| by James McBride (United Kingdom) |
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| Many parents have received the brush-off when they ask, What did you do today at school? So, do you know what your child is being taught? Or do you just trust the school to do the ‘right’ thing? Can you be sure that they are taught values akin to your own? Is there a reason for an increasing number of parents choosing to homeschool their children? It used to be English, Math, Art, Gym, Geography, Religion. Now—in Primary! – it’s globalism, transgender, LGBTQ+, with a nod towards traditional subjects but each heavily loaded towards ‘climate change’, the ‘common good’. And they still can’t find India on a map—nor London. Religion? —well forget Christianity. Now it’s ‘Chrislam’, Now you chant pagan mantras and take part in alien ritual. Now you learn witchcraft is just another religious expression, and acceptable. Now all cultures have equal value. And don’t pray—certainly not to the God who delivered ancient Israel from slavery. Bible standards on sexuality? Forget it—anything goes now. Home schooling clearly will be a barrier to such malign influences, as you can inculcate your own values—but it can disadvantage children in isolating them from their peer culture. Is there an alternative pathway for us to tread? Ancient Israel, wisely, was taught to educate their offspring: ‘… you shall teach them [the divine principles*] diligently unto your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lieth down, and when you rise up’ (Deuteronomy 6:7). It’s a comprehensive template for our own twenty-first century lives as followers of Jesus Christ in an increasingly dysfunctional world where our Christian values are widely despised. Teach our children to be independently minded, to question, to seek understanding. Teach them to be curious. Teach them there is more than one interpretation of ‘the common good’, that there is indeed ‘truth’. Thus, armed with sound life principles they are mentally prepared to challenge the devil-influenced humanist soup increasingly served in our school and university system. [* These principles are from God but are the foundation stones on which is built a healthy civil society] |
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