Thank you so much for joining us today.
Thank you for joining us today.
So, Brother Jared, I know your family homeschools, my family homeschools.
Tell me a little bit about your homeschool journey.
How did you become a homeschool family?
Our homeschool journey actually started years before I even got saved.
So, it went from, you know, I always was against the public school.
Even as I got out of the public school, I went to public school myself.
I knew that I never wanted my kids to go to the public school system.
I always believed the Bible. Even though I wasn't saved, I was wrong on some doctrines.
And it doesn't take a Bible scholar to understand that the public school is teaching a worldview that is against what the Bible teaches.
It's not that it's a little bit different. It's actually the opposite of what the Bible teaches.
So, we started out, you know, before I got saved, we started out with Christian private school.
I thought that was the answer. So, we had our kids out of public school in a private Christian school.
Then, of course, getting saved changed things there for us.
And we even tried a small town public school thinking that that would somehow be different than, you know, the larger public school system.
Of course, realizing that the public school system in general is a federal centralized machine.
It's all the same no matter where you're at in the country.
We finally just decided that the only answer was to homeschool and to teach your children.
To get your children a biblical worldview, you must teach that yourself.
Right. Absolutely.
Different people have different journeys that bring them to the place where they homeschool.
You know, for my wife and I was a little different because we kind of had made those decisions before we even started having children.
We knew we were always going to homeschool our children.
And some people have that story, but then some people have a story like you where you take that journey.
You know, it comes in different steps.
And, you know, we all have different backgrounds and things like that.
But I like what you said because, you know, the Bible teaches that we are to train up our children.
The Bible says train up a child in the way he should go.
And when he is old, he should not depart from it.
And the Bible even teaches that we should be training our children all day long.
In Deuteronomy, it talks about how when that walk is with them by the way, when that rises up,
you know, you're supposed to be with them all day long when they go to bed training them and teaching them.
And the truth is this that when you send your kids to school for six hours, eight hours a day,
obviously that's a big time of their day for them to be influenced, right?
So, absolutely, you know, we want to protect them from just the world view.
Because the public school is teaching them evolution, teaching them.
And, of course, there's all these agendas, right?
I mean, you've got the sodomite, the homosexual, LGBTQ, brainwashing.
So, you know, what are your thoughts on that?
I mean, as far as the public school system just being a tool of the world, the devil, the government,
just to brain watch children.
I mean, they have an agenda, right?
Well, it's effective.
And the reason that it's effective is because, well, I mean, Deuteronomy 6 uses the word diligent twice in the chapter.
And diligent, it's talking about teaching our children and it tells us to do it diligently.
And it means that diligence means persistence over time.
And that was one thing that always scared me about the public school even as we went to church
and we were in a good church or we thought we were in a good church.
They have, you know, we're in church for a couple hours a week and they have 40 hours, more hours to push all these agendas.
And it's incredibly effective when you start seeing it's making generational differences in this country.
It's confusing children on their, you know, it's confusing them.
Teaching them that they're evolutionary animals and then confusing them as far as, you know,
what is right and what is wrong and with all this, you know, sex education and miseducation
and all this garbage that they're filling their minds with.
I mean, I've had friends and people that have gone, had children that have gotten taken away from them
because of this type of agenda.
And they're diligent because they are consistent over time with their secular humanist, you know,
perverted worldview that they're pushing.
Yeah, that's a great point.
You know, what to God Christian parents were as diligent, as persistent in educating their children
as the government has tried to be in brainwashing our children.
So there's the worldview aspect but then what about also just the physical protection?
I mean, sometimes people don't think about these things but in public school you'll often hear about the gym teacher
that's abusing children and it's usually not one kid that's being abused.
It's a whole group of kids.
We hear things like the shootings at schools.
But even more than that, just the bullying, you know, and the exposure to drugs, alcohol, pornography.
I mean, that's definitely an aspect of wanting to protect them and shield them from that as well, right?
Absolutely. I mean, it's a situation where groups of kids, it turns into, you know, the worst of those kids.
It's not that all kids that go to public school are bad but it ends up being a situation where the worst of those children
that grow up in abusive homes or whatever.
You know, it only takes, you know, a second for someone to show your child something that they can never unsee.
You know, the mind is a virtual infinite recorder and we protect our kids at home from the internet
and from all these different things, from all the screen media garbage and then we send them to public school.
It makes no sense as they could just be shown this.
They don't have to have the device or it just takes someone just showing them something.
And then, I mean, the abuse, I mean, go look at the statistics. It's ridiculous.
And the violence and it's, you have to be insane to be a Christian parent and put your kids in that meat grinder.
I mean, I know as a homeschool parent, it's hard enough to shield your kids when they are homeschooled.
Right.
You know, to protect them from all that, even in that, in the environment.
But if you send them to a school for 40 hours a week, I mean, just forget about it.
It's going to be impossible to try to protect them from those things, you know.
What about this? People often will bring up, if I homeschool my children, then they're not going to be social.
You know, they're not going to get socialized, you know.
What are your thoughts on that? I mean, have you seen that?
That's always been the funniest one to me maybe that people come up with
and that's something that people just repeat and because they've heard it from somebody else.
Have you ever talked to a kid that's come out of public school recently?
Yeah, exactly.
You're talking to them as they stare at their shoes.
All this environment that they're in, it's funny, in the public school, from the bullying and the abuse to the language,
the language that is normal now, I've seen language that kids, teenagers are using change over just the last 10 or 15 years.
Absolutely.
And this is antisocial behavior.
Yeah.
And what you'll see with homeschool kids, especially homeschool kids that go to a good church, what you'll see is they're incredibly social.
