My Teen Daughter Is Going To Public School Now...

[HappyChristian]

I have to disagree that they are ready for it, TGL. But they are your kids, it's your decision. I beg of you, though, to seriously consider what has been put forth here by so many. If you do put them in, be the mean dad: be uber diligent in that damage control that is coming. And remember this verse: Evil communications corrupt good manners. In today's lingo, that would mean: the bad stuff will affect a well trained child in a bad way...and rest assured: there will be plenty of bad stuff coming your way.

[The Glory Land]

I have to disagree that they are ready for it, TGL. But they are your kids, it's your decision. I beg of you, though, to seriously consider what has been put forth here by so many. If you do put them in, be the mean dad: be uber diligent in that damage control that is coming. And remember this verse: Evil communications corrupt good manners. In today's lingo, that would mean: the bad stuff will affect a well trained child in a bad way...and rest assured: there will be plenty of bad stuff coming your way.

Thanks, I work where there are lot's of non believers. But if I don't work, who will paid my bills, OBama?

[HappyChristian]

TGL, you are comparing apples to oranges with that statement. You are an adult, and are mature enough to withstand peer pressure. 15 and 17 is not adult. Yes, there are some who are mature eniugh, but they would be very few in number. It is akin to playing the lotterywith your children to place them Iin a place where Christ had been banned except as mockery.

As I said before, I attended public school some. In 10 th and 11th grade. I knew what was right, believe me. And yet peer pressure is quite strong. Suffice to say that I know from personal experience the truth of "evil communications corrupt good manners." And that was just slightly under 40 years ago - when the schools were nowhere near as bad as they are today.

And, FWIW - since you mentioned him - BO wuld be glad you put them in public school...and, no - he'd rather you keep working to pay for all those illegals he's bussing in. ;-)

[OLD fashioned preacher]

As an individual who came up through the public school system, who works part time with the public school system and has a sister who is saved and worked 25 years in the Florida public school system -- let me say that you have made a HUGE mistake and hope (for your children's sake) that you don't end up regretting that as much as I forsee.

[The Glory Land]

As an individual who came up through the public school system, who works part time with the public school system and has a sister who is saved and worked 25 years in the Florida public school system -- let me say that you have made a HUGE mistake and hope (for your children's sake) that you don't end up regretting that as much as I forsee.

I don't know about you guys, I know you do care, but something just don't sounds right.

[Standing Firm In Christ]

TGL, I encourage you to get in your car, go down to your local mall and just sit in the concourse for an hour or two during the "after school hours"... OBserving.  Pay atention to the teens who go in the various clothing stores and music stores; what their wearing, how they are talking, their mannerisms.

Then ask yourself..." Do I really want to expose my children to this?"  These same teens that are scantily dressed, or dressed in a sexually provocative manner, cursing and laughing about ungodly things, purchasing ungodly music, etc., are the same teens that you will be exposing your children to in the public shcool system.

Oh, and I am sure many of the teens will be standing around in the concourse smoking, eyeing the opposite sex, or trying to attract the opposite sex.

[The Glory Land]

TGL, I encourage you to get in your car, go down to your local mall and just sit in the concourse for an hour or two during the "after school hours"... OBserving. Pay atention to the teens who go in the various clothing stores and music stores; what their wearing, how they are talking, their mannerisms.

Then ask yourself..." Do I really want to expose my children to this?" These same teens that are scantily dressed, or dressed in a sexually provocative manner, cursing and laughing about ungodly things, purchasing ungodly music, etc., are the same teens that you will be exposing your children to in the public shcool system.

Oh, and I am sure many of the teens will be standing around in the concourse smoking, eyeing the opposite sex, or trying to attract the opposite sex.

This is what I don't understand, they see this all ready being in christian schools. Not just in the schools but everywhere. Are you saying to isolate them, keeping them home all the time or at church?

[Standing Firm In Christ]

So what does that tell you, TGL?  What should it tell you?  Keep them home.  Teach them that which is right in the sight of God.  Train them up in the way they should go.  Then, when they are mature enough to leave the home, they will remember those morals and standards and be all the better for it.

[Genevanpreacher]

This is what I don't understand, they see this all ready being in christian schools. Not just in the schools but everywhere. Are you saying to isolate them, keeping them home all the time or at church?

 

You ever see a momma bear protect her young from dangerous things?

 

Bloodshed.

[Rebecca]

This is what I don't understand, they see this all ready being in christian schools. Not just in the schools but everywhere. Are you saying to isolate them, keeping them home all the time or at church?

