Those Unanswered Questions

Continually, in the context of the transformation of education to systems education, I hear government officials and public employees refer to children as "our children" or "the state's children", ie, Washington's children.

Is this just a slip of the lip, or ... ?

The last I knew, my children's birth certificates didn't show the state of Washington as their parents. So how is it that the State of Washington refers to my children as theirs?

Has the state fed my children ... clothed my children ... provided a roof over their head ... loved them ... provided for them? To each and all, the answer is "no". So how can the state claim my children as theirs?

How many times have parents, asking hard questions about education reform, been told that the process had "community representation" or "the input of the people"? Oh, so I'm not part of the community, and I'm not a person? And considering I'm forced to pay taxes to support the government school, I shouldn't have the right to voice my concerns about the manner in which the school is being run, what is being taught, and how it is being taught, how my tax dollars are being spent? And, to boot, I don't remember giving anyone the right to represent me.

So, please explain to me how it can be said that the process had community representation or the input of the people. It has had neither. It can't be called community representation when the people sitting at the table were selected, no elected, and were selected based on whether they agreed with education reform. And it can't be said the people had input when they are facilitated to a predetermined outcome.

Oh dear, those unanswered ... or is it unanswerable ... questions!

When it comes to my child, it is what I think and what I want that counts. I didn't sign over my rights, either as an individual or a parent, to the state when my child entered the government school. I do not consider the state my master. As established by the Constitution, the state is my servant.

Now, if the government wants to run a school to promote its agenda and causes, then it is those who choose to send their child/ren to that government school who should pay for it. It is a violation of the U.S. Constitution to force people to pay taxes to support a worldview that violates their freedom of conscience—their right not to have to pay for or promote a worldview they do not approve of or agree with.

Oops, doesn't that mean government schools promoting the humanist religion are unconstitutional?

So, how is it that the state refers to my child as theirs? Because, under the paradigm shift from the Christian worldview to the humanist worldview, my child is considered to be not more than someone to do the bidding of the state; not an individual with free will, but "human capital" or a "human resource" no better than a cow in the pasture or a machine in the field, there to be taken care of in the interests of providing for the master.

What a chilling thought that so many do not realize, don't want to realize, the position this humanist worldview places them in. What a chilling thought that people are so willing to be ousted from their God-given position as the highest form of life on Earth, to a position in which they are of no more worth than a cow or a piece of machinery. What a chilling thought that people are willing to replace God as the ultimate authority with the state as the ultimate authority. How chilling that people call themselves Christians but teach humanism in the public schools, use it in the public sector, write it into the laws that are written and passed, both state and federal, and use it in boardrooms and businesses nation-wide.

As for me, I'm neither a "human resource" nor "human capital". Nor do I consider it my mission on Earth to provide for some self-proclaimed master under the feudal system of the Dark Ages. Amazing how mankind regresses in the name of progress.

There is only one way to know freedom, to live free, and that is to know God—No God, No Freedom, Know God, Know Freedom!

© November 2002 Lynn M Stuter

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