Dear parent,
I have always been a proponent of Christian parents making informed choices for their children. This can look different for everyone. Although I have been called to homeschool, some Christian families don’t feel that calling. They feel their family can be salt to the world through the public school setting.
May I draw your attention to one of the verses on salt in the Bible:
Matthew 5:13: “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.”
Salt serves several purposes, and in Biblical times no doubt was used as a preservative especially for meat when no refrigeration existed and a hot climate would cause spoilage quickly.
Would you apply salt to rotten, decaying, moldy meat? Would it be helpful to do so? Would this preserve the meat for consumption? I think we can agree that once the meat is decomposing, the application of salt will be useless.
I have been shocked and challenged over and over again in the last few years as the paradigm of public education has shifted further and further toward a worldview not just devoid of God, but wholly bent on stealing the innocence of our children, killing parental rights, and involvement, and destroying even common sense arguments against such things, while propping up such offensive material it defies what we have always wanted to believe about the adults making decisions on the behalf of our children in the public arena.
The public school system is rotten meat. It is a putrid, festering, smelly, institution attracting the flies of society who feed on the decomposing flesh of this rotten meat soley for their own gain.
I do not enjoy these harsh words, but I have been pushed past the point of sitting quietly aside, when my local middle school, the school where my children would have attended had we not decided to homeschool many years ago, handed out materials to children encouraging them to engage in sexual conduct so beyond the pale, at ages when kids use to be playing games, reading, creating, imagining, hanging out with friends, doing chores…that I must ask my fellow Christians how their children will be salt in this environment? Even a whole fleet from the Coastguard can’t stop a tidal wave.
The time has come. We must wake up, stand up, show up and grow up.
If the current culture rearing its ugly head in the main institution that shapes and molds the minds of our youth does not wake you up, I don’t know what will.
If this does not prompt you to consider standing up against this atrocity being inflicted on your children and fleeing to safety, I don’t know what will.
If this does not motivate you to show up for your child and at the very least seriously consider home education as a means to not only impart knowledge but do it in a vastly different model than ever possible in a public setting, I don’t know what will.
And lastly, if this does not inspire you to grow up into the man or woman God has called you to be and make the difficult decision to change your lifestyle and face the challenges and battles you fight that keep whispering in your ear, “you can’t do this”, I don’t know what will. I really don’t.
Let me stop right here and acknowledge that some families have infinitely more challenges than we can imagine and some pretty hefty roadblocks in the way of homeschooling. We have to pray fervently for these families that God will protect their children and provide a means of safety that we can’t see as mere humans.
As a homeschool leader for many years, I’ve seen a lot of homeschool families, and the sacrifices they make to homeschool. I’ve seen and heard all the excuses of families who “want” to homeschool but “can’t”.
I know you have an amazing career you shouldn’t have to give up. I know you’re finally in a beautiful home with a big mortgage payment. I know it takes two incomes to live these days. I know you don’t have the patience to homeschool your kids. I know you wish you could but can’t. I know you just don’t really want to. I know.
How bad does it have to get before the career, and the home and the excuses are less important than protecting our kids from vile, wicked, and evil indoctrination?
When we went to public school it wasn’t this bad. It is hard to believe all this is true. It’s hard to give up the idea of sunshine-filled playgrounds bounding with kids giggling as they play four square and shiny red apples on the teachers’ desks, and the worst offense was Scott Vargas and his little cronies bullying the kids for whatever he dreamt up was the unredeemable quality of the day.
There are so many wonderful people teaching in this system that do not agree with the repulsive corruption taking place among children. My heart aches for them as they entered a career to use their skills and talents to benefit children and are now being used as pawns by an establishment that is doing just the opposite.
As my dad always said (in his version of the idiom), “as the twig is bent, so shall the tree grow”.
Your young sapling is tender and bendable. How do you want them to grow?
The time is at hand. It will likely get worse before it gets better. Please, for the sake of your children’s innocence and the future generations that will decide the policies and social norms that rule society, I urge you to strongly consider homeschooling your children and examining what sacrifices you are willing to make to protect them and our country.
May God guide and guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.