Andrea Bianchi, from Today’s Christian Woman, has some pretty strong blame to lay on home school stoops. Her blog post is poorly thought out and needs to be examined because the way we school our children should not be decided by our emotional response to the issue or how much we think our parents failed us. Andrea, in her blog post, doesn’t even begin to ask what God wants. It’s a strange post for an editor of Christian magazine. It’s as if God is completely absent from her life while she’s in college flirting and visiting privately with her professors and counselors. And from the post, it’s not clear where God is in her life now. But how can we determine how to best school our children without consulting God on the issue?

This home school topic is heating up. With more and more kids graduating from home schools, some with good things to say about it, others with horror stories about abusive parents, it’s going to be talked about more and more.

What I think we must guard against is laying all our problems on the way our parents raised us. My parents made lots of mistakes raising me. I’m making lots of mistakes raising my children. But God makes us take responsibility for our own sin. He didn’t allow Adam to say, “This woman you gave me…” and he doesn’t allow us to say, “These parents you gave me–they made me the sinner I am.”

And whether we’re home schooled or private schooled or public schooled we’re all going to go wrong. We’re all going to be injured and bear scars. And we’re all going to be tempted, by our own sinful hearts, to justify ourselves and blame others.

It’s not pretty.