More and more parents are waking up to the moral and academic disaster in their school systems and more and more schools are waking up to the fact that they are losing $10,000+ per year for every student that they lose! The President of the United States has his child in a private upscale school and most of the congressmen and senators either have their children homeschooled or in small private schools.
Our local schools, both parochial and public are sliding into moral depravity, teaching kids that it is okay to live together without being married or that it is okay to be gay, how to wear condoms, how to access drugs, how to party, and how to curse! You can't go anywhere anymore and hear clean language on a playground or in a coffee shop, even in elementary schools. When do schools have time for academics with all their pep rallies, clubs, and extra-curricular activities? Oh, and I forgot teachers who let their kids sleep in class because they(kids) had such a rough night.
It all boils down to parental responsibility. Who has to answer to God for the way children are raised, language in the home, and how children are educated? Only the parents will be held accountable. If God has blessed you with children, then they are your responsibility. The sad truth is that our culture thinks that things like football, rubbing elbows with drugheads, foul-mouthed, and alcoholic children, teach social skills! When more people turn out for football games across this country on weekends than turn out for church, our country is in serious trouble. But, we know that, don't we?
As parents we have to decide what is important; what is our duty before God; what are the things God considers important for our children to know. He is the One we have to bow before one day and answer to, for every idle word and our handling of every responsibility placed in our hands. I think children are the highest calling and the most precious of all gifts. Yes,our children, legally have to go to school until the age of 18, but that doesn't mean that we throw them in with wolves or place them in a place where they can't even hear the teacher because of all the chaos or a place that has poor academic standards.
It is time to ask ourselves, what are my children really learning in the school they attend? Are they just learning to climb the social ladder, stepping on others as they climb? Are they getting the academic knowledge worthy of what I am paying? What are the important things that God wants them to know? What is more needful for them in these days of moral decay, the ways of God or the ways of the world? Which will help them survive and live a decent, moral life?
