Why We Must Homeschool: This is our family letter to the state explaining why they will not be raising our children.
This letter is to notify the school board that we intend to homeschool our children; under the religious exemption statue 22.1-254 (B)(1). God has revealed through the Bible that he is seeking godly offspring (Malachi 2:15). It is our sincere desire to please God by training our children obediently and consistently according to God’s Word (Proverbs22:6).
God requires holiness from his people and non conformity to the pattern of this world (1 Peter 1:16 and Romans 12:2). Although most of the country educates their children publicly, we must not conform to this method of instruction for our children. We are biblically convinced that it will not produce a harvest of righteousness in them, but would instead lead them into temptation that they are spiritually unprepared to handle. God instructs parents:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:5-9
This biblical mandate directs parents to teach their children vigorously, sowing his Word into their conscience. This persistent training cannot take place when our children are out of the home most of their waking hours. God has intended for His children to be saturated in His Word, not sprinkled with it. Furthermore, it is our responsibility to make sure God’s commands are obeyed in their lives. If they are not under our tutelage we will always be uncertain and highly ineffective in our religious training. This diligent training requires consistence, and home education is an indispensable ally in our God given mission. We must train their heart and soul by the Word to mediate on the Scriptures day and night, and teach them to be careful to obey everything written in it. (Joshua 1:8) Our religious instruction could not be confined to the night and weekend schedule the public school system would permit. This biblical training process is best accomplished by consistent biblical example and is commanded by our Lord.
God has warned against evil associations, and it is our responsibility to guard our children against these ungodly influences until they are spiritually able to defend themselves. “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked” (Psalm 1:1). We must forbid our children from walking in the counsel of ungodly teachers and curriculum until they are old enough to “refuse the evil and choose the good” (Isaiah 7:16). “He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm” (Proverbs 13:20). God has given us the charge to use his Word to teach, rebuke, correct, and train our children in righteousness so that they will be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Their peers cannot do that, and their teachers don’t have the authority to. Our children must be engrossed in true wisdom and not the wisdom of this world, “for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (I Corinthians 3:19). God reminds us in 1 Corinthians 15:33 “Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character”. It is impractical for us to submerge our children in the presence of bad company, and still expect them to yield a harvest of good character.
God has forbidden His children to learn the ways of this world. Jeremiah 10:2 reminds us, “Do not learn the way of the nations”. There is no way that our children can attend public school and avoid learning the anti-God humanist teaching that the curriculum is built upon. Humanism clearly rejects God and holy living, yet it is shamelessly being proselytized in the public school system. “During the last several decades, Humanists have been very successful in propagating their beliefs. Their primary approach is to target the youth through the public school system.”
In the document the Humanist Manifesto I, we find evidence that these ungodly principles are being taught in the public schools. In the Humanist Manifesto I , Principle #1 it states, “Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created”. This principle is being taught in public schools as the Big Bang Theory. It denies that there is a Creator, thus denying our Sovereign God “The fool says in his heart there is no god”. (Psalm 14:1). It is blatant sin to teach this.
Humanist Manifesto I, Principle #2 “Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process”. This principle is being taught in public schools as Darwinism or evolution. This principle denies the fact that God created man (Genesis 1:27).
Humanist Manifesto I, Principle #9 begins saying, “In the place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer”. There is no replacing worship and prayer it is commanded by God and vitality to the disciple. Public schools discourage prayer and worship in the classroom, but our religion and education are inseparable, they are intertwined as a way of life. God warns his followers in Colossians 2:8 to “beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ”.
Humanism is a hollow and deceptive philosophy that is in direct opposition to the scriptures and it has successfully infiltrated the public schools. Charles Francis Potter, one of the 34 signers of the Humanist Manifesto, wrote Humanism: A New Religion. In his book he states “Education is the most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday Schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?” These examples only represent a fraction of the ungodly teaching that God admonishes us as Christians to renounce. We cannot subject our children to false philosophies and doctrines that contradict God’s Word. Our children do not have the spiritual maturity, knowledge, or wisdom it takes to carry such a burden. As children, they “do not yet know enough to refuse the evil and choose the good” (Isaiah 7:16). Neither are they equipped with the weapons of spiritual warfare. Before our children are thrown into an adverse world they must first be trained and armed for spiritual battle, and that involves more than a few morsels of scripture and a couple of hours of church.
Finally God says, “…and everything that does not come from faith is sin” (Romans 14:23). Due to all the reasons listed above, our family cannot in good faith, send our children to public school without it being sin.
Sincerely,
G and K.
