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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