Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] Dangers of Public Education

Even the practicing Christians are realizing these dangers. It should be the Muslims taking the lead against these evils instead of rushing into it. To make it more understanding, try using the word masjid, imam, and Muslims for church, pastor, and Christians.

On the 'sin' of sending kids to public school

Author shares harsh campus realities, urges parents to pull children

2005 WorldNetDaily.com

The man who helped push the issue of public education onto the national agenda of the Southern Baptist Convention has written a new book that blows the lid off government schools, showing parents the kind of worldview and values their children are influenced by 180 days a year.

Bruce Shortt, author of "The Harsh Truth About Public Schools," presents myriad reasons why government institutions are failing America's children and thumbing their noses at parents with a religious worldview.

As WorldNetDaily reported, last year Shortt helped spearhead an unsuccessful effort to have the Southern Baptist Convention pass a resolution urging its members to remove their children from public school.

In "The Harsh Truth About Public Schools," Shortt, writing from a biblical perspective, presents rigorous research about the agenda and effect of government schooling on the nation's young people.

Shortt especially wants to educate Christian parents, millions of whom send their kids off to public school every day.

"Contrary to what many Christians have been led to believe, there is no such thing as a 'neutral' education," Shortt writes. "All education is religious and conveys a worldview, and there is no more important decision that we make as parents than how we educate our children."

Continues Shortt: "Unfortunately, Christian parents allow an aggressively anti-Christian institution to form the minds of their children, and the fruit of that choice is bitter. The overwhelming majority of children from evangelical families leave the church within two years after they graduate from high school; only 9 percent of evangelical teens believe that there is any such thing as absolute moral truth; and, our children are being forcibly indoctrinated to believe that homosexual behavior is acceptable."

While Shortt wants Christian parents who use the government schools to read the book, he also encourages homeschooling parents to read it.

"Homeschool parents must have this book to minister to their Christian friends and neighbors, pastors and skeptical relatives. Our government-school habit is sowing the wind, and unless Christians turn from this gross sin we will reap a whirlwind that is unimaginable," Shortt says.

In the book, Shortt documents the pitfalls of public schools, saying the anti-Christian thrust of the governmental school system produces inevitable results: "moral relativism (no fixed standards), academic dumbing down, far-left programs, near absence of discipline and the persistent but pitiable rationalizations offered by government education professionals."

Shortt also urges pastors to read the book so they might "understand why the church can no longer abdicate its historic role in the education of our children."

Says Short: "'The Harsh Truth About Public Schools' makes it clear why no Christian child should be left behind in government schools. Our Christian children are perishing because parents and pastors lack knowledge. The information in this book exposes the 'salt and light' and the 'our schools are different' rationalizations for educating Christian children in pagan schools for the contemptible falsehoods they are.

"Any parent or pastor who genuinely desires to be faithful in the education of Christian children needs to find out what the public schools are actually doing, rather than relying on what they are saying they are doing or on memories of the public schools as they may have existed 10, 20 or 30 years ago."

Shortt makes his argument by citing a school district in Texas.

"There is no public school district in the country that has more Christians in the community or in the schools than that of Plano, Texas," he said. "In fact, the largest and most powerful church in the state of Texas, Prestonwood Baptist, is located in Plano. Yet, it took a court order to force the Plano schools to allow Christian school children to privately give classmates Christmas gifts that had a Christian message. Moreover, the school district had even prohibited schoolchildren from bringing red and green napkins to the school 'holiday' parties for fear the colors might remind someone of Christmas.

"The truth is that the public school policy and curriculum decisions that matter to Christians are not made locally. They are largely dictated by federal and state court decisions, federal and state legislation and regulations, and the teachers' union and other professional associations connected with the public schools."

But what about reforming the public schools? Isn't that a solution?

Responds Shortt: "Public schools cannot be reformed to provide a Christian education, and the evidence is overwhelming that even conventional secular reforms to reinstate traditional academic and moral standards will continue to fail. But even if you think that we should nevertheless try to reinstate traditional academic and moral standards in the schools, taking your children out is the most effective thing you can do to help the children whose parents have left them behind in the public schools. Only the threat of a collapse of the entire public school system offers even the remotest prospect of positive change. Traditional reform efforts are a waste of time.

"Even if you believe that there is nothing wrong with institutionalizing Christian children in public schools, you need to read this book because you may be wrong. Remember, you only get one chance to educate your children. There are no do-overs."

