Anyone homeschooled? Afraid for my daughter

[john_ennis]

That’s precisely why knowing the local school matters so much. The local school my children will be attending is not a lightning rod of immorality. In fact, lots of good Catholic families go there, and for the most part people around here are traditionally minded.

I know the same can’t be said everywhere…which is why I said, “do your research and know your options.”

Morally speaking, I think my teacher colleagues are very upstanding. Even the ones most active about teaching ideas that attack our beliefs are good people.

Errors can be taught by good people, and in the schools which reflect the culture, the errors are great, numerous, and increasing year-by-year. Certainly in large districts throughout the country, there is now a matter-of-fact, no-debate-about-it agreement that same-sex marriage is only opposed by people with the same prejudices as those who opposed civil rights.

This presents kids with the suspicion that their parents and the Church must be wrong.

Consider: I am discussing with my large public high school class, civil rights in America. Among the issues mentioned, inevitably, is the point that some people still deny civil rights to gays by opposing their getting married. It gets put in the same column as “blacks and women once were unable to vote.” Not two teachers in a hundred will point out that they are not the same thing.
Your child and my child are repeatedly presented with such scenarios.

On the other hand in my kids’ Lutheran high school, the perspective that sexual orientation is “who you are,” will not be accepted as dogma. The question of what marriage really is in Christian understanding, will be delved into.

I suspect Catholic schools do the same, with sensitivity.

A home schooling parent can do the same.

I might add that of these options, it is usually going to be the public school which offers the least open-minded, critical inspection of the matter.