Suggest to the average parent that they should educate their children instead of shipping them off to school and many of them will look at you as if you suggested tossing their kids into a woodchipper. Parents have many excuses for shirking the responsibility of teaching life’s most important lessons to their precious children.

“I’m not qualified to teach!” – Really? That’s strange. You taught them how to walk, talk, pronounce their name, pronounce your name, wash themselves, dress themselves, use the toilet, use eating utensils, recognize colors, shapes and even a few letters of the alphabet. You accomplished much of that education in just the first 18 months of their lives. You’re not just qualified to teach, you are good at it.

“I don’t have the patience for teaching!” – It is wonderful that you’re able to admit this! Identifying the problem is the crucial first step toward fixing it. Your impatience is causing great harm to your children, even if they spend most of their time at school. You shouldn’t send your kids to school so you can avoid addressing your own character flaws. Start homeschooling immediately. While you’re teaching your kids, you will be learning patience.

“I wouldn’t know how to get started doing homeschool!” – You didn’t make that excuse when you sent your kids to school. You figured out the enrollment process, the bus schedule, extracurricular activities, and hundreds of other processes. Ignorance about homeschooling is the lamest excuse on the list.

“I have a full time job!” – You also have full time children. I’m truly sorry if you’re hearing this for the first time. Your parents should have taught you that part of being an adult is setting priorities. You should have been taught that some things are more important than others. If your job is more important than your children’s education, you’re doing to your kids EXACTLY what your parents did to you.

“How am I gonna survive without a job?!!” – Do you live in America? Have you never noticed that our streets aren’t littered with the bodies of homeschooling families? The government will provide for your physical needs. Jobless, single parents aren’t allowed to die in this country.

…oh…and if you’re not single, if there are TWO (or more) working people in your household, one of you should quit your job and start educating your kids. It might mean sacrificing vacations, or automobiles, or cell phones, or cable television, and moving into a smaller house but you’re adults and it’s time you learn to set priorities. Do the MOST IMPORTANT things first.

“There are lots of good teachers in school!” – True. There are also lots of horrible teachers in school. On top of that, it’s illegal for even the good teachers to talk about Jesus in school. The ‘system’ is corrupt and broken beyond repair. Don’t sacrifice your kids in a display of loyalty to individual teachers. You can respect, honor, and love teachers without sending your kids to be ruined by pagan ideology.

“You are an arrogant POS, John.” – Yes. But that doesn’t change anything. You are responsible for training your children in the way they should go. You have enormous influence over your children, whether you want it or not. Nobody else can instill your values into your kids. Nobody else is qualified to educate them.

“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”

(Proverbs 22:6)