Reasons To Homeschool #2

Reason To Homeschool #2
A parent is different than a hired hand.

If God commands us to instruct our children, where do we draw the line? What is our area of instruction and what is the teacher's responsibility? More importantly, how can we expect other people, even paid professionals, to take as much of an interest in our children as we do? Teachers do care about their students, but as a parent, it’s different. This difference comes through in a parable that Jesus taught in John 11.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.”

Many teachers are teaching from the moment they graduate college. They have no children of their own right away. They don’t have as much experience raising children, despite the fact that they are around children for up to 10 hours a day. Often, the teacher can overlook the cruelty that one child may visit on another. Additionally, they have no ongoing interest in a child. A teacher has a student for a school year, maybe two, and then they’re gone, off teaching a new batch of students in an assembly line of schooling. They may care for a student or all of their students, but the students are not their children, nor can they treat them as such. This leads me #3 of the Reasons To Homeschool.