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Dobson: Christians need mass exodus from public schools
WND ^ | 3/30/17 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 03/31/2017 3:07:19 AM PDT by markomalley

Dr. James Dobson, who started Focus on the Family and now delivers his Christian and pro-family advice through the newer Family Talk radio, is endorsing again the move for parents to withdraw their children from public schools.

At least partly because he’s “shocked” at the values, or lack thereof, exhibited by millennials.

Those are the voters who are about ages 18-34.

Trained as a teacher and psychologist, early in his career he was largely oblivious of the idea of homeschooling, he explained on a recent series of  broadcasts featuring guest E. Ray Moore, of the Exodus Mandate, which works to encourage Christian parents to homeschool their own children, or put them in church-run Christian schools.

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To: Jonty30

For three kids I think we spend about $6K a year including books. We could seriously reduce that amount because it’s a customizable program. Some families only pay for math, English, and science classes. Some only pay for math because their parents need help teaching it. Others only send theirs to science classes because it gives the student access to labs. We have always had our kids take everything plus we have taken advantage of optional classes such as Latin, Bible Greek, Spanish, personal finance, art, etc. My two high schoolers have nine separate subjects.

Also, the program really works with those families who have a financial need. Few kids couldn’t do it because of money. I don’t know how many, but a number of them go for free.

I wish I’d had a program like this, too.


41 posted on 03/31/2017 6:55:11 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: ReaganGeneration2

If you aren’t mentally stuck in an institutional school model, providing an education to your children has NEVER been easier or less expensive.


42 posted on 03/31/2017 6:59:18 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: x1stcav

I left Catholicism over 50 years ago. Life is not guilt.


43 posted on 03/31/2017 7:02:45 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: markomalley

My wife is homeschooling our 4. 11th, 9th, 7th, and a 5th grader. Going a lot better than if in government schools.


44 posted on 03/31/2017 7:06:06 AM PDT by stevio (God,Guns,Guts.)
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To: x1stcav

You are right. Many private schools are nominally Christian. Today institutional schools k-12 are entirely unnecessary. Today the educational resources exist to provide a far better education at a trivial cost. If a parent actually cares about his children, he’ll figure it out. The problem is that most “conservative” parents love government welfare education and don’t want to be responsible for how their children are educated. As for Christian schools, ACCS schools are excellent. In general, though, you need to be very careful about Christian schools because they are often nothing other than government school “lite”.


45 posted on 03/31/2017 7:06:32 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Noumenon

I don’t mind guilt so much as their penchant to force leftism on their parishioners and to stick their nose in temporal affairs.

Throw in an anti-American worldview and a penchant for young boys and it’s over for me.


46 posted on 03/31/2017 7:07:03 AM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: pinkandgreenmom

Why pay for that? There are online courses that are far less expensive. Overall, there is an unbelievable amount of low cost and free educational material out there for high school aged children.


47 posted on 03/31/2017 7:09:42 AM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: so_real

The solution is to recognize that learning is part of being human. No state, and people will still learn things.


48 posted on 03/31/2017 8:03:02 AM PDT by Mmmike
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To: Theodore R.; markomalley

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The American people believe that:
(1) Their particular school is NOT an “indoctrination center” but has good teaching,
(2) That they cannot afford education beyond the local public school,
(3) All children can and will learn even if many never do.
>

1) Concur on the 1st part, 2nd, not so much: it’s why there’s such an outcry for vouchers.
2) Because it’s ‘free’, most never bother to figure if that’s true or not.
3) Like the elected: THEIR ‘little angel(s)’ are not problematic\the issue, it’s the ‘others’...

Unfort., it’ll be almost impossible to turn the tide, most\a lot of States have ‘free’ public education baked into their Constitutions.


49 posted on 03/31/2017 8:10:33 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: wintertime

Schooling is our nation’s **most** serious threat. I seriously mean this. Americans will not lose their freedom through a military attack. No. No. Instead, freedom will be lost in the voting booth and it is Marxists who are training up the next generation of voters.
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Absolutely true, and the sad thing is that most parents either do not know it, and/or do not give a damn! In my opinion this insidious attack upon our nation’s founding principles will, in a few decades, destroy our country. President Trump’s education secretary needs to launch a full-scale program to bring this threat to the attention of the nation before it’s too late.


50 posted on 03/31/2017 8:31:27 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (God, Guns, and Trump will save the USA)
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To: Mmmike

To a degree you are right. But the Founders of this nation encouraged all citizens, including women, to have "reading, writing, and arithmetic" skills. Foremost among these was "reading". The Founders wanted all people to have the ability to read the Bible themselves, and thereby not live exclusively according the interpretation offered by their priest. This was incredibly important to them as they escaped persecution in Europe for their Protestant leanings. We've seen first-hand what happens when we allow our population to be dumbed-down by the public school system to the point of blindly following their leaders (aka. Hillary voters) If we did not insist on the children learning to read, write, and do maths ... how much worse off would the state of our nation be today? Children learn inherently, true, but what they learn may not be to read or think critically. They may only learn to be puppets.


51 posted on 03/31/2017 10:30:34 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: markomalley

One of the problems is there aren’t that many “parents” who will profess they’re Christians.

Another is they simply can’t afford to pay for babysitters. Which is what they use the school system for.


52 posted on 03/31/2017 1:08:45 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: pinkandgreenmom

No doubt about it that “christian”, with a small “c”, churches are becoming more and more liberal.


53 posted on 03/31/2017 1:10:58 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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To: markomalley

I’d advise anyone to look up on youtube Kent Hovind, teaches Christian creationism and science teacher who exposes phony Darwin’s evolution for the foundation of totalitarianism and brainwashing in schools. He has tons of videos and learning material. Hovind was imprisoned on ridiculous charges by scumbag atheists and pedophiles in law enforcement and gov’t in Florida and fortunately back now on a mission. While in prison he wrote many childrens’ short stories, books, and a saved 900 men. He needs full pardon and reprieve from President Trump.


54 posted on 03/31/2017 4:56:34 PM PDT by TheBigJ
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To: txrefugee

“There is clearly something wrong when a society can’t produce functioning adults by age 21.”

There are plenty of nonfunctioning adults around here who are 51 or older.


55 posted on 03/31/2017 5:18:55 PM PDT by RipSawyer (R)
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To: ReaganGeneration2
Also, the biggest problem is high school.
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Why is high school a problem?

My homeschoolers went to college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13 and did fine. Yes, our home had no chemistry or biology labs but this was **easily** resolved at the community college. They took science courses for arts majors and then went on to take science courses for science majors. No problem.

56 posted on 03/31/2017 6:33:44 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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