I happen to know there is a vibrant home schooling network in Grand Rapids. PM me if you want someone to contact.We decided not to have children because my income would make it so they would have to go to a public school. After going to both public and Catholic schools I vowed a kid of mine would never step foot in a public school. At least this way it never will happen.
That was a thought lateron and my wife has many health problems. conception never happened. I would of gone with homeschooling myself, but my wife was taught to be against it by her family and was very weak in acedemics when in school herself. She has many emotional problems that make it so have have to take care of her like a child when you combine it with her physical problems.I happen to know there is a vibrant home schooling network in Grand Rapids. PM me if you want someone to contact.
Please rethink and pray about this some more. If you guys decided this even before you married, you might not even BE sacramentally married! (Refusal to accept kids is an impediment, IIRC).
As for the original topic, it’s inevitable. The USA is still colonial in many ways, following European culture for better or worse. And Europe has been in demographic suicide mode for decades now.
Isn’t this a little extreme? I agree that public schools aren’t fabulous, but you’re really missing the great good of having children. It’s good for your soul.We decided not to have children because my income would make it so they would have to go to a public school. After going to both public and Catholic schools I vowed a kid of mine would never step foot in a public school. At least this way it never will happen.
I went to a public high school back when Mainline Protestantism was almost the “school religion”. Now, secular humanism is the official religion. But I didn’t become a Protestant, and I don’t think there is a good reason to think all children now succumb to the current “official religion” anymore than we did then. I now have a granddaughter who is in a public high school of necessity, because there are no Catholic high schools within driving distance. Not only is she not swayed by the “official religion”, she finds herself challenging it in her own thinking, just as I challenged Mainline Protestantism in mine.Isn’t this a little extreme? I agree that public schools aren’t fabulous, but you’re really missing the great good of having children. It’s good for your soul.
My 2 main problems with public schools for the record are a severe deficiency in acedemics which I have seen first hand, and the high possiblity of my children dating outside of Catholicism. Another is the severe lack of discilpline… For the record Ive gone to both Catholic and public schools, in my time in public school was in both special ed and reguler ed. I have learing, attention and emotional impairments that kept me out of reguler ed for years. I had to conquer them before going to a reguler ed school.I went to a public high school back when Mainline Protestantism was almost the “school religion”. Now, secular humanism is the official religion. But I didn’t become a Protestant, and I don’t think there is a good reason to think all children now succumb to the current “official religion” anymore than we did then. I now have a granddaughter who is in a public high school of necessity, because there are no Catholic high schools within driving distance. Not only is she not swayed by the “official religion”, she finds herself challenging it in her own thinking, just as I challenged Mainline Protestantism in mine.
At some point, all children confront the world. In my opinion, if they have been sufficiently catechised in the home, they will not succumb to the foolishnesses that abound in the secular world.