We’re just now coming to the point in New York State where you can say publicly that you homeschool your children without people thinking you belong to a whacked out cult…although when you have four going on five kids 7yrs old and under most people have their suspicions. Homeschooling is not our first choice. We would much rather put them in a classical school of some sort. There isn’t one (yet) in Binghamton but there are a lot of interested parents and property seems to be opening up here so maybe one day. In any case, RC Sproul is in the middle of a lecture series discussing among other things the myth of “neutral” education—the idea that government sponsored and designed education can be morally and religiously neutral—and giving a good summary of the reasons a growing number of parents are deciding to pull their kids out of government schools.

Lecture 1: The Myth of Neutral Education

Lecture 2: The Goal of Education

Lecture 3: The Problem of State Education

I’m not trying to push homeschooling. We’ll grow our cult by proselytization or procreation…either way is fine with us. But if you are considering homeschooling your kids or pulling them out of the state schools, I hope these lectures help clarify matters for you.