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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the following is from the California Exodus Mandate website: http://www.californiaexodus.org/
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A Challenge to the Christian Employees of the California School System
Every Christian employee of the California public schools must understand that the new school legislation requires all school employees, and particularly teachers an administrators, to collaborate in the spiritual and psychological molestation of children mandated by SB 777 and related legislation.
Every school employee needs to ask himself or herself whether he can remain in such a system.
Right. other than our Bible reading, NO books at the table.
Your children will arrive on campus with a strong testimony and the verbal skills needed to defend that testimony before their Liberal/Marxist professors.
It is not “just” multiculti. Academics is not stressed much anymore. Ever look at a school history book? I wouldn’t be surprised at kids that don’t know what geography even is. Compare the math books at any level with Saxon Math which many Christian and private schools use. Public school math wastes lots of teaching time with New Math and feelings about math. Spelling? how quaint. Reading ? well you don’t get very far with that when grammar is not taught any more and the kids can’t spell. The day is filled up with sex ed now and environmentalism and gay is good for you and self-esteem. There just isn’t time to teach numbers and no need to with calculators being so cheap. And how about the classrooms where the smart kids don’t get new work because they are tasked with helping the dummies catch up.
Amelia, Gabz, SoftballmominVA: Public Education
My kids are all grown but I support home schooling 100%. I do fear for this movement’s future however. McCain and huckster not to mention all the RATS are not fans of home schooling
Yes. But anyone who talks about education will admit that parental involvement is important to education. I think that the logical answer to challenges of homeschooling is simply to point out that homeschooling is simply the logical conclusion of parental involvement.It is a sad commentary on the schools they are promoting if they can't teach children well enough for them to mature into adults who are capable of tutoring a handful of children who love them and rely on them. Most especially with the computerized curricula which are available, and the internet for a resource.
I saw a statistic once that showed that the professional group with the highest percentage of its children in private/parochial/home-school is public educators. My wife is a public school teacher. Our kids were home and Christian schooled.
I recently had cause to look at the local high school’s history book. In the section on WWII, it had one sentence about the Yalta Conference and three pages about how Rosie the Riveter started the feminist movement.
Except for current events, I used a textbook from the 1950s to teach my kids history. No twaddle, historical facts in perspective and a pro-American slant.
We also believe that the next administration is going to try to lay some spikes in the road for home schooling families.
I think you may be onto something! Homeschooling is green!! We waste way less paper and textbooks, have no need for gas-guzzling school buses, and eat simple “green” meals (aka PB&J). We even grow our own vegetables.
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All academically successful children are homeschooled.
This is true even if they are institutionalized for their education. The only thing a government institutional school is sending home is a free curriculum for the parents to follow.
There may be some exception out there, but I bet not many.
When parents of institutionalized children tell me about what they are doing for their children. Honestly, it isn’t anything different than I did for my children. Institutionalizing a child for his education is often more work than homeschooling!
Homeschooling is green!!
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I am sitting here chuckling away! How TRUE!
When my kids were little we rarely bought paper. We used the discarded computer printouts from their dad’s office!
One district here hired one a few years ago.
In fact, the district where the fighting has been going on this last week.
No stories in the newspapers so far.
[Funny how everyone I talk to with kids in the public schools exempt their own public school from criticism — it’s always someone else’s school that’s to blame.]
Truth. And the shame of it is that the National Education System is the people that control all public schools and hate the right wing with a passion, but so many people equate high taxes with good school when in fact so many young ones are brainwashed into the lies the government schools teach them.
We have always allowed reading at the table, but if somebody talks to you, you have to answer!!! ("Helllllooo! Get your nose out of that book for a minute. Mark your place.")
I only allow people to read if they can keep from getting their food in the books. I also have a rule of “no reading materials while you’re cooking,” after someone got tomato sauce in a library book.
After our Bible reading we suspend reading at the table only for one reason. We use table time for family conversation time. We activiate our children in just talking to us. Now, the situation does happen from-time-to-timne that we get into a discussion that requires referring to a book, and I have sent one of the children for a book.
Often, our Chinese folks will ask questions that prompts us to get the Bible back out, or a dictionary, or an encyclopedia. But conversation is the objective during our meals (besides physical nourishment), so individual reading of books at the table is not allowed.
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