Home education is a deterrent to abortion and a way to boost pro-life activism

[The Straight Story]

Home education is a deterrent to abortion and a way to boost pro-life activism.

Contact: Charles B. Lowers, Considering Homeschooling, 949-916-6816, [e-mail]



MEDIA ADVISORY, Jan. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- Considering Homeschooling a nationwide homeschool recruitment group, urges Christians parents to see home education as a powerful tool to deter abortions in their own families, and as an excellent means to raise up leaders with a strong life ethic.

"The dirty little secret that any sidewalk counselor can tell you is that the children of Christians make up a significant percentage of abortion clinic clientele," said Kathy Lowers, Director of Considering Homeschooling, and a long time pro-life sidewalk counselor. "We have met Christian teen after Christian teen going in to kill their babies. Their parents may be pro-life, but these kids are immersed in the public school culture of death."

"Most Christians still enroll their children in government schools despite evolution in the textbooks, Planned Parenthood as guest speakers, school based sex clinics giving out birth control and promiscuous peers. Believers are risking the lives of the next generation by sending their children to such a place."

"Despite recent inroads by the abortion movement such as with embryonic stem cell promotion, Christians possess the means to turn the tide towards life in this country," Lowers said. "Believers who can create a safe, loving home should have or adopt as many children as possible and homeschool them."

"With homeschooling, you can do pro-life work as learning projects and teach your children about fetal development in a life affirming environment. Millions of children homeschooled by pro-life parents represent real hope in changing the abortion laws and attitudes in this country."

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/846162004.html


---- My wife and I homeschool our daughter through a government program, so I wanted to see what this guy had to say about that...A lot it seems:

Usurping Headship

In government homeschooling, you place those who hate God over your homeschool. God is the head of the husband who is the head of the wife. The divine lines of authority established by God are disrupted when you insert the public school system into this holy order. The public school and public school mentor you are assigned in government homeschooling install themselves in the headship position -- that is where the buck stops. They become the provider, director and accountability of that homeschool instead of the husband and God.

There is no free lunch -- when you take public school money for homeschooling, you are agreeing to allow the state be the head of your children's education. Education is not a neutral endeavor, but a highly spiritual matter, and one that is not separable from discipleship. God sets up "governments" in the Bible -- individual, family, church and civil government -- and gives responsibilities to each. Imagine the government being in charge of serving you communion or giving baptisms. Ridiculous, you would say! Those are spiritual matters God clearly gave to the church. Well, no where in scripture does God give the civil government authority over the raising of children. When God speaks of training up children -- for example Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." He is speaking to parents, not bureaucrats.

In private homeschooling done biblically, the buck stops with the dad (or mom if there is no dad in that family). If the dad decides he doesn't want his kids taking a certain standardized test, does he have the ultimate authority? If he picks out the textbooks and decides they are to all be Biblical, is he able to do this? If he decides he wants a child of his to skip a certain subject this year to concentrate on another, does he have the power to make that call? Only in private biblical homeschooling does the father have this authority.

http://www.consideringhomeschooling.com/GovernmentHomeschooling.aspx

I am all for the freedom of people to live as they wish, and have their own beliefs. But I am also for the freedom to post about it and call it a tad silly :) Just like this guy is using his freedom to say how things should be, I will use mine to tell him back I think he has it wrong.

[mzmolly]

1. As a Homeschooler, I shudder at this sick propaganda.

"kill their babies" ... "public school culture of death"

These people are clinically ill.

[azurnoir]

2. My former neighbors

who are fundies did this, they homeschooled their children (never mind that the 12 year old can't read yet), no she is nor mentally disabled. However the telling factor was the older sister whom insisted on going to collage bible collage but collage none the less. By the end of the first semester she was pregnant and not married, so did the parents do? Locked her up in the house refusing to let her leave for any reason lest "people" find out. After she gave birth (they did allow her to go to the hospital) they did the same with the baby, the kid was almost 5 and people were still asking me if the kid was their grandchild or what. We moved at this point so I do not know the end of the story or if there is one, just an example of fundie home school.
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[Odin2005]

14. That is outrageous.

Those "parents" should be locked up for child abuse.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. There are many wonderful people who home school who aren't like this.

I am a credentialed teacher who works for a chartered home school. The families I work with aren't there for religious reasons. The ones who are don't stay once they understand we're not paying for church-related materials.

And the culture of death? How insane. It's just insane.

[The Straight Story]

6. We don't homeschool for religious reasons either

My sister does that, and that is her right of course. There are a ton of people in the program we are in and I can't think of any I have met off the top of my head that do it for religious reasons. There are plenty of other reasons people do so, ours had to do with the quality of education, the violence in the schools here locally, convenience, and other things.

[Momgonepostal]

8. I'm sure you don't have any families like this at your school...

because the author seems to find schools like yours abhorrent. He went on and on about how you're out to usurp the father's authority. :eyes:

(my oldest child attends a school like yours in CA. We haven't gotten to the "culture of death" unit study yet. Maybe next month. LOL)

[The Straight Story]

9. ROFL

The culture of death study unit :) I want to see a copy of that one! ;)

[Matariki]

12. ha - it think that 'unit' lives in the whitehouse currently

[wicket]

10. Amen

:kick:

[kestrel91316]

4. Homeschooling is a great way to ensure our little sisters wind

up barefoot, pregnant, and chained to the wood cookstove.

Ain't progress wonderful??

[Katherine Brengle]

13. Well, homeschooling THAT way, yeah -- but there are a lot of awesome lefty

hippie nutso commie homeschoolers out there too lol.

I'd love to homeschool mine, but I don't think I have the discipline for it... I'd end up unschooling them.

[Momgonepostal]

5. It's tough for me to have any kind of rational discussion...

with people like the author, because they have such a different view of the world than I do.

His arguement assumes if we send our children to public school we are letting the government raise our children, which is ridiculous.

The whole anti-publicly funded homeschool rant shows me people like him really aren't for school choice at all. They are for their choices for everyone.

This was also ridiculous, "Believers who can create a safe, loving home should have or adopt as many children as possible and homeschool them." :puke: NOT

I'm a product of the public education system and I can hardly remember abortion being discussed at all at school. The only time that sticks out in my mind is when we had to pick a controversial topic for a term-paper and one of the other students selected abortion. HER topic, not chosen by the school. I don't remember anyone from Planned Parenthood ever coming to my school and I certainly don't remember sex-clinics passing out condoms on campus. :eyes:

I have one child in tradional public school and another in a public home study program and personally, I'm glad people like this author have other options, so that me and mine will have to interact with him as little as possible.

[The Straight Story]

7. We love homeschooling!

But like you I don't see the schools as inherently evil and trying to churn out anti-christian abortion machines.

I just remembered something my wife told me today. She went to a teacher's supply store. She said they had rows and rows of books on how to teach to the test and it all seemed so bizarre. There are many good teachers but the system seems to want to keep them under a tight lock and key on what and how they teach.

[Kerrytravelers]

11. For me, I began to have burn-out.

I was in a failing district. This has nothing to do with the children, but the way the district runs itself. I have worked in the northern part of my state for a very strong district. Upon moving, I found myself stuck in a nightmare. I finally had it. I refused to break Special Ed law and was finding myself in a bad situation.

I am happy now and much better for those who have to deal with me on a daily basis (i.e. Mr. kt and Pitter-pat!)

[ulysses]

15. "public school culture of death"

Whee!

:freak: