Did Christ enlist children as missionaries? No! He chose mature **men** who were well founded in the faith.
Even seasoned and experienced conservative politicians are humiliated in public and the media by the followers of the liberal/Marxist faith. To expect children to do this in a public setting where teachers have tremendous power over the classroom and their individual futures is actually abusive to the child.
Keep in mind the biblical concept of who was a child. Bar Mitzvah age was reached for a boy at age 13, the corresponding age for a girl at age 12. This was considered civilly responsible. Our current notions are modernisms.
I disagree completely. My high school sophomore daughter just spent two biology classes this week watching Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth," and being taught the most outrageous lefty environmental propaganda under the name of "science."
What's more, she had to sit through the same thing in her freshman year, for God knows what reason.
I am encouraging her to push back, and I am supporting her by being in touch with the head of the public school curriculum department to ensure that the counter arguments to global warming will be presented.
After watching the Al Gore movie, her teacher gave her class an assignment that was all about reducing their ecological footprint to "save the planet," and to ask what changes they will make in their lives. I spent hours with her on that assignment -- and encouraged her to answer questions like that with statements like: "I'll change my ecological footprint when Al Gore does," and "Al Gore's monthly electric bill is five times what my family spends on electricity."
I helped her Google all sorts of counter arguments to the Global Warming hypothesis, and she and I are completely bonded around making sure that the school presents the other side, including showing "The Great Global Warming Swindle."
Since she was in first grade, I have been inoculating her against the leftist propaganda in the curriculum, and teaching her to learn to recognize it when it's presented.
On her first day of school in 1st grade, I told her: "Some of what they will tell you is always true. Some is true for now, and some is absolutely false. Your job will be to leatn how to tell the difference."
I have taught her to always be respectful and not to be disruptive. But I have also encouraged her to stand up for what is right, and she knows that if she gets in trouble for pushing back, I will be there to support her with the administration.
Yes, it's important to choose one's battles, and there have been very few instances throughout her education where I have encouraged her to push back.
But if the schools are going to jam leftist propaganda (and Common Core) down our kids' throats, damn right I am going to raise her consciousness and teach her to push back when necessary and appropriate.
Kids today must be taught to stand up for themselves and push back in appropriate ways when necessary.