We are living in a world that appears to have never heard of James Dobson or Mister Rogers. Whether it be test scores or adolescent crime rates, everything has changed, and not for the good.
Thank the Lord that there are bubbles of brightness. Some are in the public sector, but mostly in the Christian private school arena. But most people cannot afford the cost of Christian school education and sometimes it is not always that good.
I know John Dewy and Horace Mann had some good and some nefarious motivations for their euphoric vision of a public school system. But the results have been disastrous with the creation of the Department of Education in the twentieth century and now the unhampered and unchallenged power of the teachers’ union in the twenty-first century.
If you are a parent or grandparent, let me remind you and me (for I am both) of the insight and command of the Lord given through Moses in Deuteronomy 6:4-9;
“Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
Translated for today’s world: Be involved in conveying God’s eternal truth to your kids or grandkids. I know that is engaging in what is counter-cultural, but it is biblical. If you are a parent or grandparent or neither, let me suggest volunteering to teach and train kids in your church’s children’s ministry. Not forever but for a season. You may be saying “I do not know how to do that.” I’m sure someone does who can show you. You just might discover that you are “making disciples.” And is that not what it is all about? Serving Him with you Until He comes for us. Fred | 
