What's Going On In the School House?
Times have certainly changed since the days of "the little red school house." From a Christian newsletter we read, "Schools are the latest focal point in homosexuals' war to legitimize their lifestyle. Education Week admits: 'Public schools are [becoming] a battleground for gay-rights issues.' Many are in turmoil over teachers 'coming out.' Lesbian activist Donna Redwing says: 'We're here, we're queer, we're in the classroom.' "
Dear Christian friend, may I ask you what possible good you can justify in putting your precious children that the Lord has entrusted to you in a classroom with people like this? Perhaps you may say, "We teach our kids right. They know right from wrong." Well, that's good, but do you realize that these ungodly people are spending more of your children's waking hours with them than you are? They have much more opportunity to teach your kids wrong, than you have to teach them right! Perhaps you believe that your children can be a witness. This may be true, but why can't they be a witness in your community by inviting neighborhood children over to your house for the purpose of winning them for Christ? Why expose them to such filth, perversion, and AIDS for the purpose of "witnessing," especially at such tender ages? There are some things that children shouldn't have to deal with until they are mature enough to do so. Some of you would be horrified if a Christian friend invited a perverted person of this class to their home when you were there for a visit, and yet you will send your kids to school to "learn" under someone just like this! What's more, the pervert is in charge in the classroom!
Another item taken originally from Satan's Underground: "In 1981, the Witches International Coven Council (WICCA) listed several goals at their convention in Mexico. This list was intercepted and confiscated by law enforcement officials. Among their objectives are:
'1. To bring about personal debt, causing
discord and disharmony within families.
2. To remove or educate the
youth of the 'new age' by -
a. infiltrating boys'/girls'
clubs and big sister/brother programs.
b. infiltrating
schools, having prayers removed, having teachers teach about drugs, sex and freedoms.
c. instigating and promoting rebellion against parents and
all authority.
3. To have laws changed to benefit our ways, such as -
a. removing children from the home and placing them in our
foster homes.
b. mandatory placement of children in our
day-care centers.
c. opening the drug and pornography
market to everyone.'
We leave you to consider just how successful and advanced is this plan, in light of recent events."
Again your excuse for continuing to send your children to the public schools may be that you teach your kids what's right. But, as a friend of ours pointed out, the Bible says to Train up a child in the way he should go... (Proverbs 22:6), not all about what he should not do. The main emphasis in training children, according to this verse, should be the way they should go, not "Don't do this, don't do that." Having to constantly deprogram children, and "unlearn" them from evil that they've learned is a bad foundation. Children are easily influenced by those over them as the scripture says, Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive... Children do not understand, 1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. No matter how careful and conscientious you may be, nobody is perfect. You will miss something. You cannot think of everything that may come up or go wrong. When you gamble with your children's minds and bodies with witches and sodomites you are taking a chance that could cost you and your child for the rest of your life and theirs, and could even cost them eternity!
2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you... Is it such a great sacrifice to have to care for the children that God has blessed you with? Is it so much trouble to be faithful with this heritage and increase it as the wise steward so that you will someday receive a reward from the Lord?
- by Mary VN
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Please see the article "Guiding The Home" in the Personal Strength section under Keepers At Home. It also applies to the subject of Reasons To Home School.