This letter is to notify the school board that we intend to homeschool our children; under the religious exemption statue 22.1-254 (B)(1). God has revealed through the Bible that he is seeking godly offspring (Malachi 2:15). It is our sincere desire to please God by training our children obediently and consistently according to God’s Word (Proverbs22:6).
God requires holiness from his people and non conformity to the pattern of this world (1 Peter 1:16 and Romans 12:2). Although most of the country educates their children publicly, we must not conform to this method of instruction for our children. We are biblically convinced that it will not produce a harvest of righteousness in them, but would instead lead them into temptation that they are spiritually unprepared to handle. God instructs parents:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:5-9
This biblical mandate directs parents to teach their children vigorously, sowing his Word into their conscience. This persistent training cannot take place when our children are out of the home most of their waking hours. God has intended for His children to be saturated in His Word, not sprinkled with it. Furthermore, it is our responsibility to make sure God’s commands are obeyed in their lives. If they are not under our tutelage we will always be uncertain and highly ineffective in our religious training. This diligent training requires consistence, and home education is an indispensable ally in our God given mission. We must train their heart and soul by the Word to mediate on the Scriptures day and night, and teach them to be careful to obey everything written in it. (Joshua 1:8) Our religious instruction could not be confined to the night and weekend schedule the public school system would permit. This biblical training process is best accomplished by consistent biblical example and is commanded by our Lord.
God has warned against evil associations, and it is our responsibility to guard our children against these ungodly influences until they are spiritually able to defend themselves. “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked” (Psalm 1:1). We must forbid our children from walking in the counsel of ungodly teachers and curriculum until they are old enough to “refuse the evil and choose the good” (Isaiah 7:16). “He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm” (Proverbs 13:20). God has given us the charge to use his Word to teach, rebuke, correct, and train our children in righteousness so that they will be thoroughly equipped for every good work. Their peers cannot do that, and their teachers don’t have the authority to. Our children must be engrossed in true wisdom and not the wisdom of this world, “for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (I Corinthians 3:19). God reminds us in 1 Corinthians 15:33 “Do not be misled: Bad company corrupts good character”. It is impractical for us to submerge our children in the presence of bad company, and still expect them to yield a harvest of good character.
God has forbidden His children to learn the ways of this world. Jeremiah 10:2 reminds us, “Do not learn the way of the nations”. There is no way that our children can attend public school and avoid learning the anti-God humanist teaching that the curriculum is built upon. Humanism clearly rejects God and holy living, yet it is shamelessly being proselytized in the public school system. “During the last several decades, Humanists have been very successful in propagating their beliefs. Their primary approach is to target the youth through the public school system.”
In the document the Humanist Manifesto I, we find evidence that these ungodly principles are being taught in the public schools. In the Humanist Manifesto I , Principle #1 it states, “Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created”. This principle is being taught in public schools as the Big Bang Theory. It denies that there is a Creator, thus denying our Sovereign God “The fool says in his heart there is no god”. (Psalm 14:1). It is blatant sin to teach this.
Humanist Manifesto I, Principle #2 “Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process”. This principle is being taught in public schools as Darwinism or evolution. This principle denies the fact that God created man (Genesis 1:27).
Humanist Manifesto I, Principle #9 begins saying, “In the place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer”. There is no replacing worship and prayer it is commanded by God and vitality to the disciple. Public schools discourage prayer and worship in the classroom, but our religion and education are inseparable, they are intertwined as a way of life. God warns his followers in Colossians 2:8 to “beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ”.
Humanism is a hollow and deceptive philosophy that is in direct opposition to the scriptures and it has successfully infiltrated the public schools. Charles Francis Potter, one of the 34 signers of the Humanist Manifesto, wrote Humanism: A New Religion. In his book he states “Education is the most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday Schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?” These examples only represent a fraction of the ungodly teaching that God admonishes us as Christians to renounce. We cannot subject our children to false philosophies and doctrines that contradict God’s Word. Our children do not have the spiritual maturity, knowledge, or wisdom it takes to carry such a burden. As children, they “do not yet know enough to refuse the evil and choose the good” (Isaiah 7:16). Neither are they equipped with the weapons of spiritual warfare. Before our children are thrown into an adverse world they must first be trained and armed for spiritual battle, and that involves more than a few morsels of scripture and a couple of hours of church.
Finally God says, “…and everything that does not come from faith is sin” (Romans 14:23). Due to all the reasons listed above, our family cannot in good faith, send our children to public school without it being sin.
Sincerely,
G and K.
