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We are doing both and so are our children. We aren’t sheltering our children from the outside world. They encounter and engage others with differing viewpoints.

Your approach sounds like a good one. And once again, it' evident that your children will turn out to be well-educated conservatives.

I still feel, however, that while you will certainly have success in exposing your kids to differing world views in the youth group and in public in general, your approach still leaves the public school classroom unchallenged.

This is really the point I'm trying to make. For every x number of conservative patriots produced from a home school, x + n brain-washed libs will be produced by the public schools. Certainly the ratio of private/home school students to public students varies from one part of the country to another, but overall, the public and/or secular private schools vastly outnumber the parochial and home schools. The public schools need to be kept "honest." Some are too far gone, and I understand that, but others, like ours, are 90% fine, with a 10% liberal lean. That 10% liberal lean can be kept in check if parents and students pay attention.

Respectfully, I have not heard a compelling argument against my assertion that failure to fight in the public school arena will result in outnumbered conservatives at the ballot box.

The teens and other children that my children come in contact with are from the public school. My children are challenging what they are taught there.
For instance, my children were 4 and 6 when Terry Schiavo passed away. We followed her case on the internet everyday. One day we had a young man maybe 11th grade visiting our house. While he was there, we got on the internet to check on Terry and found out that she had died. My children began to cry and this young man asked why they were crying because she was already brain dead. My children explained that she was alive and responsive and that the judge made them starve her and not give her water. He was shocked. I showed him video of Terry responding to her mother. He had “learned” about Terry at school. He went back to his school and challenged his teacher. At ages 4 and 6, they changed the mind of an 11th grade student who would be voting in one year.

My children are having an impact on the schools from without. They are reaching teenagers with conservative views (the next voting block). You can keep saying that we aren’t affecting the schools but it just isn’t true. My husband is a youth pastor. He goes into the schools to work and teach. We held a “See You at the Pole” Rally on school grounds. We have fifth quarter at our house after the games. We open a youth center on the weekends. They take what they learn and take it back to their schools. They challenge their teachers with it. They start debates (heated) in their history classes.

Also, it doesn’t really matter if my children had NO influence on others in the schools. We see what happens there and there is nothing worth exposing our children to the vile things that go on (I am not talking about in the classroom). Children aren’t political tools, they aren’t missionaries. God gave me my children to train and to educate. That is my primary focus for them. It is not for them to have a political impact on their school.