Home what?!?

We are officially signed up at Regent Christian Online Academy. "isn't that where the kids used to go to school that costs you $500/month" you ask? Not quite. This is the same school, but notice the "online" part of the title. It means that we are doing school at home this year.

So far we are hearing lots of "why" type questions about our decision. People don't always get the answer of it being how God has planned for us to teach our families, probably because all of these people went to public school and are of the mindset that we can just teach our children about God at home, or at Sunday school. I don't know about everyone else that has this idea, but I know that in the last 3 years that the kids have been in the school system there is nowhere near the amount of time or effort spent teaching at home as there is time and effort spent at school.

Not such a big deal you say, what's wrong with school? Sure they learn some things at school, positive things that they need to know. There are so many negative things that they will learn though, that it doesn't make it worth it. Like Evolution as the only theory that is true. It is continually getting more dis-proven, but we teach it in school and do not allow for any other theories to be discussed.

There is the mandated curriculum that teaches homosexuality as perfectly normal and acceptable. Let me state right now that we do not believe, nor will we teach, that anyone in our family should hate or disrespect anyone who makes the life choice to be homosexual. With that being said, although our kids will know that some people make that life choice, they will also know that it goes against God's plan for us and is sin. Marriage is between a man and a woman, and sex doesn't come before marriage.

Moving on, we see that if wish to have influence on our children and what they learn as they grow, we will need to role model it and teach it to them. With our culture being inundated with Hollywood's idea of "pretty" and "cool", it is getting harder and harder to explain to kids why modesty is important. Even the idea of modesty that the media gives us is so far off base. Anyone seen the "bratz" dolls? How old are these figures supposed to be? tweens maybe? Have you seen how they dress these dolls? These are one of many mainstream icons that Hollywood and the media have given us that are hurting our children, and to send our kids to school to be subjected to other kids that are taken up in the culture is not fair to them. Hey kids, spend 8 hours with other kids your age, but you are not allow to dress like them or watch the same garbage on TV. But go and make friends, cause we need to "socialize" you.

No thank you. We are going to socialize our kids with other like minded people that share our world view. This way we can realistically expect them to hold our world view as they grow. And then, when they are more aptly trained and mature, they will be able to be the city on the hill that all will see and search for.