MythBusters Case#18: Think The HomeSchool Battle Is Over? Think Again.

Some of us are old enough to remember when homeschooling in America was illegal, and for that matter, unheard of.   Even private Christian schools were under great pressure from local and state governments to conform to stringent regulations.  In view of such oppression, homeschooling looked like an impossible dream—an unreachable star.  But in the 1980s some brave parents ventured out on a limb to pioneer this epic undertaking in the face of strong opposition in high places.

Necessity is not only the mother of invention; it is the mother of desperation.  Some parents hit the panic button.  Others caught a vision.  The public school system was going down hill, academically, morally, and spiritually.  It still is.  Public school mediocrity is feeding the homeschool movement, which  is growing in numbers, experience, and quality.

The record shows that the accusations of its critics are collapsing like a house of cards.  On average, homeschooled students are running rings around their public “educated” counterparts.  Now, who’s hitting the panic button?  The worm is turning, but the opposition is rising once again!

A MYTH popular with the governing class and recently parroted by Attorney General Eric Holder holds that a law banning homeschooling entirely would violate no fundamental liberties.

Alert!  Homeschooling families are again in danger, not only in Sweden and Germany, but right here in America.  Attorney General Eric Holder has stated that a law that bans homeschooling entirely violates no fundamental liberties.

Michael Farris, Founder and chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, has taken the case of the Romeike family (a German homeschooling family who fled to the United States for political asylum).  He is opposing  Holder’s attempt to deport them back to German oppression, where they face criminal prosecution with fines, jail sentences, and removal of the custody their of children.

May we ask you, Mr. Attorney General, whatever happened to that open invitation to those seeking political asylum at the foot of the Statue of Liberty penned by Emma Lazarus: “GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE”

Read the Article  (or copy and paste to your browser).

http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2013/201302110.asp

MythBusters Case #16: Register Communists, Not Firearms

Weeks after the fact, the Sandy Hook tragedy is still fresh on the mind because twenty of those murdered were children of such a tender age.  Families have been devastated for life.

Tearful and determined people demonstrated in Washington D.C. with signs reading, “Never forget Sandy Hook.”  And who can forget a tragedy of such magnitude.  People are demanding, and rightly so, that something be done about these massive school shootings.  An article in February 3 issue of Freedom Outpost http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/02/sandy-hook-students-father-youll-have-to-take-my-gun-from-my-cold-dead-hands/ stated the following:

A father of a Sandy Hook Elementary School student testified on January 28, 2013 in a Working Group Public Hearing at the Connecticut State Capitol on gun violence prevention. While Bill Stevens’ fifth grade daughter was not harmed in the incident, she was a part of the children that were in “lock down” during the shooting and following it. However, Mr. Stevens said that his daughter’s friend’s little sister was one of the children that was murdered…

All of which serves to reinforce the Myth: We need more gun control laws to put an end to these mass gun killings.

The myth is so superficial that MythBusters can’t help but suspect the motives of its perpetrators.  You don’t have to look very far into history, recent social experimentation, and the Bible to conclude that the gun control argument is a fraud.  We found the evidence to be ovewhelming.

Let’s think it through.  The Freedom Outpost continues with this concerned father’s remarks:

However, Mr. Stevens said that his daughter’s friend’s little sister was one of the children that was murdered, “when 911 and ‘lock down’ were not enough to protect her from an evil person, not protect her from an ‘assault rifle’ or some type of an inanimate object, but from an evil person…”

He also pointed out that gun ownership is a right and should not make gun owners suspect simply because of the numbers or kinds of guns they own or even how much ammunition they have…

“But criminals and tyrants,” he continued, “tyrants especially, beware, ‘lock down’ is not an option at the Stevens’ residence and 911 will be dialed after the security of my home has been established!”

Stevens asked, “Why is that same security that my daughter enjoys at home with her dad not available at school in Newtown? That is what you should be considering, not making her dad a criminal.”

“Charleton Heston made the phrase, ‘From my cold dead hands’ famous,” Stevens thundered. “And I will tell you here today, you will take my ability to protect my Victoria from my cold dead hands!”

Stevens slammed his fist on the desk and walked out to applause from the citizens listening.

Friends, this is what it’s going to take, men who will stand up to the bureaucrats and politicians who are eager to trade our liberty for a bit of security and leave us as victims. Major kudos to Mr. Stevens! God bless you Sir!

