It's interesting that a topic such as this has been started in the Youth Forum.
In a couple weeks the Southern Baptist Convention will open its annual meeting here in Nashville. One of the resolutions that will be introduced will be one that will urge the members of SBC churches who have school-age children to withdraw them from the government-sponsored schools and either homeschool them or place them in private, Christian schools.
Of course such resolutions are not binding on any SBC church or any of its members, but there are good reasons why parents should heed its proponents rationale.
Overall, the system of government schools has consistently failed to produce a "quality product," that is, a truly educated graduate. If the government school system were a business, it'd be on the auction block a long time ago.
Moreover, the religion of secular humanism is the underlying philosophy of the government schools. This is a philosophy that is in total opposition to biblical Christianity and seeks at every turn to marginalize any contribution to society that biblical Christianity has ever made down through the years.
When we leave God and His Word out of the picture, what is left is only a very incomplete and distorted view of life.
Of course, individual exceptions to this overriding trend in US educational circles can be found, but they are just that--exceptions to the rule.
On an average, a child will spend no more than about 250 to 300 hours a year at church-sponsored teaching opportunities compared to the average of a little over 1,000 hours at school during the average school year. Based on that statistic, who will probably have a better chance of influencing a child as he develops his own worldview?
One's worldview cannot help but be molded by those whose philosophy will ingrained in a child's formative years. That is the basis of what both Proverbs 22:6 and 2 Timothy 3:15 is telling us. Do you wish your child's worldview to be molded by a secular humanist or a biblicist?
While it is impossible in this depraved society to completely shield a child from absolutely all forms of sinfulness until he or she reaches adulthood, neither should Christian parents KNOWINGLY expose their child to the godless worldview of secular humanism that abounds in the system of our government schools.
