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Will be bring home my wife and step-daughter this summer from Indonesia. I REALLY do not want to send our daughter to public school. If anyone has information on where we can get more information on either home schooling or a good Christian school in the Twin Cities area in Minnesota, please let me know.
Statisticly 80% of children who go to public school will abandon the faith of there parents. If we know what happens to those who cause little ones to stumble, for those who are not genuinely financially prohibited. In our particular culture homeschool is a must. We live modestly but have the joy homeschooling and it is nothing but blessings.
Homeschooling is NOT the answer, church/parish school is!
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." (Genesis 50:20)
I was a public school teacher when the government shut down schools in my state. Now I teach in a home-school hybrid model (three days a week) at a private Christian school, delivering classical education to my small group of students.
Of course, the pay and benefits are significantly reduced; but I am INFINITELY more satisfied in my work, and believe this model is a terrific alternative. Glory to Jesus Christ!
I have always planned on homeschooling just based on my own experience with public school.
Heroic words and encouragement !
Thank you so much, Father 🙌
Unfortunately, for a lot of kids the only meal they get is the lunch at school and sometimes dinner if they can get to the boys and girls club.
The moment the pandemic started, we pulled our child out of kindergarten and began to homeschool!
And how are they supposed relate to the greater none white society which we are occupying?
This is what my self and many other derasinated colonizers are left trying to solve..
why can't we have a Pope to deal with this?
So encouraging, thank you.
Sound quality went down around 6 minutes.
The volume got turned down on you..
I honestly don’t know what to think about this message. Why does it all seem like pablum and drivel? It certainly sounds like something that misses the main point of the pandemic. Where was religious and spiritual education during the pandemic? Did it not all go out the door with everything else? Am I the only one trying hard to get back a faith lost in the face of forbidden gatherings? Ones forbidden by bishops and hierarchs? I would think the greatest “gift” was when our church leaders bowed the knee to the secular gods and said sure we can shut down our churches and our sacramental and educational life. We can shut it all down and then we played the role of police agents for all these godless government directives!!! Until we in the church reconcile the forbidding of the sacramental life of the church, the wholesale shutdown of the church’s life, which includes the religious and spiritual education of not just our children but indeed the whole world with what it means to worship a crucified God, I would think the last thing we should be talking about is the gift of homeschooling brought to us by the pandemic. I think we would do better to don sackcloth and ashes and pray to God for mercy having betrayed Him so grievously and teach our children what evil we allowed to come upon our sacred life. Repentance not homeschooling is what we in the church need. And when the leaders of our churches lead through the example of repentance, they will get an education on what matters most. God help us!!!
Father, could you please reupload this video with better sound quality? Thank you
People need to chill about the pandemic. It was what it was. From a christian perspective it was important not to be controlled by fear but by the love of God for others. That sometimes means being willing to pick up your own cross. During the pandemic that could have meant making many different sacrifices. The scientific community largely agreed that staying apart greatly decreased the spread of a virus. Our governments listened to this and made their various responses to it. It doesn’t matter how we responded to all this as long as what we did came from a place of living in God’s love. Our actions should have reflected this love to those around us regardless of what it cost us.
Also to stay on topic…I’m a full time homeschooling dad of three children, aged 2, 4 and 7. Its hard work, requires much patience and energy but it is a beautiful and worthwhile way to use the life I have been blessed with. I love the relationships I have with my children. I love helping and watching them each day become the people they are. Family is such a wonderful creation.
Please, father, proceed your wonderful reflections. We need them a lot. Do not stop.
We're in our 8th year of homeschooling. My prayer for new homeschoolers is that they remain independent of the government, and the options that may be out there as a "benefit" from them. There aren't many, but seasoned homeschoolers want to continue to remain free from government regulations on how we homeschool our children.
Should high school aged teens be homeschooled too? What about poorer families who can't afford to live by one income or to send their kids to a classical school? Also, I want to become a teacher at a public alternative school but if public education is wrong then I don't want to be a part of that so should I not?
I so much wish homeschooling was legal where we live (Greece), but it is not…and the government has corrupted the public educational system so badly. You are truly blessed to be able to teach your own children!
I may be the one addressed in the comment “people need to chill about the pandemic. It was what it was.” The idea of “the gift of the pandemic” rings in my ear like the phrase the gift of Auschwitz would ring in the ears of Jews. It rings like the phrase, the gift of 911. The pandemic didn’t bring gifts, it brought destruction and the worst kind of destruction it brought was the breakdown of trust.
And to make sure I am staying on topic, the rise of homeschooling since the pandemic is the direct result of parents who lost faith in their government to do the right thing for their children. The “gift” of the pandemic was the breakdown of trust in our government. I personally find that same breakdown in trust occurring within the laity concerning the leadership of our churches. I find friends abandoning those churches that enforced the lockdowns and are searching for those churches that remained open, where the sacramental life of the church continued, where religious education continued. It is this breakdown in trust in the government and yes in our churches, which is manifest in the rise of homeschooling that needs, that must be addressed. I am convinced that the only way to address that breakdown of trust is through repentance. And maybe when our children see our leaders putting first things first then maybe they will learn the greatest lesson.