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The Little Book of Big Reasons to Homeschool

By David and Kim d'Escoto

Why homeschool? Is it really effective? Am I qualified to teach my children? Aren't public schools OK? What about socialization?

Drawing from David d'Escoto's experience as a church ministry leader and adult Bible teacher, and Kim's background in elementary education, these two veteran homeschoolers are committed to reaching out to families and spreading the homeschool vision. The d'Escotos give concise and compelling reasons why homeschooling is your best option for educating your children today.

"The Little Book of Big Reasons to Homeschool" addresses the benefits to mind, body, and soul, and answers the tough questions about homeschooling--academics, socialization, spiritual training, and more. Plus, discover what what the mindset was behind the establishment of today's system of mass education, and where has it led us as a society.

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BRAINWASHING 101: Indoctrination and sexual corruption on America's college campuses

Fall registration, the first day of class, and another crop of America's high school graduates have left home and hearth to attend college in the hope it will prepare them for life and career.

But from Harvard to UCLA and thousands of colleges and universities in between, what awaits them is non-stop leftist indoctrination, pervasive sexual anarchy and – if they're not careful – loss of their values and innocence.

What many parents have suspected and feared has been documented first-hand in the latest edition of WND's famed Whistleblower magazine, in a stunning edition titled "BRAINWASHING 101: Indoctrination and sexual corruption on America's college campuses."

"In true Whistleblower fashion," said Managing Editor David Kupelian, "we decided to tell this incredible story in the most compelling, 'insider' way possible – by letting college students themselves expose what really goes on in the closed society of the college campus."

Young people featured in this issue include Ben Shapiro (nationally syndicated columnist, author of "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth" and a recent UCLA graduate, now enrolled at Harvard), Abby Nye (a student at Butler University and author of "Fish Out of Water: Surviving and Thriving as a Christian on a Secular Campus") and Hans Zeiger (author of "Get Off My Honor: The Assault on the Boy Scouts of America" and a student at Hillsdale College).

Meanwhile, the "older generation" – in the persons of WorldNetDaily Editor Joseph Farah and Managing Editor David Kupelian, plus Jim Nelson Black, public policy analyst and author of "Freefall of the American University" – round out Whistleblower's look at the unrelentingly subversive agenda that dominates most American colleges today.

Together, this month's team of whistleblowers prove conclusively that, while sky-high tuition costs have more than doubled since the 1980s, the level of sexual corruption, anti-Americanism and radical political and cultural indoctrination at America's colleges has increased even more.

"Very simply, if you have a child in college or who may soon be headed toward college, you owe it to yourself – and to your child – to read this issue of Whistleblower," said Kupelian.

Highlights of "BRAINWASHING 101" include:

"What are we teaching, anyway?" by Joseph Farah, demonstrating the persecution on campus of believing Christians for attempting to stand up for traditional morality.
"A crisis on campus" by Jim Nelson Black, a powerful overview of how America's colleges are corrupting the minds and morals of the next generation.
"Ward Churchill backs fragging," which shows how the controversial "9-11 prof" suggests rolling grenades under line officers.
"Sex in the classroom" by Ben Shapiro – a mind-boggling first-hand account of sexual anarchy on the typical campus. As Shapiro summarizes: "Homosexuality is perfectly normal. Pedophilia is acceptable. Bestiality is fine."
"How Western culture has been turned upside down" by David Kupelian, showing what's really behind multiculturalism and political correctness, which started on the college campus and have now grown to permeate society at large.
"Behind closed doors: Surviving and thriving as a Christian on a secular campus" by Abby Nye, a gripping and eye-opening look at the gauntlet a Christian faces when attending a secular college.
"Hindsight: Advice to other Christian students at secular colleges" by Abby Nye.
"Solutions" by Ben Shapiro, wherein the recent UCLA grad and author offers specific steps for ending the leftist stranglehold on America's major universities.
"A school for future leaders," profiling Virginia's Patrick Henry College, created especially for Christian homeschoolers.
"Young Americans turning right" by Hans Zeiger, in which the college student, author a and columnist provides real hope that many young Americans, despite all the forces arrayed against them, are headed in the right direction.

"This is one of those issues that you just can't put down," said Farah. "It is a fantastic read, and will leave you with no doubt whatsoever that America's colleges today have become radical indoctrination centers – and your kids are the target."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46152

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