Your reply is good only because it confirms my observations. I feel pretty down about the loss of this once great Nation.
“Your reply is good only because it confirms my observations. I feel pretty down about the loss of this once great Nation.”
The root of the problem here, as it is in any country, is turning away from God. The single largest driver in turning ppl away from God in America is the government school system. That has been confirmed by the Barna surveys; 80 to 90% of school children from Christian families leave public schooling with a a secular humanist worldview. One needs to understand the original objective of state-run public schooling, and that that institution has been singularly successful in its real primary objective.
I am not sure why you seem to equate saving the Republic with saving public schooling. If you want to save the Republic, stand on principle regardless of outcome. We’ve been compromising with the enemy for decades. They OWN the public schools, the school book publishers, most of the universities. Do you want to dedicate every waking hour of the rest of your life to turning it around? If you do, then you will have wasted your remaining years. And that is true even if there were 100,000 like you. It is time to stop the wishful thinking, stop the compromising and realize that we have to go our own way, whether it be homeschooling, private or parent-run co-ops. Sure, run for the school board...with one’s children NOT in the system. The only solution is exodus.
My youngest is now attending Christian school online. He’s reading Solzhenitsyn and other literary greats as an 11th grader. It took him a full year in the new private Christian program to “detox” from low public school expectations. He’s getting a fantastic education, he’s not woke or liberal, and he maturing quickly. I would not dream of sending him back into the PS $h!thole. Why would any patriot parent?