Posted on 07/23/2006 8:14:44 AM PDT by wintertime
The 1962 Supreme Court decision, Engel v. Vitale, started an irreversible march toward liberal indoctrination, primarily moral relativism. Successive court decisions, even to this day, continue to undermine moral and parental authority. The idea that schools could socialize children to value neutral codes of conduct and ethics is an oxymoronic absurdity. Of course, it was never the intent of liberals to offer value neutral anything. With God out of the way as the source of moral standards, the schools’ only concern was those pesky parents and their held-over religious beliefs. The war against parental authority was on.
"If you want to raise a bunch of amoral, pleasure-seeking, government dependent automatons that can’t figure out why jobs are moving off-shore, then keep them in public schools."
If the only problem were teaching children that two plus two is always four that could be corrected. How do you correct the belief that sex, self-esteem, self-indulgence, consensus and materialism are the most important things in life? How do you counter a belief that lying, cheating and stealing are legitimate means to an end if all ends are relative? How can you expect children to grow into ethical business leaders, politicians and citizens when the ethic has no basis other than the feel-good consensus of the moment?
I am amazed at how much Christian education material is available for homeschooling parents. A couple of the Christian bookshops in the area have an entire section devoted to homeschooling--and it's quite good material.
I just bought a set of the McGuffey readers at a garagse sale the other day. Amazing. An 8th grade education was something in those days. Plus the moral lessons would be completely verboten now - and they have poems praising God!
I'm going to give them to a homeschooling family as soon as I'm done reading them. After all, I never finished high school - I need to polish off my education.
:-)
Hmm... Polish off - doesn't that mean the same thing as "finish off"?
I just added it to my favorites. Looks very informative. Don't know if I could loathe public schools any more than I already do but I probably will be schocked anyway.
Schocked - it's time to take a nap. Or read McGuffey's Readers.
"What happens for those kids that cannot afford school?"
I would prefer that charity step in. But ultimately I think that's the future role the government schools will be filling in our society: educator of last resort.
"vouchers from tax funds, in the amount currently spent on each child in public school. "
It's not going to happen. The courts simply knock voucher programs down in short order.
I don't like vouchers, for two reasons. First, they're a political red herring. So-called "conservative" politicians propose them secure in the knowledge that the courts will not let them stand. This allows so-called "conservative" politicians to give the appearance of implementing change, while not actually doing it.
Second, there is no such thing as an educational program without strings attached. There will be controls over curriculum, teacher qualifications, etc.
Second, there is no such thing as an educational program without strings attached. There will be controls over curriculum, teacher qualifications, etc.
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Hopefully, the government schools will simply collapse like the Berlin Wall.
Government schools need three things: Students, money, and votes.
Every time a parent pulls their child from the government school, the government school loses a student, money, and votes. All it takes is a large enough bolus of parents and the government schools will disintegrate.
How can a fact be religiously neutral when all truth is of the Truth? :-)
Thank you! You are more than kind. I have my ups and downs and some serious holes - like mathematics....among others.
Never read the Uncle Arthur series. I read the Dick and Jane books in first grade, but I had learned how to read from comics so when I was 4 I was reading regular kids' books. Dick and Jane was so boring it made me hate school for the rest of my checkered career.
This probably belongs on a different thread, but how Catholic is your Catholic school? No nuns? lots of protestant teachers? Teaching from secular texts? How much better is that?
I am of the opinion that our current public school system is unconstitutional. This belief is based on the 1st amendment. Our religious beliefs are disregarded and cannot be upheld in the current PC anti-God atmosphere.
Because there's truth, then there's Truth.
I need the McGuffey spelling boock.
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