Christians Called To Abandon Public Education

1. Public schools are increasingly political indoctrination centers.
2. Public schools are too often filled with drugs, violence, perversion and anti-Christian acts & teaching.
3. Public schools foster messages like normalizing homosexuality and the entire gamut of sexual activity outside of marriage as healthy and good for society and the individual.
4. Public schools seek to remove the child's allegiance from the family and bond him/her to their cohort members. The administrators, of course, select the world-view messages and ethical structures that the student body eventually internalizes.
5. Public schools often don't care about your view as parents if it is contrary to the ‘educator's’ set agenda or curriculum.
6. Public schools indoctrinate children with secular ideals and denigrate the faith based reality.
7. Public schools are often failing to provide basic educational competence.
8. Public schools are often places for adults to cruise for juvenile sex.
9. Public schools are explicitly anti-American in way too many ways.
10. Public schools expressly push socialism.

These are just a few thoughts about the nature and benefits of public education. For the life of me I can't understand why you'd think a child would be benefited by going there to defend or temper their ‘faith.’ Children need guidance and nurturing - they are not spiritual warriors. Maturity in faith is a function of a faithful walk and almost always to product of years.

For a few thousand more reasons why public schools are not the place for children you care about, use the FR search function and type in the keyword ‘PUBLIKSKOOLZ.’

You've basically figured it out.

If we don't figure a way to break the power of the NEA and the govt. school monopoly, nothing else we ever do will matter. My own view is that the public school thing is too far gone to try to fix and that we need to get all Christian, conservative, and/or republican kids out of them, ASAP.

>>If Christians have rights inside school, why not the Islamics?

Because Christians are not part of a totalitarian political-religious system in which political aspects of the system are inseparable from the religious ones.

Other than that, it’s the same issue. No one wants to talk about this nontrivial difference.

the best way to break the school monopoly is to homeschool and use on line schooling. Virtual schools are being set up at the college level and are slowly leveling the monopoly that higher education had because of geography. Same needs to happen at the elementary and high school levels. Call homeschooling “private school choice”.

If Christians have rights inside school, why not the Islamics?

There is no reason. Whatever the lawmakers say, goes. That's why the government should keep its grubby hands out of education. Let Christians have Christian schools, let whoever wants secular schools to have them, etc.

and leave the Bible teaching and honoring Christ to Sunday School where it belongs.

Wow. That is so wrong I don't even know where to start. For a Christian, these are not Sunday activities. These things are life.

If we withdraw from the world, we withdraw from the "Great Commission" which is to preach the Gospel to the world.

Neither homeschooling nor Christian schooling will take anyone out of the world (the only way to leave the world would be to leave the world), but it will allow the influence to be controlled. That is the key. When you send a 6 year old packing off to a public school, you are not sending a missionary into hostile territory. You are throwing a child to the wolves. During those years a child is not and cannot be equipped to deal with the temptations and influences presented them. That is why they need to be trained first. True, some come out all right anyway. Some people have even survived jumping out of a plane and having the parachute fail. That doesn't mean either is a good idea.

leave the Bible teaching and honoring Christ to Sunday School where it belongs

Do not concur, and the very prayers you reference are nearly illegal on school grounds. The NEA needs to learn who the taxpayers really are. Pull the kids, shut down the indoctrination industry and pray for a do-over for public "education."

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