This post sparked from a comment I made on a post by @careywedler. In essence, a reply refuted my belief that the downfall of the public school system started with SCOTUS’ defending an atheist’s right to abolish anything God from U.S. classrooms, resulting in a majority upheaval of this nation’s views.
So, in response to the reply by @fundposhprincess, here goes:
I would love a world without taxation as much as the next person; but, it’s unscriptural; thus, it is what it is.
Jesus paid taxes. In Matthew 17: 24-27, He miraculously supplied a coin, and told Peter to go fishing, with the purpose of retrieving a coin to pay the taxes due. To further the point, He told believers to render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.
To bring this back to school taxes, ‘ideally’ these tariffs would be used for the educating of children. This includes supplying a whole lot of tangible things like books, buildings and salaries, etc. But, no matter how much money is doled out for monetary things, there are some things the richest of rich know, that money simply can’t buy. At the top of this list would be holistic well-being of the emotional and spiritual kind.
All the money/taxes in the world can’t genuinely nourish the soul of a child. Ask anyone who’s tried to buy authentic peace. There simply are some things the dollar just can’t buy. I know. I said this twice.
Today’s curriculum lacks the teachings of how to achieve inner-peace via holistic means. Thus, many children, as noted in the original comment, suffer from inner turmoil for which the ‘government’ solution continues to be Big Pharma in a bottle.
I agree many members of the cloth, and their flock will be judged on that Final Day for standing idly by and not pushing back against what’s most needed for whole living…spiritual matters.
I’ve served time as a classroom teacher and can say firsthand that the primary ingredient missing from the recipe of everything taught is…are you ready?…a spiritual divide with discipline. The majority of children have the conscience and ability to focus on learning; and a teeny-tiny handful can serve to destroy any hopes of this ever occurring without contention.
Realistically, you can’t blame a 5-year-old who bounces off the walls because the mother smoked crack during her pregnancy. And, yet, these innocents get a double blow to future hopes, when they enter the school system, and the remedy for being an offspring of a crack-addict, is to become a ‘prescription’ addict to suppress the affects of their birth-addiction.
In a nutshell, there is a cure that cannot be found in a bottle; and, yet this is the ‘cure’ for children who are diagnosed too frequently with disorders such as ADHD, when most often all they need, in many cases, is the freedom to run off/expend excess energies.
Unfortunately, no Christians, or any other faiths that I know of, are filling the streets, pushing for a return of prayer and inclusion of spiritual enlightenment in the school curriculum.
Best regards.
Peace.