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7 HA T A RE O THE RS A RE SAY I NG
h4HIS BOOK PRESENTS AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME -ODERN PUBLIC
EDUCATION IN !MERICA HAS TOO OFTEN DEGENERATED INTO INDOCTRINATION IN
SECULAR HUMANISM 4HIS BOOKS PRESENTS THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMv
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h%VERYONE TRULY INTERESTED IN OUR CHILDREN OUR HOMES AND THE FUTURE OF
OUR BELOVED !MERICA SHOULD READ AND STUDY THIS BOOKv
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TO THE 5 3 -ILITARY FOR OVER MILLION INDEPENDENT CHURCH MEMBERS
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THE ANTI
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)NTRODUCTION
# HA PTE R / N E 7HY !RE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
# HA PTE R 4 W O $O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
# H A P T E R 4 H R E E -Y #HILD )S /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
# H A P T E R &O U R ! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
# H A P T E R & I V E 3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
# HA PTER 3 I X 'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
# H A P T E R 3 E V E N !RE 9OUR #HILDREN 5NEQUALLY 9OKED
# HA PTER % I G H T ,EADING 9OUR #HILDREN INTO THE 0ROMISED ,AND
OF (OMESCHOOLING AND #HRISTIAN 3CHOOLS
0OSTSCRIPT
! .OTE ON %NDNOTES AND &INDING 7EB 0AGES
%NDNOTES
)NDEX
&O RE W O RD
4# 0INCKNEY
RUCE 3HORTTS BOOK 4HE (ARSH 4RUTH ABOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS COMBINES
"LANGUAGE AND EMINENTLY SOUND REASONING 7HETHER ONE IS A PARENT
A SOUND "IBLICAL BASIS RIGOROUS RESEARCH STRAIGHTFORWARD EASILY READ
OR PARENT TO BE PASTOR CHURCH STAFF MEMBER OR EDUCATOR THIS BOOK
HAS MUCH TO OFFER )T IS BASED lRST OF ALL UPON A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING
OF 'ODS EDUCATIONAL MANDATE TO PARENTS )TS SECOND FOUNDATION IS A
THOROUGHLY DOCUMENTED DESCRIPTION OF THE INESCAPABLY ANTI #HRISTIAN
THRUST OF ANY GOVERNMENTAL SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE INEVITABLE RESULTS
MORAL RELATIVISM NO lXED STANDARDS ACADEMIC DUMBING DOWN FAR
LEFT PROGRAMS NEAR ABSENCE OF DISCIPLINE AND THE PERSISTENT BUT PITI
ABLE RATIONALIZATIONS OFFERED BY GOVERNMENT EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS
#HAPTER MAY PROVE TO BE ESPECIALLY ENLIGHTENING FOR IT PROVIDES
A BRIEF REVIEW OF EDUCATION IN !MERICA FROM 0ILGRIM DAYS THROUGH
FOUNDING OF THE lRST GOVERNMENTAL SCHOOL SYSTEM IN -ASSACHUSETTS
IN THE S UP TO MORE RECENT COURT DECISIONS AND ENDS WITH A
DEMONSTRATION OF THE HOPELESSNESS OF EVEN WELL MEANT GOVERNMENTAL
hSCHOOL REFORMv PROGRAMS
#HAPTER EFFECTIVELY EXPLODES THE EXCUSES SO OFTEN GIVEN FOR
LEAVING #HRISTIAN CHILDREN IN THE GOVERNMENTS hSPIRITUALLY MORALLY
AND ACADEMICALLY CORROSIVEv SCHOOLS )T WOULD BE HELPFUL TO READ THIS
CHAPTER AT LEAST TWICE /DDS ARE YOU WILL WANT TO DISCUSS ITS POINTS
WITH MORE THAN ONE FAMILY MEMBER AND OTHER #HRISTIANS
4HE LAST CHAPTER DISCUSSES THE ADVANTAGES AND EFFECTIVENESS OF
TRULY #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS AND HOMESCHOOLING AND PROVIDES NUMEROUS
SOURCES OF FURTHER INFORMATION MANY AS CONVENIENT AS THE )NTERNET
"Y THIS POINT 3HORTT WILL HAVE PEAKED YOUR INTEREST IN ALTERNATIVES TO
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SO YOU WILL REALLY APPRECIATE THIS HELP
,ET ME CLOSE WITH A QUOTE FROM #HAPTER h! #HRISTIAN EDUCA
TION MUST IMPART A #HRISTIAN WORLDVIEW IN WHICH THE SOVEREIGNTY OF
'OD AND THE CENTRAL ROLE OF *ESUS #HRIST IN HUMAN HISTORY AND AFFAIRS
ARE UNDERSTOOD BY EVERY #HRISTIAN CHILDv $O YOU REALLY THINK IT IS
&OREWORD
POSSIBLE FOR A CHILD TO RECEIVE SUCH AN EDUCATION IN A GOVERNMENTAL
SCHOOL
4 # 0INCKNEY WAS RAISED IN #HARLESTON 3# AND GRADUATED FROM 4HE #ITA
DEL %NTERING THE !IR &ORCE IN DURING HIS CAREER HE mEW THE & B & D &
AND 2& )N 6IET .AM HE mEW COMBAT MISSIONS !FTER RECEIVING AN -! IN )N
TERNATIONAL 2ELATIONS HE TAUGHT 0OLITICAL 3CIENCE AT THE !IR &ORCE !CADEMY ATTENDED
THE .ATIONAL 7AR #OLLEGE AND HAD ASSIGNMENTS IN THE !IR 3TAFF 3TATE $EPARTMENT
.ATIONAL 3ECURITY #OUNCIL STAFF AND THE STAFF OF THE 3ECRETARY OF $EFENSE
4 # HAS SINCE RETIREMENT BEEN ACTIVE IN 3OUTHERN "APTIST LIFE HAVING SERVED
ON THE 3"# %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE CHAIRED THE #OMMITTEE ON .OMINATIONS AND
THE /RDER OF "USINESS #OMMITTEE AND AS 3ECOND 6ICE 0RESIDENT 3INCE HE HAS
BEEN EDITOR OF 4HE "APTIST "ANNER A NEWSLETTER FOR CONSERVATIVE 3OUTHERN "APTISTS
0RE FA C E
h4HE END RESULT OF ALL EDUCATION IS A WORLDVIEWx
4HAT WORLDVIEW IS EITHER MAN CENTERED OR 'OD CENTEREDv
'LEN 3CHULTZ
IKE THE MOUNTAINS OF ICE THAT YEARLY lND THEIR WAY INTO OUR
,A SMALL PART OF THE REALITY THAT UNDERLIES EACH OF THEM 4HE EVIDENCE
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN SEAS THE CHAPTERS OF THIS BOOK REVEAL ONLY
OF THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ON OUR CHILDREN IS ALL
AROUND US 4HAT EVIDENCE WHICH IS INDEED MOUNTAINOUS HAS BEEN
DEVELOPED AND CHRONICLED OVER MANY YEARS BY INNUMERABLE JOURNALISTS
AND SCHOLARS
7HAT IS NOVEL IN THESE PAGES ARE NOT THE FACTS 4HEY HAVE BEEN
VERY ABLY REPORTED BY A HOST OF OTHERS )NSTEAD THIS BOOK SYNTHESIZES
AND CONDENSES THE VAST LABOR TO REVEAL WHAT ) WOULD DELICATELY TERM
OUR hGOVERNMENT SCHOOL PROBLEMv
9OU WILL NOTICE THAT ) HAVE INCLUDED MANY ENDNOTES 4HEY ARE
THERE TO POINT YOU IN THE DIRECTION OF SOURCES THAT CAN PROVIDE A DEEPER
UNDERSTANDING OF HOW PROFOUNDLY DAMAGING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE
TO CHILDREN AND ESPECIALLY #HRISTIAN CHILDREN 7HILE YOU ARE FREE
TO IGNORE THE NOTES ) HOPE THAT YOU WILL AT LEAST LOOK AT A FEW OF
THEM %VEN A CURSORY ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE WORK OF *OHN !NKERBERG
'EORGE "ARNA 3AMUEL "LUMENFELD #RAIG "RANCH 0ETER "REGGIN 0E
TER "RIMELOW !NDREW * #OULSON *OHN 4AYLOR 'ATTO #HARLES ,ESLIE
'LENN *R -ARTIN 'ROSS 0HILIP (AMBURGER ,LOYD *ORGENSON -YRON
,IEBERMAN *OYCE -ILTON % 2AY -OORE *R *UDITH ! 2EISMAN 2OU
SAS * 2USHDOONY 'LEN 3CHULTZ #HRISTINA (OFF
3OMMERS 4HOMAS
3OWELL #HARLES 3YKES *OHN 7ELDON AND -ARTIN -ORSE 7OOSTER TO
NAME A FEW WILL SHOW YOU THAT IN EVERY AREA THE PROBLEMS ARE FAR
DEEPER AND MORE ENTRENCHED THAN SPACE OR A READERS PATIENCE WILL AL
LOW ME TO PRESENT /F COURSE THE FACT THAT ) AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR THE
EFFORTS OF THE SCHOLARS AND JOURNALISTS ) CITE SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED
AS SUGGESTING THAT ANY OF THEM WOULD APPROVE OF THIS BOOK IN ANY
RESPECT
0REFACE
9OU SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT THIS BOOK DOESNT HAVE TO BE READ
CHAPTER BY CHAPTER FROM BEGINNING TO END %ACH CHAPTER CAN BE READ
ON ITS OWN $ONT WORRY THAT YOU WILL LOSE THE CONTINUITY OF THE ARGU
MENT IF YOU CHOOSE TO BEGIN SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE BEGINNING
4HE STORY CAN START AT ALMOST ANY POINT
!S A lNAL WORD ) SHOULD MENTION THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
LIKE ALL INSTITUTIONS INVOLVE A COMPLEX INTERACTION BETWEEN PEOPLE
INSTITUTIONAL CULTURE AND LEGAL RULES 4O AVOID GIVING OFFENSE MANY
#HRISTIAN CRITICS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE RELUCTANT TO CRITICIZE THE
hPEOPLEv SIDE OF THE PROBLEM ) AM NOT /THERWISE A MAJOR PART OF
WHAT IS WRONG WOULD BE WITHHELD FROM SCRUTINY #ONSEQUENTLY WITHIN
THESE PAGES GOVERNMENT SCHOOLTEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS IN GENERAL
COME IN FOR SOME MUCH DESERVED CRITICISM .EEDLESS TO SAY HOWEVER
WHAT IS TRUE IN GENERAL IS NEVER TRUE IN EVERY PARTICULAR CASE 4HERE IS STILL
A SIZEABLE REMNANT OF WONDERFUL TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS #HRISTIAN
AND OTHERWISE WHO STRUGGLE DAILY WITH THE STRANGE AND TOXIC PLACES GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME 4HEIR SPECIAL BURDENS AND FRUSTRATIONS COULD
BE THE SUBJECT OF SEVERAL BOOKS -OREOVER THIS REMNANT OFTEN PROVIDES
SOME OF THE MOST TRENCHANT CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS &OR THAT
REMNANT ) HAVE ADDED A BRIEF POSTSCRIPT BUT THIS BOOK THROUGHOUT
REMAINS ABOUT OUR CHILDREN AND WHAT WE MUST DO
) N TRO DU C TIO N
h) AM AFRAID THAT THE SCHOOLS WILL PROVE THE VERY GATES OF HELL
UNLESS THEY DILIGENTLY LABOR IN EXPLAINING THE (OLY 3CRIPTURES AND ENGRAV
ING THEM IN THE HEART OF THE YOUTHv
-ARTIN ,UTHER
TS A FAMILIAR ROUTINE 2OUGHLY DAYS A YEAR MILLIONS OF #HRISTIAN
) FAMILIES BEGIN THEIR DAY BY WAKING THEIR CHILDREN GIVING THEM BREAK
FAST AND HELPING THEM WASH THEIR FACES BRUSH THEIR TEETH GET DRESSED
AND COLLECT THEIR SCHOOLBOOKS 4HEY THEN DELIVER THEIR CHILDREN BY CAR
BUS OR FOOT TO A SEEMINGLY BENIGN UBIQUITOUS AND FAMILIAR INSTITU
TION THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL 4ODAY THIS RITUAL SEEMS UNEXCEPTIONABLE
-OST OF US AFTER ALL WENT THROUGH IT AS CHILDREN 4HE VAST MAJORITY
OF PARENTS DO IT AND IN THE PUBLICS MIND ATTENDING GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS IS VIRTUALLY SYNONYMOUS WITH GETTING AN EDUCATION
9ET THIS HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN SO &OR MOST OF !MERICAS HISTORY
INCLUDING THE COLONIAL PERIOD EDUCATION WAS PROVIDED PRIMARILY BY
FAMILIES AND THE CHURCH 4O THOSE EARLIER !MERICANS THE NOTION OF
ENTRUSTING THEIR CHILDRENS EDUCATION TO STRANGERS IN A SECULAR INSTI
TUTION WOULD HAVE BEEN UNTHINKABLE 7HEN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
MOVEMENT BEGAN TO EMERGE IN THE MIDDLE PART OF THE TH CENTURY
IT WAS STRONGLY RESISTED BY MANY PARENTS AND CLERGY ENOUGH SO THAT
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS COULD NOT FULLY TRIUMPH OVER !MERICAS ORIGINAL
EDUCATIONAL TRADITIONS UNTIL THE EARLY PART OF THE TH CENTURY 7E ARE
NOW SEVERAL GENERATIONS REMOVED FROM THAT CONTROVERSY AND UNFOR
TUNATELY VERY FEW EVEN KNOW IT EXISTED OR WHY
4HIS TRANSFORMATION OF !MERICAN EDUCATION HAS HAD PROFOUNDLY
DESTRUCTIVE CONSEQUENCES 4HE MOST OBVIOUS HAS BEEN THE EPIDEMIC
SPREAD OF IGNORANCE AND SEMI
LITERACY #ONTRARY TO THE HAPPY
TALK
FROM THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY AND MEDIA THAT TODAYS CHILDREN ARE THE
BEST EDUCATED EVER FEW PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN CAN READ OR WRITE PRO
lCIENTLY LET ALONE DO MATHEMATICS OR SCIENCE AT AN ADVANCED LEVEL
)NDEED MANY SCHOOLCHILDREN WOULD HAVE TROUBLE lNDING #HICAGO ON
A MAP AND BY THE TH GRADE !MERICAN CHILDREN ARE MATH AND SCIENCE
)NTRODUCTION
DUNCES BY INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
&OR #HRISTIAN PARENTS HOWEVER THIS IS FAR FROM THE MOST SERI
OUS PROBLEM WITH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS !MERICAN EDUCATION IS NOW
AGGRESSIVELY ANTI
#HRISTIAN BOTH SPIRITUALLY AND MORALLY 'OVERN
MENT SCHOOLS HAVE EFFECTIVELY BECOME PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS FOR SECULAR
HUMANISM AND MANY VARIETIES OF .EW !GE SPIRITUALITY -OREOVER FOR
DECADES THE UNACKNOWLEDGED MORAL CODE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAS
BEEN MORAL RELATIVISM 7HILE THE GENERAL CULTURAL TOLL INmICTED BY THE
SOCIAL AND MORAL VALUES PROPAGATED THROUGH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS
REmECTED IN LEVELS OF VIOLENCE DRUG USE AND SEXUAL IMMORTALITY THAT
WOULD HAVE BEEN ALMOST UNTHINKABLE BEFORE THE S THE DAMAGE TO
!MERICAN #HRISTIANITY HAS BEEN FAR MORE PROFOUND
4HAT DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED PRIMARILY BECAUSE THE VAST MAJORITY OF
#HRISTIAN PARENTS PERMIT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO hEDUCATEv THEIR CHIL
DREN 2ESEARCH BY THE .EHEMIAH )NSTITUTE SHOWS THAT CHILDREN FROM
#HRISTIAN HOMES WHO ATTEND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE lVE TIMES MORE
LIKELY TO ADOPT SUCH ANTI
#HRISTIAN DOGMAS AS MORAL RELATIVISM THAN
THOSE WHO ATTEND #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS 4HE DAMAGE IS ALSO PAINFULLY EVI
DENT FROM THE FACT THAT A SUBSTANTIAL MAJORITY OF CHILDREN FROM #HRIS
TIAN HOMES STOP ATTENDING CHURCH WITHIN TWO YEARS AFTER GRADUATING
FROM PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL )N FACT TEENAGERS TODAY ARE THE LEAST LIKELY
IN TWENTY YEARS TO CONTINUE ATTENDING CHURCH ONCE THEY LEAVE HOME
-ORE GENERALLY THE NUMBER OF !MERICANS WHO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES
AS #HRISTIANS DROPPED FROM TO BETWEEN AND
AND BY LATE ONLY OF !MERICANS BELIEVED THAT MORAL ABSOLUTE
TRUTH EXISTS DOWN FROM AT THE BEGINNING OF .ONE OF THIS
BODES WELL FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
!T POINTS THIS BOOK MAY SEEM HARSH )F SO IT IS ONLY BECAUSE THE
TRUTH ABOUT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS HARSH !S YOU WILL SEE ) HAVE DRAWN
UPON THE RESEARCH OF MANY AUTHORS WHO HAVE CAREFULLY EXAMINED SUCH
ISSUES AS THE INlLTRATION OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BY SECULAR HUMANISTS
AND .EW !GERS THE ACADEMIC FAILINGS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HOW
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE EFFECTIVELY BECOME THE NATIONS LARGEST DRUG
PUSHER AND HOW GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BOYS )
ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO TO THOSE SOURCES SO THAT YOU CAN DRAW YOUR OWN
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CONCLUSIONS "UT IF YOU DO ) THINK YOU ARE LIKELY TO CONCLUDE THAT THE
PROBLEMS ARE EVEN MORE ACUTE THAN ) HAVE DESCRIBED
4HE FACT IS THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE KILLING OUR CHILDREN
SPIRITUALLY MORALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY "UT MOST OF US DONT EVEN SEE
THE PROBLEM WE SIMPLY ASSUME THAT ALL IS WELL WITH OUR CHILDRENS
EDUCATION AS LONG AS OUR CHILDREN SEEM UNTROUBLED AND BRING HOME
h-Y #HILD IS ON THE (ONOR 2OLLv BUMPER STICKERS )N ESSENCE WE
HAVE ABDICATED OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN !S A CONSE
QUENCE WE HAVE SIMULTANEOUSLY PUT OUR CHILDREN IN HARMS WAY AND
HAVE FAILED TO NOTICE THAT THE hLITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSEv HAS EFFECTIVELY
BECOME A PAGAN SEMINARY NURTURING OUR CHILDREN IN ALIEN CREEDS
AND INFUSING THEM WITH FALSE VALUES 4HIS IN TURN IS TRANSFORMING OUR
FAMILIES OUR CHURCHES OUR CULTURE AND OUR SOCIETY
!RE WE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE .OT REALLY -OST OF US ATTENDED
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HEY ARE WHAT WE KNOW AND BECAUSE THEY ARE
FAMILIAR WE TEND NOT TO THINK MUCH ABOUT THEM LET ALONE CLOSELY SCRU
TINIZE WHAT THEY ARE DOING 'IVING OUR CHILDREN TO hEXPERTSv FOR THEIR
EDUCATION SEEMS TO BE A REASONABLE DIVISION OF LABOR n AN ARRANGEMENT
WE ARE ALSO NOT PRONE TO QUESTION BECAUSE IT IS CONVENIENT &RANKLY WE
HAVE BEEN LED TO THINK THAT THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN IS SOMEHOW
SOMEONE ELSES RESPONSIBILITY AND THAT IN ANY EVENT WE ARENT QUITE
UP TO THE TASK OURSELVES !ND IF WE ARE WILLING TO BE COMPLETELY HON
EST MANY OF US SHY AWAY FROM ASKING AWKWARD QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DOING BECAUSE WE FEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT
KNOWING MORE WOULD FORCE UPON US
4O SOME THIS PICTURE MAY SEEM TOO hDARKv !FTER ALL ARENT THERE
STILL #HRISTIAN TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS /F
COURSE "UT THE MERE PRESENCE OF SOME #HRISTIAN TEACHERS AND AD
MINISTRATORS DOESNT MEAN THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE RECEIVING A #HRISTIAN
EDUCATION &OR THOSE WHO CARE TO LOOK CAREFULLY IT IS PLAIN THAT THE
CURRICULA THE INSTITUTIONAL RULES AND MANY OF THOSE WORKING WITHIN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE AGGRESSIVELY PROMOTING ANTI
#HRISTIAN VALUES
AND AN ANTI
#HRISTIAN WORLDVIEW )N FACT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE BE
COME SO HOSTILE INSTITUTIONALLY TO #HRISTIANITY THAT #HRISTIAN TEACHERS
AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO ACTIVELY PROFESS THEIR FAITH WITHIN GOVERNMENT
)NTRODUCTION
SCHOOLS WILL BE DISMISSED OR DISCIPLINED IF THEY ARE hCAUGHTv -OREOVER
THE NUMBER OF GOOD TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS WHETHER #HRISTIAN
OR NOT HAS BEEN DWINDLING AS A RESULT OF RETIREMENT FRUSTRATION AND
AN INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE THAT PROTECTS INCOMPETENCE 4HE PROBLEM WE
FACE IS NOT UNDUE PESSIMISM BUT COMPLACENCY AND MISPLACED TRUST
3O WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT )T IS ABOUT THE MANY WAYS IN
WHICH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE HAZARDOUS TO CHILDREN AND ESPECIALLY
#HRISTIAN CHILDREN #HRISTIAN PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS NEED TO SEE
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FOR WHAT THEY REALLY ARE NOT FOR WHAT THEY CLAIM
TO BE OR FOR WHAT THEY ONCE WERE 4HIS BOOK IS ALSO ABOUT WHY GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS ARE UNREFORMABLE
WHY THEY CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT BE
EXPECTED TO PROVIDE THE #HRISTIAN EDUCATION THAT THE "IBLE ENJOINS
#HRISTIAN PARENTS TO PROVIDE TO THEIR CHILDREN &INALLY THIS BOOK IS
ABOUT RESTORING #HRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL TRADITIONS THROUGH #HRISTIAN
SCHOOLS AND HOMESCHOOLING )N SUM THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF
OUR CHILDREN OUR FAMILIES OUR CULTURE AND OUR FAITH
# ( ! 0 4 % 2 / . %
7 HY ! RE 9O U % DU C A T I NG
9OUR # HIL DRE N A T A 0A GA N 3 E M I NA R Y
h&OR AS A MAN THINKS SO HE ISxv
0ROVERBS
h;0=UBLIC EDUCATION IS THE PAROCHIAL EDUCATION
FOR SCIENTIlC HUMANISMv
*OE 2 "URNETT AN EDITOR OF 4HE (UMANIST
OURE A #HRISTIAN YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN YOU KNOW THAT THE "IBLE
9 INSTRUCTS YOU TO RAISE THEM IN THE NURTURE AND ADMONITION OF THE
,ORD 9ET YOU SEND THEM FOR THEIR EDUCATION TO AN INSTITUTION FROM
WHICH ALL VESTIGES OF #HRISTIANITY WERE DRIVEN OUT LONG AGO n AN INSTITU
TION THAT IS ALSO AWASH IN SECULAR HUMANIST AND NEO
PAGAN THEOLOGIES
4HAT INSTITUTION OF COURSE IS A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
$O YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE SOMEHOW RELI
GIOUSLY NEUTRAL #AN WE HONESTLY THINK THAT COMMITTING OUR CHILDREN
FROM THEIR EARLIEST YEARS TO THE CARE AND NURTURE OF SCHOOLS DOMINATED
BY SECULAR HUMANISM AND .EW !GE PAGANISM DOESNT HARM THEM
SPIRITUALLY $O YOU BELIEVE THAT WE ARE NOT COMMANDED TO GIVE OUR
CHILDREN AN EXPLICITLY #HRISTIAN EDUCATION !FTER READING THIS CHAPTER
YOU WILL AT LEAST KNOW WHAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DOING TO OUR
CHILDREN SPIRITUALLY
4HE ,ITTLE 2ED 3CHOOLHOUSE )S .OT 7HAT )T 5SED TO "E
)N A TIME NOW CULTURALLY FAR DISTANT #HRISTMAS AND %ASTER
HOLIDAYS WERE A SOURCE OF ANTICIPATION AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN AND
WERE CELEBRATED WITH PROGRAMS AND PAGEANTS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
)N FACT FOR THOSE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER 'OOD &RIDAY ALSO RECEIVED
SOME OFlCIAL RECOGNITION FROM THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS EVEN IF IT WAS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ONLY THE SMALL GESTURE OF ENDING SCHOOL EARLY IN HONOR OF 'OOD &RIDAY
SO THAT CHILDREN COULD ATTEND A CHURCH SERVICE OR A SHOWING OF h4HE
'REATEST 3TORY %VER 4OLDv AT THE LOCAL CINEMA "IBLES THEN WERE NOT
CONSIDERED CONTRABAND AND IN MOST SCHOOLS ORGANIZED PRAYER WAS IN
CLUDED AS A NORMAL PART OF THE SCHOOL DAY )N SUM WHILE GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS WERE NOT #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AT LEAST
SEEMED TOLERANT OF #HRISTIANITY
4ODAY OF COURSE EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED 0RAYER LONG AGO WAS
DRIVEN FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THROUGH A SERIES OF FEDERAL COURT
DECISIONS TOO WELL KNOWN TO BOTHER NAMING HERE "UT ELIMINATING
PRAYER FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WAS JUST THE BEGINNING .OW #HRIST
MAS CAROLS ARE TREATED AS IF THEY ARE hHATE SPEECHv #HRISTMAS PAGEANTS
ARE PROHIBITED h#HRISTMAS VACATIONv MUST NOW BE REFERRED TO AS
h7INTER BREAK v AND h%ASTER VACATIONv AS h3PRING BREAKv 'IDEONS
CAN NO LONGER GIVE AWAY "IBLES IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 3CHOOL BOARDS
HAVE REFUSED TO ALLOW POSTERS BEARING THE NATIONAL MOTTO h)N 'OD
7E 4RUSTv FOR FEAR OF GIVING OFFENSE !LMOST INCREDIBLY THE !#,5
EVEN DEMANDED THAT A #ALIFORNIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAKE DOWN A SIGN
SAYING h'OD "LESS !MERICAv THAT THE SCHOOL HAD PUT UP IN THE AFTER
MATH OF THE 3EPTEMBER TERRORIST ATTACKS %XAMPLES OF THIS
SORT ABOUND AND THEY ILLUSTRATE HOW MUCH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE
CHANGED SINCE TODAYS PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS ATTENDED THEM
(E 7HO )S .OT 7ITH -E )S !GAINST -E
!S TROUBLING AS THESE ISSUES ARE THEY ARE THE LEAST OF THE PROBLEMS
WITH THE hEDUCATIONv INmICTED ON #HRISTIAN CHILDREN BY GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS )N FACT EVEN IF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS RETURNED TODAY TO THE
ACCOMMODATION OF A FEW #HRISTIAN SYMBOLS AND RITUALS THEY WOULD STILL
BE AN UNlT PLACE FOR #HRISTIAN CHILDREN 7HY "ECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS BY LEGAL NECESSITY ARE COMMITTED TO A NON
#HRISTIAN WORLD
VIEW
6IRTUALLY EVERY #HRISTIAN KNOWS THAT BEGINNING IN THE S
AND ESPECIALLY IN THE S AND S THE 3UPREME #OURT CREATED
A NEW JURISPRUDENCE OF THE &IRST !MENDMENT IN WHICH THE #OURT
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
SOUGHT TO CREATE WHAT IT TERMED A hWALL OF SEPARATIONv BETWEEN CHURCH
AND STATE 4HE OBJECTIVE OF THE #OURTS DECISIONS WAS TO ELIMINATE FROM
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THE CORE OF THE #HRISTIAN CULTURE THAT CHARACTER
IZED !MERICAN SOCIETY SINCE ITS EARLIEST COLONIAL DAYS 4HE INTENT WAS
TO TRANSFORM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS INTO WHAT THE #OURT CONSIDERED
RELIGIOUSLY NEUTRAL SECULAR INSTITUTIONS
!S A RESULT OF FEDERAL COURT RULINGS OVER THE LAST SIX DECADES ON
THE MEANING OF THE RELIGION CLAUSES OF THE &IRST !MENDMENT SCHOOL
DISTRICTS AND ADMINISTRATORS HAVE STRUGGLED WITH lGURING OUT WHAT
THEY COULD LAWFULLY SAY AND DO REGARDING RELIGION )N RESPONSE PROFES
SIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SCHOOL SYSTEMS HAVE DEVELOPED GUIDELINES FOR
TEACHING ABOUT RELIGION
/NE OF THESE EFFORTS WAS A REPORT PRODUCED BY THE !MERICANS
5NITED 2ESEARCH &OUNDATION ENTITLED h2ELIGION IN THE 0UBLIC
3CHOOL #URRICULUM 1UESTIONS AND !NSWERSv 4HE REPORT SUGGESTS
THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES FOR MARKING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN TEACH
ING ABOUT RELIGION WHICH IS #ONSTITUTIONALLY PERMITTED AND RELIGIOUS
INDOCTRINATION WHICH IS NOT
s 4HE SCHOOLS APPROACH TO RELIGION IS ACADEMIC
NOT DEVOTIONAL
s 4HE SCHOOL STRIVES FOR STUDENT AWARENESS OF RELIGIONS BUT
DOES NOT PRESS FOR STUDENT ACCEPTANCE OF ANY ONE RELIGION
s 4HE SCHOOL SPONSORS STUDY ABOUT RELIGION NOT THE PRACTICE
OF RELIGION
s 4HE SCHOOL EXPOSES STUDENTS TO A DIVERSITY OF RELIGIOUS
VIEWS IT DOES NOT IMPOSE ANY PARTICULAR VIEW
s 4HE SCHOOL EDUCATES ABOUT ALL RELIGIONS IT DOES NOT
PROMOTE OR DENIGRATE ANY RELIGION
s 4HE SCHOOL INFORMS STUDENTS ABOUT VARIOUS BELIEFS IT DOES
NOT SEEK TO CONFORM STUDENTS TO ANY PARTICULAR BELIEF
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
)N A VERY GENERAL SENSE THIS SET OF GUIDELINES FAIRLY SUMMARIZES A
THEORY OF WHAT THE FEDERAL COURTS SHOULD PERMIT n RELIGIOUS INDIFFERENCE
-OHAMMED :OROASTER 7OTAN #HRIST 7HATEVER
)NDIFFERENCE AS 0ROGRESS
-ORE RECENTLY THE FEDERAL $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION ADOPTED
REGULATIONS REGARDING ACCOMMODATION OF RELIGIOUS SPEECH IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS !S DESCRIBED BY "RIAN *ONES A $/% ATTORNEY THOSE
REGULATIONS DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MOVE BEYOND THE EXISTING CASE LAW
CONCERNING RELIGIOUS SPEECH IN SCHOOLS h7HAT WE ARE TRYING TO DOx
IS BRING SOME CLARITY TO THE PERCEIVED FUZZINESS IN THE LAW BY LETTING
DISTRICTS KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE COURTS ARE SAYING AND STANDARDIZING
THAT VIEWv
)N TRUTH THE REGULATIONS ARE AN ATTEMPT TO REIN IN THE INCREAS
INGLY OVERT HOSTILITY TOWARD #HRISTIANITY MANIFESTED IN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY $ESPITE NOT DEPARTING FROM EXISTING LAW
THE $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATIONS NEW REGULATIONS HAVE DRAWN CRITI
CISM FROM LIBERAL GROUPS SUCH AS !MERICANS 5NITED FOR 3EPARATION
OF #HURCH AND 3TATE )N OTHER WORDS AN ATTEMPT TO RETURN TO MERE
hINDIFFERENCEv TOWARD #HRISTIANITY IS NOW VIEWED AS CONTROVERSIAL BY
LIBERALS AND UNFORTUNATELY AS PROGRESS BY #HRISTIANS
4HE NEW REGULATIONS NOTWITHSTANDING THOSE WITHIN THE EDUCA
TION ESTABLISHMENT WHO ARE OPPOSED TO #HRISTIANITY WILL CONTINUE
TO lND WAYS TO MAKE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT
FOR #HRISTIAN CHILDREN TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS 9OU CAN COUNT
ON IT
/UR /BLIGATION TO 'IVE /UR #HILDREN
A #HRISTIAN %DUCATION AND 4HE 3ILENCE OF THE 0ASTORS
%VEN THOUGH THE $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATIONS REGULATIONS MAY
PASS #ONSTITUTIONAL MUSTER THEY SCARCELY CONSTITUTE AN ACCEPTABLE AP
PROACH TO THE EDUCATION OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN .OR AS YOU WILL SEE DO
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
THEY REPRESENT WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING INSIDE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
/UR 'OD IS A JEALOUS 'OD 7E MAY NOT PUT OTHER GODS BEFORE
(IM AND WE CANNOT BE DOUBLE MINDED IN THE WAY WE LIVE OUR LIVES
!S *ESUS SAID IN -ATTHEW h(E WHO IS NOT WITH -E IS AGAINST
-Ev 0LAINLY AN EDUCATION THAT ATTEMPTS TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM A
COMMITMENT TO #HRISTIANITY AND TO TREAT ALL RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AS EQUAL
IS PROFOUNDLY ANTI
#HRISTIAN
4HE "IBLE REPEATEDLY INDICATES THAT CHILDREN ARE TO RECEIVE A
#HRISTIAN EDUCATION AND PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING IT 0AR
ENTS FOR EXAMPLE ARE DIRECTED TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN IN THE FEAR AND
ADMONITION OF THE ,ORD %PHESIANS -OREOVER THEIR OBLIGATION
IS NOT TO INSTRUCT CHILDREN IN THE 7ORD OCCASIONALLY BUT TO DO SO ALL
OF THE TIME $EUTERONOMY 9ET TODAY MOST #HRISTIAN PARENTS
BEHAVE AS IF THERE ARE PASSAGES IN THE "IBLE INSTRUCTING THEM TO GIVE THE
EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN OVER TO ANTI
#HRISTIAN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
AND TELLING THEM THAT EXPOSING THEIR CHILDREN TO #HRISTIANITY TWO OR
THREE HOURS A WEEK IS SUFlCIENT
!BOUT OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN ATTEND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
BUT THE MESSAGE THAT #HRISTIAN PARENTS ARE OBLIGATED TO PROVIDE A
#HRISTIAN EDUCATION TO THEIR CHILDREN IS SELDOM HEARD FROM THE PULPIT
#AN YOU IMAGINE A SIMILAR SILENCE IF OF A CONGREGATIONS PAR
ENTS WITH SCHOOL
AGE CHILDREN HAD A hDRUG PROBLEMv OR AN hADULTERY
PROBLEMv &OR FAR TOO LONG AND FOR FAR TOO MANY #HRISTIAN PARENTS
AND CHURCHES THIS HAS BEEN AN AREA OF SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS 2EGRETTABLY
WE HAVE FAILED TO GIVE OUR CHILDREN A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION BECAUSE WE
HAVE BEEN HEARERS OF THE WORD RATHER THAN DOERS OF THE WORD *AMES
4HE 4HEOLOGIES OF THE 'OVERNMENT 3CHOOL
!NY #HRISTIAN WHO BELIEVES THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS OPERATE
ON RELIGIOUSLY NEUTRAL PRINCIPLES IS DECEIVED 4HERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS METAPHYSICAL NEUTRALITY )F A SOCIETY OR AN INSTITUTION REJECTS THE
"IBLES TEACHING ABOUT THE NATURE OF 'OD MAN AND THE UNIVERSE THEN
IT NECESSARILY ACCEPTS IMPLICITLY OR EXPLICITLY SOME OTHER WORLDVIEW
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
WHETHER IT BE THE MATERIALIST METAPHYSICS OF SECULAR HUMANISM THE
COSMIC HUMANISM OF THE .EW !GE RELIGIONS OR SOMETHING ELSE 'OV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE NO EXCEPTION
4HE NET RESULT OF THE LAST lFTY YEARS OR SO OF 3UPREME #OURT RULINGS
ON THE MEANING OF THE %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE OF THE #ONSTITUTION HAS
NOT BEEN TO CREATE A LEVEL PLAYING lELD FOR DIFFERENT BELIEFS BUT SIMPLY
TO TAKE ALL VESTIGES OF #HRISTIANITY OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4ODAY
SECULAR HUMANISM .EW !GE MYSTICISM AND OTHER FORMS OF PAGANISM
PERVADE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AT ALL LEVELS 4HE TEACHERS UNIONS SUCH
AS THE .%! ARE OPENLY HOSTILE TO #HRISTIANITY AND ITS VALUES AND
THE CURRICULA OF SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION FROM WHICH THE OVERWHELMING
MAJORITY OF TEACHERS ARE DRAWN ARE SUFFUSED WITH A M£LANGE OF SECULAR
HUMANIST .EW !GE AND OTHER WORLDVIEWS .OT SURPRISINGLY TEXTBOOK
PUBLISHERS ACCOMMODATE THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENTS WORLDVIEW BY
PROVIDING TEXTBOOKS THAT CONFORM TO THE PREVAILING ANTI
#HRISTIAN
PERSPECTIVE OF THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT
3ECULAR (UMANISM AND 'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS
&OR AT LEAST THE BETTER PART OF A CENTURY A VERSION OF HUMANISM
OFTEN TERMED hSECULAR HUMANISM v AND #HRISTIANITY HAVE BEEN THE
TWO MAJOR CONTENDING WORLDVIEWS IN !MERICA !T THE CORE OF SECULAR
HUMANISM IS A MATERIALIST METAPHYSICS !CCORDING TO THAT WORLDVIEW
MATTER ENERGY AND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE WHAT ULTIMATELY EXIST AND
THEY CAN EXPLAIN EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS
4HE (UMANIST -ANIFESTO OF WAS PERHAPS THE lRST BROADLY
INmUENTIAL AND COHERENT !MERICAN STATEMENT OF THE TENETS OF SECULAR
HUMANISM 4HE -ANIFESTOS AUTHORS WHO INCLUDED THE EDUCATION
THEORIST *OHN $EWEY EXPLICITLY CHARACTERIZED THEIR VIEWS AS hRELIGIOUSv
!S THEY WERE QUICK TO POINT OUT HOWEVER THEIR hRELIGIONv WAS NOT
TRADITIONAL 2ATHER THE AUTHORS OF THE -ANIFESTO SIMPLY STATED THAT
THE -ANIFESTO ARTICULATED THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS ABOUT hMATTERS OF
lNAL CONCERNv n EG THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE WHAT EXISTS THE PLACE
OF -AN IN THE UNIVERSE AND SO ON #ONSEQUENTLY THEIR PROJECT WAS TO
SET FORTH A NEW SECULAR VIEW OF REALITY THAT THEY BELIEVED WOULD BETTER
lT THE NEEDS OF THE AGE
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
7HAT EXACTLY IS THE WORLDVIEW OF THE (UMANIST -ANIFESTO
!MONG OTHER THINGS $EWEY AND THE OTHER AUTHORS
s 2EGARDED THE UNIVERSE AS SELF EXISTING AND NOT CREATED
s "ELIEVED THAT MAN IS A PART OF NATURE AND THAT HE EMERGED AS
A PART OF A CONTINUOUS EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
s (ELD AN ORGANIC VIEW OF LIFE AND REJECTED MINDBODY
DUALISM
s 2EJECTED AS SCIENTIlCALLY UNACCEPTABLE ANY PURPORTED SUPER
NATURAL OR COSMIC GUARANTEE OF HUMAN VALUES
s 7ERE CONVINCED THAT THE TIME HAD PASSED FOR RELIGIOUS VIEWS
SUCH AS THEISM AND DEISM
s #ONSIDERED THE COMPLETE REALIZATION OF HUMAN PERSONALITY
TO BE THE END OF MANS LIFE
s !DVOCATED ESTABLISHMENT OF A hSOCIALIZED AND COOPERATIVE
ECONOMIC ORDERv
s !SSERTED THAT THE PURPOSE AND PROGRAM OF HUMANISM IS THE
INTELLIGENT EVALUATION TRANSFORMATION CONTROL AND DIREC
TION OF ALL ASSOCIATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR THE FULlLLMENT OF
HUMAN LIFE
4HE EXTENT OF THE INmUENCE OF THE -ANIFESTO ITSELF IS A MATTER FOR
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH 7HAT IS CERTAIN HOWEVER IS THAT THE IDEAS EMBODIED
IN THE -ANIFESTO WERE TREMENDOUSLY INmUENTIAL .OWHERE DID THOSE
IDEAS RESULT IN A MORE RADICAL CHANGE THAN IN !MERICAN EDUCATION
%STABLISHING 3ECULAR (UMANISM
4HE TRIUMPH OF SECULAR HUMANISM IN !MERICAN SCHOOLS HAS NOT
BEEN THE RESULT OF LEGISLATION OR POPULAR CLAMOR IT WAS IMPOSED BY THE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
