Education

I shall from time to time, publish arguments in favour of home schooling.
Please do not take this as a move intended to win arguments or convince all others that homeschooling is what every body must do.
In fact it is more like a running defense of the choices that we have made. A defense because we are becoming quite tired (and even irritated) by continually having to defend our decision to home school our youngest.

The second undeniable truth of Homeschooling is that all parents are Homeschoolers. It’s just that some parents Homeschool more than others.

It would appear that educational bureaucrats do not like this, because they continue to invent things which undermine parental authority and which bypass parental responsibility. There are government educational documents out there which both implicitly and explicitly state that they want to prevent parents from passing their values on to their children; and that parents and families are the cause of the problems of society, and the government education can fix the problems only if they reduce and control the parents’ role in education.

They’ve come up with many ingenious proposals to accomplish this purpose, such as: The Parents as Teachers Program which is essentially a retraining program to get parents to think and to act in conformity with the government’s vision for education.

And, of course, there is everybody’s favorite, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. (sometimes referred to as "Hillary’s Baby.") In this treaty, the world government grants to children "fundamental" rights against their parents. (Does anybody know where the world government ever obtained any authority to grant anybody any rights? I know this much — they did not get it from God!)

WE have already experienced these 'rights' in action...and it is not pretty.

I am not saying that there is no place for others to help parents in the process. What I am saying is that the work of educating children is what the family is all about. When educational bureaucrats and social psychologists and religious education specialists take over this task, leaving the parents largely in observer status, the family suffers greatly. Both the parents and the children are cheated out of a huge portion of God’s ordained process for sanctification. (You could write an entire book on that one subject.)

As we continue down this road of separating children from their parents we are tearing apart the sinews of our culture. Parents and children are hurting badly. We need to teach our children — for our sake. Our children need to be taught by us — for their sake.

The way to destroy the family is to divide the children from the parents. And the way to divide the children from the parents, is to remove from the family its authority in education.