A more recent school shooting took place in Atlanta.  It was scarcely reported, and when it was, the details were left out.  The shooter was halted in his tracks by a man with a gun.  A 14 year old boy was shot in the neck, but survived.  Nobody knows how many lives this armed citizen might have saved.  Which is faster, response to a 911 call or a bullet out of the barrel of a 357 magnum?

The week prior to Sandy Hook a gunman opened fire in the Clackamas Town Center near Portland, Oregon.  Two people died before a man with a pistol drew a bead on the killer and locked eyes with him.  He didn’t fire because of people in the background, but the killer fled and shot himself.

This part of the story was omitted in news reports.  A local columnist for the Portland Oregonian used the occasion for a rant against the AR-15, never mentioning the local hero who broke up the rampage with his pistol.

In a subsequent column the same reporter expressed extreme naivete about the motives of gun-grabbing politicians, quoting a local sheriff who didn’t think Barack Obama intended to confiscate anybody’s guns.  Lenin had a term for this kind of journalist:  “useful idiot.”

Barack Obama’s affinity to Communist tactician Sol Alinsky, is well documented (The Manchurian President, Chap. 4, WND Books).  Anyone in doubt about the benign motives of Barack Obama would do well to consider the tragic story of the scores of genocides that were perpetrated during the 20^th Century on unarmed people.  The first step in the process is always gun registration, then gun confiscation, then deportation to forced labor and extermination camps.  But of course, it could never happen here.

To buy into the gun control argument you have to turn a blind eye to the obvious.  Recent mass murders are invariably committed in so-called gun-free zones like theaters and schools.  Cities with the toughest gun control laws – like Chicago, Washington DC, and New York – have the highest murder rates.  By contrast, in 1982 when gun ownership was made mandatory in Kennesaw, Georgia, crimes against persons plummeted by over 74 percent and are now almost non-existent.

Case Closed:  In conclusion, MythBusters turned to the ultimate authority on violent crime.  What does the Prince of Peace have to say on the subject of gun control.   Nothing direct, but when it came to the issue of sword-control in first century Judea He told His disciples “let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one…And they said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.”  And He said to them, ‘It is enough.’”

MythBusters Case #15: The Neutrality of Public Education Exposed

It seems that American society has drifted into a turbulent sea without anchor or sail, and there is scarcely a safe harbor in sight.  Nonetheless, there is hope.  It would be easy to lay a large share of the blame at the doorstep of the public school system, and we would be right.  But let’s look deeper.

American civilization was not born in a bed of roses; it was weaned in a rugged and hostile environment.  The early settlers had to battle an untamed wilderness just to keep body and soul together.  They certainly did not have government to fall back on to educate their children, or anything else for that matter.  They took seriously Moses admonition to the Israelites to obey God’s law in subjecting their children to a godly education:

Modern American Christians have lost that vision and adopted a contrary Myth: A neutral public education is adequate for our children’s basic academic needs.

Our MythBusters investigation found opposing evidence from the Book of Scripture and the book of  history.

Initially we found this admonition in the book of Deuteronomy:  Hear, O Israel:  The LORD our God is one LORD:  And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.  And the words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 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 (Deuteronomy 6:4-7).

The Pilgrims fled not only from persecution in England, but later from bad influence on their children in Holland.  They recognized that education was anything by neutral.  These tender seedlings were not yet ready to contend with the enemy in the gates (seats of power), but their parents realized that they were a heritage of the LORD.  They were like arrows (weapons of war) in the quivers of their fathers, and their day would come to take their positions in the multigenerational war for the kingdom of God (Psalm 127:3-5).

Under the New Covenant, the apostle Paul admonished Christian fathers to “bring them [their children] up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4).  When the Prophet Jeremiah told God’s people to “Learn not the way of the heathen” (Jeremiah 10:2), he was not telling them to turn a blind eye toward their evil doctrines and practice, but recognize them for what they are, and do not follow them.

We discovered this excerpt from a prayer by early American Puritan leader Cotton Mather:

And, O thou Saviour, and Shepherd of Thy New-English Israel: Be Entreated Mercifully to look down upon thy Flocks in the Wilderness. Oh, give us not up to the Blindness and Madness of neglecting the Lambs in the Flocks. Inspire thy People, and all Orders of men among thy People with a just care for the Education of Posterity…Save us, O our Lord JESUS CHRIST. Save us from the Mischiefs and Scandals of an Uncultivated Offspring; Let this be a Land of Light, unto Thou, O Sun of Righteousness, do thyself arise unto the World with Healing in thy Wings. Amen.  [Emphasis added]

So how did we get from where we were then to where we are today?  Not only does the unconverted man in general look for escape mechanisms, but Christians have that tendency also due to indwelling sin.  As even Peter, James, and John fell asleep as Jesus prayed in that desperate hour (Matthew 26:37-41), so the church has been slack in its responsibility at various times and places through history.  We have a heavenly treasure, but it dwells in earthly vessels.

