Should Christian parents trust their children’s education to public schools?

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Do you believe in home education

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Should Christian parents trust their children’s education to public schools?

i would say, the majority of Parents DO NOT KNOW much about their children’s teachers, and seeing or having a few exchange of words…is not “knowing” a person.

Every teacher will be College Educated and Certified by the State.

Every teacher will have taken required Psychology courses…and taught by Professors who themselves USE Psychology, with Teaching materials, (books, pamphlets, hand outs, fostered by, schools books written by….Liberal, Marxist, Ideologies…TO: Impress, Indoctrinate, Accept, (with rewards)… the student who adopts and reverberates THEIR Fixed Ideology regarding ANY subject.

Commonly, Parents are trusting their children’s FORMATIVE years, to people they DO NOT KNOW.

And guessing…how many parents themselves have read their child’s “school books” OR background checked the authors of such “school books”.
I would guess Very Few.

And remembering…IF a PARENT “appears” to “appears” to approve of the teachers….That appearance to a child is their parent, “TRUSTS” the teachers…bu default …so also will the impressionable child.

IF a child (at home) is taught…Mommy says this thing…but “don’t tell daddy”….it is not a stretch for the Teacher to say this thing…but “don’t tell Mommy and Daddy”, to also be the NORM and accepted by the child.

It’s a challenge, and hard to UN-ring a bell.

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Should Christian parents trust their children’s education to public schools?

i would say, the majority of Parents DO NOT KNOW much about their children’s teachers, and seeing or having a few exchange of words…is not “knowing” a person.

Every teacher will be College Educated and Certified by the State.

Every teacher will have taken required Psychology courses…and taught by Professors who themselves USE Psychology, with Teaching materials, (books, pamphlets, hand outs, fostered by, schools books written by….Liberal, Marxist, Ideologies…TO: Impress, Indoctrinate, Accept, (with rewards)… the student who adopts and reverberates THEIR Fixed Ideology regarding ANY subject.

Commonly, Parents are trusting their children’s FORMATIVE years, to people they DO NOT KNOW.

And guessing…how many parents themselves have read their child’s “school books” OR background checked the authors of such “school books”.
I would guess Very Few.

And remembering…IF a PARENT “appears” to “appears” to approve of the teachers….That appearance to a child is their parent, “TRUSTS” the teachers…bu default …so also will the impressionable child.

IF a child (at home) is taught…Mommy says this thing…but “don’t tell daddy”….it is not a stretch for the Teacher to say this thing…but “don’t tell Mommy and Daddy”, to also be the NORM and accepted by the child.

It’s a challenge, and hard to UN-ring a bell.

Glory to God,
Taken
I talk to my brother inlaw regarding such and he is 65yo and a school teacher his whole life. and he is not stupid but he says that most teachers are stupid idiots and the system is 3rd rate, but he can do nothing about it at all, even tho such eats him up like hell inside to see they are failing the Children for a fact ! but that Socialism for ya ! it's all about promoting bold face lie that is just full of S---.
It all comes across as nice and shining but is in fact only that on the outside but within it's full of puss !
 
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I talk to my brother inlaw regarding such and he is 65yo and a school teacher his whole life. and he is not stupid but he says that most teachers are stupid idiots and the system is 3rd rate, but he can do nothing about it at all, even tho such eats him up like hell inside to see they are failing the Children for a fact ! but that Socialism for ya ! it's all about promoting bold face lie that is just full of S---.
It all comes across as nice and shining but is in fact only that on the outside but within it's full of puss !

I have for years associated with public school teachers in social settings…
I have worked as a “teachers-aide”… AND Often was asked to >>> SUB-teach random classes, (for teachers who called in Absent)…
Which I full well KNEW, there was a “protocol procedure” to CALL IN…a certified teacher, not working full time…YET willing to last minute SUB-Teach…(AND they would Receive a certified Teachers WAGE.)….
…Teachers-Aids, are NOT certified teachers, nor receive a Wage (paid by the District) comparable to a Certified Teacher.
…On one occasion, I sub—ed, one particular class FOR 6 Weeks! (When a female pregnant teacher needed to stop working early.)
….I must add, the class on day one was unruly, chaotic, and my “methods” were not “per” district standards, “sending” children out of class to “Principles Office or Counselors Office” or “threats”.
…My personal enjoyment was observing “every” students maturing growth in behavior and academic fortitude, improvement, participation and desire and ability to retain knowledge.

