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Article on PCA Resolution to Pull Kids from Public Schools.
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Originally posted by Draught Horse
I hope they are more resolute than the SBC. Somebody pointed out to me that if all Southern Baptists in Texas pull their kids out of government schools on Friday, the whole system would collapse by next Wednesday.
"Many Christian children in government schools are converted to an anti-Christian worldview rather than evangelizing their schoolmates."
Originally posted by Plimoth Thom
"Many Christian children in government schools are converted to an anti-Christian worldview rather than evangelizing their schoolmates."
And many home/christian schooled kids rebel against their christian upbringing, especially in college.
Why not trust in Providence, and accept that their children will not be "converted" without His will, instead of being afraid that the big bad government is going to "convert" their children if they let them go to the evil public school.
Originally posted by smallbeans
...those teachers have strengths that we lack and so my children benefit from seeing various kinds of Christians. I respect those of you who homeschool - it is hard work, and though we may have to do it someday, I view it as our plan B.
What I'd really like is an accelerated second grade for my second oldest boy. The school he is going to now isn't as challenging for him as it is for his younger brother. I wish there were a gifted Christian school...
Originally posted by Plimoth Thom
My point is that if a child is "converted" in a public school its more an issue of the child's lack of proper christian education in the home and church, than the evil influences of a secular public school. I had nothing but secular public education from pre-school through university, and I was never converted nor ever thought about leaving my faith. It's hard at times for a christian child to go through a secular education with many non-christian peers, but it prepares you for real life in a fallen secular world.
Perhaps the PCA should focus more on educating parents on their educational responsibilties in the home and church.
Originally posted by LadyFlynt
Thom, it's more a matter of it being a parental responsiblity given by God...than who would win the tug of war for the kids hearts. However, I've known relatively few "CHRISTIAN" homeschoolers that have rebelled. Try that in comparison to the "CHRISTIAN" kids in public schools (I was one, please keep in mind).
Originally posted by satz
Originally posted by LadyFlynt
Thom, it's more a matter of it being a parental responsiblity given by God...than who would win the tug of war for the kids hearts. However, I've known relatively few "CHRISTIAN" homeschoolers that have rebelled. Try that in comparison to the "CHRISTIAN" kids in public schools (I was one, please keep in mind).
hey Colleen, ( and everyone else )
do you think that parents' responsibility before God to bring up their kids is completely incompatible with sending children to public schools?
Originally posted by LadyFlynt
Originally posted by satz
Originally posted by LadyFlynt
Thom, it's more a matter of it being a parental responsiblity given by God...than who would win the tug of war for the kids hearts. However, I've known relatively few "CHRISTIAN" homeschoolers that have rebelled. Try that in comparison to the "CHRISTIAN" kids in public schools (I was one, please keep in mind).
hey Colleen, ( and everyone else )
do you think that parents' responsibility before God to bring up their kids is completely incompatible with sending children to public schools?
Yes, I do.
Originally posted by satz
Originally posted by LadyFlynt
Originally posted by satz
Originally posted by LadyFlynt
Thom, it's more a matter of it being a parental responsiblity given by God...than who would win the tug of war for the kids hearts. However, I've known relatively few "CHRISTIAN" homeschoolers that have rebelled. Try that in comparison to the "CHRISTIAN" kids in public schools (I was one, please keep in mind).
hey Colleen, ( and everyone else )
do you think that parents' responsibility before God to bring up their kids is completely incompatible with sending children to public schools?
Yes, I do.
that's fair enough...just a further question if you don't mind.
If the government were to legislate to make it complusory to send children to public schools do you see this as a legitimate area for civil disobedience?
Do you think a christian should go to jail rather than submit to a government trying to force all children into public schools?
just curious about your thoughts...
mark
Please call them "government schools" and not "public schools.
Perhaps a less well known struggle for freedom came in 1983 in Nebraska. Six homeschool families defied the compulsory attendance law and kept their children from public school. Nebraska authorities promptly threw the fathers in jail. The only "˜crime' was that these families dared to educate their own children outside the public school system. The fathers were eventually freed after a lengthy legal process and three months in jail. The same negative attitudes towards homeschool parents persisted across almost all 50 states in 1983. Due to the dedication of many homeschool pioneers, however, who demonstrated the academic success of homeschooling and argued that parents had a fundamental right to raise the children entrusted to them, the homeschool laws across the country slowly changed to recognize a parent's fundamental right to homeschool.
Originally posted by Abd_Yesua_alMasih
I would rather there were Christian Schools than Homeschools. That gives children a high level of education outside of secular schools. Not every perant has the ability to homeschool and very few can match the specialised education of a multi-million dollar school.
Originally posted by satz
Originally posted by LadyFlynt
Originally posted by satz
Originally posted by LadyFlynt
Thom, it's more a matter of it being a parental responsiblity given by God...than who would win the tug of war for the kids hearts. However, I've known relatively few "CHRISTIAN" homeschoolers that have rebelled. Try that in comparison to the "CHRISTIAN" kids in public schools (I was one, please keep in mind).
hey Colleen, ( and everyone else )
do you think that parents' responsibility before God to bring up their kids is completely incompatible with sending children to public schools?
Yes, I do.
that's fair enough...just a further question if you don't mind.
If the government were to legislate to make it complusory to send children to public schools do you see this as a legitimate area for civil disobedience?
Do you think a christian should go to jail rather than submit to a government trying to force all children into public schools?
just curious about your thoughts...
mark
And many home/christian schooled kids rebel against their christian upbringing, especially in college.
Why not trust in Providence, and accept that their children will not be "converted" without His will, instead of being afraid that the big bad government is going to "convert" their children if they let them go to the evil public school.
Originally posted by maxdetail
I have home schooled and I plan to home school again BUT, I wonder if we are doing right by exiting government schools and leaving such a great vacuum. It doesn't help our neighborhoods and communities to encourage a Christian ghetto.
Shouldn't we be infiltrating the schools and government and entertainment instead of running for the high grass. Someone tell me where I'm wrong here and thanks in advance.