No Escape
No matter which decision we make, we will teach them.
When we keep them at home to educate them, ourselves, we teach them one thing.
If we send them away to receive their education elsewhere, we teach them another, ominous thing.
When we bother to keep our children with us where we can smile at them and watch over them daily, we teach them that we value them.
When they are teens and begin seeing many childhood things from the outside, they learn how important they are to us. They learn how much we cherish them. They learn the value of a child, the value of a parent, and apply this value to their own children, to all children in general, and to themselves, someday.
If we ditch this responsibility along with our children at the front door of some worldly institution, we still teach them—that they are important to the world, which has bothered to take up our slack. They learn to measure the value of a child with the only measuring stick that we have given them and to translate this to the value of all children, foreign, handicapped, and unborn.
When we keep our children with us so that we can give them the gift of reading, just as we gave them the gift of speech years before, we teach them the importance of literacy. When we carefully couple that with reading Scripture, we teach them the reason for literacy.
When they are teens and can read like adults, they learn how important and valuable literacy is, in God’s eyes, and how blessed they are to have Scripture to read.
If we turn them loose to acquire their literacy lessons from the world’s schools, we still teach them—that we do not mind if they learn to read in order to escape reality, to investigate immorality, or to accumulate prosperity. They will read things we do not approve, indeed, do not have a chance to approve. They will not read anything Godly coming from these people who value them enough to educate them.
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Home's Cool! 
I agree. We do teach our children whether we call it school or not. It just makes sense to LIKE teaching them since God gave them to us. I enjoy my God given privilege. What a blessing from God.
There is something about the bond between a dedicated mother and her child that causes her to want to help the poor little thing, to rejoice when he succeeds, to reach out when he falls . . . it’s relegated to the role of the teacher, these days, but really, it belongs to the mother.