Our public schools played a large role in producing the postmodern amoral generation we have in America today. There is little doubt that the public schools will now accelerate their attempts to make all children subjects of the radical Far Left social engineering Marxists that run our education systems. Now they have government supporting them and see that as a mandate for even more radical agendas to shape the minds of children as young as preschoolers. They will be taught to be openly anti-Christian, anti-moral, pro sex perversion and taught to undermine parental authority through state backed intimidation.
People who leave their children in public schools will see their own children turn against them and the Christian values that they hold. Children will be told to report parents that do not follow the government agenda to authorities. Churches and parents had better rise up now and take their nation back or they will become targets of their own children. Their own enemies will be those of their own household.
Parents ignoring this for whatever reason have given up their God given responsibility of raising up their children to the State and they are doing it for their own selfish convenience, or because they themselves do not believe what God said, or because they do not care enough about their children to be informed, or because they are cowards. If your church is not actively addressing this public education problem it is time to find a new church.
Abandon ship: Run from the public schools!
Sadly, many parents are either unaware or unwilling to see the true depravity of today’s government schools. Although many well-meaning parents may rationalize sending their children to secular institutions, there are big reasons to remove them from these public stumbling centers immediately.
Public school is where the “blind guides lead the blind” (Matthew 15:14) in centers of secular-humanistic indoctrination. This is no longer up for debate. The research is in. Please make yourself familiar with the following research: The National Study of Youth and Religion by Smith and Denton (2005), The Southern Baptist Council on Family Life Report (2002), and the 20 years of study by Dan Smithwick and the Nehemiah Institute with over 40,000 youth who professed to be born-again. The facts are mind-boggling! The American church is currently losing between 70-90 percent of the next generation. The vast majority of our children’s worldviews have been decimated, the inevitable result of nearly 1,100 hours a year of teaching that runs antithetical to Christianity.
E. Ray Moore of Exodus Mandate, at the forefront of this battle for the last 11 years, wrote the following: “… the lion’s share of converting and witnessing is accomplished through the public education curriculum, peer pressure from other children – most of whom are non-Christian – and educators who implant (either subtly or obviously and conscientiously or unconscientiously) their humanistic, neo-pagan or New Age doctrines within the minds and hearts of Christian children.” One recent Barna study shows that if current trends continue, in 10 years church attendance will be half of what it is today. Parents: the pagan institution down the street may have sports activities, marching bands, school plays, homecomings, proms, et cetera, but in light of eternity, do they really matter? Is not your child’s soul worth so much more?
Sending our children to public schools clearly causes them to stumble in their walk with God. The answer is not more youth groups, children’s ministries, or even a teaching series by our pastors. The answer begins with parents loving their children more than they love the convenience or tradition of their local public schools. We must spark a debate within our churches. Since it appears that many of our Christian leaders and pastors – the shepherds – are afraid or unwilling to tackle this topic, then let the sheep address it, and let them begin now.
The facts, Scripture, and plain reason clearly demonstrate that when parents send their children to today’s public schools, they put them in harm’s way. Evidence and history have shown it is a fool’s errand to try to reform the schools – a waste of time, money and children. It also runs contradictory to God’s Word. In the words of Martin Luther, “My conscience is captive to the Word of God … to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.”
Let us come together as the Body of Christ, repent and honor the Lord by raising our children for God’s glory! Before another precious soul stumbles and falls away, let us stop leading our kids onto the pirate ships and work together to rescue those who are already on board. It is time to abandon ship.
If our country has a future, it very likely lies in the hands of the home and privately schooled children — assuming they won’t be hunted-down.
Do we live in fear or in faith?
Were Daniel and the others, who lived and were trained in Babylon’s courts, obeying the laws of Babylon or of God?
Have we seen children, raised in Christian schools or homeschooled by Christian parents, love the world and the ideals (and things) of it?
What is “the guarantee” that our children will say, “not my will, but Thine”?
I may teach and try to be a holy example to my children – but when all is said and done -the greatest prayer a parent can pray is that his/her children love the Lord with all their hearts, minds, souls and strength – and to say, “Lord, whatever it takes to make them Your’s – for You only can make the blind see and give life in the Spirit.”
from – a public school teacher with four public schooled children who live for Christ.
What in the world does living in faith or fear have to do with taking your children out of Public schools? Did you even read the article? 70 to 90 percent of children of Christians are falling away from the Church. Daniel was a captive in Babylon. I do not think we should act as if we are now slaves and cannot bring up our children as Christians in this country. If you want to give up your children to the pagans don’t be surprised when they become pagans.
