Exclusive: Indoctrination in Public Schools Leads to Rise in Home Schooling

Family Security Matters ^ | August 1, 2008 | Renee Taylor

[nonsporting]

“And...There will be no discussion of the religious faith that was the motivation for the Pilgrims to come to the New World.”

Guess you have some really crappy schools where you live. All that is taught in our schools.

I'm always looking for decent textbooks. Can you supply me with some titles that were/are used at your public school to teach the true motives for Pilgrims coming to this country. Did any of them actually present copies for reading/study of the primary documents (compacts and covenants)?

[gracesdad]

“I’m always looking for decent textbooks. Can you supply me with some titles that were/are used at your public school to teach the true motives for Pilgrims coming to this country. Did any of them actually present copies for reading/study of the primary documents (compacts and covenants)?”

I can try to check but both my kids learned this long ago in elementary school. My daughter isn’t in school any more and my son is way past this point.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Please add me to your Government Education ping list.

Thanks!

[wintertime]

Done! Welcome! :)

[luckystarmom]

I grew up in the 60’s & 70’s, and I had a huge list of school supplies.

My daughters are in a private Christian school, and they have huge lists of supplies.

There are real issues in public schools, but this is not one of them.

[gracesdad]

We have friends with kids going to a $12,000 a year private school and they have a giant list of supplies to bring as well as more “fees” than we pay at public school.

When you send a child off to college, do you think you’re done once you pay tuition? Not hardly. At many schools the fees add up to thousands of dollars. And the list of “supplies?” Let’s start with a computer....

That’s the way it is.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

We have friends with kids going to a $12,000 a year private school and they have a giant list of supplies to bring as well as more “fees” than we pay at public school.

Well, hell, I don't know how people like Charles Dickens and Abe Lincoln ever managed to get an education. Maybe they were just faking it.

[Madam Theophilus]

These high school textbooks wouldn’t be used in a public school setting, but are popular with homeschoolers. The two text series is called, TO PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE: “A NEW WORLD IN VIEW” - takes on the debunking of Columbus and Cortez as well as other explorers; “REFORMATION TO COLONIZATION” - is an accurate history of the Reformation and how it affected the founding of each of the American colonies. The second volume also discusses the misinformation currently taught about the Pilgrims and the Salem Witch trial. You can purchase the books through www.americanvision.org Another fantastic text for teaching the development of the political ideas that forged our Constitution: NEVER BEFORE IN HISTORY by Gary Amos and Richard Gardiner.

If you really want a public school text, try these written in 1879 by Charles C. Coffin: THE STORY OF LIBERTY and SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY.

[gracesdad]

“Well, hell, I don’t know how people like Charles Dickens and Abe Lincoln ever managed to get an education. Maybe they were just faking it.”

Well, let’s see, Dickens had the advantage of a private education for part of his childhood and he also had a photographic memory. Both Lincoln, who, of course, was largely self-educated, and Dickens were much brighter than the average person.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Well, let’s see, Dickens had the advantage of a private education for part of his childhood and he also had a photographic memory. Both Lincoln, who, of course, was largely self-educated, and Dickens were much brighter than the average person.

But dumb or average people need lots of school supplies! I guess that's to make up for the lack of reading skills.