America's Most Important Battleground: Christian vs. Secular Education

Chalcedon Report ^ | August 2003 | Tom Rose

[Scenic Sounds]

How many high school (grades 9-12) students are being homeschooled?

An estimated 250,000 to 340,000 high school (grades 9-12) students were being homeschooled during the 2000-2001 conventional school year.

Do these numbers sound right to you?

[Cathryn Crawford]

Do these numbers sound right to you?

You know, I thought the number would be more than that, but this is just high school. Both my little brothers are homeschooled currently, but that is elementary school.

I was homeschooled from 1989 - 1998. That included only one year of high school, though. The other two years were in private school, but I used the same curriculum there that I used in homeschool.

I don't know what the stats were at that time. I'm sure that my mother would, though.

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"Doesn't your school hold to the view that man is the result of organic evolution, instead of being created in the image and likeness of God? As long as your institution holds to an anti-Biblical view of man," I explained, "you will eventually run afoul of the bureaucratic structure here if you attempt to consistently teach the Biblical view of man that I spoke about today."

This is where the fun starts. How about,

"Doesn't your school hold to the view that man is the result of organic evolution, the process initiated by God to create man in the image and likeness of God? "

[Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS]

Education Policy Analysis Archives - A peer-reviewed scholarly electronic journal publishing education policy analysis since 1993.

• Volume 10 Number 26 Bauman: Home Schooling in the United States Table 1 shows the number of home schooled children age 6 to 17 estimated from these data sources. Taken at face value, they show a growth from 360,000 in 1994 to 790,000 in 1999. By 1999, then, around 1.7 percent of children in the 6 to 17 age range were schooled at home. A 95 percent confidence interval for the 1999 figure goes from 670,000 to 910,000. Even at the high end of the range, the home-school population is under 1 million and less then 2 percent of all children 6-17.

To achieve the goals stated @Free Republic will require a complete overhaul of government schools &/or a rapid rise in the homeschooling rate. F.R. can't remediate the masses who have been marinated for 12-20yrs in the dogma of Darwin, Marx, Wellhausen, Dewey, Freud, Keynes, Kierkegaard (Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave), Antonio Gramsci and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Thank you. I wasn't doubting your stats, though. You've done an incredible job on this thread.

[Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS]

result of organic evolution, the process initiated by God

In those affidavits, two scientists, a philosopher, a theologian, and an educator, all of whom claim extensive knowledge of creation science, swear that it is essentially a collection of scientific data supporting the theory that the physical universe and life within it appeared suddenly, and have not changed substantially since appearing. SCALIA, J., Dissenting Opinion Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987) (USSC+)

Do Laws and Standards Evolve?

Evolution and the Law:

Darwinian Roots of Judicial Activism

Genesis and the Declaration of Independence

From nearly a Century agoThe Fundamentals A Testimony to the Truth

• Chapter 68 THE DECADENCE OF DARWINISM - By Henry H. Beach, Grand Junction, Colorado.

• Chapter 69 THE PASSING OF EVOLUTION - By Professor George Frederick Wright, D. D., L.L. D., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

• Chapter 70 EVOLUTIONISM IN THE PULPIT- By an Occupant of the Pew.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Sorri, I are not to big awn edyookayshun...

Idiot. Moron. Freak. : )

(Note to A/M: I AM kidding, and Chad knows it.)

[BOBTHENAILER]

"If an unfriendly power had attempted to im-pose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."

Wow, thanks a million for the Ping to this.

[Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS]

I was homeschooled from 1989 - 1998. That included only one year of high school, though. The other two years were in private school, but I used the same curriculum there that I used in homeschool.

Live long and continue to PROSPER

[Chad Fairbanks]

Heh heh heh

[Faith]

The libs have a vested interest in keeping the feds in our schools so that they can continue to dumb down the curriculum, rewrite history, protect the teachers' unions, force -feed multiculturalism and diversity, create dependency, and maintain a high level of ignorance about the Constitution.

[attagirl]

You forgot the No Child Left Behind Act, which is Goals 2000 solidified and then some.

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From your first post,

These experts insist that creation science is a strictly scientific concept that can be presented without religious reference.

I have not actually seen this done, but I'll do a search on the authors referenced and see what turns up.

From the 2nd link,

Darwin offered modern man the same question which the serpent posed to Eve: "Hath God said?" thereby declaring man the ultimate source of authority.

Strawman. Darwin offered a way to organize the diversity of life in God's creation for purposes of study. God did grant us dominion.

By convincing large numbers of Christians that law is morally neutral, that human reason is the arbiter of truth, and that standards change as cultures mature, Darwinism has neutralized the restraining influence of Biblical Christianity on culture.

Darwin didn't do this. The fragmenting of Christian Churches into opposing camps did this. This started centuries before Darwin was born. In the US, Church-going Christians make up 73% of the population, but can't get a Bible class in publik skool because no one wants the other Christian Churches to set the curriculum. And don't get me started about the abomination the Episcopalians are perpetrating.

From your 4th link,

Pearcey sees a direct connection between Darwinism and the postmodern view that "the only objective and absolute truth is that there are no objective and absolute truths."

It's certainly true, as some of your links show, that Darwin was afraid that his work would not be well received in the faith community and that he turned agnostic, but nowhere did he promote moral relativism. Einstein's theory has been blamed for that as well.

The real situation is that the Christian community has abandoned it's leadership role in the world for reasons I don't understand. Maybe George W. Bush is the first in a new line of Christian presidents to bring us back from the brink? ;)

I'll be back.

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Oooops!

Forgot to say thanks for your reply.

Thanks. ;)

[jlogajan]

Very important education ping...

As a Libertarian I say at the minimum allow vouchers so that students may attend any accredited school they wish, including religious schools.

Having said that, I don't think there would be a hugh shift to Biblically strict schools. There is a common belief held by the very religious that somehow the state is imposing an atheistic view against the will of the majority. In fact the majority pretty much likes the schools as they are.

Of course there are many that are priced out of religious education, and those people would switch given vouchers. But the majority of parents would try to send their kids to the best academic schools, not the most religious schools.

One only need look at the situation for college education where religious and secular institutions are on otherwise equal financial footing. Secular institutions are quite well represented.

[jlogajan]

Ha, hugh=huge, caught by the dreaded hugh bug. :-)

[DittoJed2]

So, the only way to change the system is to change the courts. Having 8 years of Billy Bob certainly hasn't helped that situation and now with the Dems stonewalling on every judicial appointment, it's no wonder. The battleground is fierce and the stakes are high for both sides.

[MHGinTN]

When you put up such a long quote as that, please, cite the author ... unless you're quoting from your writings. I've grown so accustomed to your 'high-koo' (haiku for you poets out there), I don't expect else. Great quote, BTW.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I'm having ice cream. Granted, it's just a Drumstick™ - nothing fancy - but I'll bet you don't have one, you freak. : )

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

[Chad Fairbanks]

My waiter at Ruth's told me to never drop names....