{"id":2986,"date":"2011-09-13T15:42:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2011-09-13T15:42:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T22:42:11","slug":"a-compelling-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=2986","title":{"rendered":"A Compelling Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

The chica over at A Year in Skirts<\/a> posed the following question in her 9\/11 post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If Muslim families can send their children to public school and STILL have these children grow up to be obedient to their religion and raise daughters who wear a hijab AND these kids are fully fasting during Ramadan even while at school (no food or water during the day), then how is it that this task of raising Christian children in the public school system is too hard?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She mentioned that a lot of these families send their kids to private school for a year or so in elementary school so they can learn Arabic but the rest of the time, they’re in public schools. My experience was that some of the girls were sent to Catholic all-girl high schools but we did have a handful of girls at my public high school who wore hijabs<\/em>. I think all of them went K-12 in the public school system and learned Arabic (or their native language) at home or at their mosque.<\/p>\n

I think it’s a matter of the parents. I know of several evangelical families who sent their kids all the way through the public school system in San Jose (where I grew up). Everywhere else I’ve lived where Jon has served, homeschooling has been pretty rare and all the kids, Christian or otherwise, go to the public schools. (There hasn’t been the option of Catholic schools in those places.) The parents are hugely involved with their kids and they know exactly what is being taught or done at a given time. They talked to their kids about anything they felt was contrary to family values and they took their kids to church on Wednesday nights and Sundays. The kids know what their parents believe and what their families believe. <\/p>\n

This is one of the reasons why I’m against homeschooling Daniel unless there becomes a compelling reason. I see no issue in letting him go to the local elementary school and talking with him about what he is learning. If something he is learning conflicts with what we believe as a family, we’ll deal with that when it comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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