I graduated High School without encountering any humanistic viewpoints being shoved down my throat. Now, college was another thing...

I know what humanism is. I was never taught it directly.

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Tim Potts
Siloam Springs, Arkansas
Member of Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Student at John Brown University
-Let the church change the world and rather than the world change the church-

I've been out of high school for seven years, but I went to a public school, knew what secular humanism was and was never accustomed to it. They didn't assume that we all agreed with humanism either, if anything they knew that the majority of us at least professed Christ. I went to Plano Senior High School and never had a problem. I don't ever remember hearing about evolution, and my wife just said that the only time her teacher talked about it, they said how much they hated it and disagreed with it and then rushed through that section.

I mean, we weren't taught about Christ in school either, but it wasn't the way ya'll seem to portray it as.

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Ranger
SBC, but personally confess the 1689 LBCF
Yunnan, China

"If we regularly beheld the glory of Christ, our Christian walk with God would become more sweet and pleasant, our spiritual light and strength would grow daily stronger and our lives would more gloriously represent the glory of Christ. Death would be most welcome to us." - John Owen

Wow (Kyle)...it must be a southern thing 'cause back east it's totally secular. Which is to say that it's not for Christ. I can even recall a certain teacher getting the boot because he was witnessing to a student. Don't let the ACLU in on this!

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Christopher
"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."
Ecclesiastes (12:13)
Church Affiliation: Faith Presbyterian OPC

I have to agree that Southern public schools probably aren't as bad on the humanism. Most of the teachers at my school were professing Christians, and I, like Kyle, was never actually taught evolution. The problem is significantly reduced by the fact that the teachers are not particular humanistic (though I'd argue that most Americans are to an extent, whether they realize it or not)... but there was still a problem in the form of textbooks.

Of course, I still wouldn't want to send my (nonexistent) children to a public school. My school might not have indoctrinated me in the ways of humanism (though television probably did), but it didn't provide a very good education, either. And "not being that bad" isn't quite enough for me on the worldview point. It isn't quite good enough that the children aren't getting a full-blown humanistic worldview. I think a completely Christ-centered curriculum is what we ought to seek and what I would want for my children if it were at all possible.

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Evie B.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Attending Park Street Church, Boston

"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." --Isaiah 43:18-19 (ESV)

Yes (Ex Nihilo)...

it's that creeping and pervasive humanistic framework that I'm referring to as well.

Noone ever really said "This is humanism...blah, blah, blah" to me when I was in High School (that I can recall) either. But after I was saved it was like I could all of the sudden see the man behind the curtain in the land of Oz. Just by the fact that God was not positively included in the educational framework presupposes that He has nothing to say about it or, is somehow "neutral" in this sphere.