Obama's speech to school students is released
Israel Wayne provides a Christian perspective on Obama's upcoming speech tomorrow, and gratefully his commentary is devoid of the typical shallow nonsense that passes for "conservatism" nowadays. How many Christians who routinely send their children to statist indoctrination centers have gotten up in arms because "father Obama" is trying to speak to their children for a few minutes tomorrow? Were they upset when Bush and Reagan addressed schoolchildren? More importantly, are they unaware that training and discipling their children in the fear of the Lord is antithetical to entrusting them to the caring arms of Caesar?Mr. Wayne concludes his article thus:
My guess is that September 8th will only be blip on the radar screen of life unless parents everywhere heed the call to take complete responsibility for educating their children. The schools don’t care if you keep your children home for a day. In fact, they probably prefer it! They get paid whether your children show up or not! On the other hand, if your children stay home for say…A YEAR…or 12…then they get worried. Suppose that you had two children whom you homeschooled for 12 years. You just cost the government $1,267,200 in revenue. Keeping your child home for a day just makes the government happy. Keeping them home throughout their childhood and giving them a Biblical worldview…makes them VERY, VERY NERVOUS!
Read the transcript of the speech and Mr. Wayne's commentary.
posted by C.S. Hayden @ 5:03 PM
3 Comments:
Also check out Gary North's comments: http://www.garynorth.com/public/5410.cfm.
Great article. I've been interested in hearing more about this topic after seeing John Piper's post on it. The schools actually do care about attendance now as the average count determines the amount of money the school will receive for the year.
Specifically, Lydia, they seem to care about how many kids are signed up. On any given day, if some kids are missing, that's fine and dandy. The problem occurs if the kids just drop out of altogether.
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