Public school and freedom

What would it take for your church to call all Christians to get out of public school? How bad does it have to get? Zelda’s Revenge - coming to a school near you!
http://theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/21PbAr/Ed/ClpsPbEd5CALaws.htm


“What's Really Wrong With Public Schools?” I will give you a hint: it has nothing to do with violence, sex, test scores, merit pay, special ed, or anything else you have heard in the news.
http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue08/whats_wrong_with_schools.htm



The Problem with Public schools from someone else.
http://www.jeffryfisher.net/Statesman/Education/Propaganda.htm



British comedy puts the issue of school choice in perspective.
http://tertiumquids.blogspot.com/2008/08/required-viewing-on-school-choice.html




Getting Out is Not Enough- We have to do more. We have to rethink what education means. http://educationconversation.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/getting-out-is-not-enough/




How Homeschoolers are a threat to you!
http://www.djournal.com/pages/archive.asp?ID=274594

And this link is a repost. This is a $30+ book that has been put online entirely for free by the author. He is an ex public schoolteacher (30 years), teacher of the year twice, and now anti-public school advocate. He has done the research. This book tells us the history of our public schools. He doesn’t discuss test scores or violence or any other problems, but this is an incredibly scary book. The fact is that our schools are NOT broken. They function just like they were designed to, right down to the bullying between students. Every parent, every voter, every tax payer, MUST READ THIS BOOK!
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm


Ok, no one is surprised I support homeschooling. I even give a hesitant nod to Private schools. But to get totally real here, I think public schools should be outlawed. Radical? You bet! But so were those who wrote a little document we call the Constitution. In fact, this is a constitutional issue. Our Founding Fathers discussed what kind of education system we would have. Their conclusion was that education = religion and they didn’t trust any government body to have control of the indoctrination of this country’s children. This is one of the issues they put under the Tenth Amendment (which was part of the original document, not a later add on like #11+ are.) To paraphrase; “Anything we didn’t mention here is forbidden of the federal government. It is to be left with the states and the people.”


The founders of our public schools, the ones truly behind the movement, were socialistic atheists. Our country was 80% Christian church attendees at the time. What has been the result of this system of government taking care of education for us? Just what our Founding Fathers predicted. Today 80% or more of the population never attends church and act like atheists (even if they say they believe in God.) The religion that controls the schools, controls the country and atheism is a religion just like any other.

A child’s education should be controlled entirely by his parents. Now this doesn’t rule out privates schools. I have other, less important, reasons for disproving of them (though they are necessary at times). But a parent should have his child in the school that teaches the religion the parent believes. Period.


What about salt and light? I quote from the excellent homeschool book “Homeschool: Why What How?” ;-)


“Chapter 12.
Shouldn’t I Send My Child To School To
Be “Light And Salt?”
First of all, I have met few five-year-olds (the most common school-starting age) that have truly accepted Christ as their savior. Sending any child to school that isn’t even saved yet to evangelize is like sending a drunken thief to Africa as a missionary. Someone must have the “Light and Salt’ in order to be “light and salt.”


Besides, if this method of evangelism, (sending children to school to witness to each other), worked, our churches would be packed to overflowing. At the institution of public school, the majority of Americans were regular church goers. If each of their children had just brought one unsaved peer to the Lord then our society would be 100% Christian today. Instead, it is getting less and less Christian and more and more Secular Humanist. (One recent study says 88% of fundamentalist Christian children whole heartedly embrace Secular Humanism and quit church permanently at age eighteen). It appears that sending Christian children to public school is having the opposite
effect from evangelism. If my church had an outreach program where we LOST more than 80% of our WORKERS, I would strongly recommend to our leadership that we needed to change programs.


A study commissioned by Homeschool Legal Defense said 96% of homeschool graduates say they are the same or almost the same religion as their parents. Since 80% of homeschoolers are fundamentalist Christians, this is a mighty army of mature spiritual warriors being unleashed on the world. I see this as having a far more positive impact on evangelism than the “send your kids to school to be light and salt” crowd ever dreamed of.


Besides, you wouldn’t send your child to an Islamic or Buddhist temple for their equivalent of Sunday School every week and expect them to stay a Christian. Yet many well meaning Christian parents take their Little Gifts from God to a Secular Humanist (or Humanist trained) teacher, tell them to obey and respect them, for six or more hours, every day, 170-180 days per year, for at least thirteen straight years and are honestly surprised when their children turn out to be
half- hearted Christians at best. Jesus said “A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.”(16) Atheist teacher, atheist kid. Christian teacher, Christian kid.

Sending your child to school to save a class full of unbelieving peers is an awful lot to ask of a child. Few adults could handle that kind of pressure. The Bible says “If the salt have lost his savor wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”(17) Childhood is the time a child should be building his foundation for lifelong service to Christ, not evangelizing the world. That is what adulthood is for. Wouldn’t sending him to school to evangelize before he is mature Christians be “lay(ing) hands suddenly”(18) on your child, something Paul said not to do to any man? You wouldn’t throw tomato seeds out in the snow and expect plants much less fruit. For the best crops of tomatoes, you
start them inside in a controlled environment and only gradually take them into the real world when they are almost grown and ready to handle it. Same for Christians. As I recently heard one woman say, “If one apple in a barrel has a bad spot it will turn all the apples bad. I have never yet seen a bunch of good apples turn a bad apple good again.”


Solomon said “He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.”(19) Jesus said “the student will become like his teacher.” Who do you want your children to be like?”


16 Luke 6:40
17 Matthew 5:13
18 1 Timothy 5:22
19 Proverbs 13:20