Why Christian Parents Must Homeschool Now!

During a particular time in our children’s lives, our family was on food stamps, and it was helpful since we only had one income. I didn’t really want to do it, but I had come in to sign up for Medicaid and the nice lady talked me into also applying for food stamps. She said it might just be God’s way of providing for our family, but I was glad to be rid of it when we finally could.

During this time, we were told by a friend that it was wrong to accept the government food handout because we weren’t trusting God for our needs, but Eric countered by explaining that we were saving the taxpayers a boatload of money by homeschooling all of our children instead of accepting help by way of the government welfare school system. She didn’t understand, but that’s what it was.

I wish I could say that times have changed and what was fine back when we started homeschooling isn’t fine anymore. But I didn’t think it was fine back then, which is why I homeschooled in the first place, and I can say that things only got progressively worse. If Covid had a silver lining at all, it was that moms and dads finally got to see what their children were being taught, as they were doing their assignments at home on lockdown. Indoctrination into perverted lifestyles and communism that had been done in secret in the classrooms was now out in the open for everyone to see. 

As a result, parents were outraged. They started showing up at school board meetings and then they were thrown out of them. School boards decided parents were Public Enemy #1 and we’re just now finding out that the National School Boards Association wanted Biden to send in the National Guard. The Department of Justice started surveilling parents as domestic terrorists, having decided they were a threat. Finally last week, seven months later, the National School Board Association issued a long-overdue apology, after losing a lot of money and support.

Now, parents are finally engaging with the schools and monitoring the kids’ assignments better, but last week, a mom had her mic cut when she tried to read an excerpt from the pornographic material her 15-year-old daughter had been required to memorize and act out in front of the class. It was too graphic to read in a public meeting, but not too graphic to be assigned to a minor. There is much, much work yet to be done, for parents who still want their children educated in those government schools.

CRT (Critical Race Theory) and SEL (Social Emotional Learning) are two of the biggies. It’s the stuff that used to be called Common Core. We all thought Common Core was a thing of the past, that it had been successfully fought back, but it is now just integrated into every school subject and repeated year after year—even in math. On the surface it seems fine, but when you get down to the nitty gritty, it is expressly anti-Christian and subversive in nature. Hint: When searching for information about these two items, don’t rely on Google, Yahoo, or YouTube. Use DuckDuckGo, or you will only find positive, happy results.

Meanwhile, for many reasons, homeschooling has begun to spike. Some of the reasons have to do with health—people being afraid that Johnny would pick up germs at school and bring them home to his family. Others don’t want Johnny to be forced to wear an oxygen deprivation device in order to learn to read. But underlying it all is that parents want to teach their own value system to their children, instead of leaving it to the Gender Unicorn.

Back in October of 2021, Candace Owens was saying out loud that it’s time to pull your kids out of public school and homeschool them. She said it won’t be long before homeschooling will be attacked by the Left. She said you could see it coming with places like France banning the practice. She said if France sneezes, the US will catch the cold.

Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA explained in a podcast that there was more you could do to support the Conservative cause. “You’ve done everything you’ve been asked to do … you have the pillow … Now it’s “What I’m going to do beyond that? I’m gonna run for office, I’m gonna homeschool my kids …”

And now Kirk Cameron is also saying that it’s time to pull your kids. In fact he believes it so strongly he created a documentary called “The Homeschool Awakening” that is coming to select theaters next month.

“I made this movie because I care deeply about my children,” Cameron explained. “And I care about your children and about their future. And the future of our country.” Here’s where you can see the trailer and get tickets:

https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Kirk-Cameron-Presents-The-Homeschool-Awakening

But Joe Biden, naturally, is all about letting things continue as they are. Addressing a group of teachers, he said that the children don’t belong to their parents, but to the teachers when they’re in the classroom.

And here’s a recent attack on the validity of homeschooling, from Cambridge University as being “too racist” and “too Christian.”

What will you do? “Too racist” means nothing these days, but everything the Left doesn’t like is racist or misogynist or white supremacist. “Too Christian” means that it is the Left’s goal to free our children from their parents’ religion, to erase the knowledge of God from our nation. The only way to perpetuate the true religion of our ancestors is to do this:

“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.

“You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”

~Deuteronomy 6:6-7

For this kind of close relationship, your children need to be at home with you.

I know many parents are of the mindset that “if it gets too bad, I will homeschool.” But how will you know when that is?

When my grandfather was grooming me as a young teenager so that he could molest me, the one very important and predictable step he took was instructing me not to tell my parents, because “they would not understand.” It would be our little secret. Children are likewise being instructed not to tell their old-fashioned, bigoted parents about what they’ve been learning at school. As a result, children have become sympathetic to the teachers, even going to the state legislatures with them to campaign and lobby for Red for Ed, a wing of the Leftist teachers unions. Undermining the parent-child relationship by means of secrecy is what keeps parents in the dark, and never really knowing how bad things already are.

If you care about your children and what they’re learning, 

If you’re concerned that they might come home from school telling you that they chose a different gender than the one assigned to them at birth,

If you’re concerned that they might be given an abortion, or a Covid shot, or cross-sex hormones without your knowledge or consent,

If you’re concerned that the public schools will convince your son or daughter that the Church brainwashes them and the School can set them free,

If you’ve heard them saying stuff about your country, its forefathers, your ancestors, your nation’s form of government or the free enterprise system that is simply not true,

Then now’s the time to get serious about homeschooling.

Now that it’s May, you have all summer to think about the next school year. You can start here with the Home School Legal Defense Association. When we started homeschooling, they were little more than just a group you would turn to if you were arrested or someone tried to shut you down or take your kids away. Now, they have a very thorough website that can give you lots of help and support.

Go ahead! You know you want to try it. And when you do, you’ll find out that it’s not burdensome, it’s enabling.

“Dear Father, it is a huge consideration for some people who are reading my blog right now, to take the reins of their children’s education away from the government schools. And so I pray that You would speak to these people and confirm in their own hearts and minds whether You want them to homeschool. It won’t do for them to go to that much trouble only on my word. It should be based on Your Word.

“But above all, may our children be our disciples, and not disciples of anti-Christian ideology. Let them be raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

“It is in Jesus’ Name we pray,

Amen.”