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Post Reply Who Can Post? All users can post new topics and all users can reply. Username   Need to register? Password:   Forgot password? Subject: (optional) Icon: Formatting Mode: Normal Advanced Help Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Script MT Bold Stencil Verdana Lucida Console -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 6 White Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: HTML is Off Smilies are On BB Code is On [img] Code is On [quote][i]Originally posted by biblelighthouse[/i] :welcome: Welcome to The Reformation Superhighway, cousin! I'm glad you are here!! [quote][i]Originally posted by hrothgleas[/i] There's a tension here that I think all Christians need to be aware of. We're called to be 'in the world, but not of it.' I'm concerned that we may tend to withdraw from this godless world to the point where we might as well be Amish. [/quote] You are correct that this is a danger Christians need to be aware of. However, this danger does not apply to the question of public schooling vs. home schooling. There is a world of difference between my kid having a pagan teacher, and my kid having a pagan neighbor. The pagan neighbor has no authority of my child, and is not given the opportunity to indoctrinate my child with a godless worldview for 7 hours a day. The pagan teacher, on the other hand . . . [quote][i]Originally posted by hrothgleas[/i] My cousin Joseph sent me a book called 'Excused Absence' about this topic. I disagree with the author vigorously on a number of points. For example, he says that Christians shouldn't even teach in public schools. I think he overstates the case - I've taught in public schools for 20 years. I never held back from sharing my beliefs, and held Bible studies & FCA meetings throughout that time. [/quote] Kudos to the Bible studies and FCA meetings! But what do you do *during* class? For example, when you are teaching your astronomy classes, do you frequently quote Genesis 1, Psalm 8, etc.? Is your primary goal to teach them astronomy, or is your primary goal to use astronomy to point them to God's Glory? [quote][i]Originally posted by hrothgleas[/i] I also got to talk to a number of Moslem students as I studied Arabic - got to present the Gospel to several, and to clear up a number of misconceptions about the Bible. [/quote] Excellent! Was this during class, or in the spare moments you could find before/between/after classes? [quote][i]Originally posted by hrothgleas[/i] Christian kids in my classrooms were salt & light, and I don't think my teaching of Chemistry, AP Chemistry, and Astronomy slowed their spiritual growth any. [/quote] You say that it didn't "slow their spiritual growth any" . . . compared to what? Are you saying that they grew spiritually, just as much as they would have in a class which consistently brought every lesson back around to the Scriptures, and to God's Glory? I am not suggesting that your classes necessarily stunted everyone's spiritual growth, but I am suggesting that they could have spiritually grown far more if your hands weren't tied by the nonchristian public school system. [quote][i]Originally posted by hrothgleas[/i] Hey, Joe - watch the language. If public schools are like brothels, does that make me a prostitute or a pimp? [/quote] The "brothel" comparison was focused on the students, not on all the teachers. Sending your children to public school is prostituting them to the world. (I use the word "world" here in the sense of 1 John 2:16). [quote][i]Originally posted by hrothgleas[/i] Do you have friends who aren't Christians? Do your kids? [/quote] Yes, I have nonchristian friends. And as my kids get older (they are ages 4 and under right now), they will no doubt have nonchristian friends, too. But like I said, a nonchristian neighbor is very different from a nonchristian teacher, which is different still from a nonchristian public school system. It is one thing for me to allow my child a controlled amount of interaction with my nonchristian neighbor, for the purpose of spiritual training, and for the purpose of being salt and light. But it would be another thing entirely for me to send my child next door for 7 hours a day, 250 days a year, to let the nonchristian raise my child. (This point not only condemns public schooling as we know it, but also the majority of day-care businesses.) [quote][i]Originally posted by hrothgleas[/i] I know I'm lacking in perspective - no kids. Joseph worked as a sub in public schools, and has a terrific wife & family. [/quote] Thank you for your kind comment, Curt. Try to imagine having full responsibility for a young child. God has put that child's future into your hands. Of course you may love the idea of that child becoming a missionary, dedicating his entire life to God and the Gospel. But would you send him out on the mission field immediately, to butt heads with the natives of some native American tribe? Or would you give the child some years of training first, and encourage the child to wait until adulthood to take on such a heavy responsibility? Of course neither you nor I would send our children out alone to spend 7 hours a day witnessing to moslems. But how is a child going head-to-head against a 40-year-old humanist public school teacher any different? I love you, cousin Curt. I'm glad you are here. :bluesmiley: [/quote] Disable Smilies? Use signature? Turn BBCode off? Receive email on reply? Attachment:

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