Are you saying that America was a horses a55 prior to the end of the 19th century when public school became widespread?
Public education promotes godlessness. I am not OK with that. Ask yourself what would happen without public education. I’ll tell you - religious education would fill the vacuum, as would homeschooling.
“Public education promotes godlessness.”
That’s just like saying a good Catholic education promotes child molestation, get real.
Did you happen to teach at Ganus in New Orleans? I remember my daughters teacher told her and a friend that they would end up pregnant if they left and went to Ben Franklin with the rest of the nerds. Funny but the no one in her class at BF ended up pregnant, in a much larger class. Several of her former classmates including one of the preachers kids who was the minister of the school founders family and of the above mentioned teacher ended up pregnant. Don’t come back with the abortion argument it would apply to both schools.
I’ve learned that you get what you pay for from a parochial education. Pay more get more and you don’t have to put up with any disruptions because they kick them out so that the public schools have to deal with them. Religious affiliation doesn’t matter you’re equally gone. It is amazing that religious principle’s don’t always apply when it comes to catering to the richer members of the community.