What good are your prayers if you are not willing to take no real actions to protect your children? You say you have faith but faith without works is dead.
Bring up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Let the public schools brainwash your children and you have already disregarded God’s instructions.
Public schools today are not the same as public schools were yesterday and a whole lot in the recent past depended on what area of the country you lived in. However, brainwashing of children will soon be everywhere in public school and it is becoming more and more diabolical.
“What in the world does living in faith or fear have to do with taking your children out of Public schools?” – Faith has everything to do with it. I didn’t say you could have faith without action. The action we take as parents is to train up our children – which is to teach them the truth of God’s Word and living in obedience to it. This means our children must forgive those who tease them at school, not hang with or associate with those of corrupt mouths and actions, they must not have false pride in accomplishments but do their best because the Lord requires us to be faithful in all we do. There are many opportunities to live out one’s faith. Quite frankly, I have also seen many church schooled and homeschooled children who end up “confessing with their mouths – but their hearts (and lives) are far from Him.
What I hear you saying is that parents who keep their kids in a public school are sacrificing their children to pagan brainwashing. So it is too bad, all you parents, who cannot afford to place your children in “Christian” schools, or those who cannot afford to homeschool . You are disobeying God and will lose their children to the devil.
I faced taking my children out of a Christian school, homeschooled and then realized homeschooling was not in their best interest. I believe the Lord led me to place them in the public school. It was I, the parent, who taught them about faith and obedience (not a school, not a church). But it was the Lord who brought them to Himself. He through the Spirit, grows us up in faith.
Yes, I did read the article. And yes, I do think that parents should be involved in their child’s academic education. In most states, parents can have their children exempt from classes they have issues with. But 90% of instruction in school has nothing to do with values or evolution or diversity or whatever. Parents should read over the textbooks and assignments given to their children. Most districts inform parents of any “new” programs that might be implemented and have programs available for parental perusal.
Therefore, I’m not stating parents should “throw their children before …”
However, the real “brainwashing” is done in the home. As a teacher, most children who come to school – the values they have (sports, clothing, drugs, gangs, high achievers, alternative, etc.)
these values are approved and held by their parents as well. The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree.
The argument about schools not being the same as in the past doesn’t bear up either. As Catholic and Christian schools were established for these same reasons that are promoted today.
But it is faith and obedience that is important. But let’s not tell others what their “obedience” should look like. Our obedience is not in abdicating our responsibility but in teaching our children to be obedient and faithful – and in allowing the Lord to take them through whatever trials He deems necessary – that they should be His – totally His. Yes, this is faith – that whatever I ask the Lord, that is according to His will – He hears me and will give me whatever I ask. And when I lay my children on His altar and entrust them to Him – He will be faithful as He, Himself is faithful.
Jesus said, “My yoke is easy, My burden light”. Let us not lay heavy burdens on others.
But your children ARE associating with those types of people if you send them to public schools. Even the teachers are often those kinds of people. I am not saying that home schooling or private schooling produces Christians but after thousand of hours of public brainwashing the result is that about 80 percent of Children of Christians are departing from the faith of their parents.
You seem to think that schools are a training ground for children to become Christians. That is loony. The hours at home you spend teaching your children is not going to erase the many more hours they spend learning anti christian doctrine and what they hear from their peers. That is borne out by the statistics in the article.
Many if not most Christians can afford private schools or to home school. They just have to give up somethings like cable TV and cell phones or maybe that 2500 sqft. house with the pool. I know people in the Ozarks that have almost nothing and they are home schooling their children. Many wives do not need to work. If you counted all the costs involved in working many are working to go to work unless one or both have high paying jobs. But if one has a high paying job someone can stay home and home school or they can afford a private school. Besides, if just those parents who can afford to take their kids out of public schools would do so the loss in revenue would force the changes Christians want in the public schooling. California schools would not be teaching homosexuality to grade schools kids if just 20 percent of the Christian parents withdrew their children until they changed.
Just because 90 percent of a glass of milk is pure the ten percent that is poison will still kill them. Again look at the statistics. 70 to 90 percent are departing Christianity and that is why the previous generation is postmodern, departing from true Christianity and electing perverted leaders.
Sure many parents are to blame for their children but we are not talking about the children of pagans we are talking about the children of Christians. That is what this article references.
Give me a break! You are not going to sit there and really tell me that public schools have not morally gone downhill over the decades? That is nonsense.
