Reasons Why NOT to Send Your Child to a State School!!!!
Yes, I have risen from the dead...well at least my blog has. Sorry to all my faithful blog readers but I have much to share today so I hope that will make up for lack of blogging.
I am totally incensed with what I have been being taught today at Uni so I just thought I would share my rage with you all.
To all those out there who think that state education is neutral and it doesn't matter if you put your child through the state-curriculum...........THINK AGAIN!
Were you aware that it is now legal to teach sex education from the age of five.....yes that's right - you read correctly - F....I.....V.....E. How ridiculous is that? They hardly have discovered the differences in their bodies let alone know what the word sex means. You can teach them about using contraceptives and safe sex.....I mean if they weren't deadly serious when they were telling me this - I would have laughed out loud at the absolute nonsense of such a suggestion.
During my health class, I boldly decided to voice my opinion, politely in the form of a question. I said "Excuse me, but what if you don't agree it is the teacher's responsibility to teach sex education?"
Her reply? - "Then don't be a teacher!"
I'm sorry - so are you saying that if I happen to have a different opinion to you - that I am not fit to be a teacher? I didn't ask that question out loud - but was sorely tempted.
Did you know that if a student - regardless of age - came to you and told you they were pregnant and wanted an abortion, you are well within your rights to take them off to the clinic to have an abortion without mentioning it to their parents? That is absolutely DISGUSTING! Also, if a child told you they did not want their parents knowing about this pregnancy/abortion they were having then you are legally not allowed to tell the parents. What I say to that? BOLLOCKS - I would lose my job over it, that's how strongly I feel. If a student told me that, I would be straight on the phone to their parents.
Moving along to my Science lesson today. Our lecturer confidently said that Science is not about facts. It is about being creative and it is about making inferences. EXCUSE ME? So if they truly believe it isn't about facts, why do they ram the whole evolution/Big Bang theory down our throats as if to say to believe otherwise would be lunacy?
As you can see, I am mildly riled up. I am sick of having to swallow the rubbish they teach me. I am sick of parents not knowing what exactly goes on in primary state schools. Christian parents need to wake up and realise that it is a dangerous option to send your child to a state school. It is a total battlefield out there and the devil is having a ball. If Christian parents only knew the calibre of some of the teachers training right now,they would be horrified!
Of course, I understand that it is not always possible to send your child to a Christian school - but if it is at all possible don't think twice about it!
I know this has been quite a rant and I don't wish to offend anyone with what I have said, but I just want the truth out there so people can make their own informed decisions.
I am totally incensed with what I have been being taught today at Uni so I just thought I would share my rage with you all.
To all those out there who think that state education is neutral and it doesn't matter if you put your child through the state-curriculum...........THINK AGAIN!
Were you aware that it is now legal to teach sex education from the age of five.....yes that's right - you read correctly - F....I.....V.....E. How ridiculous is that? They hardly have discovered the differences in their bodies let alone know what the word sex means. You can teach them about using contraceptives and safe sex.....I mean if they weren't deadly serious when they were telling me this - I would have laughed out loud at the absolute nonsense of such a suggestion.
During my health class, I boldly decided to voice my opinion, politely in the form of a question. I said "Excuse me, but what if you don't agree it is the teacher's responsibility to teach sex education?"
Her reply? - "Then don't be a teacher!"
I'm sorry - so are you saying that if I happen to have a different opinion to you - that I am not fit to be a teacher? I didn't ask that question out loud - but was sorely tempted.
Did you know that if a student - regardless of age - came to you and told you they were pregnant and wanted an abortion, you are well within your rights to take them off to the clinic to have an abortion without mentioning it to their parents? That is absolutely DISGUSTING! Also, if a child told you they did not want their parents knowing about this pregnancy/abortion they were having then you are legally not allowed to tell the parents. What I say to that? BOLLOCKS - I would lose my job over it, that's how strongly I feel. If a student told me that, I would be straight on the phone to their parents.
Moving along to my Science lesson today. Our lecturer confidently said that Science is not about facts. It is about being creative and it is about making inferences. EXCUSE ME? So if they truly believe it isn't about facts, why do they ram the whole evolution/Big Bang theory down our throats as if to say to believe otherwise would be lunacy?
As you can see, I am mildly riled up. I am sick of having to swallow the rubbish they teach me. I am sick of parents not knowing what exactly goes on in primary state schools. Christian parents need to wake up and realise that it is a dangerous option to send your child to a state school. It is a total battlefield out there and the devil is having a ball. If Christian parents only knew the calibre of some of the teachers training right now,they would be horrified!
