Private Schools and Homeschooling

Alternatives to the Insanity of the Public Education System

students at Kerala India Crossroads school

Don’t send your kids to public school to be brainwashed! private Christian and Christian-oriented schools, school choice, trade schools, how to incorporate home schooling into your everyday life, and how to find good materials

School choice

“School Choice is essentially a way the government can allow educational tax dollars to be used to enable parents to choose whatever education option they feel is best for their kids. It breaks the cycle of forcing families to send their kids to floundering public schools because of where they live.” Jordan Sekulow, ACLJ

AFC

“At the American Federation for Children, the nation’s voice for educational choice, we only count programs that 1) give parents enough assistance to actually make a different choice; and 2) provide parents with a variety of private school options including religious schools.”

These states are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin, plus the District of Columbia and Douglas County, Colorado.

Private schools

Here’s a private English school in India we support:

“Crossroads Secondary School and Crossroads Central School imparts education to more than 2000 kids irrespective of religion, caste and social strata. The primary objective of the school is to impart good curricular and co-curricular education, morals and discipline to the kids at a very nominal fee. The Bible College provides training to people who are interested in becoming preachers.”

Private schooling is the obvious choice if you can afford it and if you are unable to commit to home schooling, . There are many Christian and Christian-oriented private schools. Their teachers are underpaid to the point that they are basically doing this because they love the children and care about them; they’re not doing it for the money. They aren’t in the woke NEA or AFT, the largest and 2^nd largest teachers’ unions. The NEA is considered the most powerful union in the country, and has the woke radical left democratic party in their pocket.

Homeschooling

“You shall teach them diligently to your sons (and daughters in this day) and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up…You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:7,9

learning while hiking

Lower Deschutes Canyon hike

A few years ago, I was carpooling to a trailhead on the lower Deschutes River to go on a hike with a group from the Design Science Association of Portland Oregon. I asked the lady and youngsters that I shared the ride with how they had gotten out of school for the day. She explained that they were home schoolers, and everything they did was a learning experience one way or the other. That was an eye-opener for me. There are some basics that need to be learned, like reading, writing, and arithmetic, that require some real mental concentration and work. But learning can also be fun, and a lot can be learned while we’re out and about, if we have the right attitude and the desire to learn from each experience. That hike by the way was led by a science teacher from a Christian school who happened to be an expert on birds. He showed us how to identify birds by their distinctive songs, even if we only heard them and couldn’t see them in the thick brush. We also learned how to watch out for rattlesnakes, and saw three of them – a valuable lesson.

Public school is a disaster

Since that day, the public school system has continued to worsen and now has gone completely off the rails. It’s a disaster. Do you want your children to get a good education, or do you want them to instead learn critical race theory, transgenderism, LGBQT agendas, sexual immorality, secret abortions assisted by schools and Planned Parenthood, global warming hysteria, and that the theory of evolution is a “proven fact”? Consider moving to a free choice state and getting a scholarship for private school. Some parents have made great sacrifices in their budgeting in order to send their kids to private school, because they realize how important it is. But if you just can’t afford private school, read on…

The answer is home schooling

Today there are more resources than ever. Many wonderful resources are free, which is important for most young families.

At first the thought of home schooling is a little scary. It’s quite a commitment, and it’s a long term one. Most of us are good at some subjects and lousy at others. Almost no one is good at all subjects, so we wonder how we’ll be able to help our kids learn subjects that we don’t understand well ourselves. That’s where the availability of vast resources comes in. You can find anything on the internet and on youtube although a learning plan and structure and supervision is needed.

Try to find other parents who are home schooling and look for ways to pool your efforts. Carpool and go together on field trips. Share resources. Take turns having their kids at your homes for learning sessions, and sometimes just for fun get-togethers.

Start thinking about what can be learned everywhere you go. Museums, the zoo, an aquarium, an observatory for astronomy, concerts.

Look for private groups for outdoor activities like hiking, backpacking, snowshoeing, skiing, etc., and sports teams, bands and orchestras; whatever your child shows interest in. Also look for opportunities for them to learn some work skills. I took each of our 4 children to work with me when they were old enough. I used to buy fixer-uppers and my kids helped and in the process, they learned a lot.

If you’re not already involved with a church, find a non-denominational, bible-believing Christian church. Your kids need friends, and Sunday School and church friends are usually good associations, and education isn’t complete without bible learning. At a church, you’ll also probably find other parents that are home schoolers, and they’ll want to help you. Many churches also have summer camps which are a great way to have your kids develop some long-lasting friendships while they’re learning.

Top quality, with a biblical worldview on all subjects

One of the best home school curriculums is available from Answers in Genesis. Their excellent material comes from a biblical worldview, for all subjects. It’s the opposite of public school curriculum, which presents every subject from a secular evolutionary view. It’s no wonder public school kids act like animals if they’re taught that we evolved from animals. Their packages on science, mathematics, etc. aren’t free, but they’re not unreasonable either.

Free for the budget-minded

However, if you’re on a really tight budget, as many folks are, there are some good plans and packages for free. One of the best free ones I’ve found is “Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool”.  This too is based on a Christian worldview, put together by Lee Giles, who compiled this program while homeschooling his own kids, so he has used it and knows it works well. He also has a ‘Quick Start Guide’ to get you going. Here’s his intro:

“What is Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool?”                          

“We exist to help families homeschool. We enable families to homeschool who thought they couldn’t because of a lack of finances, a lack of time, or a lack of know-how. Others join EP just because it’s easy and fun and they’re confident of the quality of education. EP seeks to free families from the burden of pursuing the “perfect” and encourages them to let it be “enough.” Each family and each child is different and we seek to provide the resources to enable your family to be who you were created to be.”

Ted talks

If you’ve ever watched a Ted talk, you know that a these speakers deliver valuable information in clear and to-the-point 15 to 20 minute talks that are not only educational, but often fun to watch and listen to. Like youtube, you can search for the topic you’re interested in. These are for the older students.

This hot-off-the-press book for 4-8 yr olds is a fun way to teach kids how to handle money at a very early age. They’re not being taught anything like this in public school. Being responsible with money is part of building good character.

Other resources:

https://www.thoughtco.com/free-homeschool-resources-4151635

https://www.homeschool.com/resource-guide/bju-distance-learning-online/

https://www.learningliftoff.com/20-best-homeschooling-websites-and-learning-resources/

https://ed.ted.com/

youtube

Trade schools

College is not for everyone. There are a few good Christian colleges and universities, like Bob Jones University but most of higher education is swamped with atheistic and communist teachers that will do everything they can to turn your son or daughter away from traditional Christian values. It would be better to go to a Trade school and learn something useful than to go to a liberal arts college that’s not in line with Christian values.

That’s it for today. Leave a comment or question!

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