Within the Lines

An excerpt from this week's Homeschool Minute that I thought would be a good boost when we're having one of those "maybe we should be sending the kids to school" days.  (She had several links throughout, that I'm sorry, but couldn't copy through.)

Mercy Every Minute
Deborah Wuehler, TOS Senior Editor

While knowing what public schools teach may be comforting to some, there are things being taught in the public schools that would make you extremely uncomfortable.

What goes on in the governing and instruction in that nice little school down the street is something we can make some comparisons with that will make you glad you are homeschooling.

Public School            
Required to teach humanism, based on atheism: the doctrine that man is supreme in all things; a rejecting of God. Textbooks have been revised to take "religion" out at the expense of altering real truth. Revised history and evolution are taught as fact.

Homeschool
Privileged to teach that God upholds all things by the word of his power (Hebrews 1:3) and that He alone is Supreme, and His Word is truth.

Public School
Teaches hedonism - A pleasing of the self as the highest ethical principle. Self pleasure and exaltation is upheld in public school classrooms and curriculum.

Homeschool
We teach children to make it their aim to please God and to be Christ-like in their service to God, their families, their churches and their communities.

Public School
Promotes the homosexual agenda, partnering with the NEA with complete lesson plans and curriculum for even the very youngest.

Homeschool
Allowed to teach the truth of God's Word: God created the family as one man for one woman. Family is strengthened and promoted.

Public School
Full lesson plans on teaching tolerance, including the "blasting of stereotypes" of women's and men's roles. Teach children to tolerate all things, except Christianity. Prayer is banned, the Ten Commandments are banned, God is banned.

Homeschool
We can teach the Ten Commandments; the Golden Rule; loving your neighbor; prayer and Bible Study. God is alive and well in our homes.


Public School
Sexual abuse of children runs at a high level in public schools. Peer pressures are causing children to conform to this world and leave the faith of their fathers (88 percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18, never to return).

Homeschool
A loving and safe environment, free from worldly pressures and vain philosophies. Children who walk "with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." (Proverbs 13:20)

If we are comparing, let's start with comparing which environment teaches Truth. Some would say we are living in fear; I say we are living in the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of knowledge.

~ Deborah
Jeremiah 10:2