Federal statistics show that in 2007 a whopping 83% of home schooling parents wanted their children to receive religious and/or moral lessons in addition to their regular coursework. And we’re not talking about an insignificant number of children either since 1.5 million kids were taught at home that year.
The curricula and policies in effect in our nation’s public schools in recent decades leave little room for Christian teaching and thinking. Evolution theory is routinely being taught as fact while Creationism is discussed only in negative terms. Almost as bad is the way the concept of individuality has been suppressed in favor of group thinking and adherence which instills within our children a propensity to grow up depending on government to solve all of their problems. Prayer and trust in the Almighty need not be considered.
With the federal government’s radical turn to the left since November 2008, I look for the number of home schooled children to rise higher and higher as more parents begin to look for Godly alternatives to public education, especially since many private Christian schools are attempting to become more “mainstream” in order to increase their enrollments.