Presbyterians: Pull kids from public school

WorldNetDaily ^ | June 15, 2005 | Ron Strom

[Vor Lady]

Veritas Press is a good place to start!

[Archon of the East]

Can't say it doesn't make sense.

[Zack Nguyen]

Also supporting the resolution is Joel Belz, founder of World magazine and a PCA elder.

I always enjoyed World. A bit dramatic at times, but good info.

[msnimje]

I already did! On the third day my son was in the fourth grade I just went up there at lunch and took him out.

[Ichneumon]

Noting that "the millions of children in government schools spend seven hours a day, 180 days a year being taught that God is irrelevant to every area of life,"

Ooookay... I went to public schools, and not only was there not nonstop "teaching that God is irrelevant to every area of life", as this quote implies, I can't even remember that happening a single hour out of an entire school year.

There are many good reasons to switch to private schools, but wild-eyed overblown claims like this one don't add anything of value to the debate.

[InvisibleChurch]

what happened?

[IndySecurityMom]

Noting that "the millions of children in government schools spend seven hours a day, 180 days a year being taught that God is irrelevant to every area of life,"

The above statement may contain hyperbole, but when did you last attend PS? Spend some time reading the objectives set forth by NTA and the NEA. It's chilling.

[msnimje]

what happened?

It was a "Straw that broke the camel's back" situation.
This teacher obviously did not like children or her job as a teacher. My son asked her during a Math Quiz if he could go to the restroom.
She asked him if he was done with the Quiz and he said no so she denied him the right to go the bathroom. As a result he wet his pants.
The embarrassment of wetting his pants I knew he could deal with but I could not stand the thought of such people being "in charge" of my child.
Homeschooling has been fantastic for both of us and he LOVES learning now.

[metmom]

We've home-schooled our children from kindergarten and moved to a great small town and are now sending the two oldest to high school. The graduating class size is about 80 and the soccer coach will not let the kids practice or play unless they have all their homework done for all their classes and he's keeping in touch with their teachers on it. They will even let the kids carry their allergy medicine with them. This is a trial for us but I feel at this point that the kids are very well grounded in their faith, they know who they are and what they believe and we thought this would be a good place to start with dealing with the real world. Any problems from the school, though, and we'll yank them faster than they'd believe possible. Homeschooling is great and I don't regret a minute of it but I will be so glad when we're done. It's a lot of work.

[msnimje]

what happened?

Also, for a couple of years previous the had a "team" ganging up on me trying to force me to put him on Ritalin and I refused.

[Mont-3-7-77]

Just a quick comment: the article posted is from the PCA - Presbyterian Church in America. However, the logo posted is from the wooly-headed-Liberal PCUSA - Presbyterian Church USA - a denomination about to implode.

I believe that you may draw some other, less grace-filled, comments from our brothers in the PCA 8-}

[liliesgrandpa]

We send college educated missionaries into the jungles to deal with uneducated natives, but we send our little children to engage in intellectual combat with college educated atheist.

[InvisibleChurch]

I homeschooled my kids for two years. We had them enrolled in a Lutheran school in North Carolina. It was run by Jesse Helms' daughter, of all people. Anyway, they had pulled the plug on theatre and girl's basketball and wouldn't allow prayer in the school (yes, it DOES say Lutheran school earlier in the paragraph, doesn't it?) ... any way, eventually, they disallowed parents permission to go past the front office and visit classrooms during school hours... you figure it out

[Hischild]

Sadly, the public high school here provide more of a Christian environment and education than we found in the Christian high school. We've found more discipline, respect for our beliefs, and Christian teachers who really live their faith (think high school science teachers who refuse to teach evolution as fact)in our public school than we did in the Christian school. Just because a school is called "Christian" doesn't mean that it necessarily provides a more Christian education.

But, I live in a conservative county - a blessing that I continue to be thankful for.

[EverOnward]

public colleges are worse....

[BallparkBoys]

This article is almost THREE MONTHS old....Why post it now??? It was voted down at General Assembly by an overwhelming percentage.

[hermgem]

This Baptist pastor has an empty church all weekdays long, just as other churches have.
Bush wanted to start faith based support groups as he rightly concludes that these groups are far superior in providing help for the needy.
Schoolchildren are just as needy to learn not only about Christianity but equally important about getting an education.
Start using these no child left behind monies towards educating children in churches during the week.
Teachers resent this money anyway as they are held accountable to reporting progress.
I'm sure this pastor will find volunteers such as
Ms. Washington to keep order in class and enable the teacher to do, what else, teach.
Just figure this: At the going clip of $5,000 per student, a church group besides educating these kids, has lets say 50 students and an income of 50x$5,000- or $250,000 of gross income.
Testing for progress is mandatory, funds will be withheld should results stay below a standard level.
Brake this cycle of a forever uneducated minority, open the world to these children held back by a sup-par education.

[PAR35]

You should have at least posted an update to this old story. The proposal flew about as high as a lead balloon.

[AZhardliner]

That's old news and the WRONG Presbyterian logo.