Christians Advised to Pull Kids from Public Schools

Since Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB 1441, refusing state funds of any kind to any business or group that refuses to condone homosexuality, a homeschooling activist is advising Christians to remove their children from public schools. WorldNetDaily reported today that Charles B. Lowers, the executive director of the pro-family Considering Homeschool organization, considers the signing of SB 1441 a "wakeup call."

"It is estimated that anywhere from 80-90 percent of Christians are still sending their children off to government schools – it's like the church is behaving like a bunch of lemmings," Lowers said.

"Worldview surveys show that the majority of kids from Christian homes are humanist by graduation," he said. "School-based 'clinics' are expanding … to ensure that your daughters get birth control and abortions without you knowing. Now that the homosexuals are dictating curriculum, 80-90 percent of Christians should be homeschooling, not the other way around," he said.

"Public school is no place for innocent little kids. If they don't get molested by the John Karrs who are in the system, their minds and hearts will be molested by the curriculum," he said.

I'm with him. I wanted to homeschool my kids when they were little. I mentioned it one time to one of the elementary school officials, and he became alarmed and told me how important socialization was and that I wouldn't be able to do that in the isolation of my home. When I pointed out that in the corporate world, people don't work only in groups of 20 or 30 people exactly their own age, he conceded the point but only so far. I was working on paying off our bills so we could afford for me to stay home and homeschool, but then we got divorced, and that put an end to the idea.

It's fascinating to me that the education establishment believes that harm will come to children if they aren't exposed to all the relativist/socialist/sex-obsessed claptrap the Left wants to foist on them. But regular people (particularly parents) see harm coming to their children by being exposed to those very things.

With such diametric opposition between parents and schools, why do parents keep their children in the public school system? More importantly, why do Christian parents keep their kids there? Maybe it's time for another tax cut, so parents can afford to send their kids to Christian schools.