[Kid Shelleen]

Case study in failed liberal policies. (The school was named after John Bartram a world famous botanist and horticulturist. He must be turning in his grave.)

[ilovesarah2012]

I graduated high school in 1970. We had a very large school - approximately 3000 students and we had two shifts. We did not have “resource officers”. We had zero shootings or stabbings. I did not know of one girl who was pregnant. Our school did not have a daycare for students’ babies. For the most part, we liked and respected our teachers. At the entrance of the school was the school seal in the floor. No one walked over it out of respect. I understand that today it is roped off so no one walks on it.

How far we as a society have fallen.

[Oratam]

And please, baby Jesus, keep what happened at . . .

The mention of God makes them uncomfortable, so they respond with mocking . . . and the Philadelphia Daily News is considered a serious newspaper.

[jocon307]

You did not include the link to the whole article. I’d like to read more about the poor man who got his skull fractured, I mean that’s more than a punch in the nose.

[SkyPilot]

Godlessness has very real and terrible political, philosophical, and personal ramifications.

We are now Godless nation. Our courts, schools, and institutions have hunted down any scintilla of Him, and chased Him out.

The concept of "self" and selfish sin takes off like the Ebola virus unless we are constrained by that which is Holy. Rampant secularization has led to a loss of worship. We now have out of control pluralization, where our nation tells us there is no absolute truth, and all ideas must be given equal standing. In fact, the only ideas NOT given standing are God's standards.

Our politicians, leaders, and citizens act with ZERO sense of shame.

"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"

Psalm 11:3

The solution is what it always was: repent, ask God for forgiveness, and cry out to Him for His love and mercy.

Unless that is accomplished, no program, no amount of money, and political "savior" will make one bit of difference.

[wintertime]

Is there a link to an article?

The most important thing to understand is that **NO** school can be religiously neutral. Such a state of philosophic neutrality can not exist in the mind of any sentient being.

When government schools are godless they are teaching godlessness. The children MUST think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the godless classroom.

Yet,... if government schools were to teach a God-centered worldview, what specific religious worldview should be chosen? And...Please remember that generic and lukewarm is offensive to many Christians. The Bible warns that Christ spits the lukewarm out of His mouth.

So?...How to solve the problem? Answer: IT CAN”T!

Solution: Begin the process of privatizing all education. Get the government ( on **ALL** levels) out of the education business!

[facedown]

http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20140413_God_help_Philly_s_public_schools.html

[Kid Shelleen]

here is the link to the article. Sorry about that all.
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20140413_God_help_Philly_s_public_schools.html

[TurkeyLurkey]

“And please, baby Jesus, keep what happened at Bartram from playing out at other understaffed and consolidated schools.”

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After that I could read no further.

Our nation has moved away from God, rejected His Son, His only provision for the foregiveness of our sins.

He hasn’t gone anywhere, but reaches out to mankind, saying “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and YOU SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. (Matthew 11:28-29)

Because of people’s stubborness and unrepentant hearts, they are storing up wrath for themselves in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who WILL RENDER TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS; (Romans 2:5-6, Ps. 62:12)

God is holy. He is real. His home is in heaven. Sin cannot and will not exist in heaven.

For believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, who have repented from their sins and believed in Him, it is said:

“God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.” (Romans 5:8-10)

And all true Christians have died with Christ,have been buried with Him, and have been raised up with Him to walk in newness of life. The new life in Christ is possible only by His and His Father’s presence within the person who has repented and believed, through the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Individuals live in nations, and we are individually called, but whenever sin has not been punished and has been allowed to continue, it grows and infests and takes over, and a whole nation will suffer the consequences. God’s dealings with Israel in the Bible give us all the information we need to look at our own “national sins” and to repent, by His mercy and grace.

Read Psalm 2:12.

[Servant of the Cross]

We Need God In America Again