Our children are being thrown to the wolves when they enter the Public School System.
I've been saying for years that our kids are being eaten alive by the Public School System. They have little chance of coming out of the system with our values in tact. They are being forced to fight the evils that surround them.
Yes, we can raise our children well and teach them everything we want them to know so they can be balanced in the world, yet there is much they have to overcome. We would be remiss to send them out in the world without adequate protection, and I am sure we try equip them well; but really, how successful will we be!
I have four grown children. Three of them turned out pretty well, even though they have had some really hard struggles to be the person I raised them to be. The fourth child, the youngest, has had the worst exposure to our times and has had terrible repercussions as well. The life she lives is full of challenges because of the choices she's made. It just pains my heart to see how she suffers. I am positive that many of you parents have had this experience as well. As adults, all we can do is love them as they are and except them as they are without judgement.
I worry so much for my 15 grandchildren and the toxic environment they have to overcome. I know that the children born today are strong-willed and smart, thank God. Yet they are facing temptation and choices far more damaging than anything we faced when we were young. Not only that, but they are forced to swim in the corrupted waters of the world.
Figuratively speaking, even if we give our children life-jackets so they don't drown in the swamp they will still get a mouth-full of the toxins that surround them. No matter how well we prepared them for what they face, we can't keep them from the repercussions that come from swimming in the swamp. What is even worse is that we threw them into the swamp and said to them: "Now do your best to be good".
Below is a good article from Off The Grid. It was an email subscription and I want to share it with you. It says everything I want to say on this subject but they say it better.
Dear Judith,
Proverbs 22:6 tells us to train up our children when they are young and when they are old, they will not depart from the teachings and values we have sought to instill. This proverb clearly indicates that there is a point of beginning (child), an interim (youth), and then a point of stability (adulthood) in the training process. However, it seems we are quite willing to shortcut this process and toss our children--our futures, if you will--into the shark-infested waters of public school indoctrination when they are young and impressionable. We expect them to fight the lions of secularism and socialist thought that permeates our schools today before they have obtained the stability of adulthood (and with only a few hours, at best, of interaction with us), and then act surprised when they reject our faith and values after they have grown.
We seem to think we can take a toddler and throw them into a gladiator fight, and they'll come out on top with only a few scratches and bruises. We piously intone that we're sending them into the missionary fields of the culture to be examples of Christ... but this is before they even have a solid faith in which to armor themselves with.
Are we any different than the ancient pagan civilizations who sacrificed their children to the gods? Cutting their beating hearts out with an obsidian stone isn't the only way to kill a child.
For the first 200 years of this nation's history, we had no public education. Children were school by parents or the church. In fact, when public education came up during the compilation of the Bill of Rights, James Madison said that government education would undermine the constitutional republic they were creating.
Unfortunately, by the first of the 20th century, the churches and parents had given up their schools and embraced public education. And recent research shows us the consequences of ceding the education of our children to the humanist religion.
- According to Barna Research, less than 10% of Christian children in public schools hold to a Christian worldview
- According to the Nehemiah Institute, 80% of children in public schools have a Marxist/socialist worldview
- Christian schools without a strong Christian worldview curriculum are graduating students who test as "soft socialists"
Compare that to 7000 homeschooled children who were followed from their homeschooling years to young adulthood--93% continued in the faith and values tradition of their parents.
Join Bill Heid, Pastor Jeff Harlow, and E. Ray Moore, Jr.--a Bible teacher, Army Reserve chaplain, a campaign consultant, and founder of Exodus Mandate, a Christian ministry to encourage and assist Christian families to leave Pharaoh's school system (i.e. government schools) for Click Here To Listen To The Interview Now!
Regards, The Off the Grid Radio Team
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