First Day Of School

The seasons roll by. Here in Charlotte, and in many other locals around the nation Government schools have started recently. This is always a time of angst for me as I observe the multitude of children who begin another year of learning to think in ways foreign to the Christian faith. Combine this with the fact that a whole subculture is created where children and young adults, because of the time they spend together, end up aspiring to be like their peers and not like their families or like adults. Now sprinkle the exposure to disease that is brought about by cramming hundreds and thousands of children into one building. (Head lice or H1N1 flu anybody?). Now lightly top with exposing our children to possible immoralities like getting the snot kicked out of them on a school bus by animals

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/60D37B6EC5FF4711862576320011605B?OpenDocument

or of being seduced by a nymphomaniac school teacher

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53859

or of being exposed to violence at school

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777958.html

not to mention the every day basic cruelties that happen — which we have become inured to — when you create a “Lord of the Flies” community.

I admit it. I don’t get it. I don’t understand why parents willfully put their children in these environments. Parents will even say how painful it is to watch little Johnny or Suzie go to school without even realizing that they are inflicting the pain on themselves. Why shed tears as you watch your children go to school when you could dry your tears and experience the joy of watching your children grow up as you educate them yourself?

Recently, someone commented to a parent that was weeping over their child’s first day of school by saying,

“Nothing harder or sweeter then seeing kids grow up!”

The problem here is that when you send your children to government schools to be raised one is not “seeing them grow up.” Why do we believe there is a bitter sweetness in sending our children to be educated and raised by people, who, in the preponderance of cases, we don’t even know? The comment above is nothing but foolish sentimentalism. Somewhere along the way we got in the habit of doing something destructive to our children and now we speak about it being “sweet.” It’s like getting in the habit of hitting oneself every morning with a ball ping hammer and then going on to glowingly speak about how refreshing such a quaint little habit is.

I know I’m in the minority. I know I am not liked for having this conviction. I also know that the reason I am not liked for having this conviction is because people know I’m right and they hate both my being right and the wrongness of what they are doing to their children.

I’ll be glad to live with being despised because of this if people would just begin to follow their instincts and quit sending their children to government schools.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane