I, too, work in the public school system. I can attest that I have seen the very same things. I have also voiced the need for the very changes this teacher asks for.
I am also a sincere believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and wholeheartedly agree with every one of her statements regarding God our Father, our present, and our future.
I thank God for giving her the courage to write this article.
Good for you. My daughter teaches also.
She teaches in a fairly upscale suburb here in Indiana.
42% of her class comes from an intact family (mom and dad married and both living in the home).
Of course as you go down the economic scale this number gets worse. 75% of black children today are born illegitimate.
The schools have their problems but expecting them to fix a fundamental breakdown of the family is unrealistic.
I have met and worked with a few recent graduates of our local university which is considered to be very well rated. Amazingly I found that those who graduated in recent years with a BA in history don’t know the history that I learned in GRADE SCHOOL! If they don’t really know anything about their MAJOR what do they know about other subjects ?Not one that I have met would have even the slightest chance at passing the high school final exam to receive a high school diploma in 1962, the year I graduated. Countless numbers are spending years of their lives and a fortune in borrowed money to obtain a worthless “sheepskin” to hang on the wall so that they can qualify for the kind of job that used to be done by a high school dropout and they don’t have what used to be an eighth grade education. I am sure there are exceptions but this is the case for many young people now.