People of faith, why are you not homeschooling your children or at least sending them to private school?

Question

It is a known fact that public schools in general will undermine the faith, morals and ethics you teach your children. They will leave school despising you and rejecting everything you stand for and taught them. This is not normal or natural, except in this generation. We are creating a generation of animals and we are to blame. Why do you not take the raising of children more seriously?

Why do people think we must send our children into the trenches of public school? Don't they need to be trained up by us first? Doesn't the Bible call for us to do this? Why do you not do it? Sending them to the secular public schools is not raising them up in the ways of the Lord.

The well known fact is that children who are put in public school are leaving their faith in alarming numbers after graduation. Is it possible that this is a result of the fact that schools are anti-God?

Answer 1

I wish more people believed as you do. Public schools do undermine everything Christians try to teach their children. However, with that said I do think it is possible for Christian parents to send their children to public schools and they still be okay. Some Christian parents have no choice in the matter. I will say that it is 100 times more difficult if your child is in the public school system. You will have to constantly reemphasize what you are teaching them, making sure they are not confused.
I think more often than not, your children will turn away from the faith if placed in a public school.
Even private schools can be detrimental to your children. I attended one, and at times it was just as bad as a public school.
I think in a perfect world, all Christian children should be home schooled, but obviously we don't live in a perfect world!

Answer 2

Are you kidding me? Don't blame public schools just because there are kids out there that screw up. I went to a good public school and I made the transition into an adult rather well. If anything, I would think going to private schools teaches children that they don't have to be tolerant or open-minded about people of other faiths (not to mention other races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, etc) because they're the only ones who are 'right.' I think maybe parents should try taking responsibility for how they raise their own kids and the mistakes that they might have made instead of using public schools as a scapegoat. People who think like that are just teaching their children that no matter what they do wrong, you can always blame someone or something else for it.

Answer 3

Homeschooling is fine, if you are able to teach EVERYTHING your kids will need to get into college and be able to be productive members of society. I don't believe that most home schooled kids get the social adaptation they need to make it in this world. They need a little opposition to find out what is right for themselves.

I went to public school my whole way through- even up through college. I don't think I'm an animal for that. I don't think that means that I despise my parents for the fact that they sent me to public school. I love my parents, and they did the best they could for us kids. I also don't reject what the taught me. Yes, I questioned my faith, but not until I was an adult and out of school. But I am still the faith I was then, and will always be.

I take the raising of my children very seriously!!!!!!!! You can't tell me that just because I plan on sending my kids to public school that I don't love and don't care for my children!!!!! The schools here are excellent, and they can teach my children better then I could.

The problem isn't WHERE kids go to school as much as what parents teach them when they are at home!! Learning shouldn't be confined to school. Parents need to teach their kids morals and values at home. If they are taught right, no matter what life throws at them, they are prepared spiritually. Keeping them sheltered and away from the world can do more harm then good.

About private school- I have seen kids in private schools that are way worse then the kids in public schools. They think they are more privileged, better then the kids that go to public school, and they treat others that way. Some are also more apt to commit crime and to be a drain on society. So saying that public school is the way to go isn't necessarily right.

I don't want to home school my kids. I will enjoy the break I get when they aren't here all the time. Please quit generalizing about people, and let us do what we think is best for our kids!!

Answer 4

whoa. First of all, for such a well known fact, I have never heard of it. I attended private school for 11 years of my life (kindergarden through tenth grade) and public school for the last two. Public Schooling did nothing to undermine anything I had been taught, anything I believe in.

If you honestly thing that all is holy and perfect in a private school, you are sadly mistaken. It is my opinion that the kids in private school are actually harder in regards to religion then kids in the public schools. Just think, these kids have been preached too every day of the school week for years. They've heard it all, they know it all, they can quote you verses until their throats run dry. Because they may think they know it all, it makes it harder for them to be receptive to any further instruction or guidance. They are sick of hearing. Tired of sitting through sermons. They are bored of the church. Rebellion is nearly inevitable.

If you are that unconfident in your faith or the faith that you have instilled in your children, perhaps the problem is with you and not with the school that the kids are in. Christians should be firm in their beliefs, unable to be bended or broken despite the surroundings.

Besides, how are christians supposed to help save the 'lost' if they remain hidden in their churches, homes and private schools?

Jesus taught everywhere, not only in the synagogues. He ate with tax collectors and slaves. I don't think he would approve of His followers not following his example. After all, doesn't the Bible say we are supposed to be "IN the world?"

Teach your children what it means to be "In the world but not of it." then let them make their own decisions.

Sheltering children their whole life, be keeping them in a bubble of Christianity instead of giving them the choice is why the church loses so many in the 18-23 age group.

Someday, you as a parent are going to have to let go. They are going to have to go into the real world where temptations and sin is all around them. How are you going to prepare them for that? Or is it a "common fact" that every christian child goes into the ministry or works for a church?

Answer 5

You underestimate the faith of the God-loving children. Also a person's faith will be attacked and tested throughout their life so they should learn how to deal with it at an early age. Running away from the challenge by sheltering them w/ homeschool or private school won't prepare them for the real world b/c the real world IS filled w/ 'animals.' I attended public school and my faith NEVER waivered, if anything it became stronger!

Answer 6

Well, for one, I have to work to help support myself and my family. I understand where you are coming from and you raise a good point, but you see, whether the kids learn from home or from school they will be challenged in every aspect of their lives regardless, because we can't hide reality from them, so it really is up to the parents to make sure they instill the values and morals and ethics they want their children to have and hope that the kids utilize what they learn from their parents and understand that their parents just want what's best for them. As far as faith, we can teach them about God and all His teachings and Word in the Bible but you can't force anyone, not even your own kids to have faith, you can only introduce it and teach it, but it is up to them to follow it or not, because salvation does not happen in groups. It is an individual reward that comes from our Heavenly Father by acquiring accurate knowledge of Truth from His Word, the Bible, by applying this Truth to our daily life, and by helping spread the good news of His Kingdom.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Really? It's a "known fact"? On what do you base this claim? I know all sorts of people of good moral character and sound religious belief who came out of public schools. I think you're confusing personal opinion with fact.

Answer 9

Your question is an example of why people dislike Christians. (I'm one myself, by the way)

HOW DARE YOU say that people who are not Christians (your particular brand) do not take the raising of their children seriously?

No doubt you have good intentions, but you do harm with your intolerance of the beliefs of others.

I should read the Bible more. Right now, I realize that I should have read Acts more closely:

"It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."

You could do worse than to read

Judge not according to the appearance.
Bible, John vii. 24.

Please. Temper the zeal of your beliefs with the brains that God gave you, before you turn any more people away from the Lord.

Answer 10

I kind of take umbridge at your description of those who experienced public education as "a generation of animals"...

I attended public school, K-12.... I don't consider myself an animal.

I still attend the same church my parents attended when I was young, that they still attend now.... I go every Sunday, read my scriptures and pray to my Heavenly Father regularly.

Yes, I understand the views of "the world," but that doesn't mean I espouse them. I still agree with my parents on the issues that matter- creation vs evolution, heaven and hell, crime, abortion, sex, drugs, politics....

Please don't make such accusatory blanket statements when you know good and well that there are those who are living proof that you're wrong.