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The community school systems in the United States first grew out of the need to have a more throughly educated society as so many people in our great young nation were ignorant and books were rare. As a young pioneering nation the community controlled and funded schools were completely controlled by the community. The parents had the say of what and what not was being taught and who did the teaching. Though technically, one of the first community welfare programs, the control was placed squarely in the hands of the locally caring parents.

Prior to the community school system, and because the first responsibility of a parent is to train their child, most children were educated at Home " Home Schooled " or Schooled at Church on Sunday. The term Sunday School came from the more general education given children when Christians would meet on the Lords Day. The Book of Psalms could be ....

considered one of the first Home School books written. 

Today the public school systems are controlled by the federal government, teacher unions and court systems that has removed parental rights, real parental input and also now are being used as a court ordered indoctrination system.  The community controlled and funded school systems of the past are now called private schools while the public government schools have become the most out dated and ineffective welfare system still in existence. The fact that our nation becomes more ignorant each year this system stays in place should be enough evidence and motivation for urgent change.

Also, at one time the word "discipline" meant the controlled practice of a educated study and coincided with all elements of the learning process. This word now has been removed by the government courts and replaced with the word,  " rights " , which has left the public school class room the least likely place a child can learn and the least likely to keep  good teachers that works on the gratification of being effective.

Of coarse, because human physics show that all things provided are addicting , correcting this , though essential for our existence as a free nation, won't be easy. First off, this problem can't be corrected by the government because as we can see the problem is Government. It can only be corrected by those who love the children of which this whole thing of education is about, and that's the parent.

In the same way those who were addicted to another popular government welfare program, " WICK" , in which mothers felt entrapped in a self perpetuating cycle that prevented them from working and being a responsible parent, the government schools welfare system seems to be doing the same in preventing the parent from feeling responsible for the training of their own child, not only in academics but also in social morals. This has resulted in a increasingly irresponsible and immoral society.

The parents of our community must recognize their unrealized addiction and break this generational entrapment by taking control their own children's education by teaching them at home themselves or paying for a controllable source like a private school or parochial school to do. Of coarse if we could keep just half of the taxes we pay into this wastfull  program we could pay for a privately controllable education for all our kids. 

Maybe the money collected by our community Church congregations, for which the Bible authorizes the church to collect, could be spent on, what the Bible authorizes it to be spent on, and thats the physical needs of the needy  and missionary work, of which children's education defiantly fits both, and not on million dollar real estate projects for which is not authorized at all. We somehow spend a very small part of our collections to support mission workers who start schools in other countries but then turn our own children over to the governments welfare system. This is not a slam on the church but a call to scriptural responsibility. 

Maybe some parents can stop buying luxuries like alcohol, cigarettes, cable tv, HS internet, cell phones, play stations, extra cars, etc. on and on and start placing their children's necessities like health ins. and education first. This is not a slam on all parents but a call to strong parental responsibility.

Keep in mind, if we want to preserve our families and this great nation of our, things must be done different in the way we educate. Fixing the welfare system we are addicted to cannot be an option.

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