FEDERAL COURTS !S ADOPTED THE &IRST !MENDMENT TO THE #ONSTITUTION
PROHIBITS AMONG OTHER THINGS BOTH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION AND
INTERFERENCE IN THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT )T
WAS NOT A GRANT OF POWER TO #ONGRESS OR THE FEDERAL COURTS AUTHORIZING
THEM TO INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN STATE ACTIONS TOUCHING UPON RELIGION
!ND INDEED THE RELIGION CLAUSES OF THE &IRST !MENDMENT WERE NOT
MUCH LITIGATED UNTIL AFTER THE 3UPREME #OURTS DECISION IN %VERSON V
"OARD OF %DUCATION IN
%VERSON AND THE 4RANSFORMATION OF 'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS
)N %VERSON THE 3UPREME #OURT UPHELD A .EW *ERSEY SCHOOL BOARD
RESOLUTION DIRECTING THAT ALL PARENTS WHOSE CHILDREN MUST RIDE PUBLIC
BUSES TO SCHOOL BE REIMBURSED FOR THE AMOUNT OF THE FARES %VERSON IS
TYPICALLY DESCRIBED AS A TAXPAYER SUIT IN WHICH THE PLAINTIFF OBJECTED
THAT THE REIMBURSEMENT OF BUS FARE VIOLATED THE %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE
BECAUSE SOME OF THE PARENTS REIMBURSED WERE SENDING THEIR CHILDREN
TO #ATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS 4HIS MUCH IS TRUE "UT IT SHOULD ALSO
BE POINTED OUT THAT THE PLAINTIFF !RCH %VERSON WAS A MEMBER OF
THE .EW *ERSEY CHAPTER OF THE *UNIOR /RDER OF 5NITED !MERICAN -E
CHANICS A NATIVIST ORGANIZATION THAT HAD OFTEN ALLIED ITSELF WITH THE
+LAN !CCORDING TO LEGAL HISTORIAN 0HILIP (AMBURGER h)N THE S
AFTER THE DECLINE OF THE +LAN THE *UNIOR /RDER CONTINUED TO STAND @AT
THE PORTALS OF OUR !MERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM TO GUARD IT FROM
SECTARIAN AND FOREIGN INmUENCEv )N OTHER WORDS THE *UNIOR /RDER
VIEWED ITS ROLE IN LARGE PART AS hPROTECTINGv GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FROM
#ATHOLICISM .OT SURPRISINGLY ALTHOUGH !RCH %VERSONS NAME WAS ON
THE PLEADINGS THE *UNIOR /RDER WAS THE REAL FORCE BEHIND THE CASE
%VERSON REmECTED A SOCIAL CLIMATE DURING THE DECADE OF THE S
IN WHICH #ATHOLICISM CONTINUED TO BE VIEWED WITH SUSPICION BY SIG
NIlCANT PARTS OF !MERICAN SOCIETY !S IN THE PAST THE NATIVISTS WERE
NOT ALONE IN THEIR HOSTILITY TOWARDS #ATHOLICISM -ANY SECULAR LIBERALS
WERE ANGERED BY THE #ATHOLIC #HURCHS OPPOSITION TO COMMUNISM
AND MANY hTHEOLOGICALLY AND POLITICALLY LIBERALv 0ROTESTANTS AND *EWS
CONSIDERED #ATHOLICISM hDIVISIVEv &URTHER ISSUES TOUCHING ON
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
EDUCATION WERE UNDOUBTEDLY POINTS OF GREAT SENSITIVITY FOR !MERICAN
LIBERALS AND NATIVISTS WHOSE ABILITY TO FORCE CHILDREN INTO GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS HAD BEEN FORECLOSED BY THE 3UPREME #OURTS RULING IN
0IERCE V 3OCIETY OF 3ISTERS
7HILE THE 3UPREME #OURT REJECTED THE ARGUMENT THAT THE %STAB
LISHMENT #LAUSE HAD BEEN VIOLATED IT ALSO FOR THE lRST TIME FOUND THAT
THE %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE OF THE &IRST !MENDMENT APPLIED TO THE STATES
AS A RESULT OF THE ADOPTION OF THE TH !MENDMENT )N HIS OPINION FOR
THE #OURT *USTICE "LACK A FORMER $EMOCRAT 3ENATOR FROM !LABAMA
APPOINTED TO THE #OURT BY &RANKLIN $ELANO 2OOSEVELT ALSO LAID DOWN
THE NOW WELL
KNOWN DOCTRINE THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE %STABLISHMENT
#LAUSE IS TO ERECT hA WALL OF SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATEv
4HE SUBTLETY OF *USTICE "LACKS RULING WAS LOST FOR A TIME ON THE
SUPPORTERS OF THE PLAINTIFF IN %VERSON )NDEED THERE WAS A KEEN SENSE OF
BETRAYAL "LACK AFTER ALL HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE +LAN WHO hHAD LONG
BEFORE SWORN UNDER THE LIGHT OF mAMING CROSSES TO PRESERVE @THE SACRED
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF @FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND @SEPARATION OF CHURCH
AND STATE 3UBSEQUENTLY HE HAD ADMINISTERED THIS OATH TO THOUSANDS
OF OTHERS IN SIMILAR CEREMONIESxv *IM %SDALE A 'RAND $RAGON OF
THE +LAN AND +LAN COLLEAGUE OF "LACK HAD ALSO NOTED THAT h(UGO COULD
MAKE THE BEST ANTI
#ATHOLIC SPEECH YOU EVER HEARDv /F COURSE WHEN
HIS +LAN MEMBERSHIP WAS DISCOVERED SHORTLY AFTER HIS CONlRMATION TO
THE 3UPREME #OURT "LACK DISTANCED HIMSELF FROM THE +LAN
%VEN THOUGH "LACK HAD OSTENSIBLY RETIRED HIS SHEETS BY THE TIME
HE REACHED THE 3UPREME #OURT HE CONTINUED TO FEED HIS +LAN
PERIOD
VIEWS OF THE #ATHOLIC #HURCH BY READING THE hRESPECTABLEv ANTI
#ATHO
LIC WRITINGS OF THE SECULAR HUMANIST AND LIBERAL 0AUL "LANSHARD 4HUS
ITS NOT SURPRISING THAT HAVING WRITTEN AN OPINION RULING IN FAVOR OF
A STATE EXPENDITURE THAT INDIRECTLY BENElTED #ATHOLIC SCHOOLS *USTICE
"LACK WAS AT LEAST INITIALLY EXCORIATED BY LIBERALS AND NATIVISTS ALIKE
"LACK HOWEVER KNEW WHAT HE WAS ABOUT !S NOTED BY 0HILIP
(AMBURGER hIN A CONVERSATION WITH A CLERK HE ;"LACK= ALLUDED TO
IT ;THE %VERSON RULING= AS A 0YRRHIC VICTORYv 4HIS ALSO IN TIME WAS
APPRECIATED BY AT LEAST SOME SUPPORTERS OF AN EXPANSIVE VIEW OF THE
hSEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATEv &OR EXAMPLE *OSEPH -ARTIN $AW
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
SON A LIBERAL "APTIST LEADER AND SUPPORTER OF %VERSONS SUIT AGAINST
THE .EW *ERSEY SCHOOL BOARD ULTIMATELY DECLARED h;7=E HAD LOST THE
BATTLE BUT WON THE WARv
)T IS AT LEAST SOMEWHAT IRONIC THAT AN UNRECONSTRUCTED EX
+LANSMAN
WROTE THE OPINION IN WHAT HAS PROVED TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE IN
%STABLISHMENT #LAUSE JURISPRUDENCE AND THAT %VERSON WAS EFFECTIVELY
SERVED UP TO THE 3UPREME #OURT BY AN ORGANIZATION THAT SHARED THE VIEWS
OF THE +LAN ON THE ISSUE AT STAKE IN THAT CASE 7E MUST WONDER TOO IF
THE MEMBERS OF THE 3UPREME #OURT WHO HAVE SUBSEQUENTLY ELABORATED
ON THE hSEPARATIONv PRINCIPLE IN %VERSON HAVE REALLY UNDERSTOOD THE
ORIGINS OF THE JURISPRUDENCE THEY HAVE BEEN APPLYING
4HE -EANING OF %VERSON
!S A PRACTICAL MATTER %VERSON MADE THE FEDERAL COURTS THE ARBITER
OF WHAT THE STATES COULD AND COULD NOT DO IN THE AREA OF RELIGION
.EVER MIND THAT FOR THE ROUGHLY EIGHTY YEARS FOLLOWING THE ADOPTION
OF THE TH !MENDMENT NO FEDERAL COURT HAD CLAIMED OR NOTICED THAT
IT HAD THIS POWER .EVER MIND ALSO THAT A FEW YEARS AFTER THE ADOPTION
OF THE TH !MENDMENT THE #ONGRESS REJECTED A PROPOSED #ONSTITU
TIONAL AMENDMENT KNOWN AS THE "LAINE !MENDMENT WHICH HAD AS ITS
EXPRESS PURPOSE THE APPLICATION OF THE RELIGION CLAUSES TO THE STATES
7HATEVER THE REASONS GIVEN BY THE 3UPREME #OURT FOR ITS ACTIONS
IN %VERSON THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THE #OURT SIMPLY DECIDED
THAT IT WAS TIME FOR THE FEDERAL COURTS TO FORCE THE TRANSFORMATION OF
!MERICAN CULTURE AND ITS INSTITUTIONS n INCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS 7HAT KIND OF TRANSFORMATION ! TRANSFORMATION IN WHICH
*USTICE "LACKS hWALL OF SEPARATIONv LANGUAGE WAS TO BE INTERPRETED
EVENTUALLY AS REQUIRING THE ELIMINATION ALL TRACES OF A #HRISTIAN WORLD
VIEW FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND MORE GENERALLY THE PUBLIC POLI
CIES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE STATES )N EFFECT %VERSON MADE
THE THOROUGH SECULARIZATION OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS A MISSION OF THE
FEDERAL COURTS )T ALSO PLACED A POWERFUL WEAPON IN THE HANDS OF THE
ENEMIES OF #HRISTIANITY
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
5NTIL THE S THE PUBLIC POLICY BATTLES FOUGHT BY #HRISTIANS
INVOLVING EDUCATION PREDOMINANTLY CONCERNED RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS AND
OBSERVANCES IN SCHOOLS AID TO RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS AND THE TEACHING OF
EVOLUTION #HRISTIANS LOST THESE BATTLES DECISIVELY 4HE 3UPREME #OURT
LONG AGO OUTLAWED PRAYER AND OTHER FORMS OF RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 3IMILARLY THE 3UPREME #OURT HAS PROHIBITED AID
TO RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS EXCEPT UNDER VERY LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES $AR
WINIAN EVOLUTION IS NOW WELL
ENTRENCHED DOGMA IN MOST GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS )N FACT $ARWINS THEORY OF EVOLUTION EVEN ENJOYS A MEASURE
OF LEGAL PROTECTION AGAINST COMPETITION AS A RESULT OF A 3UPREME
#OURT DECISION HOLDING THAT ,OUISIANA COULD NOT MANDATE THE TEACH
ING OF CREATIONISM ALONGSIDE EVOLUTION BECAUSE CREATIONISM THE COURT
CLAIMED IS ESSENTIALLY A RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE
)N ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE EVOLUTION WARS THE +ANSAS 3TATE
"OARD OF %DUCATION IN REMOVED MOST OF THE REFERENCES TO
$ARWINS THEORY OF EVOLUTION FROM THE STATES EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
4HIS HAD THE PRACTICAL EFFECT OF LEAVING +ANSAS SCHOOL DISTRICTS FREE
TO SET THEIR OWN CURRICULUM STANDARDS FOR THE TEACHING OF EVOLUTION
AND ALSO ASSURED THAT EVOLUTION WOULD NOT BE TESTED ON NEW STATEWIDE
SCIENCE TESTS .O DISTRICT WAS PROHIBITED FROM TEACHING EVOLUTION AND NO
DISTRICT WAS REQUIRED TO TEACH ANY COMPETING THEORY 9ET EVEN THIS MODEST
VICTORY WAS SHORT LIVED 4WO YEARS LATER A NEW SCHOOL BOARD RESTORED
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION TO THE STATE STANDARDS IN EFFECT RETURNING THE
THEORY OF EVOLUTION TO ITS MONOPOLY POSITION WITHIN +ANSAS GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS
4HUS WHILE #HRISTIANS HAVE DIVERGENT VIEWS ON MATTERS OF ORI
GINS AND CREATION IT IS A MEASURE OF THE INmUENCE OF SECULAR HUMANISM
IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THAT THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT BROOKS NO
OPPOSITION TO THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
4HE .EW 0AGANISM
)N HAVING ENJOYED MORE SUCCESS IN TRANSFORMING !MERI
CAN CULTURE AND EDUCATION THAN THEY COULD HAVE IMAGINED IN
HUMANISTS RESTATED AND REAFlRMED THEIR GOSPEL IN THE (UMANIST -ANI
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
FESTO )) 4HE (UMANIST -ANIFESTO )) REITERATED THE SAME ANTI
#HRISTIAN
THEMES OF THE ORIGINAL -ANIFESTO "UT IT ALSO DISCARDED THE RHETORIC
OF RELIGION CONTAINED IN THE ORIGINAL -ANIFESTO AND FOCUSED FAR MORE
EXPLICITLY ON SOCIAL AND MORAL ISSUES THAN ITS PREDECESSOR )TS DEVOTEES
WERE INSTRUCTED FOR EXAMPLE THAT ABORTION SHOULD BE LEGAL NATIONAL
ISM SHOULD BE REJECTED WAR IS OBSOLETE THE EARTH MUST BE CONSIDERED
A SINGLE ECOSYSTEM AND hMORAL VALUES DERIVE THEIR SOURCE FROM HUMAN
EXPERIENCE %THICS IS AUTONOMOUS AND SITUATIONAL NEEDING NO THEO
LOGICAL OR IDEOLOGICAL SANCTION %THICS STEMS FROM HUMAN NEED AND
INTERESTv
2ELIGIOUS (UMANISM AND THE .EW !GE
4HE PUBLICATION OF THE (UMANIST -ANIFESTO )) COINCIDED ROUGHLY
WITH THE HIGH TIDE OF SECULAR HUMANISMS INmUENCE WITHIN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS "EGINNING IN THE S HOWEVER NEW FORMS OF RELIGIOUS HU
MANISM BASED ON VARIOUS NEO
PAGAN ENVIRONMENTAL SPIRITUALIST AND
OTHER OCCULT BELIEFS OFTEN LOOSELY LABELED AS THE .EW !GE MOVEMENT
STARTED INlLTRATING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )N ESSENCE MUCH OF THE .EW
!GE MOVEMENT INCORPORATES THE hTRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGYv THAT GREW
OUT OF THE WORK OF #ARL 2OGERS AND !BRAHAM -ASLOW IN THE S
ALONG WITH VARIOUS FORMS OF EASTERN MYSTICISM AND THE OCCULT /NE
HANDBOOK ON CULTS EXPLICITLY DESCRIBES THE .EW !GE MOVEMENT THIS
WAY
4HE CENTRAL VISION OF THE .EW !GE IS ONE OF RADICAL MYSTICAL
TRANSFORMATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL )T INVOLVES AN AWAKEN
ING TO SUCH NEW REALITIES AS A DISCOVERY OF PSYCHIC ABILITIES THE
EXPERIENCE OF PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING THE EMERGENCE
OF NEW POTENTIALS WITHIN ONESELFx THE ACCEPTANCE OF A NEW PIC
TURE OF THE UNIVERSE 4HE ESSENCE OF THE .EW !GE IS THE IMPOSI
TION OF THAT PERSONAL VISION ONTO SOCIETY AND THE WORLD 4HUS
THE .EW !GE IS ULTIMATELY A VISION OF THE WORLD TRANSFORMED A
HEAVEN ON EARTH A SOCIETY IN WHICH THE PROBLEMS OF TODAY ARE
OVERCOME AND A NEW EXISTENCE EMERGES
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
.EW !GE SPIRITUALITY DENIES THE EXISTENCE OF OUR TRANSCENDENT 'OD
)NSTEAD IT OFTEN PREACHES A KIND OF PANTHEISM ALL IS GOD OR PANENTHE
ISM ALL IS BECOMING GOD
/VER THE LAST THIRTY YEARS THE INmUENCE OF THE .EW !GE MOVE
MENT HAS PERHAPS ECLIPSED SECULAR HUMANISM AS THE PRIMARY AGENT OF
ANTI
#HRISTIAN INmUENCE WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ! FEW EXAMPLES
WILL ILLUSTRATE WHAT IS GOING ON
7HAT A &RIEND 7E (AVE IN 'ANESHA
)MAGINE ASKING YOUR CHILD SOME EVENING WHAT HE LEARNED IN
SCHOOL AND HAVING HIM RESPOND h.OTHING MUCH 7E MADE IMAGES
OF A (INDU GOD 'ANESHA AND LEARNED THAT WHEN WE REMOVE A PLANT
FROM THE GARDEN OR CUT DOWN A TREE WE SHOULD PRAY TO -OTHER %ARTH
TO ASK HER PERMISSION /H HAVE YOU SEEN THIS REALLY NEAT CARD GAME
WITH DEMONS AND VAMPIRES THAT HELP ME LEARN MATH 7E GET TO CAST
SPELLS AND SACRIlCE PEOPLE AND EVERYTHINGv !CTUALLY FOR SOME OF THE
PARENTS OF "EDFORD #ENTRAL 3CHOOL $ISTRICT IN .EW 9ORK THE CURRICU
LUM INCLUDED ALL THAT AND MORE
)N THE LATE S SOME PARENTS BECAME CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT
WAS BEING TAUGHT IN THE "EDFORD #ENTRAL 3CHOOL $ISTRICT SCHOOLS WHEN
THEY DISCOVERED THAT THEIR CHILDREN WERE PLAYING A CARD GAME CALLED
h-AGIC 4HE 'ATHERINGv AS PART OF SCHOOL
SANCTIONED EXTRACURRICULAR
ACTIVITIES )N THE GAME PLAYERS COMPETE BY ACCUMULATING hMANA v
WHICH IS CHARACTERIZED AS hPOWER THAT COMES FROM THE EARTHv 4HE
GAME ALSO INVOLVED CASTING SPELLS AND RITUALISTIC HUMAN SACRIlCE
-OREOVER THE IMAGERY ON THE CARDS WAS TROUBLING /NE CARD FOR
EXAMPLE DEPICTED A FRIGHTENED WOMAN WITH A HAND HOLDING HER HEAD
DOWN AND A LARGE KNIFE AT HER THROAT !NOTHER CARD SHOWED A MAN
WITH A KNIFE ABOUT TO BE DRIVEN INTO HIS HEART AND WAS INSCRIBED WITH
THE WORDS h3ACRIlCE ONE OF YOUR CREATURES TO ADD TO YOUR MANA POOL A
NUMBER OF BLACK MANA EQUAL TO THAT CREATURES CASTING COSTv &URTHER
INQUIRY BY THE PARENTS UNCOVERED PAGAN h%ARTH $AYv RITUALS AND OTHER
STRANGE PRACTICES WITHIN THE "EDFORD SCHOOLS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
!S A RESULT OF THEIR INVESTIGATION THESE PARENTS lLED A LAWSUIT
ALLEGING PRACTICES WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT IN THEIR TOTALITY IN
VOLVED hTHE PROMOTION OF 3ATANISM AND OCCULTISM PAGAN RELIGIONS
AND A .EW !GE 3PIRITUALITYv 4HOSE PRACTICES INCLUDED AMONG OTHER
THINGS
s 4EACHERS PLAYING AN AUDIO
TAPE IN CLASS CALLED h,ISTENING
TO .ATUREv THAT USED A BACKGROUND OF FOREST AND OCEAN
SOUNDS TO PRESENT PRAYERS AND INVOCATIONS REmECTING .ORTH
!MERICAN )NDIAN ANIMIST RELIGIOUS BELIEFS SUCH AS THE FOL
LOWING 4AOS )NDIAN CREED h4HE -OTHER OF US ALL IS THE
%ARTH 4HE &ATHER IS THE 3UN 4HE 'RANDFATHER IS THE
#REATOR WHO BATHED US WITH HIS MIND AND GAVE LIFE TO ALL
THINGS 4HE "ROTHER IS THE BEASTS AND TREES 4HE 3ISTER IS
THAT WITH WINGS 7E ARE CHILDREN OF THE EARTH AND DO IT NO
HARM IN ANY WAY NOR DO WE OFFEND THE 3UN BY NOT GREET
ING IT AT DAWN 7E PRAISE OUR 'RANDFATHER FOR HIS CREATION
7E SHARE THE SAME BREATH TOGETHER THE BEASTS THE TREES
THE BIRDS AND THE MANv
s !N %ARTH $AY CEREMONY INVOLVED THE hERECTION OF SYMBOL
IC STRUCTURES EQUAL TO AN ALTAR AND A CHORUS OF DRUMS PLAY
ING THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATIONSv AND THE PRESENTATION OF
GIFTS TO THE EARTH
s ! TEACHER DURING THE %ARTH $AY CEREMONY TAUGHT THAT
h;W=E CAME FROM THE EARTH WE ARE PART OF THE EARTH AND
WE ARE ALL INVOLVED IN THIS CYCLE /NE DAY WE WILL BECOME
;DEAD= AND THEN WELL GO BACK TO THE EARTHv
s 3TUDENTS WERE TAUGHT HOW TO PRAY TO h-OTHER %ARTHv
s ! STUDENT NEWSPAPER REPORTED THAT TEACHERS URGED STUDENTS
TO DEIFY THE EARTH AND DO SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE
-OTHER %ARTH SMILE
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
s 4EACHERS HAD CHILDREN MAKE hWORRY DOLLS v TOLD THE CHIL
DREN THAT THE DOLLS HAD SUPERNATURAL POWERS TO RELIEVE
WORRY AND TAUGHT THE CHILDREN HOW TO USE THEM
s 4EACHERS HAD CHILDREN READ ABOUT AND MAKE IMAGES OF
h'ANESHA v AN ELEPHANT
HEADED GOD REGARDED BY (INDUS
AS THE PERSONIlCATION OF THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE
4HE TWO WEEK TRIAL INCLUDED A PARADE OF COLORFUL WITNESSES
INCLUDING A YOGI NUMEROLOGIST KNOWN AS THE h9OGA 'UY v A PSYCHIC
TELEPATH AND A MINERALOGIST KNOWN AS THE h2OCK (OUNDv
4WO AND ONE HALF MONTHS AFTER THE TRIAL 53 $ISTRICT *UDGE
#HARLES "RIEANT RULED IN FAVOR OF THE PLAINTIFFS ON THREE OF THEIR AL
LEGATIONS 4HE JUDGE NOTED PARTICULARLY THAT SOME OF THE ASPECTS OF
THE %ARTH $AY CELEBRATIONS WERE hTRULY BIZARREv AND HAD MANY OF THE
ATTRIBUTES OF THE WORSHIP CEREMONIES OF ORGANIZED RELIGIONS #ONSE
QUENTLY *UDGE "RIEANT ORDERED AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT THE SCHOOL
DISTRICT PREVENT SCHOOL SPONSORSHIP OF EARTH WORSHIP NATURE WOR
SHIP OR .ORTH !MERICAN )NDIAN ANIMISM REMOVE WORRY DOLLS
FROM THE SCHOOLS AND REFRAIN FROM SUGGESTING THAT TANGIBLE OBJECTS
HAVE SUPERNATURAL POWERS AND PROHIBIT DIRECTING STUDENTS TO MAKE
GRAVEN IMAGES OR LIKENESSES OF GODS OR RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
/N APPEAL HOWEVER A PANEL OF THE 3ECOND #IRCUIT #OURT OF
!PPEALS REVERSED ALL OF *UDGE "RIEANTS lNDINGS FOR THE PLAINTIFFS
!LTHOUGH MOST OF THE REVERSALS WERE BASED ON TECHNICAL GROUNDS THE
#OURT OF !PPEALS INCREDIBLY FOUND THAT THE %ARTH $AY CEREMONIES
DID NOT VIOLATE THE %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE
9ES "UT 4HATS *UST .EW 9ORK
-OST #HRISTIAN PARENTS HAVE NO IDEA HOW FAR THE .EW !GE AND
RELATED MOVEMENTS HAVE PENETRATED INTO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL PRACTICES
AND CURRICULA "EFORE LOOKING AT THIS ISSUE MORE BROADLY LETS CONSIDER
SOME EXAMPLES SIMILAR TO THE "EDFORD #ENTRAL 3CHOOL $ISTRICT CASE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
.EW !GE "UDDHIST #ONGA ,INES IN 5TAH
4HE *EFFERSON ST #ENTURY )NSTITUTE A TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATION
THAT PROMOTES THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE RECENTLY REPORTED
ON .EW !GE PRACTICES IN 5TAH A STATE NOT KNOWN FOR HAVING MUCH IN
COMMON CULTURALLY WITH .EW 9ORK
s 5INTAH AND $UCHENSE 3CHOOL $ISTRICTS 4HIRD GRADERS WERE
SENT TO AN %ARTH $AY CEREMONY hTHAT INCLUDED PRAYERS BY A
5TE ELDER AND THE 2T 2EV #AROLYN 4ANNER )RISH IN WHICH
TREES WERE BLESSED AND -OTHER %ARTH WAS PRAISEDv 4HE CER
EMONY ALSO INCLUDED DEVOTIONAL STATEMENTS INSTRUCTING THE
CHILDREN THAT THE EARTH AND TREES ARE SACRED
s 'RAND #OUNTY AND 3ALT ,AKE #ITY 3CHOOL $ISTRICTS )N
THE 'RAND #OUNTY 3CHOOL $ISTRICT STUDENTS ATTENDED AN
ASSEMBLY IN WHICH ROBED 4IBETAN TANTRIC "UDDHIST -ONKS
hCHANTED PRAYERS AND DANCED IN FRONT OF AN ALTAR WITH SMOK
ING INCENSE A PICTURE OF THEIR RELIGIOUS LEADER THE $ALAI
,AMA AND A LARGE MURAL OF THEIR TEMPLEv 4HE SAME MONKS
WERE IN A 3ALT ,AKE #ITY SCHOOL DURING SCHOOL HOURS FOR
THREE DAYS PERFORMING A MANDALA CONSTRUCTION CEREMONY IN
WHICH THE MONKS CONSTRUCTED A SAND PAINTING IN THE FORM OF
A CIRCLE DEDICATED TO A "UDDHIST DEITY 4HE CEREMONY WHICH
REQUIRED SEVERAL DAYS BEGAN WITH CHANTS AND PRAYERS AND
ENDED WHEN THE SAND PAINTING WAS DESTROYED AND THE EARTH
AND ITS INHABITANTS RECONSECRATED BY POURING THE SAND FROM
THE MANDALA INTO A STREAM
s 0ARK #ITY 3CHOOL $ISTRICT 4HE SAME GROUP OF 4IBETAN "UD
DHIST MONKS PERFORMED THEIR hMANDALA CEREMONYv FOR SIX
FULL DAYS DURING SCHOOL HOURS IN 0ARK #ITY (IGH 3CHOOL
!T SOME POINT DURING THE CEREMONY STUDENTS WERE DANCING
IN A CONGA LINE BEHIND A "UDDHIST MONK
s 3AN *UAN #OUNTY 3CHOOL $ISTRICT &IRST GRADERS WERE TAKEN
ON lELD TRIPS BY A LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP A &OREST 3ER
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
VICE 2ANGER AND AN !MERICORP VOLUNTEER $URING THE lELD
TRIP hTHE CHILDREN WERE TOLD TO WRAP THEIR ARMS AROUND A
TREE SMELL IT AND FEEL ITS SPIRITv
s 6ARIOUS OTHER 5TAH SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE ALLOWED
hPHILOSOPHICALv SCHOOLS OR ASSOCIATIONS TO TEACH CHILDREN
h@TRADITIONAL 3CANDINAVIAN OR OTHER @ECO
PHILOSOPHIES
WHICH DECLARE NATURE LAND TREES AND THE EARTH ARE SACRED
AND SUBJECT TO WORSHIPv
s -ANY 5TAH SCHOOLS HAVE ILLEGALLY SPONSORED .ATIVE !MERI
CAN AND 'AIA RELIGIONS &OR EXAMPLE MANY SCHOOLS USE A
FOURTH GRADE TEXT THAT DECLARES h4HE %ARTH IS /UR -OTHER v
hIN WILDERNESS IS SALVATION v hANIMALS KNOW BEST v AND OTHER
RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES )NNUMERABLE SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN DECO
RATED WITH POSTERS ESPOUSING SIMILAR DEVOTIONALS
)NTERESTINGLY THE PERFORMANCES OF THE 4IBETAN "UDDHIST MONKS
IN 5TAH WERE PART OF A
CITY TOUR IN WHICH THE MONKS PERFORMED
DEVOTIONAL RITUALS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AROUND THE COUNTRY
4HE 7ALDORF .EW !GE ,UCIFER AND 4EACHER 4RAINING
/THER GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE ADOPTED OR HAVE CONSIDERED
ADOPTING THE 7ALDORF CURRICULUM WHICH IS BASED ON THE RATHER PECU
LIAR .EW !GE DOCTRINES OF 2UDOLPH 3TEINER A TH CENTURY 'ERMAN
3OME OF THE MORE COLORFUL ASPECTS OF THE 7ALDORF METHOD RECEIVED
PUBLIC ATTENTION WHEN TWO SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN #ALIFORNIA THAT HAD SET
UP h7ALDORF v SCHOOLS WERE SUED BY AN ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS 0EOPLE
FOR ,EGAL AND .ON
3ECTARIAN 3CHOOLS
4HE LAWSUIT REVEALED THAT ONE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS USED A
MANUAL CALLED 4HE 7ALDORF 4EACHERS 3URVIVAL 'UIDE TO TRAIN TEACHERS IN
7ALDORF TEACHING METHODS !N EXAMINATION OF THE MANUAL MADE IT
CLEAR THAT 7ALDORF SCHOOLING HAD ITS ROOTS IN 3TEINERS THEOLOGY WHICH
IS KNOWN AS h!NTHROPOSOPHYv !NTHROPOSOPHY REGARDS ,UCIFER AS THE
GOD OF LIGHT AND HIS NEMESIS IS !HRIMAN THE GOD OF DARKNESS !CCORD
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ING TO 3TEINER #HRIST CAME TO EARTH AS A SUN GOD TO BALANCE THE FORCES
OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS 4HESE TEACHINGS ARE REmECTED IN 4HE 7ALDORF
4EACHERS 3URVIVAL 'UIDE
-OST OF THAT WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO OUR WORK AS TEACHERS PREPA
RATION WORK ARTISTIC WORK EVEN MEDITATIVE WORK IS UNDER THE
GUARDIANSHIP OF ,UCIFER 7E CAN BECOME GREAT TEACHERS UNDER HIS
SUPERVISION FOR HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MUCH THAT HAS BLOSSOMED
IN THE UNFOLDING OF THE CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE IN THE PAST
;EMPHASIS ADDED=
!NTHROPOSOPHY ALSO INCLUDES SOME VERY UNUSUAL VIEWS CONCERN
ING RACE EG IT ASSOCIATES INTELLIGENCE WITH BLONDNESS MEDICINE EG
IT VIEWS ILLNESS AS PRIMARILY THE RESULT OF A DISTURBANCE OF A hVITAL ES
SENCEv AND EVOLUTION EG ANIMALS ARE BELIEVED TO BE BY
PRODUCTS OF
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
4HE ORGANIZATION THAT BROUGHT THE #ALIFORNIA LAWSUIT ALSO
DISCOVERED THAT SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE 7ALDORF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED BY !NTHROPOSOPHIST TRAINERS FROM THE 2UDOLPH
3TEINER #OLLEGE TO USE ZODIAC SIGNS TO CATEGORIZE CHILDREN "UT IT GETS
EVEN STRANGER /NE PARENT REVIEWED THE COURSE OF STUDY FOR 7ALDORF
TEACHERS AT THE 2UDOLPH 3TEINER #OLLEGE AND WAS STUNNED TO lND THAT
IT WAS IN HER VIEW A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
7HEN ) READ WHAT THE COURSE OF STUDY WAS FOR 7ALDORF TEACHERS
) REALIZED RIGHT AWAY THAT IT WAS A RELIGIOUS SEMINARY 4HERES NO
CORE ACADEMIC CLASSES IN THE ENTIRE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMx
4HE REQUIRED TEXT FOR THE lRST YEAR INCLUDES OCCULT SCIENCE AND
THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHIES SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE OF MANx) MEAN
WHERES THE PHONICS ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
77'$ 7HAT 7OULD THE 'NOME $O
7HEN QUESTIONED ABOUT HOW THE EXOTIC DOCTRINES OF !NTHROPO
SPHY GET APPLIED IN THE CLASSROOM 7ALDORF TEACHERS USUALLY SAY SOME
THING ALONG THE LINES OF h*UST BECAUSE 3TEINER HAD SOME ODD VIEWS
IT DOESNT MEAN WE CANT USE HIS INSIGHTSv OR h%VEN THOUGH WE MAY
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
BE TRAINED IN !NTHROPOSOPHY WE DONT TEACH IT IN THE CLASSROOMv
7ALDORF PRACTICE HOWEVER DOESNT SEEM TO BEAR THIS OUT
/NE INTREPID 4EXAS REPORTER FOR INSTANCE VENTURED INTO THE PRE
CINCTS OF A NEWLY OPENED SUBURBAN 7ALDORF PRIVATE KINDERGARTEN
4HERE HE FOUND A h46 AND COMPUTER BLACKOUTv BASED ON THE 7ALDORF
BELIEF THAT THE DARK SPIRIT h!HRIMANv LIVES INSIDE THE BOXES GNOME
DOLLS IN THE CLASSROOM REPRESENTING THE !NTHROPOSOPHICAL BELIEF THAT
THERE ARE ELEMENTAL BEINGS THAT CARE FOR THE AIR SOIL AND WATER AND
STAFF WHO WILL TELL YOU THAT ILLNESSES LATER IN LIFE CAN BE TRACED TO EARLY
READING
'NOMES ARE IMPORTANT TO 7ALDORF 4HINK OF THE GNOMES AS
PLAYING THE ROLE OF #HARLIE -C#ARTHY TO THE TEACHERS %DGAR "ERGEN
7ALDORF TEACHERS hASKv THE GNOMES QUESTIONS TO TEACH CHILDREN THE
7ALDORF WAY OF THINKING ABOUT THINGS )N ADDITION THE GNOMES PRO
VIDE A KIND OF DENIABILITY THE TEACHERS DONT TEACH !NTHROPOSOPHY
THE GNOMES DO
4HE REPORTER ALSO OBSERVED PARTS OF THE 7ALDORF LITURGY "E
FORE MEALS FOR EXAMPLE THE CHILDREN RECITE THE 7ALDORF VERSION OF
hGRACEv h%ARTH WHO GIVES TO US THIS FOOD SUN WHO MAKES IT RIPE
AND GOOD $EAR SUN DEAR EARTH BY YOU WE LIVE OUR LOVING THANKS TO
YOU WE GIVEv ,ATER DURING hMUSIC AND MOVEMENTv TIME THE CHIL
DREN WALKED AROUND A CANDLE CHANTING IN A hSPIRIT RECITAL OF MOTHER
EARTHv
9ET THE 7ALDORF PROGRAM IS WIDELY CONSIDERED NONSECTARIAN
AND HAS BEEN SPREADING IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PRIMARILY THROUGH THE
CHARTER SCHOOL MOVEMENT
$ONT 7ORRY )T )SNT 2EALLY 7ICCA OR $EEP %COLOGY
%VERY SCHOOL DAY ACROSS !MERICA THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN BRING
HOME PERMISSION SLIPS FOR MOM OR DAD TO SIGN SO THAT THEY CAN PARTICI
PATE IN SOME INOFFENSIVELY DESCRIBED GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SPONSORED AC
TIVITY OR PROGRAM 3O IMAGINE THE SURPRISE OF A -ICHIGAN MOTHER WHO
DECIDED TO ATTEND THE lRST DAY OF AN hENVIRONMENTALv PROGRAM CALLED
h%ARTHKEEPERSv WITH HER FOURTH GRADE DAUGHTER ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
%ARTHKEEPERS WAS MUCH MORE LIKE A THREE DAY INTRODUCTION TO
7ICCA AND $EEP %COLOGY THAN A PROGRAM ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
7ICCA IS A PAGAN RELIGION ASSOCIATED WITH WITCHCRAFT WHILE $EEP
%COLOGY IS AN ENVIRONMENTALIST PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATED WITH ECO TER
RORISM THAT MANY THINK HAS ITS ROOTS IN 7ICCA 4HE lRST PRINCIPLE OF
7ICCA IS THAT h7E ARE ALL CONNECTED n PEOPLE PLANTS AND ANIMALSv
3IMILARLY $EEP %COLOGISTS BELIEVE THAT WE ARE ALL PART OF THE EARTH
$EEP %COLOGISTS ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE POPULATION OF THE EARTH MUST BE
SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED AND ARE SUPPORTERS OF ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA
3IGNIlCANTLY THE %ARTHKEEPERS CURRICULUM WAS WRITTEN BY A NOTED
$EEP %COLOGIST 3TEVE 6AN -ATRE WHO IS ALSO THE AUTHOR OF A BOOK
%ARTH %DUCATION )N %ARTH %DUCATION 6AN -ATRE EXPLICITLY STATES THAT
EARTH EDUCATION SHOULD BE ABOUT INCULCATING ALL OF THE MESSAGE OF
$EEP %COLOGY
3O WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS LOOK LIKE WHEN TRANSLATED INTO A PROGRAM
TARGETED AT NINE YEAR OLDS THAT ALLEGEDLY TEACHES CHILDREN ABOUT THE EN
VIRONMENT 4HE CHILDREN BEGIN THE %ARTHKEEPERS PROGRAM BY FORMING
A CIRCLE AND JOINING THEMSELVES AT THE ELBOWS .EXT THEY ARE TAKEN INTO
THE LABORATORY OF A MYSTERIOUS hWIZARDv NAMED h%-v 4HE LABORA
TORY IT TURNS OUT IS A DARK CANDLE LIT GARAGE DECORATED WITH HERBS AND
PLANTS ON THE WALL %VENTUALLY THE CHILDREN ARE TOLD THAT h%-v STANDS
FOR hENERGY AND MATERIALS v hMY EXPERIENCE v AND h-Ev
0ART OF THE %ARTHKEEPERS PROGRAM IS DEVOTED TO TELLING CHILDREN
HOW hSPECKSv n WHICH IN %ARTHKEEPERS TERMINOLOGY TURN OUT TO BE
WATER SOIL AIR AND ENERGY FROM THE SUN n FORM hTRAILS v IE ARE IN
VOLVED IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THINGS INTO OTHER THINGS 4HE CHILDREN
WERE ALSO TOLD TO CHOOSE hMAGIC SPOTSv WHERE THEY WOULD hREmECTv ON
NATURE )N ADDITION THE CHILDREN WERE INSTRUCTED TO CHANT IN UNISON
THE CONCEPTS BEHIND THE FOUR hKEYSv OF %ARTHKEEPERS h!LL LIVING THINGS
ARE CONNECTED 'ETTING IN TOUCH WITH THE EARTH IS A GOOD FEELING 9OUR
ACTIONS ON THE EARTH MAKE A DIFFERENCE (ELPING OTHERS IMPROVE THEIR
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EARTH IS AN URGENT TASKv )N ALL OF THIS THE CHILDREN
ARE HELPED BY %ARTHKEEPER TEACHERS WHO WEAR MEDALLIONS THAT ON ONE
SIDE RESEMBLE AN ASTROLOGICAL CHART
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
)N THE BEGINNING THE -ICHIGAN MOTHER WHO IS ALSO A CANCER
SURGEON WAS MAINLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROGRAMS LACK OF SCIENTIlC
CONTENT AND USE OF UNSCIENTIlC TERMS SUCH AS hSPECKSv !S SHE INVES
TIGATED FURTHER SHE FOUND THAT %ARTHKEEPERS HAD NUMEROUS OBVIOUS
PARALLELS WITH 7ICCA AND TIES TO $EEP %COLOGY 7HEN SHE RAISED HER
CONCERNS ABOUT THESE PARALLELS SHE WAS TOLD THAT THEY WERE JUST COIN
CIDENCES
4HEY ARE DOING THINGS THAT ARE VERY MUCH LIKE THINGS IN PAGAN
RELIGIONS AND TELLING US IT DOESNT MEAN ANYTHINGx )S IT JUST
A COINCIDENCE THAT %-S LAB LOOKS LIKE A 7ITCHES #OVE CO
INCIDENCE THAT THE SPECKS TAUGHT IN %ARTHKEEPERS ARE THE SAME
AS THE ELEMENTS OF WITCHCRAFT ;AIR EARTH lRE AND WATER= COIN
CIDENCE THAT THE MAGIC SPOTS ARE SIMILAR TO PAGAN MEDITATION
COINCIDENCE THAT THE MEDALLION WITH THE SYMBOL HAS THE SAME
SHAPE AS THE ASTROLOGICAL CHART
"UT THIS DOESNT EXHAUST THE hCOINCIDENCESv 7AS IT ALSO A CO
INCIDENCE THAT THE CIRCLES THE CHILDREN WERE GATHERED INTO WERE ALSO
SIMILAR TO THE CIRCLES PRACTITIONERS OF 7ICCA FORM TO hCONTAIN ENERGY
mOWv 7AS IT COINCIDENCE THAT THE lRST KEY CONCEPT OF %ARTHKEEP
ERS THAT THE CHILDREN CHANTED IN UNISON IN A DARK CANDLE LIT ROOM IS
ALSO A lRST PRINCIPLE OF 7ICCA 7AS IT A COINCIDENCE THAT THE h%-v
CONCEPT AS USED IN %ARTHKEEPERS SEEMED TO REPRESENT AS THE -ICHIGAN
MOTHER CONCLUDED THE PRINCIPLE FROM $EEP %COLOGY AND 7ICCA THAT
EVERYTHING ON EARTH INCLUDING PEOPLE IS CONNECTED &INALLY WAS IT A
COINCIDENCE THAT ALL OF THESE COINCIDENCES JUST HAPPEN TO BE PART OF A
CURRICULUM WRITTEN BY A $EEP %COLOGIST
"Y THE WAY %ARTHKEEPERS IS USED NOT ONLY IN -ICHIGAN BUT ALSO
IN OTHER STATES AND IN SOME FOREIGN COUNTRIES
&ROM 3EA TO 3HINING 3EA
&AR FROM BEING ISOLATED EVENTS THE INCIDENTS DESCRIBED ABOVE ARE
A REmECTION OF !MERICAN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS BEING AWASH
IN NON
#HRISTIAN WORLDVIEWS 4HESE ARE MOST COMMONLY FOUND IN
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
TRANSPERSONAL AND HUMANISTIC CURRICULA (UMANISTIC EDUCATION TYPI
CALLY INVOLVES TRAINING CHILDREN IN VALUES CLARIlCATION AND EMPHASIZES
THE IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING SELF
ESTEEM (UMANISTIC APPROACHES
TO EDUCATION MAY ALSO INVOLVE HYPNOSIS OR OTHER PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC
TECHNIQUES 5NLIKE HUMANISTIC EDUCATION WHICH TENDS TO HAVE A SECU
LAR FOCUS TRANSPERSONAL EDUCATION IS JUST .EW !GE RELIGION IN DRAG )T
IS THEREFORE MORE OBVIOUSLY ESSENTIALLY RELIGIOUS -OREOVER BECAUSE
HUMANISTIC AND TRANSPERSONAL APPROACHES TO EDUCATION ARE NOT MUTU
ALLY EXCLUSIVE THEY OFTEN SHOW UP IN COMBINATION
7HILE hHUMANISTIC EDUCATIONv AND hTRANSPERSONAL EDUCATIONv
MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR TERMS IF A SCHOOL
AGE CHILD HAS EVER TOLD YOU
h7HATS RIGHT FOR YOU IS NOT NECESSARILY RIGHT FOR ME v THE ODDS ARE THAT
HES BEEN THROUGH A HUMANISTIC VALUES CLARIlCATION CURRICULUM TEACH
ING SITUATIONAL ETHICS IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE SCHOOLS HE HAS ATTENDED
3IMILARLY IF YOU HAVE HEARD TERMS SUCH AS hGUIDED IMAGERY v hCENTER
ING v hINNER GUIDES v hLEFTRIGHT BRAIN EQUILIBRIUM v hVISUALIZATION v
OR hHUMAN POTENTIALv FROM A CHILD OR ANYONE ELSE CONNECTED WITH A
PRIMARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL OR IF YOU HAVE SEEN THEM IN A STUDENTS
HANDOUTS OR TEXTBOOKS YOU ARE SEEING EVIDENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF
TRANSPERSONAL EDUCATION IN YOUR SCHOOLS "UT EVEN IF YOU HAVENT SEEN
