On a related note, it might also interest you to know that
some school questionnaires, which are never brought home in
order to acquire parental consent, but which are only filled
out by the student in the classroom, contain trick questions,
which are purposely designed to cause our children to unknow-
ingly reveal personal information about their families, which
we parents may be more hesitant to reveal. Perhaps there will
be ten innocent-looking questions on that survey, but one of
them will be designed to extract a specific piece of informa-
tion from the unknowing child, who freely provides it without
giving it further thought. Allow me to give you an example.
In one survey my daughter was asked to fill out during this
past school year, (which I of course never saw), the question
was asked: Where do you feel the safest? The three multiple
choice answers were a) at school, b) while walking to school,
or c) at home. My daughter was wise enough to answer in the
order c, a, b.

Why in the world did the school ask such a prying question?
What does it have to do with my daughter's academic develop-
ment? Yes, we can offer some valid reasons for asking this
kind of question, such as the school staff's desire to know
exactly how safe the children feel while they are at school,
but stop and consider for a moment what might happen if a
student were to place "at school" before "at home". Maybe he
didn't quite understand the question; or maybe he was just
in a hurry, so he just filled out a quick answer not even
realizing how serious the question was. Now do you see my
point? If any child does not answer "c" first, the school
officials, and perhaps the Child Welfare Services as well,
are going to raise their eyebrow and think to themselves:

"Uh-oh; something is wrong at home. We need to investigate
this. Maybe the child is in danger. Maybe the child is being
abused. Maybe mommy or daddy is an unfit parent. Maybe we
need to take some legal action here."

And the next thing you know, we, their Christian parents,
are being harassed unnecessarily by the State, because they
are bored with their job, or with their life, and they need
to go out and play the hero. In short, they are using our
very own children to spy on us, and to invade, and in fact
to infringe upon, our right to privacy.

Allow me to also add that I suspect that some questions on
these school questionnaires are being used to create a
psychological profile of our children, in order to measure
and determine how well they are accepting and adapting to
the multi-culturalist, globalist thinking propaganda which
is being thrown at them. Going by my own experiences with
the American Public School System, it seems to me that part
of their strategy is to demote our Christian faith in the
eyes of our children, so that they begin to view it as just
one among so many different religions, which is no better
than the others. It is an attempt to create an ecumenical
atmosphere where all religions are treated as equals, and
the role of Jesus Christ is reduced from being the Savior
of the world, to simply being just another prophet, holy
man and teacher, no different than Confucius, Buddha or
Mohammad. New Age advocates do the very same thing.

Allow me to give you another clear example which also exposes
the clash which exists between our authority as parents, and
that of the school staff. On one particular occasion about
eight years ago, I was helping my daughter with her homework.
As I recall, she was doing some math problems which required
that she convert some fractions, so that they had a common
denominator for the purpose of adding them together. While it
has been over four decades since I was in elementary school,
I was still able to remember the steps required to help her
complete her assignment. Well, to my surprise, the very next
afternoon, my daughter arrived home from school and informed
me that her teacher had told the class that they should not
ask their parents for help with their math homework, because
we, the parents, would become frustrated and confused.

Why did the teacher give her students such odd instructions?
According to what my daughter told me, this teacher does not
always teach by the book. Sometimes she invents her own ways
of doing things, such as math, which in her view, are easier
and less confusing for the children to understand. Now on the
surface, this teacher's motivation seems innocuous; just like
the Vice Principal who said "We are your parents; we are your
parents when you are not at home"; but if we look deeper, we
can detect something more troubling.

Consider the following. If some of these teachers begin to
employ non-standard methods for teaching our children in the
classroom, if they decide to not teach by the book, that can
place those of us who have learned by the regular standard,
at a disadvantage. In fact, whether it is intentional or not,
this method of teaching can foster dependence on the school
teachers, instead of on the parents. In short, it gradually
shifts authority away from the parents, and it also gradually
shifts the child's dependence upon their biological parents,
towards dependence upon the self-proclaimed "school parents";
and I suspect that this is exactly what some of them want to
happen. They want our children to become more subservient to,
more obedient to, more loyal to, and more dependent upon the
State, than to their own flesh and blood parents. Alarming,
isn't it?

It seems to me that this kind of mentality is the very same
motivation that fuels the "International Rights of the Child"
agenda, which is sponsored by the United Nations, which, as
you may already know, is a clear advocate of, and vehicle for
globalism and multi-culturalism. Everything is geared towards
the creation of a so-called "Global Neighborhood". Well, such
a "neighborhood" is certainly going to require some kind of a
strong, charismatic leader who will be capable of keeping all
of the squabbling neighbors/nations together, united by one
common political view, one common approach to solving all of
the world's economic problems, one common spirituality, etc.
It doesn't take too much effort to figure out who this might
be. Our own children will bear this New World Government upon
their very shoulders, and willingly so, after they have been
properly indoctrinated, beginning at the grade school level.

At this point, I think that it is important to mention that
I am not trying to demonize all teachers. I am not saying
that all teachers are evil, or that they all have some kind
of a hidden agenda. I know that some teachers, in fact, many
educators, are very serious, and very sincere, regarding the
career which they have chosen in life. They have invested a
lot of personal time, money, energy, study and hard work in
order to excel in their chosen profession, and to be a help
to children. They love children, and they are trying to help
give them a better life by providing them with an education,
so that they will be better prepared to face the future, as
well as adulthood, and the responsibilities that come with
it.

Yet, at the same time, as a Christian parent, I realize that
their world perspective, and their priorities and goals in
life, not only for themselves, but for our children as well,
are not the same as mine. In fact, to be quite blunt, I know
that we Christian parents are at odds with public educators,
because we are trying to build our children's lives upon two
very different foundations. One is based upon the spirit of
the world which promotes self-confidence, competition, being
proud of one's accomplishments, and becoming a useful pawn
in the global economic system, while the other is based upon
the Spirit of God which teaches us to walk humbly before our
Maker, to give Him glory, credit and thanks for everything,
and to choose a life of meaningful service to Him, as well
as to others. So what these well-meaning teachers think is
best for our children, is not necessarily the same as what
we Christian parents know is best for them. How can some of
these teachers and school staff claim to know what is best
for our children, when they do not even have the Spirit of
God to guide them in their decision-making? They have made
themselves friends of the world, and they teach the ways of
the world, and not the ways of God. Consider these verses:

"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the
friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever
therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of
God."
James 4:4, KJV

"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out
of the world, therefore the world hateth you."
John 15:19, KJV

"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit
of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he
know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
1 Corinthians 2:14, KJV

So then; because many of these educators are a part of the
worldly system, and are in tune to the spirit of the world,
and not in tune to the Spirit of God, they cannot possibly
begin to know, and much less understand, what is truly best
for our Christian children. We are simply on two different
wavelengths so-to-speak.

To reiterate my main point, there is a hidden agenda at work
within the public school system; the goals of which are to
cultivate our children's minds and hearts in the ways of the
world, to win their trust, obedience and loyalty, and if
necessary, to even turn them against us, so that they become
de facto wards of the State. Allow me to remind you again
that the public school system does not cultivate or nurture
faith in God; it does the exact opposite, as we all know. It
teaches children to place their trust in modern science and
man's achievements. It teaches children that the answers are
to be found within themselves. It cultivates the spirit of
national pride and patriotism. It teaches multi-culturalism,
tolerance towards non-Christian faiths, and globalism. It is
a very secular, humanistic, ungodly, liberal environment.


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