The ancient Greek philosophers not only had a great impact on the church and the world in medieval times but also on early America and right down to the present.  These humanistic notions always find fertile ground in fallen human nature.

Plato’s abstract never-never land of surrealism has driven elements of the Christian church into pietistic escapism.  “Why polish the brass of a sinking ship?”  This led many evangelicals to abandon ship around 1925 at the time of the “Scopes monkey trial.”  Although prosecutor William Jennings Bryan won the case in the staged trial of John Scopes, the creationist position was publicly trashed by the ACLU.

Case Closed:  Public education is not neutral, but decidedly anti-Christian.  We cannot allow the public education system to continue ransacking our children’s hearts and mind and replacing the Christian faith with the false notions of a non-existent neutrality.  There is no demilitarized zone in this battle for their souls and our culture.  It’s time to fight back!

MythBusters Case #14: Public Education, Is It Biblical?

Sadly, many Christians think, speak and act as if they are wiser than God.  They see nothing wrong with sending their children to Government indoctrination centers to have them brainwashed by a humanist curriculum.  They are under the delusion that their children will be fine as long as they take them to a 45-minute Sunday school class once a week, see their parents pray over meals, and participate in family devotions.  These things may be well and good, but they are no match for 25 or 30 hours a week of compartmentalized godless programming.  Perhaps their pastors have not sufficiently warned them of the dangers lurking on the campus.  These are matters of life and death.  Please get informed.

Myth: The influence of a loving Christian home is sufficient to overcome the evils of public education.

 

Here are some excerpts from an article by Dr. Phil Stringer of Landmark Baptist College:

 

The concept of government control of education has become so accepted in the United States that most people take it for granted. Yet, there is no concept of civil government controlling education in the Bible, in the Constitution, or in the first 75 years of American history. The American people need to rethink the idea that the civil government should be responsible for educating children.

 

The problem is not just poor academic achievement, the wasteful spending of the public school system, or the loss of moral standards. The problem is that the government is the wrong agency to be involved in education.  Public education is unconstitutional and inefficient. But, most of all, it is unbiblical.

 

All education is religious in nature, even when educators pretend that it is not. All forms of education are based upon a world view. All forms of education try to answer basic questions of life that are religious in nature. In fact, many of the current debates about separation of church and state involve the public schools.

 

It’s High Time for a Mass Exodus

 

Just a few decades ago, participating in home schooling was like pulling teeth.  Regiments of social workers, accompanied by law enforcement, were pounding on doors everywhere and confiscating children.  It was a nightmare for decent families who had their fill of the public school system.  These were the pioneers constantly living under the threat of family disruption.  Parents lived in mortal terror of these bureaucrats lurking and looking for the slightest pretext of “child abuse” by homeschoolers.

 

Today, homeschooling is legal in every state, but the battle is far from over.  The Home School Legal Defense Association is barraged with calls from members complaining of harassment from school officials who either are drunk with power or don’t know the laws of their state.  It seems strange that these highly paid people would be inept in their bureaucratic business.  We need to increase our numbers so these oppressors will take notice and back off.

 

There is a mind-set in American academia that would force all our children to be subject to some of the most outrageous classroom antics you could imagine.  Note the following from Public Advocate:

 

The Radical Homosexuals infiltrating the United States Congress have a plan:  Indoctrinate an entire generation of American children with pro-homosexual propaganda and eliminate traditional values from American society.  Their ultimate dream is to create a new America based on sexual promiscuity in which the values you and I cherish are long forgotten.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.  If you intend to fight this battle, please don’t send your children to the front line.  Keep them out of harm’s way until they are mature enough to contend with the enemy.  And even then, don’t send them to the pagan temples; train them at home.  Christ is not only ignored by the government schools, He is actively excluded by law.  Thus, it is no exaggeration to conclude that public schools are “anti-Christ” and that Christian children are being taught by anti-Christ.  it is long past due for mature Christians to take up this holy cause and pull their children from the jaws of death.

MythBusters Case # 13: America At The Crossroads — A Case Study In Cultural Blindness

Unwary Christians often stumble into the humanist treadmill.  Talk show host Bob Durgin (Harrisburg, PA) had a guest minister on his program.  They were discussing whether the subject of “God” should be part of the biology curriculum in a public school.  I could see their eyes glaze over when a caller suggested that God has not authorized civil government to teach children in the first place.  It’s a family matter.  Civil government should stick to its own business of being a terror to evil doers.  “How’d we get on that?” said the confused host.