Of course, I understand that it is not always possible to send your child to a Christian school - but if it is at all possible don't think twice about it!
I know this has been quite a rant and I don't wish to offend anyone with what I have said, but I just want the truth out there so people can make their own informed decisions.
posted by Lou @ 6:20 PM
8 Comments:
At 12:34 PM,
Allan said…
raaaAAA! to the nth degree.
Combining this with what Scott has just blogged about here, I think it's about time all people, secular and Christian, abandoned the sinking public education system. At least it's current form.
Teachers are being trained to teach people to grow up in the image of our governments opinions. Wake up people. Our government knows diddly about morals or the good for society. They drone on about creating a greater good all the while dragging everyone by their chains towards the gates of hell. Our government is telling our teachers to teach your kids to desire hell.
I'm not worried about offending anyone. If people take offence at truth, then they need to be offended. Offended people who wake up and act are better than content people who sleep through their children's preventable demise.
At 1:55 PM,
Scotty said…
RAAA! Neutral my backside!
At 7:42 PM,
Nato said…
I would have thought that if a teenager had came to you in confidence, that one should respect that confidence?
My reasoning is that people should be allowed to tell people these things in confidence, because it allows them to get advice before they have to deal with the consequences. If they only get the advice when they have to deal with the consequences, then there isn't a safe place for them to get advice, and so they may make an uninformed decision. Better have a commitment to confidentiality than to deprive them of advice.
At 8:12 PM,
Allan said…
I very much dislike that conclusion Nato. It smacks of the teacher being morally superiour than the parensts and that they have the authority and position to determin what the parents need to know.
It is not the teen's confidence teachers should be respecting primarily. The legal gardians, their parents have already entered into contract with teachers, with their trust, in letting them teach and instruct their children. They owe to the trust of the parents before the trust of the student. They are under the confidence of the parents who outweigh the minors authority. Or at least should.
Their parents should be the safe place to get advice. That is their God given roll and responsibility. The teachers are supposed to be under the authority of parents with regards to the children.
Today's mindset is that it is the teachers job to protect the minors from their parents.
Parents should do their jobs and protect these minors from their teachers.
We are where we are now because the parents refuse to fulfill their God given responsibility and would rather sign away their children for the sake of not dealing with them themselves.
At 8:14 PM,
Lou said…
We're talking about primary students up to intermediate age - every parent has a right to know that kind of stuff about their child. I would give my advice but I would also say that they should tell their parents - if they don't then I would.
At 10:24 PM,
Nato said…
Allan, my comment wasn't regarding teachers vs. parents - it was regarding people, of all ages in all situations. I was arguing that we should be prepared to offer people the confidentiality, that will enable them to be effective in making the right choice (it is far better for the kid to fess up than to be told on).
My thinking is as follows:
*The initial situation is that the kid knows, and the parents don't know, and we don't know.
*If we don't offer confidentially, the kid is very unlikely to come to us for assistance, so the parents still won't know, and the kid may make a bad decision, and additionally doesn't have support that we can offer.
*If we do offer confidentiality, then the parents still don't know, but the kid has the support, and will be more equipped to make a good decision, and hopefully inform the parents.
I know it's theoretically best for the parents to know, but given we live in an imperfect world, can't we make provisions like this?
Lastly, I think it's important at the onset of the conversation to clarify what will happen with a conversation. It would be decietful to give a kid the impression that you won't tell the parents, but then turn around and do. So Lou, make sure the hypothetical kid would know that that's what you'll do. If you do that, then I think your position is more ethical (but probably still illegal).
At 1:23 AM,
Lou said…
Of course I would be straight up with the child and tell them that their parents should know about this and that if they didn't talk to them then I would have to. As for illegal....well I don't have a problem with breaking the law if it goes against my beliefs. God has ordained parents to be responsible for their children's needs, both physical and spiritual.
Imagine for instance that the teacher the child chose to talk to was homosexual and the child thought they had 'homosexual tendencies'. Would you as a Christian parent be happier knowing they were talking to someone even if you knew that someone might well direcet them in the wrong way and give them ungodly advice?
No matter what the issue, the parents have the right to know and the responsibility to make decisions and take action. A teacher or any other person cannot supercede the God-give role of parenting and they shouldn't attempt to.
At 1:25 AM,
Lou said…
it should read *direct* and *God-given*
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