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Teach Your Children

AliveInHim Wrote: Dec 28, 2009 6:13 PM
'Homeschooled children do not get the experience of learning to get along with, respect, not be afraid of, and even be friends with, children different from themselves and their own family, friends, and neighbors.'

Really? I didn't homeschool my kids, but I've known children who were-and in fact, the home-school athletic team from Montrose has a history of kicking the other Christian schools' butts. When all the Christian schools in our area participate in the annual track meet, the parents there do tend to be more polite, but there are always those who think the rules are for other people. In no case were their kids different from any other on the block, so to speak. They ran, they were sometimes heedless of others, they...

Rampant discussion swirls through our society as to whether or not there has been a degradation of cultural values. The question of whether civility has been sacrificed to the altars of personal convenience and “non-judgmentalism” concerns many Americans who are entrusted to pass this value to future generations. If you want to see the struggle in its full majesty, enter one of our modern theatres of community interaction – the family restaurant.

Since the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s, the family restaurant has become a center of shared communality. There may be other places, but nothing allows multiple...

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