Should Christian parents trust their children’s education to public schools?

[Taken]

Well I live in SC and I know that many schools in my area still have preachers come in, and they pray and do other things long since removed from most schools.

The pubic school I attended…
Had a host of “clubs” kids could join with a parents permission….including a “club” whose acronym was VCY, which stood for Victorious Christian Youths, which met together “not during the scheduled academics” but considered “extra curricular” with the ability to use a school class room for meetings and had local Preachers donate their time to take turns as guest speakers.

But then, the “district” was “independent” and the “school board” was local district parents!

 

[Ronald Nolette]

The pubic school I attended…
Had a host of “clubs” kids could join with a parents permission….including a “club” whose acronym was VCY, which stood for Victorious Christian Youths, which met together “not during the scheduled academics” but considered “extra curricular” with the ability to use a school class room for meetings and had local Preachers donate their time to take turns as guest speakers.

But then, the “district” was “independent” and the “school board” was local district parents!

Well even churches are not i mmune to the growing evil taking over the world. Almost entire denominations have gone apostate and teaching doctrines of demons. Sowe should not be surprised American schools have turned anti-God.

 

[dev553344]

Should Christian parents trust their children’s education to public schools?

(Wanted to share this article with you all and the ask what your views are on home schooling against public school education.)


At the time America was founded, many parents in this nation took on the task of educating their children. Times have changed, and over the course of generations, an increasing number of parents have handed over the responsibility of educating their children to full-time teaching professionals. As less than 5 percent of students are homeschooled, the overwhelming majority of school-aged children attend public schools (90 percent) with the remainder attending parochial and non-parochial private schools (6 percent) (www.thinkimpact.com/homeschooling-statistics, www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/public-school, accessed 11/17/21).

According to an article in the Public School Review, cost and convenience are the public school system’s two biggest draws (www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/public-school-vs-private-school, accessed 11/17/21). Public schools are taxpayer funded; therefore, parents need not worry about costly tuition. Assuming that the child lives within the school district, transportation to and from the classroom is free. Also, public schools provide meals, often free or at reduced cost, and are equipped to aid students with learning disabilities and behavioral challenges.

However, many parents are at odds with public school systems. These parents worry that government-run public schools are a stronghold for political correctness, secular humanism, so-called wokeism, and radical, leftist indoctrination that will undermine the Judeo-Christian values they wish to pass on to their children. It would be foolish to assert all public schools are clandestine Marxist training camps. In fact, more than a third of the nation’s public school teachers identify themselves as evangelical Christians (www.christianheadlines.com/contributors/michael-foust/37-percent-of-public-school-teachers-are-evangelical-christians-poll-finds.html, accessed 11/17/21). There are many excellent public schools that focus on academics rather than political correctness and are staffed with caring, dedicated teachers who welcome, not discourage, parental involvement. However, it is the view of many that the nation’s public schools are heading in a wrong direction.

A child’s religious upbringing is the responsibility of the parents (Deuteronomy 11:19). Women and men of faith do not expect their children’s public school teachers to provide religious instruction; teachers are to focus on academics, the arts, and physical education. Public schools are to serve children of all faiths or of no faith, and classrooms are to remain free of bias concerning matters of religion, but a growing number of Christian moms and dads believe public schools are becoming openly hostile to the values, beliefs, and doctrines expressed in Scripture. These parents see public schools as encroaching upon their parental authority. Are public schools undermining Christian ethics and biblical morality? Here are some areas of concern:

• The presence of LBGTQ and other sexually explicit literature in some public school libraries
• The National School Boards Association’s labeling of parents expressing their dissent at school board meetings as “domestic terrorists”
• Public education’s overwhelming unwillingness to give creation science equal time with evolutionary theory
• The influence of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion provider, in public schools—according to their own website, Planned Parenthood is also the nation’s leading sex education provider
• The “dumbing down” of curricula on the assumption that some subjects, such as advanced mathematics, are steeped in racism
• A child’s inability to refute or resist teachings that are contrary to the Christian faith


