significant percentage. Peer groups drag most kids down along with the Godless system of education.
wow.
This is a violation of the first amendment -- you know the one that is misapplied to guarantee the schools WE MUST PAY FOR FIRST AND FOREMOST secular. The feds have made a school system. They insist that it is secular. They insist we all must pay for it.
The situation is absurd. The federal government is supposed to stay out of religious affairs. Worked fine, until governments made EVERYTHING their affair, while at the same time the restriction on the federal government was expanded to all levels of government by judicial fiat.
OBVIOUSLY teachers are not the federal congress. OBVIOUSLY They do make laws. SO HOW CAN THE POSSIBLY VIOLATE THE FOLLOWING: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free practice thereof."?
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