The American culture has slipped so far down the line from its early mores since the Mayflower Compact (1620) and the Great Migration (1630-1641) that it can no longer see the light of day.  It has drunk so deeply from the well of the eighteenth century Enlightenment; it did not see social Darwinism creeping in behind to shove it into the well.  By now, it has fallen so far it cannot even see the sky.  This culture does not need to be rescued from danger; it needs to be raised from the dead.

Myth: America needs to spend more money on public education.

Jesus said, “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live” (John 11:25).  He not only “came into the world to save sinners” (I Tim. 1:15), but also to commission His followers to “teach all nations…to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20).  This Great Commission could only be launched by the Possessor of “all power in heaven and in earth” (v 18).  He has promised to see this mission through until our work on earth is done (v 20).

“Discipling the Nations One Student at a Time” is the capstone of our mission at King’s Way Classical Academy.  It is our hope that we never fail to declare the whole council of God as it applies to every subject we teach as well as to every area of life.  “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works” (II Tim. 3:16-17).  Our purpose is to equip our students to take leadership in tomorrow’s world.

Engaged, but Not Entangled

The Bible deals with our engagement with the world.  The apostle Paul tells us this in his second epistle to the Corinthians

“(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled” (II Cor. 10:4-6).

The Bible deals with our entanglement with the world.  The apostle John tells us this in his first general epistle.

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world” (I John 2:15-16).

These two principles set the parameters in Jesus’ prayer to the Father:

“I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil” (John 17:15)

Here we have the fulcrum of the Biblical balance to be like “the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” (I Chron. 12:32).

A Case in Point

 

The enemies of truth are showing their true colors in many ways.  The following story from Godfather Politics, September 23, 2011, under the headline “Student Punished for Christian Faith” is only one of thousands.  And the number grows.

Fourteen year old Dakota Ary attends Western Hills High School in Fort Worth Texas. He is an honor student, plays football and has never been in trouble at school; that is until earlier this week.

According to Dakota, the topic of homosexuality has been discussed on a number of occasions in his German language class. When the topic came up in class again this week, he told the student behind him that he was a Christian and that he believed being a homosexual was wrong.

His German teacher overheard his comment and started yelling at him and threatened to write him up with an infraction and then sent him to the school’s office. Upon hearing what had taken place and what Dakota had said, the assistant principal gave Dakota a two day suspension from school.

The story continues: His mom, Holly Pope, was anything but passive.  Her attorney, Matt Krause, is ready to take the case as a violation of “Dakota’s First Amendment right of free speech…all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

The article goes on to cite other similar cases of abused Christian students in the cesspools of “learning” in the regimented government school citadels of perversion.  We admire Mrs. Pope’s courage for taking on the public school bureaucracy, but question her judgment in placing her son there in the first place.

Cleaning up the Temples of Baal?

Case Closed:  Fighting the case all the way to a secular humanist “supreme court” could have only one useful purpose—exposing the unfruitful works of darkness.  Attempting to clean up the public school system is tantamount to baptizing humanism.

It is high time for parents to take back from civil authority their God-given responsibility for educating their children.  Let us dismantle the temples of Baal.  Don’t try to clean them up.

Another well-meaning, but misguided, project has local churches in Portland, Oregon, volunteering for Saturday work projects at government schools.  This lends credibility to the government lie that they don’t have enough money.  Moreover, it has weakened the resolve of many pastors to insist on Christian education for their communities.

 

If we are to have “understanding of the times” as “the children of Issachar,” we must become acclimated to being engaged, but not entangled.  Now let’s go!

MythBusters Case #12 : Which Comes First, the Fiscal Cliff or the End of the World?

Awhile back, it was a race between Harold Camping and Steve Lerner.  Camping had two shots at predicting the end of the world and missed both times.  Lerner was mobilizing for the “collapse of capitalism” and he too utterly failed.  Now, fiscal and Metaphysical notions are at it again.  All this and Christmas too!  It just doesn’t get any better.

 

The American people have a ringside seat to the circus—the clowns and the fire eaters.  Can you guess which is which?  If the end of the world comes first, we won’t have to worry about the fiscal cliff.  If the fiscal cliff comes first, some people will wish for the end of the world.  Now, let’s get serious and look deeper.

 

Myth: The ancient Mayan Calendar predicts the end of the world.

