From: dlhanson@nap.amoco.com (David L. Hanson)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Religion & Schools(Was Re: Liberal/New Age Religion)
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:19:33 GMT
Organization: These are my opinions.

In article <Nov.17.03.37.48.1992.26574@geneva.rutgers.edu> jd4p+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Ethan DeGraaf) writes:

>The problem is that all and any education is innately religious and from
>some worldview. Therefore, the government should not be involved in
>forcing ANY religion or belief system (incl. secular humanism). The
>gov't. should not be in control of education, but parents and families
>should. Parents should have the right to teach their children how they
>like (remember: all education subscribes to a particular worldview, it
>is impossible to not be biased). Since their is no such thing as an
>unbiased and neutral education, lets get the state out of it's
>educational monopoly. _Parents_ are instructed to "train up a child in
>the way he should go." The privitazation of the educational system would
>have the additional benefit of increasing qualitity while decreasing
>cost. A specific religion should not be taught by the state, therefore
>the state should not be in control of the education of its youth (like
>Hitler wanted). Biblically, who does the God put in charge of education
>of the young? I believe that it is the parents.

I agree with you 100% but I would go even farther and
say that homeschooling is even preferable to private institutional schools
(in Illinois a home school is a private school just the same as a private
school with 500 or more children).  God gave children to parents not to the
government, not to the church, and not to the church school but to parents.

There is no way that children can be trained up in the way they should go
in the public school.  On the contrary, they will only learn the way that
they shouldn't go.  The entire worldview, the entire culture presented in
the public school is (or should be) alien to a Christian.  Secular humanism,
condom distribution, values clarification, evolution, mockery of God and
the Bible, promotion of sodomy as normal, etc. are a complete opposite to
God's way for children to be trained. We could discuss that God wants children
to be immersed in His way of thinking (as presented in Deuteronomy).  How can
we then consider putting our children in a prison (compulsary education laws
make it that) where any mention of God or His Word is censored.

This is not even considering that the public schools are not hardly
educating anyone.  They are simply an expensive facade for political
and cultural indoctrination. (Do I loathe the public school system?
YES; I am convinced that it is absolutely a satanic creation.)

Our family has been homeschooling since January of this year.  We have two
boys, ages 9 and 11, who had previously attended public school. We believe
that we are called by God to homeschool the boys and we take that calling
very seriously.  As the Bible says, we are seeking first His kingdom and
His righteousness (by putting God first in our family's lives) and all
the other things will be added (character development and academics).

To get an idea of how bad the public school system is academically, I
suggest the following books:

NEA - The Trojan Horse  by Sam Blumenthal (I am not exactly sure on title and
                                           author)

Endangered Minds - Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About it?
       by Jane Healy  ISBN 0-671-74920-x

Why Johnny Can't Read    by Rudolf Flesch

Why Johnny Still Can't Read   by Rudolf Flesch

These should give you an idea that the public school system is as bankrupt
academically as it is morally and spiritually. (Healy blames the parents
and the prevalent culture as much if not more than the public schools.)


"Jesus saith unto him, I am THE way, THE truth, and THE life: NO MAN cometh
unto the Father, BUT BY ME"  John 14:6
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