OR HEARD ANY OF THESE THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT ASSUME THAT THEY ARE
NOT IN YOUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS BECAUSE AS WE WILL SEE BELOW CONCEALING
WHAT IS GOING ON FROM PARENTS HAS BEEN AN ACCEPTED TACTIC AMONG
TRANSPERSONAL AND HUMANISTIC EDUCATORS FOR YEARS
)N THEIR IMPORTANT AND WIDE
RANGING STUDY OF THE INmUENCE OF
HUMANISTIC AND TRANSPERSONAL CURRICULA IN SCHOOLS *OHN !NKERBERG
*OHN 7ELDON AND #RAIG "RANCH OBSERVED IN
)T CAN BE DEMONSTRATED THAT THERE ARE MANY EDUCATORS AND
CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS WHO ARE EITHER PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN
THE .EW !GE PERSPECTIVE OR HAVE ACCEPTED THE PRACTICES TECH
NIQUES AND THEORIES WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR SOURCEx )T CAN
BE DEMONSTRATED THAT THE ADOPTION OF .EW !GEOCCULTIC IDEOL
OGY AND PRACTICES IS NOT JUST SPORADIC AND RANDOMx THESE BELIEFS
TEND TO ENTER THROUGH COUNSELING SELF
ESTEEM STRESS REDUCTION
HEALTH AND GIFTED PROGRAMS CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES SOME
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
GLOBAL EDUCATION COURSES AND SOME LITERATURE CURRICULAx4HE
USUAL FORM THESE PROGRAMS TAKE IS IN DEEP BREATHING RELAXATION
OR PROGRESSIVE RELAXATION EXERCISES GUIDED IMAGERY AND VISUAL
IZATION 4HESE ARE SOMETIMES ASSOCIATED WITH INAPPROPRIATE AND
INEFFECTIVE VALUE
FREE OR AFFECTIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS ;EMPHASIS
ADDED=
-OREOVER THE AUTHORS OF THE STUDY FOUND THAT THESE CURRICULA ARE
BASED ON %ASTERN AND OTHER MYSTICAL TRADITIONS
4HE TECHNIQUES AND THE PRESUPPOSITIONS ON WHICH SUCH PRO
GRAMS ARE BASED ARE INTRINSIC TO %ASTERN AND OTHER MYSTI
CAL RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND PRACTICES SUCH AS (INDUISM AND
MEDITATION &URTHER THEY ARE FREQUENTLY SYNONYMOUS WITH THE
TECHNIQUES OF HYPNOSIS AND TRANCE INDUCTION 5NFORTUNATELY
OFTEN THESE TECHNIQUES ARE DISGUISED TO PROJECT A SECULAR APPEARANCE
;EMPHASIS ADDED=
/BVIOUSLY THERE IS PLENTY OF RELIGION IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )TS
JUST NOT #HRISTIANITY
4HE .EW !GE -OVEMENT AND %VANGELIZING BY 3TEALTH
4HE PRACTICAL INSIGHT OF 0ROVERBS n h4RAIN UP A CHILD IN
THE WAY HE SHOULD GO AND WHEN HE IS OLD HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM ITv
n HAS BEEN WELL UNDERSTOOD BY hPROGRESSIVEv EDUCATORS WHO HAVE BEEN
BUSILY RE
MAKING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN IM
AGE )N ONE OF *OHN $EWEYS EARLIER WRITINGS h-Y 0EDAGOGIC #REED v
$EWEY RECOGNIZES THAT IF YOU SYSTEMATICALLY CHANGE WHAT GOES ON IN
CLASSROOMS YOU CAN RESHAPE CHILDREN AND ULTIMATELY SOCIETY (IS GOAL
OF COURSE WAS TO USE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO RESHAPE SOCIETY IN WAYS
AGREEABLE TO THE PROGRESSIVES OF HIS ERA 4HOSE WHO TODAY DOMINATE
THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT n THE DEVOTEES OF HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
THE .EW !GERS AND THE SECULAR HUMANISTS n ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THE
CLASSROOM IS THE KEY TO CULTURAL SUPREMACY AND THEY HAVE NOT BEEN
SHY ABOUT SAYING SO
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
7RITING IN 4HE (UMANIST MAGAZINE *OHN $UNPHY A MUCH
QUOTED lGURE FROM THE HUMANIST MOVEMENT URGED
;4=HE BATTLE FOR HUMANKINDS FUTURE MUST BE WAGED AND WON
IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOMS BY TEACHERS WHO CORRECTLY PERCEIVE
THEIR ROLE AS PROSELYTIZERS OF A NEW FAITH A RELIGION OF HUMANITY
x4HESE TEACHERS MUST EMBODY THE SAME SELmESS DEDICATION AS
THE MOST RABID FUNDAMENTALIST PREACHERS 4HE CLASSROOM MUST
AND WILL BECOME AN ARENA OF CONmICT BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW
n THE ROTTING CORPSE OF #HRISTIANITY TOGETHER WITH ALL ITS ADJA
CENT EVILS AND MISERY AND THE NEW FAITHx ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
-ARILYN &ERGUSON A PROMINENT .EW !GE GURU MAKES THE SAME
POINT IN HER HIGHLY INmUENTIAL BOOK 4HE !QUARIAN #ONSPIRACY
9OU CAN ONLY HAVE A NEW SOCIETYx IF YOU CHANGE THE EDUCA
TION OF THE YOUNGER GENERATIONx /F THE !QUARIAN #ONSPIRA
TORS SURVEYED MORE WERE INVOLVED IN EDUCATION THAN IN ANY OTHER
SINGLE CATEGORY OF WORK 4HEY WERE THE TEACHERS ADMINISTRATORS
POLICY MAKERS EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTSx /NLY A NEW PER
SPECTIVE CAN GENERATE A NEW CURRICULUMx ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
3O WHAT IS THE hNEW PERSPECTIVEv THAT &ERGUSONS h!QUARIAN
#ONSPIRATORSv ARE LOOKING TO INJECT INTO THE CLASSROOM !CCORDING TO
&ERGUSON THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE !QUARIAN #ONSPIRACY IS
;!= CONSTELLATION OF TECHNIQUES AND CONCEPTS SOMETIMES CALLED
TRANSPERSONAL EDUCATION 4HE NAME DERIVES FROM A BRANCH OF
PSYCHOLOGY THAT FOCUSES ON THE TRANSCENDENT CAPABILITIES OF HU
MAN BEINGSx ;4=HE DELIBERATE USE OF CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANDING
TECHNIQUES IN EDUCATION ONLY RECENTLY WELL UNDER WAY IS NEW
IN MASS SCHOOLINGx !LTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS ARE TAKEN
SERIOUSLY hCENTERINGv EXERCISES MEDITATION RELAXATION AND
FANTASY ARE USED TO KEEP THE INTUITIVE PATHWAYS OPEN 4HESE ARE
TECHNIQUES TO ENCOURAGE THIS AWARENESS DEEP BREATHING RELAX
ATION YOGA MOVEMENT BIOFEEDBACKx
4HESE INmUENCES ARE WIDESPREAD IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS "Y
THE EARLY S JUST ONE OF THE MANY CURRICULA BASED ON THE USE OF
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
hTRANSPERSONALv TECHNIQUES h0UMSY v WAS USED IN OF THE NATIONS
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
/F COURSE PARENTS OFTEN OBJECT IF THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS ACTU
ALLY HAPPENING IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HIS HAS LED ON OCCASION TO
LAWSUITS AND LEGISLATION IN ATTEMPTS TO RESTRICT THE USE OF CURRICULA
BASED ON TRANSPERSONAL AND HUMANISTIC THEORIES OF EDUCATION 3O
IF YOU ARE A HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL TRYING TO REMAKE
SOCIETY IN YOUR OWN IMAGE AND PARENTS AND THE LAW ARE GETTING IN THE
WAY WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
+EEP IT SUBTLE KEEP IT QUIET
OR THE PARENTS WILL REALLY GET UPSET
4HE BASIC TACTIC FOR SMUGGLING .EW !GE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS AND
PRACTICES INTO CLASSROOMS IS TO DECEIVE PARENTS SIMPLY BY CHANGING TER
MINOLOGY !S $ICK 3UTPHEN A PROMINENT .EW !GER HAS WRITTEN
/NE OF THE BIGGEST ADVANTAGES WE HAVE AS .EW !GERS IS ONCE
THE OCCULT METAPHYSICAL AND .EW !GE TERMINOLOGY IS REMOVED
WE HAVE CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES THAT ARE VERY ACCEPTABLE TO THE
GENERAL PUBLIC 3O WE CAN CHANGE THE NAMES AND DEMONSTRATE
THE POWER )N SO DOING WE OPEN THE .EW !GE DOOR TO MILLIONS
WHO WOULD NOT BE RECEPTIVE
#ONSEQUENTLY .EW !GE EDUCATORS WILL INTRODUCE CHILDREN TO
hIMAGINARY GUIDESv RATHER THAN hSPIRIT GUIDES v hCENTERINGv OR hRELAX
ATIONv RATHER THAN MEDITATION OR HYPNOSIS AND SO ON .EVERTHELESS
THE TECHNIQUES AND OBJECTIVES REMAIN THE SAME
4HIS SORT OF DELIBERATE DECEPTION IS NOT SOMETHING INVENTED
BY 3UTPHEN )N THE LATE S NUNS BELONGING TO THE 3ISTERS OF THE
)MMACULATE (EART OF -ARY INVITED #ARL 2OGERS THE FATHER OF THE HU
MANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY AND THE HUMAN POTENTIAL MOVEMENTS TO APPLY
HIS THEORIES TO THEIR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY USING hENCOUNTER GROUPSv IN
A TWO YEAR EXPERIMENT 4HE RESULT WAS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ORDER
7HEN 2OGERS AND HIS TEAM LATER MET TO REVIEW THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES
OF THE APPLICATION OF THEIR THEORIES AND WHETHER THEY WOULD UNDERTAKE
A SIMILAR PROJECT IN THE FUTURE THE CONSENSUS WAS THAT THEY WOULDNT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
OR AT LEAST THEY WOULD NOT USE THE TERM hENCOUNTER GROUPSv )N FACT
2OGERS CYNICALLY QUIPPED h)D CHANGE THE NAME JUST AS FAST AS NEEDED
TO KEEP AHEAD OF THE CRITICSv
#HANGING THE NAME TO STAY AHEAD OF CRITICS IS EXACTLY HOW SO
MANY FAILED EDUCATIONAL THEORIES MANAGE TO CHEAT A WELL
DESERVED
DEATH )T IS ALSO EXACTLY HOW MANY .EW !GE AND OTHER THEOLOGIES
MANAGE TO INlLTRATE AND SURVIVE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
/CCASIONALLY THE PROMOTERS OF %ASTERN RELIGIONS AND THE OCCULT
GET CAUGHT DOING THIS AND ARE STOPPED &OR EXAMPLE IN THE S
CERTAIN SCHOOLS IN .EW *ERSEY INTRODUCED THE h3CIENCE OF #REATIVE )N
TELLIGENCEv INTO THEIR CURRICULA 4HE 3CIENCE OF #REATIVE )NTELLIGENCE
IT TURNED OUT WAS JUST A REPACKAGED VERSION OF A (INDU RELIGIOUS PRAC
TICE KNOWN MORE WIDELY AS 4RANSCENDENTAL -EDITATION )N A LAWSUIT
BROUGHT TO ENJOIN THE TEACHING OF THE 3CIENCE OF #REATIVE )NTELLIGENCE
IN .EW *ERSEY SCHOOLS ON %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE GROUNDS THE PLAINTIFFS
WERE ABLE TO EXPOSE THE SHAM AND OBTAIN AN INJUNCTION 5NFORTU
NATELY .EW !GE PRACTICES THAT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY OBJECTED TO
OFTEN REAPPEAR IN NEW GUISES -OREOVER THE "EDFORD #ENTRAL 3CHOOL
$ISTRICT CASE DEMONSTRATES THAT SOME FEDERAL JUDGES ON IMPORTANT
COURTS ARE WILLING TO IGNORE THE BLATANTLY RELIGIOUS NATURE OF .EW !GE
CURRICULA
4HE !"# 0RINCIPLE !NYTHING "UT #HRISTIANITY
,EGAL POSITIVISTS USED TO QUIP CYNICALLY THAT THE #ONSTITUTION
MEANS WHAT THE COP
ON
THE
BEAT SAYS IT MEANS 4HAT IS NOT A WIDELY
HELD VIEW TODAY "UT IF YOU ARE WONDERING HOW OUR GOVERNMENT
hEDUCATORSv SEEM TO WINK AT THE PRESENCE OF ALL OF THE NON
#HRISTIAN
RELIGIONS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TODAY YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT
FOR MANY OF THOSE IN CHARGE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THE hWALL OF SEPARA
TIONv IS REALLY A hWALL OF SEPARATIONv BETWEEN THE #HRISTIAN CHURCH AND
THE STATE
! INCIDENT IN AN /HIO HIGH SCHOOL INVOLVING A CLASS ASSIGN
MENT ILLUSTRATES WHAT THE hWALL OF SEPARATIONv ACTUALLY MEANS IN THE
MINDS OF MANY GOVERNMENT SCHOOL EDUCATORS !N %NGLISH TEACHER
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
ASSIGNED SOPHOMORES THE TASK OF WRITING AND SIGNING A CONTRACT WITH
THE $EVIL 3ATAN ,UCIFER A GENIE A WITCH OR A WARLOCK 4HE CONTRACT
WAS TO SPECIFY WHAT THE STUDENTS WANTED FROM 3ATAN FOR EXAMPLE AND
THREE THINGS THEY WERE WILLING TO GIVE UP IN RETURN
7HEN SOME PARENTS QUESTIONED THE APPROPRIATENESS OF
THE ASSIGNMENT THE TEACHER TOLD THE PARENTS THAT SHE RECOG
NIZED THAT THE ASSIGNMENT MIGHT BE SENSITIVE AND THAT WAS WHY
SHE GAVE STUDENTS SEVERAL OPTIONS CONCERNING WITH WHOM TO MAKE
THE CONTRACT !FTER THE PARENTS POINTED OUT THAT ALL OF THE CHOIC
ES WERE DEMONIC THE DISCUSSION MOVED TO THE HIGH SCHOOL
PRINCIPAL
4HE PRINCIPAL DEFENDED THE TEACHER AS HAVING MERELY MADE A
MISTAKE 7HEN THE PRINCIPAL WAS ASKED HOWEVER WHAT HE WOULD DO IF
THE ASSIGNMENT HAD BEEN TO WRITE A CONTRACT WITH 'OD #HRIST *ESUS
THE ,ORD THE 3AVIOR OR THE (OLY 3PIRIT HE IMMEDIATELY RESPONDED
THAT IT WOULDNT BE PERMITTED BECAUSE OF THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND
STATE 5LTIMATELY THE SCHOOL BOARD APOLOGIZED ON BEHALF OF THE SCHOOL
DISTRICT AND REPUDIATED WHAT THE TEACHER HAD DONE
4HE POINT HERE IS NOT SO MUCH THE INAPPROPRIATENESS OF THE AS
SIGNMENT ALTHOUGH HAVING CHILDREN SIGN THEIR hCONTRACTSv CERTAINLY
RAISES QUESTIONS REGARDING THE TEACHERS JUDGMENT )NSTEAD WHAT IS
ILLUMINATING IS THE RESPONSE OF THE PRINCIPAL 7HILE HE EVIDENTLY SAW
NO %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE ISSUE IN WHAT THE TEACHER HAD DONE HIS IM
MEDIATE REACTION TO THE PARENTS HYPOTHETICAL ASSIGNMENT WAS THAT IT
WOULD VIOLATE THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE /BVIOUSLY WHAT
%VERSON MEANT TO HIM WAS SIMPLY THAT #HRISTIANITY MUST BE KEPT OUT
OF THE HIGH SCHOOL 4HIS IS THE SORT OF MENTALITY THAT ACCOUNTS FOR
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS BANNING #HRISTMAS CAROLS WHILE AT THE SAME
TIME PERMITTING EARTH WORSHIP CEREMONIES IN SCHOOL
.EWS &LASH FROM /HIO *ESUS #HRIST .OT A 2EAL 0ERSON
4HE "ROOKlELD 3CHOOL $ISTRICT IN /HIO WAS SUED FOR VIOLATING
THE &IRST !MENDMENT RIGHTS OF A #HRISTIAN MIDDLE SCHOOLER 0HILLIP
- 6ACCARO A
YEAR
OLD DESCRIBED AS hEDUCATIONALLY CHALLENGED v
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
WAS GIVEN AN ASSIGNMENT TO WRITE AN ESSAY ABOUT SOMEONE WHO HAS
INmUENCED HIS LIFE "ECAUSE 6ACCARO HAD USED HIS FAITH TO OVERCOME
MANY OF HIS PROBLEMS IN SCHOOL HE WROTE ABOUT *ESUS #HRIST (IS
TEACHER HOWEVER ADVISED HIM THAT *ESUS WAS NOT A REAL PERSON AND TOLD
6ACCARO TO CHOSE SOMEONE ELSE 7HEN 6ACCAROS MOTHER CONTACTED
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ABOUT THE UNUSUAL HISTORICAL VIEWS OF HER SONS
TEACHER THE SCHOOL OFlCIALS BACKED THE TEACHER )TS ALSO RUMORED BY
THE WAY THAT "ROOKlELD SCHOOL DISTRICT OFlCIALS MAY ANNOUNCE ANY
DAY THAT *ULIUS #AESAR 3AUL OF 4ARSUS AND !BRAHAM ,INCOLN WERE NOT
REAL PERSONS 3TAY TUNED
/HIO DOES NOT OF COURSE HAVE A CORNER ON ANTI
#HRISTIAN ZEAL IN
THE HEARTLAND %VIDENTLY CONCERNED THAT THERE MIGHT BE AN OUTBREAK OF
READING AMONG STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT A 7AYLAND -ICHIGAN SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENT ORDERED 'IDEONS )NTERNATIONAL TO STOP ITS ANNUAL
PRACTICE OF HANDING OUT "IBLES TO TH GRADERS .OT TO BE OUTDONE BY
-ICHIGANDERS A SCHOOL DISTRICT IN $AVENPORT )OWA BANNED STUDENTS
FROM GIVING AWAY "IBLES AND PASSING OUT CHURCH
EVENT mIERS ON SCHOOL
GROUNDS EVEN WHEN CLASSES WERE NOT IN SESSION !CCORDING TO ONE
STUDENT WHO WAS A PLAINTIFF IN A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER
THE INCIDENT h)TS PRETTY BIZARRE HOW WE HAVE TO GO AND PULL TEETH TO
DO THISx 4HEY TOLD US WE COULDNT DO IT BECAUSE IT WAS RELIGIOUSv
!NTI
#HRISTIAN ANIMUS ALSO THRIVES IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN THE
h"IBLE "ELTv -ANY DISTRICTS REFUSE TO ALLOW MINISTERS TO HAVE LUNCH
WITH STUDENTS OR MEET WITH THEM ON CAMPUS )N FOR EXAMPLE
+ENTUCKYS "ULLITT #OUNTY 3CHOOL "OARD BANNED MINISTERS FROM THEIR
CAMPUSES 4HE MINISTERS WERE NOT PRAYING OR EVANGELIZING DURING
THEIR LUNCH
TIME VISITS BUT WERE INSTEAD JUST TALKING ABOUT PROBLEMS
AND GIVING ADVICE TO STUDENTS WHOM THEY KNEW 4HE ONLY EXPLANA
TION FROM THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION WAS THAT THE VISITS WERE AGAINST
DISTRICT POLICY 4HIS SORT OF hPOLICYv IS NOT THAT UNUSUAL IN SCHOOL
DISTRICTS FROM 4EXAS TO 'EORGIA .OT SURPRISINGLY THESE SAME SCHOOL
DISTRICTS THAT ARE TERRIlED THAT SOME ADULT MIGHT MENTION THE NAME
OF *ESUS ON CAMPUS OFTEN ALLOW PURVEYORS OF EARTH
WORSHIP AND OTHER
RELIGIONS ACCESS TO STUDENTS THROUGH hENVIRONMENTAL v hDIVERSITY v OR
hSAFE SCHOOLSv PROGRAMS AND CURRICULA
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
#HRISTMAS 4HE (OLIDAY 4HAT $ARE .OT 3PEAK )TS .AME
.OW THAT #HRISTIANS WITH CHILDREN IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE
BECOME DESENSITIZED TO h#HRISTMAS VACATIONv BEING REPLACED BY h7IN
TER BREAKv OR h7INTER VACATIONv AND #HRISTMAS CAROLS BEING BANISHED
COURAGEOUS ANTI
#HRISTIANS ARE MOVING ON TO THE NEXT FRONTIER n BAN
NING THE WORD h#HRISTMASv ENTIRELY &OR EXAMPLE IN #OLORADO THE
!YATOLLAHS OF THE !#,5 THREATENED TO SUE A SCHOOL IF ANY REFERENCE
TO #HRISTMAS WAS MADE DURING THE hHOLIDAY PROGRAMv 4HE
!#,5 ALSO INSISTED THAT SINGING h*INGLE "ELLSv BE BANNED EVIDENTLY
CONFUSING IT WITH A SONG OF INVITATION OR AN ALTAR CALL
!LSO IN THE VANGUARD OF THE MOVEMENT TO PROTECT CHILDREN
AGAINST THE HORRORS OF HEARING THE WORD h#HRISTMASv IS A PRINCIPAL IN
AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN 3ACRAMENTO #ALIFORNIA WHO MET WITH THREE
lRST
GRADE TEACHERS TO INSTRUCT THEM THAT THE SPOKEN OR WRITTEN USE OF
THE WORD h#HRISTMASv IN SCHOOL WAS NOW PROHIBITED
/F THE THREE TEACHERS IN THE MEETING ONE DISAGREED WITH THE
BAN BUT WAS WILLING TO GO ALONG WITH IT AND A SECOND THOUGHT THE
BAN WAS JUST lNE 4HE THIRD A TWENTY
FOUR YEAR EDUCATION VETERAN
WAS OF A DIFFERENT MIND h0EOPLE NEED TO STAND UP TO ALL THESE WACKOS
)TS NUTSv .UTS 9ES BUT DONT EXPECT MANY OF OUR HIGHLY TRAINED
EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS TO GET OUT OF THEIR CHAIRS TO DO SOMETHING
ABOUT IT n OR MANY #HRISTIAN PARENTS FOR THAT MATTER
"Y THE WAY A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IN !BINGTON 0ENN
SYLVANIA SEEMS TO BE CONTESTING THE 3ACRAMENTO PRINCIPAL FOR THE
HONOR OF HAVING THE MOST AVANT
GARDE ANTI
#HRISTIAN POSITION 7HEN
A MOTHER QUESTIONED THE PRINCIPALS REFUSAL TO ALLOW HER HONOR STUDENT
SON TO WEAR A PRO
LIFE T
SHIRT AT SCHOOL THE PRINCIPAL TOLD HER THAT
hTHE SHIRT AND THE MESSAGE WERE THE EQUIVALENT OF A SWASTIKA BEING
DISPLAYED ON THE SHIRTv 4HE PRINCIPALS POSITION HOWEVER PROVED
A BIT TOO ADVANCED AT LEAST FOR THE MOMENT AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
RELENTED WHEN FACED WITH A LAWSUIT
7HERE DO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS lND THESE PRINCIPALS 4RY YOUR LO
CAL UNIVERSITYS SCHOOL OF EDUCATION "UT THAT IS A STORY FOR #HAPTER
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
$ANGEROUS #ONTRABAND #HRISTIAN #ANDY #ANES
.O TRImE SEEMS TO ESCAPE THE GAZE OF THE ANTI
#HRISTIAN ZEALOTS
IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 3EVERAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN -ASSACHUSETTS
WERE SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL FOR GIVING OTHER STUDENTS CANDY CANES
WITH A #HRISTIAN MESSAGE JUST BEFORE #HRISTMAS )N 2ENO .EVADA
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE #HRISTMAS CANDY
CANES WITH THE MESSAGE h*ESUS ,OVES 9OUv ONLY AFTER THE SCHOOL WAS
THREATENED WITH A LAWSUIT )N /REGON THE 'RESHAM
"ARLOW SCHOOL
DISTRICT WAS SUED OVER PROHIBITING A SIX
YEAR
OLD FROM HANDING OUT
#HRISTMAS CARDS BECAUSE THE CARDS MENTIONED *ESUS
)N A SIMILAR ATTEMPT BY SCHOOL OFlCIALS TO PREVENT #HRISTIAN
STUDENTS FROM PRIVATELY SHARING THEIR FAITH A 0ENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL
PROHIBITED A STUDENT FROM GIVING AWAY PENCILS BEARING THE MESSAGE
h*ESUS LOVES THE LITTLE CHILDRENv /F COURSE HANDING OUT CONDOMS IS
PROBABLY JUST OKEY
DOKEY IN THESE SCHOOLS
0ERSECUTION OF #HRISTIAN 4EACHERS AND #OUNSELORS ! &EW %XAMPLES
#HRISTIAN TEACHERS AND COUNSELORS ARE NOT IMMUNE FROM THE
ANTI
#HRISTIAN JIHAD BEING WAGED IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )N .ORTH
#AROLINA FOR EXAMPLE A HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT PREVENTION COUNSELOR
WAS SUSPENDED WHILE SHE WAS INVESTIGATED FOR ALLEGEDLY GIVING A STUDENT
RELIGIOUS ADVICE 4HE COUNSELOR "ETH 0INTO HAD BEEN APPROACHED
BY A STUDENT lGHTING HOMOSEXUAL URGES AND THE STUDENT ASKED WHAT
THE "IBLE TAUGHT ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY -RS 0INTO RESPONDED BY SHAR
ING SOME RELEVANT PASSAGES FROM 3CRIPTURE %VIDENTLY A THIRD PARTY
OVERHEARD THE CONVERSATION AND TOLD AN ADMINISTRATOR WHICH RESULTED
IN 0INTOS SUSPENSION AND THE INVESTIGATION !LTHOUGH -RS 0INTO WAS
EVENTUALLY REINSTATED THE DISTRICT OFlCIALS TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO
WARN SCHOOL EMPLOYEES THAT THEY MUST NOT COMMIT THE HIGH CRIME
AND MISDEMEANOR OF GIVING STUDENTS hRELIGIOUS ADVICEv )N A SIMILAR
DISPLAY OF INTOLERANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION OFlCIALS IN 0ENNSYLVANIA SUS
PENDED A TEACHERSS AIDE FOR ONE YEAR WITHOUT PAY FOR WEARING A ONE
AND ONE
QUARTER INCH CROSS PENDANT ON A NECKLACE
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
!S SHOULD BE EVIDENT WE ARE LONG PAST THE POINT WHERE THE
CONTROVERSY IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS OVER "IBLE READING OR PRAYER
.OW THE ANTI
#HRISTIAN BIGOTS ARE ATTEMPTING TO INTIMIDATE #HRIS
TIANS INTO COMPLETE COWERING SILENCE BY USING EVEN THE SLIGHTEST
PRETEXTS TO HARASS THEM !NSWERING A STUDENTS QUESTION WEARING
hINAPPROPRIATEvJEWELRY AND GIFT GIVING AMONG CHILDREN IS THE NEW LINE
IN THE SAND BEING DRAWN BY THOSE WHO CONTROL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
!ND IF YOU DONT LIKE IT THEY WILL DO WHAT THEY CAN TO MAKE YOUR LIFE
MISERABLE
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOL -OSQUES AND -USLIM 0RAYER 7ARRIORS
3OME HIGHLY PUBLICIZED INCIDENTS INVOLVING RELIGIONS OTHER THAN
#HRISTIANITY DRIVE HOME THE EXTENT TO WHICH GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF
lCIALS TEND TO UNDERSTAND THE hWALL OF SEPARATIONv AS NOTHING MORE
THAN A TOOL FOR SEPARATING #HRISTIANITY FROM SCHOOLS &OLLOWING THE
TERRORIST ATTACKS OF 3EPTEMBER THE #HANCELLOR OF .EW 9ORK
#ITYS GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED THAT .EW 9ORK
SCHOOLS WOULD SET ASIDE SPECIAL CLASSROOMS WHERE -USLIM STUDENTS
COULD PRAY DURING SCHOOL THROUGH THE MONTH OF 2AMADAN )N FACT
THE #HANCELLORS POLICY OF ALLOWING -USLIMS TO ASSEMBLE AND WORSHIP
PUBLICLY IN SCHOOLS HAD BEEN QUIETLY IN PLACE FOR SOME TIME
%VIDENTLY THE #HANCELLOR DECIDED TO GO PUBLIC WITH THE POLICY
AS A GESTURE OF REASSURANCE TO -USLIMS IN .EW 9ORK SCHOOLS IN THE
AFTERMATH OF THE TERRORIST ATTACKS 7HEN THE #ATHOLIC ,EAGUE PRAISED
THE POLICY AND ASKED THAT THE SAME LEVEL OF ACCOMMODATION BE SHOWN
#HRISTIANS THE #HANCELLOR IMMEDIATELY REVERSED HIS DECISION 4HUS
IN THE END IT APPEARS THAT REASSURING -USLIM STUDENTS WAS LESS IMPOR
TANT TO THE #HANCELLOR THAN KEEPING #HRISTIANITY OUT OF .EW 9ORK
SCHOOLS
4HE PRINCIPAL OF A &LUSHING .EW 9ORK MAGNET SCHOOL WAS EVEN
MORE BLATANT IN HER ANTI
#HRISTIAN BIAS 0RIOR TO #HRISTMAS THE
PRINCIPAL ISSUED A MEMO TO TEACHERS URGING THEM TO BRING TO SCHOOL
RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS REPRESENTING THE -USLIM +WANZAA AND *EWISH
RELIGIONS !LTHOUGH THE MEMO DIDNT MENTION #HRISTIANITY SOMEONE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
PUT UP A #HRISTMAS TREE IN THE SCHOOL 4HE PRINCIPAL IMMEDIATELY
ORDERED THE TREE TAKEN DOWN CLAIMING THAT IT WAS TOO LARGE WHEN COM
PARED TO THE MENORAH CRESCENT AND STAR /BVIOUSLY #HRISTIANITY WAS
THE ONLY RELIGION UNWELCOME IN THIS &LUSHING SCHOOL
4HIS SORT OF THING IS NOT LIMITED TO THE .ORTHEAST &OR EXAMPLE
A -ISSOURI HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL WAS EMBARRASSED WHEN A SCHOOL
EMPLOYEE LET THE PRESS KNOW THAT -USLIM STUDENTS WERE ALLOWED TO
SET UP A MOSQUE WITHIN THE SCHOOL %VIDENTLY THE SCHOOL PROVIDED
-USLIM STUDENTS A ROOM TO USE FOR PRAYER DURING THE SCHOOL DAY !
SIGN STATING THAT THE ROOM WAS THE h-USLIM 0RAYER 2OOMv IDENTIlED
THE ROOM )NSIDE WAS A SIGN ASKING VISITORS TO hREMOVE SHOES WHEN
ENTERING THE MOSQUEv !S MIGHT BE EXPECTED ONCE THE STORY BROKE THE
PRINCIPAL DENIED THAT THE SCHOOL INTENDED TO ALLOW THE ROOM TO BE
COME A MOSQUE .EEDLESS TO SAY HOWEVER NO ROOM WITHIN THE SCHOOL
HAD INADVERTENTLY BEEN SET ASIDE AS A CHURCH FOR #HRISTIAN STUDENTS TO
USE DURING THE DAY
!SSALAM ALEIKOOM FELLOW -USLIMS
)N #ALIFORNIA MANY TH GRADE STUDENTS ARE TAKING AN INTENSIVE
THREE
WEEK COURSE ON )SLAM !S PART OF THE COURSE THE CHILDREN MEMO
RIZE VERSES FROM THE +ORAN ADOPT A -USLIM NAME DRESS AS -USLIMS
LEARN THE TENETS OF )SLAM AND THE IMPORTANT lGURES IN THE HISTORY OF
)SLAM AND ARE TAUGHT TO PRAY hIN THE NAME OF !LLAH THE #OMPASSION
ATE THE -ERCIFULv AND TO CHANT h0RAISE TO !LLAH ,ORD OF #REATIONv
3TUDENTS ARE ALSO TAUGHT TO GREET ONE ANOTHER WITH THE PIOUS -USLIM
GREETING h!SSALAM ALEIKOOM FELLOW -USLIMS v AND PRONOUNCE THE
-USLIM WAR CRY h!LLAHU !KBARv *UST TO SHOW WHICH SIDE THE SCHOOLS
ARE ON STUDENTS WHO ARE UNWILLING TO WEAR -USLIM DRESS HAVE TO SIT
IN THE BACK OF THE CLASSROOMS "EST OF ALL HOWEVER THE CHILDREN GET
TO CONDUCT A MOCK hJIHADv USING A DICE GAME $O YOU SUPPOSE THAT
#ALIFORNIA SCHOOLS ARE ALSO REQUIRING TH GRADERS TO MEMORIZE "IBLE
VERSES OR TO PRAY IN THE NAME OF *ESUS
)N 3YRACUSE .EW 9ORK THE PRINCIPAL AND STAFF OF (7 3MITH
%LEMENTARY CLAIMED TO WANT hTO MAKE SURE THE SCHOOL RESPECTS ALL
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
THE VARIED TRADITIONSv OF THE IMMIGRANT CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL
)N PRACTICE THIS MEANT THAT AT 4HANKSGIVING THE TRADITIONAL SCHOOL
4HANKSGIVING FEAST WAS CANCELLED 7HY "ECAUSE SOME OF THE CHILDREN
IN THE SCHOOL WERE -USLIM AND 4HANKSGIVING FELL WITHIN THE MONTH
OF 2AMADAN A TIME DURING WHICH -USLIMS ARE EXPECTED TO FAST 9OU
SEE ALLOWING STUDENTS THE TRADITIONAL 4HANKSGIVING TURKEY DINNER JUST
WOULDNT DO IF AT THE SAME TIME -USLIM STUDENTS WERE CHOOSING TO FAST
$O YOU SUPPOSE THE SCHOOL ALSO SERVES ONLY lSH ON &RIDAYS OUT OF
CONCERN FOR THE SENSIBILITIES OF THE CHILDREN FROM #ATHOLIC FAMILIES
!NTI #HRISTIAN ,OGIC .O 7ORDS "UT 4OO 0REACHY
2ECENTLY (URON (IGH 3CHOOL OFlCIALS IN !NN !RBOR -ICHI
GAN ASKED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE SKITS AND VIDEOS FOR THE
SCHOOLS h-ULTICULTURAL 3HOWv 3TUDENTS FROM A #HRISTIAN CLUB SUB
MITTED A FOUR MINUTE VIDEO CONSISTING OF CLIPS FROM THE lLM h*ESUS
OF .AZARETHv SET TO MUSIC n NONE OF THE DIALOGUE FROM THE MOVIE WAS
INCLUDED JUST MUSIC 4HE #HRISTIAN STUDENTS WERE TOLD THEY COULD
NOT SHOW THEIR VIDEO BECAUSE IT WAS TOO hPREACHYv .O WORDS 4OO
hPREACHYv &OUR MINUTES 6IDEOS FROM THE )SLAMIC 3TUDENT 5NION
AND THE 'AY3TRAIGHT !LLIANCE WERE OF COURSE PERMITTED
&ORTUNATELY FOR THE (URON (IGH #HRISTIAN STUDENTS THE 4HOMAS
-ORE ,AW #ENTER HAD A FEW WORDS WITH THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL AD
MINISTRATORS WHO SUBSEQUENTLY DECIDED THAT THE WORDLESS VIDEO WASNT
TOO hPREACHYv AFTER ALL
!S SURPRISING AS IT MAY SEEM THESE ARE FAR FROM ISOLATED INCIDENTS
%DUCATION 7EEK REPORTS THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE WORKING HARD AT
ACCOMMODATING )SLAM -ENUS TESTING SCHEDULES 0% REQUIREMENTS
AND MANY OTHER ASPECTS OF SCHOOL LIFE ARE BEING ADJUSTED AROUND THE
COUNTRY TO MAKE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )SLAM FRIENDLY !T 2OBERT % ,EE
(IGH 3CHOOL IN SUBURBAN 6IRGINIA FOR EXAMPLE THE PRINCIPAL READ A
STATEMENT NOTING THE COMMENCEMENT OF 2AMADAN DURING THE SCHOOLS
MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS
4HE TEXTBOOK SITUATION IS EVEN WORSE ! REPORT BY THE !MERICAN
4EXTBOOK #OUNCIL EXAMINED SEVEN TEXTBOOKS USED WIDELY FOR JUNIOR
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL CHILDREN !CCORDING TO 'ILBERT 3EWALL A FORMER
PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF THE #OUNCIL
/N SIGNIlCANT )SLAM RELATED SUBJECTS TEXTBOOKS OMIT mATTER
EMBELLISH AND RESORT TO HAPPY TALK SUSPENDING CRITICISM OR
HARSH JUDGMENTS THAT WOULD RAISE PROVOCATIVE OR EVEN ALARMING
QUESTIONS
4HUS THE STUDENTS ON WHOM THESE TEXTBOOKS ARE INmICTED NEVER
LEARN FOR EXAMPLE THAT FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RELIGION ARE NOT TOL
ERATED IN MOST )SLAMIC COUNTRIES OR THAT FOR MILLIONS OF -USLIMS
hJIHAD v THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IS TO BRING THE ENTIRE WORLD UNDER
3HARIA OR )SLAMIC LAW INVOLVES ARMED CONQUEST 4HE STUDENTS WILL
ALSO NOT LEARN MUCH IF ANYTHING OF -USLIM INVOLVEMENT IN THE SLAVE
TRADE PAST OR PRESENT OR THAT MOST )SLAMIC COUNTRIES ARE REPRESSIVE
DICTATORSHIPS OR THEOCRACIES
7HY WOULD PUBLISHERS PUBLISH TEXTBOOKS THAT WHITEWASH )SLAM
&EAR /RGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE #OUNCIL ON )SLAMIC %DUCATION HAVE
MADE IT PLAIN THAT THOSE WHO DO NOT PORTRAY )SLAM FAVORABLY WILL BE
CALLED hRACISTSv AND hBIGOTSv -OREOVER GIVEN THAT TEXTBOOK ADOPTION
FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS A POLITICAL PROCESS THE PUBLISHERS ARE DOUBT
LESS ON NOTICE THAT ANY PORTRAYAL OF )SLAM THAT IS UNmATTERING COULD
JEOPARDIZE THE ADOPTION OF THEIR TEXTBOOKS -EANWHILE CHILDREN IN
!MERICAN CLASSROOMS ARE BEING FED FALSE AND DISTORTED VERSIONS OF BOTH
)SLAM AND #HRISTIANITY
)F YOU REMAIN UNCONVINCED THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE IN
CREASINGLY HOSTILE TO #HRISTIANITY $AVID ,IMBAUGHS 0ERSECUTION (OW
,IBERALS ARE 7AGING 7AR !GAINST #HRISTIANITY MAY CONVINCE YOU OTHER
WISE )N THE lRST PART OF HIS BOOK h4HE 7AR IN /UR 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS v
,IMBAUGH PROVIDES OVER PAGES OF EXAMPLES THAT ILLUSTRATE HOW
#HRISTIANS AND ESPECIALLY #HRISTIAN CHILDREN ARE TREATED ABUSIVELY IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS n CHILDREN BEING DISCIPLINED FOR PRAYING BEFORE
MEALS "IBLES BEING THROWN IN THE WASTEBASKET WHILE A TEACHER SHRIEKS
h4HIS IS GARBAGEv STUDENTS BEING TOLD THAT THE 4EN #OMMANDMENTS
ARE hHATE SPEECHv !S ) SAID BEFORE THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE ISNT WHAT
IT USED TO BE
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
!NTI
#HRISTIAN PREJUDICE IS COMMON WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
AND IT IS EXPRESSED IN MANY WAYS 9ET MOST #HRISTIAN PARENTS ARENT
PAYING ATTENTION
3OW THE 7IND 2EAP THE 7HIRLWIND
!RE YOU STILL CONVINCED THAT SENDING YOUR CHILDREN TO GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS IS HARMLESS )S IT PLAUSIBLE TO THINK THAT GIVING 7IC
CANS SECULAR HUMANISTS 'AIA WORSHIPERS AND SUNDRY PURVEYORS OF
%ASTERN RELIGIONS OR )SLAM THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROSELYTIZE YOUR CHILDREN
THROUGH CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION TEXTBOOKS ASSEMBLIES lELD
TRIPS PEER
PRESSURE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND ADULT EXAMPLE FOR AT LEAST
HOURS A WEEK MAKES NO DIFFERENCE TO THEIR FAITH
%VIDENCE THAT #HRISTIANS HAVE FAILED TO TRANSMIT THEIR FAITH AND
VALUES TO THEIR CHILDREN IS EVERYWHERE 7ITHIN TWO YEARS OF GRADU
ATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL BETWEEN AND OF TEENAGERS FROM
EVANGELICAL FAMILIES STOP ATTENDING CHURCH /VER THE LAST FORTY YEARS
TEEN SUICIDE HAS INCREASED BY AND SINCE ADULT ARRESTS FOR
DRUG LAW VIOLATIONS ARE UP OVER "Y OF ALL CHILDREN
WERE BORN OUT
OF
WEDLOCK 4HIS REPRESENTS AN INCREASE IN THE RATE
OF ILLEGITIMACY OF OVER SINCE WITH THE GREATEST INCREASE
COMING AFTER
0LAINLY THESE RESULTS PROCEED FROM THE VALUES HELD BY INDIVIDU
ALS #AN ANYONE REALLY BELIEVE THAT THE ACTIONS BEHIND THESE STATISTICS
REmECT THE VALUES OF A SINCERELY HELD #HRISTIAN WORLDVIEW $O YOU
REALLY BELIEVE THAT ATTENDING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAS NO INmUENCE ON
THE SORT OF WORLDVIEW YOUR CHILD DEVELOPS
&ORTUNATELY FOR THE DOUBTERS A STUDY CONDUCTED BY THE .EHEMIAH
)NSTITUTE MAKES CLEAR HOW ATTENDING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SHAPES THE
MINDS OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN )N ITS STUDY THE .EHEMIAH )NSTITUTE
EVALUATED THE WORLDVIEWS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN FROM #HRISTIAN
FAMILIES ATTENDING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS IN
NEARLY ALL lFTY STATES 4HE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED USING A TEST DESIGNED TO
ASSESS HOW "IBLICALLY OR NON
"IBLICALLY STUDENTS THINK ON CULTURE
SHAPING
ISSUES 2ESPONSES TO THE QUESTIONS ALLOWED THE RESEARCHERS TO CATEGORIZE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
THE STUDENTS WORLDVIEWS INTO FOUR CATEGORIES h"IBLICAL 4HEISM v
h-ODERATE #HRISTIAN v h3ECULAR (UMANISM v OR h3OCIALISMv
4HE STUDY FOUND SIGNIlCANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE WORLDVIEWS
OF CHILDREN THAT ATTENDED GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND THE WORLDVIEWS OF
CHILDREN WHO ATTENDED PRIVATE #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS &OR EXAMPLE ONLY
OF THE #HRISTIAN CHILDREN IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS STRONGLY
AGREED THAT THE FOUNDATION OF ALL GOVERNMENT IS SELF GOVERNMENT UN
DER 'OD WHILE OF THE CHILDREN ATTENDING PRIVATE #HRISTIAN
SCHOOLS STRONGLY AGREED
%VEN MORE TELLING WAS THE RESPONSE TO THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT
h"ECAUSE HUMAN NATURE IS CONSTANTLY CHANGING VALUES AND ETHICS WILL ALSO
CHANGE 4HEREFORE EACH GENERATION SHOULD BE FREE TO ADOPT MORAL STANDARDS
APPROPRIATE TO THEIR PREFERENCESv /NLY OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN AT
TENDING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS STRONGLY DISAGREED WITH THIS STATEMENT
WHILE OF CHILDREN ATTENDING PRIVATE #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS STRONGLY
