If you are a Christian parent and you send your children to public school, you need to watch this documentary film by Colin Gunn (http://indoctrinationmovie.com/).  I know most of you don’t know or have never thought about home education.  For those of us who came from Hong Kong, homeschooling is illegal and all of us went to public school.  Therefore it is perfectly natural for us to send our children to public school.  Afterall, we turn out pretty good.

However, have you ever ask yourselves these questions regarding “school”:

1.       Where and when did the idea of public school start?

2.       Who was behind the agenda of public education?

3.       What does the Scripture require of Christian parents when it comes to education?

4.       We heard about violence, drugs and pre-marital sex rampant among high school students.  Why can’t the teachers do something about them?

5.       Why do I keep allowing my children to attend public school where they teach evolutionary, anti-Christian and anti-God values?

6.       Why do 80-90 per cent of evangelical Christian young adults leave the faith of their parents after graduation from high school? 

In the film “Indoctrination”, Colin attempts to address these important issues.

Before watching this film, I thought homeschooling is preferable for a Christian family.  However, after this movie, it dawns on me that there really is no choice when it comes to education for our next generation.  If we send our children to public school, we basically give up our God given responsibility and privileges and turn them over to the government.  Now, we all know our government and public school “experts” are mostly anti-God humanists who believe in evolution, not creation.  For those who live in Ontario, the provincial government is trying to impose perverted sex education curriculum as early as grade 1.  In Quebec, they force you to take Religious Culture course which basically claims all religions are equal.  In Alberta, they are trying to pass a law to prohibit parents from teaching their children homosexual act is a sin according to the Word of God.

Let us do some simple math here.  Assume a child goes to school from grade 1 to grade 12.  He is in the public system for an average of 7 hours (more or less) a day, 5 days a week.  The minimum school days required is 194 according to Ontario Ministry of Eduation.  Therefore, the total number of hours your child spends at school when he graduates is:

7 hours x 194 x 12 = 16296 hours

In these 16296 hours, he is constantly bombarded with evolutionary worldviews, pro-homosexual agendas, New Age ideas, humanistic and feministic worldviews.  His teachers and peers keep telling him that there is no God or faith is no longer important in this modern age.  If your child tries to pray or even read the Bible at school, he is warned by the principal that religion has no place at school.  He would be ridiculed and mocked by his peers if he ever brings up the name “Jesus Christ” in a positive way.

Now, let’s do the math again to find out the time of Christian education your child receives if you send them to public schools.  We make the following arbitrary assumptions:

·         Both of the parents are working 8 hours a day and therefore only have maximum 4 hours to see their kids every weeknight

·         The father leads the family bible time at night for 30 mins.  With our busy schedule, I assume a diligent father can have 5 family bible times every week.

·         Brings the children to church and Sunday school every week for 3 hours

·         Bible study in cell group format for 1 hours every week.

So your child is exposed to Christianity for (in terms of hours in 12 years of public education):

(.5 hours x 5 + 3 + 1) x 52 x 12 = 4056 hour

In conclusion, your child has 4 times more (16296 vs 4056) influence from secular, anti-God sources than biblical ones.  If we also take into consideration of the hours your child watches TV, plays video games, surfs the Internet and “hangs out” with his peers, the number is even more terrifying.

With this in mind, it is a no brainer that why Christianity is in decline.  Fathers, beside your wife, your children should be your primary ministry.  We see broken families everywhere.  Without strong families it is impossible to have strong churches.  Homeschooling should really be named “Home Discipleship”.  It is a way of life.  We are required by God to train up our children and make them disciples of Jesus Christ.  How can we do that if we only see them for a couple of hours a day?  How can we do that if we allow so many non-Christian teachers and students influencing them every day? 

 

Parents, please ponder on this matter seriously because your decision would affect your children and your children’s children eternally.  You can either destroy them by handing them over to the government or build them up in the Lord.  Let us think about what the Lord said:

 

 Deut 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

 We all know that our children learn mostly by observing others’ actions, not words.  If they only see us for a couple of hours a day, how can they learn to be a good Christian?  On the other hand, you shouldn’t be surprised when they turn out to be like the world because they are simply following others’ examples at school.  Of course, homeschooling does not guarantee your children will turn out to be faithful Christians.  However, I believe the probabilities are much higher than sending them to school.  Most importantly, we home educating our children because we want to obey God.