The Case for School Choice...

"Public School Is NOT a Child's Ministry"

Amen!  After reading the link below, come back to this post and click on the label at the bottom of this post entitled "Salt and Light" to read my own view on the subject. 

http://www.holyspiritledhomeschooling.net/2012/01/public-school-is-not-a-childs-ministry/

"Salt will lose its savor if dirt is being dumped into it everyday."

Many Christian parents have the mistaken belief that their Christian kids will be "salt & light" to the unsaved kids at public school.  While this is certainly possible, it is more than likely not probable in most cases. Christian kids are "babes in Christ".  They are not yet mature Christians who are rooted and grounded in their beliefs.  Christian kids, like all kids, are just that...kids!  They do not always make wise choices.  They need the guidance of  mature Christian adults (preferably, their parents) to lead them toward spiritual, mental, and emotional maturity.  The environment of our public schools today is like a battlefield.  When armies go out to battle, do they send the children to fight?  Of course not!  When Christian churches send out missionaries to witness to people living in lands ruled by communists/dictatorships, do they send out children?  Of course not!  When Jesus sent out his disciples to witness, did he send out children?  No!    Crime, drugs, violence, and immorality are rampant in our public schools..  Rebellion against parents and authority figures is the norm among students educated by our public schools.  Whose responsibility is it to turn the hearts of these children to the Lord?  Jesus did not tell the children to go out into the highways and hedges and compel people to come in that His house may be full.  Jesus commissioned adults that He had TRAINED WELL to do His work.  Notice that Jesus' disciples did not go out to do serious witnessing  to others soon after their conversion.   They were still "babes in Christ", new to the faith, not yet rooted and grounded in God's Word.  To send them out as babes in Christ would have been a disaster.  The devil would have had a hey-day out of them.  As it was, even after 3 years of intense teaching by Christ, living with Him, watching Him perform miracles, all of the disciples still scattered in fear when Jesus was arrested, one completely betrayed Him, and one vehemently denied Him.  To send our Christian kids to public schools is no better than throwing them out to the wolves.  Public school kids spend more time at school, with their same age, mostly unsaved peers, than they do with their parents at home.  At public school they will absorb more negative influences than their parents will have time to combat.  At public school,  Christian kids will be indoctrinated into socialistic/liberal views that their parents will  try, in vain, to deprogram from their children's minds and hearts.  Why do this to your children?  Why do this to yourself?  Why have kids if you are going to just give them over to the government to raise?