Calling all Christians to remove their children from public schools

Martha Thompson, 55 a school bus driver in New York plead guilty to 37 counts of reckless endangerment and has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for being drunk behind the wheel during a chaotic ride in May of 2009 captured on the bus’ surveillance video. The driver had a blood alcohol content of .15. Thompson will be on six months of home electronic monitoring, five years probation and mandatory alcohol counseling.

At the time, she thought the children were over-reacting. The bus hit high speeds, ran over a mailbox and started rolling backwards downhill.

Student: “Turn the bus off!”

Driver: “No.”

Student: “You’re backing into the freaking ditch; you’re making the little kids cry. Stop!”

Finally, the children opened the emergency door in the back of the bus to get out, despite Thompson pleading against it.

Driver: “You can’t get off the bus!”

A New Jersey woman, Cindy Schwalb, is in court for a disorderly conduct charge for cursing a middle school principal. A boy pulled down Schwalb’s 13-year-old daughter’s sweatpants in front of other students at Hasbrouck Heights Middle School.

Schwalb attended a school board seminar about bullying and got upset when her daughter’s case wasn’t given the attention she felt it deserved. She became enraged when the district superintendent starting asking her questions, including one about whether her daughter was wearing a thong. Superintendent Joseph Luongo says it was a fair question, “I had to find out what body parts were actually revealed.”

Sounds like another case of blaming the victim. They better not let me near any boy that attempted to do that to one of my daughters, brings out the mother grizzly bear in me!

Complete article: MyFoxNY

In Waterbury, CT, students have been told to say, “Happy Winter,” instead of “Merry Christmas.” Erik Brown is the principal of Walsh Elementary School. He has banned all religious festivities and decorations. He told the Republican-American newspaper that he’s just following state law. “This is not a church,” he said. “It’s a school and it’s a public school. I have to do things that include every child. So what we do is celebrate winter.”

Christmas is spelled the way it is for a reason. The holiday (holy day) is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Whether He was actually born on that day is another question. It is the day that has been chosen to celebrate His birth. If you are a Christian, don’t let anyone tell you or your children that you cannot say “Merry Christmas.”

Last week a 9-year-old fourth grade girl entered a stall in the Walnut Creek Elementary girls’ restroom. According to Genoa Township Detective Molly Welch, “When she went to pull down her pants, she looked down and there was an adult male who had his head under the stall and was looking at the 9-year-old.”

The girl was so frightened and embarrassed that she did not report the incident right away, however school surveillance videos confirm her report. Video shows a man dressed in black who walked past the front desk without signing in and headed directly to the bathroom. The videos indicate that the man was in the school on at least three different days. The time the girl signed out of class to go to the bathroom coincides with the time the man was seen on the video.

Prior to this incident all doors except the front door of the elementary were locked. Now the school is locking the front door also and admittance is by a buzzer/intercom system. Certainly all necessary security measures must be taken and we can all be thankful that this intruder was discovered before an innocent young girl was harmed.

What are our schools becoming? This sounds more like a prison facility than a school. Surveillance cameras, lockdowns, buzzers and intercoms. When I was in college I worked at a juvenile detention center as a security guard. This reminds me very much of one of my main duties there. I sat in a control center and inmates had to request various doors be buzzed open as they moved from the residential area to the dining area, gymnasium, or visitor room.

This incident occurred in the school district we lived in when we began homeschooling, a primarily middle-class, low-crime area. A general warning note was sent to parents after the incident was reported, but the note did not inform them that there had been an intruder in the school.

Bring your kids home!

Full report here…

Lauren Bleser, BS in Elementary Education and an MS as a reading specialist, after teaching in both a public and private Christian schools concluded that children are best educated at home.

“According to the Scriptures, education is primarily the parents’ responsibility and is to be a natural part of everyday life. Education is accomplished through a meaningful trusting relationship. Education is discipleship.”

“I realized that I had blindly accepted a limited view of education, simply associating it with an academic pursuit of knowledge. Academic instruction, however, is only a small part of God’s plan—a means to an end, not the end in itself.”

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