DISAGREED /VERALL THE STUDY SHOWED THAT CHILDREN FROM #HRISTIAN
HOMES WHO ALSO ATTENDED PRIVATE #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS HAD WORLDVIEWS
THAT VARIED FROM hMODERATE #HRISTIANv TO h"IBLICAL 4HEISMv /N THE
OTHER HAND THE STUDENTS FROM #HRISTIAN HOMES WHO ATTENDED GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS HAD WORLDVIEWS THAT FELL PREDOMINANTLY WITHIN THE
CATEGORIES OF h3ECULAR (UMANISMv OR h3OCIALISMv
4HE .EHEMIAH )NSTITUTE lNDINGS DEMONSTRATE CLEARLY THAT WHEN
A CHILD IS PLACED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FOR
TO HOURS A WEEK IN WHICH HIS SUCCESS OR FAILURE DEPENDS ON CON
FORMING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE INSTITUTION AND ITS CURRICULUM THE
INmUENCE OF THAT INSTITUTION ON THE CHILD WILL BE FAR GREATER THAN AN
HOUR OR TWO OF 3UNDAY SCHOOL AND A FEW HOURS AT BEST OF DEVOTIONAL
TIME DURING THE WEEK WITH HIS PARENTS
3HOULD WE BE SURPRISED AT THIS &ROM A PRACTICAL POINT OF VIEW A
CHILD ENTERING A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IS ENTRUSTED TO A CURRICULUM THAT
REmECTS A NON #HRISTIAN WORLDVIEW AND HE IS PLACED UNDER THE AUTHOR
ITY OF ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS WHO ARE CHARGED WITH PROPAGATING
THAT NON #HRISTIAN WORLDVIEW -OREOVER THE CHILDS ACADEMIC SUCCESS
IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IS MEASURED BY HOW WELL HE HAS MASTERED THE
NON #HRISTIAN CURRICULUM 4HUS NOT ONLY DOES THE CHILD HAVE THE
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
PERCEPTION FROM HIS EARLIEST YEARS THAT EDUCATION IS SOMETHING TO BE
PROVIDED AND CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT BUT HE ALSO BELIEVES THAT
EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE ARE SEPARATE FROM PERHAPS EVEN ALIEN TO
#HRISTIANITY 9ET #HRISTIAN PARENTS WHO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS SEEM TO BE OBLIVIOUS TO THE SPIRITUAL AND MORAL RISKS THAT
THEIR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HABIT IMPOSES ON THEIR CHILDREN
4HE EFFECTS OF OUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HABIT ARE ALSO SHOWING UP
IN FAITHLESSNESS AND "IBLICAL ILLITERACY AMONG #HRISTIAN CHILDREN )N
THE "ARNA 2ESEARCH 'ROUP CONDUCTED A NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF
#HRISTIAN TEENAGERS 7HILE OF TEENAGERS CLAIMED TO BE #HRISTIAN
ONLY ONE
THIRD SAID THAT THEY WERE hABSOLUTELY COMMITTEDv TO #HRIS
TIANITY %VEN MORE STRIKING WERE lNDINGS THAT OF THE TEENAGERS
IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES AS #HRISTIAN BELIEVE SALVATION CAN BE EARNED
THROUGH GOOD WORKS AND THAT OF THESE TEENAGERS INCLUDING
OF EVANGELICAL TEENAGERS BELIEVE THAT *ESUS COMMITTED SINS WHILE ON
EARTH 7E ARE CLEARLY REAPING THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR UNFAITHFUL
NESS IN THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN
$O 9OU 4HINK 9OU 7ILL .OT "E (ELD !CCOUNTABLE
)N WHATEVER WE DO WE MUST ASK OURSELVES WHETHER WE ARE BEING
OBEDIENT TO 'OD *OHN 4HIS APPLIES NO LESS TO #HRISTIAN PAR
ENTS IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN )T IS OBVIOUS HOWEVER THAT FEW
#HRISTIAN PARENTS WITH CHILDREN IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HAVE ASKED THIS
QUESTION /THERWISE HOW COULD OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN BE GIVEN
INTO THE CUSTODY OF A PAGAN SEMINARY EVERY SCHOOL DAY n IN ESSENCE
OFFERED AS LIVING SACRIlCES TO THE GODS OF RIVAL RELIGIONS
0SALM TELLS US THAT CHILDREN ARE A GIFT FROM 'OD !S #HRIS
TIAN PARENTS WE HAVE A SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO BE FAITHFUL STEWARDS OF
THAT GIFT -OREOVER WE WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HOW WE HAVE DIS
CHARGED THAT RESPONSIBILITY )N -ATTHEW *ESUS SAYS h"UT IF ANYONE
CAUSES ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES WHO BELIEVE IN ME TO SIN IT WOULD BE
BETTER FOR HIM TO HAVE A HUGE MILLSTONE HUNG AROUND HIS NECK AND TO
BE DROWNED IN THE DEPTH OF THE SEAv #LEARLY THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO
LEAD A #HRISTIAN CHILD INTO SIN BUT NONE IS SURER THAN PLACING A CHILD
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
UNDER FALSE TEACHING 4HE QUESTION THEN FOR #HRISTIAN PARENTS IS WHAT
DOES THE "IBLE TELL US ABOUT THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN
&IRST AS HAS BEEN POINTED OUT CHILDREN ARE 'ODS GIFT TO PARENTS
NOT THE STATE .ON #HRISTIANS OF COURSE DENY THIS AND HAVE ALWAYS
SOUGHT CONTROL OF EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF IMPOSING THEIR WORLDVIEW
4HE .ATIONAL 3OCIALISTS AMONG OTHERS UNDERSTOOD THIS WELL
7HEN AN OPPONENT DECLARES h) WILL NOT COME OVER TO YOUR
SIDE v ) CALMLY SAY h9OUR CHILD BELONGS TO US ALREADYx 7HAT
ARE YOU 9OU WILL PASS ON 9OUR DESCENDANTS HOWEVER NOW
STAND IN THE NEW CAMP )N A SHORT TIME THEY WILL KNOW NOTHING
ELSE BUT THIS NEW COMMUNITYv
3IMILARLY MODERN HUMANISTS CLEARLY VIEW CONTROL OF A CHILDS
EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF ALIENATING HIM FROM #HRISTIANITY #HARLES &
0OTTER A SIGNER OF THE lRST (UMANIST -ANIFESTO WROTE IN THAT
;%=DUCATION IS THUS A MOST POWERFUL ALLY OF HUMANISM AND
EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL IS A SCHOOL OF HUMANISM 7HAT CAN THE
THEISTIC 3UNDAY SCHOOL MEETING FOR AN HOUR ONCE A WEEK AND
TEACHING ONLY A FRACTION OF THE CHILDREN DO TO STEM THE TIDE OF
A lVE DAY PROGRAM OF HUMANISTIC TEACHINGS
)N FACT 0AUL "LANCHARD A WELL KNOWN HUMANIST REGARDED THE
DESTRUCTION OF A CHILDS #HRISTIAN BELIEF AS PERHAPS WHAT GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS DO BEST
/UR SCHOOLS MAY NOT TEACH *OHNNY TO READ PROPERLY BUT THE
FACT THAT *OHNNY IS IN SCHOOL UNTIL HE IS TENDS TO LEAN TOWARD
THE ELIMINATION OF RELIGIOUS SUPERSTITION
#AN ANYONE SERIOUSLY BELIEVE THAT BY COLLABORATING IN THE SUB
VERSION OF OUR CHILDRENS FAITH WE ARE BEING OBEDIENT TO 'OD OR ACTING
AS PROPER STEWARDS OF (IS GIFT
3ECOND EVERY PASSAGE IN THE "IBLE THAT MENTIONS THE EDUCATION
OF CHILDREN MAKES IT CLEAR THAT PARENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE )N $EUTERONO
MY
THE ,ORD TELLS PARENTS THAT h4HESE WORDS ) AM COMMANDING
YOU TODAY MUST BE KEPT IN MIND AND YOU MUST TEACH THEM TO YOUR
7HY ARE 9OU %DUCATING 9OUR #HILDREN AT A 0AGAN 3EMINARY
CHILDREN AND SPEAK OF THEM AS YOU SIT IN YOUR HOUSE AS YOU WALK ALONG
THE WAY AS YOU LIE DOWN AND AS YOU GET UPv )N 0ROVERBS PARENTS
ARE TOLD h4RAIN A CHILD IN THE WAY THAT HE SHOULD GO AND WHEN HE IS
OLD HE WILL NOT TURN FROM ITv )N %PHESIANS FATHERS ARE TOLD TO RAISE
THEIR CHILDREN UP IN THE TRAINING AND INSTRUCTION OF THE ,ORD
2ECIPROCALLY CHILDREN ARE TOLD TO HEAR THE INSTRUCTION OF THEIR
PARENTS 0ROVERBS
NOT THE INSTRUCTION OF A GOVERNMENT EM
PLOYEE .OWHERE IN THE "IBLE DOES 'OD DELEGATE THE EDUCATION OF
CHILDREN TO THE STATE OR TO THE DISCIPLES OF OTHER RELIGIONS /N THE
CONTRARY THE "IBLE REQUIRES PARENTS TO PROVIDE THEIR CHILDREN NOTHING
LESS THAN A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION )NDEED IN ANCIENT )SRAEL AND AMONG
#HRISTIANS FOR NEARLY TWO MILLENNIA THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WAS CAR
RIED OUT PRIMARILY BY FAMILIES WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE SYNAGOGUE OR
CHURCH
&INALLY #ORINTHIANS
STATES THAT #HRISTIANS ARE NOT TO
BE UNEQUALLY YOKED TOGETHER WITH UNBELIEVERS (OW CAN WE FAIL TO
RECOGNIZE THAT PLACING CHILDREN UNDER THE CONTROL AND INSTRUCTION OF
A PAGAN INSTITUTION FOR TO HOURS A WEEK IS YOKING OUR CHILDREN
UNEQUALLY WITH UNBELIEVERS )NDEED CAN THERE BE A WORSE EXAMPLE OF
UNEQUAL YOKING THAN THE DELIBERATE YOKING OF A CHILD WITH A PAGAN
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
)T NOW MAY BE FULLY #ONSTITUTIONAL FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO
BRING IN TURBAN
WEARING YOGI
NUMEROLOGISTS TO TEACH CHILDREN THE
(INDU DEVOTIONAL PRACTICE KNOWN AS hYOGA v TO HAVE CHILDREN MAKE
IMAGES OF STRANGE GODS TO HAVE CHILDREN RECITE THE +ORAN TO SPONSOR
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES INVOLVING THE OCCULT TO HAVE SELF
PROCLAIMED
PSYCHIC
TELEPATHS TEACH CHILDREN EXERCISES TO IMPROVE THEIR hCONCEN
TRATION v TO SPONSOR MEDITATION PROGRAMS TO HAVE CHILDREN MAKE
OFFERINGS TO h-OTHER %ARTH v TO BE INITIATED INTO THE BELIEFS OF 7ICCA
AND SO ON 7E KNOW THAT FOR MANY PARENTS SUCH PRACTICES AND MORE
ARE ACCEPTABLE "UT AS #HRISTIAN PARENTS WE WILL BE JUDGED BY A DIFFER
ENT STANDARD THAN MAN
MADE LAWS OR PERSONAL PREFERENCES 7E HAVE TO
DECIDE WHETHER WE ARE FOR (IM OR AGAINST (IM 7HO AMONG US WANTS
TO COME BEFORE THE *UDGMENT 3EAT 2OM
HAVING SACRIlCED
OUR CHILDREN TO THE -OLOCH OF GOVERNMENT EDUCATION
# ( ! 0 4 % 2 4 7 /
$O 9O U , IKE 9O U R $A U G H T E R S
. O S E
RIN G A N D 4O N G U E 3 T U D
!LL TOO MANY CHURCHMEN VIEW THE UNDISCIPLINED AND AMORAL
PRODUCTS OF STATIST EDUCATION AS EVIDENCES OF THE FAILURES OF THESE SCHOOLS
/N THE CONTRARY THEY ARE EVIDENCES OF THEIR SUCCESS
2* 2USHDOONY
' OVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DEFORMING OUR CHILDREN SPIRITUALLY BUT WHAT
ARE THEY DOING TO THEM MORALLY 4HE NEWS IS NOT GOOD
/VER THE LAST DECADE MANY PARENTS HAVE NOTICED THE DECADENT
DIRECTION STUDENT hFASHIONSv HAVE TAKEN STUDENTS WITH HAIR DYED COL
ORS THAT ARE NORMALLY ONLY SEEN ON TROPICAL lSH TEENAGE GIRLS WHO
DRESS LIKE HOOKERS AND STUDENTS PARTICULARLY GIRLS WITH TATTOOS AND
BODY PIERCINGS THAT SUGGEST THEY ARE CONSORTING WITH THE -ARQUIS DE
3ADE &OR THOSE IN THE AVANT GARDE OF hBODY MODIlCATIONv IE BODY
PIERCINGS TATTOOS ETC THE LATEST hNEW THINGv IS TONGUE SPLITTING n AS
IN CUTTING THE TONGUE TO MAKE IT FORKED )N ADDITION THE CUTTING
EDGE OF TEENAGE AND YOUNG ADULT FEMALE FASHION IS JEANS WITH WAISTS
CUT SO LOW THAT A PART OF THE ANATOMY PLUMBERS SOMETIMES EXPOSE BY
ACCIDENT IS VISIBLE /F COURSE UNLIKE PLUMBERS THE GIRLS AND YOUNG
WOMEN ARE DOING IT ON PURPOSE
!LL RIGHT YOUR DAUGHTER PROBABLY DOESNT HAVE A TATTOO NOSE
RING OR A TONGUE STUD BUT MANY CHILDREN IN YOUR COMMUNITY DO
-OREOVER THESE TROUBLING OUTWARD SIGNS REmECT A FAR MORE SERIOUS AND
WIDESPREAD PROBLEM ON THE INSIDE THE CORRUPTION OF OUR CHILDRENS
MORAL SENSIBILITIES !ND UNFORTUNATELY THIS AFFECTS FAR MORE CHILDREN
THAN JUST THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO ADVERTISE THEIR NIHILISM THROUGH THEIR
ECCENTRIC APPEARANCESx PERHAPS IT AFFECTS EVEN YOURS
,ETS BEGIN BY NOTING A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE IN MORAL OUTLOOK
BETWEEN #HRISTIAN CHILDREN WHO ATTEND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND
#HRISTIAN CHILDREN WHO DO NOT 7E WILL THEN EXAMINE HOW #HRISTIAN
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
VALUES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND WHAT SOME
OF THE CONSEQUENCES HAVE BEEN TO CHILDREN AND SOCIETY &INALLY WE WILL
LOOK AT THE NEXT hBIG THINGv BEING PROMOTED BY EDUCATION ACTIVISTS
THAT IS BEGINNING TO SWEEP THROUGH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 3O IF YOU
ARE A #HRISTIAN WITH A CHILD IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CONTINUE TO ASK
YOURSELF IN LIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE IF LEAVING YOUR CHILD THERE SHOWS
OBEDIENCE TO 'ODS 7ORD AND IS CONSISTENT WITH YOUR CHILDS SPIRITUAL
MORAL AND PHYSICAL WELL
BEING
! #ULTURAL $IVIDE
4HERE IS NO GREATER CULTURAL RIFT IN !MERICA THAN BETWEEN THOSE
WHO ACCEPT THE AUTHORITY OF THE MORAL TEACHINGS OF THE "IBLE AND
THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT MORAL JUDGMENTS EXPRESS ONLY THE SUBJECTIVE
PREFERENCES OF INDIVIDUALS #ONSEQUENTLY ITS SHOCKING THAT AS PREVI
OUSLY NOTED ONLY OF EVANGELICAL #HRISTIAN CHILDREN WHO ATTEND
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CLEARLY REJECT THE FOLLOWING PROPOSITION ENDORS
ING MORAL RELATIVISM h%ACH GENERATION SHOULD BE FREE TO ADOPT MORAL
STANDARDS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR PREFERENCESv
!PPARENTLY SOMETHING LEADS THOSE STUDENTS TO THINK THAT THE
4EN #OMMANDMENTS ARE NEGOTIABLE 9ET WHY IS IT THAT IN CONTRAST
NEARLY OF EVANGELICAL #HRISTIAN STUDENTS ATTENDING #HRISTIAN
PRIVATE SCHOOLS STRONGLY REJECT THE SAME PROPOSITION )N OTHER WORDS
WHY SHOULD THE MORAL THINKING OF #HRISTIAN STUDENTS VARY SO MUCH
DEPENDING ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY ATTEND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
4HERE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY SEVERAL FACTORS BEHIND THIS DISPARITY
IN MORAL OUTLOOK BUT THE HEART OF THE MATTER IS THAT CHILDREN LEARN
BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE 3O JUST WHAT TYPE OF MORAL TEACHING HAVE
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BEEN PROVIDING IN THEIR CURRICULA AND BY THEIR
INSTITUTIONAL EXAMPLE
$ONT "E 3O *UDGMENTAL
4HROUGHOUT THE TH CENTURY AND INTO THE S GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS TAUGHT CHILDREN MORAL PRINCIPLES THAT IF NOT ALWAYS EXPLICITLY
#HRISTIAN WERE AT LEAST COMPATIBLE WITH #HRISTIANITY 4ODAY MANY
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
#HRISTIANS WONDER HOW PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DISCUSSIONS OF MORALITY
HAVE LARGELY BECOME CLICH£ RIDDEN GIBBERISH ABOUT hNOT BEING JUDG
MENTAL v hNOT MORALIZING v hNOT IMPOSING YOUR VALUE JUDGMENTS ON
OTHERS v AND hVALUING DIFFERENCESv 7HAT THIS REPRESENTS OF COURSE
IS A MASSIVE MOVEMENT IN !MERICAN SOCIETY AWAY FROM THE #HRISTIAN
CONCEPTION OF TRANSCENDENT MORAL VALUES TOWARD A MORAL RELATIVISM
ROOTED IN THE CONVICTION THAT MORAL VALUES MERELY REmECT SUBJECTIVE
PREFERENCES (OW DID THIS COME ABOUT
4HE MAIN ROOTS OF THIS CHANGE AS WITH SO MANY UNWELCOME
DEVELOPMENTS IN !MERICAN CULTURE CAN BE FOUND IN THE lRST HALF
OF THE TH CENTURY &OLLOWING THE END OF 7ORLD 7AR ) THE VIEWS OF
%UROPEAN PHILOSOPHERS KNOWN AS hLOGICAL POSITIVISTSv BEGAN TO MAKE
SIGNIlCANT INROADS AMONG !MERICAS INTELLECTUALS ,OGICAL POSITIVISTS
BELIEVED AMONG OTHER THINGS IN A MATERIALISTIC UNIVERSE AND ASSERTED
THAT EVERYTHING THAT IS OBJECTIVELY TRUE COULD BE STATED IN A hPHYSICAL
ISTICv LANGUAGE WHICH THEY CONSIDERED TO BE THE LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE
"ECAUSE STATEMENTS ABOUT VALUES COULD NOT BE EXPRESSED IN A LANGUAGE
ESSENTIALLY LIMITED TO STATEMENTS CONCERNING LOGICAL AND MATHEMATICAL
ENTITIES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS AND SPATIO TEMPORAL ENTITIES AND THEIR
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES THE LOGICAL POSITIVISTS CLAIMED THAT STATEMENTS
ABOUT VALUES WERE JUST EXPRESSIONS OF FEELINGS AND ATTITUDES 4HUS
MORAL DISCOURSE WAS TRANSFORMED FROM A DISCUSSION CONCERNING THE
NATURE AND APPLICATION OF TRANSCENDENT MORAL TRUTHS INTO SELF ABSORBED
CHIT CHAT ABOUT THE FEELINGS AND PREFERENCES OF INDIVIDUALS
!NTHROPOLOGICAL -ULTICULTURALISM
7HILE THE LOGICAL POSITIVISTS IN SOME SENSE DID THE NECESSARY
hHEAVY LIFTINGv IN INTELLECTUAL CIRCLES THAT LED TO THE TRIUMPH OF VARI
OUS VERSIONS OF MORAL RELATIVISM OVER COMPETING CONCEPTIONS OF TRAN
SCENDENT MORAL TRUTH THE POPULAR MIND WAS LARGELY WON OVER BY THE
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS WHO CHAMPIONED CULTURAL RELATIVISM n THE
BELIEF THAT NO CULTURE CAN RIGHTLY BE SAID TO BE BETTER THAN ANOTHER
)N !MERICA AT LEAST THIS WAS LARGELY THE WORK OF &RANZ "OAS OF
#OLUMBIA 5NIVERSITY AND HIS STUDENTS THE BEST KNOWN OF WHOM WERE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
-ARGARET -EAD AND 2UTH "ENEDICT ! SOCIALIST AND AN ATHEIST "OAS HAD
A FANATICS COMMITMENT TO THE NOTION THAT CULTURES AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
ARE A FUNCTION OF hNURTUREv RATHER THAN NATURE )N POSTMODERN JARGON
"OAS COULD BE SAID TO BELIEVE THAT CULTURES ARE hSOCIALLY CONSTRUCTEDv
#ONSEQUENTLY "OAS BELIEVED THAT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO lND HEALTHY
ATTRACTIVE CULTURES WITH NORMS VERY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF 7ESTERN
#IVILIZATION BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A hHUMAN NATUREv THAT
WOULD TEND TO MAKE BASIC SOCIAL NORMS CONVERGE #ONSEQUENTLY THE
"OASIAN PROJECT WAS THE lNAL OVERTHROW OF THE #HRISTIAN VIEW OF HU
MAN NATURE THAT WAS THEN STILL DOMINANT IN !MERICAN SOCIETY NAMELY
THAT HUMAN NATURE WAS SINFUL AND UNIVERSAL
"OAS BEGAN WITH HIS CONCLUSIONS AND VIEWED HIS TASK AS MANU
FACTURING THE EVIDENCE FOR THEM MUCH LIKE %NGLISH &ABIAN SOCIALISTS
3YDNEY AND "EATRICE 7EBB WHO PRODUCED AND ENCOURAGED MUCH
hSOCIAL RESEARCHv RELATED TO ECONOMICS AROUND THE TURN OF THE TH
CENTURY !S THE HEAD OF #OLUMBIAS ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT "OAS
WAS WELL POSITIONED TO DO JUST THAT WITH A STREAM OF STUDENTS AND
ASSISTANTS GENERALLY DISPOSED TO PLEASE THE CHARISMATIC h0APA &RANZv
.OT SURPRISINGLY hRESEARCHv FOLLOWED OVER THE YEARS THAT CONlRMED
"OAS VIEWS REGARDING CULTURAL RELATIVISM
4HE BEST KNOWN OF THESE hSCHOLARLYv PRODUCTIONS WAS -ARGARET
-EADS #OMING OF !GE IN 3AMOA WHICH PURPORTED TO lND AN IDYLLIC
3OUTH 3EAS SOCIETY WHOSE SEXUAL MORES WERE PRECISELY THE REVERSE OF
THOSE OF 7ESTERN #IVILIZATION .EVER MIND THAT THE lELDWORK THAT
PRODUCED #OMING OF !GE IN 3AMOA WAS HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE FROM THE
START OR THAT -EADS WORK IN 3AMOA HAS SUBSEQUENTLY BEEN SHOWN TO
BE ENTIRELY WRONG 4HE TITILLATING SUBJECT MATTER ENSURED A WIDE POPU
LAR AUDIENCE -OREOVER BECAUSE ITS hlNDINGSv SUITED THE PREJUDICES
OF MANY ACADEMICS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES #OMING OF !GE IN 3AMOA HAD
A LONG RUN IN COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY COURSES THAT TO SAY THE LEAST WAS
NOT DESERVED
#ULTURAL RELATIVISM OF COURSE LEADS INELUCTABLY TOWARDS MORAL
RELATIVISM )F WE ACCEPT THAT THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG OR BETTER OR
WORSE AMONG CULTURES IT IS DIFlCULT TO CLAIM THAT THE MORAL VALUES
EMBEDDED IN DIFFERENT CULTURES ARE SOMEHOW RIGHT OR WRONG BETTER OR
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
WORSE !LL THAT COULD BE SAID IS THAT THEY ARE DIFFERENT )F MORAL VALUES
ARE JUST DIFFERENT WE CANT TELL SOMEONE ELSE THAT HIS MORAL VALUES ARE
WRONG
4HIS PERSPECTIVE ON MORALITY n THAT OUR MORAL JUDGMENTS ARE
JUST A REmECTION OF OUR NEEDS AND INTERESTS UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN
WHICH WE lND OURSELVES n IS FOUND IN THE (UMANIST -ANIFESTOS AND
IN THE VIEWS OF HUMANISTS GENERALLY 3TILL THROUGH THE S AND WELL
INTO THE S THIS RELATIVIST VIEW OF MORALITY DID NOT PENETRATE FAR
INTO THE MAINSTREAM OF !MERICAN SOCIETY BECAUSE A #HRISTIAN VIEW OF
MORALITY CONTINUED TO DOMINATE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
!LL OF THIS CHANGED WITH THE 3UPREME #OURTS %VERSON DECI
SION IN "ECAUSE THE %VERSON #OURTS NEW hWALL OF SEPARATIONv
INTERPRETATION OF THE &IRST !MENDMENT WAS UNDERSTOOD TO PROHIBIT
THE TEACHING OF hRELIGIOUSv VALUES IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS %VERSON AND
THE CASES THAT FOLLOWED IT EFFECTIVELY ELIMINATED TRADITIONAL !MERICAN
TEACHINGS CONCERNING MORAL VALUES FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS OVER A
PERIOD OF TO YEARS 4HIS HOWEVER CREATED A GAP IN THE GOVERN
MENT SCHOOL CURRICULUM IF #HRISTIAN MORAL TEACHING HAD TO BE
EXCLUDED FROM THE CLASSROOM HOW COULD VALUES BE TAUGHT 4O lLL THE
GAP GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TURNED TO THE WORK OF HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLO
GISTS THE MOST INmUENTIAL OF WHOM WAS #ARL 2OGERS
.ON
$IRECTIVE -ORAL %DUCATION
AND THE $OGMA OF -ORAL 2ELATIVISM
2OGERS DEVELOPED A PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUE BUILT AROUND
A CONCEPT HE REFERRED TO AS THE hCLARIFYING RESPONSEv 5SING THIS TECH
NIQUE A PSYCHOLOGIST ASKS QUESTIONS OF HIS PATIENT TO ENCOURAGE HIM TO
EXPRESS HIS ATTITUDES AND FEELINGS ABOUT HIS PROBLEMS UNTIL THE PATIENT
SPONTANEOUSLY PRODUCES A hCLARIFYING RESPONSEv THAT IS A RESPONSE
THAT PROVIDED INSIGHTFUL UNDERSTANDING CONCERNING HIS PROBLEMS !
CRITICAL ELEMENT OF THIS TECHNIQUE IS THAT THE PSYCHOLOGIST NOT EXPRESS
ANY KIND OF hJUDGMENTv CONCERNING THE PATIENTS RESPONSES THAT MIGHT
IMPAIR HIS hSELF
ESTEEMv #ONSEQUENTLY THE PSYCHOLOGIST IS REQUIRED
TO PROJECT AN UNCONDITIONAL REGARD AND EMPATHY FOR THE PATIENT )N
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ESSENCE 2OGERS VIEW WAS THAT PATIENTS hWILL STRAIGHTEN THEMSELVES OUT
WHEN THEY WORK ON THEIR PERSONAL PROBLEMS IN THE PRESENCE OF AN
UNDERSTANDING ACCEPTING AND COURTEOUS LISTENERv "UT AS WOULD BE
COME EVIDENT LATER THE hNONJUDGMENTALv ASPECT OF 2OGERS TECHNIQUE
AND ITS ASSUMPTION THAT THE ONLY PROPER REFERENCE POINT FOR A PATIENTS
DECISIONS WERE HIS OWN ATTITUDES AND FEELINGS INVOLVED AN IMPLICIT
MORAL RELATIVISM
)N THE BEGINNING 2OGERS VIEWED HIS APPROACH TO PSYCHO
THERAPY AS HELPFUL TO PEOPLE WHO WERE BASICALLY SOUND BUT WHO HAD
ENCOUNTERED SOME PROBLEMS IN LIFE THAT WERE RESULTING IN hNEUROTICv
BEHAVIOR 4OWARD THE END OF HIS LIFE HOWEVER 2OGERS REPUDIATED THE
PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES THAT COULD BE DESCRIBED GENERICALLY
AS h2OGERIAN THERAPY v AS DID SEVERAL OF HIS EARLY COLLABORATORS )N A
PRESENTATION BEFORE THE CONVENTION OF THE !SSOCIATION FOR (U
MANISTIC 0SYCHOLOGY 2OGERS TOLD THE AUDIENCE THAT THE THERAPY ITSELF
WAS WRONG AND THAT h) HOPE 2OGERIAN THERAPY GOES DOWN THE DRAINv
-OREOVER HE AND HIS COLLEAGUES !BRAHAM -ASLOW AND 7ILLIAM 2
#OULSON WERE PARTICULAR DISTRESSED AT THE DAMAGING EFFECTS HUMAN
ISTIC PSYCHOLOGY WAS HAVING IN SCHOOLS 5NFORTUNATELY FOR 2OGERS HIS
TEACHINGS HAD GIVEN RISE TO AN ARMY OF hSORCERERS APPRENTICES v AND HE
LACKED THE POWER TO UNDO THE HARM HIS FOLLOWERS HAD DONE OR EVEN TO
DISSUADE THEM FROM CONTINUING IN THEIR FOLLY
3PREADING -ORAL 2ELATIVISM 4HROUGH 3CHOOLS OF %DUCATION
3CHOOLS OF EDUCATION IT TURNED OUT PROVED TO BE BOTH A VAST
SOURCE OF hSORCERERS APPRENTICESv AND THE CHANNEL THROUGH WHICH
2OGERS HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY WAS PUSHED INTO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
7HEN 2OGERS BEGAN TEACHING AT /HIO 3TATE 5NIVERSITY HIS VIEWS
GREATLY INTERESTED THE FACULTY AND THE STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE OF EDUCA
TION ,OUIS % 2ATHS WHO WAS A FACULTY MEMBER IN THE COLLEGE OF
EDUCATION WHILE 2OGERS WAS AT /HIO 3TATE AND HIS GRADUATE STUDENT
3IDNEY 3IMON ULTIMATELY TRANSFORMED 2OGERS CONCEPT OF THE hCLARIFY
ING RESPONSEv AND HIS hNON
DIRECTIVEv PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES
INTO A NON
DIRECTIVE CURRICULUM FOR TEACHING MORAL VALUES NOW KNOWN
AS hVALUES CLARIlCATIONv h6ALUES CLARIlCATION v ALONG WITH OTHER NON
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
DIRECTIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING MORAL VALUES SUCH AS hCOGNITIVE
DE
VELOPMENT MORAL EDUCATION v AND hETHICAL REASONING FOR CHILDREN v IN
RELATIVELY SHORT ORDER BECAME THE PRIMARY WAY IN WHICH GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS ATTEMPTED TO REINTRODUCE THE TEACHING OF VALUES IN THE AFTER
MATH OF %VERSON AND ITS PROGENY
7HAT IS hNON
DIRECTIVEv MORAL EDUCATION .ON
DIRECTIVE AP
PROACHES TREAT MORAL EDUCATION AS A PROCESS THROUGH WHICH CHILDREN
ARE SUPPOSED TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN VALUES THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN
GAMES DISCUSSION OF MORAL PROBLEMS OR DILEMMAS AND USE OF CERTAIN
INTELLECTUAL STRATEGIES )N THIS APPROACH TEACHERS ARE NOT TO TAKE MORAL
POSITIONS OR PRESENT THEIR OWN MORAL VIEWS &URTHER PROPONENTS OF
THE VARIOUS FORMS OF NON
DIRECTIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING MORAL
VALUES ALLEGEDLY HAD NO INTEREST IN INCULCATING ANY PARTICULAR VALUES
IN CHILDREN )NDEED PROPONENTS OF NON
DIRECTIVE MORAL EDUCATION
EXPLICITLY REJECTED THE NOTION OF hTEACHING VALUESv AND CRITICIZED THOSE
WHO OBJECTED TO THIS VALUE
NEUTRAL APPROACH AS WANTING TO IMPOSE
THEIR OWN hRIGID OBSOLETE VALUE STRUCTURESv ON OTHERS THROUGH THE
SCHOOLS !S A RESULT CHILDREN WERE TURNED LOOSE WITHOUT ANY MORAL
GUIDANCE ON CRITICAL COMPLEX ISSUES INVOLVING DRUGS SEX WAR AND LIFE
AND DEATH TO ARRIVE AT CONCLUSIONS BASED UPON THEIR LIMITED EXPERIENCE
AND KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR FEELINGS
$ESPITE CLAIMING TO BE VALUE
NEUTRAL NON
DIRECTIVE APPROACHES
TO TEACHING MORAL REASONING ACTUALLY INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN WITH THE
VIEW THAT ALL MORAL VALUES ARE SUBJECTIVE AND RELATIVE AND THAT NONE ARE
OBJECTIVE AND UNIVERSALLY APPLICABLE 7HILE CONGENIAL TO MANY ELE
MENTS IN SOCIETY THIS VIEW OF MORALITY IS PROFOUNDLY ANTI
#HRISTIAN
.ON
$IRECTIVE -ORAL %DUCATION IN THE #LASSROOM
6ALUES CLARIlCATION ALONG WITH OTHER FORMATS FOR USING 2OGERS
NON
DIRECTIVE STYLE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY SUCH AS ENCOUNTER GROUPS SELF
ESTEEM TRAINING AFFECTIVE EDUCATION AND MASTERY LEARNING HAVE BEEN
TAUGHT TO TEACHERS AND COUNSELORS SINCE AT LEAST THE EARLY S )N
ADDITION PROGRAMS SUCH AS $!2% $RUG !BUSE 2ESISTANCE %DUCA
TION 1UEST $53/ $EVELOPING 5NDERSTANDING OF 3ELF AND /TH
ERS 0UMSEY hDILEMMA ETHICS v AND OTHER CURRICULA HAVE BROUGHT THE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
TECHNIQUES OF NON
DIRECTIVE MORAL EDUCATION DIRECTLY INTO SCHOOLS AT
THE STUDENT LEVEL
7HY WERE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SO RECEPTIVE TO THESE TYPES OF
CURRICULA !S ALREADY MENTIONED THE %VERSON LINE OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS
HAD ELIMINATED TRADITIONAL RELIGION
BASED CHARACTER EDUCATION AND
SCHOOLS NEEDED SOMETHING SECULAR TO lLL THE VACUUM .ON
DIRECTIVE
CURRICULA CLAIMED TO BE SECULAR AND PURPORTED TO BE VALUE
NEUTRAL IE
THEY CLAIMED TO TEACH CHILDREN HOW TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT MORAL
DECISIONS WITHOUT IMPOSING ANY PARTICULAR SET OF VALUES 7HY IS THIS
A PROBLEM
!T A PRACTICAL LEVEL NON
DIRECTIVE MORAL EDUCATION TURNS MORAL
INSTRUCTION ON ITS HEAD %FFORTS BY PARENTS CHURCHES AND OTHERS TO
TEACH CHILDREN VALUES LET ALONE THE TRANSCENDENT MORAL VALUES AT
THE HEART OF #HRISTIANITY ARE DENOUNCED BY THOSE TRAINED IN VALUES
CLARIlCATION AND OTHER NON
DIRECTIVE APPROACHES AS hMORALIZINGv n THE
hMISTAKEv OF FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THAT ALL MORAL VALUES ARE A MATTER
OF PERSONAL PREFERENCES AND THAT THEREFORE MORAL VALUES ARE ALWAYS
RELATIVE CHANGING AND SITUATIONAL 4HUS hMORALIZERSv ARE JUST PUSHY
INTOLERANT PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO FORCE THEIR VALUES ON OTHERS &ROM
THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE ADEPTS OF NON
DIRECTIVE MORAL EDUCATION SUCH
PEOPLE ARE NOTHING MORE THAN MORAL IMPERIALISTS
#ONSEQUENTLY BY USING NON
DIRECTIVE CURRICULA FOR TEACHING
MORAL VALUES SCHOOLS ARE EFFECTIVELY TEACHING CHILDREN THAT THEIR PAR
ENTS JUDGMENTS ABOUT VALUES AND MORAL ISSUES ARE NECESSARILY NO BETTER
THAN THEIR OWN 0ARENTS MIGHT HAVE THE ABILITY TO FORCE THEIR CHILDREN
TO CONFORM TO STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR THAT THEIR CHILDREN DISAGREE WITH
BUT UNDER THE INmUENCE OF NON
DIRECTIVE MORAL EDUCATION CHILDREN
NOW UNDERSTAND THIS TO BE ARBITRARY AND ILLEGITIMATE !S A PRACTICAL
MATTER NON
DIRECTIVE MORAL EDUCATION TELLS CHILDREN THAT THEY ARE FREE
TO MAKE UP ANY SYSTEM OF VALUES THAT IS hRIGHT FOR THEMv
.OW CONSIDER THAT NON
DIRECTIVE MORAL EDUCATION HAS BEEN
MAINLY APPLIED TO !)$3 DRUG AND SEX EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND THE
DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES TO CHILDREN OF BRINGING THESE CURRICULA INTO
THE CLASSROOM BEGIN TO BECOME APPARENT
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
!N %XAMPLE $!2%
$!2% WHICH HAS BEEN USED IN ALL STATES AND MORE THAN
THREE
QUARTERS OF ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS ILLUSTRATES HOW 2OGERS NON
DIREC
TIVE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN APPLIED IN THE CLASSROOM
IN THE FORM OF VALUES CLARIlCATION
4HE $!2% PROGRAM IS PRESENTED BY POLICE OFlCERS 7ILLIAM
2 #OULSON #ARL 2OGERS FORMER RESEARCH ASSISTANT AND COLLEAGUE HAS
DESCRIBED THE CONTENT OF THE TRAINING MATERIALS AS FOLLOWS
$!2% NEVER TELLS STUDENTS h$ONT USE DRUGSv .OT ONCE IN THE
COURSE OF SEVENTEEN LESSONS DOES THE $!2% OFlCER EVER SAY
h$ONT USE DRUGSv )NSTEAD IT WORKS ON DEVELOPING THE SELF
ES
TEEM THAT MAKES IT EASIER TO SAY hNOv
7ELL IF THE OFlCERS CANT TELL THE CHILDREN THAT USING DRUGS IS BOTH
WRONG AND A BAD IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE CLASSROOM
7HAT HAPPENS IS THIS THE CHILDREN ARE GIVEN A GREAT DEAL OF
INFORMATION ABOUT DIFFERENT TYPES OF DRUGS WHAT KINDS OF hHIGHSv
THEY PRODUCE WHAT THEY COST HOW THEY ARE USED RISKS ETC WHICH IS
PRESENTED IN AN ENTIRELY VALUE
NEUTRAL FASHION 4HEN THE CHILDREN ARE
ASKED TO IDENTIFY REASONS FOR AND AGAINST DRUG USE 4HE OFlCERS ROLE
IS TO ASK THE STUDENTS hNON
DIRECTIVEv QUESTIONS TO HELP THEM hCLARIFYv
THEIR OWN FEELINGS ABOUT WHETHER DRUG USE IS RIGHT FOR THEM OR NOT
)N A PAPER PRESENTED IN 7ILLIAM #OULSON FORCEFULLY POINTED
OUT THE OBVIOUS IDIOCY OF USING SUCH NON
DIRECTIVE TECHNIQUES WITH
CHILDREN
)MAGINE A STUDENT WHO PROPOSES TO BRING A LOADED GUN TO SCHOOL
WHICH IS AN EXAMPLE OFFERED IN THE $!2% STUDENT WORKBOOK
"ECAUSE $!2% IS VALUES CLARIlCATION THE OFlCER IS FORBIDDEN
TO ISSUE A WARNING (E OR SHE IS INSTRUCTED TO ASK SCRIPTED QUES
TIONS INSTEAD DESIGNED TO PROMOTE VALUE CLARITY h7HAT BAD
THINGS COULD HAPPEN v IS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THE OFlCER IS TO
ASK AND h7HAT GOOD THINGS COULD HAPPEN v IS ANOTHER 7HAT
GOOD THINGS COULD HAPPEN ) SAID THAT 2OGERS HAD ABANDONED
THEN CURSED THIS APPROACH "ECAUSE IT IS UNPRECEDENTED TO SUB
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
MIT LIFE AND DEATH MATTERS TO hDISCUSSIONv BY lFTH AND SIXTH
GRADERSv ;%MPHASIS ADDED=
*UST SO
-OREOVER NUMEROUS STUDIES HAVE SHOWN $!2% TO BE AT BEST
INEFFECTIVE IN DISCOURAGING DRUG USE /NE WRITER WHO HAD DISCUSSED
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF $!2% WITH EXPERTS WHO HAD DONE INDEPENDENT
EVALUATIONS OF $!2% CONCLUDED THAT h$!2% SHOULD BE RANKED
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A SHAM AND A MEDIOCRITYv ! STUDY COM
MISSIONED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONCLUDED THAT THERE IS NO EVI
DENCE THAT $!2% REDUCES DRUG USE EVEN THOUGH PER
YEAR WAS BEING SPENT ON THE PROGRAM "Y NOW THE INEFFECTIVENESS
OF $!2% AS A DRUG USE PREVENTION PROGRAM IS A NOTORIOUSLY OPEN
SECRET
)N FACT THE CONSEQUENCES OF USING VALUES CLARIlCATION CURRICULA
IN DRUG EDUCATION ARE PROBABLY WORSE THAN SIMPLY BEING hINEFFECTIVEv
!T LEAST ONE IMPORTANT STUDY SHOWED THAT STUDENTS IN )LLINOIS WHO
TOOK $!2% HAD HIGHER LEVELS OF DRUG USE VIOLENCE AND NEGATIVE
ATTITUDES TOWARD POLICE THAN STUDENTS WHO HAD NOT 1UEST A VALUES
CLARIlCATION CURRICULUM THAT HAS ALSO BEEN WIDELY USED IN DRUG EDUCA
TION PROGRAMS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAS SHOWN SIMILAR RESULTS /NE
1UEST RESEARCHER ,IZ 2EYER FOUND THAT THE h1UEST STUDENTS SHOWED
INCREASES IN USE AND MORE RELAXED ATTITUDES TOWARD USEx AND WHEN
COMPARED TO CONTROL GROUP PARTICIPANTS WERE ALSO LESS LIKELY TO SEE
WHAT WAS REALLY WRONG WITH USING THEMv 4HE DRUGS USED BY THE
STUDENTS WERE hCIGARETTES MARIJUANAHASHISH ALCOHOL AND CRACKCO
CAINEv !NOTHER STUDY FOUND THAT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO HAD BEEN
THROUGH A 1UEST PROGRAM WERE MORE LIKELY TO START USING MARIJUANA
)NTERESTINGLY IN THE EARLY S PARENTAL COMPLAINTS LED TO EFFORTS
TO REIN IN THE USE OF VALUES CLARIlCATION IN DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAMS
)T IS QUESTIONABLE HOWEVER WHETHER USE OF SUCH TECHNIQUES IN DRUG
EDUCATION PROGRAMS WAS ACTUALLY REDUCED OR IF THEY WERE REDUCED FOR
MORE THAN A BRIEF PERIOD !S HAS BEEN SEEN WITH .EW !GE PROGRAMS THE
PROPONENTS OF IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN CURRICULA OFTEN lND WAYS TO EVADE
RESTRICTIONS BY CHANGING TERMINOLOGY OR OTHER STRATAGEMS $53/ AND
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
0UMSEY FOR EXAMPLE ARE NOT ALWAYS hSOLDv AS DRUG PROGRAMS
