Is Home-Schooling Bad for Children?

Ever hear this? “Don’t you want your kids prepared for the real world?” “How are your children socialized?” “Aren’t you overprotecting your children?”

So here’s what some public schools have to offer in the way of teaching about the real world, socialization, and protection.

In the real world, you will never feel excluded because there are no exclusive friendships!

The school will protect your childrenWell, protect your children from your stupid, outdated religious values.

And home is the best place for socialization.

And remember, when asked these questions be sure to ask for a definition of socialization, protection, and real world.

 

What Would Niemöller Say?

I once heard Martin D. Niemöller tell of his incarceration at Dachau. His cell was in plain view of the gallows. Day after day he watched men and women go to their deaths. He could hear their cries, curses, and prayers. He declared that the gallows became his best teacher. Through that horrible experience he was haunted by two questions: “What will happen on the day they lead you there and put you to the test? When they put that rope around your neck, what will be your last words? Will they be, ‘Father, forgive them’ or will they be ‘Criminals! Scum?’ ”

Niemöller said that if Jesus had cried out in vengeance, there would have been no New Testament, no church, and no Christian history.
G. Curtis Jones, 1000 Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching (Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1986), 95-96.