Exodus 2000 works to educate Christian parents about education

Exodus 2000 was organized in 1997 in response to the precipitous, widespread concern among American parents and businessmen, especially in the Christian community, that "Somebody has got to do something now about the education crisis in America." The effort began in an exercise to forge a unity of opinion among business, clerical, and intellectual leaders that the public education bureaucracy has descended to conditions of corruption and special interest influence that are beyond reform or repair.

A persuasive and informative document called _The Emergency Education Resolution of 1997_ was released that closed with the paragraph, "Be it resolved that we the undersigned pledge our commitment to encourage every American family to begin the process of making intelligent decisions to responsibly withdraw their children from the public education system." Public school psychologist Steven Kossor spoke for many leaders when he hailed the Exodus 2000 project as "brilliant and the only solution left."

The purpose of the Exodus 2000 project is to trump the insidious anti-academic, pro-social control policies of Goals 2000 with the only option available to today's families: the rapid withdrawal of their children and grandchildren from a corrupt public school system. All other efforts to arrest and correct the dangers inherent in government sponsored "education reform" have failed, including the efforts of the Republican-controlled 104th Congress. If the policies inherent within the Goals 2000 agenda and the attendant ideology of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) are not stopped immediately, they may become irreversible by the year 2000.

'The Emergency Education Resolution of 1997" essentially asks American leaders, educators, businessmen, and clergy to admit or deny the horrible truth about today's US public education: that the system is currently unconstitutional, is not reformable, has no Biblical mandate, and has become a tool of statist social engineers. If it continues on this current track, it will shortly become the mechanism that administers irreversible political, economic, and social tyranny known among the social revolutionaries as "Lifelong Learning", "School-to-Work", or "the new seamless economy". The most dangerous element of this tyranny is its psychological or classroom element that forces children and adults to comply with the new society, in part, by denying them the intellectual, spiritual, and academic freedom to resist it.

Exodus 2000 will assist American leaders and families by providing the intelligent means and strategies to lead their constituencies and children out of the public school system. Exodus 2000 also advances the proposition that private, Christian and home-school education can thoroughly supplant the corrupt government school system. A new motto for the Church concerning the mandate for Christian education should be "Every church a school, every parent a teacher". To that end, the Exodus 2000 national office is working to provide all the practical help necessary to create needed alternative educational systems, materials, and guidance and to serve as a clearing house for the best alternatives currently available.

( Executive Summary from Exodus 2000 Home Page http://www.exodus2000.org/)