Old Cardinal
05-24-2005, 05:19 PM
I went to the Lake Charles, LA-- Parkview Baptist Home School HS Graduation. What a surprise 285 grads came forward in the Lake Charles Civic Center giant auditorium in beautiful purple cap & gown. These homes-schoolers are just one active program in the area and surprisingly many were from Texas. It was refreshing to hear prayers in the name of Jesus Christ instead of the pagan-controlled activist Judges coersion of the public schools bans on public prayers.
I learned a lot--these youth have to perform at a level on SAT, TAKS etc: and various Louisiana testing mechanizisms to obtain a bonafied Diploma.
The speakers to the class of 2005 were past graduates--A war-hero Captain in the Airforce, an Orthopedic Surgeon, and many other industrous younger adults.
I had come to support just one young person I knew but to my surprise one of the Honor Grad speakers was a fine young lady that is in the youth group at my own church! These home schooled kids for the most part knock the top out of the college entrance exams and a high percentage are destined to be future college grads in difficult degree plans. The Parkview school's background followup data is more than impressive on the success of their grads out in society.
Why are they home schooled? The girl from my church had a wonderful Christian testimony in her stirring talk that she preferred to not be in a public school with it's more pagan-based teachings.
I did notice that many of the girls in the group were from school districts in both Louisiana and Texas that reek of violence, crime, drugs sales and poor academics. They chose to be in a home school atmosphere mainly to get away from a depressing dangerous local school district that they found themselves subjected to. These boys and girls are doing fine.
All in all, I was convinced that this alternative method of education should not be attack-- like I hear many public school administrators express themselves on the subject.
If the activist Judges could be somehow retired then paganism could be replaced by the Christian/Judeo value system that the private schools and alternative home-school teaching methodology is holding up as a new quality standard. They have been doing this well for the last two decades.
I am still an optimist about the public system even though there are terrible problems in SOME Districts. I see the schools like Parkview Baptist as a good alternate when public schools are sick, weak and ineffective in some local school districts.
I learned a lot--these youth have to perform at a level on SAT, TAKS etc: and various Louisiana testing mechanizisms to obtain a bonafied Diploma.
The speakers to the class of 2005 were past graduates--A war-hero Captain in the Airforce, an Orthopedic Surgeon, and many other industrous younger adults.
I had come to support just one young person I knew but to my surprise one of the Honor Grad speakers was a fine young lady that is in the youth group at my own church! These home schooled kids for the most part knock the top out of the college entrance exams and a high percentage are destined to be future college grads in difficult degree plans. The Parkview school's background followup data is more than impressive on the success of their grads out in society.
Why are they home schooled? The girl from my church had a wonderful Christian testimony in her stirring talk that she preferred to not be in a public school with it's more pagan-based teachings.
I did notice that many of the girls in the group were from school districts in both Louisiana and Texas that reek of violence, crime, drugs sales and poor academics. They chose to be in a home school atmosphere mainly to get away from a depressing dangerous local school district that they found themselves subjected to. These boys and girls are doing fine.
All in all, I was convinced that this alternative method of education should not be attack-- like I hear many public school administrators express themselves on the subject.
If the activist Judges could be somehow retired then paganism could be replaced by the Christian/Judeo value system that the private schools and alternative home-school teaching methodology is holding up as a new quality standard. They have been doing this well for the last two decades.
I am still an optimist about the public system even though there are terrible problems in SOME Districts. I see the schools like Parkview Baptist as a good alternate when public schools are sick, weak and ineffective in some local school districts.