Posted on 02/10/2008 3:15:53 AM PST by Polk Salad Annie Buzz
Families are running for their lives....
In a Feb. 7 press release, a broad coalition of Christian grass-roots organizations boldly banded together urging parents to either homeschool their children or place them in Christian schools. Prominent pro-family crusaders like Phyllis Schlafly, once a proponent of public school reform, are saying it's time to exit public schools.
Indeed, the situation is so serious that in states around the country, sexual material is being taught to children as young as kindergarten age. Barb Anderson, research and policy analyst with the Minnesota Family Council, details lewd content being taught in public schools in a policy paper titled "The Birds & Bees Project: Gay Sex Ed for Kids." According to Anderson, a presenter at the annual Minnesota School Health Education Conference stated, "When speaking to teens you must tell them there is no right or wrong and no good or bad choices."
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Yup, my wife works in our kids cafeteria and brought home a letter telling the staff to keep quiet about a shooting next door at the high screwel parking lot. Until the investigation is over, of course.
Once upon a time, I would have raised an eyebrow. Not anymore. The public schools have become a fetid sewer.
OH! I also highly recommend all materials published by the FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION, Chesapeake, VA.
I believe there are approximately 47 million children in the government schools. If 4.5 million is indeed the number of homeschoolers then I think government school teachers have reason to worry. This is especially true if homeschooling continues its growth.
“I agree with the writer of this article. But, the only real way to get the attention of the Public School System is to take your tax money with you when you take your child out of public school.
As long as the public school system is still raking in the tax money, they don’t really care whether your kid is in the class room or not, but take the money and you will get their full attention.”
The tax money for the public school system will gradually dry up. You may or may not want to be taxed if your kid is in public school - you certainly won’t if you’re home schooling.
Similarly, if your kid can read and Johnny can’t, employers will figure out who to hire. Parents will figure out why this is happening. Some will take their kids out of public schools and cost them tax money; some will fix them.
It won’t happen overnight, but schools that don’t educate can’t exist in the long run.
That is National Home Education Research Institute. If that is what you are looking for; I may be missing what you are trying to find.
Back in the 90s the number of home educating families was over 2 million. The government never tells the truth about the number of families home educating.
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Yup. . the “level playing field” and all that jazz. In our state where the lottery is touted for providing all sorts of scholarships, the requirements have now been lowered so that more goof off students can goof off even more and the level of mediocrity can be enjoyed by all.
My BIL is always talking about how “stupid” his students are in detail, but then today when I told a story about how a friend’s daughter said she wasn’t going for her kids to go to school in that county, because of the ignorance and pride in it that existed among kids who bragged about never having even been out of the county she was not going to live there when she grew up - he got all indignant and remarked what a wonderful education system they had around there.
I wish he would make up his mind.
Those figures do not work.
Even at the max of that range, 15% growth per year from 1.1 million, it does not equal 4-4.5 million. It equals more like 2.2-2.5 million.
I graduated from high school in 1973. Public high school. I had all excellent English teachers. I had a geometry teacher in my sophomore year who had just returned from service in the Peace Corp. Although he was somewhat wacky, and I’m sure he was a liberal, he knew how to teach math, and I learned.
But before I graduated from High school it was easy to see which direction public education was headed. One history teacher loved to talk to us about how great it would be to smoke weed in a space suit. History and social studies teachers were then trying to discredit our nation’s founding fathers — BIG TIME — and introducing to us, more globalist and socialistic alternative. to the U.S. Constitution. I believe one was The New States Constitution.
Nine years after I graduated from high school, our first child was ready to begin kindergarten. We had kept an eye on the schools. In 1982, public school was not even a consideration for our children, come what may. But you see, our children’s spiritual and moral welfare had priority over developing careers or wealth. Our children were more important than owning two cars or a house. But we’ve almost always had two cars, anyway, and we’ve owned two decent houses completely debt free (never been in debt to a bank for a house). We are debt-free today, and I give all glory to God! I believe that He particularly blessed us for keeping the priorities straight.
I am not at all saying that home schooling guarantees freedom from debt. Not at all. Wouldn’t it be stupid to say so! What I am saying is that American people used to hold the spiritual and moral development of their children in priority far above wealth, or keeping up with the Jones’. And there was a time when God did bless this nation, as a whole, accordingly.
Now we have DEBT CRISES. We’ve had it before, but my conclusions are the same about the previous periods. The 1920s saw an era of moral licentiousness, spiritual decline, and twisted family priorities, and great evangelists were trying to tell the nation so. The 1930s -— I think we could call that DEBT CRISIS.
We’ve never fully recovered from that earlier spiritual and moral declension; we just started inviting more of it from the 1950’s on to the present. And so by the beginning of the 1980s, for us public school education could not have been an option for our children.
We are 26 year veterans in home schooling. We still have a 15 year-old, an 11 year-old and a 6 year-old in the house. So, when we finish, we will retire from home schooling after about 38 years . . . unless we also help with the grand children, of which we already have four.
Thank you for your lengthy and great post. I graduated in 1957 and our school was a really good one. We learned a lot and it wasn’t liberal as far as I could tell. The teachers weren’t activists! They were only interested in TEACHING subjects we needed to graduate!
We were shown a video series in church on Sundays for four weeks and they were sensational. It was on giving God the First Fruits of our lives, tithing, time, etc. It’s changed a lot of our ideas on tithing. God’s interested in not our money but the condition of our hearts toward Him. If our hearts are right, we will want to obey his principles and commands. That’s what He’s looking for. When we give Him our First Fruits, then He can give the increase. We have already seen our finances in church almost double over last year. God wants to bless us and He doesn’t want us in debt.
God bless you and your children. You’ve given them the best of both worlds.
I understand what you're saying; you're talking about the tax money the school gets for the number of students attending.
But here in Missouri, when we pay our Personal Property tax, the large part of that goes to the public schools. Our PPT is based on property owned like land, houses, buildings, livestock, trucks and cars etc. Everyone pays whether you have a child in school or not. You can't get license for your car if your PPT isn't paid. If your PPT isn't paid, your property will be sold on the courthouse steps for the taxes after a long time is spent trying to collect the taxes.
All this to say that depriving the public schools of tax money, apart from a hugely widespread tax revolt, is impossible.
So, what’s wrong with a widespread tax revolt? It seems that such a thing is part of our heritage. I seem to remember something about a tea party.
And, by the way, suffering for right is part of our heritage, too.
Mary—
This is what CONSERVATISM is all about.
When some of these people talk about incramental dissolution of our national sovereignty through “free trade” agreements so that they can get a higher stock market return, I don’t call that conservatism. I call that selling out the nation for a buck.
When people who claim to be conservatives laugh and smirk at uncleanness in the moral trends of our nation, thinking that is freedom (as most libertarians do), that is not conservatism, and it tendeth to bondage. Men who smirk at moral declension in the name of personal liberty will end up in chains.
Well, I appreciate your testimony about your church and giving to the Lord’s work. There is no genuine Christianity without giving. “God so loved the world that He GAVE . . .”
Not as interesting because Congressmen can be expected to be able to afford that without stretching.
Nothing hypocritical about it. A teacher has a job. She does the best by her children. That means she keeps them out of public school. Why would you expect a teacher to sacrifice her own children in order to be PC? At the same time the teacher, if she is smart and conscientious, is doing the best she can do in the circumstances for the children under her care. You can only reach ofr the word “hypocritical” if you actually understand that you are doing rather less than the best for your own children’s education and are uncomfortable bout that but unwilling to take proper steps.
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You are right!
I went back to check the site. The site reports 1,096,000.
I read it as 1,960,000. Big difference! :)
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