You want children to go through trials and develop faith before they even become Christians. That is a ridiculous argument. If you do not bring up a child in the way they should go and let public schools do that for you praying for your Children’s protection and not doing anything to protect them yourself when it is in your power to do so is not faith it is presumption. It is foolishness.
Laying heavy burdens on people to you seems to be asking them to give up a few luxuries so that their children will not be corrupted by the world’s schools. If Christian people do not start paying attention to how public schools are corrupting their children they are going to lose the whole next generation. Part of the problem why we cannot get Christians to take kids out of public schools is because they listen to public school apologists like you.
The public schools are a lost cause. There is no redeeming them. This is no longer debatable.
Such schools have far more quality time with children than their parents have with them. This is obvious.
Public school leaders are jealous to have even more influence over children and fully recognize that they are in competition with parents for the hearts and minds of children. That is why these leaders seek to capture children as students at earlier and earlier ages. The leadership is specifically, consciously and pointedly against Judeo-Christian values; they are earnestly trying to stamp these out in our society. This is no longer debatable.
As we see by recent court actions across the country, parents are being denied the opportunity to protect their children from controversial content. That is, when they are informed at all, since a growing practice is to keep such things secret from parents (a practice that includes telling students to keep these secrets from their parents).
I agree 100% with Don’s assessment, and I will point-out to you Mary, that we are among those you cited as having few resources and we home school our children just fine thank you.
Yes, I am loony.
Yes, I do believe that public schools have moral issues, from the “Values Clarification” programs of the 1960s to the “Sex Ed” classes of the 1990s and the “Diversity” programs of the 2000s. – none of which go away, just renamed.
Yes, I suppose, according to you – my faith is presumption and foolishness.
Yes, I will use “Christianize (ese)” and say, I believe we can pray and God answers prayer.
That the responsibility He gives us as parents is to “walk the talk”. I believe God can even guide parents to keeping their children in a public school. Sounds heretical?
By the way, public media is probably a greater influence. Will you assume that Christian parents who send their kids to public schools also allow “whatever” into their homes – as the assumption is that we have abdicated our responsibilities and are “just praying”?
Also, will you assume Christian parents who send their kids to public schools also allow their kids to have “whomever” for friends?
Try visiting some middle of the road K-12 schools. Spend some days visiting classes to get a broad picture.
Parents need, first and foremost, to obey the first commandment, and then the second and teach that to their children.
We’re not discussing the “whatever” other things that are being brought into the family. That’s another problem, but it does not mitigate the public school problem.
Try visiting some middle of the road K-12 schools. Spend some days visiting classes to get a broad picture.
Been there, done that. My experience has did nothing to offset the problems that were apparent without spending time in the classroom. Besides, it’s obvious what has been happening; I can’t understand your defense of public schools. The very founders (Dewy, et al.) planned public schools for this very purpose.
Mary’s defense of public schools is that she is a school teacher. By the way Mary I know public school teachers of middle of the road high schools they give me a broad picture as do those who write about our schools. What I hear and what I read is not good. I also went to a public high school myself in the days when schools were quite a bit more moral then they are today and I would wish that environment on no child.
Public media and Christian permissiveness is another issue we are talking about public schools. As a general rule I think those that care enough to take their kids out of public schools also care enough to raise their kids up in the way they should go.
Nobody totally obeys the commandments that is why all people have to receive the Savior. The gift of salvation through Jesus Christ is the foremost thing parents need to teach to their children. When parents allow public schools and their teachers and teachings to become their children’s idols they have already broken the first and second commandment.
I grew in a ‘Christian’ home —
My mother spoke in tongues to yell at naughty children who would play at the worldly gambles of education.
While teacher taught me “kingdom” and “phylum” — mother taught me “A coun-da-la-ci-ta-da-ra-ta”
(What is the more valuable lesson, I’ll hold in my heart and not tell bird or bee)
What feeds the human heart? That missing hole? Tis God?– (Is God a flower? bacteria? rainforest? frown?)
God is a man who has a son — Where shall the “daughters” run? Where do “mothers” come from?
Off to public school I’d run, my only refuge, and my home for quite some time.
(If you see me behind a book today, don’t think I’ve gone astray — I’m enraptured, flown away)
Your poetry is a lot of words that basically say much of nothing worthwhile here. If you have something to say to those on this Blog speak plain English. Your expedience in your own home has nothing to do with the brain washing agenda being taught in public schools today where a third of children come out functionally illiterate and almost all come out brainwashed against the truths of Christianity..