Posted on 06/11/2018 11:12:52 AM PDT by blam
I would disagree. The "Great Commission" is NOT about making converts, but making disciples. Home schooling is the perfect vehicle for making disciples. Public schooling is disastrous for discipleship.
I’m so glad we started homeschooling. My kids are healthy, happy, well-adjusted, and learning more real-world information instead of leftist indoctrination.
The government school has a mission as well. It is to make disciples of atheist state worship.
“As much as they could be and could have been? ( Just wondering.)”
We have been accused of child abuse,not loving the kids,wanting them out of the house,an not caring to have them around so use the schools as babysitters.
I have NEVER insulted anyone who chooses home schooling,and never will, it’s a choice.
I have friends who used private secular schools,religious schools,and even home schooling and it never occurred to me to insult them——and they never insulted me for my choice.
I don’t understand the anger around here.
The schools have them 8 hrs a day and you have them maybe 2-4 before sleep and in between TV shows that reinforce the school's indoctrination. If I tell a person that is in a same sex relationship that God doesn't approve, I get the same reaction, that I hate them. No, I'm telling them because I love them. It's the sin I find abhorrent.
I've seen many of my friends allow their children to finish in public school, and they end up not being what their parents envisioned for their lives. If 10 years ago sodomy was something done in secret and a shameful act, you child today would be all for it and disrespect their parents about their opinions. The next generation is in school right now. Any survey questions they get asked is plain bizarre with what they believe.
I was watching a surveyor ask questions about the school shooter in Fla. a few weeks ago. The questioner asked every way he could think of to see if they would say the guy was evil or did something evil. NONE of them could bring themselves to make a character decision about the guy. Every answer had something to do with guns. He even asked about the responsibility of the Sheriff not pursuing mental evaluation after several recommendations that he do so. They found NO responsibility for anyone but the NRA and the guns.
This is why they fornicate together,...because everyone else does. It's why killing the baby is OK that comes from the fornication. It's why sodomy is OK,... because everyone tells them it is. They have no moral compass and lack common sense.
Who wins the spelling and geography bee's every year? It's very good odds a home schooler won. Most kids today cheat off their cell phone or other methods to pass tests and never read a book. Ask a 12th grader how many states their are? Who fought in the Revolutionary War and who won? What is protected in the 1st Amendment? ( they may ask, amendment to what?)What years were WWII fought? Who fought in that war? Ask them to add 3 double digit numbers in their head without paper and pencil.
For me, it's frightening. There are even kids in the 7-8 grade that still print and can't read cursive.
What I've found is the vast majority of these parents know their child is falling behind, but do nothing because they really don't care enough to change. I know one 13 yo girl that has gone to her grandparents right now because she is failing in school and her parents didn't want to change their lives, so they sent her to people that won't make her do anything. She will be pregnant by 15-16, out of school and on food stamps before you can blink.
No. I'm not angry, I'm frightened for America's future. There isn't enough tax money in the world to fix the problems we already have. The kids end up with suicide because that can't do simple work. Even the ones that go to college usually get a job with mom and dad's help and get on the job training so they can do something useful. Then, they want $100k to start and have never worked anywhere but flipping burgers.
My wife quit a good job and we spent about 2500-3k a year extra for home school. That's after paying for public school taxes. We believe it was worth it. That's why I tell anyone willing to listen. It's not about hate or anger or anything like that. The vast majority of home schoolers are of good character, above average intelligence, never been on drugs, pregnant without marriage, not in trouble with the law. I'm sure it's not 100% anymore than every public school student is the opposite. But you have to ask yourself where Antifa and BLM comes from? Ask how someone in college spits in an Israeli flag and cheers the ISIS flag? Where do these ideas come from?
I know where.
(I guess none of these kids and grandkids were loved./s
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This isn’t an insult? (Just wondering.)
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