Home Education Seen As Timely Solution to Failing Public Schools
by Bill Fancher
November 23, 2005
(AgapePress) - - An effort to double the number of home school students in the United States is off and running, and already the response has been positive. E. Roy Moore, the man behind the launch of the "Homeschooling Family to Family" project, believes the time is right to push home education.
"Christian faith home schooling is America has come of age," Moore says, "and it's time now to get on offense and become more outreach- and evangelistic-oriented in our presentations." He believes faith-based home schooling is an increasingly attractive option, especially since growing homosexual influence in public schools and the schools' anti-parent policies regarding sex education and abortion are raising the anxiety level of many parents today.
Also, the home education advocate notes, failing standards of education, social engineering in the classroom, and drugs and violence on school campuses have led to a surge in home schooling in recent years. Meanwhile, he points out, home schooling has experienced tremendous changes, growing from its early days of being viewed with suspicion and skepticism by government and education officials to now offering large state conventions and curriculum fairs and even exerting influence with state legislatures around the nation.
Home schoolers were once outcasts, Moore asserts, "but the tide has turned, and now Christians who are public schooling their children are on defense." Now it is those parents with kids in government schools, he says, who must "give an explanation of why their doing such a terrible thing."
Homeschooling Family to Family is urging "seasoned" Christian home educators to extend the hand of fellowship as mentors, helping other families set aside personal fears to explore the home schooling option. The project encourages experienced Christian home schoolers to assist at least one novice family per year by reaching out to relatives and friends and assisting them as they take their first steps into home schooling -- and also, as opportunities arise, sharing the gospel with these fledgling home educators as well.
Christian home education, Moore asserts, provides an answer for troubled moms and dads who are looking for a faith- and family values-affirming alternative to increasingly corrupt and failing public schools. The head of the Homeschooling Family to Family project says he hopes to see two million more children being home schooled over the next five to seven years as this increasingly popular educational option proves itself to be "one of the brightest spots for revival and renewal of our families and our churches in our nation."
Bill Fancher, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
