Posted by
P.R.E.Z. on Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:00:00 AM
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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