LETTER: Public education is soulless

The Sanford Herald ^ | 03/04/2015 | Robert Watson

[E. Pluribus Unum]

To the Editor:

Instead of being suspicious that an ulterior motive is behind the state’s grading system, school board members should support fellow member Sandra Bowen who wants to “look at what’s resulting in these failures.” This investigation should include reasons why so many people now choose private, charter, home, or Christian schools over public schools. It’s time the 1950s term “integration” also include the mind and spirit of all students; it’s time public schools learn lessons from successful alternative schools.

In grading our public education system at present, I agree with our superintendent that success requires a “whole child” approach because our educational system falls short in morally and spiritually educating our children. The reason is because success in that area depends primarily upon the study of God‘s word. We need to realize, as the early American educators did, that the Holy Bible best addresses the psychological and spiritual needs of the whole person -- that includes their spirit, soul, and body.

Christian and home schools have the advantage of supporting and encouraging development of a godly spirit within a child. Public schools (mostly at the upper levels) hinder this development because the atmosphere and the curricula in the public school system is biased against Christianity and toward humanism and other faiths. Because of misinterpreted decisions from the Warren court in the early 1960s regarding prayer and use of the Bible in public education, God and the light of his word have become suppressed in public education; students who are Christians now feel intimidation. Teachers who desire for students to “be true to themselves” cannot, if they are Christians, be open and honest about their own personal faith. Our public educational system today mistakenly denies or minimizes God’s eternal truths and his divine purpose for every person.

Jesus asks, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”--Mark 8:36-37. Public education is soulless.

That imaginary “wall of separation” that public schools are behind is preventing them from incorporating the whole truth into its curricula, and into the lives of our children. To quote a freedom-loving president, “Tear down this wall!” Public schools should once again be subjugated to the God of the Holy Bible and have at its “core” the whole truth. Until that happens, the most appropriate grade for them is “incomplete.”

Robert Watson

Sanford

[ripley]

“Public Education Is Soulless”

Intentionally so.

They refuse to give up the soul of a young child to any religious faith because it belongs to them.

IMHO

[SaraJohnson]

I don’t want public school demons messing with my childrens’ souls. They used to have Christian character standards for hiring teachers. Now they have no character requirements except political correctness with is anti-truth and anti-Christ.

Public schools just need to be dissolved.