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...most bruising experience has been dueling with some electronic monster in a video game. Not recognizing the boy in the man, his frightened mother uses a butcher knife to evict him from their home in suburban New Jersey. It is left to Josh's more worldly friend Billy (Jared Rushton) to escort him across the Hudson to Manhattan and to help him find a job as a computer operator in a giant toy company...
...your story about the proliferation of Christian schools [June 8], I was saddened by the comment made by Loralea Rushton, who teaches her own children at home. She said, "The girls like to be with other children, but they don't want to be with children who are taught contrary to our thinking...
...public school I was exposed to drugs, alcohol, violence and teen-age sex. I also acquired an understanding of the social tensions that breed these conditions. By removing students from the realm of the dopeheads and potheads referred to by Warren Rushton of the Rushtons' Basement School, children in Christian schools grow up ignorant of our social ills. Consequently, they fear society's problems rather than understand them and, thus, are unable to help solve them...
...Rushtons' Basement School. Weekdays from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Nebraska Housewife Loralea Rushton, 39, is not called Mom by her three daughters, but Mrs. Rushton. Reason: Mrs. Rushton, who is a registered nurse, acts as principal and teacher for her children, who attend school in the basement family room of her home in Columbus, Neb. She sits at a small desk before a sign on a bulletin board that proclaims: HE is RISEN. The girls, ages 9, 11 and 12, are the school's only students. They sit at a large table partitioned into three cubicles...
...girls like to be with other children," says Mrs. Rushton, "but they don't want to be with children who are taught contrary to our thinking." Nebraska authorities have challenged the activities of some Christian schools in the state, but have so far ignored home study in Columbus. Says Warren Rushton, 42, a mechanical engineer and teaching elder at the Platte Valley Baptist Church in Columbus: "It would be horrible if the sheriff comes some day when I'm gone and gives Loralea and the children a summons, when they let the dopeheads and potheads run loose...