For many families, one option to a public school is a Christian school, which has a different approach to education. Tuition cost is a prime factor preventing more parents from enrolling their children in a Christian school. There is also the matter of practicality. Parents’ work schedules, a lack of transportation, and distances to and from school may pose logistical difficulties for families. Even so, there are advantages offered by private Christian schools:

• Christian schools partner with parents of faith by teaching all subjects from a Christian worldview.
• Christian teachers consider their efforts a divine calling.
• Classes are smaller in most Christian schools, making students more likely to receive individualized attention from their teachers.
• Christian schools are inherently safer. Illicit drugs are not as prevalent, and instances of bullying and gang violence are less likely to occur on Christian school campuses.
• Faith-based schools tend to outperform public schools academically. Also, many Christian schools offer programs in athletics and the arts, and the school size allows ample opportunity for involvement.
• Many faith-based schools offer scholarships that benefit lower income families.


Parents have much to weigh in the important matter of their children’s education: what’s taught in the classroom, the level and type of peer pressure, and possible challenges to their children’s faith, values, and even gender. All these things and more are considerations in the modern public school environment. The following passages may prove helpful in guiding Christian parents:

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6, NKJV).

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 19:14, NKJV).

And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up (Deuteronomy 6:6–7, NKJV).

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction (Proverbs 1:7, ESV).

Students are not greater than their teacher. But the student who is fully trained will become like the teacher (Luke 6:40, NLT).


Christian parents are obligated to know the who, what, why, and how their children are being instructed. Know your child’s teachers. Know the school’s administrators. Know the curricula being taught. Knowledge is power, and, where your child’s education is concerned, there is no bliss in ignorance.

There are plenty of Christian schools out there. Home education is not advisable as they will not learn how to socialize with other children their own age. It is a sad day when parents deny their children to learn and grow with other children their own age.

Public schools have become evil though and it has been declining for decades now to its current state.

 

[Taken]

Well even churches are not i mmune to the growing evil taking over the world. Almost entire denominations have gone apostate and teaching doctrines of demons. Sowe should not be surprised American schools have turned anti-God.

I believe that is so. Children off to schools the majority of their waking day, for a plethora of reasons….and Church pews filling up before Clergy who are willing to preach what the congregation demands they be told, or the pews will empty along with the offering plates.

 

[amigo de christo]

Well I live in SC and I know that many schools in my area still have preachers come in, and they pray and do other things long since removed from most schools.

now the question is , do them preachers focus on inclusivity and diversitiy , OR DO THEY ACTUALLY point to JESUS CHRIST
to TRUTH and to holy biblical sound doctrine . For many preachers now do the work of the harlot .
NOT ALL , but many do .

 

[Augustin56]

Our educational system is completely broken. It no longer teaches students how to think. It teaches them what to think, and how to "feel" about it. We have now allowed the educational system to deprive at least one, probably two, generations of true education. Without a truly educated populace, we are ripe for coming under control of tryanny (Marxism).

Part or their indoctrination is the attack on God and especially Christianity. We see a strong movement among young people away from God and towards Marxism. Nature hates a vacuum. Once young people can no longer rely on God, they turn to the "government" for their needs, looking for bigger and bigger government to whom they give more and more control over their lives. We are witnessing this taking place right now.

 

[Grailhunter]

It is like a lot of things, you have to get involved.
You kinda have to look at the social environment that your kids are living in. There are elements of that environment that might as well be wolves with blood dripping from their mouths and they are salivating over your children….But there really are no wolves just Satan and demons. Children are candy to them.

They want to get your kids hooked on drugs….or have sex with them, or both. There are schools that want to shape their perception to think that evil is good and smart. They want them to believe that LGBTQ are good people, homosexuality is just a choice. That Christianity and their parents are just superstitious backward people. That sexual promiscuity is fun and part of being social. That communism is a better way. And to be socially acceptable....the in crowd believes these things.

