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We will win **only** if these children receive a thoroughly Christian education. The chances of remaining active in the faith for children (from active evangelical Christian homes) who attend government school are **abysmal**!
http://www.exodusmandate.org/art_20050404-salt-and-light.htm
The research data on the success of the public schools in indoctrinating Christian youth with humanistic or neo-pagan worldviews is overwhelming. The Nehemiah Institute's worldview PEERS test shows that 83-percent of the children from committed Christian families in public schools adopt a secular humanist or Marxist socialist worldview. At the SBC's 2002 annual meeting, the Southern Baptist Council on Family Life reported, among other disturbing things, that 88-percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at age 18. Barna Research reports that only 9-percent of born-again teens believe in moral absolutes, and more than half believe that Jesus sinned while He was on earth. We believe the fact that 80-percent of Christian families send their children to public schools is a prime reason for this lost legacy.
The Barna #s and anecdotal evidence both make the point that large families among evangelicals, or Catholics or Mormons will not guarantee us demographic victory. Too many good kids from good families get sent to public schools and get “reducation” 3 hours in Church - a few hours each evening (maybe) with Mom and Dad 40 hours in reducation camp, 30-40 hours of media (overwhelmingly dominated by the folks who brought you the reducation camps. Home schooling is the only reliable (large scale) way to insure that good kids stay that way.