Comments on: Children of the State http://homeschooling.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/children-of-the-state.html Providing Southern Baptist Families with News from the Frontlines of the Exodus Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:17:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Toni http://homeschooling.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/children-of-the-state.html/comment-page-1#comment-83 Toni Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:32:59 +0000 http://www.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/blog/children-of-the-state.html#comment-83 My experience being in the Public school is that the Government is concerned with teaching all ideas except for Christianity. If it was not for my parents, I would not have had any exposure to Christian ideals! Thank God for my parents! My experience being in the Public school is that the Government is concerned with teaching all ideas except for Christianity. If it was not for my parents, I would not have had any exposure to Christian ideals! Thank God for my parents!

]]> By: Mimi Rothschild http://homeschooling.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/children-of-the-state.html/comment-page-1#comment-82 Mimi Rothschild Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:53:41 +0000 http://www.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/blog/children-of-the-state.html#comment-82 Professor Reich's statement that homeschoolers are not "well socialized" is of course an uninformed and woefully simplistic characterization of a much more three dimensional issue. If he means that homeschoolers are NOT encouraged to follow the crowd, wear what everyone else wears, think what everyone else thinks and not question anything, then maybe he is right. It really boils down to what he means when he says "socialized". Public school was created to homogenize society, to blend the differences between the melting pot's many cultures and teach an uniform set of values. Most homeschoolers do not want their children to be "blended" into anything or anyone else. We want our children to be their own unique, amazing, precious and different treasures! Professor Reich’s statement that homeschoolers are not “well socialized” is of course an uninformed and woefully simplistic characterization of a much more three dimensional issue. If he means that homeschoolers are NOT encouraged to follow the crowd, wear what everyone else wears, think what everyone else thinks and not question anything, then maybe he is right. It really boils down to what he means when he says “socialized”. Public school was created to homogenize society, to blend the differences between the melting pot’s many cultures and teach an uniform set of values. Most homeschoolers do not want their children to be “blended” into anything or anyone else. We want our children to be their own unique, amazing, precious and different treasures!

]]> By: Donna http://homeschooling.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/children-of-the-state.html/comment-page-1#comment-81 Donna Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:53:57 +0000 http://www.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/blog/children-of-the-state.html#comment-81 If he suggests that "parents should be forced to expose their children to ideas that are antithetical to their own" then shouldn't public schools also be forced to do the same? If he wants Christians to teach their kids secularism, then shouldn't the secular world be forced to teach Christianity? He's a hypocrit and proof of exactly why the public school system is awful. If he suggests that “parents should be forced to expose their children to ideas that are antithetical to their own” then shouldn’t public schools also be forced to do the same? If he wants Christians to teach their kids secularism, then shouldn’t the secular world be forced to teach Christianity? He’s a hypocrit and proof of exactly why the public school system is awful.

]]> By: Dana http://homeschooling.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/children-of-the-state.html/comment-page-1#comment-63 Dana Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:27:33 +0000 http://www.thesouthernbaptistacademy.org/blog/children-of-the-state.html#comment-63 Of course the state has an interest in the views of the citizens. But our constitution is supposed to protect our individual rights against abuses of the state's "interests." The "state" is supposed to serve us, not the other way around. Of course the state has an interest in the views of the citizens. But our constitution is supposed to protect our individual rights against abuses of the state’s “interests.”

The “state” is supposed to serve us, not the other way around.

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