Meg Logan’s Blog

I thought I would write an arguement for homeschooling. Currently I do homeschool my three year old. We have completed pre-school and are working on Kindergarten. He is unusually blessed in mental ability, and he also sits still for long time periods, which makes him a uniquely easy student. He really likes doing workbooks, and writing (as well as he can). He loves to read too. The hardest part about teaching my son, is keeping up with what he is now able to learn and not holding him back, by refusing to answer his multitude of questions, or not providing him with enough stimulations and various topics.

Regarding Homeschool… This is why I think people ought to homeschool, especially Christian parents.

1. It is the Parents Responsibility to raise up their children: and 2. Christian’s kids are to learn Christian ideals, and a Christian worldview, that they might love and serve the Lord all the days of their lives. This is extremely important. When you decide to school your child, publically especially (but even in a private Christian school), you are no longer in control of what your child learns, when s/he learns it, or how it is explained. This is in direct conflict with the Deuteronomy account regarding who is responsible for teaching children, when they are to teach them, and what they are to teach! Here are the scriptures I am referring to:

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. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Deuteronomy 6:7-9

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 11:19-21 (emphasis mine again of course!)

What we are to teach is the fear of the Lord, and His commandments (not just the Ten). (There are myriad places to reference this… just before the verses mentioned above you will find it, and scattered throughout the whole Bible, primarily in Proverbs.

If that is not reason enough, there are other secular reasons.

3. Safety
I mean, when you are at home, teaching your child under your watchful eye, with your direct supervision, there is FAR less chance for something devastating to happen to them. (Im not saying it is impossible!) For example, if there were to be a natural disaster, you would be with them, able to help them, to calm them, to provide for them. If they are in school there is the risk of shootings, knifings, drugs and sexual immorality. Not to mention, child molestation, and the warping of your child’s mind by perverted individuals who do not try to keep your children innocent and pure but to expose them to the nastiness of life, in the name of “growing up”. If you don’t believe that kids are exposed to crazy things at school read this post at MInTheGap.

4. Family Bonding:
When a child is home all day, the family ties grow stronger. They grow closer to their parents, and to their siblings. Their friends have far less influence on their young minds.

5. Convenience:
No ties to the regular school year. You don’t have to run your whole life around the times when the child must be in school. School goes with you!

6. A Better Education:
In most situations, I think a child could recieve a better education at home, from loving and dedicated parents,than at a public school where they are lost in the shuffle, made to work at the pace of the majority, allowed to learn only the things prescribed in the curriculum (there is no time for anything else) and are either held back by their peers, or pushed on by their teachers, who are afraid to hold any kids back a grade these days. One dedicated mom, or mom and dad team, could teach all of their children, better than a single teacher reaching 25 to 35 kids at a time.

7. Teaching Individual Thought:
You can teach your child how to think for themselves. There doesn’t have to be rote answers, the mom doesn’t have to look for a particular answer, she has the time to help the child think through multiple answers, and questions. This is even true for Christian kids, who I meantioned above ought to be raised from a Christian worldview. They can still be taught to think for themselves. Christian parents can still present opposing worldviews (unlike public school which must avoid Christian views at all costs), and a child can (and indeed must) determine for him or herself, if they will be a Christian.

I know there are many people who worry about things like “socialization”… to me that is just a big scary fake! The socialization that happens at school, never again occurs in natural life. Never again will we all be separated by age (only one year), never again will we all sit in a small room or walk from room to room to learn. We will have to work with people of varying ages, we will have to learn through our own research. We must become our own teachers.

The kind of “socialization” that happens at public schools (and even private schools) is violent, and sexual. Violent, because even from the daycare age, kids are hitting each other, biting each other, pushing, screaming at each other, getting into fights and being left to “duke it out”. It makes kids tough alright, but that isn’t what is glorifying to God! God wants us to have tender hearts, not ones of stone! I can personally attest to the violence in schools, when I was in the 7th grade I was assaulted by a local gang member. She beat me quite badly, and I resolved that I would never again be gentle and soft enough to let that sort of thing hurt me. I deliberately hardened my heart, and became violent myself. I agree that this is only one example, but I think if you ask nearly anyone out there you will find that they have some similiar story. If it didn’t happen to them they sure witnessed it. I don’t want my kid to be a part of that. I think they shoudl learn to be strong in the care of tender parents, not at the end of a fist.

Sexually, is also a nasty one. THe sexual instruction of children begins in kindergarten these days. Where homosexuality is taught and tolerance is taught. What five year old needs to think about such adult issues? Not to mention when they get older and the sexualized society we live in begins to influence their thinking, and behaviors. And I’m not even going to get into the issue with teachers getting involved with teens and preteens.

There will come a day when your children need to know about these things, but I say their youth isn’t that time. Let them come to know of it when they are nearly grown. Then you can have careful discussions with them about sexuality, and homosexuality, and perversions and violence, etc.

Teach your children dilligently, at home. Then release them with a blessing into the nasty world. They will thank you for that sheltered upbringing. They will be glad that they never got beat up, or molested or raped in school. They will even come out with better grades and a greater ability to serve in our economy. Statistically I have heard that homeschooled kids are among the brightest and most academically adept in our country. I’m sure you could look up those statistics.

Well, thats my rant. Hope you enjoyed your reading.

Mrs Meg Logan

*Update: Here is another link to a story regarding why we ought to keep kids out of public school!*