Re: Re: I Don't Homeschool Because..
| Posted On: 10/02/07 10:41:50 AM |
Age 48, MN |
I feel for you and your family, simply because the homeschooling community seems to lift up and celebrate all the high achievers. I think it is because they as a group feel the need to show the world that homeschooling works as well or better than the "traditional" methods. The problem is the homeschooling community forgets one of the primary benefits of homeschooling: tailoring the education to the individual needs of a child, regardless of ability. A secondary point that is forgotten is the ability to disciple and build character. The end result is those children who God did not gift to be academic superstars are never labeled as they would have been in the government school. They progress at their own pace, never knowing they are "slow." And you have the ability to build the character into that of a godly young adult who will impact the world for the Kingdom! Those benefits/results are far more important than superstar academics, yet they don't get the spotlight.
Thanks for reading!
Charley
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Re: I Don't Homeschool Because..
| Posted On: 09/30/07 10:44:34 PM |
Age 33, AL |
Wow and Amen. I have been praying about the very issue you address toward the end of your article--the church's roll in supporting parents who want to homeschool but genuinely cannot do so because of financial reasons. You have hit it on the head. Churches have drifted so far from the Biblical mandate for parents to "train up their children" they cannot even comprehend a church-based ministry focused on helping widows, divorced, or financially-stapped families homeschool. Their thinking is...why? when there is a perfectly good public school down the road? I PRAY that the "Church" will wake up!!
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Re: I Don't Homeschool Because..
| Posted On: 09/24/07 05:50:53 PM |
Age 45, IN |
As a homeschool family with a parent with a terminal illness, we have found help and support from many Christians. It has not been programs but individual families opening their hearts and having our children apart of their activities. It has been a rough year since my husband been diagnosed, but homeschooling has continued to be beneficial for our children.
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Re: I Don't Homeschool Because..
| Posted On: 09/21/07 09:09:24 PM |
Age 39, PA |
Being a homeschool dad, this article hit home. We started homeschooling before I came to know Jesus and we did so because of the inability of the public shools (in general and not all of them of course) to properly teach a child to fruition. I still homeschool for the same reason. I also make no accusation against those who do not. Nopt all are equipped to home educate their children and it requires much time in prep and planning. I have met many a kid that was done a diservice by homeschooling as well as many who have been served well by parents who taught them at home.
Jim
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Re: Re: I Don't Homeschool Because..
| Posted On: 09/20/07 04:00:33 AM |
Age 48, MN |
Col. Moore...thank you for your kind words and for taking the time to stop by and read my humble musings. I am honored that someone of your stature would take the time to not only read my work, but to comment upon it. May the Lord bless your work in the SBC to bring its smallest ones out of the schoolhouse of Baal.
--Charley
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Re: I Don't Homeschool Because..
| Posted On: 09/19/07 05:24:48 PM |
Age 56, OR |
Yep! Right on the money. I await with interest the rest of the comments that may be posted here. Thanks for the article. We have a long, hard climb out of the educational mess we have allowed the humanists to foist upon us. I would go further and quietly boycott all government (local or national) that supports the anti-Christ worldview. And I mean 'anti' in its two meanings, or flavors: supplanting AND attacking. From Planned Parentohood's abortion machine, to Hillary-1984-style of control from cradle to grave. Why would you even work as a janitor at a school that you would not send your children too?
Incidentally, have you noticed the 'new laws' that are being proposed to end the home-school threat to society? Look closely at Hillary's ideas and other 'altruistic' invasions by the leftist liberals. They are nearly all aimed at the 'poor' masses, but introduce measures that read like a comic-book edition of The Revelations of Jesus Christ. The 'excuses' that folk give in the article for not homeschooling sound like the excuses given by the German people when questioned as to why they allowed the Jews to be treated so badly during the last war.
It is not like the Lord God has not warned us enough times, is it? PGW
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Re: I Don't Homeschool Because..
| Posted On: 09/19/07 08:37:12 AM |
Age 53, NY |
Charley,
Thanks for the article. I printed it out and it was an encouragement to my wife & I.
Currently in our area of New York a curious thing is happening amongst homeschoolers. Some of the local LEAH groups have begun to steer their programs and activities to favor the gifted students, expending their resources in competitive sports and expensive enrichments that have closed out those of us who cannot compete or finance our participation. Homeschooling is mirroring the public schools with these values, and those who contribute financialy and with their time have, contrary to scripture, have used their service to gain an unequal voice in implementing program direction. We cannot "pay to play" right now, and so we have to go it alone. Your article was timely in reminding us of the simplicity of Christ in not compromising on our homeschool conviction. Please be advised, that some homeschool groups have become compromised, and the focus of their efforts is, definitively, worldly success. Your child does not have to be a genius for your homeschooling efforts to be successful!
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Re: I Don't Homeschool Because..
| Posted On: 09/19/07 05:41:35 AM |
Age 53, VA |
We (my wife mostly) have homeschooled our daughter through all of high school. Prior to that we had our kids in Christian Schools where my wife taught. Where we currently reside there is only one Christian school in the area (it's small and struggles to stay afloat, our kids attended and my wife taught) However the local churches in the area including the one we attended gave absolutely no support to this school either financially or through encouragement from the pulpit. As a matter of fact our youth pastor sent his son to a local non-christian private school which cost more than the Christian School. Why? Because of all of the pragmatic reasons listed in this article. The largest employer in the area is the school district and a lot of teachers were members in our church: hence, the preacher was NOT going to preach against the public school system and encourge members to either homeschool or attend the Christian School. Yet, the pastors would lament at how worldly our youth group was and how as soon as a youth was old enough to drive you rarely saw them in the youth group anymore.
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Re: I Don't Homeschool Because..
| Posted On: 09/18/07 10:30:10 PM |
Age 64, SC |
Grateful for Biblical WV and WVweekend ministry. We fully agree with Charles Adams column and pray more pastors and Christian leaders will boldly proclaim this same message. Home schooling is one of the important developments in the evangelical Church today. The Holy Spirit is birthing a return to K-12 Christian education all over the world among faithful Christians. Kudos to Brannon Howse for his leadership and publishing this essay. (E.Ray Moore, Jr, Chaplain (Lt. Col.) USAR Ret, Director of www.Exodusmandate.org)
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