 

This is the crux of the matter.  The calendar stops suddenly. overlaying it with the Christian calendar only takes it to December 21, 2012.  Doesn’t it remind you of the horror movies where the Gypsy looks into the crystal ball and gives out with an awesome shriek because she sees nothing but darkness?  Does silence and darkness indicate the end of everything?  According to Maya scholar David Stuart of the University of Texas “The ancient Maya did not see the world in terms of endings, but rather in terms of constant renewal,”  These people “…worshipped and served the creature [creation] more than the Creator… (Romans 1:25).  Apart from the true God (Yahweh), the heathen tend to see time as cyclical rather than linear.  There are cycles within time, but time itself from the perspective of the Bible has a beginning and an end.  Animists have no vision beyond the course of nature.

 

The Bible refers to cycles, recurrences, and renewals, etc. especially in the Books of Ecclesiastes and Judges.  Those who walk in disobedience apply the cyclical notion to time itself because that is all they can see in their Aristotelian world of nature.  John Bunyan’s muckraker could not see beyond his own little empirical world.

 

 

The Mayans could not even predict their own demise.  They thought in terms of cycles of years, namely occurring roughly every 5,125 years.  According to an article by Rebecca Lopez Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:43 AM under the headline Sides disagree on Catastrophe at Mayan Calendar’s End at http://www.kvue.com/news/183502881.html

“Experts say the Maya expected the calendar to end on the 21st, but then roll-over like an odometer and keep going. So December 22nd starts the new calendar.”

 

Case Closed: In addition to all the above, Dan Vergano, USA TODAY10:13p.m. EST December 13, 2012, under the headline Maya ‘End of World’ is a Mistranslation writes the following:

 

A doomsday prophecy was the last thing likely to be uttered by these ancient dynasty-builders. What’s more, Stuart was part of a team led by archaeologist William Saturno of Boston University that reported in May from the Guatemalan ruins of Xultun (SHUL-toon) the discovery of a scribe’s hut painted with calendar markings.

 

The markings tracked Venus, Mars and dates corresponding to a time after the year 3500, the team reported in the journal Science. That shows the Maya obviously expected the world to continue for many centuries. “So much for the supposed end of the world,” Saturno said.

 

A November study of cave stalactites in Belize added to evidence for how the world actually did end for the ancient Maya kings, with a series of droughts after 660 A.D.

 

Today, more than 6 million Maya live in Central America. The ancient kings vanished but the people remained.

 

And if 2012 doesn’t bring the end of the world, “I do know it is helping tourism” in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, Lucero says.

 

So, go ahead and do your Christmas shopping.  Have a merry and blessed Christmas and a happy New Christian Calendar Year!

MythBusters Case#11: Four More Years of Purgatory – John Tetzel Rides Again!

 

It’s a sad day in Muddville.  The Mighty Mitt struck out.

Following the 2012 election evangelicals are snarling at one another.  “You have the blood of the innocents on your hands!” says one side.  “You supported a heretic!” says the other.

Different people had different strategies to “stop Obama.” Some stayed home.  Others only voted on local candidates and issues.  Still others voted for a third party candidate.  Others voted for snake oil.  What will it take to bring evangelicals together?  The confusion masks a deeper problem, or which Barack Obama is only a symptom.

Myth: Four more years of an Obama presidency will destroy America.

It is not an Obama presidency that is destroying America.  It is the fabric from which Obama is cut.  It has been with us for decades.  It has led us “progressively” down the spiral toward perdition.  Romney is cut from the same cloth.

Both men have been influenced and aided by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), created in 1922.  The chief architect was Edward Mandel House.  The chief end was world peace through domination of world Government.  Its membership consists of Democrats and Republicans, labor and industrial leaders, “liberals” and “conservatives,” and various other so-called antagonists.

In American politics, the phrase, “May the best man win!” is a call for the most ruthless and cunning to take control and implement their agenda—perhaps to be tossed under the bus when he has served their purpose.  At present, it’s a win-win situation for the “progressives.”

MythBusters primary conclusion is this:  Both candidates were selling snake oil to perpetuate the status quo, much the same as John Tetzel sold indulgences to aggrandize the Papal power of the 16th Century.   It was CFR “A Team” versus CFR “B Team.”  The Tetzel’s of the world distract us from the only real solution (see below).

How did “the greatest country in the world” ever get into this predicament?  The Enlightenment battle against the divine right of kings has been successful, but at a terrible cost.  Mankind has traded it for the divine right of the people.  They rejected “Vox Rex, Vox Deo” and embraced “Vox populi, Vox  Deo.”  In both cases, we are led by the whims of man, be it one or many—I the king or we the people.  Neither is the voice of God.  The neglected alternative is  “Vox Scriptura, Vox Deo.”   It is our only hope.

