are Evangelicals home schooled ? why?

Question

is it because they wanna control their thoughts

Answer 1

I was raised in that world. I went to baptist schools. Got a great education... ehhh cept in the science dept that is. Ehhh but yea they wanna control your thoughts. 30 some odd years later I am still finding stuff in my mind that was christian propaganda.

Answer 2

Hardly. We want to control what the violence and lack of respect prevalent in our childrens' world does to their thought process. I don't know about you, but I have a big problem with my 8 year old being told what a "s.l.u.t" is in school, and then to hear her use the word, about one of her "friends," in the correct context, no less!! When the time comes, my children will learn things about the world they live in; I don't plan on sheltering them forever, but they are CHILDREN for crying out loud, they don't need to see the things that go in the school until they are old enough to handle the issues that come along with it.

In addition, where I live, the entire school year is devoted to preparing children to ace the PSSA (state standardized testing) so the district can get its funding and to ESL classes. (My school distraict ranked 415 out of 500 in my state in the school year that ended 2 months ago).

In homeschooling, while we must follow certain provisions of the education codes, we may choose from a list of standardized testing, our children often learn more while spending less time at schoolwork, and they sometimes graduate earlier than other children. Homeschooled children are more well-rounded, as they can (in most states) still participate in public-school sports and other activities, along with other things (such as community service), the same as other students, although the homeschoolers tend to be more prepared for college because that's how their schooling has always been set up.

Answer 3

There is nothing wrong with home schooling whether you are religious or not.

Those in our faith vary greatly. Some are home schooled and some go to the public school system. It should be a personal choice, whether you have the personality for it and what is the best learning environment for your child.

That all being said, anyone who shelters their child from the realities of life, is truly harming them because once they are 18 and have to deal with those in the world, they are in for a major shock.

We are a Christian home, but we send our kids to public school. Its the guidelines and rules in ones house that make a difference.

Jesus said we have to be in the world, just not of the world.

Answer 4

Jewelle, i'm an evangelical Christian and that i think of you're overgeneralizing. i be conscious of various Christians who deliver their young ones to public or inner maximum faculties. in many circumstances. And people who choose for to homeschool will possibly no longer purely be doing it for religious motives. it could with the aid of fact there are psycho killers taking photos young ones in school. it relatively is with the aid of bullying and suicide epidemics in school. it relatively is with the aid of youngsters who get abducted on a thank you to or from college. it relatively is with the aid of fact they do purely no longer desire to regulate the schedules of diverse infants going to diverse colleges for 8 hours an afternoon. yet with all that suggested, there isn't any longer something incorrect with conserving your infants from evil impacts. each and every make certain does it....

Answer 5

no, rather the current system of education today is dictated to by the liberal tax payers with their own political agendas, God is excluded from education,
our future is our youth, many evangelicals know this and imagine the future when as adults their children will probably be a minority

Answer 6

Some are, some aren't. And when they are, mind control is not always the only reason. After all, most of these nutters are already thoroughly indoctrinated before they're old enough for school.

Answer 7

I have four kids who were homeschooled. The oldest was in public school until 6th grade. She was a straight A student with a 4.0 gpa. Submitted a science project in the 6th grade science fair when she was in 4th grade, and won it. (Repeated wins when in 5th and 6th grade).

In sixth grade, her teacher was convinced that there was something wrong with her. She never rebelled, was polite, saying "ma'am" and "sir", and never made any trouble. This bothered the teacher constantly, who was always trying to get her to act up or rebel. After all, that is 6th graders are suppose to do.

So she assigned my daughter a project to be part of a TV News show. She was suppose to come on acting as a rock star, and justify her use of drugs and sex. My daughter refused, saying that it was wrong and she would not do it. The teacher threatened to suspend her from school for two weeks if she did not do the project.

She talked to us, and we told her we would support whatever she decided to do. So she went to her teacher and ask if she could pick a real life person to be in the interview. So wanted to be Reggie Vinson, who was a band member and song writer for Alice Copper. What the teacher did not realize was that he had left that lifestyle and become a full time Christian minister. So she did the interview as Vinson, including his full testimony of his conversion and ministry.

She was suspended from school for two weeks for doing.

She never returned to public school. Instead we started to homeschool her and her sister. The sister had always struggled in school, was in special ed classes, and even though she was in 3rd grade, was still struggling to learn her alphabet due to dyslexia.

Once we switched, we were able to work one on one with the younger girl using special techniques that school had neither the time or desire to try. Within six months she was reading above 3rd grade level. She is now a major bookworm, and devours 3-4 books a week. She works as an editor and proofreader for a publishing company.

Both girls graduated from a home schooling programs where they competed with several hundred students around the country (and the world). They were both the valedictorians of their classes. Both went on to college with full scholarships.

When our son was born with a major facial deformity, we decided to home school him also to reduce the amount of rejection and ridicule he would face. Today at 22, dispite his deformity, he is a stage actor and singer, having performed in musicals such as "Godspell" (a touring company), and "Once upon a Mattress". The confidence we were able to build in him through homeschooling as enabled him to fullfill any dream he as.

My youngst son was ADHD, and would have had no change of surviving in a normal school situation. He required a lot of special attention and techniques. Through homeschooling. he graduated class valedictorian at the age of 14. At 19, he owns his own computer software gaming company.

So we choose to homeschool first because we wanted our children to be able to have the good, Christian morals in their lives that they wanted. But also because they could get the type of one on one attention they needed and special help to be able to accomplish all of the things they were designed by God to do. Something they could not get in public school due to the class sizes and their having to "cookie cutter" each child.

Answer 8

not necessarily. though thought control is a big part of the evangelical plan.

Answer 9

you know how funny it is when atheists and all the people who hate christians say that christians stereotype them and hate them and always try to pick on them? look here, another stereotype from a, should I say "ignorant" person.


in my youth group, we have about two hundred kids. about two of those kids are homeschooled, and not for religious reasons.

Answer 10

So they can practice slapping people they know in the forehead without getting in trouble as they would in public school.