Homeschooling Anyone?

If you surf the Christian blogs on the internet, you will find that homeschooling is very popular among many conservative Christian families. And before I go any further, I want to make it very clear for those who may have weak analytical and critical thinking skills, that this is not a post against homeschooling. I want to explore the subject and look at it from a different perspective. Please feel free to post comments, even if you don’t agree but I will not engage in any long drawn out arguments. (They can end in anger! Not good!) If we don’t agree, we don’t agree. Deal with it.

I don’t blame any parent, especially Christian parents, for wanting to pull their kids out of the American public school system. The public schools have stopped nearly all funding for music and arts, blatantly promote liberal thinking and politics, push the homosexual agenda, pass out condoms like candy and tell the kids how to use them, and they seem to be against anything that remotely resembles conservative values.

So middle America has three options: pull their kids out and put them in private schools, (which are usually expensive) set them up at the kitchen table with their textbooks, or fight a system which won’t change until their kids are probably finished with college and by then it will be too late; they will be running around with rings in their noses and have probably lost their virginity.

Because the system cannot be changed quickly, parents opt for the cheapest solution, homeschooling. Ardent mothers quit their jobs and head home to brush up on their teaching skills. Proverbs 31 will need to be redefined to fit in, "She teaches calculus." It's a little scary to me but hey, it's not my kids.

Many Christians now are calling for a complete “flight” from public schools. I often wonder why Christians, whose founding fathers started the whole business of America and free education, don’t stand up and take back the public school system. I mean, don’t American Christians have just as much of a right to have their children educated in this country as much as a homosexual couple’s child?

Why do American Christians seem opposed to engage in the secular culture and having their voices heard on this topic?

Do we, as Christians really want to create a counter culture or “ghetto” to live in? What’s next? Moving to Montana and making it Christianland?

My hats are off to those who want to go thru the arduous process of homeschooling. I know many of the moms are desperate to find a way to raise their children in a safe environment and make healthy choices for them.

But I will wave an even bigger hat at all the people who are committed to deal with the system as it is and attempt to improve it. The American public school system is a mission field that needs workers!

Personally, I have decided not to homeschool my children. I am praying that God will provide funds for me to send them to a private Christian school. If I do not have the extra money, then they will have to go to public schools. That is my choice. I don’t feel I am qualified to teach school subjects at a level that a student deserves. I want my kids to go to college and not major in domestic skills. I also feel strongly that a child needs to know what the difference is in regards to a relationship between a parent who disciplines them and has the final authority over their lives and a teacher who is an instructor that will guide them in school subjects.