Homeschool Watch
Public School System:
Lover
or Hater
of God?
By Pat Marcum
TOS receives many compliments and comments from
its readers, and occasionally readers voice
concerns about our
editorials. We appreciate
all comments that we receive. When
someone expresses a concern that may
involve some type of controversy, we
believe it is especially important to address
the issue.
Such is the case with a
letter received recently
from a thoughtful parent
whose children attend
public school, a parent who
is under the impression that public
schools still maintain a predominantly
Christian environment and are places
where children can receive a wholesome
education. The reader, therefore, was
offended by a TOS editorial that contained
the following statement: “Parents must
take a look at the risks of sending their
children off for eight hours a day—to a
godless system: one that not only lacks the
Lord Jesus Christ, but hates the Lord Jesus
Christ. God is not welcome there; in fact,
He is despised.”
The reader voiced concern that TOS had
made such a bold statement about the
public school system and further questioned whether the above statement could
be verified. We at TOS realize that the view
held by most Christians who have their
children in public schools is that their
school is “different” or the “exception.”
God is not willing to circumvent His
Word under any circumstances. The reality
that godless teaching and inappropriate
conduct occurs daily in public schools
across the nation is a fact that is widely
known and well documented. As a staff
writer for TOS, following is my response to
these concerns.
Jesus said, in John 15: 18, “If the world
hate you, ye know that it hated me before it
hated you,” and in I John 3: 13, “Marvel
not, my brethren, if the world hate you.”
The public school system has implemented
policies that require teachers to instruct
students that all life and humanity resulted
from a cosmic accident that began billions
o f years ago; this instruction is stated as a
“ scientific fact.”
The censure and subsequent ban of the
B iblical account of Creation (with God as
t he acknowledged Creator) allowed
h umanistic philosophies to be taught to
s chool-aged children—including the
p hilosophy that humankind must decide
f or himself what is morally right or wrong.
This teaching further opened the way for
the public education system to promote the
acceptance of Darwinian theory as fact,
one false belief among many other
anti-God, anti-Biblical, worldly beliefs that
are promoted in the public schools.
According to 2 Corinthians 10: 5, this
mandatory instruction by the public school
system, which contradicts the Word of
God, is evil and reflects hatred of God.
At their annual meeting this year, the
nation’s largest teacher’s union, the
National Education Association (NEA),
passed resolutions about what they intend
to see the public school system accomplish
in the coming months and years. Two of
their more than three hundred resolutions
are shown below. These resolutions
“verify” that the NEA, which represents
most public school teachers and exerts a
great deal of influence in the public school