-OREOVER AS NOTED THERE ARE OTHER KINDS OF CURRICULA THAT EM
PLOY VALUES CLARIlCATION &OR INSTANCE ONE CURRICULUM FOR TH GRADERS
USES DETECTIVE lCTION AS A WAY OF TEACHING VALUES CLARIlCATION )N
ANY EVENT VALUES CLARIlCATION IS JUST ONE NON DIRECTIVE APPROACH TO
MORAL EDUCATION AND THE PRINCIPLES OF NON DIRECTIVE MORAL EDUCATION
UNDERLIE OTHER hDECISION MAKINGv AND VALUES ORIENTED CURRICULA THAT
CONTINUE TO INCULCATE THE DOGMA OF MORAL RELATIVISM
!NOTHER %XAMPLE !CADEMIC (ONESTY
!S YOU MIGHT IMAGINE THE MORAL RELATIVISM IMPLICIT IN NON
DI
RECTIVE APPROACHES TO MORAL EDUCATION HAS CREATED SOME EMBARRASSING
PROBLEMS FOR TEACHERS &OR EXAMPLE HOW CAN A TEACHER WHO HAS BEEN
TEACHING VALUES CLARIlCATION INSIST THAT STUDENTS NOT CHEAT IN THEIR
SCHOOLWORK WITHOUT RESORTING TO THE DREADED PRACTICE OF hMORALIZINGv
4HIS WAS A SUFlCIENTLY TROUBLING ISSUE THAT THE AUTHORS OF A VERY
INmUENTIAL VALUES CLARIlCATION TEXTBOOK FELT COMPELLED TO PROVIDE THE
FOLLOWING DIALOGUE IN AN ATTEMPT TO ILLUSTRATE TO TEACHERS HOW THEY CAN
ACCOMPLISH MISSION IMPOSSIBLE n BEING FAITHFUL TO VALUES CLARIlCATION
WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY INSISTING THAT STUDENTS NOT CHEAT
'INGER $OES THAT MEAN THAT WE CAN DECIDE FOR OURSELVES
WHETHER WE SHOULD BE HONEST ON TESTS HERE
4EACHER .O THAT MEANS THAT YOU CAN DECIDE ON THE VALUE )
PERSONALLY VALUE HONESTY AND THOUGH YOU MAY CHOOSE TO BE
DISHONEST ) SHALL INSIST THAT WE BE HONEST ON OUR TESTS HEREx
'INGER "UT THEN HOW CAN WE DECIDE FOR OURSELVES !RENT YOU
TELLING US WHAT TO VALUE
4EACHER .OT EXACTLY ) DONT MEAN TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU SHOULD
VALUE 4HATS UP TO YOUx !LL OF YOU WHO CHOOSE DISHONESTY AS
A VALUE MAY NOT PRACTICE IT HERE 4HATS ALL ) AM SAYING
! TRULY SUBTLE DISTINCTION 'INGER CAN THINK WHATEVER SHE WANTS
BUT WHEN SHE IS IN THE TEACHERS CLASS 'INGER WILL DO WHAT SHE IS TOLD
7HY "ECAUSE THE TEACHER SAYS SO 3OUNDS VAGUELY PARENTAL DOESNT IT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
$ILEMMA %THICS
h$ILEMMA ETHICSv IS ANOTHER NON
DIRECTIVE APPROACH TO MORAL
EDUCATION THAT HAS BEEN WIDELY USED FOR MANY YEARS IN hCRITICAL THINK
INGv CURRICULA IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS !S MIGHT BE EXPECTED ONE OF
THE SELLING POINTS OF SUCH hCRITICAL THINKINGv CURRICULA IS THAT THEY AL
LOW SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO SAY THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT TEACHING
ETHICS WHILE AVOIDING INCULCATING ANY SPECIlC VALUES THAT MIGHT BE
CONTROVERSIAL
h#RITICAL THINKINGv AND ITS VARIANTS TYPICALLY INVOLVE PRESENTING
CHILDREN WITH MORAL DILEMMAS THAT HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED
TO BE AMBIGUOUS 4HE hLIFEBOAT PROBLEMv IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE )N
THE hLIFEBOAT PROBLEMv CHILDREN ARE TOLD THAT A SHIP IS SINKING AND
THAT THERE IS A LIFEBOAT 5NFORTUNATELY THE LIFEBOAT WILL ACCOMMODATE
FEWER PASSENGERS THAN ARE ON THE SHIP #ONSEQUENTLY THE CHILDREN ARE
TOLD THEY MUST CHOOSE WHICH PASSENGERS TO PUT ON THE LIFEBOAT AND
WHICH PASSENGERS TO LEAVE BEHIND TO DIE BASED UPON SOME LIMITED
BIOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE PASSENGERS 4HE TEACHER
THEN LEADS THE CHILDREN THROUGH A NON
DIRECTIVE EXAMINATION OF THE
PROBLEM IN WHICH THE CHILDREN ARE ENCOURAGED TO DISCUSS THEIR CHOICES
AND THEIR REASONS FOR MAKING THEM WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY AN EXERCISE IN
VALUES CLARIlCATION
! COMMON VARIATION ON THE LIFEBOAT PROBLEM IS THE hFALLOUT SHEL
TER PROBLEM v WHICH PRESENTS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME DILEMMA REGARDING
HAVING TO CHOOSE WHO AMONG A GROUP OF PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE BECAUSE
OF LIMITED SPACE IN A FALLOUT SHELTER 4HE LIFEBOAT PROBLEM LIKE THE
hFALLOUT SHELTER PROBLEMv AND OTHER DILEMMA ETHICS CASES IS DESIGNED
SO THAT THERE IS NO CLEAR RIGHT OR WRONG ANSWER n WHICH AFTER ALL IS THE
VERY NATURE OF A DILEMMA "UT THIS GIVES CHILDREN A VERY DISTORTED VIEW
OF ETHICS -OST PRACTICAL MORAL PROBLEMS DO NOT PRESENT A DILEMMA AT
ALL "Y TEACHING ABOUT ETHICS SOLELY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DILEMMAS
CONTRIVED SO THAT THERE ARE NO RIGHT ANSWERS OR WRONG ANSWERS HOW
EVER THE CHILD IS LED AS A PRACTICAL MATTER TO VIEW ALL MORAL DECISION
MAKING AS AMBIGUOUS AND RELATIVE
$!2% 1UEST AND DILEMMA ETHICS ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
OF CURRICULA THAT HAVE MADE MORAL RELATIVISM PERVASIVE IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS 7HAT #HRISTIAN PARENTS NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE SYSTEMATICALLY TEACHING THEIR CHILDREN AN
ANTI
#HRISTIAN MORAL CODE THROUGH !)$3 AWARENESS SEX EDUCATION
DRUG EDUCATION hCRITICAL THINKING v AND OTHER PROGRAMS -OREOVER
#HRISTIAN PARENTS ALSO NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW INGRAINED THE CULTURE
OF MORAL RELATIVISM IS
"ECAUSE VALUES CLARIlCATION AND SIMILAR TECHNIQUES WERE WIDELY
INTRODUCED IN THE S IN BOTH THE CLASSROOM AND THE TRAINING OF
EDUCATORS MANY OF THE TEACHERS USING THESE TECHNIQUES IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS NOW WERE SUBJECT TO THEM WHEN THEY WERE STUDENTS
)NDEED MANY IF NOT MOST PARENTS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CHILDREN
TODAY PARTICIPATED IN VALUES CLARIlCATION OR DILEMMA ETHICS PROGRAMS
AS CHILDREN 4HUS FOR PERHAPS THE MAJORITY OF THE ADULTS CONNECTED TO THE
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ENTERPRISE MORAL RELATIVISM IS A FAMILIAR COMFORTABLE
AND NON
CONTROVERSIAL WAY OF LOOKING AT THE WORLD
0AYING THE 0IPER 3OME #AUTIONARY 4ALES
4HE ELIMINATION OF A #HRISTIAN MORAL PERSPECTIVE FROM GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS HAS PROFOUNDLY CHANGED THE DAILY SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
THAT CHILDREN MUST CONFRONT &OR ONE SEVENTH GRADE GIRL WHO TRANS
FERRED FROM A PRIVATE SCHOOL TO A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IN A SMALL TOWN
IN /REGON THE EXPERIENCE CONCERNED FAR MORE THAN THE DRASTICALLY
LOWERED ACADEMIC STANDARDS AND AN ANNOYING FOCUS ON BUILDING SELF
ESTEEM (ERE IS IN PART HOW SHE DESCRIBED WHAT IT WAS LIKE
-OST KIDS USE lLTHY LANGUAGE AT SCHOOL 4HE h&v WORD IS THE
WORD THAT IS USED THE MOST 3TUDENTS WHO ARE HEARD USING BAD
LANGUAGE ARE BARELY DISCIPLINED AT ALL 3TUDENTS ALSO WRITE lLTHY
WORDS IN NOTES AND ON SCHOOL PROPERTY 3OME STUDENTS HAVE
PICTURES OF BARELY
DRESSED WOMEN IN THEIR LOCKERS AND ONE BOY
HAS HIS LOCKER hWALLPAPEREDv WITH CONDOMS &EMININE HYGIENE
PRODUCTS CAN BE FOUND LYING AROUND BY THE LOCKER ROOMS AND
ON THE NATURE TRAIL
) EXPERIENCED SEXUAL HARASSMENT EVERY DAY "OTH MALE AND FE
MALE STUDENTS BEHAVE AND SPEAK VERY SUGGESTIVELY .OT ONLY IS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
THIS TOLERATED IT IS EXPECTED IN ORDER TO BE hCOOLv "OTH MALE
AND FEMALE STUDENTS GRAB EACH OTHER IN INAPPROPRIATE PLACES ON
THEIR BODIES 3EX IS TALKED ABOUT ALL THE TIME AND IN NASTY WAYS
SUCH AS hHOUSEHOLD PETS AND FAMILY MEMBERS YOU MIGHT HAVE
HAD SEX WITHv )F A PERSON HAS ANY VALUES OR MORALS AT ALL THEY
ARE CONSIDERED A hGEEKv
.OT SURPRISINGLY THE GIRL WAS HOMESCHOOLED THE FOLLOWING YEAR
3PEAKING OF THE h&v WORD AT #HANTILLY (IGH 3CHOOL IN UPSCALE
&AIRFAX #OUNTY 6IRGINIA THE TEACHER FOR A SENIOR %NGLISH CLASS AS
SIGNED HIS STUDENTS THE TASK OF REPEATING THE PHRASE h&
YOUv
TIMES AS HOMEWORK 0REPARATION FOR AN !DVANCED 0LACEMENT VO
CABULARY TEST .O 4HE TEACHER HAD ASSIGNED *$ 3ALINGERS #ATCHER IN
THE 2YE IN WHICH THIS PHRASE AND AN ABUNDANCE OF OTHER hMUST KNOWv
WORDS AND PHRASES APPEAR AND ACCORDING TO THE TEACHER HE WANTED
TO hDESENSITIZEv HIS STUDENTS TO THE LANGUAGE IN THE BOOK .OT WANT
ING TO MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEMONSTRATE BAD JUDGMENT THE SCHOOL
DISTRICT ATTEMPTED TO REASSURE THE PARENTS BY LETTING THEM KNOW THAT
THE TEACHER JUST WANTED HIS hSTUDENTS TO BE AWARE THAT THIS WAS IN THE
BOOKv AND THAT THE TEACHER WAS ONLY JOKING !PPARENTLY THE TEACHER
ONLY KEPT HIS JOB 0ERHAPS THATS THE REAL JOKE
*ESSE /GDEN A -ICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SUMMARIZES HIS
EXPERIENCE IN ANOTHER OF OUR hBETTERv GOVERNMENT HIGH SCHOOLS AS
FOLLOWS
0EOPLE ARE RIGHT TO BE CYNICAL OF MY GENERATION AND OF PUBLIC
SCHOOLS -Y SCHOOL IS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE BETTER ONES
AND ONE OF THE BEST IN -ICHIGAN BUT ) STILL WATCH IT SLIP FUR
THER AND FURTHER INTO DECADENCE EVERY YEAR -Y SCHOOL IS JUST
AN UPPER
MIDDLE CLASS SUBURBAN VERSION OF THE AVERAGE PUBLIC
SCHOOL 7E HAVE THE TEACHERS PURSUING THEIR AGENDAS COLLECTIV
IST CLIQUES PRACTICALLY ENFORCED BY THE SCHOOL A CLAUSTROPHO
BIC ENVIRONMENT MISINFORMATION PASSING AS EDUCATION AND
TOO MUCH PANDERING TO NON
ACADEMICSx WHICH CONTAIN SOME
OF THE WORST AND IMMORAL STUDENTS 4HERE IS REALLY NOx REAL
EDUCATION EVERYONE IS TOO WORRIED ABOUT GETTING INTO A GOOD
COLLEGE OR MAKING THE LETTER GRADE WHICH IS USUALLY INmATED BY
TEACHERSx
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
3LIPPING INTO DECADENCE 4HE KID MUST BE SOME SORT OF PRUDE
RIGHT (ERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES SO YOU CAN FORM YOUR OWN CONCLUSION
/UR $AUGHTER IS 'OING TO $O 7HAT IN THE 3CHOOL 0LAY
%VEN HIGH SCHOOL THEATRICALS ARE BECOMING AN EXTENSION OF THE
CULTURAL LEFTS SEXUAL POLITICS .OT SO LONG AGO PARENTS AND FAMILY
WOULD DUTIFULLY ATTEND HIGH SCHOOL PRODUCTIONS OF (ARVEY AND 3OUTH
0ACIlC TO WATCH THEIR CHILDREN DISPLAY THEIR STAGECRAFT 4ODAY OF
COURSE OUR EVER
IMPROVING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PRODUCE MORE SERIOUS
THEATRICAL FARE 3O IMAGINE THE PRIDE OF THE PARENTS AS THEY WATCHED
THEIR
YEAR
OLD DAUGHTERS PERFORM IN !MHERST 2EGIONAL (IGH
3CHOOLS PRODUCTION OF %VE %NSLERS FEMINIST hCLASSICv 4HE 6AGINA
-ONOLOGUES $ESPITE THE EARNEST EFFORTS OF THE !MHERST EDUCATORS TO
ELEVATE THEIR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITYS THEATRICAL TASTES HOWEVER AT
LEAST ONE COMMENTATOR COLUMNIST #ATHY 9OUNG THOUGHT THE WHOLE
BUSINESS RATHER ODD h4HE IDEA OF TEENAGE GIRLS PERFORMING %NSLERS
MONOLOGUES n COMPLETE WITH GRAPHIC SEXUAL DESCRIPTIONS IN
YOUR
FACE
VULGAR LANGUAGE AND REENACTMENTS OF ORGASMIC MOANS n IN FRONT OF AN
ADULT AUDIENCE IS RATHER FREAKYv 9ES FREAKY INDEED !ND SPEAKING
OF hFREAKY v x
&REAKING THE .IGHT !WAY
3O NOW FOR A LITTLE QUIZ )TS &RIDAY NIGHT YOURE IN A LARGE DIMLY
LIT ROOM lLLED WITH VERY LOUD CRUDELY RHYTHMIC UNMELODIC SOUND
ACCOMPANYING A LOT OF AMPLIlED REMARKABLY VULGAR LANGUAGE )N THE
ROOM SEVERAL HUNDRED TEENAGERS ARE DOING SOME RATHER UNUSUAL THINGS
'IRLS ARE ON THE mOOR WITH BOYS ON TOP OF THEM GOING UP AND DOWN
ON THEM IN RHYTHM WITH THE AMPLIlED NOISE /THER GIRLS HAVE THEIR
LEGS WRAPPED AROUND BOYS WAISTS AND THEY ARE GRINDING THEIR PELVISES
TOGETHER 9ET OTHER BOYS AND GIRLS ARE IN PAIRS IN WHICH THE HEAD OF
ONE IS IN THE OTHERS CROTCH 7HERE ARE YOU !N AUDITION FOR A PORNO
lLM ! $RUID FERTILITY RITE .OT SURE ) GUESS YOU HAVENT BEEN TO A
HIGH SCHOOL DANCE LATELY
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
&REAK DANCING n OFTEN JUST CALLED hFREAKINGv n IS WIDESPREAD IN
HIGH SCHOOLS AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS AROUND THE COUNTRY .O ONE
SEEMS TO BE ABLE TO DElNE EXACTLY WHAT THIS FORM OF hDANCINGv IS
EXCEPT TO SAY THAT IT CONSISTS OF SIMULATED SEX ACTS PERFORMED TO (IP
(OP OR 2AP hMUSICv )N FACT FREAKING IS SO SEXUALLY EXPLICIT THAT IT IS
hFREAKING OUTv GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OFlCIALS n EVEN IN PLACES NOT NOR
MALLY INCLINED TO CRITICIZE ANY SORT OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR SUCH AS 0ALO
!LTO #ALIFORNIA !CCORDING TO 3ANDRA 0EARSON PRINCIPAL AT 0ALO !LTO
(IGH 3CHOOL h&REAK DANCING TO ME IS LIKE PORNOGRAPHYx ) MAY NOT
BE ABLE TO DElNE IT BUT ) SURE KNOW IT WHEN ) SEE ITv
,ATELY SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN BUSY PASSING RULES TO LIMIT FREAKING !T
0ALO !LTO (IGH FOR EXAMPLE DEMEANING OR SEXUALLY EXPLICIT DANCING
IS NOW PROHIBITED )N 0UYALLUP 7ASHINGTON THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL
HAS HAD TO ADOPT A RULE AGAINST DANCERS BENDING OVER MORE THAN DE
GREES IE NO hDOGGIE DANCINGv ! 7ASHINGTON $# HIGH SCHOOL
REQUIRES THAT STUDENTS PASS A QUIZ ON PROPER DANCING WHILE ANOTHER IS
PRODUCING AN INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO ON hDANCING DOS AND DONTSv
3TUDENTS HOWEVER HAVE NOT BEEN RESPONDING WELL TO RESTRICTIONS
ON FREAKING !CCORDING TO ONE YEAR
OLD GIRL THE FUROR OVER FREAKING
SIMPLY REmECTS ADULTS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY h)TS DANCING REALLY
CLOSE TO ANOTHER PERSON 4HEYVE DONE THAT FOR YEARSv ! 7ASHING
TON $# HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IS A LITTLE MORE CANDID IN HIS COMPLAINT
ABOUT THE RULES h4HEYRE TAKING ALL THE FUN AWAYv "ESIDES HE ASSURES
US h)TS JUST A WAY OF DANCINGx 9OURE NOT REALLY MORE LIKELY TO HAVE
SEX IF YOU DANCE THIS WAYv
!LTHOUGH RULES TO TONE DOWN FREAKING MAY ALLOW ADULTS THE ILLU
SION THAT SOMETHING HAS BEEN DONE ENFORCEMENT IS ENTIRELY ANOTHER
MATTER !S THE 7ASHINGTON 0OSTS .URITH !IZENMAN WRITES hTRYING TO
STOP FREAK DANCING BY BREAKING UP COUPLES IS A BIT LIKE TRYING TO PUSH
BACK THE TIDEv 3O FAR THE ONLY EFFECTIVE ANTIDOTE FOR FREAKING WAS HIT
UPON BY A HIGH SCHOOL DANCE DISK JOCKEY WHO STOPPED THE FREAKERS
DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS BY PLAYING THE h"ARNEYv THEME SONG YOU KNOW
THE PURPLE DINOSAUR WHO SINGS h) LOVE YOU YOU LOVE MExv $ONT
EXPECT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO ADOPT THIS APPROACH 4HEY REALLY DONT
CARE THAT MUCH n NOR DO MANY PARENTS TODAY ) SUSPECT
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
$RESSING ,IKE THE /LDEST 0ROFESSIONALS
(OW GIRLS DRESS AT SCHOOL DANCES IS AN ADDITIONAL DIMENSION TO
THE FREAKING PHENOMENON !S ALREADY MENTIONED WE ARE FAR PAST THE
TIME WHEN TO BORROW #OLE 0ORTERS PHRASE hA GLIMPSE OF STOCKING
WAS LOOKED ON AS SOMETHING SHOCKINGxv 4ODAY MANY TEENAGE GIRLS
SEEM QUITE EAGER TO SHOW AS MUCH OF THEIR BODIES IN PUBLIC AS THE LAW
ALLOWS !S ONE WRITER WHO WITNESSED THE PUBLIC ATTIRE OF TEENAGE GIRLS
AT A CARNIVAL IN DOWNSTATE )LLINOIS OBSERVED hWITH BARE
MIDRIFF TOPS
LOW SLUNG JEANS LOW
CUT HALTERTOPS THONGS AND SEE THROUGH BLOUSES
THERE AINT A HELL OF A LOT LEFT TO THE IMAGINATIONv &URTHER MANY
BIKINIS ARE NOW APPROACHING THE VANISHING POINT SO MUCH SO THAT IT
IS SOMETIMES HARD TO TELL IF GIRLS AND WOMEN AT THE BEACH HAVE COME
TO SWIM OR SKINNY DIP
!S WITH SO MANY OTHER THINGS HOWEVER MANY PARENTS SEEM NOT
TO NOTICE THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG )N FACT 2ITA 7ILSON VICE PRINCIPAL
IN A #ALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL WAS SUSPENDED FROM HER JOB AS A RESULT OF
PARENTS COMPLAINING ABOUT HER ALLEGEDLY OVERZEALOUS EFFORT TO MAKE
SURE THAT THEIR DAUGHTERS ATTENDING A HIGH SCHOOL DANCE WERENT WEAR
ING THONGS OR LESS UNDER THEIR SKIRTS
4HE PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE THAT 7ILSON ACTUALLY CHECKED FOR UN
DERWEAR IN THE CASE OF SOME PROVOCATIVELY DRESSED GIRLS EVIDENTLY IN A
LOCATION WHERE THE INSPECTION COULD BE SEEN BY OTHER STUDENTS .OW
YOU ARE PROBABLY THINKING THAT THE PARENTS WERENT COMPLAINING OF EN
FORCEMENT OF THE POLICY BUT THAT THE ENFORCEMENT WAS HANDLED BADLY
n NO GIRL SHOULD HAVE HER UNDERWEAR CHECKED WHERE OTHER STUDENTS
MIGHT SEE
4HE PROBLEM WITH THIS ANALYSIS IS OBVIOUS 4HESE YOUNG LOVELIES
WERE HEADING OUT TO THE DANCE mOOR TO ENGAGE IN A FORM OF DANC
ING WHICH WOULD EXPOSE THEIR UNDERWEAR n AND A GREAT DEAL MORE
7ILSONS DEFENSE WAS THAT SHE DID WHAT SHE DID PRECISELY TO PREVENT THE
GIRLS FROM EXPOSING THEMSELVES ON THE DANCE mOOR n WHICH OF COURSE
WAS EXACTLY WHY THE GIRLS WERE WEARING SHORT SKIRTS THONGS ETC IN THE
lRST PLACE %VEN ASSUMING THAT OTHER STUDENTS MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN A
GLIMPSE OF SOMETHING DURING THE UNDERWEAR CHECK IT REQUIRES A VERY
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
UNUSUAL SENSE OF MODESTY TO BLUSH IF THE SAME mESH IS EXHIBITED DURING
AN UNDERWEAR CHECK THAT THE PERSON BEING INSPECTED INTENDS TO EXPOSE
A FEW MINUTES LATER ON THE DANCE mOOR
"UT ALL OF THIS IS FAR TOO ABSTRACT ! FEMALE STUDENT INTERVIEWED BY
#.. PUT THE INCIDENT IN PERSPECTIVE h;4HEY= WERE JUST WEARING THESE
LITTLE SKIRTS WITH NOTHING ON UNDER THESE TIGHT SHORTS SHIRTS SHOWING
THEIR CLEAVAGE THEIR ;BREASTS= POPPING OUT EVERYTHING 4HEY WERE NOT
DRESSED LIKE THEY WERE GOING TO A HIGH SCHOOL DANCE THEY WERE DRESSED
LIKE WHORESv
.EVERTHELESS THE UNHAPPY PARENTS WERE OUTRAGED AT THE INVASION
OF THEIR DAUGHTERS hPRIVACYv 0ERHAPS 7ILSON SHOULD HAVE JUST WAITED
UNTIL THE GIRLS EXPOSED WHAT THEY WERENT WEARING ON THE DANCE mOOR
AND THEN SENT THEM HOME 3OMEHOW THOUGH ) THINK THE PARENTS
WOULD HAVE JUST FOUND SOME OTHER COMPLAINT AGAINST 7ILSON
$ID FREAKING SIMPLY SPRING FROM THE MIND OF SOME HORMONAL
ADOLESCENT .O ITS THE USUAL TRANSMISSION MECHANISM FOR THIS SORT OF
SOCIAL DISEASE FROM THE OPEN SEWER OF TELEVISION AND MUSIC VIDEOS TO
CHILDRENS MINDS TO THE SCHOOLS WHERE THE VALUES BEHIND THINGS LIKE
FREAKING MULTIPLY LIKE BACTERIA IN A 0ETRI DISH
-ORE AND 9OUNGER
7E HAVE LOOKED AT SOME ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRENDS IN LANGUAGE
DANCING AND DRESS AMONG GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS $EFENDERS OF
THE STATUS QUO ARE OFTEN QUICK TO ARGUE THAT THESE EXTERNAL MANIFESTA
TIONS OF CHARACTER SOMEHOW DONT REALLY MEAN ANYTHING /F COURSE
ONE SUSPECTS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO DO SAY SUCH THINGS EITHER ACTUALLY
DONT SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THESE TRENDS OR THAT THEY ARE STRENU
OUSLY ATTEMPTING TO IGNORE SOMETHING PROFOUNDLY DISTURBING .O
MATTER 4HE TRUTH IS THAT THESE TRENDS ARE HARBINGERS OF EXACTLY WHAT
YOU WOULD EXPECT
! REPORT BY THE .ATIONAL #AMPAIGN TO #OMBAT 4EEN 0REG
NANCY FOUND THAT ONE IN lVE CHILDREN IN THE 5NITED 3TATES HAVE HAD SEX
BEFORE THEY WERE
YEARS OLD 3O THE ODDS ARE THAT ROUGHLY OF
THE CHILDREN IN YOUR LOCAL MIDDLE SCHOOL ARE SEXUALLY ACTIVE !CCORDING
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
TO THE #ENTERS FOR $ISEASE #ONTROL AND 0REVENTION ALMOST OF
CHILDREN REPORT ENGAGING IN SEX BEFORE THE AGE OF A INCREASE
SINCE /THER SURVEYS INDICATE THAT AT LEAST TWO
THIRDS OF TEENS
ENGAGE IN SEX BY THE TIME THEY GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL
4HE REALITY BEHIND THESE STATISTICS IS TRAGIC )N (OUSTON A
YEAR
OLD INTENTIONALLY ABORTED HER SECOND TRIMESTER BABY AT SCHOOL
)M SURE YOU WILL BE COMFORTED TO KNOW THAT THE ABORTION WAS CON
SIDERED LEGAL AND THAT SCHOOL DRUG POLICIES WERE NOT VIOLATED /N A
-ASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL BUS EN ROUTE TO THE LOCAL JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH
SCHOOL A HIGH SCHOOL BOY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRL ENGAGED IN ORAL
SEX TO THE CHEERS OF OTHER STUDENTS )N A -ICHIGAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
TWO STUDENTS WERE SUSPENDED FOR HAVING SEX UNDER A TABLE DURING A
SCIENCE CLASS 3OMEHOW THE TEACHER AND CLASS ALLEGEDLY DIDNT NOTICE
THE hSCIENCE EXPERIMENTv GOING ON UNDER A LAB TABLE IN THE BACK OF
THE ROOM )N (OUSTONS (ARTMAN -IDDLE 3CHOOL A SPECIAL EDUCA
TION TEACHER LEFT HER STUDENTS UNATTENDED IN HER CLASSROOM FOR REASONS
UNKNOWN !FTERWARD AN ADULT ENTERED THE CLASSROOM ONLY TO lND TWO
STUDENTS REENACTING A SCENE FROM THE /VAL /FlCE DURING THE #LINTON
ADMINISTRATION
)N +ENTUCKY PHYSICIANS AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
ARE CONCERNED OVER INCREASING REPORTS OF ORAL SEX ON MIDDLE SCHOOL
CAMPUSES AND AT PARTIES OFF
CAMPUS /NE 5NIVERSITY OF +ENTUCKY
SPECIALIST IN ADOLESCENT MEDICINE REPORTED THAT IN THE lRST lVE MONTHS
OF ALONE HE TREATED AT LEAST MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR SEXUALLY
TRANSMITTED DISEASES CONTRACTED THROUGH ORAL SEX 7HAT ACCOUNTS FOR
THIS EPIDEMIC OF ORAL SEX AMONG GOVERNMENT MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN
!CCORDING TO ,YNETTE 3CHMIEDEKNECHT A MIDDLE SCHOOL COUNSELOR
h)TS MORE A PART OF THE CULTURE MORE TALKED ABOUT )T SEEMS THAT IN
TALKING WITH THE KIDS THEY DONT CONSIDER ORAL SEX TO BE SEX 4HEY
JUST THINK ITS SOMETHING THEY DO AS AN ADOLESCENTv
!PART FROM THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL CONSEQUENCES OF MAINSTREAM
ING OF VARIOUS FORMS OF SEX AMONG YOUNGER AND YOUNGER CHILDREN
THERE IS ALSO A PHYSICAL PRICE THAT IS PAID ! REPORT RELEASED BY THE
!LAN 'UTTMACHER )NSTITUTE AND !DVOCATES FOR 9OUTH A NONPROlT SEX
EDUCATION ADVOCACY GROUP PROJECTS THAT OF ALL YOUNG !MERICANS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
WILL CONTRACT A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE BY THE TIME THEY REACH
THE AGE OF .OT ONLY WOULD THIS BE UNPRECEDENTED BUT BECAUSE
CHLAMYDIA IS AMONG THE 34$S BEING MOST WIDELY SPREAD AN EPIDEMIC
OF INFERTILITY AMONG GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE THAT hSEXv IS JUST
ANOTHER hCHOICEv IS NOW ON THE HORIZON 4HE SOLUTION !CCORDING
THE 'UTTMACHER )NSTITUTES 3HARON #AMP WE JUST NEED TO PROVIDE
CHILDREN WITH hxREALISTIC SEX EDUCATION THAT TEACHES THEM HOW TO
PREVENT 34$S AND UNWANTED PREGNANCIESxv 'IVEN WHAT IS ALREADY
HAPPENING IN THE NAME OF SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS ONE WONDERS JUST
HOW MUCH MORE REALISTIC IT CAN GET OR WHY ANYONE SHOULD LISTEN TO
ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THESE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO CREATING
THIS PROBLEM
"UT IF YOUR CHILDREN ARE IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL THEY OF COURSE
ARENT REALLY AFFECTED BY ANY OF THIS 2IGHT
(OW CAN SUCH A MORAL CLIMATE DEVELOP IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
7HILE SOME OF IT REmECTS THE INmUENCE OF THE MEDIA AND HOME THE
COLLAPSE OF STANDARDS WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND THEIR CHOICE OF
CURRICULA ALSO PLAY A MAJOR ROLE (ERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES
$IVERSITY 7EEK
$URING A #ALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOLS h7EEK OF $IVERSITYv A PARENT
WHO ATTENDED A STUDENT ASSEMBLY DESCRIBED THE ASSEMBLY AS INCLUDING
hVULGAR INAPPROPRIATE SEX SCENES BEGINNING WITH A VERY SUGGESTIVE
DANCE FOLLOWED BY A SCENE WHERE A BRA UNDIES AND NYLONS ARE THROWN
FROM BEHIND A SHEET !NOTHER SCENE BY VIRTUE OF SOUND EFFECTS WAS
SUGGESTIVE OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE TAKING PLACE BEHIND THE SHEETv
/THER PRESENTATIONS DURING THE h7EEK OF $IVERSITYv PROMOTED THE
INCREASINGLY COMMON GOVERNMENT SCHOOL POSITION THAT HOMOSEXUAL
ITY BISEXUALITY AND TRANSGENDERED SEXUALITY ARE HEALTHY AND NORMAL
/NE PRESENTATION PORTRAYED hA PERSON WHO EXPRESSES HATRED AS A
BELIEVER IN A @BOOK WHICH SHE READS EVERY DAY AND ESPECIALLY ON
3UNDAY THAT GIVES HER THE RIGHT TO HATE AND PUT OTHERS DOWN 7HILE
THIS PRESENTER STATED THAT HER BOOK CONTAINS THE TRUTH OTHER STUDENTS
SHOUTED @4HERE IS NO TRUTHv )N #HELMSFORD -ASSACHUSETTS PARENTS
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
DISCOVERED THAT SCHOOLCHILDREN WERE REQUIRED TO ATTEND AN ASSEMBLY
IN WHICH THE hINSTRUCTORv USED FOUR
LETTER WORDS TO DESCRIBE ORAL AND
ANAL INTERCOURSE AND THE CHILDREN WERE ASKED TO LICK CONDOMS THAT
HAD BEEN DISTRIBUTED
&ISTGATE
4HE GOVERNMENT OF THE #OMMONWEALTH OF -ASSACHUSETTS HAS
HAD A BIT OF A PUBLIC RELATIONS PROBLEM AS A RESULT OF INCREASED AWARE
NESS OF ITS EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS TO PROMOTE HOMOSEXUALITY WITHIN ITS
SCHOOLS 3INCE THE STATE BUDGET HAS INCLUDED ROUGHLY MIL
LION FOR THE h'OVERNORS #OMMISSION FOR 'AY AND ,ESBIAN 9OUTH v
AN ORGANIZATION MADE UP OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS AND THEIR ALLIES
4HE PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY OF THE #OMMISSION APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN TO
PERSUADE OVER -ASSACHUSETTS SCHOOLS TO ESTABLISH 'AY3TRAIGHT
!LLIANCE CLUBS h'3!Sv BY OFFERING SCHOOLS STATE MONEY AND ARGUING
THAT THE CLUBS WILL MAKE THE SCHOOLS hSAFERv FOR HOMOSEXUAL STUDENTS
/N -ARCH A STATEWIDE CONFERENCE CALLED h4EACH
/UTv
WAS HELD AT 4UFTS 5NIVERSITY AND CO
SPONSORED BY THE -ASSACHUSETTS
$EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION THE #OMMISSION AND THE 'AY AND ,ESBIAN
AND 3TRAIGHT %DUCATION .ETWORK A NATIONAL HOMOSEXUAL ORGANIZATION
ACTIVE IN SCHOOLS h4EACH
/UTv WAS INTENDED TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF
'3!S IN -ASSACHUSETTS AND TO EXPAND TEACHING ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY
INTO THE LOWER GRADES 4HE ATTENDEES INCLUDED SCORES OF hGAY
FRIENDLYv
TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO GOT hPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CREDITSv FOR ATTENDING HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
AND STUDENTS SOME AS YOUNG AS
YEARS
OLD THAT HAD BEEN BUSED IN BY
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FROM AROUND THE STATE
h4EACH
/UTv OFFERED A SMORGASBORD OF STRANGE AND OFFENSIVE
WORKSHOPS SUCH AS h0UTTING THE @3EX "ACK )NTO 3EXUAL /RIENTATION
#LASSROOM 3TRATEGIES FOR (EALTH 3EXUALITY %DUCATORS v h!SK 4RANS
SEXUALS v h%ARLY #HILDHOOD %DUCATORS (OW TO $ECIDE 7HETHER TO
#OME /UT AT 7ORK OR .OT v AND h3TRUGGLES 4RIUMPHS OF )NCLUDING
(OMOSEXUALITY IN A -IDDLE 3CHOOL #URRICULUMv "UT THE CROWNING
GLORY OF THE ENTIRE PROGRAM WAS A WORKSHOP TITLED h7HAT 4HEY $IDNT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
4ELL 9OU !BOUT 1UEER 3EX 3EXUALITY )N (EALTH #LASS ! 7ORKSHOP
FOR 9OUTH /NLY !GES
v PRESENTED BY TWO EMPLOYEES OF THE -AS
SACHUSETTS $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION AND AN EMPLOYEE OF THE -AS
SACHUSETTS $EPARTMENT OF 0UBLIC (EALTH $URING THE WORKSHOP THE
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES CONDUCTED A VERY EXPLICIT DISCUSSION REGARDING
HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICES SUCH AS hCARPET MUNCHING v hTRIBADISM v hlST
ING v AND OTHER THINGS THAT PSYCHOLOGICALLY HEALTHY HUMAN BEINGS
DONT REALLY WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
!PPARENTLY ABOUT TEENAGERS ATTENDED THIS SESSION AND WERE
DRAWN INTO VERY EXPLICIT DISCUSSIONS OF HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICES BY THE
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES /NE TAPE
RECORDED EXCHANGE ABOUT hlSTINGv
WAS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS
!T THIS POINT A CHILD OF ABOUT ASKED WHY SOMEONE WOULD
WANT TO DO THAT (E STATED THAT IF THE HAND WERE PULLED OUT
QUICKLY THE WHOLE THING DIDNT SOUND VERY APPEALING TO HIM
-ARGOT !BELS ;AN EMPLOYEE OF THE -ASSACHUSETTS $EPARTMENT
OF %DUCATION= WAS SURE TO POINT OUT THAT ALTHOUGH lSTING hOFTEN
GETS A REALLY BAD RAP v IT USUALLY ISNT ABOUT THE PAIN hNOT THAT
WERE PUTTING THAT DOWNv -ARGOT !BELS INFORMED HIM AND THE
CLASS THAT hlSTINGv WAS hAN EXPERIENCE OF LETTING SOMEBODY INTO
YOUR BODY THAT YOU WANT TO BE THAT CLOSE AND INTIMATE WITHv
7HEN A CHILD ASKED THE QUESTION h7HY WOULD SOMEONE DO
THIS v -ARGOT !BELS PROVIDED A COMFORTABLE RESPONSE TO THE
CHILDREN IN ORDER TO hPUT THEM INTO AN EXPLORATORY MODEv
!LTHOUGH ONCE THIS STORY BROKE STATE OFlCIALS ATTEMPTED TO DIS
TANCE THEMSELVES AND THE STATE GOVERNMENT FROM h4EACH
/UT v THIS
SOMEHOW DIDNT TRANSLATE INTO ELIMINATION OF THE PROGRAM h4EACH
/UT
))v WAS HELD IN -ARCH WITH ABOUT STUDENTS IN ATTENDANCE
AGAIN BUSED IN FROM SCHOOL DISTRICTS AROUND THE STATE 7HILE FEWER
EXHIBITORS WERE PRESENT THAN AT THE PRIOR EVENT THE THOUGHTFUL PEOPLE
FROM 0LANNED 0ARENTHOOD DID SHOW UP HOWEVER TO DISTRIBUTE FREE
lSTING KITS
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
0ARENTS $ONT #OUNT
.OT UNEXPECTEDLY MANY PARENTS BECOME UPSET WHEN THEY STUM
BLE ONTO WHAT IS BEING DONE TO THEIR CHILDREN WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE
IN MANY OF THE MORE hINNOVATIVEv GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CURRICULA )N
/HIO A RUCKUS DEVELOPED WHEN PARENTS FOUND OUT WHAT WAS ACTUALLY
GOING ON IN A SEX EDUCATION COURSE BASED ON A CURRICULUM SPONSORED
BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS #ENTERS &OR $ISEASE #ONTROL
%VIDENTLY STUDENTS IN THE COURSE WERE LEARNING h@PRACTICAL SKILLS
BY USING CONDOMS A PENILE MODEL LUBRICANT SPERMICIDE AND PAPER
TOWELS IN FRONT OF OTHER STUDENTSv 4HE CURRICULUM ALSO RIDICULED
ABSTINENT STUDENTS AS hHERMITS v hSO UNPLEASANT THAT EVERYONE STAYS
CLEAR OF YOU v AND UNABLE TO hBECOME INVOLVED IN A ROMANTIC RELATION
SHIPv /UT OF AN UNDOUBTEDLY SINCERE CONCERN FOR PARENTS SENSI
BILITIES TEACHERS AND STUDENTS IN THE COURSE SIGNED A hCODE OF SILENCEv
IN WHICH EVERYONE AGREED THAT WHATEVER WAS SAID OR WRITTEN IN CLASS
WOULD NOT BE DISCLOSED TO ANYONE INCLUDING PARENTS $ESPITE THIS
INTERESTING PRECAUTION SOMEONE hRATTEDv THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OUT AND
PARENTS MADE THEIR DISPLEASURE KNOWN
3CHOOL DISTRICTS ALSO COMMUNICATE THE MESSAGE THAT PARENTS AND
THEIR VALUES DONT COUNT IN OTHER WAYS 0AUL AND *ODI (OFFMAN TWO
&LORIDA PARENTS WERE MORE THAN A LITTLE SHOCKED WHEN THEY ATTENDED
A SEX EDUCATION ASSEMBLY AT THEIR CHILDRENS "ROWARD #OUNTY 3CHOOL
$ISTRICT MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT WAS ATTENDED BY STUDENTS $URING THE
ASSEMBLY SCHOOL OFlCIALS ENCOURAGED THE CHILDREN TO ENGAGE IN SEX
PROVIDED MATERIALS ENCOURAGING GIRLS TO CARRY CONDOMS PROMOTED
ABORTION AND TOLD THE CHILDREN THAT IT IS hOKAYv TO LIE TO THEIR PARENTS
)N SETTLING A LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY THE PARENTS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AGREED
TO STOP PROMOTING ABORTION AND TO INCLUDE ABSTINENCE EDUCATION IN
ITS CURRICULUM )T IS UNCLEAR HOWEVER WHETHER THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ALSO
AGREED TO STOP TELLING CHILDREN hTHAT IT IS @OKAY TO LIE TO THEIR PARENTSv
/F COURSE IF YOU CANT KEEP THOSE PESKY PARENTS IN THE DARK
YOU CAN ALWAYS IGNORE THEM n EVEN IF THE LAW SAYS THAT YOU CANT !T
LEAST THIS WAS THE APPROACH OF #ALIFORNIAS !NTIOCH 5NIlED 3CHOOL
$ISTRICT IN DEALING WITH 0AM AND $ENNIS !NGELO PARENTS WHO WANTED
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
TO REMOVE THEIR SON 6INNIE FROM A REQUIRED CLASS CALLED h$ECISION
-AKINGv h$ECISION -AKINGv INVOLVED INSTRUCTION IN MATTERS SUCH
AS VALUES CLARIlCATION SEX DATING DRINKING AND STRESS MANAGEMENT
.OT SURPRISINGLY THE COURSE PROMOTED ANTI #HRISTIAN VALUES !S A
RESULT THE !NGELOS FELT THAT ONCE THE CLASS BEGAN THEY VIRTUALLY HAD
TO hDEPROGRAMv THEIR SON DAILY AND hREINSTATEv THE FAMILYS #HRISTIAN
VALUES 7HEN THE !NGELOS lNALLY REQUESTED TO REMOVE THEIR SON FROM
THE CLASS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT REFUSED EVEN THOUGH THE STATE EDUCATION
CODE CLEARLY STATES THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS SHOULD HONOR WRITTEN REQUESTS
BY PARENTS TO OPT THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF VALUES ORIENTED CLASSES 4HIS
ULTIMATELY FORCED THE !NGELOS TO SUE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SO THAT ANOTHER
OF THEIR SONS WOULD NOT HAVE TO TAKE THE COURSE
)N &LORIDA 3AWGRASS 3PRINGS -IDDLE 3CHOOL SIMILARLY VIOLATED
VARIOUS STATE AND LOCAL ORDINANCES BY FORCING CHILDREN IN A WORLD HISTORY
CLASS TO WATCH A PRESENTATION ON ()6 AND !)$3 THAT INCLUDED WILDLY
INACCURATE CLAIMS SUCH AS THAT THE ELDERLY AND INFANTS ARE MOST AT RISK
FOR ()6 AND !)$3 4EACHERS OF COURSE DIDNT TELL PARENTS WHAT THEIR
CHILDREN WOULD BE GETTING AS A HISTORY LESSON !LTHOUGH THERE SEEMS
TO BE SOME CONFUSION REGARDING EXACTLY WHERE THE PRESENTATION ORIGI
NATED A LAWYER CLOSE TO THE MATTER SAID THAT THE PRESENTATION WAS THE
WORK OF A HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST GROUP
)N #ALIFORNIA HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY AG
GRESSIVE IN THEIR EFFORTS TO TURN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THERE INTO hSEXUAL
RE EDUCATION CAMPS v AND PART OF THE STRATEGY IS TO KEEP PARENTS IN
THE DARK 4HE MOST RECENT EVIDENCE OF THIS WAS THE DEFEAT OF !"