You'll see that they're incredibly social with kids of all ages.
You'll see that they're, because when you go into the workforce, are you going to be working with everyone just exactly your age?
No.
But you see with homeschool kids in an environment, a group environment, you'll see that they're very comfortable, you know,
socializing with kids from 5 years old to 18 years old.
No matter what age they are in there, and they assume responsible roles, it's actually great socialization to be homeschooled.
It's the biggest piece of misinformation of homeschooling out there, I think.
Right.
And of course, can you find the awkward homeschool family?
Yes.
But there's awkward kids in public school.
There's odd kids in public school.
And I like that you brought up the church because I really do believe the key is the church.
You can homeschool your children and just keep them in a basement and never allow them to spend time with anybody, and yeah, your kids are going to be odd.
But if you have a good, solid church, you know, you're going Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, you're taking them out soul winning, you're going to events.
You're, you know, like our church has homeschool groups and things like that.
Then your kids are going to have a lot of time to socialize, to have friends, to develop those relationships.
So that's really not an issue, but it's something that's often being put out there as a reason to send your kids to public school.
They're not going to have enough socialization.
You know, another thing that people often bring up is, yeah, but are they getting the proper education?
You know, can a mom in her home really provide an education as adequate, is what they'll say, as what the public school is providing?
I mean, what do you think about that?
Well, I mean, education is, you know, with homeschooling, education is total freedom, but that means total responsibility.
So, first of all, the baseline of the public school is horribly low.
You know, the statistics of kids that can't even read out of high school or coming into high school, it's ridiculous.
You have the opportunity, and of course you'll find homeschoolers that maybe don't, you know, strive for excellence,
but you have the opportunity for excellence as a homeschool parent, and there's so many curriculums out there now.
I mean, homeschool parents 30 years ago were kind of starting and building things themselves.
Now there's so much support. There's so many people that homeschool.
There's so many people that, you know, a few years ahead of you that have homeschooled.
It is an intimidating thing for a mom to come into it, but the thing is you start out teaching them when they're, you know, very young and in pre-K.
And, you know, you learn as they go. You just stay one step ahead of them.
And I help my wife at times with things that I have a better background in, but she handles the vast majority of it, and she does very well.
One thing we love about homeschooling is it creates self-starters in children.
It creates them, it gives them this mindset that they are to be a self-starter in their own education.
And what we want for our children is for them to carry that attitude past their formal education so they continue educating themselves throughout their life.
Yeah, I agree 100 percent. And I know in our family something that we really enjoy, something that my wife has really enjoyed is just the individualized care.
Because in the public school or in Christian school, you know, you throw a kid into a class with 30 other kids and a teacher or 20 kids or 15 kids or whatever.
But they're not getting that individualized care. In fact, in those systems, oftentimes the slowest kid, the dumbest kid is kind of slowing everybody else down.
But in a homeschool environment, first of all, you've got the child's mom who is going to be the most wanting to see these kids succeed, probably anyone in the world, you know, helping them.
And then they can, when they're struggling in a certain subject, then they can really focus in on that.
When they're excelling in a certain subject, then they can allow them to excel. So there's a lot of individualized care, individualized attention that they're not getting.
Isn't it what we always hear about the public schools? More funding, more funding so the teachers can have smaller classrooms so that they can get more attention.
Well, if that's the goal, who's going to do that better than mom?
It allows you to get an intimate view of what your children's strengths are.
And each child that you have is going to be different and maybe be stronger in certain areas.
And, you know, that gives them, that gives us an idea on how to steer them in their life and what, you know, we could push them to be successful.
But no, homeschooling is, I believe in world-class education. It's just not through the public school and the university system.
But I still believe in world-class education. I don't believe you can find it in those public systems. I don't believe it's there.
And these things all circle back to the same thing because the Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. One reason you don't want your kids in a public school is because there is no fear of the Lord.
They're the wrong world view. But at the same time, they're not educating and these things really go hand in hand.
So, you know, what would you say to a family out there? Maybe they don't, a couple, they don't have kids yet.
Or maybe a young couple that's seen some issues with the public school, the private school, and they're considering homeschooling.
You know, what would you say to them? How would you encourage them to kind of take that step?
Well, I mean, first of all, I understand that it's intimidating. But it's not as bad as you think it is because you're starting in the lowest levels of education.
You know, from learning your ABCs to learning how to read. And that's a huge step for kids.
Once kids learn how to read and you just encourage that reading, that's when they start to pick up that mantle themselves and really start to educate themselves.
But get in a good church. We've homeschooled without a good church and we've homeschooled in a good church.
And I mean, even if you didn't have a good church, I mean, that's a problem in itself. But you still need to be homeschooling. It's possible.
There's blogs. There's people helping online. There's all sorts of curriculums for Christian worldviews that are already put together for you.
It is very possible. And to be honest, it's a necessity for Christian parents. The dangers are too great that exist in the public school system.
And this is why you see our society diverging. The Bible believing Christians sees society diverging from him.
And it's because these people that are coming out of this educational system, they're looking at the world through a different set of lenses than we are.
Yeah, absolutely. I agree. It needs to be a priority. And if it means, you know, obviously, and this is a different conversation,
but if it means mom needs to quit her job, if it means you need to downsize your home, if it means you need to cut things out,
this really needs to be the priority because you don't have your kids for that long.
And God gave them to you to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Absolutely. And I've, you know, I've got a 19-year-old son and I don't know, it went like that. I don't know how he got to be that age.
It goes so fast and there's no time to waste, you know. And yeah, get your family squared away, home school and get in a good church.
Amen.
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