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Soon that final literature test will have been taken, wrapping up another grade level. You pack up the last work and send it off for grading. Then you flop down on the couch just to breathe for a moment. Another year of homeschooling completed. Perhaps now is a good time to contemplate the faithfulness of God. No doubt your school year presented a number of problems and challenges – not all of them academic. Some may have put your entire homeschooling enterprise in jeopardy. Have you not come through them stronger as a result of God’s abiding presence? Do you not consider yourself even better prepared to begin again in the fall? We at Christian Liberty praise God that He has brought you safely through. We are confident that He will remain at your side, closer than a brother. On Monday last week, a couple showed up on Christian Liberty’s doorstep and asked to talk to us about homeschooling. Two CLASS administrators spoke with them at some length. The family had experienced some problems with the public school, and they were looking into home education. They explained that they had taken their child out of the school for a week because of the swine flu. I tell you all of that to give you a backdrop for what the couple was told by someone at the public school. They were told that between 8:30 AM and 3:30 PM, the public school “owned” their child. You read that right. “Owned.” That should send chills down your spine. It did ours. The idea that public education owns your child, or should own them if they don’t yet, can no longer be considered a fringe or minority opinion. Despite the fact that homeschooling is now legal in all fifty states, it does not mean that we are safe. As is frequently documented by the Home School Legal Defense Association, overreaching public school officials regularly attempt to exercise what they consider their exclusive right regarding the education of your child. Many literally believe it is their mandate to re-educate your child, removing any vestige of Christian values, or traditional civic values for that matter, that you may have imparted. Do not be shocked. This is the inevitable result in any institution that denies the Lordship of Christ. They must ultimately make themselves out to be God, and thus they arrogate to themselves the right to create us. There are many reasons to educate your child at home. Some of them are scary. This is the last issue of The Christian Educator for the 2008-2009 school year. We will resume publication again in September. Have a wonderful, restful summer, and May God bless you. Mark L. Beuligmann, M.S. Ed. Administrative Director Christian Liberty Academy School System |
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