If you look at the “founding fathers of the American education system most of them were not professors of education but rather behavior modification and brain washing with communist / Marxist backgrounds. And if you look at the dates, they have been at this for a while.

Now does every school and college teach this stuff?….no….but you have to know they do not. You have to get involved. You cannot assume that a rural school teaches Christian values. If they do not recite the Pledge of Allegiance to America that is a red flag. Do their sex education classes teach abortion as an option for birth control?

Christian schools are a better choice and pay dividends. Besides the fact that Christian schools provide a better education. That is just part of investing in you kids lives. Children and young adults have a lot of energy and get bored easy. You need to direct their activates, attend a church and get them involved with a church that has youth activates and outside of church other positive activities. Bottom line you want to raise your kids, don’t let society raise them.

 

[JohnDB]

This is what Christian parents fear....
Listen to the video....she sounds so plausible in her desire....but it's moral turpitude.

https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1759451558461497591?s=20

 

[MrNoir]

Our educational system is completely broken. It no longer teaches students how to think. It teaches them what to think, and how to "feel" about it. We have now allowed the educational system to deprive at least one, probably two, generations of true education. Without a truly educated populace, we are ripe for coming under control of tryanny (Marxism).

Part or their indoctrination is the attack on God and especially Christianity. We see a strong movement among young people away from God and towards Marxism. Nature hates a vacuum. Once young people can no longer rely on God, they turn to the "government" for their needs, looking for bigger and bigger government to whom they give more and more control over their lives. We are witnessing this taking place right now.

Yes like the trend of pushing for legislation to remove books about minorities or written by minorities from school libraries.

 

[MrNoir]

It is like a lot of things, you have to get involved.
You kinda have to look at the social environment that your kids are living in. There are elements of that environment that might as well be wolves with blood dripping from their mouths and they are salivating over your children….But there really are no wolves just Satan and demons. Children are candy to them.

They want to get your kids hooked on drugs….or have sex with them, or both. There are schools that want to shape their perception to think that evil is good and smart. They want them to believe that LGBTQ are good people, homosexuality is just a choice. That Christianity and their parents are just superstitious backward people.

Well if parents think that sexual orientation is a choice and that being a member of a minority makes someone a bad person then they are superstitious and backward

 

[Ronald Nolette]

I believe that is so. Children off to schools the majority of their waking day, for a plethora of reasons….and Church pews filling up before Clergy who are willing to preach what the congregation demands they be told, or the pews will empty along with the offering plates.

I am so joyful in my church! Since I moved and joined the church 15 months ago, the church has doubled and our Pastor is preaching the whole counsel of Scripture.

People who are hungry for truth and deep seated contentment will continue ot leave the dying churches and finding the churches still willing to exalt God and His Word.

 

[Ronald Nolette]

now the question is , do them preachers focus on inclusivity and diversitiy , OR DO THEY ACTUALLY point to JESUS CHRIST
to TRUTH and to holy biblical sound doctrine . For many preachers now do the work of the harlot .
NOT ALL , but many do .

Well I cannot speak for every preacher and every school, but the general trend here is Jesus Christ is allowed to be lifted up.

 

[Augustin56]

Yes like the trend of pushing for legislation to remove books about minorities or written by minorities from school libraries.

Parents should remove books that are sexually inappropriate from all schools. The moral demise of a nation always precedes its ultimate demise. An immoral people are always easier to enslave than a moral people.

 

[Grailhunter]

Well if parents think that sexual orientation is a choice and that being a member of a minority makes someone a bad person then they are superstitious and backward

There is no ifs ands or buts about it, the scriptures offer no mercy for homosexuals. Lifestyle sins are the ones most likely to send you to Hell. God is not backwards.

Now it is a fact that sexual orientation, if you want to call it that, is not a choice….the choice is a man having sex with a man. Being attracted to the same sex is not a sin….it is having sex with the same sex that is a sin.

