I commend Michael J. Metarko for his resignation as a
principle in a public school in Pennsylvania. It must have been a gut
wrenching decision for him and his family.
Here's a Christian man, who is a principle of a government school, who sees the writing on the wall or the chalkboard I guess you could say. His resignation, should be a catalyst for Christian parents to remove their children from the government schools.
What more will it take for Christian parents to wake up and remove their children from the government schools? Every hour of indoctrination from the government school system, unrighteous teachers, and impure and corrupt pears will have to be equaled by proper biblical instruction from the childs parents and the fact is, no parent has that much time and no parent is going to do that. Only the grace of God will preserve your childs morality, purity, mind, heart and soul if they are in public school.
A parent that leaves or sends their child to Caesar's schools is dancing with the devil and gambling with the soul of their child.
It is with strong conviction that I write this letter as my formal
resignation effective Thursday, July 1, 2010 from my position as
Principal of Hanover Elementary School, where I have devoted the last
five of my 14 years in the Bethlehem Area School District. Though there
is no job at present to which I will be going, God has clearly persuaded
me through His Word and through my research into the foundations of our
educational system that I must end my career in public education.
For the last fourteen years, I have worked diligently to be the “salt
and light” spoken of in Matthew 5:13, but I have realized that while I
am plugging up pinholes in the dike that holds back the tumultuous
waters of public education, the improperly laid foundation has been
eroding beneath our feet. God states, “The fear of the Lord is
the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7a). This means that neither God
nor moral character can be separated from true education; in fact, the
glorification of God and the building of Biblical moral character must
be the basis of true education. In the words of Benjamin Rush, Signer of
the Declaration of Independence, “We profess to be republicans [in form
of government], and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and
perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal
education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by the means of
the Bible. For this Divine Book, above all others, favors that equality
among mankind, that respect for just laws, and those sober and frugal
virtues, which constitute the soul of republicanism.”
But what have we done? We have thrown God, Bibles and prayer out of
our schools based upon an inaccurate interpretation of the “Separation
clause”, while openly proselytizing the religion of Secular Humanism
(Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Ala). We have
divorced morality from education and focused only on what special
interest groups perceive as the “right” content knowledge. We manage the
masses at the expense of the individual. As with most educators in the
system, I have been sincere in my efforts to apply the doctrines of
those we call the founding fathers of education, but I have realized
that I have been sincerely wrong. My research into the real philosophies
and beliefs behind men such as Rousseau, Dewey, Hall, etc. has opened
my eyes. I am now aware that not only have I not been working for God, I
have been working in complete opposition to Him. I mistakenly thought I
was on neutral ground: there is no neutral territory.
That said; let me assure you that my argument is not against those I
have worked with for the past 14 years. I have a love for my colleagues
and friends; most are wonderful teachers of a curriculum they have been
given, most truly love the children and will do anything for them, most
sincerely try to improve our children, our city, our nation. But we have
all taken our eye off the mark of what the chief end of man is. The
nation’s statist system of public education is the real issue.
The Bible is overwhelmingly clear in that the primary responsibility in
educating a child rests with the parents (Deuteronomy 6, Ephesians 6:4,
etc.). We need parents to be parents once again, families to be families
once again, fathers to be the father and leader, mothers to be the
mother and nurturer. It does not “take a village to raise a child”; it
takes a family entrusted with the Word of God. Our children are not to
be wards of the State; on the contrary, they are creations of a God of
love, justice, and redemption who loves us so much He sent Christ to die
for us so that if we believe in Him and profess Him as Lord and Savior,
He will grant us eternal life. He does not need us, but we need Him. He
has given us the roadmap to life and to education: the Bible. I pray
that He may manifest Himself in your life as he has clearly done so in
mine.
