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The Money Pit “Then Jesus said to them, ‘Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.’ And they were amazed at Him.” (Mark 12:17) As with all things, someone has to finance the whole endeavor. The social elitists are not going to do it. That burden is left to you and me – the cogs of the system, the pawns in the game; whether we benefit from it or not. And more than likely we will not. One of the tricks of the trade is to require that all citizens of each and every school district – even if you have no children using that school district – must pay for the (failing) schools. At a local school district meeting that I attended (along with the Superintendent, the School district’s Treasurer, eleven senior citizens and two other school moms), the superintendent proceeded to expound on the need for a coming levy (read: TAXES). After he described how the parking lot needed new black top and parking lines, I asked the Superintendent how much combined money (federal, state and local property taxes) are allotted toward each student in our district. The thirteen residents who attended that meeting with me, while we alone represented the five thousand of our village, were simply astonished to hear that $8,000.00 was the total amount designated! Then the shocking revelation that depending upon whether your child is a special needs child or “merely” a traditional student – only the pittance of three to twenty percent was parsed out to each lucky child. Translated, that is a mere $240.00 to $1,600.00 goes to each child per year out of the $8,000.00. Your tax dollars at work. Imagine if each homeschool family could spend $8,000.00 on each of their children. While it sounds so lovely and causes the imagination to wander into the area of turning vacations to Just as Jesus multiplied the fish and loaves and fed more than five thousand people, so He can multiply the resources in the Christian homeschool. Not every textbook or workbook has to be new, resources from older children can be handed down to younger siblings. The role of the homeschool community is that of Prov. 27:17: “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” Families in the homeschool community are the hands and feet of Jesus. As a writer for The Old Schoolhouse homeschool magazine, and as a speaker, I have the opportunity to meet and speak with many diverse homeschool parents. It is nearly universal that Christian homeschool families take seriously the responsibility to help each other in the Name of Jesus. There are always families who are willing to tutor and child, mothers willing to give up their time once a week to teach a co-op class or to drive a group to a field trip or to a community service project. The commonality of many homeschool families, other than raising their children as arrows for the To Be Continued... Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
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