Yay and Hooray!

Blogless Tomslick pointed me to this news story in the comments. The story starts out with standard fear and scare tactics:

Kansas schools now face an almost unthinkable possibility: They might not reopen in the fall because of a political and legal battle over education funding.

Instead of being depressed or scared, I'm excited! That would be incredibly awesome! Can you image a court ordering the government-run monopolistic schools to stay closed because of funding arguments? That would be so good, there's no way it would happen. It would be a huge blow to the monopoly and a massive step towards freedom! Seriously!

Think about it -- what would happen? The parents would get together, hopefully without any government interference. The teachers, now unemployed, should join with them. They could simply agree to hold classes at different people's houses on different days. The teachers could trade their skills at teaching for money that the parents would earn working. Some parents might even stop working to teach their own children and those of others.

People would be free to teach and learn whatever things they wanted. Some children might even join their parents at their places of work and learn trades and skills. Some might be apprenticed to other workers. The poor would not suffer, because the churches and other groups would join together to ensure their children were schooled as well.

Wow.

This would be a wonderful thing.

Which means there's no way the self-centered, non-people-driven, non-self-government government would let it happen. Darn.

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From World Net Daily, via Vox Day:

Whereas, The public school system does not offer a Christian education, but officially claims to be "neutral" with regard to Christ, a position that Christ Himself said was impossible (Luke 11:23), and

Whereas, The public schools are by law humanistic and secular in their instruction, and as a result the attending children receive an education without positive reference to the Triune God, and

...

Therefore, be it resolved that the 33rd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America encourages all her officers and members to remove their children from the public schools and see to it that they receive a thoroughly Christian education, for the glory of God and the good of Christ's church.

That's a proposed resolution of the Presbyterian Church in America, much like the one attempted at the Southern Baptist Convention. It's pretty unlikely that this will pass, but it certainly should. As Vox mentions, it's certainly a good sign that Christians are starting to wake up.

If you're Christian, read that first paragraph again. The school claims to be neutral, which is impossible.

4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
-- Ephesians 6:4

You can't have it both ways. Luke 11:23 says "He that is not with me is against me."

So no, I cannot see any way a Bible-believing Christian can associate, attend, or support public schools for their children.

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