Homeschooling: “You’re Just Parroting What You’ve Been Taught”

Jasmine Baucham had a great post about the error of a typical homeschool argument we hear often.  I found it excellent food for thought…

“I’m going to be completely honest here:

Some of us have a huge bias when it comes to arguments about education.

You know the kids I’m talking about.

They’ve been educated in an echo chamber, a place where the curriculum is a unified effort to teach them one way to think.

They learn to view the world through a single lens: the worldview that they’re being taught.

They don’t live in the real world.

They’ve been told what to think and how to act from a young age; their responses to certain stimuli are deeply ingrained in them. And because of all of this, they’re biased. When they speak, they’re often just parroting what they’ve been taught….”

Read the rest at Joyfully Home

Christians: A Form of Godliness Denying Its Power?

(First sentence edited…my apologies if it sounded unloving.  I had just come from the discussion that spurred this post, and was feeling a little “charged”

I wonder why so many Christians never stop and say, “What are we doing wrong?” I’m amazed at how quickly some get upset about any suggestions outside the “norm”, yet are equally upset when their children turn out like that norm.   I get comments to posts about dating that go something like, “Well, I think it’s silly to expect your children to refrain from a physical relationship during the dating years….” or “How will they know if they want to marry someone if they don’t see what kind of kisser they are?” (I’m serious.)

But then the same parents are angry when their child comes home pregnant.  (Scratching head.)

Then comments to the public school debate that go something like, “We are supposed to be in the world”, completely disregarding any biblical principle that suggests that to be “in the world” has nothing to do with allowing our children to be taught by a secular religion and becoming a “companion of fools”, the values of which usually trump any the parents try to impart.

But I digress….kind of.

My sister and I were talking yesterday about the high school classmates she had met up with on Facebook.  About half of them were already divorced, having just graduated from high school a few years ago.  Unfortunately my sister is one of them.  It should be noted, this was a Christian high school.  Most of the kids came from “Christian” homes.  One of the classmates was in jail for murder, one had a near-pornographic picture as her profile, and several others were involved in lifestyles not mentionable.

“For men…shall be…lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2 Timothy 3:4-5

I’m just shaking my head asking, “What is wrong with this picture?” Divorce happens.  Maybe.  But at such alarming rates?  Among Christians?  Children out of wedlock happens.  But this often?  Fornication.  Divorce.  Drugs. Crime.  Aren’t these the things that Paul admonished the church to “not even let it be mentioned among you”?

And I think again of Einstein’s brilliant quote:

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.”

So before you write off some “zany” idea like homeschooling or an alternative to dating, consider the proven alternatives.   We are doing something terribly wrong, and it’s high time more people say “enough is enough”.  If we claim to be new creatures, let us live like it, and not just give lip service.

“For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light…”  Eph. 5:8

Radical Gay Activist Appointed to the Department of Education

Hat tip to Tawny…

Kevin Jennings, radical gay activist, has been appointed to the Department of Education, in charge of the “Safe Schools” program.

If you are a Christian and have children in public school, make sure you read this…

(I might as well state the disclaimer right up front…this is a Christian blog.  And as such, I firmly believe that homosexuality is an abomination to God.  That does NOT mean I hate homosexuals or promote hatred for them.  I am no more anti-gay than I am anti-cohabitation.  I’m anti-immorality, whatever form it takes.  So if you comment to blast me for “hating”, don’t.  I’ll delete the comment because you’re incorrect.  This is not the place to try to convince me that immorality should be accepted and taught to our children.  You won’t.)

I wanted to offer yet another reason Christians must strongly consider whether it is acceptable to allow our children to be taught by the state.  And let me prod you to think about this…if we truly uphold all lifestyles of sin as sin, making no distinction about “levels”, why are we so easily outraged about a homosexual agenda being taught to our children, but we’re not bothered by the humanist agenda?  Or by the immorality being taught in the health classes under the guise of  “sex education”?  Or by the other teachings that oppose what we believe about God and truth?   Let’s give no allowance to be called hypocrites.  In my opinion, this is not a better reason to remove our children fro public schools; it’s just another one.

Obama has appointed Kevin Jennings as Assistant Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education.  Kevin Jennings is the founder and head of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).  He is operating under the guise of promoting “safe schools”, where he claims his agenda is to protect children from harassment regardless of their sexual orientation.

