Government Schools

“I am as sure as I am of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.”

A.A. Hodge

Since it is illegal for students in our government schools to be taught from a Christian perspective, then it follows that they must be taught from a non (or anti) Christian perspective.

The result of non-Christian education is anti-Christian education. Government schools must be anti-Christian. They can be nothing else. Therefore, to send a child to a government school is to have them trained in an anti-Christian environment for 14,000 instructional hours. To get that much instruction from church a child would have to attend two hours a week for one hundred and forty years!

If you’re really against government-run, socialized programs, yank your kid off the yellow prison bus and just say no.

Government Education

In 1947 God was tossed out of public school with the Everson v Board of Education decision. Look it up and read the decision. Following this there has been a campaign to remove ANY iota of Protestant-Christian traditions from public school and life.

1962 - a verbal prayer offered in school is unconstitutional, even if it is both denominationally neutral and voluntarily participated in. Engel v Vitale

1965 - Freedom of sppech an dpress is guaranteed to students unless the topic is religious, at which time the speech becomes unconstitutional. Stein v Oshinsky

1965 - If a student prays over lunch, it is unconstitutional for him to pray aloud. Reed v Hoven

1969 - It is unconstitutional for a war memorial to be erected in the shape of a cross. Lowe V City of Eugene

1979 - It is unconstitutional for a kindergarten class to ask during a school assembly whose birthday is celebrated at Christmas. Florey v Sioux Fall School District

1980 - It is unconstitutional for the Ten Commandments to hang on the walls of a classroom. Stone v Graham

1984 - It is unconstitutional for a kindergarten class to recite: "God is great, God is goo, let us thank Him for our food." Wallace v Jaffree

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1987- In Virginia, a federal court ruled that homosexual newpapers may be distributed on a high school campus, but religious newpapers may not.

1988 - An elementary school principal in Denver removed the Bible from the school library.

1996- Ten year old James Gierke, of Omaha, was prohibited from reading his Bible during free time.

2000- Ohio's state motto, "With God all things are possible" was ruled unconstitutional by the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals because it expressed "a uniquely Christian thought".


One cannot separate life from Christianity. It is a medium in which we act out our lives. It teaches our children love, discipline, commitment and self-awareness.

Quotes

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
Anne Sullivan

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreck and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
Albert Einstein

Standardized Testing

In his book Human Efficiency, H.H. Goddard said, "standardized testing was a way to make lower classes recognize their own inferiority." The idea was that it would discourage them from breeding and having ambition. (Remember, Hitler got the idea of 'eugenics' from America) Note also that Goddard was the head of the Psychology Department at Princeton and had great influence over the minds of students.

Standardized tests tell everyone, including the child, whether you will succeed. They are among the verbal and non-verbal cues sent by teachers and administrators that shape self-doubt. Unfortunately this self-doubt isn't really reality; it is contrived based on a test that does not allow for individuality, imagination or particular strengths. Assessing children constantly and making sure everyone knows his or her rank is a recipe for empty children. Everyone is ranked according to these blasted tests; you are gifted, average, below average, special ed.; and you do not by in large, escape that rank.

Provisional self-esteem is another word we could use in place of self-doubt. Children's self-respect is made contingent on the certification of experts through the magic numbers or test scores. The children become dependent on the numbers, as do their parents. Self-respect or self-esteem is NOT self-generated as it was for Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, or the Wright Brothers.

QUOTE: "Education is the modern world's temporal religion" Bob Chase, president, National Education Assoc. , NEA TODAY, April 1997

Forced Schooling

Here is a little more information on forced or government schooling.
School was looked upon from the first decade of the twentieth century as a branch of industry and a tool of governance. Social managers of schooling were remarkably candid about what they were doing. In a speech he gave before businessmen prior to the 1st World War, Woodrow Wilson made this statement.

"We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks".

By 1917, the major administrative jobs in American schooling were under the control of a group referred to in the press of that day as "the Education Trust". The first meeting of this trust included representatives of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harvard, Stanford and the National Education Association. The chief end, wrote Benjamin Kidd, the British evolutionist, in 1918, was to "impose on the young the ideal of subordination". Yankee entrepreneurialism had to be extinguished, at least among the common population. Students had to learn to think of themselves as employees competing for the favor of management.

These men, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller Sr and Henry Ford had immense capital investments in mass production. They needed workers. Independent productive people had to go! This was just the beginning.

*much of the information comes from 'The Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto

Government Schools

I plan on posting some information about the history of government schools that is all verifiable if you know where to look. I will not attempt to do everything chronologically, as there is so much information. But, will give you quotes, statistics, etc. to show that public schools are not working.

In 1840 the literacy in the United States was between 92 and 100 percent. And they were reading books like Last of the Mohicans, which is a dense thicket of philosophy, history, culture, manners, politics, geography, and analysis of human motives and actions.

By 1940, the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for white, 80 percent for blacks. For all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were nevertheless literate. Six decades later, at the end of the twentieth century, 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of white couldn't read. Black illiteracy doubled and white illiteracy quadrupled. Think about this: we spend 3 to 4 times as much real money of schooling as we did sixty years ago, but sixty years ago virtually everyone could read.

Quote: Catherine Barrett, president of the National Education Association said, "Dramatic changes in the way we raise our children are indicated, particularly in terms of schooling...we will be agents of change."
In The Truth About American Schools, (1997, pg. 20) author Gerald Bracey in discussing the condition he termed 'overeducation' that "we must continue to produce an uneducated social class that will do.. the n_____ work:, a term he attributed to Kurt Vonnegut. This is a echo of a statement made by William Torrey Harris to Collis P. Huntington, the railroad tycoon, in the 1880's assuring Huntington that the new school institution was being "scientifically designed" to prevent 'overeducation' from happening.

If you think things have changed, stay tuned. There would have been no Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, George Washington and many others if they had been 'schooled' as we know it.