Letters To The Editor Lot of parents are too stupid to be home schoolers!
Lot of parents are too stupid to be home schoolers!
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Fourth, is the huge untapped resource of local churches. I live in the Southside Bible Belt of Virginia where mostly Baptist churches dot the landscape, empty except for Sundays, Wednesday night Bible studies, and the occasional potluck supper. Catholic churches, few and far between here, are a bit more used as they generally offer masses several times a week, larger churches in cities having daily mass and, like non Catholic churches having staffed offices. The main complaint from pastors and older parishioners is, the young leave church and never come back!
I have offered a solution to a dual problem, keeping them in the Church while adding another degree of support for often isolated home school families; encourage home schoolers to use church facilities including pastor conducted bible studies. The vast majority of home schoolers do it so as to preserve Christian believe and culture in their children. Why not center the whole enterprise on their church?
Though 80 or more of Americans still call themselves “Christian” churches are emptying out of the young. If teenage rebellion doesn't take them away, atheist colleges do the job. And, in spite of what some believe, most never come back. You can't keep them Christian with an hour or two a week, as parents are sadly learning. Nor can the denominations keep them in church with an hour or two a week. Instead, get them there, say, every other day for shared science or literature class, for some group recreation, and to thoroughly learn the Bible.
I have not answered what to do about parents who really are too stupid to educate their own children. If they are smart enough to see that it is necessary to get their kids out of government schools before their souls are destroyed then they cannot be all that stupid, can they? They should seek help if they do lack the skills to do the job. And, I believe they can find other home school parents and groups, and talk to their pastor and other leading Christians, not necessarily part of the management structure to form groups for mutual help.
The only remaining objections, not mentioned above, are for those in which both parents are forced to work to make ends meet. I don't think there is a law out there on allowing others to take your kids on an informal basis, not in a licensed and incorporated Christian school---which you cannot afford anyway, to assume most of the responsibility for day care and soul development while you each work two jobs to pay the mortgage. Seek help. If we are Christians---Really!--- we will make it happen.
Jesus did not have the Good Samaritan clamor for a government program while he waited for the patient to die! Now we have to face the fact that we have to take back permission from government to educate our children---before it is too late for them and for society.
Michael H. Smith - Chase City, Virginia
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