As public schools are rapidly becoming infiltrated by left-wing propaganda, more and more families are choosing to homeschool or send their children to private schools.
Christianity Today, in a recently published article, argues that parents should send their children to public school to give them spiritual “strength training,” and that this is a wrong decision.
“Some people say there's nothing wrong with public schools, but then there are people who don't send their kids to public schools.” Allie Beth Stuckey Many have commented that they “can relate”: “You have no idea what’s going on in the public school system.”
Even in Republican-leaning states and deeply conservative suburbs, parents are finding they face issues of gender ideology and social justice in schools.
However, the author of the Christianity Today article argues that taking children to church regularly is more important than their day-to-day education.
“Even if it's true that church is more important than school, I don't think anyone would deny that, so there's a straw man there from the start. I don't think anyone is saying that the school a child goes to is the determining factor in their salvation or the driving force behind their sanctification,” Stuckey argues.
“The church may be more important, what happens at home may be more important, but that doesn't mean education isn't important,” she continues.
The article cites studies that seem to disprove its own claims.
“Homeschooled students are 51 percent more likely than public school students to attend religious services frequently during adolescence. Religious school students are more likely than public school students to attend religious services frequently, to be registered to vote, and to have fewer lifetime sexual partners,” Stuckey said.
“In other words, she completely ignores the conclusions of the research that supports her argument for sending children to public schools,” she continued.
The author also argues that he wants his children to have the kind of worldly experience that public schools can provide while at home.
“Your child can have a secular experience and encounter secular arguments under your roof, eight hours a day, five days a week, 13 years of their life, without being bombarded with these arguments,” Stuckey said, adding, “It's a lot of propaganda.”
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