IN THE #ALIFORNIA LEGISLATURES !SSEMBLY %DUCATION #OMMITTEE 4HIS
LEGISLATION WOULD HAVE REQUIRED GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO GIVE NOTICE
TO A CHILDS PARENTS IF THE SCHOOL WAS GOING TO BRING IN OUTSIDERS TO
DISCUSS SEXUAL MATTERS WITH CHILDREN 4HE BILL PARTICULARLY TARGETED
()6!)$3 PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND REQUIRED THAT PARENTS BE TOLD
THE IDENTITY OF THE SPEAKERS THE GROUPS THE SPEAKERS REPRESENT AND
WHEN THE PROGRAM WOULD OCCUR *ACKIE 'OLDBERG A LESBIAN ACTIVIST
AND THE CHAIRWOMAN OF THE !SSEMBLY %DUCATION #OMMITTEE FOUGHT
!" AND SUCCEEDED IN HAVING IT KILLED IN HER COMMITTEE
)N -ASSACHUSETTS SCHOOLS ARE REQUIRED TO NOTIFY PARENTS OF CUR
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
RICULAR MATERIALS INVOLVING SEX EDUCATION OR HUMAN SEXUALITY ISSUES
AND EXEMPT ANY CHILD FROM SUCH MATERIALS AT HIS PARENTS REQUEST
4HE LAW NOTWITHSTANDING PARENTS ARE REPORTING MANY INSTANCES IN
WHICH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE IGNORED OR ATTEMPTED TO CIRCUMVENT
THEIR NOTIlCATION RIGHTS )N ONE CASE PARENTS WERE NOT NOTIlED WHEN
A TRANSSEXUAL WAS BROUGHT INTO A lRST GRADE CLASS TO DESCRIBE HOW SEX
CHANGES ARE PERFORMED )N ANOTHER CASE A 'AY3TRAIGHT !LLIANCE CLUB
HOSTED A SCHOOL ASSEMBLY IN WHICH AMONG OTHER THINGS A HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT DESCRIBED HER lRST LESBIAN KISS AND OTHER ASPECTS OF HER SEXUAL
hLIFESTYLEv .O NOTIlCATION TO PARENTS WAS GIVEN AND WHEN CONFRONTED
WITH THIS BREACH OF THE LAW THE FACULTY ADVISOR TO THE CLUB TOLD PARENTS
THAT THEIR DESIRE TO EXEMPT THEIR CHILDREN FROM THE ASSEMBLY NEXT YEAR
WOULD NOT BE HONORED )N YET ANOTHER CASE A SCHOOL TOOK TIME OUT OF
AN ALGEBRA CLASS FOR A FOUR DAY SEMINAR ON hSEXUAL HARASSMENTv 4HIS
TIME THERE WAS NOTIlCATION /NE PARENT WHO HAD REVIEWED THE MATE
RIAL AND REMOVED HIS CHILD FROM THE CLASS DISCOVERED THAT THE TEACHER
HAD WAITED A DAY AND THEN ASKED HIS CHILD TO COME BACK SAYING h9OUR
PARENTS DONT HAVE TO KNOWv
4HE GRAND PRIZE FOR GIVING PARENTS THE hMUSHROOM TREATMENT v
HOWEVER GOES TO THE OFlCIALS OF -ETRO (IGH 3CHOOL IN 3T ,OUIS
$EBRA ,OVELESS A MOM WHO HAD OBJECTED TO A SCHOOL SPONSORED AS
SEMBLY PUT ON BY THE 'AY ,ESBIAN AND 3TRAIGHT %DUCATION .ETWORK
WAS URGED BY A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER TO GO TO THE ASSEMBLY 7HEN
SHE ATTEMPTED TO ATTEND SHE WAS NOT MERELY TOLD TO LEAVE BY SCHOOL
OFlCIALS BUT ESCORTED OUT BY AN ARMED SECURITY GUARD
#HRISTIAN PARENTS AND PARENTS GENERALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND
THAT THESE ARE NOT ISOLATED PHENOMENA 'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE IN
CREASINGLY ATTEMPTING TO AVOID SCRUTINY OF THEIR ACTIONS AND CURRICULA
BY DECEPTION AND BY IGNORING PARENTAL RIGHTS 4HIS SORT OF DECEPTION
IS PRESENT AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL TOO 4HE #ENTERS FOR $ISEASE #ONTROL
#$# TOGETHER WITH ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE 3EXUALITY )NFORMATION
AND %DUCATION #OUNCIL OF THE 5NITED 3TATES 3)%#53 PRODUCED
LESSONS FOR USE IN SEX EDUCATION CLASSES AROUND THE COUNTRY KNOWN
AS h0ROGRAMS 4HAT 7ORKv !MONG THE PROGRAMS THAT hWORKv WERE
LESSONS INSTRUCTING TEACHERS TO SEND CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS YEARS OLD
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ON hCONDOM HUNTSv IN LOCAL SUPERMARKETS AND TO HAVE THE CHILDREN
PARTICIPATE IN A CONTEST TO SEE WHO CAN PUT A CONDOM ON THE FASTEST
PRESUMABLY ONLY THE BOYS BUT WITH PROGRESSIVE THINKERS YOU CAN NEVER
TELL 4HE LESSONS FOR CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS YEARS
OLD INCLUDED ROLE
PLAYING EXERCISES IN WHICH THE CHILDREN WOULD NEGOTIATE hSAFEv BISEXUAL
AND HOMOSEXUAL SEX 4HERE ARE OTHER EXAMPLES BUT ) THINK YOU GET
THE DRIFT )N ANY EVENT WHEN THE "USH !DMINISTRATION GOT WIND OF
THIS IT DISCONTINUED THE PROGRAM "UT WAS THAT THE END OF IT FOR THE
#$# 7ELL NOT EXACTLY SAYS 2OBERT 2ECTOR A HEALTH POLICY ANALYST
FOR THE (ERITAGE &OUNDATION !CCORDING TO 2ECTOR h4HESE PROGRAMS
) CAN SAY WITH CONlDENCE ARE STILL BEING PROMOTED THROUGH THE #$#
n EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE TRYING TO HIDE ITv !PPARENTLY THIS BIT OF CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE BY THE #$# IS MOTIVATED BY ITS AVERSION TO hABSTINENCE
ONLYv SEX EDUCATION
3CHOOL #LINICS 0LAYING $OCTOR
,AWS ESTABLISHING SCHOOL
BASED HEALTH CLINICS HAVE ALSO BEEN
USED TO ERODE PARENTAL RIGHTS )N FACT THE OVER SCHOOL CLINICS
FUNDED UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS 4ITLE 8 NOT ONLY DISTRIBUTE
BIRTH CONTROL DRUGS AND DEVICES TO SCHOOLGIRLS THEY DO SO WITHOUT
OBTAINING PARENTAL CONSENT AND ARE PROHIBITED BY LAW FROM NOTIFYING
THE STUDENTS PARENTS
3CHOOL CLINICS TYPICALLY PROVIDE A BROAD RANGE OF HEALTH CARE SER
VICES INCLUDING MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT REPRODUCTIVE SERVICES IN
CLUDING BIRTH CONTROL AND INFORMATION ON SEX AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
TREATMENT )N #ALIFORNIA FOR EXAMPLE THE LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING THE
CLINICS LEAVES IT TO LOCAL hPROVIDERSv TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN PARENTAL
CONSENT POLICY /N THE OTHER HAND THE LEGISLATION MANDATES THAT THE
CHILD HAS A RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN HIS OWN HEALTH CARE DECISIONS AND
THAT THE CLINICS SHALL BE h@PRIVATE AND @CONlDENTIAL AND SHOULD IN
VOLVE PARENTS AS IS @AGE APPROPRIATE FOR THE STUDENT !.$ ONLY WITH
THE STUDENTS CONSENTv )N EFFECT THE SCHOOL GETS TO DECIDE WHETHER
YOU ARE CONSULTED ABOUT WHETHER YOUR CHILD IS PROVIDED BIRTH CONTROL
MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS OR DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
)N ONE OF THE MORE BIZARRE CASES OF CHILD ABUSE BY SCHOOL CLINICS
THAT HAS COME TO LIGHT A MIDDLE SCHOOL IN 0ENNSYLVANIA FORCED GIRLS
AGES AND TO UNDERGO A PELVIC EXAMINATION -ANY OF THE GIRLS
ASKED TO BE EXCUSED OR TO CALL THEIR PARENTS 4HE SCHOOL OFlCIALS NOT
ONLY DENIED THEIR REQUESTS BUT ALSO BLOCKED THE DOORS AND THE WIN
DOWS OF THE ROOM IN WHICH THE GIRLS WERE BEING HELD )N THE LAWSUIT
THAT FOLLOWED THE SCHOOL WAS FORCED TO PAY DAMAGES FOR VIOLATING THE
GIRLS CIVIL RIGHTS AND IT WAS FURTHER DISCOVERED THAT THE EXAMINATIONS
THEMSELVES WERE CONDUCTED IN A MEDICALLY IMPROPER WAY THAT RENDERED
THE EXAMS OF NO MEDICAL VALUE
)N )LLINOIS A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER PERIODICALLY ESCORTED A
THIRTEEN YEAR
OLD STUDENT THAT HE WAS MOLESTING TO THE SCHOOL CLINIC SO
THAT SHE COULD GET INJECTIONS OF A CONTRACEPTIVE DRUG KNOWN AS h$EPO
0ROVERAv 4HIS APPARENTLY WENT ON FOR MONTHS IN PART BECAUSE
THE GIRLS PARENTS HAD NO IDEA ABOUT THEIR DAUGHTERS CLINIC VISITS
7HOSE #HILDREN !RE 4HEY
7HAT IS GOING ON /NE OF THE GREAT SOCIAL STRUGGLES THROUGH
THE CENTURIES HAS BEEN OVER WHETHER CHILDREN BELONG TO THE STATE OR
TO THEIR PARENTS 4OTALITARIAN AND AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES HAVE ALWAYS
CLAIMED THAT CHILDREN BELONG TO THEM AND THAT THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO
CONTROL ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT ESPECIALLY THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THEIR CHARACTERS .OT SURPRISINGLY hEDUCATORSv HAVE BEEN CENTRAL TO
THE EFFORTS OF SUCH REGIMES TO WREST THE ALLEGIANCE OF CHILDREN AWAY
FROM THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR VALUES *UDITH 2EISMAN TELLS OF THE ROLE
EDUCATORS IN .AZI 'ERMANY PLAYED IN ALIENATING CHILDREN FROM THEIR
PARENTS TRADITIONAL 'ERMAN VALUES
!DOLPH (ITLER OBTAINED NEARLY TOTAL COOPERATION FROM 'ER
MAN LIBRARIANS AND TEACHERS 4HE 'ERMAN h.ATIONAL 3OCIALIST
4EACHERS !SSOCIATIONv RECRUITED SCHOOLBOYS AND GIRLS TO SERVE
THE NEW MEDIA AND .AZI PARTYx-ARIA 4RAPP GAVE EVIDENCE OF
SUCH ASSAULTS ON 'ERMAN TRADITIONS IN HER REPORT OF THE 4RAPP
&AMILY 3INGERS h4HIS MORNING WE WERE TOLD BY THE .AZIS AT
THE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY THAT OUR PARENTS ARE NICE OLD FASHIONED
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
PEOPLE WHO DONT UNDERSTAND THE NEW 0ARTY 7E SHOULD LEAVE
THEM ALONE AND NOT BOTHER 7E ARE THE HOPE OF THE NATION THE
HOPE OF THE WORLD 7E SHOULD NEVER MENTION AT HOME WHAT WE
LEARN AT SCHOOLv
7HILE !MERICAN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE STILL FAR FROM HAVING
REACHED THAT CONDITION IT IS CLEAR THAT THERE ARE MORE THAN A FEW
EDUCATION ACTIVISTS AND EDUCATORS WHO ARE INTENT ON SEIZING THE FU
TURE OF !MERICA BY USING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR
INCULCATING THEIR ANTI #HRISTIAN VALUES IN OUR CHILDREN !S HAS BEEN
NOTED HUMANISTS SUCH AS *OHN $UNPHY AND .EW !GE GURUS SUCH
AS -ARILYN &ERGUSON HAVE SAID EXACTLY THAT 4HE INSIDIOUS PART IS THAT
MOST PARENTS DONT HAVE A CLUE ABOUT WHAT IS BEING DONE
)NCREASINGLY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE TAKING SURVEYS OF CHILDRENS
ATTITUDES )N .EW (AMPSHIRE AND 6ERMONT FOR EXAMPLE TH TH
AND TH GRADERS WERE QUESTIONED ABOUT TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL USE BY
THE STUDENTS THEMSELVES AND THEIR FRIENDS SIBLINGS AND PARENTS )N
#ALIFORNIA YEAR OLDS WERE SURVEYED ABOUT SEXUAL MATTERS n ASKING
FOR EXAMPLE WHETHER THEY THOUGHT ABOUT hTOUCHING OTHER PEOPLES
PRIVATE PARTSv 7HY
4HOSE IN CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS NOW TEND TO VIEW THEM
SELVES AS HAVING A MANDATE TO REMAKE SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN
IMAGE /NE 0ENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS EVEN mOATED THE IDEA OF
GIVING PARENTS REPORT CARDS GRADING PARENTS ON HOW THEY ARE CONTRIBUT
ING TO THEIR CHILDRENS EDUCATION
4HE RESULT IS A GROWING NUMBER OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC hWORK
SHOPSv AND SCHOOL PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO CHANGE STUDENTS VALUES AND
PERSONALITIES 4HINK OF THEM AS MECHANISMS FOR ENFORCING SOCIALLY
LIBERAL CONCEPTIONS OF SEXUALITY hNICENESS v AND WHATEVER OTHER PO
LITICALLY CORRECT ATTITUDES AND VALUES ARE WAFTING THROUGH SCHOOLS OF
EDUCATION
4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL HAS REPORTED FOR EXAMPLE ON GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS AROUND THE COUNTRY EARNESTLY DEVOTING SCHOOL TIME TO
STAMPING OUT SUCH THINGS AS MEAN LOOKS AND PLAYING ALONE )N 3E
ATTLE SCHOOLS CHILDREN PARTICIPATED IN SOMETHING CALLED h#HALLENGE
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
$AYv !PPARENTLY #HALLENGE $AY CONSISTED OF ACTIVITIES REMINISCENT
OF ENCOUNTER GROUPS AND OTHER 2OGERIAN PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC mOTSAM
AND JETSAM FROM THE S AND S THAT ONE BOY DESCRIBED AS A
hPSYCHO CRY FESTv 4HE POINT OF #HALLENGE $AY IT SEEMS WAS TO
MAKE STUDENTS MORE hSENSITIVEv TO OTHERS FEELINGS n AN EXERCISE IN
PSYCHOLOGICAL ALCHEMY IN WHICH TH GRADE BOYS FOR INSTANCE WOULD
BE THERAPEUTICALLY TRANSFORMED INTO WARM CARING h!LAN !LDASv AND
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WOULD FORESWEAR GOSSIP AND MEAN LOOKS
0ERHAPS NOW THE REASON FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SEEKING INCREAS
ING AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR CHILDS ATTITUDES AND VALUES
IS CLEARER )F THE SCHOOLS DONT KNOW WHAT ATTITUDES AND VALUES A CHILD
HAS THEY WONT KNOW WHAT TO CHANGE )N FACT SCHOOLS IN SOME PLACES
MUST SOMEHOW GET THIS INFORMATION TO IMPLEMENT LEGALLY REQUIRED
hTHOUGHT
REFORMv #ALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT SCHOOLTEACHERS AND COUN
SELORS FOR EXAMPLE MUST IDENTIFY AND REFER FOR RE
EDUCATION ANY CHILD
hWITH THE POTENTIAL TO BE @INTOLERANT OF HOMOSEXUALITYv 4O MAKE IT
EASIER TO GET THIS KIND OF INFORMATION #ALIFORNIA HAS ABOLISHED A LAW
REQUIRING SCHOOLS TO OBTAIN PARENTS PRIOR CONSENT BEFORE THEIR CHILDREN
COULD BE INCLUDED IN A SEX SURVEY 4HE SEX SURVEYS BY THE WAY START IN
KINDERGARTEN $ONT DELUDE YOURSELF BY THINKING THAT THESE THINGS
ONLY HAPPEN IN #ALIFORNIA 4EACHERS UNIONS AND OTHER ACTIVISTS ARE
UNDOUBTEDLY PUSHING FOR SOMETHING SIMILAR IN YOUR STATE IN THE NAME
OF h3AFE 3CHOOLS v h$IVERSITY 4RAINING v h()6!)$3 !WARENESS vOR
h!NTI
"ULLYINGv PROGRAMS OR BY USING SOME OTHER FORM OF RHETORICAL
CAMOUmAGE
.OW THAT #HRISTIAN VALUES HAVE LARGELY DISAPPEARED FROM GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOL CLASSROOMS HERE ARE SOME OF THE CONSEQUENCES
(OLLOWING OUT THE #ULTURE (OLLOWING OUT THE #HILD
"EFORE %VERSON GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS GENERALLY PROVIDED CHILDREN
WITH CLEAR MORAL GUIDANCE 4HE IMPORTANCE OF HONESTY SOBRIETY CHAS
TITY HARD WORK KINDNESS AND MANY OTHER FAMILIAR #HRISTIAN VALUES
WAS NOT VIEWED AS A SUBJECT FOR DEBATE BY CHILDREN !S A RESULT THE
TRAITS OF CHARACTER THAT SUSTAINED A HEALTHY !MERICAN SOCIETY WERE SUC
CESSFULLY PASSED ON
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
4ODAY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS LARGELY FUNCTION AS AN INSTRUMENT
FOR ERADICATING THE CULTURAL VALUES THAT HAVE MADE !MERICA SUCCESSFUL
)N THE PROCESS THEY HAVE PLACED A BURDEN ON STUDENTS THAT CHILDREN
CANNOT BEAR #HILDREN ARE TOLD THEY MUST NOT ACCEPT THE MORAL VIEWS
OF THEIR PARENTS OR CHURCHES AND INSTEAD MUST CREATE THEIR OWN SYSTEMS
OF MORALITY 4HIS ASSUMES OF COURSE THAT CHILDREN LACKING IN EXPERI
ENCE AND KNOWLEDGE AND BATTERED BY HORMONES AND OTHER STRESSES OF
GROWING UP CAN CAREFULLY EVALUATE THE CONSEQUENCES OF ACCEPTING OR
REJECTING MORAL STANDARDS AND PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR THAT HAVE DEVEL
OPED OVER CENTURIES
'OVERNMENT SCHOOL CURRICULA HAVE ALSO DELIBERATELY SET OUT
TO ALIENATE CHILDREN FROM ESSENTIAL FAMILIAL SOURCES OF GUIDANCE THAT
WOULD OTHERWISE HELP THEM AVOID CATASTROPHIC MISTAKES 4HIS IS NO
SMALL MATTER %VEN UNDER THE BEST OF CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH THE BEST
ADVICE WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES !ND WE HOPE THAT WE LEARN FROM THEM
AND ARE ABLE TO USE THEM TO ADD TO THE RESERVOIR OF KNOWLEDGE THAT
WE PASS ON "UT MANY MISTAKES n ILLEGAL DRUG USE AND ILLICIT SEXUAL
ACTIVITY FOR EXAMPLE n ARE NOT MERELY hLEARNING EXPERIENCESv THEY ARE
TRAGEDIES THAT OFTEN SHUNT PROMISING YOUNG LIVES ONTO A PATH LEADING
TOWARD SEVERELY DIMINISHED FUTURES SICKNESS AND EVEN DEATH
)N THE ROUGHLY TWO GENERATIONS SINCE HUMANISM AND OTHER ANTI
#HRISTIAN CULTURAL INmUENCES TOOK CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
MANY UNFORTUNATE CHANGES HAVE OCCURRED IN THE BEHAVIOR OF !MERI
CANS (ERE ARE A FEW FACTS TO PONDER
s )N MILLION !MERICANS HAD USED AN ILLEGAL DRUG
"Y THAT NUMBER HAD INCREASED TO AN ASTONISHING
MILLION !MERICANS
s -ARIJUANA USE BY TEENAGERS IN WAS UP ROUGHLY
SINCE )N OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS REPORTED
USING AN ILLICIT DRUG REPRESENTING ALMOST A INCREASE
SINCE "ETWEEN AND ILLEGAL DRUG USE
AMONG
AND
YEAR
OLDS INCREASED TO WHICH
REPRESENTS A INCREASE OVER
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
s 4HE NUMBER OF JUVENILE MURDERERS TRIPLED BETWEEN
AND
s )N THE MID
TO
LATE S OF GIRLS HAD HAD SEXUAL
INTERCOURSE BY AGE "Y OF GIRLS HAD HAD SEXUAL
INTERCOURSE BY AGE
s )LLEGITIMATE BIRTHS HAVE INCREASED BY OVER SINCE
"Y THE ILLEGITIMACY RATE AMONG TEENAGERS IN
THE $ISTRICT OF #OLUMBIA REACHED "ETWEEN
AND TODAY OUT
OF
WEDLOCK BIRTHS HAVE INCREASED FROM
OF ALL BIRTHS TO OF ALL BIRTHS .OTE THAT THESE INCREASES
ARE OCCURRING NOTWITHSTANDING THE WIDESPREAD AVAILABILITY OF
ABORTION WHICH RESULTED IN AN ESTIMATED MILLION ABOR
TIONS BETWEEN AND #ONSEQUENTLY THE INCREASE
IN THE NUMBER OF OUT
OF
WEDLOCK PREGNANCIES IS EVEN HIGHER
THAN THE STATISTICS REGARDING OUT
OF
WEDLOCK BIRTHS WOULD
SUGGEST
s )N 2UTGERS 5NIVERSITYS .ATIONAL -ARRIAGE 0ROJECT RE
PORTED THAT THE MARRIAGE RATE WAS AT ITS LOWEST POINT IN
RECORDED HISTORY
s !CCORDING TO THE #ENSUS "UREAU BETWEEN AND
THE NUMBER OF UNMARRIED COUPLES INCREASED BY
s "ETWEEN AND THE NUMBER OF ADULTS WHO HAVE
DIVORCED HAS MORE THAN QUADRUPLED
s )N A SURVEY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HONORED FOR THEIR
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE BY INCLUSION IN 7HOS 7HO !MONG
!MERICAN (IGH 3CHOOL 3TUDENTS ADMITTED TO HAVING
CHEATED THE HIGHEST NUMBER IN THE YEARS IN WHICH THE
7HOS 7HO ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN SURVEYING HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS
s )N A 2UTGERS PROFESSOR PUBLISHED HIS lNDINGS ON CHEAT
ING AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS h PERCENT HAD CHEATED
AT LEAST ONCE ON A TESTv IN AS COMPARED WITH IN
AND IN )N A SURVEY OF HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE FOUND TO HAVE CHEATED ON A TEST WITHIN
THE PRIOR TWELVE MONTHS !LTHOUGH THE RESEARCH DIDNT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
COLLECT DATA FOR DETERMINING WHETHER FAMILY INCOME LEVELS
CORRELATED TO CHEATING BOTH RESEARCHERS WERE CONVINCED THAT
CHEATING WAS MORE COMMON AMONG STUDENTS IN WEALTHIER
SCHOOL DISTRICTS )N FACT ONE OF THE RESEARCHERS WHO RUNS
AN ETHICS INSTITUTE IN ,OS !NGELES BELIEVES THAT hWEALTHIER
SCHOOL DISTRICTS GENERALLY TURN A BLIND EYE TO CHEATINGv
7HY "ECAUSE PARENTS THREATEN LAWSUITS IF THEIR CHILDREN ARE
CAUGHT
4HESE STATISTICAL OBSERVATIONS REmECT JUST A PART OF THE SOCIAL
AND MORAL DECAY MANY OF US HAVE WITNESSED IN THE COURSE OF OUR LIFE
TIMES
7HILE NOT ALL OF THESE CHANGES ARE ENTIRELY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE
TEACHING CURRICULA AND DEGRADATION OF THE MORAL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS OVER THE LAST lFTY YEARS IT WOULD REQUIRE A SPECIAL
FORM OF OBTUSENESS TO BELIEVE THAT WHAT HAS GONE ON IN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS TO CHANGE CHILDRENS VALUES HAS NOT PLAYED A SIGNIlCANT ROLE IN
CREATING THE SOCIAL DESTRUCTION THAT THESE STATISTICS SHOW
!S HAS ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSED THERE ARE STUDIES INDICATING THAT
DRUG EDUCATION AND hCRITICAL THINKINGv PROGRAMS IN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS HAVE INCREASED DRUG USE RATHER THAN DECREASED IT 3IMILARLY
ONE OF THE LARGEST STUDIES EVER DONE INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF SEX
EDUCATION PROGRAMS ON THE SEXUAL ACTIVITY OF GIRLS BETWEEN AND
YEARS OLD FOUND THAT YEAR OLD GIRLS WHO HAD SEX EDUCATION
WERE MORE LIKELY TO BEGIN SEXUAL ACTIVITY THAN GIRLS WHO HAD
NOT HAD SEX EDUCATION AND YEAR OLD GIRLS WHO HAD HAD SEX
EDUCATION WERE MORE LIKELY TO BEGIN SEXUAL ACTIVITY THAN GIRLS
WHO HAD NOT HAD SEX EDUCATION 4HIS IS HARDLY SURPRISING WHEN ONE
CONSIDERS WHAT PASSES FOR SEX EDUCATION IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS "UT
PERHAPS THE BEST WAY FOR PARENTS THEMSELVES TO ASSESS THE CULPABILITY OF
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FOR THESE OUTCOMES IS TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE
CURRICULA USED OVER THE YEARS IN DRUG EDUCATION SEX EDUCATION !)$3
AWARENESS EDUCATION AND CRITICAL THINKING PROGRAMS
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
4HOSE +IDS OR 9OUR +IDS
3OME PARENTS DOUBTLESS THINK THAT EVEN THOUGH THE DATA CONCERN
ING SEX AND DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
IN GENERAL IS DISMAYING THE MORAL ROT THAT PERMEATES GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS DOESNT REALLY AFFECT THE hRESPONSIBLEv KIDS n THE FUTURE
ORIENTED
ONES WHO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND HEAD OFF TO COLLEGE )F ONE IS
WILLING TO IGNORE THE INCREDIBLE LEVELS OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY AMONG
THE hBESTv STUDENTS THOSE PARENTS ARE NOT ENTIRELY WRONG !LTHOUGH
THEY ARE FAR TOO HIGH AND UNACCEPTABLE FROM A #HRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
THE LEVELS OF SEXUAL ACTIVITY AND ALCOHOL ABUSE FOR EXAMPLE BY THESE
STUDENTS DO APPEAR TO BE LOWER THAN AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AS
A WHOLE "UT WHAT HAPPENS TO THESE STUDENTS WHEN THEY GO ON TO
COLLEGE AND PARENTAL RESTRAINTS ARE REDUCED OR NO LONGER PRESENT
)N A SURVEY OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG USE AMONG FULL
AND
PART
TIME UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ATTENDING COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY IN
.EW 9ORK 3TATE THE .EW 9ORK 3TATE /FlCE OF !LCOHOLISM AND 3UB
STANCE !BUSE 3ERVICES FOUND THE FOLLOWING
s REPORTED USING ILLEGAL DRUGS WITHIN THE LAST YEAR
s REPORTED USING MARIJUANA AT LEAST WEEKLY
s REPORTED hBINGE DRINKINGv AT LEAST lVE ALCOHOLIC
DRINKS AT ONE SITTING WITHIN THE PRIOR TWO WEEKS hBINGE
DRINKING v BY THE WAY IS ACTUALLY A EUPHEMISM FOR GETTING
VERY DRUNK IN SOME CASES FATALLY SO
4HERE IS NO REASON TO THINK THAT THE RESULTS OF THIS SURVEY IN .EW
9ORK 3TATE ARE ATYPICAL FOR THE NATION 4HE (ARVARD 3CHOOL OF 0UBLIC
(EALTH FOUND IN FOR EXAMPLE THAT THE NATIONAL BINGE
DRINKING
RATE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IS SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN REPORTED
IN .EW 9ORK 3TATE )NTERESTINGLY THE hBINGE DRINKING RATEv FOR ALL
HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS NOT JUST THOSE HEADING OFF TO COLLEGE WAS hJUSTv
IN
0ERHAPS THE EXTENT OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE ON COLLEGE CAM
PUSES WHILE TRAGIC IS NO SURPRISE "UT PERHAPS OUR LACK OF SURPRISE ALSO
REmECTS HOW WE AS #HRISTIANS HAVE BECOME DESENSITIZED TO DESTRUCTIVE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
BEHAVIOR AND SIN $RUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE IN COLLEGES HAVE BEEN AT
HIGH LEVELS FOR YEARS BUT THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOR BY COLLEGE STUDENTS
WHICH MANY UNFORTUNATELY NOW BELIEVE IS NORMAL WOULD HAVE BEEN
INCONCEIVABLE AT THESE LEVELS AND THOROUGHLY UNACCEPTABLE BEFORE THE
EARLY S
(OOKING 5P
7HAT HAVE BEEN THE FRUITS OF OUR NATIONAL EXPERIMENT WITH hSEX
EDUCATIONv FOR STUDENTS WHO REACH THE RELATIVE FREEDOM OF A COLLEGE
CAMPUS 4HAT IT HAS RESULTED IN MUCH MORE SEXUAL ACTIVITY AMONG
UNMARRIED STUDENTS IS NOT WHAT IS NEWS TODAY 7HAT IS NEWS IS THAT
SEXUAL MORALITY ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES HAS COARSENED TO AN EXTENT THAT
FEW PARENTS WOULD BELIEVE POSSIBLE
! RECENTLY PUBLISHED STUDY HAS BROUGHT INTO NATIONAL FOCUS THE
CAMPUS PHENOMENON OF hHOOKING UPv !S YOU MAY SUSPECT hHOOK
ING UPv BEARS NO RELATIONSHIP TO COURTSHIP OR DATING h(OOK UPSv ARE
CASUAL SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN STUDENTS WHO TYPICALLY DO NOT KNOW
EACH OTHER WELL OR AT ALL AND WHO HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF DEVELOPING
THE hRELATIONSHIPv FURTHER !S A FEMALE 2UTGERS STUDENT HAS DESCRIBED
IT h;7ITH A HOOK
UP YOULL HAVE HIS= FRIENDS ;AT A PARTY= COMING UP
AND SAYING YOU KNOW HE WANTS TO HOOK UP WITH YOU YOURE CUTE
COME TO HIS ROOMv !NOTHER ASPECT OF HOOK UPS IS THAT THEY NEARLY
ALWAYS TAKE PLACE WHEN BOTH STUDENTS ARE DRINKING OR DRUNK !
5NIVERSITY OF 7ASHINGTON STUDENT EXPLAINS AS FOLLOWS h;HOOKING UP
HAPPENS= IN THE DORMSx 4HATS PRETTY OBVIOUS BECAUSE EVERYBODY
LIVES TOGETHER AND EVERYBODYS DRUNK ALL THE TIMEv
/NE JOURNALIST OFFERS THE FOLLOWING PERSONAL VIGNETTE FROM THE
hHOOK UPv CULTURE
4HE SCENE MY COLLEGE DORMS BASEMENT BATHROOM ON A 3UNDAY
MORNING EARLY IN MY FRESHMAN YEAR !S HUNG OVER GIRLS CROWDED
AROUND THE SINKS ) CAUGHT A FRIENDS EYE IN THE MIRROR 7HAT
HAPPENED WHEN SHE LEFT LAST NIGHTS PARTY WITH A BOY NEITHER OF
US HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE h/H v SHE SAID WITH A KNOWING LOOK
hWE HOOKED UPv
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
!RE hHOOK UPSv RARE EVENTS THAT INVOLVE ONLY A FEW STUDENTS /N
THE CONTRARY THE STUDY INDICATES THAT OF FEMALE STUDENTS HAVE
BEEN INVOLVED IN HOOK UPS AND HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN hHOOK
UPSv SIX OR MORE TIMES )N FACT hDATINGv HAS ALMOST BEEN REPLACED
BY hHOOKING UPv !CCORDING TO THE STUDY JUST HALF OF THE WOMEN
INTERVIEWED HAD BEEN ON SIX ON MORE DATES DURING COLLEGE AND FULLY
ONE
THIRD OF THE COLLEGE WOMEN INTERVIEWED HAD BEEN ON NO MORE
THAN TWO DATES
"ECAUSE THEY HAVE LIVED THIS SORT OF SOCIAL LIFE hHOOKING UPv WILL
SEEM NORMAL FOR MUCH OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF ADULTS !N INTERESTING
THOUGHT ISNT IT
$O #HRISTIAN 6ALUES -ATTER
3O DO YOU THINK THAT THE ELIMINATION OF #HRISTIAN VALUES FROM
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAS MADE A MORAL DIFFERENCE IN OUR CHILDREN AND
IN OUR SOCIETY 7E BEGAN WITH THE .EHEMIAH )NSTITUTES lNDING THAT
ONLY OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN ATTENDING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CLEARLY
REJECT MORAL RELATIVISM COMPARED TO OF THE #HRISTIAN CHILDREN
ATTENDING PRIVATE #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS 4HATS ONE DIFFERENCE BUT IT IS THE
KEY TO A GREAT DEAL MORE
#ONSIDER THIS IF A CHILD IS CONVINCED THAT ALL MORALITY IS RELATIVE
WHAT IS THE LIKELY EFFECT OF THE MESSAGE GIVEN BY EDUCATORS AND CUR
RICULA THAT THE MORAL INSTRUCTION OF HIS PARENTS AND CHURCH SHOULD BE
DISREGARDED 7HAT IS THE LIKELY IMPACT ON SUCH A CHILD WHEN EDUCATORS
AND THE CURRICULA ARE GIVING HIM EXTRAORDINARILY EXPLICIT INFORMATION
ON SEX AND TELLING HIM THAT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH PRE
MARITAL
SEX 7HAT IS THE LIKELY EFFECT ON SUCH A CHILD WHEN EDUCATORS AND
THE CURRICULA ARE PROVIDING HIGHLY DETAILED INFORMATION ON DRUGS AND
ASKING HIM TO PRODUCE REASONS FOR AND AGAINST DRUG USE SO THAT HE
CAN DO HIS OWN INFORMAL COST
BENElT ANALYSIS ON DRUG USE 7HAT IS
THE LIKELY EFFECT ON SUCH A CHILD WHEN EDUCATORS TELL HIM DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY THAT IT IS OKAY TO LIE TO HIS PARENTS OR MISLEAD THEM 7HAT
DIFFERENCE DO YOU THINK IT MAKES TO A #HRISTIAN CHILD TO BE IN A GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOL RECEIVING THESE MESSAGES WHILE UNDER THE INSTRUCTION
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
OF hEDUCATORSv WHO ARE WILLING TO CONVEY THESE MESSAGES AND WHILE
UNDER THE CONTROL OF AN INSTITUTION THAT VIRTUALLY TREATS #HRISTIANITY
AS A DEADLY BACILLUS $O YOU THINK THAT AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILD OR
A CONFUSED ADOLESCENT IS LIKELY TO BE INmUENCED TO ACCEPT SOME OR ALL
OF THE VALUES OF THE CULTURE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BY PEER PRESSURE
AND BY THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY $O YOU THINK
THAT THE MORAL DECLINE THAT WE HAVE WITNESSED AMONG CHILDREN AND
IN SOCIETY GENERALLY OVER THE LAST FORTY YEARS IS A COSMIC ACCIDENT /R
DO YOU THINK THAT IT MIGHT IN SUBSTANTIAL MEASURE BE AN EXPRESSION OF
THE VALUES THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOL EDUCATORS AND CURRICULA HAVE BEEN
PROGRAMMING INTO CHILDREN $O YOU REALLY THINK THAT YOUR CHILDS
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IS DIFFERENT *UST THOUGHT )D ASK
)F NONE OF THIS CONCERNS YOU PERHAPS LEARNING WHAT IS COMING
NEXT TO YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL WILL
7HATS .EXT 7ERE (ERE 7ERE 1UEER 'ET 5SED 4O )T
)F YOU THINK THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CAN GO NO FURTHER IN
hDElNING DEVIANCY DOWN v ARE YOU EVER GOING TO BE SURPRISED TO
lND OUT WHAT YOUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS AND THEIR
HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST FRIENDS HAVE PLANNED FOR YOUR CHILD 9OUR LOCAL
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ALREADY HAS OR IS ABOUT TO BECOME A VERY FRIENDLY
PLACE FOR HOMOSEXUALS SO THAT YOUR CHILDREN CAN BE RE EDUCATED TO
UNDERSTAND THAT THE hGAY LIFESTYLEv IS A THING OF BEAUTY AND OF COURSE
JUST FABULOUS !ND THE MAIN NATIONAL UNION REPRESENTING YOUR HIGHLY
TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS IS AMONG THOSE MOST COMMITTED TO
MAKING IT HAPPEN
/VER THE YEARS THE .ATIONAL %DUCATION !SSOCIATION HAS INCREAS
INGLY PROMOTED THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA IN THE NATIONS SCHOOLS !T ITS
NATIONAL CONVENTION THE .%! WAS POISED TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION
KNOWN AS h.EW "v )N EFFECT .EW " ASKED SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE HOMO
SEXUALITY BY USING PRO HOMOSEXUAL CURRICULA IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH
TH GRADE HIRING HOMOSEXUAL TEACHERS WORKING WITH HOMOSEXUAL
ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF hGAY
FRIENDLYv CURRICULA AND ENCOURAGING HOMOSEXUAL TEACHERS TO BRING
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
THEIR SEXUAL IDENTITY INTO CLASSROOMS SO THAT THEY CAN BE hROLE MODELSv
IN THEIR SCHOOLS 5NFORTUNATELY FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE .%! AND THE
OTHER BACKERS OF .EW " THESE PROPOSALS GENERATED SOME EMBARRASSING
PUBLICITY FOR THE UNION 3O IN A BELLIGERENT STATEMENT EXCORIATING THE
OPPOSITION TO .EW " THE PRESIDENT OF THE .%! ANNOUNCED THAT .EW
" WOULD BE TABLED "UT SAID THE .%!S PRESIDENT THE SEXUAL ORIENTA
TION ISSUES CONTAINED IN .EW " WOULD BE EXAMINED BY A TASK FORCE )N
REALITY THE .%! LEADERSHIP SAW TO IT THAT .EW " WAS PASSED NOT IN ITS
ORIGINAL FORM BUT PIECEMEAL IN A DOZEN RESOLUTIONS
4HE .%! IS PROBABLY THE NATIONS MOST POWERFUL UNION AND
CERTAINLY THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 7HILE THE
.%! HAS SUPPORTED THE HOMOSEXUAL EDUCATIONAL AGENDA FOR YEARS THE
CONVENTION CONTROVERSY PUT ON DISPLAY THE DEPTH OF ITS LEADER
SHIPS COMMITMENT TO BRINGING THAT AGENDA INTO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
CLASSROOMS ACROSS THE NATION 7HAT THIS HAS DONE IS BRING INTO THE
OPEN THE DRIVE TO TAKE INTO EVERY CLASSROOM THE CURRICULA AND PRACTICES
THAT UNTIL NOW HAVE ONLY BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN hPROGRESSIVEv ENCLAVES
AROUND THE COUNTRY
4HE 'AY 2IGHTS 0LATFORM WAS ADOPTED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF
HOMOSEXUAL ORGANIZATIONS AT A CONFERENCE HELD AT A 5NITED -ETH
ODIST CHURCH IN #HICAGO AND ORGANIZED BY THE .ATIONAL #OALITION OF
'AY /RGANIZATIONS 4HIS MARKED THE BEGINNING OF A NATIONAL EFFORT BY
HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS TO AMONG OTHER THINGS SEEK THE REPEAL OF ALL LAWS
GOVERNING THE AGE OF SEXUAL CONSENT AND TO OBTAIN STATE SUPPORT hFOR
SEX EDUCATION COURSES PREPARED AND TAUGHT BY 'AY WOMEN AND MEN
PRESENTING HOMOSEXUALITY AS A VALID HEALTHY PREFERENCE AND LIFESTYLE
AS A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO HETEROSEXUALITYv &OLLOWING THE ADOPTION OF
THE 0LATFORM HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS BEGAN A LOW
LEVEL CAMPAIGN
TO MOVE THEIR AGENDA INTO THE NATIONS SCHOOLS
4HE lGHT IN .EW 9ORK #ITY IN OVER THE NOW LARGELY FORGOT
TEN h#HILDREN OF THE 2AINBOWv ()6!)$3 CURRICULUM WAS PERHAPS
THE lRST NATIONALLY VISIBLE CONTROVERSY OVER BRINGING HOMOSEXUAL
PROPAGANDA INTO THE CLASSROOM h#HILDREN OF THE 2AINBOWv INCLUDED
THE NOW INFAMOUS (EATHER (AS 4WO -OMMIES AND $ADDYS 2OOMMATE
AS BOOKS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN 5LTIMATELY THE CURRICULUM
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
(EATHER AND 2OOMMATE WERE SENT PACKING BY A COALITION OF PARENTS
LED BY A .EW 9ORK GRANDMOTHER -ARY #UMMINS THE .EW 9ORK #ITY
3CHOOLS #HANCELLOR *OSEPH &ERNANDEZ EVENTUALLY LOST HIS JOB
&OLLOWING THE DUST
UP IN .EW 9ORK HOMOSEXUAL CUR
RICULUM ACTIVISTS AGAIN WENT UNDER THE RADAR AND SHARPENED THEIR
MARKETING TECHNIQUES FOR PROMOTING THEIR WARES 4HE TEACHING OF THE
QUAINT AND COLORFUL FOLKWAYS OF HOMOSEXUALS HAS NOW BEEN CAREFULLY
REPACKAGED AND PRESENTED AS ESSENTIAL FOR COMBATING hDISCRIMINATIONv
AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS AND PROMOTING hSAFEv SCHOOLS !S A RESULT NEARLY
YEARS AFTER (EATHER FAILED THIS APPROACH lNALLY SUCCEEDED IN GET
TING THE .EW 9ORK LEGISLATURE TO ENACT A BILL KNOWN AS THE h3EXUAL
/RIENTATION .ONDISCRIMINATION !CT v WHICH MANDATES THAT ALL STU
DENTS IN .EW 9ORK GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WILL BE TAUGHT THAT THERE IS
NOTHING WRONG WITH HOMOSEXUALITY n BEGINNING WITH lVE YEAR
OLDS IN
KINDERGARTEN
3O IF YOU OBJECT TO HOMOSEXUAL CURRICULA TODAY YOU ARE OPPOS
ING hSAFEv SCHOOLS AND PROMOTING hHATEv 4HIS IS AN ARTICLE OF FAITH
OF COURSE FOR HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS AND THEIR SYMPATHIZERS WITHIN
GOVERNMENT MEDIA AND EDUCATION AND IT HAS OFTEN PROVED EFFECTIVE
IN INTIMIDATING AND SILENCING EDUCATORS AND PARENTS WHO DOUBT THAT
hlSTING v FOR EXAMPLE IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF ANY CHILD SEE h&IST
GATE v ABOVE
(IJACKING THE ,ANGUAGE OF #IVIL 2IGHTS
"EFORE MOVING ON TO HOW THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA IS BEING
PUSHED INTO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CONSIDER THE MESSAGE THE HOMO
SEXUAL ACTIVISTS ARE USING !RE NEGATIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS THE
MORAL EQUIVALENT OF RACIAL PREJUDICE
5NLIKE TRUE RACIAL PREJUDICE THOSE WHO DISAPPROVE OF HOMO
SEXUALITY ARE CRITICIZING THE BEHAVIOR AND BELIEFS OF THE MEN AND WOMEN
WHO ENGAGE IN HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICES &ROM A #HRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR IS CLEARLY IMMORAL BUT MANY NON
#HRISTIANS
ALSO DISAPPROVE OF HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR BECAUSE IT IS SELF
DESTRUCTIVE
AND OFTEN PREDATORY (ERE ARE A FEW lNDINGS FROM A SURVEY OF
HOMOSEXUAL MEN BY A NATIONAL HOMOSEXUAL MAGAZINE
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
s REPORTED HAVING MORE THAN SEX PARTNERS IN THEIR
LIFETIMES WITH REPORTING MORE THAN
s HAD PARTICIPATED IN THREE
WAY SEX WITHIN THE LAST
lVE YEARS
s HAD PARTICIPATED IN GROUP SEX FOUR OR MORE WITHIN
THE LAST lVE YEARS
s HAD PARTICIPATED IN hBONDAGE AND DISCIPLINEv SEX
WITHIN THE LAST lVE YEARS
s HAD ENGAGED IN SADOMASOCHISM WITHIN THE LAST
lVE YEARS
s HAD MET PARTNERS AT BARS OR DISCOS
s HAD MET PARTNERS IN BATHHOUSES OR SEX CLUBS
s HAD MET PARTNERS IN ADULT BOOKSTORES
s HAD MET PARTNERS AT PARKS OR RESTROOMS
s HAD MET PARTNERS AT ROADSIDE REST AREAS
4HESE lNDINGS MAY SUBSTANTIALLY UNDERSTATE HOMOSEXUAL PRO
MISCUITY AND OTHERWISE UNDERSTATE OTHER COMMON PRACTICES OF HOMO
SEXUALS ! STUDY BY THE 53 #ENTERS FOR $ISEASE #ONTROL SHOWED
THAT OF MALE HOMOSEXUALS HAD HAD OVER SEX PARTNERS !
