My kids went to a religious school for a few years, and now they go to public school. In the religious school they learned how to pray, they studied the scripture, and in the public school they acquire secular knowledge. It's not a hard concept to grasp. Religion is appropriate in a religious school, run by a church or synagogue, where everyone is paying tuition and has chosen that school for whatever reasons, probably including the religious stuff. It is not appropriate in a public school that the taxpayers are supporting.

Many of the religious right are choosing to home-school, and I think that's a good idea for them. If you have really, really strong religious convictions, it is unlikely that any teacher, even at a church-run school, can match your fervor. And there is no sense sending them to a public school, because, well, they won't get any religious education at all there.

I just came across a web site where they give advice on home-schooling: Classical Homeschool Curriculum.

Again, if you want children who will not merely survive in this culture, but will overcome and take captives for Jesus Christ, then they will need a distinctively Christian education. One of the most dangerous aspects of public schools is not the drugs, guns, ungodly sex education or even the lie that homosexuality is an acceptable alternative. It is the lie that our children can be properly educated without reference to God.

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When our children attend government schools, they are told to learn math, but not to learn the central thing about math-that God is a God of order and that in Him all things consist. They are told to learn history, but not the most important thing about history-that Jesus Christ lived a perfect life, died an efficacious death, rose powerfully, and ascended majestically to the right hand of the Father.

When God is excluded from the classroom, we are not merely remaining silent about God. We are teaching children that they may safely disregard Him. Whether or not God exists, the lesson goes, His existence is irrelevant to what we are doing here. So when God is omitted, we are not silent about Him; rather we are teaching the children in the most convincing way possible that God is irrelevant. They can safely omit Him when it is convenient to do so.

So ... good. It's settled then.

You teach your own kids the values and beliefs you hold dear, and quit trying to "overcome and take captive" our public schools.

Deal?