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Why They Hate Homeschools

There is no doubt that the public school system is broke like a joke. Kids are forced into classrooms where inept teachers attempt to indoctrinate them with liberal and humanistic viewpoints. These wannabe educators are coerced upon these young minds by union contracts which refuse to hold them accountable. Well, now judges are getting in on the action of deciding the best education for our children.

Get To School!

Case in point: a judge in North Carolina just recently ruled that a mother who was homeschooling her children is now being forced to put her kids in public school.

The decision was made by Judge Ned Mangum of Wake County. Mr
. Mangum was handling the divorce proceeding of Thomas and Vanessa Mills. Mr. Mills was outspoken about being against homeschooling.

In this case, judges should be ruling what's in favor in the interests of the children, a phrase the judge used.


"I thought Ms. Mills had done a good job [in homeschooling]," he said. "It was great for them to have that access, and [I had] no problems with homeschooling. I said public schooling would be a good complement."

When pushed about it, he acquiesced that his judgment was in place of the mother's. It doesn't make much sense why either given the fact that the three children, ages 10, 11, and 12 (didn't waste any time, did they) have been tested to be above their grade level by two years.


California went through this same thing recently and the court had to reverse it's own decision against homeschooling close to a year ago.


Reading Between The Lines


What is this about really? Is it just that the government is simply looking out for the welfare of our children? Is it that the public school system is attacking the growing homeschooling trend across the nation?


It goes deeper than that.


It's economically more viable for the education for the children, costing only $450.00 per year. This
does pose as a threat to a union teacher's job which is why charter school and homeschool education is vilified. There are over 1 million children in the United States that are homeschooled and that number is increasing.

Some are even calling for pulling their children out of public schools which wouldn't be a bad idea all around.

One thing that's overwhelming across the board when it comes to homeschooling is the fact that over 75% of them attend religious services of some kind, many being taught this as part of their homeschool curriculum.


When parents were asked by the
National Center for Education Statistics why they were homeschooling, the top three answers were concern about environment of other schools (31.2%), to provide religious or moral instruction (29.8%), and dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools (16.5%).

Getting a picture here?


They Will Hate You


One of the things that I've been repeating in the last half year in the new home church my wife and I began in July was the reality that the world will hate us.
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. (John 15:18)
The reality of being a Christian is that we won't be liked. It's a bad sign when the world begins to call you its friend.
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets. ( Luke 6:26)
These kinds of things, though appalling and wrong, shouldn't surprise us. It comes with the territory of being a Christian. We should expect it. However, it doesn't mean we just lay down and let this kind of evil action continue.
I charge thee in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:1-4)
Folks, we have arrived.

Now is not the time to be passive and do nothing. We do what's right and stand for what's right because we serve the God of what's right. We do it His way, which is the right way.


Edmund Burke is famous for saying, "
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." He also said, "Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."

But the Bible says it best:
To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. (James 4:17)
For so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. (1 Peter 2:15-16).
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Obama: I Cannot Tell A Lie. I Lied.

The mantra throughout the 2008 presidential campaign was change. All of the things that Barack Obama would do to change what's happening in Washington. Yet this new Obama-nation sees plenty of "more of the same" with no change at all.

Obama ran a campaign based on rhetoric against President Bush and accused opponent McCain of being a carbon copy. Yet the changes that he's attempting are disastrous for this country and he's not making all the changes he said he would.

For example:


  • Terrorist prisoners in Afghanistan will still be held without a trial. He's O.K. with that though he made it clear he wasn't.
  • Those tax cuts for the wealthy we heard over and over that he said he was going to yank? Yeah. They're staying for the full run.
  • The Bush administration's assertion that "state secrets" privilege to avoid releasing information? Obama and his staff has made it clear three times that it isn't going anywhere.

It appears that the Obama staff are glimpsing the harsh realities of governing a nation and what that means. He may have talked a good game during the election but it was a different story when the perspective of..oh...truth set in.
This stimulus bill will prove to be another, "Hmm. Maybe we shouldn't have done that" moment.

The Justice Department had to eat crow on their position to uphold telecommunications companies who can't be sued for helping the government in obtaining wiretaps in the interest of national security.

"The government is compelled to defend (the) statute as long as it can reasonably do so," spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.

He really didn't want to say that hence the clause at the end. Regardless, this is not what Obama supporters want to hear.

"There are some troubling signs that can't be ignored," Anthony Romero of the American Civil Liberties Union wrote recently.

During his campaign, Obama swore he wouldn't take public funds for his campaign...and then he did. That should have been a red flag to anyone paying attention.

The Bible is clear:


But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one. (Matthew 5:37)

I don't expect Obama to follow that since he's not a Christian. Yes, I said that on purpose with full assurance that it's the right statement. Doesn't matter that he let the faith based initiative program continue (another hold over from the Bush administration) or that he went to Jeremiah Wright's church (who also is NOT a Christian). He may have the religious thing down pat, but he's not a Christian.

The bottom line is that he should have looked at things a little closer and said zero about which he knew nothing about to prevent him having egg on his face. Like now.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; When he shutteth his lips, he is esteemed as prudent. (Proverbs 17:28)

Follow along folks as the walls slowly begin to crumble, the onset of truth settles in, and a landslide of inept bureaucratic moves shows itself in the plain light of day.

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