SURVEY OF HOMOSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN PUBLISHED IN SHOWED
AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT
s REPORTED ENGAGING IN SADOMASOCHISM
s REPORTED ENGAGING IN hBONDAGEv
s REPORTED URINATING ON OR IN THEIR PARTNERS
s REPORTED ENGAGING IN hlSTINGv
s REPORTED EATING ANDOR RUBBING THEMSELVES WITH THE
FECES OF THEIR PARTNERS
s REPORTED ENGAGING IN SEX WITH ANIMALS
)N ADDITION TO ALL THE REST ANYONE WHO HAS EVER WITNESSED THE
NUDITY AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY AT LARGE PUBLIC GATHERINGS OF HOMOSEXUALS
n h'AY 0RIDEv EVENTS FOR EXAMPLE n KNOWS THAT HOMOSEXUALS PUBLIC
BEHAVIOR FAR FROM BEING hNORMAL v DISPLAYS AN ASTONISHING SEXUAL
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CRUDITY AND OBSESSIVENESS )N FACT THAT OBSESSIVENESS INCREASINGLY
IS MANIFESTING ITSELF BY HOMOSEXUALS NOT ONLY HAVING SEX IN PUBLIC
PLACES BUT ALSO INSISTING THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN THIS SORT
OF EXHIBITIONISM
7AY /UT OF THE #LOSET
4O THE CHAGRIN OF MANY FAMILIES AND OTHER BYSTANDERS SOME
HOMOSEXUALS REGARD PARKS HIGHWAY REST STOPS FAMILY THEME PARKS
AND PUBLIC BATHROOMS AS THEIR PUBLIC SPACES &OR EXAMPLE FAMILIES
NO LONGER CAN USE #ONWAY 2OBINSON 3TATE &OREST IN 0RINCE 7ILLIAM
#OUNTY 6IRGINIA 7HY (OMOSEXUALS STARTED USING THE PARK FOR
ANONYMOUS OUTDOORS SEX AND WOULD INVITE PASSERSBY n #UB 3COUTS
PEOPLE WALKING THEIR DOGS ETC n TO WATCH 3TATE TROOPERS HAVE AT
TEMPTED TO CLEAN OUT THE PARK BY ARRESTING THESE SEX OFFENDERS BUT IT
DOESNT SEEM TO HAVE HAD MUCH EFFECT !STONISHINGLY WHEN MAK
ING ARRESTS SOME OF THE TROOPERS WERE PROPOSITIONED AND WHEN THEY
DECLINED THE TROOPERS WERE PHYSICALLY ATTACKED
3INCE UP TO HOMOSEXUALS HAVE mOCKED TO 7ALT
$ISNEY 7ORLD IN *UNE FOR h'AY $AYSv !CCORDING TO SOME $ISNEY
7ORLD VISITORS CHAGRINED TO lND THEMSELVES THERE DURING THE hEVENT v
THE MAIN APPEAL OF 'AY $AYS APPEARS TO BE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE
IN PUBLIC LEWDNESS AND RECREATIONAL DRUG USE IN A FAMILY
ORIENTED
VENUE $ISNEY OF COURSE DENIES THIS CLAIMING THAT THEY ENFORCE THE
THEME PARKS DRESS CODE AND OTHER RULES ALL THE TIME INCLUDING DURING
'AY $AYS )N THE ISSUE WAS SETTLED WHEN THE #HRISTIAN !CTION
.ETWORK #!. VIDEOTAPED SOME OF THE 'AY $AY FESTIVITIES 4HE
VIDEOTAPE SHOWS EXTENSIVE PUBLIC NUDITY AND OTHER FORMS OF PUBLIC
LEWDNESS AS WELL AS WHAT APPEARS TO BE ILLEGAL DRUG USE 4HIS VIDEOTAPE
IS AVAILABLE ONLINE SO YOU CAN DECIDE FOR YOURSELF WHETHER $ISNEY IS
ENFORCING ITS DRESS CODE DURING 'AY $AYS n JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED
THE VIDEO WHEN IT WAS SHOWN ON h4HE /2EILLY &ACTORv )N ANY EVENT
WHY SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED AT THE BEHAVIOR #!. VIDEOTAPED )T IS
EXACTLY THE SAME SORT OF PUBLIC BEHAVIOR ON DISPLAY AT VIRTUALLY ANY
h'AY 0RIDEv PARADE OR EVENT
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
(OMOSEXUALS ALSO ARE BECOMING MORE AGGRESSIVE IN INSISTING THAT
THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO HAVE SEX IN PUBLIC RESTROOMS WHICH THEY REFER TO
AS hTEAROOMSv !T 5# "ERKELEY FOR EXAMPLE THE UNIVERSITY
FUNDED
1UEER !LLIANCE RUNS AN ONLINE MESSAGE BOARD WHERE HOMOSEXUALS CAN
DISCUSS THE hHOTv RESTROOMS AROUND CAMPUS %VIDENTLY THE CAM
PUS POLICE ARE ANNOYED BECAUSE THE hTEAROOMv VISITORS DRILL HOLES IN
THE DIVIDERS BETWEEN BATHROOM STALLS TO FACILITATE THEIR ACTIVITIES
!CCORDING TO THE #HRONICLE OF (IGHER %DUCATION "OSTON 5NIVERSITY
CAMPUS POLICE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO STOP NON
STUDENTS FROM USING "5S
PUBLIC RESTROOMS FOR SEX (OMOSEXUAL STUDENTS HAVE RESPONDED
IN TURN BY CLAIMING THAT THE CRACK
DOWN DISCRIMINATES AGAINST THE
PARTICIPANTS IN WHAT THEY CALL hTEAROOM CULTUREv -EANWHILE IN
0HILADELPHIA POLICE HAVE BEEN BUSY TRYING TO GET HOMOSEXUALS TO TAKE
THEIR TRYSTS SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN THE PUBLIC RESTROOMS AT PLACES SUCH
AS 3TRAWBRIDGES AND THE -ELLON "ANK "UILDING
7HY IS SEX IN PUBLIC BATHROOMS SO IMPORTANT TO HOMOSEXUALS
!CCORDING TO 7ILLIAM ,EAP AN ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR AT !MERICAN
5NIVERSITY h&OR SOME MEN THEIR WHOLE CONNECTION WITH GAY LIFE
STEMMED FROM THEIR EXPERIENCES IN BATHROOMSx 4EAROOMS BECAME
THE BASIS FOR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS A WAY OF GETTING INTO A FRIENDSHIP
NETWORKv (OW WEIRD IS THAT
3IMILAR HOMOSEXUAL INVASIONS OF PARKS REST STOPS RESTROOMS
AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES HAVE OCCURRED AROUND THE COUNTRY !S EARLY
AS +ARLA *AY AND !LLEN 9OUNG RECOUNTED IN 4HE 'AY 2EPORT THAT
OF HOMOSEXUALS THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO ENGAGE IN PUBLIC
SEX AT ANY TIME 4HIS PHENOMENON IS NOT CONlNED TO !MERICA )N
"RITAIN HOMOSEXUALS HAVE BEEN INDIGNANT ABOUT THE USE OF PUBLIC
LEWDNESS LAWS TO ARREST HOMOSEXUALS WHILE hCOTTAGING v IE HAVING SEX
IN PUBLIC RESTROOMS 0LAINLY MANY HOMOSEXUALS HAVE AN UNUSUAL
SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT
$ESPERATELY 3EEKING ()6
/F COURSE JUST WHEN HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS ARE HAVING SOME SUC
CESS COERCING OTHERS INTO PRETENDING THAT THE hGAY LIFESTYLEv IS NOR
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
MAL AND OTHERWISE JUST SWELL SOMETHING SLIPS INTO THE MAINSTREAM
CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IS WELL EMBARRASSING 4HE LATEST SMALL ERUPTION OF
TRUTH OCCURRED EARLY IN WHEN 2OLLING 3TONE RAN AN ARTICLE TITLED
h"UG #HASERSv
h"UG #HASERSv IS AN ACCOUNT OF A HOMOSEXUAL SUBCULTURE OF hBUG
CHASERSv n HOMOSEXUALS WHO ARE ()6 NEGATIVE AND ARE DESPERATELY
SEEKING TO BECOME ()6 POSITIVE %VIDENTLY WEB SITES DEVOTED TO hBUG
CHASINGv CAN DIRECT A HOMOSEXUAL WHO LONGS TO BE ()6 POSITIVE TO A
hGIFT GIVERv n THAT IS SOMEONE WHO WILL GIVE HIM ()6 !CCORDING TO THE
2OLLING 3TONE ARTICLE ABOUT OF NEW ()6 CASES EVERY YEAR ARE THE
RESULT OF hBUG CHASINGv n HOMOSEXUALS DELIBERATELY GETTING THEMSELVES
INFECTED 4HE PROBLEM IS SO SEVERE THAT PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENTS
ARE REGULARLY WATCHING HOMOSEXUAL
ORIENTED WEB SITES FOR BUG CHASING
AND ARE TRACKING hCONVERSION PARTIES v PARTIES ARRANGED SO THAT hBUG
CHASERSv CAN BE CONVERTED TO ()6 POSITIVE BY hGIFT GIVERSv
,EST THIS SEEM TOO BIZARRE TO BE TRUE n THE SOURCE IS 2OLLING 3TONE
AFTER ALL n 2OBERT $E .IRO HAS PRODUCED A DOCUMENTARY CALLED h4HE
'IFT v WHICH ALSO TAKES A LOOK AT THE HOMOSEXUAL hBUG CHASERSv $E
.IROS LENS SHOWS THAT THE CHASERS SEEM TO BE MOTIVATED BY A COM
BINATION OF ANXIETY AND ENVY SOME WANT TO GET ()6 SO THAT THEY
CAN INCREDIBLY STOP WORRYING ABOUT GETTING IT WHILE OTHERS SEE THEIR
()6 NEGATIVE STATUS AS SOMEHOW EXCLUDING THEM FROM THE RANKS OF
hAUTHENTICv HOMOSEXUALS
)F ACTIVELY SEEKING TO CONTRACT LOATHSOME DISEASES IS PART OF BEING
AN AUTHENTIC HOMOSEXUAL THEN IT MAY EXPLAIN WHY SYPHILIS IS ON THE
RISE AMONG HOMOSEXUAL MEN )N FACT AS OF 3AN &RANCISCO DIS
TINGUISHED ITSELF AS BEING THE CITY WITH THE HIGHEST PER CAPITA SYPHILIS
RATE n A RATE THAT IS ALMOST TIMES THE NATIONAL AVERAGE 3YPHILIS
BY THE WAY INCREASES THE RISK OF !)$3 TRANSMISSION BY TWO TO lVE
TIMES
.OT CONTENT WITH MERELY DESTROYING THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEMS
THROUGH CONTRACTING ()6!)$3 MANY HOMOSEXUALS ARE WORKING TO
FRY THEIR BRAINS THOUGH COMBINING THEIR SEXUAL ESCAPADES WITH THE USE
OF METHAMPHETAMINES 4HE .EW 9ORK 4IMES REPORTS THAT THE COMBINA
TION OF hCRYSTAL METHv AND SEX IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY POPULAR AMONG
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
HOMOSEXUAL WHITE MEN IN -ANHATTAN AND THAT RESEARCHERS FEAR THIS
COMBINATION WILL hSPREAD TO THE WIDER GAY POPULATION AND BEYONDv
7HATS THE ATTRACTION -ETH APPARENTLY REDUCES SEXUAL INHIBITIONS AND
INCREASES THE USERS ABILITY TO HAVE SEX WITH MULTIPLE PARTNERS
9EP MORE EXPOSURE TO THE hGAY LIFESTYLEv *UST THE SORT OF THING
THAT WILL MAKE YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL A SAFER PLACE FOR YOUR
CHILD )F YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS ASK THE .%!
)NTERGENERATIONAL )NTIMACY
%VEN MORE DISTURBING IS THE PREDILECTION AMONG MANY HOMOSEX
UALS ESPECIALLY MALE HOMOSEXUALS FOR SEX WITH CHILDREN /NE OBVIOUS
INDICATION OF THIS IS THE LONGSTANDING CAMPAIGN BY HOMOSEXUALS TO
ELIMINATE LAWS GOVERNING THE AGE OF SEXUAL CONSENT +ARLA *AY A LESBIAN
ACTIVIST AND AUTHOR HAS PUT THE PEDOPHILE hCASEv FOR ELIMINATING SUCH
LAWS CRUDELY BUT FORTHRIGHTLY h;+=IDS CAN TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES AND
ARE SEXUAL BEINGS WAY EARLIER THAN WED LIKE TO ADMITx NICE BODIES AND
YOUNG BODIES ARE ATTRIBUTES THEYRE GROOVYv
!RGUING THAT PEDOPHILIA SHOULD BE ACCEPTABLE BECAUSE CHILDREN
HAVE hNICE BODIESv IS NOT LIKELY TO WIN OVER THE PUBLIC SO MORE RECENTLY
HOMOSEXUAL PEDOPHILES AND THEIR FRIENDS HAVE TRIED TO hINTELLECTUAL
IZEv PEDOPHILIA ARGUING FOR THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF PEDOPHILIA ON THE
GROUND THAT DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN GENERATIONS ARE ARBITRARY AND POLITICALLY
MOTIVATED (ARRIS -IRKIN A PEDOPHILE APOLOGIST BUT NOT HIMSELF A
PEDOPHILE AND PROFESSOR AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF -ISSOURI CLAIMS IN THE
*OURNAL OF (OMOSEXUALITY THAT PEDOPHILES HAVE BEEN hDISADVANTAGEDv
BY THE POLITICAL POWER OF THE hSEXUALLY PRIVILEGEDv JUST AS WHITES
hDISADVANTAGEDv BLACKS PRIOR TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT )N AN
INTERVIEW IN 0AIDIKA THE LEADING PEDOPHILE ACADEMIC JOURNAL 'ILBERT
(ERDT A HOMOSEXUAL AND PROFESSOR AT 3AN &RANCISCO 3TATE 5NIVERSITY
EXPRESSES THE VIEW THAT hTHE CATEGORY @CHILD IS JUST A RHETORICAL DEVICE
FOR INmAMING WHAT IS REALLY AN IRRATIONAL SET OF ATTITUDESv AGAINST SEX
WITH CHILDREN 0AIDIKAS EDITORIAL BOARD BY THE WAY IS DOMINATED
BY HOMOSEXUALS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
)N ESSENCE HOMOSEXUALS AND HETEROSEXUALS WHO INTELLECTUALIZE
THEIR PEDOPHILIA ARGUE THAT CHILD MOLESTATION IS JUST A hCULTURE BOUND
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTv 9OU SEE hBREEDERSv THATS HOMOSEXUAL SPEAK FOR
hHETEROSEXUALSv WHO OBJECT TO PEDOPHILIA ARE JUST BIGOTS WHO ARE
PREJUDICED AGAINST hINTERGENERATIONAL INTIMACYv
4HE !MERICAN 0SYCHOLOGICAL !SSOCIATION RECENTLY LENT PEDO
PHILES A HELPING HAND BY PUBLISHING AN ARTICLE IN 0SYCHOLOGICAL "UL
LETIN IN WHICH THE AUTHORS CLAIMED THAT CHILD MOLESTATION REALLY ISNT
ALL THAT HARMFUL TO CHILDREN OR AS THE AUTHORS DELICATELY PUT IT hTHE
NEGATIVE EFFECTS ;OF SEXUAL ABUSE= WERE NEITHER PERVASIVE NOR TYPICALLY
INTENSEv "ECAUSE AS THE ARTICLES AUTHORS CLAIMED CHILD MOLESTA
TION ISNT REALLY ALL THAT BAD CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE SHOULDNT BE REFERRED TO
AS hABUSEv IN SCIENTIlC INQUIRY )NSTEAD CHILD MOLESTATION SHOULD BE
hRE CONCEPTUALIZEDv AND DESCRIBED USING VALUE NEUTRAL TERMINOLOGY
3OME SUSPECT THAT PUBLICATION OF THE ARTICLE WAS A TRIAL BALLOON
BY ELEMENTS WITHIN THE !0! TO SEE WHAT THE RESPONSE WOULD BE TO AN
EFFORT TO BEGIN hNORMALIZINGv PEDOPHILIA JUST AS HOMOSEXUALITY WAS
hNORMALIZEDv SOME YEARS AGO 7HATEVER THE !0!S MOTIVE IN PUBLISH
ING THE ARTICLE MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE !0! HAS DISTANCED ITSELF FROM
THE ARTICLE AND ITS CONCLUSIONS AS A RESULT OF THE TORRENT OF CRITICISM
THAT FOLLOWED THE ARTICLES PUBLICATION 5NDETERRED BY THE CONTROVERSY
CREATED IN THE !0! BY THE SUGGESTION THAT CHILD MOLESTATION SHOULD
hRECONCEPTUALIZED v THE !MERICAN 0SYCHIATRIC !SSOCIATION SPONSORED
A SYMPOSIUM AT ITS -AY ANNUAL CONVENTION IN 3AN &RANCISCO
AT WHICH THE SUBJECT OF REMOVING PEDOPHILIA FROM THE PSYCHIATRIC
MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS WAS DEBATED
-ORE GENERALLY THOSE CONCERNED ABOUT CHILD ABUSE HAVE BEEN
NOTICING A BOOMLET IN ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND BOOKS ATTEMPTING TO DE
STIGMATIZE THE PEDOPHILE ! RELATIVELY RECENT BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE
5NIVERSITY OF -INNESOTA 0RESS .OT (ARMFUL TO -INORS 4HE 0ERILS OF
0ROTECTING +IDS FROM 3EX ARGUES THAT PEDOPHILIA ISNT REALLY SO BAD FOR
CHILDREN CITING FOR EXAMPLE hRESEARCHv REGARDING hHAPPY CONSENSUAL
SEX AMONG KIDS UNDER v 4HE AUTHOR *UDITH ,EVINE A FEMINIST
CLAIMS THAT SHE ISNT DEFENDING CHILD ABUSE BUT INSTEAD WANTS US TO
UNDERSTAND THAT HAVING SEX WITH AN ADULT CAN BE A REALLY POSITIVE EX
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
PERIENCE FOR A CHILD WHICH SHE CLAIMS hRESEARCHv VALIDATES /NCE WE
HAVE UNDERSTOOD THIS THEN WE BENIGHTED !MERICANS WILL BE HAPPY TO
LOWER THE AGE OF CONSENT TO YEARS OF AGE JUST LIKE THE MORE HUMANE
UNREPRESSED $UTCH /R SOMETHING LIKE THAT
.OT WANTING TO BE LEFT OUT OF ANYTHING STRANGE AND UTTERLY DE
STRUCTIVE THE 5NITED .ATIONS DID ITS PART BY FUNDING A BOOK THROUGH
5.)#%& THAT DEMONSTRATED A BREATH
TAKING COMMITMENT TO hDIVER
SITYv /BSCURELY TITLED 4HEORETIC %LEMENTS FOR 7ORKING WITH -OTHERS
AND 4EENS AND PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF
-EXICO THIS LEARNED TOME MADE THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTIONS TO ,ATIN
!MERICAN MOTHERS AND THEIR TEENAGE DAUGHTERS
3ITUATIONS IN WHICH YOU CAN OBTAIN SEXUAL PLEASURE -AS
TURBATION 3EXUAL RELATIONS WITH A PARTNER n WHETHER HETERO
SEXUAL HOMOSEXUAL OR BISEXUAL ! SEXUAL RESPONSE THAT IS
DIRECTED TOWARD INANIMATE OBJECTS ANIMALS MINORS NON
CON
SENTING PERSONS
/BVIOUSLY THIS ADVANCED BIT OF THINKING WAS THE WORK OF A hBIG
TENTv COMMITTEE AND IT WAS ALLEGEDLY INTENDED TO BE USED AS A TRAINING
MANUAL FOR THOSE SEEKING TO DISCOURAGE TEEN PREGNANCY )N FAIRNESS
IT CERTAINLY APPEARS THAT MANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SEXUAL
ACTIVITY RECOMMENDED BY THE BOOK WOULD PRECLUDE GETTING PREGNANT
5NFORTUNATELY THE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE A BIT TOO hINCLUSIVEv FOR
MANY OF THE LESS ADVANCED THINKERS WHO FOUND OUT ABOUT THEM AND
THE BOOK HAS BEEN PULLED FROM CIRCULATION )M NOT SURE WHETHER
IT WAS THE SEX WITH MINORS ANIMALS OR NON
CONSENTING PERSONS THAT
ULTIMATELY PROVED TO BE A BIT OVER THE EDGE FOR THE 5.
/N A MORE MUNDANE LEVEL 4HE .ORTH !MERICAN -AN
"OY
,OVE !SSOCIATION .!-",! A WELL KNOWN ORGANIZATION THAT VO
CALLY ADVOCATES SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN AND BOYS IS FURTHER
EVIDENCE THAT PEDOPHILIA IS FAIRLY MAINSTREAM AMONG HOMOSEXUALS
.!-",! TYPICALLY PARTICIPATES IN h'AY 0RIDEv EVENTS AND GENERALLY
SEEMS TO BE VIEWED AT WORST AS ONLY A BIT INDISCRETE BY HOMOSEXUAL
ACTIVISTS .!-",! HOWEVER DOES NOT MERELY ADVOCATE LOWERING
THE AGE OF CONSENT IT HAS POSTED ON ITS WEBSITE TECHNIQUES SHOWING
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
PEDOPHILES HOW TO ATTRACT BOYS FOR SEX AND WHAT PEDOPHILES SHOULD DO
IF THEY ARE CAUGHT $EROY -URDOCK A NATIONALLY SYNDICATED COLUM
NIST RECENTLY REPORTED THAT .!-",! ALSO PUBLISHES A MANUAL TITLED
h4HE 3URVIVAL -ANUAL 4HE -ANS 'UIDE TO 3TAYING !LIVE IN -AN
"OY
3EXUAL 2ELATIONSHIPS v WHICH IS ALSO SOMETIMES REFERRED TO BY CRITICS
AS h4HE 2APE AND %SCAPE -ANUALv ,IKE THE WEBSITE .!-",!S
MANUAL TELLS PEDOPHILES HOW TO DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHILDREN
HOW TO ALLAY THE SUSPICIONS OF THEIR PARENTS WHERE TO TAKE CHILDREN FOR
SEX AND WHEN TO LEAVE !MERICA IF THEY GET CAUGHT .!-",! BY
THE WAY IS CURRENTLY BEING SUED IN CONNECTION WITH TWO PEDOPHILES
MURDER OF A YEAR
OLD #AMBRIDGE -ASSACHUSETTS BOY /NE OF THE
MURDERS #HARLES *AYNES HAD WRITTEN IN HIS DIARY THAT hxHE HAD RES
ERVATIONS ABOUT SEX WITH CHILDREN UNTIL HE DISCOVERED .!-",!v
*AYNES ALSO APPARENTLY MADE USE OF SOME OF .!-",!S TECHNIQUES
BUT OBVIOUSLY DIDNT STUDY WITH ADEQUATE CARE h4HE 2APE AND %SCAPE
-ANUALSv CHAPTER ON WHEN TO HEAD FOR 0ARIS OR #OPENHAGEN
&OR PEDOPHILES WHO WOULD RATHER NOT TAKE THEIR CHANCES IN THE
5NITED 3TATES h'AYv TRAVEL GUIDES PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE
TO lND BOYS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND ABOUT FOREIGN COUNTRIES LAWS
CONCERNING SEX WITH BOYS 4RAVEL TO COUNTRIES WITH HIGH LEVELS OF BOY
PROSTITUTION IS ALSO HEAVILY ADVERTISED IN HOMOSEXUAL PUBLICATIONS
)N "RITAIN HOMOSEXUALS HAVE RECENTLY SUCCEEDED IN REDUCING IN THE AGE
OF CONSENT FOR BOYS TO AGE AND IN THE 53 AND ELSEWHERE THERE
IS A MOVEMENT DEVELOPING TO LEGALIZE HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS BETWEEN
ADULT HOMOSEXUAL MALES AND TO YEAR
OLD BOYS
7ERE $OING )T FOR THE #HILDREN
(OMOSEXUAL PEDOPHILES UNDOUBTEDLY FEEL MISUNDERSTOOD 4HEIR
HEARTS ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE THEY ARGUE EVEN IF PERHAPS SOME OF THEIR
OTHER BODY PARTS ARENT !N ARTICLE IN THE HOMOSEXUAL MAGAZINE 'UIDE
EXPLAINS THAT THE HOMOSEXUAL PEDOPHILES INTEREST IN CHILDREN PROCEEDS
FROM THE PUREST OF MOTIVES
7E CAN BE PROUD THAT THE 'AY MOVEMENT HAS BEEN HOME TO
THE FEW VOICES WHO HAVE HAD THE COURAGE TO SAY OUT LOUD THAT
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS . OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
CHILDREN ARE NATURALLY SEXUALx ;AND= DESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEXUAL
EXPRESSION WITH WHOEVER ;SIC= THEY CHOOSEx ;)=NSTEAD OF FEAR
ING BEING LABELED PEDOPHILES WE MUST PROUDLY PROCLAIM THAT
SEX IS GOOD INCLUDING CHILDRENS SEXUALITYx WE MUST DO IT FOR
THE CHILDRENS SAKE
#ONSEQUENTLY THEY SAY MOMS AND DADS SHOULDNT VIEW PEDO
PHILES WITH REVULSION )NSTEAD AS SUGGESTED IN AN ARTICLE APPEARING IN
4HE *OURNAL OF (OMOSEXUALITY THEY NEED TO SEE THEIR SONS PEDOPHILE
LOVER hNOT AS A RIVAL OR COMPETITOR NOT AS A THEFT OF THEIR PROPERTY BUT
AS A PARTNER IN THE BOYS UPBRINGING SOMEONE TO BE WELCOMED INTO
THEIR HOMEv
4O BETTER CONNECT WITH CHILDREN HOMOSEXUALS HAVE EVEN COME
UP WITH THEIR OWN h*OE #AMELv n THE h0RIDE "EARv MASCOT 0RIDE "EAR
SHOWS UP AT HOMOSEXUAL EVENTS TO ENTERTAIN CHILDREN AND POSE WITH
THEM FOR PHOTOGRAPHS /F COURSE ONE WONDERS WHAT CHILDREN ARE
DOING AT THESE hEVENTSv IN THE lRST PLACE
(OMOSEXUALITY ! 2ISK &ACTOR FOR 0EDOPHILIA
)N A SURVEY lFTY TO SEVENTY
THREE PERCENT OF HOMOSEXUAL
MEN REPORTED HAVING SEX WITH BOYS UNDER YEARS OLD )N A STUDY
COMPARING SEX ADS IN A MAJOR HOMOSEXUAL MAGAZINE WITH THOSE IN A
MAGAZINE WITH SIMILAR DEMOGRAPHICS OTHER THAN SEXUAL ORIENTATION
RESEARCHERS *UDITH 2EISMAN AND #HARLES *OHNSON FOUND THAT HOMO
SEXUAL MEN WERE SOLICITING SEX WITH BOYS AT A RATE OVER THIRTY TIMES
HIGHER THAN HETEROSEXUAL MEN WERE SOLICITING SEX WITH GIRLS OF
ADS VERSUS LESS THAN ONE
HALF OF ONE PERCENT OF ADS 2EISMAN ALSO
REPORTS THAT HOMOSEXUAL MAGAZINES PROVIDE EXPLICIT ADVICE TO PEDO
PHILES ON OBTAINING ACCESS TO CHILDREN )N 0ALAVER A MAGAZINE
FOR PEDERASTS ADVISED ITS READERS HOW TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO CHILDREN
WHILE AVOIDING ARREST
;,=OOK FOR EMPLOYMENTx )F YOU WANT TO SPEND ALL OF YOUR
TIME WITH CHILDREN YOU MUST HAVE A LEGITIMATE REASON FOR DO
ING SO AS A TEACHER HELPING CHILDREN LEARNx AS A SOCIAL WORK
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ER HELPING CHILDREN IN DIFlCULTIES AS A PLAY OR YOUTH LEADER
HELPING CHILDREN TO ENJOY THEIR LEISURE TIMEx EMPHASIS IN
ORIGINAL
#RIME STATISTICS TELL AN EVEN SADDER STORY
)N A RECENT STUDY BY THE $EPARTMENT OF *USTICE BOYS WERE FULLY
OF REPORTED FORCIBLE SODOMY VICTIMS BETWEEN THE AGES OF AND
YEARS OF AGE )N ONE STUDY OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE THE INVESTIGATOR
FOUND THAT THE AVERAGE MALE HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDER MOLESTED BOYS
WHILE THE AVERAGE MALE HETEROSEXUAL OFFENDER MOLESTED GIRLS
!NOTHER RESEARCHER POINTS OUT THAT USING ACCEPTED ESTIMATES OF
SEXUAL CHILD ABUSE BETWEEN TO MILLION BOYS AND APPROXIMATELY
MILLION GIRLS ARE SEXUALLY ABUSED BY AGE 4HE DIFFERENCE IS THAT
THE VAST MAJORITY OF SEXUAL ABUSERS OF BOYS ARE HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO
ONLY CONSTITUTE TO MILLION OUT OF THE TOTAL POPULATION USING
POPULATION ESTIMATES )N FACT A STUDY BY THE 5NIVERSITY
OF 0ENNSYLVANIA ESTIMATED THAT HOMOSEXUALS ACCOUNT FOR OF THE
INSTANCES OF SEXUAL MOLESTATION OF BOYS )N CONTRAST WHILE THE VAST
MAJORITY OF SEXUAL ABUSERS OF GIRLS ARE HETEROSEXUAL MEN HETEROSEXUAL
MEN CONSTITUTE TO MILLION OUT OF THE TOTAL POPULATION AGAIN
USING POPULATION ESTIMATES )N A STUDY BY $R 3TEPHEN
2UBIN OF CHILD SEXUAL MOLESTATION BY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS ONE
THIRD
OF THE CASES INVOLVED ADULT MALE HOMOSEXUALS SEXUALLY MOLESTING BOYS
AGAIN CONlRMING THAT
OF THE POPULATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A VERY
DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE OF ALL CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
!CCORDING TO 0ETER 7OOD ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT
"OSTON 5NIVERSITY ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES ALSO CONlRM THAT IN SOCIET
IES WHERE MALE HOMOSEXUALITY HAS BEEN NORMALIZED A SOCIAL PATTERN
ALMOST ALWAYS RESULTS INVOLVING SEXUAL USE OF YOUNG BOYS BY ADULT MALE
HOMOSEXUALS ALONG WITH OTHER PATTERNS INVOLVING hINITIATION INTO
SECRETS MALE EXCLUSIVITY AND A LOW STATUS FOR WOMENv 7HILE THERE
ARE SOME VARIATIONS IN THE CULTURAL PATTERNS SHOWN IN THE RESEARCH
7OOD POINTS OUT h4HE GENERAL RESULTS HOWEVER ARE PREDICTABLE ON
THE BASIS OF ETHNOGRAPHY HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE WILL BE WEAKENED THE
BIRTH RATE WILL DECLINE THE STATUS OF WOMEN AS MOTHERS WILL FURTHER
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
ERODE AND YOUNG BOYS WILL BE A MUCH GREATER TARGET OF EROTIC ATTENTION
BY OLDER MALESv EMPHASIS ADDED 7OOD ACKNOWLEDGES THAT MANY
HOMOSEXUAL MEN ARE PRIMARILY INTERESTED IN OTHER HOMOSEXUAL MEN
AND THAT MOST CHILD MOLESTATION IS COMMITTED BY HETEROSEXUAL MALES
.EVERTHELESS 7OOD OBSERVES THAT hWE ARE ALSO LEFT WITH THE STUBBORN
EMPIRICAL FACT THAT SOCIETIES THAT HAVE INDEED INSTITUTIONALIZED SOME
THING AKIN TO @GAY MARRIAGE HAVE DONE SO IN THE FORM OF OLDER MEN
TAKING ADOLESCENT BOYS AS THEIR PARTNERS 4O IMAGINE THAT WE COULD
HAVE GAY MARRIAGE IN THE 5NITED 3TATES WITHOUT ALSO GIVING STRONG
ENCOURAGEMENT TO THIS FORM OF EROTICISM IS IN THE LIGHT OF THE ETHNO
GRAPHIC EVIDENCE WISHFUL THINKINGv
0LAINLY NOT EVERY HOMOSEXUAL MALE IS A PEDOPHILE OR ENDORSES PEDO
PHILIA AND IT IS CERTAINLY THE CASE THAT MANY HOMOSEXUALS ARE APPALLED
BY HOMOSEXUAL ADVOCATES OF CHILD MOLESTATION .EVERTHELESS IT IS
UNDENIABLE THAT HOMOSEXUAL MALES AS A GROUP ENGAGE IN PEDOPHILIA AT
A FAR HIGHER RATE THAN HETEROSEXUAL MALES AND AS A GROUP HOMOSEXUALS
HAVE EXPENDED CONSIDERABLE ENERGY IN ATTEMPTING TO NORMALIZE PE
DOPHILIA "Y MAINSTREAMING HOMOSEXUALITY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WILL
EVENTUALLY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR CHILD MOLESTATION ON A SCALE THAT WILL
DWARF THE PEDOPHILE PRIEST TRAGEDY 4HIS IS GOOD NEWS ONLY FOR TORT
LAWYERS
)N LIGHT OF ALL OF THIS IS IT ANY WONDER THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT
VIEWED FAVORABLY BY MOST PEOPLE LET ALONE #HRISTIANS -OREOVER WE
MIGHT ASK HOW HOMOSEXUALS hSUFFERv BECAUSE OF THE DISAPPROVAL OF THEIR
BEHAVIOR 4HE AVERAGE HOMOSEXUAL HOUSEHOLD HAS AN AVERAGE INCOME
EQUAL TO OF THE NATIONAL AVERAGE (OMOSEXUALS ARE OVER THREE
TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE COLLEGE GRADUATES OR TO HOLD A PROFESSIONAL OR A
MANAGEMENT JOBS THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE 4HE POLITICAL INmUENCE
OF HOMOSEXUALS GREATLY OUTSTRIPS THEIR NUMBERS 4HERE IS PROBABLY NO
BETTER EVIDENCE OF THIS THAN THE EXTRAORDINARILY DISPROPORTIONATE FUND
ING OF !)$3 RESEARCH &OR EXAMPLE IN !)$3 RESEARCH RECEIVED
ROUGHLY TIMES MORE PER PATIENT AFmICTED WITH !)$3 THAN CANCER
RESEARCH RECEIVED PER PATIENT n AND CANCER RESEARCH RECEIVES BETWEEN
THREE AND TEN TIMES MORE MONEY PER PATIENT FOR RESEARCH THAN HEART
DISEASE DIABETES AND !LZHEIMERS DISEASE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
3AFE 3CHOOLS 7INK 7INK .UDGE .UDGE
7HAT ABOUT THE OTHER PART OF THE ARGUMENT BY HOMOSEXUALS FOR
BRINGING HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS AND CURRICULA INTO SCHOOLS "Y TEACH
ING THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS hA VALID HEALTHY PREFERENCE AND LIFESTYLEv
ARE CHILDREN BEING MADE SAFER !RE YOU KIDDING 3UPPOSE SOMEONE
WERE TO PROPOSE CHANGES IN THE PERSONNEL CURRICULA AND OPERATION OF
SCHOOLS THAT WOULD MAKE IT MORE LIKELY THAT CHILDREN WOULD BECOME
INVOLVED IN BEHAVIOR THAT WOULD
s 2EDUCE THEIR BOYS LIFE EXPECTANCY AT AGE TWENTY FROM BE
TWEEN TO YEARS
s )NCREASE BY THEIR BOYS RISK OF CONTRACTING ()6
!)$3 THE AVERAGE !)$3 PATIENT DIES AT ABOUT AGE
s )NCREASE BY THEIR BOYS RISK OF CONTRACTING A SEXUALLY
TRANSMITTED DISEASE
s )NCREASE BY THEIR BOYS RISK OF CONTRACTING ANAL
CANCER THE INCREASE IN RISK IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE
()6 POSITIVE
s 3IGNIlCANTLY INCREASE THEIR BOYS RISK OF CONTRACTING HEPATI
TIS AND GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS
s 3IGNIlCANTLY INCREASE THEIR GIRLS RISK OF BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS
BREAST CANCER AND OVARIAN CANCER
s 3IGNIlCANTLY INCREASE THEIR BOYS AND GIRLS LIKELIHOOD OF
ABUSING DRUGS ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO
s )NCREASE SIGNIlCANTLY THEIR RISK BOYS n PROBABLY GIRLS TOO OF
BEING VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
7HAT WOULD YOU CALL SUCH A PERSON 0SYCHOTIC $ERANGED 7HAT
WOULD YOU CALL SOMEONE WHO ACQUIESCES IN SUCH A PROPOSAL 7HAT
WOULD YOU CALL PARENTS WHO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO A PLACE WHERE SUCH
CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE
4HE FACT IS THAT EVERYTHING ABOUT THE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS CLAIM
THAT SCHOOLS MUST BECOME MORE GAY
FRIENDLY IN ORDER TO END hDIS
CRIMINATIONv AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS AND PROMOTE hSAFEv SCHOOLS IS A LIE
$ISAPPROVING OF HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND BELIEFS IS NOTHING AT ALL
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
MORALLY LIKE DISAPPROVING OF SOMEONE FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN HIS
SKIN COLOR -OREOVER BRINGING HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS AND THEIR CUR
RICULA INTO SCHOOLS ONLY MAKE THEM A FAR MORE DEADLY AND DANGEROUS
PLACE FOR CHILDREN 4HE POINT OF THE LIE OF COURSE IS SIMPLY TO SILENCE
PARENTS AND OTHERS WHILE THE PROGRAMS OF THE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS ARE
IMPLEMENTED
"ENEATH THE MESMERIZING AND INTIMIDATING RHETORIC OF hHUMAN
RIGHTSv LIES SOMETHING APPALLING h&ISTGATEv IS ONE EXAMPLE BUT A PRO
GRAM IN 6ERMONT PROVIDES A FURTHER GLIMPSE INTO WHAT THE HOMOSEXUAL
ACTIVISTS ARE REALLY AFTER !S IN -ASSACHUSETTS 6ERMONT HOMOSEXUAL
ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN PERMITTED AND EVEN SUBSIDIZED BY THE STATE TO
BRING THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA INTO SCHOOLS
4HE 6ERMONT $EPARTMENT OF (EALTH PROVIDED A THREE
YEAR GRANT TO A HOMOSEXUAL ORGANIZATION CALLED h/UTRIGHT 6ERMONTv
THAT ALLEGEDLY PROVIDES hSAFE SCHOOLSv TRAINING FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND
HIGH SCHOOLS !N INVESTIGATION OF /UTRIGHT 6ERMONTS ACTIVITIES INITI
ATED BY A STATE LEGISLATOR SHOWED HOWEVER THAT /UTRIGHT 6ERMONTS
MISSION SEEMED TO INVOLVE FAR MORE SEX THAN SAFETY )T WAS FOUND
FOR EXAMPLE THAT /UTRIGHT 6ERMONT WAS SPENDING MONEY ON RECRUIT
ING CHILDREN FOR hYOUTH RETREATSv THAT FEATURED AMONG OTHER THINGS
hDEMONSTRATIONS GUIDED PRACTICE SKILL EVALUATIONv IN THE USE OF
PROPHYLACTICS AND EDUCATION IN HOW TO ENGAGE IN HOMOSEXUAL SEX ACTS
/UTRIGHT 6ERMONT ALSO SPONSORED SOCIAL EVENTS FOR hLESBIAN GAY AND
TRANSGENDERED YOUTHv /NE SUCH SOCIAL EVENT WAS CALLED THE h%MERALD
#ITY "ALL v AT WHICH /UTRIGHT 6ERMONT HANDED OUT PROPHYLACTICS AND
LUBRICANTS hAT THE DOOR AND IN THE BATHROOMv 4HE EVENT BY THE WAY
WAS ATTENDED BY TEENAGERS AND ADULTS $O YOU THINK THAT THE
ADULTS WERE THERE AS CHAPERONES
"RINGING THE ,OVE THAT 7ONT 3HUT 5P
TO A 3CHOOL .EAR 9OU
!CTUALLY IT IS ALREADY THERE AND MORE IS ON THE WAY 4HE SEX
EDUCATION INDUSTRY AND PARTICULARLY THE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS WITHIN
IT HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS TO hSEXUALIZEv CHILDREN AT EVER YOUNGER
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
AGES ESPECIALLY UNDER THE RUBRIC OF h()6!)$3 EDUCATIONv
/CCASIONALLY THIS SORT OF THING GETS SOME PRESS PLAY /NE PARTICU
LARLY OVER THE TOP INCIDENT WAS REPORTED INVOLVING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHILDREN
/N *ANUARY #.. HEADLINE NEWS HAD A SHORT FEATURE
ON THE LATEST BREAKTHROUGHS IN THE PUBLIC CLASSROOM %LEMEN
TARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WERE NERVOUSLY TRYING TO ELUDE THE CAMERA
4HEY LOOKED ASHAMED 4HEY HAD JUST SEEN A MOVIE THAT WOULD
EASILY QUALIFY AS PORNOGRAPHY 4HE TEACHER PROUDLY BARKED HER
DISCLAIMERS INTO THE CAMERA h.O THIS IS NOT SEX ED THE KIDS ARE
HAVING THEIR !)$3 AWARENESS HEIGHTENEDv 4HESE YOUNG CHIL
DREN HAD JUST SEEN A lLM OF FULL ON GENITALIA WITH A CONDOM
BEING DONNED 7HAT WAS ILLEGAL IN THE S PORNO HOUSES WAS
NOW SANCTIONED IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
*UST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
/F COURSE THE EFFORT TO INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN WITH THE NOTION
THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS NORMAL AND HEALTHY GENERALLY HAS BEEN MORE
SUBTLE WITH MOST OF IT CONSISTING OF THE FAMILIAR PROPAGANDA THAT
APART FROM A FEW UNUSUAL THINGS THAT THEY DO IN PRIVATE HOMOSEXU
ALS ARE EXACTLY LIKE EVERYONE ELSE 4HIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN RELENTLESSLY
PROMOTED THROUGH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND THE MEDIA AT LEAST SINCE
THE S AND HAS BORNE FRUIT AMONG CHILDREN
! STUDY CONDUCTED IN BY (AMILTON #OLLEGE AND :OGBY
)NTERNATIONAL INVOLVING A RANDOM POLL OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
FOUND THAT OF THE STUDENTS SURVEYED THOUGHT THAT HOMOSEXUAL
MEN SHOULD BE ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY AND SUPPORTED LAWS BANNING
JOB DISCRIMINATION AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS 2OUGHLY TWO
THIRDS THOUGHT
THAT HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES SHOULD BE LEGAL ABOUT DOUBLE THE SUPPORT
FOUND IN THE GENERAL ADULT POPULATION AND BELIEVED THAT HOMOSEXUAL
COUPLES SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO ADOPT CHILDREN 'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS
AIDED AND ABETTED BY THE MEDIA SEEM TO HAVE BEEN QUITE SUCCESS
FUL TEACHING OUR CHILDREN THAT IT IS JUST lNE FOR (EATHER TO HAVE TWO
hMOMMIESv 4HIS HOWEVER IS JUST THE BEGINNING PHASE OF THE PROGRAM
-ORE IS COMING THAT WILL TRANSFORM THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLHOUSE INTO
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
SOMETHING ALMOST UNRECOGNIZABLE
4HE .%!S RESOLUTION h.EW "v REmECTS THE VISION THAT A COALI
TION OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST GROUPS AND THEIR CULTURAL ALLIES SUCH AS
THE .%! AND THE .ATIONAL 0ARENT 4EACHER !SSOCIATION ARE PURSUING
/F THE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST GROUPS WORKING TO BRING THEIR hLIFESTYLEv
INTO SCHOOLS THE 'AY ,ESBIAN AND 3TRAIGHT %DUCATION .ETWORK
h',3%.v IS THE MOST PROMINENT PLAYER %STABLISHED IN TO
PURSUE THE HOMOSEXUAL EDUCATIONAL AGENDA NATIONWIDE ',3%. HAS
GROWN RAPIDLY AND HAS PERHAPS CHAPTERS NATIONALLY !PART FROM
LOBBYING POLICY MAKERS AND PURSUING PUBLIC RELATIONS EFFORTS ',3%.
