No plans for public school
I have no plans to send my children to public school. I can come up with at least a half dozen reasons off the top of my head. Let’s see: safety, security, no discipline, lack of respect, theory of evolution, no prayer, sex education. Now if that were not enough, Michele Malkin points us to a story in the Boston Globe with her Indoctrination, Not Education posting today.
It seems that an English teacher in Bennington, VT is all but teaching disrespect towards the President of the United States. The real problem that parents have is that they never know when their child is going to get a teacher with this type of an teaching philosophy. By the time the parent figures it out the damage is already done.
My wife and I plan to home school. We have made a 180 degree turn from a few years ago. My wife is an elementary education major and taught public school before we had children. We both started our marriage thinking that public school was the only option. There are two primary reasons why we have changed our minds. One is that my wife saw first hand what our children would face and that there was often very little a parent could do to control it. The second and more important reason has to do with our growth in our faith in God. We believe that there is just to much immorality being shared in schools by other children and often school staff members. The best answer is to home school. There are other options out there, but they are few and far between.
The philosophy we are embracing is to teach our children to live in this world and not of this world.
November 26th, 2005 at 4:36 pm
It will not always be easy, to do the job yourself, and have your children with you, or your wife, 98% of the time. But let me tell you this. We’ve done it for 10 years now, with our oldest just turning 10. And we have an 8 and 5 year old (that is, not our abilities) like triplets, himself). And we are so proud (cautiously of course, and with the Lord’s grace) of what we are seeing bloom in them. He is faithful, when I think I cannot go on. He steps in, when I am wringing my hands. My husband feels he’s doing the greatest thing he can do to provide a living that affords me to be their primary teacher, contact, care taker, mother. They are happy, well adjusted, secure, polite, verbal, bright, good with adults and young children, respectful, learning about loving God, and they love eachother beautifully (these are all relative of course, everyone has days they think either they or their children should be commited). But we are beginning to see the harvest, albeit a very early and young one. And it helps us continue to work the field! There is NO ONE that will teach them, love them, the way you and your wife can, and no other way they’ll grow into your faith. It is all about living “in it, and not OF it”. Blessings.