February 14, 2007

  • Who's minding the kids?

    From Learning By Grace newsletter

    This spring, millions of parents across the country will wave to their children as they get on the school bus.  Raindrops will fall on freckled faces, and hot chocolate and cookies will be ready for an after school snack.  Parents will pat themselves on the back for giving their children such happy, safe lives.  When they aren’t safe at home, their kids will be under the careful watch of loving teachers that are dedicated to nurturing their little ones. 

    Unfortunately, this pleasant scenario isn’t always the case.

    A pair of fourth graders in Lewiston, NY witnessed their teacher using cocaine at her desk earlier this month.  At first, the teacher claimed the students were lying.  She only admitted to this disturbing act when trace amounts of the drug were found on her desk. 

    This wasn’t a shady drug deal that went down in the school parking lot after hours.  This wasn’t even a case of a teacher with a hidden addiction.  This was a teacher—a teacher that was entrusted with the care of 9 year-olds—who engaged in illegal drug use during class time! 

    Think about this, parents.  Do you know who your child’s teachers are?  Maybe you know their names, but what about their backgrounds, their habits, their ethics?  How can you be sure that the local 1st grade teacher isn’t addicted to prescription medication or perhaps pornography?  The possibilities for sinful behaviors among our teachers are endless, and millions of American parents are standing idly by. 

    The sad truth is, that we can never know the true character of others.  Only God knows the nature of a man’s heart.  Of course, most teachers are fine, upstanding citizens; many of them are even Bible-believing Christians.  However, that doesn’t make the risks any less serious.

    How long will parents wave to their children from living room windows knowing that there is a chance that their child’s innocence is at stake?  Sexual perversion, drug abuse, anti-God thinking, and many other sinful behaviors thrive in public schools among students and yes, even teachers.

     

Comments (4)

  • :wave:Good post today! amen!

    HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

    :heartbeat::heartbeat:

  • Ohhh, don't EVEN get me started on this one!  LOL  I do NOT like my son's teacher this year at all....and the student teacher that's in his room just was the cause of an "explaining" kind of conversation I had to have with Clay when he started asking why she SUDDENLY had a different last name without EVER talking about getting married and why her tummy was getting big.  Conrad & I just had a serious conversation the other night about the "kind" of role models that were teaching our children now.  And know what?  Right as we were finishing up that conversation, a story came on the evening news about a high school teacher somewhere that had posed nude for pictures and now didn't understand why it "blew up in her face" (her words on the news) when her students found them all over the place!  Shameful, I tell ya!  Our 3 kids are still very innocent compared to others of their own ages.  We don't allow them to see a lot of the things that other parents do with their kids....like R rated movies...heck, there's some PG-13 movies I won't let them watch too....but ONLY if there is something overly suggestive in it.  A lot of those Conrad & I will watch first and then decide if it's ok for the kids.  Sometimes Clay can handle what the girls can't yet because he's older.  However, there's been a few that I've flat said NO over.  And, they may be great movies that Conrad & I maybe enjoyed, but what my kids can see is a different story.  Ohhh, I said I wasn't gonna get started, and see what you made me do!  LOL :p

    RYC:  Ain't that just like a man?!?  :lol:   I tried, but he wouldn't listen, so if he got any on him, it was ALL his fault!  He still doesn't know!  LOL :laugh:

    :love:Happy Valentine's Day Soph!:littlekiss:

  • :eek: You are so right. SO it begs the question do we run and hide and homeschool or do we become proactive involved parents. Don't think me anti homeschool cause we do it. I was one of those parents who decided I was the lesser of the three evils. between public, private and home. Although I do use those handy dandy DVD's to instruct most of the time.

  • RYC: Well, Wilberforce's life is - fortunately - pretty well documented and with a good deal of authority at that. If the filmmakers have stepped out of line, I suspect we'd have heard about it. But, I never rule anything out where Hollywood is concerned.

    Hey . . . it's gonna git crazy cold up y'all's way this weekend! Stay bundled up.

    Praying for you always. 

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