“TEACHERS ARE HUMAN”….
* They absolutely have students they DO NOT LIKE, “and” that they DO FAVOR.
* They DO “gossip” among themselves “ABOUT STUDENTS”.
* THEY “admittedly” ARE “reduced to continuous temporary babysitters” year after year.
* They ARE ALL “required” to “follow” an established “curriculum”.
* They ARE ALL “handcuffed and gagged” FROM “individual effective METHODS” per individual students needs.
* They ARE “expected” to BE “psychological” dictators, continuously focusing on and negatively highlighting children’s confusions and differences AS FAILURES…THAT WHICH, THE “public school SYSTEM” …CAN “supposedly” IDENTIFY AND FIX with psychobabble, drugs and surgeries.

It IS astounding at the number of children routinely involved IN psychobabble “therapy”, routinely ON a “mental” drug “regiment” and routinely (often, without parents Knowledge) “secretly” advised about medical procedures as “their” (often encouraged) option.

Becoming a TEACHER, certainly sounds, appears as A NOBEL choice to Invest time and money to Achieve…
However, the FACT IS…the “EDUCATION SYSTEM”…IS immorally corrupt.

Glory to God,
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I have for years associated with public school teachers in social settings…
I have worked as a “teachers-aide”… AND Often was asked to >>> SUB-teach random classes, (for teachers who called in Absent)…
Which I full well KNEW, there was a “protocol procedure” to CALL IN…a certified teacher, not working full time…YET willing to last minute SUB-Teach…(AND they would Receive a certified Teachers WAGE.)….
…Teachers-Aids, are NOT certified teachers, nor receive a Wage (paid by the District) comparable to a Certified Teacher.
…On one occasion, I sub—ed, one particular class FOR 6 Weeks! (When a female pregnant teacher needed to stop working early.)
….I must add, the class on day one was unruly, chaotic, and my “methods” were not “per” district standards, “sending” children out of class to “Principles Office or Counselors Office” or “threats”.
…My personal enjoyment was observing “every” students maturing growth in behavior and academic fortitude, improvement, participation and desire and ability to retain knowledge.

“TEACHERS ARE HUMAN”….
* They absolutely have students they DO NOT LIKE, “and” that they DO FAVOR.
* They DO “gossip” among themselves “ABOUT STUDENTS”.
* THEY “admittedly” ARE “reduced to continuous temporary babysitters” year after year.
* They ARE ALL “required” to “follow” an established “curriculum”.
* They ARE ALL “handcuffed and gagged” FROM “individual effective METHODS” per individual students needs.
* They ARE “expected” to BE “psychological” dictators, continuously focusing on and negatively highlighting children’s confusions and differences AS FAILURES…THAT WHICH, THE “public school SYSTEM” …CAN “supposedly” IDENTIFY AND FIX with psychobabble, drugs and surgeries.

It IS astounding at the number of children routinely involved IN psychobabble “therapy”, routinely ON a “mental” drug “regiment” and routinely (often, without parents Knowledge) “secretly” advised about medical procedures as “their” (often encouraged) option.

Becoming a TEACHER, certainly sounds, appears as A NOBEL choice to Invest time and money to Achieve…
However, the FACT IS…the “EDUCATION SYSTEM”…IS immorally corrupt.

Glory to God,
Taken
My Brother's wife was a teachers aide as well back in the late 70's and early 80's.

The System has changed much from them days, but it was dominated by Leftys from the top even back then.

I worked with men from when i was 7yo weekends and holidays as my dad was a contractor who worked 7 days a week.
Looking back i was far more advanced then most kids in regards having to deal with such as working people and work full on hard flat out 10hr days or more, but the Teachers never knew that i worked ? but i had developed such skills and school became a side dish one may say, that i did not look up to them so much ? for i thought they were lacking some what ? because they have never worked in the real world where reality bites one in the face one may say. and one has to take care of such realitys period ! so i thought tho i was only a kid that they were some what lost to such reality, not all tho but some very much so !

Some of the teachers liked me and some out right hated me, one who hated me became the Princible later on, but he was married to my brothers wife sister and he came and worked with my dad one day with me, he thought it would be good to show me up ? but by 3.00pm he was so nackered and was looking at me thinking, boy that i am walking all over him and he had no chance at all of keeping up. but he gave it all that he had, last time talking to him 3 years ago and we get on just fine and we talked openly. He is retired now for some years now.
But what started his hatred of me was that i was on my push bike and i did a wheelstand past him and his wife, he claimed that i was coming for him, i was not at all. so he was on the war parth, but i was never rude back to him.

But some people get it in their head that the way to deal with another is to only attack another ? but not just sit down and have a good talk with another and truly listen. not just make up some trash opinion like one teached did at school and he never listened ever, but just ranted like a total moron and made threats to bash me up in the bush he said that in front of the class ! i just looked at him and though you take the first swing and we will see how you go. I found out later that he was a Satanist very evil queer that was looked up to by some very evil people in the town who were way out of control nasty people to deal with.
That teacher messed with them peoples minds ! he made them conflicted inside working on making them radical nut cases, one dude i know was my mates sister boy friend and he was a radical Irish wack job like IRA idiot ! he messed with my mates mind causing much problems and that's why he got into drugs so badly.

