I guess I was putting the emphasis on the wrong phrases in your post, just as someone could do with mine insofar as, by citing Deuteronomy, I am suggesting that it falls [solely] to parents to educate (not so sure I disagree with that, by the way), while seeming to go to bat for public schools.
My original notion for engaging this thread was to bemoan all the hand-wringing we here at FR do over what we all know is an institution that, well, needs to be “institutionalized!” Public education in America today is doing great, great harm to our nation. Period. That said, I am a public school teacher. I go in, in David vs. Goliath fashion and hope to hurl a few stones at the giant’s eyes and maybe encourage a few “Israelites” watching from the sidelines along the way. I know my efforts are feeble as compared to what is called for—and that might be, for me, the greatest source of frustration I have with my conservative brethren.
Given that we know how important ideas are, why aren’t we doing whatever we can in trying to “infiltrate” and overthrow liberalism in this stronghold? Where are the conservative teachers, professors, school board members, principals, superintendents? Where’s the engagement of this enemy? Writing articles and blogs—hurling stones through already broken windows might make one feel better for a time, but these “efforts” are the easier ones to engage in and do little to achieve the desired goals. We’ve been reading recently about how failure to reject amnesty, when it comes to illegal immigration will ensure perpetual electoral defeat, how ignoring this issue will deliver a boat-load of like-minded voters over to the democrats. Well, I say conservatives have already been involved in such voter “shipments by fully ceding the ground of education in America to the liberal mindset, where liberal foundations are being laid every year...generation after generation.
I know the more “nationalized” public education becomes, the more difficult the job will be, but simply bemoaning the failure of public education, sitting on the sidelines while all things liberal continue apace in the “American Schoolhouse of ideas”, and then wondering how our nation’s slide can be prevented is, to me, an example of some pretty bad math (not putting two and two together.)
Given that we know how important ideas are, why aren’t we doing whatever we can in trying to “infiltrate” and overthrow liberalism in this stronghold?
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The best action would be to shut these abominations DOWN!
In many counties and a fair number of states, if conservatives and Christians removed their children from the government schools, the entire evil system would immediately collapse! That is what needs to be done. Then education should be rebuilt on a non-Prussian model that is private and conservative.
If Christians and conservatives teachers are truly conservative and Christian they are warning every parent they meet about the danger government K-12 schooling poses for their child and our nation’s continuing freedom. They are urging these parents to remove their precious children...immediately!
Hopefully, you are doing the right thing.
The problem with Christians and conservatives working in the government schools is that naive parents are beguilled. Hey! If Mrs. Honey Bun, the minister’s wife,( who loves her cat and directs the church’s bell choir), teaches in the godless and Marxist driven government schools, they can’t be **that** bad.. Yes! it is **that* bad to send a child into Marxist controlled schools where they **will** learn to think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the godless school.