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More than ever before, we need to stress that, under God and in accordance with his divine plan for children, the best educators are parents. The greatest school is the family. Moral training of children and the discipline of good habits is an inheritance from the parents which surpasses all others. The family is the first and basic school of mankind.

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6. God's commandment is for us to teach our children. How many Christians are obeying it?

There is always some teaching going on that we can't control. Movies, television, music videos and the daily news teach. What does a child learn when he sees movie stars lionizing a murderer, disgraced public figures making a fortune via tell-all books, and towns/cities holding parades to celebrate sinful behaviour that the God calls an abomination? It's hard, if not impossible, to shield children from these 'lessons'.

But we can control where our children go for their formal education.The Bible teaches clearly that parents bear fundamental responsibility for the education of their children. Informed parents may partner with others in this great task, but the responsibility is still primarily the parent's and cannot be franchised out wholesale to others. Recently, in the middle of science class, a girl aged 15 suddenly stood up and announced; 'Hey everyone! I'm pregnant!' After cheers, someone asked: 'Who's the father?' She replied, 'I don't know, there's only four or five boys it could be.'

Let us consider the moral and spiritual wasteland that is modern public education. Here are four reasons why you should withdraw your children as soon as possible. Public schools actively promote abortion, homosexuality, contraception and other forms of immoral, risky behaviour.

The type of sex education that dominated schools from the late sixties to the present is a product of the non-directive school of thought. Like affective drug education, it serves up a blend of facilitation, values clarification, self-esteem, and choices. Students are encouraged to question, to explore options, and to develop more tolerant attitudes toward the sexual behaviour of others.

This approach is common even in faith schools. We have no space here to sift through the mountains of evidence proving this point, but this is the situation in public schools, and it isn't going to get better. How much of this 'teaching' are you willing to let your child experience?

Public education undermines your children's Christian beliefs: 'Public schooling is the great state church of polytheism,' writes Bradley Heath. 'It is here the dogmas of openness, tolerance, and diversity are preached, and the rejection of deeply ingrained absolutes … Public schools function as churches by teaching inescapably religious doctrines (e,g., the origin and purpose of man, the nature of the universe, moral philosophy, ethics) and fostering intentional community among the parishioners'.

This 'teaching' and the absolute truth of God's Word cannot be co-masters in your child's mind. Jesus said, 'No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other' Matthew 6:24.

Aside from the schools' anti-Christian stance on sexual morality, do you want your children learning 'science' which proclaims that life arose by chance, purely a materialistic processes? If that is true, then God is not God. If your child is still at public school, perhaps you should read his science textbook and see how it squares with our faith - and the other textbooks, too.

The Public school is a hotbed of materialism and consumerism: Public school students may not be interested in history or science, but they are fanatical about clothes, mobile phones and video games. Most 15 year olds are experts on Big Brother and all the other soaps.

Public school is a crucible of peer pressure: Many children get into trouble by following their peers' behaviour. I once sent a boy to the principal's office for disrupting class, not knowing that he and his friends earlier that morning had vandalized another teacher's car. The principal phoned the boy's father, who immediately left work to sort things out. The boy, he said, never used to misbehave until he fell in with a certain group. Under their influence, he became a truant, vandal, thief and classroom bigmouth. His father tried to discipline him, but the boy 'went bad' every day he came to school and met his 'friends'.

Again, this is a problem unlikely to trouble homeschooling families.'I am sure that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most effective vehicle for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political.' Why do so many parents, who seriously considehomeschooling, stop short of trying it.

Quite a few worry about their children's ability to acquire skills or earn a living when they grow up. They worry that without 12 years of school and four years of college, their children will be doomed to low-paid, menial jobs for life. The public school may fill a child's head with socialism, abortion, homosexuality, and New Age superstition - but at least it'll equip him for the job market! Fortunately, this is a groundless fear.

As an established institution, public education is less than 200 years old. Obviously, civilisation made a lot of progress without it. What about college? How can your child get into college if he hasn't been to school?

University is overrated as the automatic guarantor of well-paid employment. However, it is not beyond reach for a homeschooler. If your child's scores are high enough, they'll get into University. Various homeschool qualifications are recognised by UCAS, this means that many homeschoolers have made it to university, including Oxford. Some parents think they must become super-scholars themselves before they can try educating their children. History and common sense show they're wrong. As for more specialized knowledge, you don't need to become a piano virtuoso yourself before you sign up your child for piano lessons. You wouldn't send him to the public school for that; you'd bring in a professional piano instructor.

The obvious point is that all of us have learned important, even complicated things that we use in everyday life without having learned them at any public school.

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