If our kids was taught good, Christian Values in public schools, do you think our society would be better off?

Answer 1

Not necessarily. I think parents need to teach their own children right from wrong, not the public schools. If teaching values is so important ,then why pawn the job off on others? This may come as a shock, but there are many religions which have good values. Sorry, Christians do not have a monopoly on truth.

Answer 2

Home School View- You can home school through an umbrella school with a Christian based view. I go through one in East Tennessee, FCA East or Family Christian Academy of East Tennessee. I'm in the 11th grade, and to graduate you have to have 3 bible credits so your children would have both the christian academics along with being home schooled. Most umbrella schools offer a co-op school where once a week home school kids come and learn together, you do not have to do that but if you don't really think you can teach a class like Spanish or a higher math you can take them and they also get the interaction with other kids, this is for all grade levels. When you go through an Umbrella school you do not have to have a teaching back ground, or even have to go to collage, most just require a high school level education. You can ask most home school parents & students it is a hard change if they have already been to public school, but its different for most. And home school is a sacrifice because you aren't taking the easy way out and you are putting an effort into your child's education. Praying about the decision is the best thing you can do to start, if you feel ready then look up information on the web.

Answer 3

The question that pops in my mind when I hear a question like this is: who decides what values are "Christian values"?

If you are talking about: learning to listen before speaking, caring for others, sharing with others in a positive way, honesty, diligence, love, joy, peace, self-control, gentleness, goodness, faith, humility, and moderation in all things, learning to turn the other cheek instead of acting out in anger? Yes, absolutely! All of these skills are helpful to becoming a successful adult.

If you are talking about specific standards that are legalistic in nature, then that is where we will have problems. How do you define what is acceptable about dress standards and what activities we can or cannot do? Those are the issues that will cause the controversy and why so many people object to the term "Christian values"

Why? Because one group of people would say that Christians should only eat vegetables, others will say that girls cannot wear men's clothing (aka dresses only for the girls), others still will say that kids should not go to movies, or other issues like these. Time after time, these standards result in a rise of judgmentalism by those who insist that others follow these rules.

That is why, I think we have to be very careful on how we define Christian values.

Answer 4

A child's moral course is pretty well set by age six. If (s)he has not been exposed to some sort of value system by that time, then any value system will be just another subject.

What would you do with a child that "failed" his salvation examination, anyway?

Have you been to a motor vehicle department center recently? Do you want your state to teach morals to anybody's children?

Are you talking about Catholic or Protestant Christian values?

Seriously, I think our society would be far less tolerant and accepting of other cultures than we are now (which is disgraceful, btw) if schools taught ANY moral value system. The founding fathers separated church and state for a reason.

Answer 5

That would help, yes. But what would help more is if we actually punished the students for slacking, drug and alcohol using, and disrespecting. Not to mention the skipping classes, gangs and other troubles in schools today. On the news there was a census taken and students were already skipping and it is not even a full month into the new school year yet! I am glad to see they were arrested and the parents being slapped in the face with the law too over it!

First get rule and order back in public schools first and stop being easy and pushovers! Teachers are afraid of students now too because the students no teachers are powerless anymore. If a teacher discipline a student in someway, they are condemned anymore it seems.

Answer 6

I believe that our kids should be taught right from wrong, but to teach them that some guy rose from the dead after being hung on a cross is wrong. If parents were doing their job right from the beginning, then children would already know that cheating is wrong, that lying and stealing is wrong, and that telling the truth is right. "Christian values" should not enter the school system.

Answer 7

Good, christian values should NEVER be taught in the public school system.

As far as society being better for it....um....no. Indoctrination of school children into a religious belief system is NEVER a good idea, under ANY circumstances.

Answer 8

Well the children of KKK klansmen and those of nazis in the thirties and fourties were taught "good, christian values" and look how those psychopaths behave. Keep your religious indoctrination out of my children's schools. In fact, instead of the fanatical religious dogma that they have been taught, if you'd simply sit down with them and teach them to use common sense instead of fantacy to form their moral and ethical behavior society just might be better off. Keep your crap out of the schools that I pay taxes to support.

Answer 9

Good, christian values such as trying to push your religion on others? And intolerance?

* A note: I'm not saying every christian does this but some do.

I really don't get why they're called 'christian' values. Other people have good values too.

Answer 10

No, Schools should be places of learning not places to spread superstitious drivel and Christian hate. I think we'd have more murders in school than we do now. Maybe if parents would teach values at home, society would be better off. Lazy parents seem to want everyone to do their job for them.