What happened? Answer: In the mid-1800s to early 1900s “progressives” imposed government owned and run, socialist-funded, schools on our nation's children.
The first government schools offered up a generic and lukewarm Protestantism and children learned to be lukewarm and generic about their faith. Later schools were godlessly secular with a sprinkle of prayer in the morning. Children then learned to be godlessly secular in their thinking as long as there was a nod in God's direction. Today's schools are utterly and completely godless. Children MUST learn to think and reason godlessly if they are to cooperate with the classroom instruction.
Finally....Children who attend socialist schools learn to be comfortable with government taking money from a neighbor for a service their parents want for free. Well! Gee! If government can take money ( by threat of force) for free schools why not elect Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and get even MORE free stuff?
If you send children into godless and socialist schools we will reap godless and socialist adults. And...It seems that about 50% of our nation has now moved over to the dark side and a dangerous percentage are outright communists.
Stop blaming schools for parental and other familial failings.
Seriously - families don’t care for family members anymore. Older parents are shoved into homes to be cared for by others, either on the family’s dime, or usually, society’s.
Brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. are left to fend for themselves, rather than swallow some pride and ask for help from their family, even extended.
The government has taken the place of the ‘dad’ in over 50% of the black family households by giving food stamps, insurance, etc.