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If We Lose Our Children We Lose America

Karl Priest

John Stossel (of television's "20-20") produced an outstanding report entitled "Stupid in America" which reported that a South Carolina governor would not send his own children to public schools because---it would "sacrifice their education".  The governor wanted to allow the free market to deliver an alternative to public schools.  Teacher unions and politicians (who are controlled by teacher unions) complained.  They asked, "How can we spend state money on something that hasn't been proven?"  In other words, it's better to spend state money on something that is proven NOT to work.
 
Stossel described how the national School Board's Association (NSBA) claimed, "America's Public Schools out perform Private Schools when variables are controlled."  Actually, the Private School students scored higher on the tests, but there were adjustments for race, ethnicity, income, and parent's education backgrounds.  That may be a valid statistical tool, but it's prone to bias and leads to statistical hocus-pocus.

Many public school teachers are nice people trying to make a living, but the number of good teachers and administrators, whether Christian or not, has been decreasing from retirement.  The good teachers that remain are entangled victims of the agenda that controls what they can do. Textbook publishers are puppets of the education establishment thereby making it nearly impossible for well-meaning teachers to avoid participating in the indoctrination.

The curriculum has been injected with lies of humanism and evolutionism. New teachers are likely to have been trained to believe that their main function is to reconstruct values and beliefs. Public schools indoctrinate generations to believe in evolutionism, relativism, feminism, socialism, mindless tolerance, sexual promiscuity, phony self-esteem, homosexuality as normal, and God as irrelevant.  All of that with lower academic standards.  Graduates of public schools will eventually carry their humanist orientation into politics.  Humanism will saturate their work and their personal lives. 

I personally have proven that it is a waste of time to try to reform public schools (See http://www.insectman.us/testimony/testimony.htm).

It is time for thinking parents (especially Christians) to remove their children from the public schools and either home school them or place them in truly Christian schools.  

If we lose our children, we will lose America.

Published August 19, 2008


Comments (8)

Said this on 19-8-08 At 08:43 am
Christian teachers who teach in atheistic government schools are doing more harm than good. Christian teachers are teaching by their example that Christians will sell their principles for a pay check. They are teaching children that Christians are too lukewarm and timid to forcefully protest or **QUIT!**. The children *know* that the Christian teacher is teaching what their church would consider a lie. Christian teachers in the government schools are making it harder for real missionaries. What child in their right mind would join a church filled with lukewarm, lying, weak, and timid members? If Christ would spit these people out of His mouth, I am not surprised that children do as well.
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Paul
Said this on 19-8-08 At 01:31 pm
You got to be kidding! This is the best argument yet for separation of church and state - wow! you guys are the biggest part of the problem of the undereducation of our children - you have no respect for science, literature or thought. Your 'example' is to remain ignorant - that will damn our economy to being second-rate.

You are of great assistance to the Chinese, the Russians, the radical Islamist all of whom want our country to come down.
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everyonesfacts
Said this on 19-8-08 At 02:05 pm
you know you are dealing with someone who knows what they are talking about when they bring up Stossel's report, see here:
http://www.aft.org/presscenter/downloads/sidebysid...

and the lies of evolution!
Which are those?
All or do you get to pick and choose?

New teachers have had to undergo stricter standards to get into the teaching profession than retiring teachers who usually only needed a degree (in some states not even in their field!).
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Darleen
Said this on 19-8-08 At 03:07 pm
Uh, what happened to separation of church and state? It was done for a reason. Somebody dosn't remember their history lessons very well.
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Joseph Mastropaolo
Said this on 19-8-08 At 03:48 pm
The critical component in education is not facilities nor equipment, it is leadership.
Being forced to teach evolution, that we are all animals, powerfully teaches dog-eat-dog and morality and achievement have no value.
There is no evidence to support evolution. If you do not believe it, then make yourself a millionaire with unlimited Life Science Prizes (see www.lifescienceprize.org).
Evolution is a 2,000 year old Gaea religion and teaching that instead of science can kill any educational system.

Joseph Mastropaolo, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, California State University, Long Beach
http://www.lifescienceprize.org
http://www.josephmastropaolo.com
jmastropaolo@socal.rr.com
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Kelda Grace
Said this on 20-8-08 At 09:46 am
Separation of church and state AND evolution are two of the greatest farces ever foisted on mankind. There are only 2 ways life could have arisen. Either by spontaneous generation or creation. Spontaneous generation was proven false by Pasteur, Spellanzani, Reddi and others way over a century ago leaving only one option. Life simply DOES NOT arise from non-life (the law of biogenesis). PERIOD. Also, there exists NOT ONE example, of one species turning into ANOTHER species which is what evolution is. It is NOT variations WITHIN species as some have tried to redefine science. We know that 'science' must be based on verifiable observation and be repeatable. There exists NO verifiable observation of evolution (and you cannot repeat that which you have not observed) just as there exists NO occurrence of 'separation of church and state' in our constitution. It is very simple thing for anyone to read and verify for themselves. In addition to that, the existing fossil and geologic records offer not one speck of evolutionary proof. Since no one has verifiably observed either creation or spontaneous generation, evolution must be taken by faith on the same basis as creation. You say that's a lie. THEN SHOW US THE PROOF. That's all that's necessary. Let's be intellectually honest, there is no proof. You don't have to be a scientist to understand that a total lack of proof and an adamant refusal to even consider the only option that hasn't been disproven (creation) poses a very distinct problem within the scientific community. They have purposely locked themselves inside an 'evolutionary box' refusing to acknowledge the facts, and thereby, stubbornly hanging on to their pre-biased suppositions. To believe in creation is to believe in a Creator. They simply don't want to believe in God so they willfully choose to believe in that which they know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation. There is none so blind as he who WILL NOT see.
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everyonesfacts
Said this on 21-8-08 At 12:05 am
obviously there is a lot of evidence supporting evolution as there are many books and articles on the subject.

The argument that it is a religion so we should not teach it, but we should teach that humans (biped primate mammals) are not animals (I think a religious belief) and are something else.

So, yes, evolution has been proof - hence, why it is a SCIENTIFIC theory and not a theory, as hey I have this idea.

To teach creationism which has no scientific proof would be a discredit to science. As would a push to teach evolution as a major religious precept in a theology class.

on mr. mastrapaolo's science prize:
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA343.html

this site seems very good:
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html


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Jeremy D. Young
Said this on 19-10-08 At 02:26 pm
I'm late to this discussion, and I doubt anyone will read my comment, but clearly anyone that claims that a call for abolition of government schools is a violation of our "Freedom of Religion" isn't reading carefully. When we say we want to REMOVE our children from government schools, how does that mean that we want to REFORM government schools into Christian schools? Karl Priest explicitly stated in his article that the time for reform was in the past, and that we can no longer expect to reform the government schools. Maybe you government school teachers and education cheerleaders need a better education in the English language. Wait, that's exactly what we're accusing the government schools of... Failing to educate our children.
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