Wow, it is kind of hard to be salt and light at home with mom all day. Salt keeps things from spoiling and light helps us see where we are going and exposes what is false and brings things to the light. In the late 60s and early 70s the legal system took prayer out of public schools, so the Christians took their kids out and put them in private schools. Then the private schools weren't good enough, so we started homeschooling. The statistics that say 80% of kids drop their faith in college is a fairly recent one. Being recent it falls into this time frame where we have pulled out of the public schools. Even the Christian and home school kids are abandoning their faith. The issue isn't where we education our kids, but how we parent them. Problem with us Christians is we run from the challenges and we refuse to be salt that preserves and we refuse to be the light that exposes. Public schools are what they are because there is no salt or light. It isn't the courts fault or the governments fault, it is our fault. Recently I got elected to my local public school board and even more recently was elected board president and dude am I learning first hand what it means to be salt and light. My influence and how God is using me is humbling. In your blog you mention all the hrs a kid is in school and how few they are at home in comparison. As I read that, it really impressed me that with that being true, we need to be compelled to take back our schools. Also, if we are going to reach each generation for Christ, then what better place to reach them than the school. The humanists have figured it out, the devil has figured it out and we are running the other way. Every kid in every town can be found one place, 5 days a week, 7 hours a day. And if we are committed to being salt and light and committed to evangelism there is no way we can ignore the school. To ignore the school would be like going fishing and waiting for the fish to jump in the boat, won't happen. The school is the single place we can get at every kid in our community, and if you reach the kids you reach the parents. The school is the one single place you can go and be swarmed with fish.