But if there are any doubts about how this agenda is promoted, in a nutshell, they try to inundate people (read in this case “students”) with the language, expressions and familiarity of the homosexual lifestyle to “break down barriers” placed by “prejudice and ignorance”.  That’s their version and Jennings admits that “the affirmation of the lifestyle equals ’safety’ “.

It should be noted, that in order to desensitize children to the homosexual lifestyle, they have to be desensitized to immorality altogether. You can’t convince children that homosexuality is OK, until you first convince them that sex–in any form–is OK (it’s happening in Britain schools).  Folks, in case you didn’t know, we are witnessing a time in history when you are called “ignorant” for teaching your children that sex before marriage is wrong.  Or that virtually anything is wrong, for that matter.  There is no wrong; only choices.  And the state plans to “set right” that ignorant brainwashing by teaching your children otherwise. I’m not being hyper, I promise.  Ultimately, the religion of tolerance (America’s religion of choice) forces the state to keep pushing back anything established as *wrong*.    After all, being wrong may hurt my feelings.

If you feel brave enough to investigate what kind of sick, disgusting things are being taught at the GLSEN conferences (the group Jennings heads up), it may help you to understand that I’m not being an alarmist.  But I will warn you that what I read from a Massachusetts’ conference (my audio didn’t work) is jaw-dropping explicit–bordering sadism.  The conferences receive federal funding, are supported by the Dept. of Education and have students as young as 14 in attendance.

Here are a few details about Jennings and his network:

” The group’s target has been to place these clubs (GLSEN) in all U.S. schools, K through 12.”

In a speech in a New York church in 2000…

“Twenty percent of people are hard-core fair-minded [pro-homosexual] people. Twenty percent are hard-core [anti-homosexual] bigots. We need to ignore the hard-core bigots, get more of the hard-core fair-minded people to speak up, and we’ll pull that 60 percent [of people in the middle] over to our side. That’s really what I think our strategy has to be. We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. We also have to quit — I’m trying to find a way to say this. I’m trying not to say, ‘[F—] ‘em!’ which is what I want to say, because I don’t care what they think! [audience laughter] Drop dead!” — Jennings speech to Marble Collegiate Church, March 20, 2000.

(How’s that for irony…one of his “safe schools” tactics was to declare a no-name-calling week.  He has been hired to promote respect and kindness for all. Do you really think that is his aim?)

At a GLSEN conference, Jennings told his fellow gay teachers that they must teach kids to accept homosexuality “before the children have a chance to be prejudiced by their parents and churches.”

What Does the School Bus Have to Do With the Future of American Healthcare?

“One of the mantras we hear repeatedly these days is, “we don’t want socialism.”  While that sounds good (and conservative, and constitutional, and patriotic, etc.), it rings hollow when you consider the overwhelming majority of the people leading the charge have their children in what amounts to socialized education.  What’s the difference?  If you’re really against government-run, socialized programs, yank your kid off the yellow prison bus and just say no.”

Read the rest of  The Yellow Prison Bus and the Future of American Healthcare

School Bans Legos to Promote Socialism…I’m Not Kidding.

It should be noted this school is a private school.

Public School: The Insanity of the Right

(Thanks to Heather for passing along this article.)

“Insanity  is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

“Next month the right will send millions of their own children to public schools that are literally controlled by the left – meaning that it is only the liberals’ “values,” “morals” and curriculum that are taught in our government schools.

“Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American school is a school of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school’s meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?”

– C.F. Potter, signer of Humanist Manifesto 1930

Using public education as a “weapon” is nothing new. It was Josef Stalin who said, “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Wake up, conservatives! They want our children, and we are handing them right over. Remember, giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war is considered treason, and this is what we are doing by placing our children in the leftist schools.”

“Open war is upon you whether you will risk it or not!” Aragorn in Return of the King

“So next time the right wants to accuse the liberals of having a mental disorder or some sort of madness, consider that this mental illness must be contagious and that we conservatives just may have given it to them. After all, it is the right who still send their children and youth every year to the left’s schools for an “education.”"

“… [E]very child in American entering schools at the age of 5 is insane because he comes to schools with certain allegiances toward our Founding Fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. …”

– Chester Pierce, professor of education at Harvard (1970)

“I believe that … [public] education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform … this conception has due regard for … socialistic ideals.” and “There is no God and there is no soul. … There is no room for fixed … or moral absolutes.”

– John Dewey, father of modern public education and signer of Humanist Manifesto 1930

Read the rest of the article at  World Net Daily