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THE CRISIS IN PUBLIC
EDUCATION-
And What You Can Do About It
by
Jeff Calkins
Does your child's school encourage children to honor their parents?
Is your child
saje
at school? Is he receiving a good
education? Today, many public schools often unknowingly work against parents,
failing to educate, even allowing violence and drugs to run
rampant.
It
is time to take a long, hard look at where your child goes to school.
T
HE VERY
purpose of
human life
revolves around
the family rela–
tionship. Parents
have a grave re–
sponsi bili ty to
protect their
children, and
OV E RSEE
their
education.
School is a dom–
inant influence in
your child's life–
it can be a great
help in raising
chi ldren, giving
them basic skills
and vital character
training-or it can
undo
all the good
yo u ' ve done at
home!
As a parent, what
do you want from
your child's school?
You probably de–
sire three basic qualities. First,
you
expe~t
the school to be safe.
You have a right to expect that
your child will not be
physica/ly
attacked.
Second, you expect the
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school todo a
reason~bly
.good job
of
educating
your child. You do
not send your child to school to
have him (or her) come back an
ílliterate ignoramos. Third, you
would hope the
school would ac–
quaint your child
with the
most im–
portant knowledge
of al/,
the purpose
of life, the plan of
God, the nature and
destiny of man. You
do not want your
child's education to
be totally
secular,
devoid of reference
to the
most impor–
tant
question,s of
Iife.
Yet today public
schools increasingly
do not provide
any
of these qualities. In
sorne countries, pub–
tic schools cannot,
by law, teach the
most
important
knowledge- be–
cause it is religious.
Yet, in addition,
they are even failing
in many instances to
protect your child,
failing to educate
bim or her- and,
occasionally, even indoctrinating
your child with a bias against
God's religion and his own par–
ents.
Of course, not all public
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