Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers not only to surrender to parents, but surrender to school personnel as well. Christians homeschooled children in the Bible, and did so while allowing for petitions of redress of grievances from children, including during study time. In Christian homeschools in biblical times, children studied Scripture and academics with their parents, in an unschooling fashion, meaning school, for Christian children, played on childhood curiosity. School in the Early Church was mainly for boys, but also included tracks for girls who wanted to be church deacons or elders when they grew up, which was an acceptable vocation for a woman.
The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to offenses against children, meaning the slightest of offense perceived by children. This included, by the inspired pen of the Apostle Paul, any physical or other forms of punishment, and referred to all adults implicitly in the context, meaning no adult could punish a child for anything. This commandment was to intended to rebuke Greek Christians for their pagan and idolatrous custom of spanking children. Punishment of children was legally defensible under Roman law, but never Jewish law.
The civil liberties and freedoms of children are under attack. Children are having their freedoms further and further infringed upon. This is especially true in school environments, where schools are restraining, secluding, and physically punishing students for things such as exercising their freedom of speech granted to them by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
In most schools, you do not have the right to freedom of speech if it goes against school policy, usually by way of opposing school rules, with any opposition from students being seen as insubordination. This is undemocratic in a democratic society. Children in biblical times were allowed to direct their own education, and righteously demand that they be treated the way they liked by their teacher, meaning their parent who ran the homeschool.
The Sudbury-type model of education is what I recommend to public schools everywhere in the United States. This form of education is democratic in nature, which fits, as we are a democratic society. In most countries, children have representation in school matters that counts, meaning the word of school council is actually binding student representation. This is not the case in the United States yet, but it should be.
A student in a public school should be able to say whatever they want, whenever they want, wherever they want, within a public school building, or at any public school function. Censorship everywhere should be purged from the land, with openness and freedom of expression. Children should have more breaks as to freedom of speech, not less.
The depraved and entitled adults who are charged with educating children will BURN for their punitive treatment of children! Some adults hate working with the system they work with, and oppose punishing children, but have to work with the system that punishes children - and they will live forever in the next world. Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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