You can't seem to get past the word 'isolate', you keep saying it over and over. There is a difference between shielding your children from the worldly influences that surround them daily and isolating them from even glimpsing the outside world. Responsible parents do NOT isolate their children. If you go back to before the threads got derailed, you can read several answers that have already addressed this in detail. Most are on the first page, my post was #17. 

 

If the Christian school your children were in was no different than a public school, then maybe you did the right thing pulling them out. However, you did them a dis-service by not even considering home school before placing them in the public school. Public school should always be the last option, not the first or second.

 

I encourage you to look into home school groups in your area and talk to the parents about the pros and cons of home schooling, ask for any advice, etc. You have the rest of the summer to figure this out. Take your time and so some proper research.

 

If you insist on keeping your children in public school, then I encourage you to get involved with any after school program they're involved with, attend every parent-teacher conference, look at every single one of their text books, examine their home work, and if anything is contrary to God's Word, sit your children down and explain why it's contrary and what they should do about it.

 

And just in case you missed what I said earlier:

 

Home school is NOT ISOLATION! 

[The Glory Land]

You can't seem to get past the word 'isolate', you keep saying it over and over. There is a difference between shielding your children from the worldly influences that surround them daily and isolating them from even glimpsing the outside world. Responsible parents do NOT isolate their children. If you go back to before the threads got derailed, you can read several answers that have already addressed this in detail. Most are on the first page, my post was #17.

If the Christian school your children were in was no different than a public school, then maybe you did the right thing pulling them out. However, you did them a dis-service by not even considering home school before placing them in the public school. Public school should always be the last option, not the first or second.

I encourage you to look into home school groups in your area and talk to the parents about the pros and cons of home schooling, ask for any advice, etc. You have the rest of the summer to figure this out. Take your time and so some proper research.

If you insist on keeping your children in public school, then I encourage you to get involved with any after school program they're involved with, attend every parent-teacher conference, look at every single one of their text books, examine their home work, and if anything is contrary to God's Word, sit your children down and explain why it's contrary and what they should do about it.

And just in case you missed what I said earlier:

Home school is NOT ISOLATION!

You keep going back to home schooling? Do all of you live in the country, In the city you run into all different kind of people. Some dress well, and some do not. Are you going to keep your kid's away from society for ever.

[Genevanpreacher]

You keep going back to home schooling? Do all of you live in the country, In the city you run into all different kind of people. Some dress well, and some do not. Are you going to keep your kid's away from society for ever.

 

You are implying AGAIN that our children NEVER go into society.

 

Why?

 

It has been stated over and over that our children are just as sociable as anyone, yet kept from sin.

 

Is protection of the morals and spiritual welfare of our children NOT important?

 

Would you go into a 'porno' theater to see a good preview on a Disney cartoon?

No, for the witness of someone (like your children) seeing you 'possibly' going to see a 'porno' film.

You wouldn't want your children see you supposedly participating in what appeared to them to be sin, would you?

Wouldn't that make them feel different toward you and toward sin, thinking it being ok if Dad did it?

When the childs mind perceives society doing sin in the open, it corrupts the innocency into questions.

 

We do not want our children seeing things that can corrupt their innocent minds, and it is our jOB to keep them safe, until they have the strength to do it on their own.

[John81]

Indeed, it's the difference between being IN the world and OF the world. We live IN the world but we don't have to be OF the world. If we choose to allow the world (public schools) instruct and example for our children then we are helping them to be OF the world.

 

There is absolutely no comparison between see or hearing something when going shopping and spending 8 hours a day each weekday for the majority of weeks a year being taught the things of the world, having worldly examples set continually before the eye and having God completely left out of it all, or denigrated.

 

A closer example may be the difference between walking by a zoo where one may have to see and smell some of what's there, and actually being caged with the animals where it will be impossible not to see the stuff continually and have the smell permeate you inside and out; all while risking permanent injury or worse.

[282Mikado]

You keep going back to home schooling? Do all of you live in the country, In the city you run into all different kind of people. Some dress well, and some do not. Are you going to keep your kid's away from society for ever.

 

Please review my posts in this thread and tell me how I have kept my children from society. I have not. In fact my children and many of the homeshooled children in my church have prOBably seen more of REAL society than most of the children in your precious public schools. The difference is I do not let your precious society have my children unbridled for 7 - 8 hours a day. If you you want to cast your pearls before the swine every day for eight unfiltered hours of slop at the societal trough then have at it. 

 

Ephesians 5:1-21 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disOBedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. 13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

[HappyChristian]

TGL, your last post bordered on being pretty insulting, insinuating that homeschoolers are just country hicks. That's enough of that, my friend.