Posted on 12/06/2001 2:50:38 PM PST by Dr. Octagon
govt. schools were made to protect/reward the losers---and punish/limit the winners---all backwards--forced subsidization of public education(monopoly) by private education is a tyranny and unfair restraint of trade--freedom!
is it any coincidence that our public schools started going south about the time that prayer was forced out?
It started long before that. Look at this:
1933 - "The first Humanist Manifesto is published. Co-author John Dewey, the noted philosopher and educator, calls for a synthesizing of all religions and "a socialized and cooperative economic order." Co-signer C.F. Potter said in 1930: "Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday schools, meeting for an hour once a week, teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?" -- A History of the New World OrderSee also the article at the top of this link for the four kinds of thinking that destroyed America: The U.S. -- A Modern Babylon?
So, if you don't like what's happening in the public schools, take them to private schools.
Am I missing something? Oh wait, you'll start whining about your taxes supporting something or the other. Tough.
Read it again: Tough.
You can't polish a turd. Government controlled public schools will stink no matter how you get them to sparkle. Since I can't flush the public school system away, I avoid the stench and the exposure of my own child to its contagion.
I think you knocked that strawman right over; nice job.
As you know, public schools are openly hostile to any hint of religious expression including the wearing of a tiny cross, Star of David or probably even a crescent moon pin. Secular Humanism is the 'new' religion and the teaching of evolution does not do much for most Christians. Not that creation was ever taught in public schools as far as I can recall. I do know that teachers have gotten into official hot water simply for reading a bible in an empty classroom during a scheduled lunch break. Enforced atheism? Not literally, but hostile and anti-religious might be an apt description. Even simple patriotism is frowned on in some school districts. The loony left has won via the NEA and the slightest whiff of religion is forbidden.
Absurd that parents/taxpayers have let this come to pass but they did and we're stuck with it for a long time to come. My hope is that the rise of private secular and religious schools and the big jump in homeschooling will have an effect that will eventually tamp down the loony left's stranglehold on our public schools and at least open them up to the acknowledgment of religion in American life as they once did. Teaching kids how to actually read, write and do math would be nice, too.
"While it is impossible to retain and recover by deliberate volition old sources of religion and art that have been discredited, it is possible to expedite the development of the vital sources of a religion and art that are yet to be... by the courage of intelligence to follow whither social and scientific changes direct us." (p. 212)
Yes, by "discredited" he was taking about Judaism and Christianity
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