An email from my friend..story...

[Guest koppen]

This came from a Friend about her son thats in pre-K from anothr prayer board and thought I would share it .....

My son was told not to pray

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Good Morning,

I had to share this with all of you. Yesterday, apparently Aaron was praying in school and was told by his Pre-K teacher that he cannot pray in school

[hmh]

You can't pray in school, but it is acceptable to hand out condoms in school.

You can't pray in school, but teaching homosexuality in school is acceptable.

You can't pray in school, but it is acceptable to teach about the New Age religion.

You can't pray in school, but it is considered free speech in school to curse God in class.

You can't pray in school, but teaching students that abortion is a method of family planning is acceptable.

Take God out of the classroom, and you have a classroom that has no moral values. And the school administrators wonder why violence, teenage pregnancy, and the lack of respect for any authority is running rampant in schools today.

Teach your children to pray, especially in school, because they will need it in their lives.

:sam: :prayer

[Trinity]

Great song Love it! How great to see young kids On fire like that! You don't see that often, you are a luck Mother

Tell them im proud of them

[Guest CalvaryAloha]

Great message! Public schools are a very scary and confusing place to be for kids trying to live a Christian life. My wife and I have had our 10 year old in private Christian school every year except this one and he is very unhappy about being at a public school. He comes home everyday saying how mean the kids and teachers are and how the kids use profanity all the time.

He is being exposed to an non-Christian environment 8 hours a day and than when he comes home it's hard for him to just forget what he was surrounded by all day. We are desperately trying to get him back in Christian school! I can't imagine at his age hearing about God at night with us and at Sunday school and than hearing the complete opposite all week at school. How confusing it must be for him and all the other Christian kids in his shoes.

-Just wanted to share my experience with the same situation.

[Guest koppen]

This is the very reason our youth is in trouble...Look what all has happened since God was removed from you schools....

[Guest kitkat]

That truly is awesome Kelli. You would think schools would think twice about taking God out of the schools because of school shootings nowadays and things like that happening. I know that if I were still in school now, I wouldn't want to start the day off without saying a prayer and the pledge of allegiance. Maybe God is removing His shield of protection around these schools because the schools are removing these things.

Kat

[apothanein kerdos]

Sad how teachers aren't informed on the laws.

[Guest rach_psalm51]

Praise God for such a beautiful song, your precious child and your braveness!

I have worked in public schools in Australia with some terrific teachers, but have found that it really can vary, depending on which teacher you get, as to the quality of pastoral care for the children.

After several years in the state system, we recently started sending our children to a Christian school. The children seem much happier and we feel more relaxed about them being there. We've found the pastoral care from a Christian perspective is much more consistent; not so much"potluck" as it was before.

I believe the problems are as much in the system as with any individual. That political correctness has, in some ways, squeezed faith almost out of the system.

I do have a heart for social justice issues and this was not an easy decision for our change of schooling, but we felt it was important for our children. That is not to say this is the choice for all.

This is a very difficult issue and praise God that he has solutions for all of us.

Edited September 11, 2004 by rach_psalm51

[Guest But for Him]

Koppen,

Thank you so much for sharing the story about your friend and her child. It shows me that we are truly "the light of the world", and sometimes that witness falls upon even our little ones who we might think are too young to handle the burden. The song the Lord gave your friend, and the tune it was set to, are certainly examples of the Lord's ability to give even the youngest among us the tools with which we can go forth in the world in Christ.

Our job as christians is to give our children the Truth and to see that it is our life, not merely lip service. These children will carry that forth into their classrooms thereby becoming a "light" unto those teachers and children who don't know that Truth.

Trust the Lord that He will use this child to propagate His Word, and bless your friend that she stood firm in the Lord and gave her children the knowledge and tools to speak to a classrom that needed to see this kind of faith and hear this Truth.

[other one]

Kelly, I like the song. Move to Shawnee, Oklahoma and you won't have that trouble.......

Sam