Date:   11/14/2005 11:14:59 AM ( 20 y ago)
Hits:   1,911
URL:   https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=406685

0 of 0 (0%) readers agree with this message.  Hide votes     What is this?

I am just assisting my friend to try to explain it in scriptural terms. He is in the mission field, and the children are not going to be subjected to the Communist government they have, so his wife home schools. He just needs some scriptural communicatins because no Americans allow there children to be government schooled, and, as is typical of the 3rd world, it is just seen as an Americna peculiarity.

As to your foundation, I do insist on home schooling, and not only that, on dropping out, for teenagers. I have been sucessful in motivating that. It is an important issue to understand, for the safety and education of the child. Please be advised the list I issued earlier is from comparative studies on problems in government schools from 50 years ago and today.

I do not believe that a cavalier subjecting of a child to danger by the parent is excuseable for any reason. The real threats to children in government schools are both physical and spiritual. I forgot to include the incidences of suicide and insanity in the government schools.

Please get your children out if you have failed to as yet. Even if you are single, you can get more than 14 minutes a day to direct your childs' education. Doing so means that your child recieves more education at home in 14 minutes in the evening than he or she would in any government school, unless the teachers give your child more than average attention, and why would they? Would it be fair to the other child in that classroom who is shorted because your child gets that attention? No. So, be kind the the other children, and allow them more time with a teacher by removing yours from government schools.

As to your childs' desire to attend a government high school. I hope that he is not that stupid. No, I don't mean as an emotive pejorative, I mean qualitative. If your child at 13 in a home school is not testing above 12 years in government schools, I submit something is materialy wrong in the schooling.

I recall an account of a man in Missouri who likes to set civil rights test cases, especially pertaining to religious free exercise. He recounts recieving a demand his 12 year old daughter be produced for testing, and knowing his way around courtrooms, decided this is going to be another fine opportunity, so he took her to see what their demands would be. After testing the 12 year old the response was simple. 'Sir, the child tested at 12.4 years of education, and we only provide 12 in the system, so you don't need to produce her for testing ever again.' Drats!!! She did too well! No suing the rich school board, to retain parental rights! Likewise, I believe your child would have tested above minimum graduation standards had he tried to attend.

The scripture that I recall most is the more generic, 'Raise up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from that.', or thereabouts. Seems to me to be Proverbs.

 

<< Return to the standard message view

fetched in 0.03 sec, referred by http://www.curezone.org/forums/fmp.asp?i=406685