( This Barna study measured youth from highly active evangelical homes. It is likely that the stats are even worse for other Christian denominations or less active Christians.)
Surely, I agree that we must take a multi-pronged approach, but a **major** part of the battle must be closing down every government owned and run K-12 school in this nation. All of them are godless and all of them are socialist. We must work to see that every child in our nation has access to a non-Prussian style, private, conservative, and Judeo/Christian based education.
Changing the culture will not necessarily mean that that our nation's system of socialist schooling will be less godless or less socialist. Simply by attending children must think and reason godlessly just to cooperate in the classroom. How could it be otherwise?
Personally, I believe that our nation's godless socialist K-12 schools are such a threat to our continuing freedom that I will not have a government school teacher for a friend. They are, in my opinion, too evil, too stupid, too much of a Useful Idiot, or they hold more tightly to their government paycheck than to their Christian/conservative principles for me to have them for a friend.
Personally,...I am done with government teachers. They are out of my life.
“If it were entirely the culture and not schooling then why do 95% of homeschoolers remain faithful in their church 2 years after graduating from high school? Why is it that 85% of government schooled children leave the faith?”
Because you’re removing all variables when you look at it, and deciding public school is the single causative factor. I would suggest that home school kids get less “culture”. Less TV, less questionable movies, and supervised internet access.
I went to public school, I haven’t left the faith.
The problem with public schools is those with the financial means, or the interest abandoned the public schools for home school, or parochial schools. We conservatives allowed the liberals to fill the void in public schools. We tended to our own while the liberals tended to everyone else.
Abandoning public schools was a catastrophe. As we are now beginning to notice, there are more of them, then there are of us.