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Four thoughts on this:
1) Far too many ministers are not moving forward on Christian education because they are fearful of offending the government teachers and government school employees sitting in the pews! Why don’t we have a vigorous, healthy and universal system of Christian education for every child in the U.S. FOLLOW THE MONEY! Follow the money from the purse of the government school employee to the collection plate!
2) Christian churches should abandon the Prussian school institutional model. It is expensive and it unnatural to treat children like prisoners. With today’s technology micro-schools, mini-schools, homeschool cooperatives, one room school houses, and virtual schools are completely possible and likely FAR superior, more flexible for parents, and definitely more humane.
3) Christian schools should work to break the government monopoly on team sports.
4) We should stop holding up Christian government school teachers as if they were models of virtue. They aren’t! They are big part of the problem!
Any government school teacher who thinks they can sneak in a little bit of Christian morality into a mountain of pagan cow dung, is fooling themselves. Instead, they are teaching the students that Christians are sneaky, too timid to vigorously protest the pagan NEA agenda, and will sell their most precious principles for paycheck, pension, and pagan union card! Wow! Who would want to accept a religion like that with models like these?
Parents need to start pulling their children out and homeschool them or start what was called "dame schools." We need to come up with our own innovative solutions. We all know how crooked the school system is. Let's get our kids out, one child at a time.
“Christian teachers in public schools”
from Making a Homeschool Decision by Marilyn Howshall
“I wish to address two possible categories of Christian teachers in the system-those who think of it as their mission-ground and those who are career-oriented simply because their children are in school.
I have heard it said many times by Christian teachers in the system that they are there to contribute to positive changes and improve the system in some way. If we look closely at this principle we will be able to see that this will only work upon condition.
A foundation always determines what is to be built. Jesus Christ must be the original foundation in order to continue godly building. In the early years of our country, schools were run by churches and parents but slowly the government was given more and more authority. We were not careful how we build upon our intuition and the day has revealed the results-it crumbled. Today we no longer have a godly school foundation on which to build.
The principle suggests that if one desires something different he must lay his own foundation. There are examples of this principle at work throughout history. The Pilgrims and Puritans had differing views as to how to bring about change to the church of their time-the Church of England. The Pilgrims felt they must leave and begin afresh following God into the application of the wonderful truths they uncovered in the Word of God. The Puritans felt they must stay and work within the church to bring about change. Both groups of godly Christians had been enlightened by the Word of God but they had very different approaches for how to bring about change. The day has revealed the results, the fruit is unmistakable and lasting. The Pilgrims brought an enlightened Gospel to a new nation and were significantly used in its beginnings. The Puritans remained within the existing structure of the church and while they may have affected individuals within that organization, they did little to bring about any significant changes to its life. There is a valid reason why it works this way, it is scriptural!
“According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become manifest; for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.” I Corinthians 3:10-14
As you study church history you will be able to see this principle at work. Whenever God wanted to increase revelation, a break away from the old was necessary to establish the new. When a government, church, or educational system, becomes corrupt, or simply refuses to embrace additional growth, then making changes within the establishment will not bring about the desired results unless those changes are initiated by the leadership involved. Any changes within an already established organization, to be effectively made must begin from the top down because that is where the vision is. Everything flows out from the vision of the leadership.
When leaders stand still or hinder the work of God, He will lay new foundations elsewhere. Tremendous fruit will grow from a new foundation, but those who stand still will often feel threatened by the new move of God and respond in favorably toward it. It must surely be a fundamental defect of our sinful human nature that produces the short-sighted and arrogance to think that God’s work begins and ends with our efforts and those of our own generation. We must be willing to acknowledge God at work and allow it to continue through us to the next generation, as growth will continue from generation to generation; either by existing leadership who will embrace change or by newly ordained leadership of God’s choosing.
While there are many teachers who are called to remain in the system, I believe that God’s reasons for them to be there are more people related than system related. God’s will is for His people to reach individuals with the Gospel no matter where we find ourselves. The teacher who is able to witness in addition to impacting the lives of children and other teachers with a sense of healthy values and live of learning will earn a reward. I do wonder, however, how many teachers who also have young children of their own would continue to think it their personal mission-ground if they had to conduct their ministry within the context of a different set of values-one that would include personally assuming responsibility for their own young children’s education. Ministry is not our reason for being someplace. It is our responsibility to know for sure where God wants us to be; which set of responsibilities He wishes us to assume for our life, and which roles we are to play. Healthy and fruitful ministry can only flow out of an obedient life. If this speaks to you, then you might seriously consider that God would have you do.
Another category of teachers in the system is in regards to the career-minded Mom who is there simply because that is where her own children are-it is their family’s lifestyle-the children go to school and Mom gets a job or pursues a career of her own. If you have simply assumed roles and lifestyles placed upon you by cultural values without seeking God about it then please reconsider and spend a season listening to Him speak to your heart.”