Warfare Wednesday: Education Edition

"let the wise listen and add to their learning,
and let the discerning get guidance-" Proverbs 1:5

Over the past few weeks, President Obama has been sharing with the nation his plans for the education system in the United States. We need to pray for this in a mighty way. We need to pray for wisdom for the plans he makes, and that God's Will will be done in all areas of education. We need to pray that the good plans will be implemented swiftly, and the plans that run contrary to God's plans will die a swift death. I think we especially need to pray that President Obama will see the value in all the schools that continue to teach Biblical values, and will protect them. Our Education Secretary is Arne Duncan, and we definitely need to keep him in our prayers too. Some of the biggest decisions facing our country today fall right in the lap of Mr. Duncan, and we need to spend some serious time asking God to guide the decisions made by the Department of Education.

I think it's very apropo this week that my mind is on the education system. We need to pray for it, badly. It's broken, and that's very obvious to me in recent days. There is something really and truly wrong with our country's education system, and it's on every level. There are problems with the youngest preschool and head start systems- my son's preschool is the very example of that, as tomorrow is his last day of school, two months before the school year is actually over. And I look ahead to college... I thought they were expensive when I was looking at schools! There is something seriously wrong when more and more money is being spent across the board, and the quality of education is going down. And while we've made the choice to home school our children next year, we are very blessed that we can make that choice. What about all the millions of children in the education system for whom that isn't an option? We need to pray for the quality of the education available to all children be improved, and we need to pray for their safety. We need to pray barriers of protection around our schools and universities, no child should have to fear for their life while in an institute of learning.