We are not jack rabbits looking for a hole. It is like the argument for abortion…..they say, A woman should have rights about their own body! They do….don’t have sex.

The homo’s think along the same lines….sex is a right and justifies all actions.

 

[Augustin56]

Well if parents think that sexual orientation is a choice and that being a member of a minority makes someone a bad person then they are superstitious and backward

Small side note here... Homosexuality is not something one is born with. It comes from something that happened to them as early as 10 months old where they developed some sort of dissociative issue from their environment (parents, etc.).

But we are no animals, driven to respond to every stimulus that crosses our path. We have been given the gifts of intellect and will by which we can think and choose to do right or wrong. Choices have consequences and carry responsibility. Homosexualy activity is one of the sins "crying to heaven for vengeance." Those afflicted with this temptation would do well to avoid it at all costs.

Every human being is made in the image and likeness of God, and are, therefore, due the dignity that goes with that, both from others, and from self. Acting outside of God's laws deprives one of the dignity that is appropriate for them being children of God. And, it deprives God of the glory that is rightfully due Him, as does all sin. So, we should always love the sinner, we abhor the sin, and pray for those who fall into this sin. Sharp distinction there.

The worse thing in the world is not sin, but the denial of sin and the attempt to "normalize" or "rationalize" sin away, and even worse, to scandalize others by claiming that somehow, it is "okay." It's not.

 

[MrNoir]

Parents should remove books that are sexually inappropriate from all schools. The moral demise of a nation always precedes its ultimate demise. An immoral people are always easier to enslave than a moral people.

According to the American Library Association just over 3,000 books were banned from school libraries in 2023.
Books like:
Charlotte's Web
To Kill a Mockingbird
Are you there God, it's me, Margaret
The life of Barack Obama
James and the Giant Peach
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Bluest Eye
Looking for Alaska
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A Young Poet's Call to Justice
Michelle Obama: Political Icon
47
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise our Voice
Animal Farm
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Color Purple
The Big Book of Families
The Life of Rosa Parks

 

[MrNoir]

There is no ifs ands or buts about it, the scriptures offer no mercy for homosexuals. Lifestyle sins are the ones most likely to send you to Hell. God is not backwards.

Now it is a fact that sexual orientation, if you want to call it that, is not a choice….the choice is a man having sex with a man. Being attracted to the same sex is not a sin….it is having sex with the same sex that is a sin.

We are not jack rabbits looking for a hole. It is like the argument for abortion…..they say, A woman should have rights about their own body! They do….don’t have sex.

The homo’s think along the same lines….sex is a right and justifies all actions.

all you've done is prove my point

 

[MrNoir]

Small side note here... Homosexuality is not something one is born with.

All the evidence says that is it is

It comes from something that happened to them as early as 10 months old where they developed some sort of dissociative issue from their environment (parents, etc.).

And what would that something be?

Crackpots have been saying this for decades but no one has been able to come up with ANYTHING in the way of evidence

But we are no animals, driven to respond to every stimulus that crosses our path. We have been given the gifts of intellect and will by which we can think and choose to do right or wrong.

And sadly some people choose to hate.

Choices have consequences and carry responsibility. Homosexualy activity is one of the sins "crying to heaven for vengeance." Those afflicted with this temptation would do well to avoid it at all costs.

Every human being is made in the image and likeness of God, and are, therefore, due the dignity that goes with that, both from others, and from self. Acting outside of God's laws deprives one of the dignity that is appropriate for them being children of God. And, it deprives God of the glory that is rightfully due Him, as does all sin. So, we should always love the sinner, we abhor the sin, and pray for those who fall into this sin. Sharp distinction there.

The worse thing in the world is not sin, but the denial of sin and the attempt to "normalize" or "rationalize" sin away, and even worse, to scandalize others by claiming that somehow, it is "okay." It's not.

you mean like normalizing or rationalizing prejudice

 

[Grailhunter]

all you've done is prove my point

More importantly does the Bible prove your point.