Originally posted by JGrubbs:
You sound like a very bitter person who is very ignorant on the issue of homeschooling. I would encourage you to do your research before you start attacking those parents who are obeying God's commands and training their children.
I asked some simple questions in the last post. “What I have seen is much lower than the national average. The national average of those graduating from college is close to 18 percent. What I have seen among those I know who homeschooled their children is less than 5 percent.”
My challenge to you is to prove me wrong.
I believe I can easily prove you are misled and your theology about education is wrong too. If you believe Prov. 22:6 is a promise then you do not know how to interpret Proverbs. Prov. 22:6, Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.
I would much rather look at how Jesus trained his disciples. He took them with him to do ministry. That is what I do with my family. I have trained homeschool parents to do ministry. They have been in the Bible studies I have led.
Sometime You need to read Education in Ancient Israel : Across the Deadening Silence by JAMES CRENSHAW
You missed some OT research. How could parents have educated their children when about only two percent could even read? It was the rabbis who taught the boys from the age of ten. They were not homeschooled. The girls were not educated except at home.
I am not bitter. I just think many are misinfomed, gullible and misled. I also think many have been fed inflammatory information. I have taught home schooled kids vocational education because some parents asked if I would. That does not make me a homeschool advocate. I have also taught adults in my shop as well. If they want to learn I am willing to teach them.
In fact I have quite a number of friends who homeschool their children. I also pastored a church that had quite anumber of families who homeschooled their children. Some of those families looked down on me and told me how bad the public schools are. I know different. The state of CA modelled their curriclum after my program. My students knew I am a Christian. I was able many times to share my faith with students. I hired some during the summer. My daughter works with me each summer.
My sister homeschooled one of her children and the other two went to public school. The one she homeschooled is not nearly as motivated as the other two. In fact she married a non-believer. When I lived in Texas many of my neighbors homeschooled their children. One of the families had two children. One of them asked me to show him how to share his faith. The other child, she joined the Mormon church. It was me who led her out. Another family had a child who was in trouble with the police and at church. Another had 12 children and they expected so little from their children. They expected them to just get through high school. Another had a daughter who when she went to the local university she dropped out after one semester because she had been so sheltered. They regularly talked about Bill Gothard.
I have seen some who are very diligent and some who do a lousy job.
The fact is that my own daughter is in the 99th percentile of children her age in America and shares her faith, reads her Bible daily and is involved in her youth group. Every week there are young teenagers at our house. She has gone door to door with me. She has a lot of boldness. She shares her faith with her friends.
What I look for is the outcome of their job. Homeschool advocates would proclaim that home schooled children do better. That is not always true.
If you believe in homeschooling then prove it by the statistics. (Statistics don’t lie but statisticians often do.)
I would contend that education is not the real issue but most often the example the parents set. If the parents are strong believers so wil the children likely be.
When I hear and see things like the strongest Christians are those who grew up under communism. When I hear that the best students were the Christians in atheistic schools I know it is not the school which is pulling them down. It is Christ who is pulling them up.
I have trained homeschool parents to share their faith. So I know there are those who have not shared their faith and discipled others.
