 Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Unfiltered. Pastor David, welcome. How you doing John? Good. You know, Pastor the school year is just to begin and a lot of children are going back to school and some are faced with the decision or the choice of public school or homeschool and you look at our public schools today and I want to give a shout out to all the teachers that are there that are Christians that are in the front lines battling and trying to provide a good education for the children. So I want to thank them for that. Yet we see what the public schools are pushing today. Gender dysphoria, pronoun choices, more rights are given to the children and parental rights are taken away. The curriculum that's being taught that's including homosexuality, everything that we stand against as Christians, these public schools are providing, then you have the option of homeschool, which like here at our church we have a Christian homeschool program and where the curriculum is a biblical worldview. So you see these options and you're a parent yourself, I'm a parent. What are some of the things that you would think about in choosing either a public school or homeschool? I think a lot has, there's a lot that goes into that decision when my son David was a little boy about to go into elementary school. We're talking on many years ago now. The homeschool movement was not really established. It was just beginning to some degree at that time. I mean at that time parents were being cited for not attending, having the children attend school. It was very difficult and it created a lot of problems. So we as concerned parents also taken into consideration the emotional maturity of my son at the age that he would have entered into kindergarten made the choice to keep him back at least that one year and to make the effort to begin his education under Marie, my wife who was, she's got her bachelor's degree and we felt that she could do a good job at least for acclimating him towards the idea of academic rigors and things of that nature and so on the one hand I think it's always going to be really up to the parents. I do believe that parents should have the right to make determination concerning the things that their children are about to be influenced by and the kinds of things that they're going to be taught. So we were aware even at that time of the difficulties that our kids would find by going to secular school. We know and knew then as we see now it's even more clear now that the secular ideology is rapidly inculcating the way that the young think and parents unfortunately for whatever reason have a tendency of believing what is spoken of as being the educated thoughtfulness of those who are determining what kinds of lessons and what kinds of philosophy and worldview should be given to the children but we know that if you take a child you can steal an entire nation by stealing a generation of children and we've known that for a long time. I used to warn our church and speak to our church about that. You need to be giving your kids devotions. You need to be spending time with them because if you don't teach them who Jesus is the world is going to teach them who he is not and that is what has taken place and so what we're seeing right now I think is just the not so much an acceleration John. I think it's just that the seeds that have been planted have grown and are producing fruit and many people are very surprised at it because they they think that they were taken unaware and have failed to realize that the society that they may have grown up in is not the society their children is growing up in. All you need to do is look at the different things that the kids watch whether it's even cartoons whether it's the music that they're they're listening to or the movies that are being put out the subtle subtle things that you have in in even harmless and maybe even a bit odd movies you know like Barbie and this and that you know there are all mess there are messages in that Disney has has produced now so many different narratives of the of the old stories and have changed it to try and modernize it so this is what they're dealing with so getting back to the question should should a child go to secular school it depends on the school it depends on on the school district it depends on the parents and and what their determination in terms of involvement may be with so many to you know to so many families that are a single parent it's very difficult for for we'll say the mom who's normally the one who's raising the child to be able to not only work to provide but also to be able to take the hours that is required for that child to be taught and so as a result you know we've seen the fragmentation and all and it becomes a very difficult decision to make how can a single working mother actually home school so she has to make the best choice she can I think I thank God for school districts like the one we have here that you know unified with Sonya Shaw and others who are willing to stand up and say you're not going to brainwash our children you're not going to own their minds you're not going to give them corrupt ideologies ideologies we're going to fight against this gen this gender dysphoria this this this current that is taken away the rights of the parents we're going to fight against it and so I commend Sonya Shaw and the others who have stood up in opposition but it's strong and it doesn't stop and that's where I think people fail to realize this isn't a one round fight this is this is a continual fight and so when it comes down to it many parents in our church has made have made a determination that they would take it upon themselves to make sure that their children are given a proper focused education so that they learn how to read and to write and do mathematics and social studies and things like that without the corrupt influence of those who who want to say a boy can be a girl and a girl can be a boy they need the traditional upbringing to know what traditional roles are so that they can have families that actually last and so it's a hard decision we here have made the decision to encourage people to if they desire to to participate in homeschooling but should they decide not to which the majority decide not to may they go to schools that are either private institutions or you know may the parents be heavily involved in the in their curricula of their children so that they can help those children to not be brainwashed with the nonsense of this world amen and if people who are watching may have questions about homeschool we do offer a homeschool here at our church you can call the church office and get more information on that but yeah it's a tough choice especially in a single parent family and and they're trying their best but yet we see what's out there in the in the corruption in so well but thank you pastor David we appreciate that thank you guys for tuning in do want to invite you to our Sunday morning services at 830 and 1045 as pastor you'll be taking us through axed chapter nine chapter oh that was a good study last week well yeah that's because you just constantly say that you want to keep your job i'm gonna get fired you guys so invite your friends and family to come out and join us and we'd love to see you again thank you for tuning in and god bless you