Education Today and The Lord

[KR McKay]

Interesting: The following showed up early this morning:

Suffer Little Children
September 10, 2009

"But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." (Luke 18:16)

A widely-read book several decades ago based its title, Suffer Little Children, on this plea of Christ, but used the words instead to refer to the terrible harm being suffered by America’s little children in its public schools and humanistic social institutions. Not only were they being indoctrinated with evolutionary just-so-stories, but also with socialistic understanding of the world and its nations and people.

And if things were bad thirty and forty years ago, they are much worse today with the modern promotion of deviant lifestyles and wide use of behavior-modifying "medicines" to control behavior. There are certainly many good Christian teachers and schools, but the over-all trend is so bad that many Bible-believing churches and organizations are diligently promoting Christian schools and home schools as a needed means of escape from the deadly influence of public schools on the children.

Worst of all is the deliberate banning of prayer, God, the Bible, and Christ from the schools in a misused devotion to the myth of church/state separation. Instead of "suffering the little children" to come to Christ like He said, most of them do all they can to prevent it.

Those who promote this situation are in grave danger themselves. Jesus warned: "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18:6).

There is a better way, of course. A good school, acting en loco parentis, should seek heartily to "bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:4). HMM

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I say that it is "interesting" because I had gotten the following e-mail from a friend, earlier in the day:

"...My dad was totally incredulous that we homeschool our two oldest. Never mind that they get more of an education in half a day than they would in a whole week otherwise.

We DO have the twins in Public School. For a week, we had them ride the bus home. They were on the bus for an hour...and the school was about a mile away from the house. They couldn't do their homework on the bus (county policy because they're afraid kids would drop their papers), they couldn't sit cross-legged in the seats (had to have feet on the floor of bus), and they were always annoyed by the loud kids. Now, I just pick them up in the afternoon.

If my wife was ambivalent about homeschooling before, she is DEFINITELY pro-Homeschooling now that she has had a year back at "teaching." She's appalled at all the waste and stupidity. Personally, I'm annoyed by the lack of accountability by the people in charge too cowardly to be accountable, ie, "We can't do that, it's against County/State/Federal policy." Back when I was in school, Principal "Charlie A." was in charge of the school...if some weasel in Central Office passed down some "policy" he'd more than likely tell them to "enforce it themselves". "Charlie A" (1919-2001) was the RULER of our high school, a benevolent dictatorship. I miss the days when teachers ran their class and principals ran their school..."

'Nuff said...

[mattfivefour]

My daughter home-schooled her first two children, sending the third (the youngest) to a Christian school when it was time for him to begin his education. They all have a much better-rounded education than those who spent their lives in secular schools. If a mother is home and is reasonably intelligent, I highly recommend home-schooling. But, remember, it is important that the children also have opportunities to socialize with others. You need to find ways to accomplish this.

[Faith]

I, also, homeschooled my two sons from 7th grade to 12th grade.

Not only did they learn,but I, also, learn more than I did in school.

I encourage 'homeschooling',and pray our goverment does not take our American right away.

Not only did I homeschooled,but I encourage a good Christian friend of mine to do so, too.

Both of her sons went to college to receive their 'masters' degree,' but my son got a trade as an license electrician,and my youngest son was diagnose disable at 22 years old.

Thanks Matt~