The Enlightenment mindset can be traced much further back — not for decades, not for centuries, but for millennia–back to the Tower of Babel mindset.  There men first presumptuously imagined themselves the arbiters of their own destiny.  This is the soil from which our modern-day Obamas and Romney’s ultimately spring.

Digressing even further back into prehistory, we find ourselves in the loins of Adam, defying Yahweh face to face.  No wonder we’re in trouble!  God’s law was simple in Eden.  Do anything your heart desires except eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  The Creator determines that, not you or me.

That one act of disobedience unraveled all subsequent history.  It gave us expulsion from Paradise, the first murder and many thereafter, defiance and confusion at Babel, Chattel slavery and misery in Egypt, unthankfulness for deliverance, idolatry, blasphemy, Greed, theft, adultery, revolution, tyranny, and people looking for relief in all the wrong places.

Case Closed: Romney was not the panacea to the “Obama problem.”  Had he won, then we would have the “Romney problem.”  Sinful man is the problem, and he has an uncanny way of digging himself in ever deeper when he tries to become the captain of his own soul.  We are admonished by a merciful God to “trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not to thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6).

The way back up is through faith in Jesus Christ and repentance toward God.  We need to repent of our personal sins and our national sins.   In practical terms this means calling on our culture to turn back to the civil laws of Yahweh and away from the whims of men.  We must call on all men everywhere to recognize the crown rights of our risen and reigning Savior.  Let us delight to walk in obedience to Him.  Let build Christ’s kingdom in defiance of carnal empire building and let the world know that none of us are wiser than He whose kingdom rules over all.  This is the vision that will unite evangelicals in America and around the world.

MythBusters Case#10: How Safe Are Our Public Schools From Homosexual Predators?

You might well ask how safe are our public schools, period.  So why are we focusing on homosexuals in this particular case?  Is there is a devious mind-set afoot in high places breaking ground for acceptance of a perverted lifestyle?  Doesn’t the gay community consist of a particular group of people who simply want to be accepted socially and economically as other minority group?  For example, how does same-sex marriage threaten heterosexual marriage?  Why can’t they peacefully coexist?  Furthermore, what has all this got to do with public schools and predators?

Myth: We should  just treat sodomites fairly and let them have social benefits that real married people enjoy?

Several states have already legalized same-sex marriage  A case in point is the Maryland state legislature’s passing of such a bill and Governor Michael O’Malley’s signing it into law.  It is to become effective on January 1, 2013, but the people of Maryland are not buying it.  Enough petition signatures have been gathered to place it on the ballot as Question 6, which many hope to be voted AGAINST.

Michael Anthony Peroutka of The American View tells us why in no uncertain terms under the following headline:

 Maryland’s Question 6 Is About Government-Authorized Child Abuse

 For years now, the sodomite lobby in Annapolis has been desperately seeking to redefine the God-given and God-ordained institution of marriage. Now the people of Maryland will cast their votes to approve or to disapprove of this foolishness.

During this entire time, the sodomite strategy is to appeal to your sense of fairness: “Why can’t we just treat sodomites fairly and let them have social benefits that real married people enjoy?”

Here’s what they are NOT telling you:

The reason why it is so desperately important to homosexuals to redefine marriage in written “un-law” has little to do with “fairness” and much to do with gaining access to straight, normal, decent Maryland children from straight, normal, decent Maryland families.

You see, homosexuals can’t reproduce. So they must recruit.

Please consider carefully: Homosexuals can’t reproduce. So they must recruit. And the best place to recruit is in schools where they can have unfettered access to children—your children—and your grandchildren.

Public schools are where the recruiting goes on and on and on. It is being made part of the curriculum. In pre-kindergarten, your children are being taught that queer is good and it’s good to try it. They are taught to disregard the morality of their parents. And if you vote “yes” on Question 6, this tampering with the morals of your children will become official public policy.

Stripped of all its phony “fairness” language, what is being pushed is nothing short of government-authorized perversion of Maryland children. It’s a license for child sexual abuse.

I have heard from multiple sources that in the homosexual community, you and I are referred to as “breeders”—that is, suppliers of children that they desire to convert to their death-style.

We urge you not to fall for the phony “fairness” routine. Vote “Against” on Question 6. —Michael Anthony Peroutka

Case closed: So, same-sex marriage is only one part of this hydra-headed monster.  Several states have already imposed on their citizens a redefinition of this God-given institution of holy matrimony.

