“I have actually heard this from several parents...normally after a year or two they are then complaining about their local district because their child has changed.”
This is the nature of traditional schools, no matter how good. It's a built-in issue, although there are certain factors that can exacerbate the problem.
When folks homeschool, the only real, significant authorities in the life of the child are mother and father. As soon as the child attends a traditional school, there is a competing authority: teacher. As well, there is an increase in peer pressure.
If the school is a good school, and especially if parents and faculty are truly a united team, the dilution of the parents’ authority isn't as big a problem. But in a large public school environment, “involvement” on the part of the parents usually means to the faculty and administration that the parents should help fund-raise; volunteer to drive kids to various school and extracurricular events; buy the kids whatever goodies the teachers instruct. Parents aren't really part of a united team, and have little say in the overall direction of curriculum or school ideology.
And thus, there is a split between parents and school faculty and administration, resulting in two competing source of authority.
The split becomes especially noticeable if one’s children attend schools where the prevailing ideologies are either: significantly different from one’s own world view and/or; among those ideologies that admire and encourage the repudiation of parental authority.
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“And thus, there is a split between parents and school faculty and administration, resulting in two competing source of authority.”
Very well put.
Luke 11:17 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: “Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall.”
And then we wonder why we have the problems we do in the culture...
Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods besides me.”
Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”
These are the first and second areas of authority in a persons life. If anything competes against these first two, it is not for the betterment of the person or culture...but an attack on God and His plan.
“While there is much that we do not know, humans are responsible for what we are or will become. NO DEITY WILL SAVE US; we must save ourselves.” Humanist Manifesto 2 (1973).
It looks to me like the humanists have stated their plan and their thoughts clearly for us to understand...they are against God...no need to hand our kids over to them.