Calling all Christians to remove their children from public schools

“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. I advise no one to place their children anywhere where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution whose men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.”
– Martin Luther

Martin Luther’s words from the 1500’s have proven eerily prophetic. This website is a call, especially to Christians, to remove your children from the pagan institutions known as public, or government, schools. Evidence will be given to show how dangerous these institutions are spiritually, morally, and academically.

If you don’t agree with everything you read here, I encourage you to do the research yourself and pray about it. If you do agree, I hope you will take action and begin home “schooling” or enroll your children in a bible-based private Christian school.

Fruzsina Eordogh, an English major, borrowed $43,000 from Sallie Mae, with an average interest rate of 9.5%. She has already accrued $22,525 in interest, and the total amount to be paid following the recommended payment plans will be $123,350 with monthly payments of $690 for 14 years and 11 months.

I hope those figures shock everyone reading this, whether you are a parent or a young person. College and student loans are pushed as the solution to your future, when in reality the loans often create economic slavery.

I have a daughter that graduated from college two years ago, a second daughter that will graduate this spring, and a third daughter who is earning college credit while a high school junior, so our family has been very conscious of the expense of college and looked for ways to minimize it.

My oldest daughter was involved in a work-study program, working in a hospital and had half her tuition paid. My middle daughter chose to attend a local community college and benefited from the drastically lower tuition rates. My youngest is following the techniques recommended by College Plus and nearly has half her college credit earned already through CLEP tests. She will complete her bachelor’s degree through online college courses at Thomas Edison State College.

Those are just a few alternatives to the traditional on-campus full-time college high-price-tag track. For that matter, please consider whether a college degree is even necessary. For example rather than spending $100,000 to send your child to a private college to earn a multi-media degree, that money could purchase a lot of multimedia equipment and software as well as one-on-one tutoring with a professional in the field. My area of expertise is computers – programming and web design. The same approach could be taken there. I recently looked at the computer curriculum for a four year college program and felt that it was woefully inadequate to prepare someone for actual work in the computer field. Some careers will require a college degree, but many might not. Be willing to look for alternatives to accomplish the same or better results.

The average undergraduate student graduates with close to $20,000 in student loan debt, a 108% increase in the last decade. The biggest borrowers of all are law students and medical students, with close to $100,000 in student loans.

Fruzsina suggests that part of the problem was that Obama was not willing to forgive private loan debt or that private loans should be regulated or banned. Personally I don’t think the government needs to be involved at all. Forgiving someone’s student loan only means that someone else, taxpayers like you and me, will be paying that debt.

The answer is to be aware of what exactly it means to borrow $43,000 or more in student loans, preferably before you sign the papers. If you can’t see how you will be able to repay that much money, don’t borrow it! The selling point in the past was always how much more you would earn with a college degree. How much more would you have to earn to offset those student loan payments and interest? Is it really worth it? And even with a college degree, in the current economic decline, you are not guaranteed a job.

Don’t get me wrong, I am totally in favor of education. I just think colleges have become far too expensive and that there are viable, affordable alternatives to obtaining an education.

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Part of “Saving Private Ryan” was shown in a Marysville Ohio High School sophomore history class last week. Parents had not been notified ahead of time that the R-rated movie would be used in the classroom. One 15-year-old female student was bothered by the movie and asked to be excused during the class.

I have never seen SPR, but looked up a few reviews to see what others thought of the movie. Overall the movie received good reviews, but it was definitely considered extremely violent.

goodnewsfilmreviews.com had this to say about the level of violence:

Cautions: This is a war movie, therefore there’s plenty of brutal violence and grisly death scenes. This film particularly has vibrant battle sequences and deaths that are some of the most striking to ever be put to screen. There’s also plenty of salty language but given the subject matter, it is permissible.

Do many teens watch movies of this type and worse? Undoubtedly, however since the public schools are supported by our tax dollars, they are (or should be) accountable to the taxpayers. Concerned, conservative parents should have input into questionable material such as this. At the very least schools should notify the parents and provide the student the option of sitting out the class.

Although we homeschool, this is the school district we live in. I’m sure R-rated movies with even more questionable content are shown in schools across the country. This one hit pretty close to home though.

“Superintendent Larry Zimmerman said that he put a hold on showing any R or PG-13 movies while the district takes a closer look at its procedures, but stopped short of calling for an all-out ban, pointing out their potential educational value.”

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Michael and Holly Robbins filed suit Tuesday against Lower Merion School District (PA) for using a webcam on a school-issued laptop to illegally invade the privacy of their son, sophomore Blake Robbins.

The Robbins became aware of the invasion when the school’s assistant principal, Lynn Matsko, confronted Blake, accusing him of engaging in improper behavior in his home and citing as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in the laptop issued by the school.

State grants permitted the district to issue laptops to all 2,300 high school students. The Apple MacBook laptops have a built-in webcam with a “security feature” that can snap a picture of the operator and the screen.

Matsko later told Michael Robbins, that the district “could remotely activate the webcam contained in a student’s personal laptop . . . at any time it chose and to view and capture whatever images were in front of the webcam” without the knowledge or approval of the laptop’s users.

Big Brother is watching you!

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Twelve-year-old Alexa Gonzalez , a NYC junior high student, was arrested and taken in handcuffs to a police station for writing on her desk with an erasable marker.

Gonzalez wrote “Lex was here 2/1/10″  and “I love my friends Abby and Faith.”

The girl was released after being held for several hours at the police station.

Gonzalez must perform eight hours of community service, as well as writing a book report and an essay on what she’s learned from the experience.

While I don’t endorse writing on desks and damaging public property, handcuffing and arresting a child for this is extreme and inexcusable.

Other New York City Student arrests:

2007 – Chelsea Fraser, 13, arrested for writing on her desk
2008 – Dennis Rivera, 5, handcuffed and sent to a psych ward after throwing a fit in his kindergarten class
2009 – 12-year-old sixth-grader arrested for doodling on her desk

In 2004 Donna Busch visited her son’s kindergarten class in Newtown Square, PA. Busch’s son, Wesley, was the featured student for the school’s “All About Me” activity, during which a parent is permitted to read from their child’s favorite book.

Unless, of course, that book happens to be the bible. When Wesley’s teacher saw that his mother intended to read Psalm 118 from the bible, she made her stop and went to ask the principal if that was acceptable. Principal Thomas Cook informed Busch that reading from the bible in public school was against the law and he did not allow her to read the Psalm.

Since it was October, she was invited to read to the children from a book about witches, witchcraft and Halloween, which she declined to do.

In the years since that day a U.S. District Court and Court of Appeals have upheld the school officials’ decision. On January 19, 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, allowing the decisions by the lower courts to ban bible reading to stand.

“If these acts of censorship and discrimination are allowed to continue, there will be absolutely no freedom for religious people in public schools in this country.” -John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute

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