 Now you can see why we cannot be silent in whatever state this deceptive rhetoric poses its active danger.

Please, take the next step to protect your children from all the abuses of the public school system.  Enroll them in a real time on line high and Junior high school—King’s Way Classical Academy.  Click HERE and learn

MythBusters Case #8 :Does America Really Need an “Education President”?

We’ve heard this siren song for decades.  The snake oil of public education has a track record for lining the pockets of union bosses and school administrators who are willing to play ball with them.  The financial backing comes from the estates of middle class families, many barely making it, to support these ne’er-do-well leaches.  See the full story of how public education got started in America  by clicking here They’re not only stealing their money, they’re stealing their children.  And here is where it gets even worse.

The vicious accelerating undertow of academia is bad enough.  Add to that the progressive mindset agenda, which sets the stage of their psyches to receive the notions of both organic and social evolution.  But even this is not rock bottom.  Read on.

Myth: Our public education system needs that extra boost from the federal level.

 

Let’s take a closer look at this monster and decide whether it should be boosted from any level.

Teachers Unions Go to Bat for Sexual Predators

This shocking headline appeared above an article posted by Twana Blevins on July 30, 2012 from the Wall Street Journal by Campbell Brown.  Miss. Brown begins:

By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum. Even Hollywood, famously sympathetic to organized labor, has turned on unions with the documentary “Waiting for ‘Superman'” (2010) and a feature film, “Won’t Back Down,” to be released later this year. But perhaps most damaging to the unions’ credibility is their position on sexual misconduct involving teachers and students in New York schools, which is even causing union members to begin to lose faith.

The article continues by citing several cases in point of outrageous requests from teachers to students (and sometimes getting what they want).  We’re talking about everything from a striptease to ultimate performance!  It’s only fair to ask how widespread these cases are.  Miss Brown tells us:

In the last five years in New York City, 97 tenured teachers or school employees have been charged by the Department of Education with sexual misconduct. Among the charges substantiated by the city’s special commissioner of investigation—that is, found to have sufficient merit that an arbitrator’s full examination was justified—in the 2011-12 school year.

Now let’s look a little closer at the “corrective action” taken by the powers that be.  According to the article, the accused is turned over to an independent investigator (under New York law).  The union and the school district must agree on an arbitrator who is then paid $1400 per day.  For that kind of money we can easily see why the arbitrator would wish to please the union.  “And the unions—believing that they are helping the cause of teachers by being weak on sexual predators—prefer suspensions and fines, and not dismissal, for teachers charged with inappropriate sexual conduct. The effects of this policy are mounting.”

Michael Loeb, a middle school teacher in the Bronx and United Federation of Teachers member, calls this a “horrible situation” and adds, “if you keep these people in the classroom, you are demeaning our profession.”

Maria Elena Rivera says her 14-year-old daughter was stalked by one of her Brooklyn high school teachers (who resigned from his position before the Department of Education decided whether to send the case to arbitration). Today her daughter is in counseling, says Ms. Rivera, and doesn’t trust anyone: “It so messed her up. I can’t protect her.”

“I Can’t protect her”?  Yes you can, devoted mother.  Even if you can’t afford to send your daughter to a fine private school, there is the alternative of home schooling where you have direct charge over your child’s educational environment and content.  “I don’t have the credentials or the ability.”  You have the highest credentials.  You’re the mother!  You have the highest interest. You’re the mother!  Even if you have to work outside the home, there is help available on line.

King’s Way Classical Academy offers live sessions with real time teachers in a full orb Christian curriculum for only $500 per year.

When you hear all the spouting about “an education president,” pray for and encourage the rise of civil leaders at every level who will disengage government at every level from the field of education.  This would be the position of a civil leader in a biblical society.

This is King’s Way’s Mission Statement

“By means of its unique online curriculum and delivery system, KWCA exists to 1) help the homeschool family overcome educational hurdles, 2) help K-8 Christian schools transition to high school, and 3) provide a low-cost alternative for Christian children in public schools.”

********

Our goal is to produce young people armed with a Biblical worldview and trained in the classical curriculum. This is accomplished by the 3-step process of grammar, dialectic (or logic), and rhetoric, known as the Trivium. The goal is a wisdom akin to Solomon, who excelled at applying the Bible to the practical issues of life. No matter their vocation, our students learn to think critically and speak with authority. This is portrayed 1) visually in the King’s Way coat of arms and 2) verbally in the ACCS statement of faith.

