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.

In New Canaan, CT school officials are considering adding radio frequency tags to student or staff ID cards, or placing them on school property, like laptops. This is purportedly to be useful for tracking students during school emergencies.

I couldn’t have stated my opinion about this any better than the following comment from user, POIUYT,

“Why not just implant it in their wrist and stamp 666 across their forehead?”

Full story here

Homeschool College USA is a great site for homeschoolers pursuing an alternative high school or college education.

From their website:

Homeschool College USA (HC USA) is a website dedicated to helping students complete their high school education and study for college-level exams for credit, without spending a fortune. Thanks to the internet, a vast repository of information is available to anyone desiring to learn about any number of subjects. HC USA has gathered a collection of links, divided by individual courses, that may be used by students who are self-directed and ready to take responsibility for their educations and futures.

If you are looking to earn a college degree, either on the associate’s or bachelor’s level, but attending a “traditional” school is currently not possible, you may want to consider using a testing/examination program to meet your goals.

There are three accredited colleges that will accept your test scores for enough credit to be awarded a degree.* Known in some circles as “The Big Three,” these schools are:

• Excelsior College
• Thomas Edison College
• Charter Oak State College

Visit their site! It’s loaded with useful information.

Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, jokingly told the National Press Club last week that he believed schools should be open 13 months out of the year.

“In all seriousness, I think schools should be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week, 11-12 months of the year,” Duncan said. “This is not just more of the same. There would be a whole variety of after-school programs. Obviously academics would be at the heart of that. But you top it off with dancing, art, drama, music, yearbook, robotics, activities for older siblings and parents, ESL classes.”

Why is it that homeschoolers, who spend far fewer hours a day educating their children, outscore public school students on standardized tests? In my opinion the desire of Arne Duncan to expand the school day is not about increasing the quality of education, it’s more about decreasing the role of parents and their influence on their children. It’s very frightening to think of government schools having control of our children for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, 11 or 12 months a year. It will certainly increase the opportunity for politically correct indoctrination and brainwashing.

Read full article at DailyCaller.com

The cost for a K through 12th grade education for a student graduating from high school in 1980, was about $75,000, in 2009 dollars. The education for a student graduating in 2009 cost roughly twice that much. As you can see from the chart, the exorbitant increase in cost has resulted in absolutely no improvement in student’s academic performance.

Read the entire article at biggovernment.com

I’ll have to make sure my spell checker is on as I write this post! First place in the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee went to 14-year-old Anamika Veeramani of North Royalton, Ohio. Anamika is a student at Incarnate Word Academy. I’m not certain, but my guess is that Incarnate Word is probably a private Christian school.

Two of the finalists this year (top eight) were homeschooled students. If I did my math correctly, that’s 25%. Since homeschoolers make up only about 3% of the student population, that’s a pretty good showing.

Congratulations to homeschoolers Lanson Tang, 14 from Potomac MD, and Elizabeth Platz, 13 from Shelbina, MO. Lanson missed leishmanic and tied for 5th place. Elizabeth missed rhytidome and tied for 2nd place. Homeschoolers have won the bee in 1997 and 2000 and tied for 2^nd in 2009.

In addition to a trophy, this year’s winner received:

• $30,000 in cash from Scripps
• $2,500 savings bond and reference library from Merriam-Webster
• $5,000 scholarship from Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation
• $2,700 in reference works and test prep materials from Encyclopedia Britannica

The second place finisher received $12,500; 3rd, $7,500; 4th, $3,000; 5th, $2,500; 6th, $2,000; and 7th, $1,500.

Following are the words Anamika spelled correctly in this year’s bee, including the winning final word, ‘stromuhr’.