So this is were i came to understand the issues of who and how do such people play the Nation, Educational system and Political System, for they have an ends. It's Anti-Christ ! they do not know how to truly Love at all, for they are Wolves in Sheeps cloathing. for they only want to attack so as to dominate over everyone in fact ! it's always the same deal ! like Islam.

I found out that some people look up to trash people, for they love to do wrong ? for they admier such doings ? out right ripping off others etc and they say i like him ? I have just pointed out what a mate of mine is like, look out for him ! because he will use you etc ? and they look up to him for such ? admiration ! that he is such a person o_O :rolleyes: so then i came to understand such as them where they are at ! for such love the darkness ! When reading The Bible is spot on ! it points all such out clearly ! Such people are Slaves to this World that is full of deceptions and delusions, it's a fact !
 
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You homeschool sister . Raise those babies up in the ways of the LORD . If i could i warn every parent
NOT to expose their children to this corrupt system . Not once .
And yes , like you , i aint judging those who put them into said public schools . BUT i would tell them NOT TO DO SO .
parents , even years back wondered why their children ended up turning against their biblical beliefs .
WELL if we feed our children to the lions they become the meat of said lions . These poor children .
I weep and wail for this generation . I would strongly tell all christain parents to HOME SCHOOL
or you get your kids into a well founded bible school .
I agree. I believe it is a mandate from God. We shouldn't hand over our children to the state to be trained up in all sorts of "ways" they should not go when God says ....train up a child in the way he (or she) SHOULD go ...because what they are trained up in will remain with them when they are old.
 
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@Reggie Belafonte ~

Thanks for sharing…
What you describe is not unlike the days, attitudes, behaviors that occurred in the US, and as in your Nation and the US, the Teacher / Student relationship has negatively escalated with the highlighted Factors…
Absent fathers…”wars, prison, divorces”
Governments.. “raising” kids…
Psychobabble … “daily norm school setting”
Drugs…”prescription and street”

Observing these ignorant, wacko, young adults unleashed into society….burdens given a microphone to Deflect from the “coos” and wacko’s sitting in positions of power.

One only needs to OPEN EYES, to SEE the Division…WITH or WITHOUT the Lord God.

God Bless you,

Glory to God,
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There may not be options not everyone can afford to send kids to private school or have the time to do it themselves at home.If you can afford it sure and most people can't which is why the public schools are full.
 

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There may not be options not everyone can afford to send kids to private school or have the time to do it themselves at home.If you can afford it sure and most people can't which is why the public schools are full.
Correct.
Society has changed dramaticly during my lifetime.
When I came to North America in 1974 I was able to buy a brand new house.
My wife stayed home to look after two young children. I was the breadwinner.
Today my married grandchildren both work and are renting a basement suite.
Cannot afford to buy a house. Both have decent paying jobs.
The American dream has become a nightmare.
 
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There may not be options not everyone can afford to send kids to private school or have the time to do it themselves at home.If you can afford it sure and most people can't which is why the public schools are full.
If they have older relatives who are trustworthy enough to watch their children while they work (if that's the obstacle) ...there are some excellent Christian curriculums that are set up so well that a child from at least 2nd or 3rd grade can do the work on their own and wait for mom and/or dad to get home and check the work with score keys. (ACE - Accelerated Christian Education). My children used that and preferred it over others we tried.
 

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There may not be options not everyone can afford to send kids to private school or have the time to do it themselves at home.If you can afford it sure and most people can't which is why the public schools are full.

Sitting on the sidelines ding nothing makes that statement absolute and true.

Start making phone calls and see what options are available.

We felt we couldn't afford private schooling .......I made phone calls and commitments and worked out scholarships to get her in .....My child was worth more to me than someone's poor excuse .
 

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Undboutedly. And it is by design. It's not an accident. The educational system is no longer teaching children HOW to think. They are focused on indoctrinating them on WHAT to think, how to FEEL about it, and how to react to their feelings. In other words, they want to make them controlled members of the state. It's what Marxists do.
 

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I’m glad I went to public school and the challenges faced. Parents should remind them about God, Yahavah, but never force them into religion. My mother was never one to go to church, I believe she learned really quick she had access to Yahavah by him being her heart by the Holy Spirit. She let me figure out, and I got up grade 9, before dropping out and failing twice or once.



You also wanna try to like ask your child about their day too? And make sure no teachers are trying too do anything to them, or counselor, cause sometimes teachers can be predators, but if you openly commune and teach your kids dangers, I doubt they will have to many issues…

You’re responsible for your child, until they hit 18. But their also responsible for their own actions no matter the age.

Don’t blame the system look at yourself in the mirror. And don’t forget about your own mistakes.