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Read Jennie Chancey’s review of John Taylor Gatto’s “The Underground History of American Education” for a closer look at the topic of what’s going on in the public school system.
Kelly Crawford
Hello! I’m Kelly and I’m glad you’re here. I’m a wife and mom, just like you. I get it. I know how hard the days can be, and how you might feel like you’re spinning your wheels or that no one sees or appreciates your work.
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I actually clicked over and was reading some Gatto speeches last night after reading your post with my husband.
Everything you are saying is right on and husband thinks you are just beginning to scratch the surface too!
This comment from Lydia Sherman, who had trouble commenting:
I know this is an old post but it was not mentioned that a lot of people of my parents’ generation had the attitude that they could put their kids in public school and just pray for them and have a good home life for them and be a good Christian example. They found out that the school had the advantage and that 5 days a week during the most wakeful, teachable moments of the day. The schools had the advantage, though, and parents could spend little quality time correcting all the errors of the school’s teachings. It didnt’ seem blatantly “evil” because even Satan presents himself as an angel of light, else people wouldn’t be attracted to things.
When I educated my own children, it was partly due to the influence of a book written by Sam Blumenfeld called “NEA, Trojan Horse in American Education,” which gave the history of education in the US. When I read who started it and what his agenda was, I was even more determined to educate my own children at home. The Israelites in the Bible would never have willingly sent their children to be educated by the Philistines, even if that camp had a “better” education, nor would the Christians in Corinth have sent their children to be educated by the Corinthian culture around them. They knew there would be more to it that the three r’s. There is always an influence….children tend to be loyal to the ones they are around the most.
There was a generation that believed all you had to do was stick the child in the school and if you were good people, God would protect your children. But God doesn’t want us to willingly put our children somewhere that does not honor Him, and still expect His protection and blessing. The child’s first authority is his parents, not teachers and facilitators (which is what most teachers, unwittingly, are). If he is around different authorities all day, he will eventually reject the one authority and choose the ones he likes best. The Bible says a child is to obey his parents, not a hoard of other authorities all day long.
Whoever controls the children, controls the nation. Every year the schools will churn out new voters who will vote policies into effect that will cause the deterioration of our nation. You can see evidence of this in our politically correct policies and our hiring policies, in our courts, and in Universities, where the professors are highly influential in patterning the child’s lifestyle and beliefs.
Lydia Sherman
http://www.homeliving.blogspot.com
August 13, 2008 10:02 AM