We strive to impart not only information but a method of learning to last a lifetime. Graduates are uniquely equipped to assume positions of leadership in their chosen profession. Because instruction is saturated in the practical application of the Word, young people emerge as true “ambassadors for Christ.” They enter the ranks of those who establish the tone and direction of our culture — the Christian nobility. In this way we contribute to Christ’s Great Commission to “disciple the nations one student at a time” (Mt. 28:19,20).

Not Just An Information Site – Not Just A Single Course – Not Just A Bundle of Tutorials

100% web-based Classical Christian Academy – Comprehensive, Interactive & Economical!

This is not optional.  We have added instructor blog links to the requirement for receiving that final small portion of instructor salary that is withheld until grades are recorded at the end of each term. 

Set up occassional links from your course content in Moodle to a blog article.  Ask the students to read the article and respond with a comment or interact with other student comments. Make blog participation part of the “class participation” portion of their grade. The blog network includes:

HistoryMythBusters.WordPress.com

EconomicsMythBusters.WordPress.com

EducationMythBusters.WordPress.com

Family MythBusters.WordPress.com (This may still be named “GodsLambs.com”)

ConstitutionMythBusters.WordPress.com 

ScienceMythBusters.WordPress.com

There are several purposes for this:

1) Use the blogs as a kind of ever-expanding “school library” to enhance student learning experience

2) increase student interaction as part of the dialectic process of the classical method

3) Contribute to blog traffic that will improve organic search engine rankings and:

a) recruit more students.

b) build up advertising revenue. This will enable us to increase revenue to teachers among other things

4) Create a Biblical worldview mindset among students that relates their studies to real life current events

MythBusters Case#5: A Color Blind Society?

The spirit of “peace and luv” from the never never land of the 1960’s have left us tripping in fairyland.  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was suppose to move America toward a colorblind society.  it forced the “race” question off all Job applications, and guess what?  Affirmative action forced it back on.  Nor was the field of education neglected by these schemers and dreamers.

Myth: “Government Intervention in the Schools Sets the Pace for a Colorblind Society”

Someone is out of touch with reality.  Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.   Forced segregation by some state governments gave way to forced integration by the Federal Government.  Either way, there must be “force.”  Force is inevitable whenever there is government action on any level.  Force is the nature of the beast.  Without force, there is no government in any given situation..

If government were not in the education business in the first place, force would not be necessary but, progressive liberalism leaves no room for the third alternative— freedom of association.  That is anathema to educational change agents.

Rayville Elementary, Failing Louisiana School, Will Not Transfer

White Students Out Because Of 1960s Court Ruling

An article under this headline appeared in the Huffington Post on August 2.  The article reads in part::

“Rayville Elementary School in Louisiana received a failing grade this year, based on the state’s School Performance Scores. Under the state’s Public School Choice policy, eligible students in schools flagged as failing and in need of certain levels of improvement can transfer to an “academically acceptable school.”

“But an interesting and controversial issue has arisen [Emphasis added] that may actually challenge equal opportunity intended by the law. In a letter to parents dated July 25, Rayville Elementary school officials inform families of the school’s “F” grade and list two other institutions — with letter grades C- and B — that the parents can choose to transfer their children to. But there’reds [sic] a disclaimer:

“Please note that white students at Rayville Elementary School will not be allowed to transfer [Emphasis added] to the listed schools due to the present provisions issued in the federal Richland Parish School desegregation case.

“The case in question refers to a 1968 court decision that, in an effort to maintain desegregated schools, prohibits white students from leaving schools if their departure could cause the school to be considered “all-Negro.” [Emphasis added]

‘But the court’s effort to cultivate and protect fairness may now be yielding the opposite effect, some say, as a number have called the issue “reverse-racism” and discrimination.

“We agree that it is, but unfortunately we’re bound by federal law and we have to [adhere] to those standards,” Richland Parish School Board President Kevin Epinette told WNYC. He adds that the decision affects between 45 and 55 students at the school.”

Whatever happened to the federally mandated color blind society?  One federal mandate (a 1968 court decision expressed in the letter to parents forbidding white children to transfer) contradicts another federal mandate (Brown v. Board of Education).  We cannot help but wonder what would happen if the parents of all these white students would decide to homeschool!  In the whimsical rules of men, freedom of association is trumped by forced integration.

CASE CLOSED:  Nowhere does biblical law call for a “color blind society.”  The solution is both biblical and simple.  Get civil authority out of the education business where it has no business.  People are what they are racially, and let them love and respect one another according to the biblical admonition,  “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD” (Leviticus 19:18).