Dittos to that!!!!
It doesn’t matter who we get in the election, if we don’t stop the brainwashing of our children. The greatest of our past is absolutely being lost.
Our kids go to a classical Christian school so they are getting some of that Western Civilization, but even there it is not conservative enough. One of the main history teachers is a “compassionate” liberal (pro life, Christian, but believes that the answer to all social problems should be through government. She believes in private business, etc - not a complete socialist but defintely thinks throwing money at any social or poverty problem via government programs is the answer). She has a big influence there because she teaches several important history and rhetoric classes, and I am dismayed when I see how often the kids choose to solve a social problem for their junior rhetoric project with some kind of government program. They aren’t being taught to think through what it means to be a conservative Biblical Christian and how to apply that to public policy problem solving. I think teachers like this are not uncommon even in the best Christian or secular private schools, becuase what they are being taught at the instotution where they got their Masters or Doctorate was this same progressive thinking!
So it is hard to find this kind of teaching even in private schools! (I’m sending a letter to our headmaster again about this ) If I had money and funding I’d start a similar school to the one my kids go to, but MUCH more conservative in the worldview and doctrine taught.
How about this for starters: http://constitution.hillsdale.edu/
Hillsdale College constitution 101
I believe Christian colleges should get permission to adapt this for a dual credit U.S. Government high school/college credit course. There are tons of high school kids now , whether homeschooled, public or private school, who are not going the traditional route to graduation and all kinds of flexibility is opening up on what they do to get their senior year’s credits. To me this is just a no-brainer to have this available a very low cost - word would get out via internet, facebook, etc. It could be seen as a cool “alternative” to the “establishment” brainwashing available. They could get all the basics of how U.S. governemtn works, but also get all the wonderful foundation of the worldviews, natural law, Biblical law, etc that fed into Constitutional thought.
Sorry so long but this is one of my hot-button issues with three teenagers. I’m going to make them go through the Hillsdale College course with my husband and me as a family this summer. Ha. I can hear the groans already so wish me luck :-)
“But our bigger problem, in my mind, is what is going on in the “educational” system. American Children are being taught a revised, biased, false story about western civilization and America. They are leaving schools with no knowledge of what America is, and how we evolved to become the world’s first and most successful democratic Republic. And so, they become ready tinder for minds like Obama’s.”
Just a thought....
What is needed is an integrated network of private schools that will again teach from the perspective that Western Civilization was (and is) superior, and teach with a true account of the facts of history (rather than the “rewritten history” of the post-1960’s).
Kind of like I remember receiving in public (yes, public!) schools in the 1950’s and early 1960’s before the lefties took it over.
Thanks for sharing your insights, dear boxlunch!
Megadittos to everything you said.
“How about this for starters: http://constitution.hillsdale.edu/
Hillsdale College constitution 101”
If I had a kid today who was getting ready for college, he or she would HAVE to go to Hillsdale. Its a GREAT institution and it STAYED that way by REFUSING Federal moneys and the strings the Washington elites attach to TAXPAYER money.