... I think it's time for Christians to remove their children from public schools.
... The whole social dynamic of school is now set up as an indoctrination of our children into the left wings way of seeing things. It's nothing more than a factory to turn out future voters for the Democratic Party.
There are alternatives in good Christian schools and home schooling ...
... I guess I just want to urge my fellow Christians to consider pulling their kids from public schools. It's only going to get worse and our kids are the most important things in our lives.
I'd say "What took you so long" to come to this conclusion but every situation is a bit different. Northern Idaho is probably less on the bleeding edge of cultural devolution than for most of us. My father was a public school teacher and he got us out of the public schools to private schools. My children were never in the public schools, but went to some excellent Catholic schools. My grandchildren are poised to avoid the public schools as well, to some good Catholic schools.
I don't want to paint the public schools as all bad or the alternatives as perfect. There are still good teachers in the public schools, good school board members, good administrators, good staff. And some private or parochial or home schools might have as much or more drugs, violence, hatred of the faith, incompetence, and perversion as the public schools. The right place can shine, though, with smaller classes, more involved parents and teachers, the faith actually taught and practiced, a lack of silliness in what is taught, academic excellence, and sports that all can participate in. You just have to choose well, knowing that every educational situation can have challenges. But overall, I do think that the public schools are entering into a downward spiral, a long silly season, a politically correct nightmare, and the safest place for children now is somewhere else.
A child should be taught the faith in school. Not to do so is a failure of education. And the public schools cannot teach the faith. A child should be taught to model moral living in school. Not to do so is a failure of education. The public schools have never given up on modeling how to live, but they have unmoored themselves from Christian morality in favor of politically correct morality. It seems much more in-your-face and now that the Supreme Court has changed our society I expect the public schools will enforce the new orthodoxy.
I do appreciate those who do keep their children in the schools as agents of cultural resistance. But I think that puts too high a burden on children who should be being formed in a solid environment so they can be better prepared for resistance in college and beyond. We do have to resist the culture gone amuck but I think we ask a lot of our children to fight adult battles. So I do think it is time to find better schools for our children.
I do think it is important to figure out how to assist parents who cannot afford to escape the public schools. Tuition assistance is important. Without it, we end up with a tiny movement. With it we can save a significant proportion of children from cultural catastrophe. We need to be sure that minority children, the children of the poor, children of single parents all have a chance at a real education. So we need to put our money where our mouths are and help out the local Christian school or help out the struggling home school family. It is a significant financial hardship for many to pay tuition for multiple children in a Christian school or forgo an income to home school. So many parents would like to do that but are frightened off by the daunting financial realities of having to pay taxes for the public schools AND pay for their own children's education outside the public schools.
