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.

Fruzsina’s article

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!

Full details…

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…

“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.”

To read the entire article, visit the College Plus website. College Plus has an excellent program for students 13 and over to earn college credit more quickly and at less expense than by traditional methods. Check them out!

“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.