APPEARS TO DEVOTE MOST OF ITS ENERGY TO FORMING AND SUPPORTING THE
ACTIVITIES OF STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS KNOWN AS h'AY
3TRAIGHT !LLIANCESv
h'3!Sv !CCORDING TO ',3%.S WEBSITE '3!S ARE
SCHOOL BASED STUDENT LED NON CURRICULAR CLUBS ORGANIZED TO
END ANTI GAY BIAS AND HOMOPHOBIA IN SCHOOLS AND CREATE POSI
TIVE CHANGE BY MAKING SCHOOLS WELCOMING SUPPORTIVE AND SAFE
PLACES FOR ALL STUDENTS REGARDLESS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER
IDENTITY
4HE NUMBER OF '3!S IS GROWING RAPIDLY AND THERE ARE CURRENTLY
WELL OVER ACROSS THE COUNTRY
/NE OF THE MORE EFFECTIVE TACTICS FOR FORCING '3!S INTO RECAL
CITRANT SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAS BEEN THE THREAT OF LAWSUITS UNDER A
FEDERAL STATUTE KNOWN AS THE h%QUAL !CCESS !CTv 4HIS LEGISLATION WAS
INTENDED TO PREVENT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FROM PROHIBITING "IBLE CLUBS
FROM MEETING ON CAMPUS 5NFORTUNATELY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS HAVE
TURNED THE %QUAL !CCESS !CT INTO THEIR PRIMARY LEGAL TOOL FOR ATTACKING
SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT DECLINE THE HONOR OF HAVING '3!S n HOMOSEXUAL
CLUBS n IN THEIR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS
4HE '3!%QUAL !CCESS !CT DRAMA IS A FOUR ACT PLAY lRST HO
MOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS LOCATE A STUDENT WHO IS WILLING TO BE A PLAINTIFF IN
A LAWSUIT SECOND A DEMAND IS MADE THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ALLOW
A '3! TO OPERATE IN ONE OR MORE OF ITS SCHOOLS THIRD IF THE SCHOOL
DISTRICT RESISTS THE !#,5 OR SOME OTHER LEGAL ORGANIZATION WILLING TO
DO THE BIDDING OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS lLES A LAWSUIT AND ISSUES PRESS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
RELEASES CLAIMING THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS RIFE WITH hHOMOPHOBIAv
AND FOURTH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT CAPITULATES 3HAZAAM 9OUR SCHOOL DIS
TRICT IS NOW hGAY FRIENDLYv
7HILE THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS PORTRAY THEMSELVES AS VICTIMS IN THESE
SORTS OF AFFAIRS THATS NOT ENTIRELY TRUE n THEY TYPICALLY COLLABORATE IN
SCRIPTING THE '3! DRAMAS hHAPPY ENDINGv ! TARGETED SCHOOL DIS
TRICT COULD FOR EXAMPLE AVOID HAVING '3!S FORCED INTO ITS SCHOOLS
BY ELIMINATING hNON
CURRICULAR CLUBSv 7HAT THIS MEANS IS THAT ANY
CLUB OR EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY THAT IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO CURRICULAR
OFFERINGS n FOR INSTANCE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLUBS DEBATE CLUBS BANDS
AND ORCHESTRAS OR COMPUTER CLUBS n COULD CONTINUE .ON
CURRICULAR
CLUBS WHICH MIGHT INCLUDE SUCH THINGS AS SKI CLUBS SCUBA CLUBS OR
HIKING CLUBS n WOULD HAVE TO BE DISCONTINUED
/F COURSE SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE GENERALLY NOT TAKING THIS COURSE
!FTER ALL IT IS BETTER TO APPEAR TO BE FORCED INTO ACCOMMODATING HO
MOSEXUAL CLUBS THAN TO BECOME THE TARGET OF THE WRATH OF PARENTS WHO
WILL BLAME YOU A HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL FOR DECIDING
TO DISCONTINUE THE SKI CLUB OR SOME SUCH OTHER hESSENTIALv SCHOOL AC
TIVITY .O ITS BETTER JUST TO LET THE '3!S IN AND LET PEOPLE THINK YOU
HAD NO CHOICE !NOTHER DEFENSE AGAINST '3!S WOULD BE TO DECLINE THE
ROUGHLY OF THE DISTRICTS BUDGET THAT COMES FROM FEDERAL MONEYx
WAIT A MINUTE 2EDUCE SPENDING FOR THE SAFETY AND WELFARE OF STUDENTS
3ILLY OF ME TO MENTION IT .EVER MIND
4HE PALPABLE COWARDICE AND HYPOCRISY OF OUR HIGHLY TRAINED
EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS IN FAILING TO RESIST THE DEMANDS OF HOMOSEXUAL
ACTIVISTS IS ALMOST COMICAL (OW DO YOU THINK THEY WOULD RESPOND TO
PROPOSALS FOR 3MOKER.ON
SMOKER !LLIANCE CLUBS 3.!S PURPORTING
hTO END ANTI
SMOKING BIAS IN SCHOOLS AND CREATE POSITIVE CHANGE BY
MAKING SCHOOLS WELCOMING SUPPORTIVE AND SAFE PLACES FOR ALL STUDENTS
REGARDLESS OF TOBACCO ORIENTATION OR TOBACCO PREFERENCEv 4HE TOBACCO
ACTIVISTS COULD CLAIM JUST AS THE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS DO THAT THE
3.!S WOULDNT BE ADVOCATING TOBACCO USE n THEY WOULD JUST PROMOTE
UNDERSTANDING AND TOLERANCE BETWEEN TOBACCO USERS AND NON
TOBACCO
USERS 3CHOOL OFlCIALS WOULD RIGHTLY DISMISS THIS DRIVEL AND ARGUE THAT
THE NET RESULT FROM ALLOWING 3.!S WOULD BE GREATER ACCEPTANCE OF
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
TOBACCO USE AMONG IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN AND THAT THIS WOULD IN
CREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF STUDENTS EVENTUALLY CONTRACTING EMPHYSEMA
CANCER AND OTHER DISEASES )N FACT THEY WOULD PROBABLY INDIGNANTLY
POINT OUT THAT AS REPORTED BY THE .EW %NGLAND *OURNAL OF -EDICINE
MEN WHO SMOKE ON AVERAGE CUT YEARS OFF OF THEIR LIVES 9ET WHEN
CONFRONTED BY THE DEMANDS OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SCHOOL DISTRICTS
TEND TO SURRENDER FASTER THAN THE )RAQI ARMY EVEN THOUGH THE HEALTH
RISKS INCLUDING THE AVERAGE REDUCTION IN LIFE EXPECTANCY
YEARS
ARE FAR GREATER FROM HOMOSEXUALITY THAN FROM SMOKING
4HE "RAVE .EW 3CHOOLS
3O HOW ARE THE .%! ',3%. AND THEIR ALLIES PLANNING TO RE
MAKE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL AND YOUR CHILDS SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
)T WILL LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THIS
s 3EX EDUCATION AND ITS VARIANTS EG h!)$3 AWARENESS v
hFAMILY STUDIES v ETC WILL BEGIN IN KINDERGARTEN AND CONTIN
UE THROUGH TH GRADE 4HIS CURRICULUM WILL EXPLICITLY AFlRM
HOMOSEXUALITY ALONG WITH BISEXUALITY AND TRANSGENDERISM
AS A HEALTHY NORMAL ALTERNATIVE SEXUAL ORIENTATION %LEMEN
TARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WILL REGULARLY BE SHOWN lLMS SUCH AS
THE 04!S h4HATS A &AMILYv AND ',3%.S h)TS %LEMENTARYv
THAT TEACH HOMOSEXUALITY IS NORMAL
s &ROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH TH GRADE ALL TEXTBOOKS AND
CLASSROOM MATERIALS WILL PORTRAY HOMOSEXUALS POSITIVELY
AND DISCUSS THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF HOMOSEXUALS IN ALL SUBJECT
AREAS 4EACHERS WILL FOR EXAMPLE BE ASKED TO DRAW PINK
TRIANGLES A HOMOSEXUAL SYMBOL WHEN TEACHING CHILDREN
ABOUT SHAPES (ISTORY TEACHERS WILL BE REQUIRED TO COVER TOP
ICS SUCH AS h'AYS AND )MMIGRATIONv AND h'AYS IN !MERICAN
(ISTORYv
s 3CHOOL LIBRARIES WILL BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A SELECTION OF
BOOKS AND OTHER MATERIALS ON THE hGAY LIFESTYLEv
s /CTOBER WILL BE DESIGNATED AS h'AY (ISTORY -ONTHv
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
s 3CHOOL DISTRICTS WILL BE REQUIRED TO HAVE AFlRMATIVE ACTION
PLANS FOR HIRING HOMOSEXUALS AND WILL HAVE ON STAFF HOMO
SEXUAL COUNSELORS AND ADVISORS
s (OMOSEXUAL TEACHERS WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO hCOME OUTv TO
THE CHILDREN IN THEIR CLASSROOMS BY DISCUSSING THEIR OWN
SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS
s 6IRTUALLY EVERY SCHOOL WILL HAVE A '3! 4HE '3! WILL COOR
DINATE WITH THE SCHOOLS ON SPONSORING hGAYv PROMS AND OTH
ER SOCIAL EVENTS 4HE '3!S WILL ALSO WORK WITH THE SCHOOLS
IN SPONSORING SPECIAL WORKSHOPS FOR EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS
ON THE lNER POINTS OF THE HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE LIKE FOR EX
AMPLE h&ISTGATEv
s 3CHOOLS WILL HAVE SPEECH CODES MANDATING THE IMMEDIATE
SUSPENSION OF ANY CHILD WHO MAKES A DEROGATORY COMMENT
ABOUT SOMEONES SEXUAL ORIENTATION
s 3CHOOLS WILL HAVE SEPARATE RESTROOM AND LOCKER
ROOM FACILI
TIES FOR hTRANSGENDEREDv CHILDREN
7HILE THIS PORTRAIT MAY STRIKE YOU AS A FUTURE THAT IS PURELY DARK
SPECULATION YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT MOST OF IT INCLUDING THE SPECIAL
RESTROOM FACILITIES HAS ALREADY BEEN RECOMMENDED BY THE #ALIFORNIA
$EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION OR THE .%! /THER PARTS ARE ',3%. PRO
POSALS AND BEAR IN MIND THAT ',3%. WORKS CLOSELY ON THESE ISSUES
WITH THE .%! AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS #ALIFORNIA BY THE
WAY HAS ALREADY REVISED ITS GOVERNMENT SCHOOL hANTI
DISCRIMINATION
POLICIESv TO REQUIRE THAT EACH CHILD BE ALLOWED TO hCHOOSEv HIS OR HER
OWN hGENDERv 3O IN #ALIFORNIA SCHOOLS BEING A BOY OR A GIRL IS
A MATTER OF PERSONAL TASTE )MPLEMENTING THE REVISED GUIDELINES WILL
INDEED BE INTERESTING 7ILL UNISEX RESTROOMS BE REQUIRED 7HAT WILL
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS DO ABOUT BOYS WHO PERCEIVE THEMSELVES TO BE
hGIRLSv AND WANT TO HANG OUT IN THE GIRLS LOCKERROOMS 4HE POSSIBILI
TIES ARE ENDLESS
"EYOND THESE MEASURES FOR hHOMOSEXUALIZINGv GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEXTBOOK PUBLISHERS ALSO APPEAR TO BE
AIDING AND ABETTING HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS &OR EXAMPLE (OUGHTON
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS . OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
-IFmIN A MAJOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEXTBOOK PUBLISHER PUBLISHES A
TEXTBOOK TITLED ! (ISTORY OF 7ESTERN 3OCIETY THAT IS USED IN SOME HIGH
SCHOOL !0 HISTORY COURSES 4HIS TEXTBOOK PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ABSURD
REVISIONIST ACCOUNT OF EARLY #HRISTIAN ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES REGARDING
HOMOSEXUALITY
%ARLY #HRISTIANS TOO CONSIDERED HOMOSEXUALITY A CONVENTIONAL
EXPRESSION OF PHYSICAL DESIRE AND WERE NO MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO
ANTI HOMOSEXUAL PREJUDICES THAN PAGANS WERE 3OME PROMI
NENT #HRISTIANS EXPERIENCED LOVING SAME GENDER RELATIONSHIPS
THAT PROBABLY HAD A SEXUAL ELEMENT
.OW YOU MAY RECOGNIZE THIS AS RIDICULOUS BUT ) CAN ASSURE YOU THAT
THE TEENAGERS AND TEACHERS WHO ARE FED THIS SORT OF MATERIAL WILL COME
TO SEE IT AS AUTHORITATIVE )N FACT THEY WILL REGARD THE TRUTH AS SUSPECT
PRECISELY BECAUSE IT CONmICTS WITH WHAT IS BEING TAUGHT IN THEIR GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS 3O IF YOU INTEND TO CONTINUE SENDING
YOUR CHILDREN TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO MANY
MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS ATTEMPTING TO PERSUADE YOUR TEENAGE SONS
AND DAUGHTERS THAT WHAT THEY ARE LEARNING ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY AND
#HRISTIANITY IN SCHOOL IS FALSE 'OOD LUCK
-OVING INTO THE (EARTLAND AND THE "IBLE
"ELT
(OMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN WORKING AGGRESSIVELY TO ESTABLISH
THEIR VISION OF EDUCATION IN #ALIFORNIA #ONNECTICUT -ASSACHUSETTS
-INNESOTA 5TAH AND 7ISCONSIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )N
HOWEVER ',3%. BEGAN TRAINING A CADRE OF ACTIVISTS TO CARRY ITS PRO
GRAM INTO &LORIDA 'EORGIA ,OUISIANA .ORTH #AROLINA 4ENNESSEE
AND 4EXAS !CCORDING TO "RENDA "ARRON ',3%.S !SSISTANT $IRECTOR
FOR 3OUTHERN /RGANIZING THIS WAS NECESSARY TO hCREATE STRONG CHAPTERS
WITH A STRATEGIC AND HIGHLY
LOCALIZED APPROACHx ;AND TO INCREASE= THE
ABILITY OF CHAPTER LEADERS TO ORGANIZE EFFECTIVELY IN HOMETOWN SCHOOLS
AND COMMUNITIESv 3OUTHERN SCHOOLS SAYS ',3%. SCORE WELL BE
LOW THE hNATIONAL FAILURE RATEv IN hPROTECTING AND SERVINGv HOMOSEXUAL
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDERED STUDENTS 3O ALL YOU #AJUNS 4ARHEELS
6OLUNTEERS ,ONGHORNS AND THE REST SHOULD EXPECT TO BE GETTING A
WHOLE LOT MORE hEDUCATION REFORMv SO THAT YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
CAN BETTER SERVE THE ALLEGED INTERESTS OF HOMOSEXUAL BISEXUAL AND
TRANSGENDERED STUDENTS
)N ADDITION TO WORKING TO ORGANIZE LOCAL EDUCATORS AND HOMO
SEXUAL ACTIVISTS ',3%. AND SIMILAR GROUPS HAVE WORKED HARD TO IN
mUENCE STATE LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY PROCESSES -UCH OF THE SUCCESS
',3%. HAS HAD IN -ASSACHUSETTS IS THE RESULT OF A LAW REQUIRING EQUAL
EDUCATION FOR ALL hREGARDLESS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATIONv 3IMILAR LEGISLATION
IS POPPING UP IN 6IRGINIA AND ELSEWHERE h(ATE CRIMEv LEGISLATION
IS ANOTHER FAVORITE OF HOMOSEXUAL EDUCATION ACTIVISTS BECAUSE SUCH
LEGISLATION OFTEN INCLUDES A REQUIREMENT THAT hDIVERSITYv CURRICULA BE
DEVELOPED TO DETER hHATE CRIMESv BASED ON A VARIETY OF FACTORS INCLUD
ING hSEXUAL ORIENTATIONv 4EXAS IS A RECENT EXAMPLE WHERE THIS STRATEGY
HAS WORKED #ALIFORNIA HAS ENACTED SIMILAR LEGISLATION THAT MANDATES
AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT A NEW hDIVERSITYv CURRICULUM BE IMPLEMENTED
IN #ALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BY 4HESE TYPES OF CURRICU
LAR hREFORMSv ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BRINGING HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISM AND
ADVOCACY INTO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CLASSROOMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
(OW IS THIS HAPPENING 2ABBI $AVID %IDENSOHN AN OPPONENT
OF .EW 9ORKS 3EXUAL /RIENTATION .ONDISCRIMINATION !CT PUTS IT SUC
CINCTLY
4HE BIBLICAL AND TRADITIONAL FAMILY COMMUNITY IS HIDING ITS
HEAD IN THE SAND 3URELY PEOPLE THINK THIS CANT BE FOR REAL
.OBODY IS GOING TO DEMONIZE OR CRIMINALIZE THE TRADITIONAL
FAMILY AND THE "IBLE "UT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT GAY RIGHTS BILLS
ARE DOING AND NOBODY NOTICES OR NOBODY CARES 4HE GAY LOBBY
THRIVESx ON THE IGNORANCE OF THE MASSES OF !MERICANS WHO
LIKE THE HAPLESS MASSES OF 2USSIA AND 'ERMANY WERE TOO BUSY TO
CONFRONT A NASTY AND DETERMINED ELEMENT DETERMINED TO SEIZE
POWER AND DESTROY ITS ENEMIES
)NDIFFERENCE BORN OF IGNORANCE 3OUNDS ABOUT RIGHT
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS . OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
! &ULL #OURT 0RESS
%VEN THOUGH HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS HAVE ADVANCED THEIR AGENDA
WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AT AN ASTONISHING RATE THE PACE OF THAT
CHANGE HAS BEEN VASTLY ACCELERATED BY THE 3UPREME #OURTS DECISION
STRIKING DOWN A 4EXAS HOMOSEXUAL SODOMY STATUTE IN ,AWRENCE V
4EXAS 7HY "ECAUSE THE MAJORITY OPINION BY *USTICE +ENNEDY IN THIS
DECISION WAS NOT NARROWLY AIMED AT HOMOSEXUAL SODOMY STATUTES
)NSTEAD THE RATIONALE FOR STRIKING DOWN THE 4EXAS STATUTE THAT MADE
HOMOSEXUAL SODOMY A MISDEMEANOR IS IN LARGE PART THAT IT STIGMA
TIZES HOMOSEXUAL CONDUCT AND IS hAN INVITATION TO SUBJECT HOMOSEXUAL
PERSONS TO DISCRIMINATION IN BOTH THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPHERESv
4HE ,AWRENCE MAJORITY THEN DOESNT MERELY DISAPPROVE OF PUBLIC
hDISCRIMINATIONv AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS BUT PRIVATE hDISCRIMINATIONv
AS WELL %VIDENTLY IN THE EYES OF THE #OURT ANYTHING THAT INDICATES
DISAPPROVAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY IS SUSPECT
*USTICE 3CALIAS DISSENT CORRECTLY OBSERVES THAT ,AWRENCE WILL EN
TAIL hA MASSIVE DISRUPTION OF THE CURRENT SOCIAL ORDERv -ORE IMPORTANT
FOR DISCERNING THE DIRECTION THAT COURTS WILL BE TAKING ON THIS ISSUE
HOWEVER IS 3CALIAS COMMENT ABOUT THE PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE JUDICIAL
ACTIVISM ADVANCING THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA
)T IS CLEARx THAT THE #OURT HAS TAKEN SIDES IN THE CULTURE WAR
DEPARTING FROM ITS ROLE OF ASSURING AS NEUTRAL OBSERVER THAT THE
DEMOCRATIC RULES OF ENGAGEMENT ARE OBSERVED -ANY !MERI
CANS DO NOT WANT PERSONS WHO OPENLY ENGAGE IN HOMOSEXUAL
CONDUCT AS PARTNERS IN THEIR BUSINESS AS SCOUTMASTERS FOR THEIR
CHILDREN AS TEACHERS IN THEIR CHILDRENS SCHOOLS OR AS BOARDERS IN
THEIR HOMES 4HEY VIEW THIS AS PROTECTING THEIR FAMILIES FROM A
LIFESTYLE THAT THEY BELIEVE TO BE IMMORAL AND DESTRUCTIVE 4HE
#OURT VIEWS IT AS hDISCRIMINATIONv WHICH IT IS THE FUNCTION OF OUR
JUDGMENTS TO DETER ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
#HRISTIANS NEED TO REmECT ON THIS *USTICE 3CALIA IS TELLING US THAT
EXPRESSIONS OF THE VALUES OF OUR *UDEO
#HRISTIAN CULTURE ARE SOMETHING
THAT OUR UNELECTED JUDICIAL MANDARINS INTEND TO DETER .OW GO BACK
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
AND LOOK AT THE HOMOSEXUALS WISH LIST FOR hHOMOSEXUALIZINGv YOUR
LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL AND CONSIDER HOW MUCH LESS RESISTANCE THERE
WILL BE TO SUCH MEASURES FROM OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFES
SIONALS AS A RESULT OF ,AWRENCE
*USTICE 3CALIA IS NOT ALONE IN HIS ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPORTANCE OF
THIS DECISION (OMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS ALSO VIEW ,AWRENCE AS A MAJOR TOOL
FOR ADVANCING THEIR PROGRAM FOR REMAKING OUR SOCIETY !S THE EXECU
TIVE DIRECTOR OF AN !RIZONA HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST GROUP 'REG 0OLZIN
PUT IT FOLLOWING THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DECISION IN ,AWRENCE h)T
GIVES US THE MOMENTUM TO PURSUE OUR AGENDAv %XACTLY ,ESS THAN
SIX MONTHS AFTER ,AWRENCE AN EMBOLDENED -ASSACHUSETTS 3UPREME
#OURT hFOUNDv IN 'OODRIDGE VS $EPARTMENT OF (EALTH A RIGHT TO HO
MOSEXUAL MARRIAGE IN THE PROVISIONS OF THE -ASSACHUSETTS #ONSTITU
TION .EVER MIND THAT THE -ASSACHUSETTS #ONSTITUTION IS THE OLDEST
STATE CONSTITUTION THE PRIMARY DRAFTSMAN OF WHICH WAS *OHN !DAMS
#ONVENIENTLY FOR THE -ASSACHUSETTS 3UPREME #OURT HOWEVER THE
DESCENDANTS OF THE -ASSACHUSETTS "AY #OLONY 0URITANS AND 0LYMOUTH
#OLONY 0ILGRIMS WHO RATIlED THE -ASSACHUSETTS #ONSTITUTION ARE NO
LONGER AROUND TO POINT OUT THE OBVIOUS THAT THE CONSTITUTION THEY
RATIlED HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CREATING A RIGHT TO SOMETHING VIRTUALLY
EVERY ONE OF THEM WOULD HAVE REGARDED AS AN ABOMINATION
)N ANY EVENT 'OODRIDGE HAS ALREADY SPAWNED hCURRICULUM GUIDESv
PRODUCED BY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE BEING USED IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CLASSROOMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO STRUCTURE hDEBATEv
ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE !S "RIAN #AMENKER PRESIDENT OF THE
-ASSACHUSETTS
BASED 0ARENTS 2IGHTS #OALITION DESCRIBES THE SITUATION
IN -ASSACHUSETTS h4HEY HAVE STARTED THE CAMPAIGN IN A BIG WAYx
4HESE GUYS ARE IN -ASSACHUSETTS HIGH SCHOOLS AS WE SPEAK AND THEY
ARE PROSELYTIZING THE KIDS IN A HUGE WAYv 7ITH MORE THAN
'AY3TRAIGHT !LLIANCE #LUBS IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS ACROSS
THE COUNTRY THE ODDS ARE GOOD THAT THESE SAME FRIENDLY FOLKS ARE IN
YOUR SCHOOLS TOO n OR SOON WILL BE n TOUTING HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE
3O IF YOU PERSIST IN THINKING THAT YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE
hDIFFERENT v WE CAN AT LEAST AGREE ON ONE THING n THEY CERTAINLY ARE
GOING TO BE
$O 9OU ,IKE 9OUR $AUGHTERS .OSE
RING AND 4ONGUE 3TUD
7HAT #OMMUNION (ATH ,IGHT WITH $ARKNE S S
4HERE IS A 2OMAN ADAGE TO THE EFFECT THAT h7HAT A SOCIETY DOES
TO ITS CHILDREN ITS CHILDREN WILL DO TO SOCIETYv 7E NOW STAND JUST PAST
THE CLOSE OF THE TH CENTURY AS #HRISTIANS LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE
7IDESPREAD CHEATING AMONG THE BEST STUDENTS RAMPANT ALCOHOL AND
ILLEGAL DRUG USE HIGH LEVELS OF VIOLENCE AND AN UTTER COLLAPSE OF SEXUAL
MORALS ALL INDICATE THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE PRODUCING MORALLY
HOLLOW CHILDREN WHO ARE BECOMING MORALLY HOLLOW YOUNG ADULTS 4HE
FUTURE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS TO SOCIETY AND TO THE CHURCH ARE DREADFUL
TO CONTEMPLATE 9ET #HRISTIAN PARENTS OVERWHELMINGLY CONTINUE TO
DELIVER THEIR CHILDREN OVER TO THAT MORALLY CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENT )F
YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PARENTS YOU NOW KNOW JUST A PART OF WHAT YOUR
CHILDREN ARE BEING SUBJECTED TO AND WHAT IS BEING PLANNED FOR THEM
4HE QUESTIONS YOU MUST FACE ARE FUNDAMENTAL 7HY ARE YOU PLACING
YOUR CHILD UNDER FALSE TEACHING 7HOM ARE YOU SERVING $O YOUR
CHILDREN BELONG TO THE STATE AND THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO BEST MANIPULATE
ITS INSTITUTIONS OR DO YOUR CHILDREN BELONG TO 'OD AND YOU
# ( ! 0 4 % 2 4 ( 2 % %
-Y # HIL D IS / N THE ( O NO R 2 O LL
h! FALSE BALANCE IS ABOMINATION TO THE ,ORD BUT A JUST WEIGHT IS HIS DELIGHTv
0ROVERBS
h)N THE LONG RUN THE GREATEST WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION IS STUPIDITY
)N AN AGE OF ARTIlCIAL INTELLIGENCE TOO MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS
ARE PRODUCING ARTIlCIAL STUPIDITYxv
4HOMAS 3OWELL
OT ALL THE NEWS ABOUT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SEEMS TO BE BAD )N
. THE (ORATIO !LGER !SSOCIATION CONDUCTED A h3TATE OF /UR .ATIONS
9OUTHv SURVEY OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS THAT IT SAYS OFFERS POSITIVE NEWS
ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS !CCORDING TO THE SURVEY OF
TEENAGERS REPORTED THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN NOTHING LESS THAN A " ON THEIR
LAST REPORT CARD REPORTED THAT THEY HAD "S AND #S REPORTED
THAT THEY HAD MOSTLY #S AND JUST GOT GRADES MOSTLY BELOW A #
.OT SURPRISINGLY STUDENTS AND PARENTS ARE QUITE PLEASED WITH
A SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN WHICH ONLY OF STUDENTS PERFORM AT AN
AVERAGE LEVEL OR BELOW 4HE SAME SURVEY SHOWS THAT OF STUDENTS
AND OF PARENTS GAVE THEIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS A GRADE OF !
OR " WHILE ONLY OF STUDENTS AND OF PARENTS GAVE THEIR LOCAL
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS A GRADE OF # 4EACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS WERE
EVEN MORE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THEIR SCHOOLS
SAID THAT THEIR SCHOOLS DO AN ! OR " JOB
%VEN HIGHER LEVELS OF TEACHER AND PARENTAL SATISFACTION WERE RE
PORTED IN BY 0UBLIC !GENDA A .EW 9ORK
BASED NON
PROlT POLL
ING ORGANIZATION !CCORDING TO 0UBLIC !GENDA OF PARENTS AND AN
INCREDIBLE OF TEACHERS RATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS EXCELLENT OR GOOD
-OREOVER OTHER SURVEYS HAVE SHOWN THAT !MERICAN STUDENTS HAVE
REMARKABLE LEVELS OF ACADEMIC SELF
ESTEEM 0LAINLY STUDENTS PARENTS
AND EDUCATORS ARE GENERALLY HAPPY WITH THE EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE
OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
4HINGS !RENT !LWAYS 7HAT 4HEY 3EEM
5NFORTUNATELY PERCEPTION AND REALITY ARE NOT ALWAYS THE SAME
4HE 0UBLIC !GENDA REPORT ALREADY MENTIONED POINTS OUT THAT EMPLOY
ERS AND COLLEGE PROFESSORS HAVE A SOMEWHAT LESS EXALTED VIEW OF HOW
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE PERFORMING THAN STUDENTS PARENTS AND TEACH
ERS )N FACT OF PROFESSORS AND OF EMPLOYERS SAY GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS ARE DOING A hFAIRv OR hPOORv JOB -OREOVER OF EMPLOYERS
AND OF PROFESSORS RATE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL GRADUATES AS HAVING
hFAIRv OR hPOORv WRITING SKILLS OF EMPLOYERS AND OF PROFES
SORS RATE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL GRADUATES AS HAVING hFAIRv OR hPOORv SKILLS
IN GRAMMAR AND SPELLING AND OF EMPLOYERS AND OF PROFES
SORS REGARD GOVERNMENT SCHOOL GRADUATES AS HAVING hFAIRv OR hPOORv
MATH SKILLS
!S FOR STUDENTS GRADE POINT AVERAGES SELECTIVE COLLEGES AND UNI
VERSITIES ARE INCREASINGLY DISCOUNTING OR RECALCULATING '0!S IN THEIR
ADMISSIONS PROCESSES 'RADE INmATION INCONSISTENT GRADING AND CUR
RICULAR STANDARDS AND POLITICALLY CORRECT FORMS OF ASSESSING STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT ALL HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE DECLINE IN THE USEFULNESS OF
THIS NEARLY UBIQUITOUS MEASURE OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT #ONSEQUENT
LY AS POINTED OUT IN AN ARTICLE APPROPRIATELY TITLED h7HY #OLLEGES
3COFF AT 9OUR #HILDS '0! v '0!S hHAVE IN SOME CASES BECOME ALMOST
MEANINGLESSv
-INORITY STUDENTS ALSO SEEM TO BE VOTING AGAINST GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS WITH THEIR FEET 4HE NATIONAL hNON
GRADUATIONv RATE FOR BLACK
STUDENTS FOR EXAMPLE IS ROUGHLY -OREOVER IT DOESNT APPEAR
THAT THIS HIGH RATE OF ATTRITION IS LIMITED TO ANY PARTICULAR PART OF THE
COUNTRY )N FACT THE REPORTED NON
GRADUATION RATE FOR ALL STUDENTS
STANDS AT n AN ASTONISHING STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT INDICATES POLLING
STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS RATHER THAN ALL SCHOOL
AGE CHILDREN AND
THEIR PARENTS PROBABLY PRODUCES A VERY DISTORTED PICTURE OF SATISFAC
TION WITH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
7HAT IS THE TRUTH !RE STUDENTS TODAY AS IS OFTEN REPEATED IN THE
MEDIA THE BEST EDUCATED EVER !RE THERE HEROIC LEVELS OF EDUCATIONAL
ACHIEVEMENT IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO JUSTIFY REPORTING TO PARENTS
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
THAT ONLY OF STUDENTS PERFORM AT AN AVERAGE LEVEL OR BELOW 4O
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS WE NEED TO COMPARE PERCEPTIONS WITH FACTS 9OU
MAY NOT LIKE THE ANSWERS
/UR 3EMI
,ITERATE 0RESENT AND )LLITERATE &UTURE
7OULD IT SHAKE YOUR CONlDENCE IN THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IF YOU KNEW THAT OF !MERICAN TH GRADE
CHILDREN CANNOT READ PROlCIENTLY AND THAT OF URBAN TH GRADERS
CANT READ AT EVEN A BASIC LEVEL 7OULD YOU BE SURPRISED IF NEARLY
OF STUDENTS AT A LARGE STATE UNIVERSITY WITH HIGH SCHOOL GRADE POINT
AVERAGES ABOVE HAD TO BE ENROLLED IN COLLEGE REMEDIAL %NGLISH AND
MATH COURSES 7OULD YOU BE SURPRISED THAT A 2OPER POLL OF
COLLEGE SENIORS ATTENDING THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
IN !MERICA FOUND FOR EXAMPLE THAT COULD NOT IDENTIFY THE #ON
STITUTION AS THE SOURCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF SEPARATION OF POWERS ONLY
KNEW THAT THE PHRASE hGOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE
AND FOR THE PEOPLEv COMES FROM THE 'ETTYSBURG !DDRESS AND ONLY
KNEW THAT 'EORGE 7ASHINGTON WAS THE !MERICAN COMMAND
ING GENERAL AT 9ORKTOWN THOUGHT IT WAS 5LYSSES 3 'RANT
.OT SO VERY LONG AGO THE AVERAGE TH GRADER KNEW THESE BASIC FACTS OF
!MERICAN HISTORY
)F THIS DOESNT BOTHER YOU PERHAPS YOU MIGHT BE MORE CONCERNED
IF YOU KNEW THAT THE #%/ OF )NTEL #RAIG 2 "ARRETT HAS REPEATEDLY
SOUNDED THE ALARM THAT THE POOR ACADEMIC QUALITY OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS ESPECIALLY IN MATH AND SCIENCE THREATENS OUR ECONOMIC FU
TURE 7ITHOUT DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENTS IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY
EDUCATION "ARRETT ARGUES WE WILL LOSE OUR ABILITY TO COMPETE IN AREAS
SUCH AS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY "UT INSTEAD OF PREPARING OUR CHILDREN
FOR A VERY COMPETITIVE FUTURE WE BEHAVE AS IF h7E SOMEHOW THINK THAT
WE HAVE A 'OD
GIVEN RIGHT TO BE THE WORLDS .O ECONOMY FOREVERv
/THERS THE "RITISH FOR EXAMPLE ONCE HARBORED SUCH THOUGHTS MUCH
TO THEIR REGRET "ARRETT BY THE WAY HAS STATED PUBLICLY THAT HE WOULD
NEVER SEND HIS GRANDCHILDREN TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
)T 7ASNT !LWAYS 4HIS "AD
!S WITH ALMOST ANY AREA OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT PASSES FOR EDUCATION IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS
ALMOST TOO PAINFUL TO BEAR "UT BEFORE TELLING THAT STORY PERHAPS IT
WOULD BE BETTER TO SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT WHERE WE BEGAN SO WE CAN
BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW FAR WE HAVE FALLEN
5NTIL THE APPEARANCE OF THE EMOTIONAL REVIVALISM OF THE 3ECOND
'REAT !WAKENING IN TH CENTURY !MERICA !MERICAN #HRISTIANITY
HAD TRADITIONALLY HAD A STRONG INTELLECTUAL EMPHASIS 4HAT EMPHASIS ON
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INTELLECT AND ITS DEVELOPMENT WAS A REmECTION OF
2EFORMATION THEOLOGY )F AS 2EFORMATION 0ROTESTANTS BELIEVED MAN
HAD AN OBLIGATION TO WORK OUT HIS SALVATION AND DEVELOP A PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH 'OD THEN IT WAS INCUMBENT UPON ALL #HRISTIANS TO
LEARN TO READ THE "IBLE
!LTHOUGH THE PRIMARY REASON 2EFORMATION 0ROTESTANTS INSISTED
ON LITERACY WAS TO ENABLE #HRISTIANS TO UNDERSTAND 'ODS SPECIAL REV
ELATION CONTAINED IN THE "IBLE LITERACY AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL SKILLS
WERE ALSO UNDERSTOOD TO BE IMPORTANT FOR ENABLING #HRISTIANS TO
GRASP 'ODS GENERAL REVELATION IN NATURE !S A RESULT LITERACY SOARED
IN THE 0ROTESTANT PARTS OF %UROPE FOLLOWING THE 2EFORMATION EVEN
IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS 3COTLAND THAT BEFORE THE 2EFORMATION HAD BEEN
DESPERATELY POOR ILLITERATE AND SUPERSTITION
RIDDEN
4HE COLONISTS WHO SETTLED !MERICA BROUGHT THIS #HRISTIAN TRADI
TION OF LEARNING WITH THEM -OREOVER THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE INSTI
TUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING FOUNDED IN EARLY !MERICA WERE #HRISTIAN
INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING (ARVARD 9ALE "ROWN 7ILLIAM AND -ARY AND
0RINCETON )N HIS $ISSERTATION ON THE #ANON AND &EUDAL ,AW *OHN
!DAMS REMARKED ON THE SPREAD OF KNOWLEDGE IN %UROPE FOLLOWING THE
2EFORMATION AND ON THE COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION IN !MERICA FROM
THE EARLIEST TIMES
&ROM THE TIME OF THE 2EFORMATION TO THE lRST SETTLEMENT OF
!MERICA KNOWLEDGE GRADUALLY SPREAD IN %UROPE BUT ESPECIALLY
IN %NGLAND AND IN PROPORTION AS THAT INCREASED AND SPREAD
AMONG THE PEOPLE ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL TYRANNYx SEEM TO
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
HAVE LOST THEIR STRENGTH AND WEIGHTx 4HE LEADING MEN AMONG
THEM ;0URITANS= BOTH OF THE CLERGY AND THE LAITY WERE MEN OF
SENSE AND LEARNINGx 4HEIR CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES THERE
FORE CONSPIRED TO PROMPT THEM TO USE EVERY MEASURE AND TAKE
EVERY PRECAUTION IN THEIR POWER TO PROPAGATE AND PERPETUATE
KNOWLEDGE &OR THIS PURPOSE THEY LAID VERY EARLY THE FOUNDA
TIONS OF COLLEGESx 4HEY MADE AN EARLY PROVISION BY LAW THAT
EVERY TOWN CONSISTING OF SO MANY FAMILIES SHOULD ALWAYS BE
FURNISHED WITH A GRAMMAR SCHOOLx 4HE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE
ESTABLISHMENTS WE SEE AND FEEL EVERY DAY ! NATIVE OF !MERICA
WHO CANNOT READ AND WRITE IS AS RARE AN APPEARANCEx AS A COMET
OR AN EARTHQUAKE ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
!LTHOUGH !DAMS OBSERVATIONS ON LITERACY WERE UNDOUBTEDLY
COLORED BY HIS EXPERIENCES IN .EW %NGLAND AND ITS NEIGHBORING STATES
IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THE CULTURE OF LEARNING WAS CHAR
ACTERISTIC OF THOSE WHO EMBRACED 2EFORMED THEOLOGY !ND AS WILL
BE POINTED OUT IN #HAPTER EVEN AT THE TIME OF THE 7AR FOR )NDE
PENDENCE A SIGNIlCANT MAJORITY OF !MERICANS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH A
2EFORMED CONFESSION
"ECAUSE THE 0ROTESTANTISM THAT SHAPED EARLY !MERICA ALSO ENCOUR
AGED WOMEN TO READ HIGH LEVELS OF LITERACY WERE NOT RESTRICTED TO MEN
0ROFESSOR 0AGE 3MITH NOTES FOR EXAMPLE THAT IN THE COLONIAL ERA h4HE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 0ROTESTANT FATHERS AND THEIR DAUGHTERSxWAS AN
ESPECIALLY CLOSE ONEx -OST 0URITAN FATHERS WERE DIRECTLY CONCERNED
WITH THE EDUCATION OF THEIR DAUGHTERSv 3O IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT
IN $ANIEL 7EBSTER OBSERVED h! 9OUTH OF lFTEEN OF EITHER SEX
WHO CANNOT READ AND WRITE IS VERY SELDOM TO BE FOUNDv ;EMPHASIS
ADDED=
4HE BREADTH AND DEPTH OF LITERACY WAS SO PRONOUNCED IN EARLY
!MERICA THAT AS *OHN 4AYLOR 'ATTO POINTS OUT IN HIS BOOK 4HE 5N
DERGROUND (ISTORY OF !MERICAN %DUCATION VISITING %UROPEANS FOUND IT
NOTEWORTHY
"Y 0IERRE $U0ONT WAS CLAIMING THAT BARELY FOUR IN A
THOUSAND !MERICANS COULDNT READ WELL AND THAT THE YOUNG
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
HAD DISCIPLINED SKILL IN ARGUMENTATION THANKS TO DAILY DEBATES
AT THE COMMON BREAKFAST TABLEx )N 2ICHARD #OBDEN
ANNOUNCED THERE WAS SIX TIMES AS MUCH NEWSPAPER READING IN
THE 5NITED 3TATES AS IN %NGLANDx )N 0ER 3ILJESTROMM
A 3WEDISH VISITOR WROTE h)N NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS THE
TASTE FOR READING SO DIFFUSE AS AMONG THE COMMON PEOPLE IN
!MERICAv
$U0ONTS CLAIMS BY THE WAY REmECTED IN PART THE lNDINGS OF A
TREATISE ON !MERICAN EDUCATION WHICH $U0ONT WROTE AT THE REQUEST
OF 4HOMAS *EFFERSON IN
4HE WELL KNOWN !MERICAN HISTORIAN (ENRY 3TEELE #OMMAGER
CONlRMS NOT ONLY THE REMARKABLE LITERACY PRESENT IN COLONIAL !MERICA
AND THE !MERICA OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC BUT ALSO THE ESSENTIAL RELATION
SHIP BETWEEN THAT WIDESPREAD LITERACY AND THE !MERICAN REPUBLICS
ORIGINAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
(OW INTERESTING THAT ALMOST EVERYONE IN %UROPE AND !MERICA
ALIKE AGREED THAT THE !MERICAN PEOPLE WERE THE MOST GENER
ALLY ENLIGHTENED ON THE GLOBE THAT HERE IN THESE LITTLE !MERICAN
SETTLEMENTS A LARGER PROPORTION OF THE PEOPLE WERE EDUCATED
READ THEIR "IBLE ALMANACS AND NEWSPAPERS THAN ANYWHERE ELSE
ON THE GLOBE (OW REMARKABLE THAT THIS UPROOTED AND TRANS
PLANTED PEOPLE SCATTERED ALONG A FAR
mUNG FRONTIER SHOULD HAVE
CREATED NINE COLLEGES BEFORE INDEPENDENCEx (OW EXTRAORDI
NARY THAT *EFFERSONS PRINCIPLE THAT SELF
GOVERNMENT DEPENDED
ON AN EDUCATED ELECTORATE SHOULD HAVE BEEN VINDICATED WITH
SUCH UNPRECEDENTED PROMPTNESS THE CONSTITUENCY WAS EN
LIGHTENED AND SELF
GOVERNMENT WORKED (OW IMPRESSIVE THE
LEVEL OF PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF GREAT POLITICAL QUESTIONS SUCH AS
INDEPENDENCE OR THE STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS IN TOWN
MEETINGS STATE CONVENTIONS THE #ONSTITUTIONAL #ONVENTION
AND THE PRESS )MAGINE PUBLISHING 4HE &EDERALIST 0APERS IN OUR
NEWSPAPERS TODAY
#OMMAGER WROTE THESE WORDS IN 4ODAY WE MIGHT ASK HOW
MANY !MERICANS COULD READ 4HE &EDERALIST 0APERS LET ALONE HAVE THE
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL SERIOUSNESS NECESSARY TO WANT TO READ THEM OR
ANYTHING OF SIMILAR DEPTH AND IMPORTANCE
)F ALL OF THIS SEEMS TOO ANECDOTAL IN A STUDY OF COLONIAL ADULT
MALE LITERACY 0ROFESSOR ,AWRENCE #REMIN FOUND THAT LITERACY AMONG
FREE ADULT MALES IN THE COLONIES WAS BETWEEN AND %DU
CATION ANALYST AND WRITER !NDREW * #OULSON HAS NOTED THAT IN THE
CENSUS OF ONLY TEN PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE IDENTIlED THEMSELVES AS
ILLITERATE 'ATTO ALSO REPORTS ON MORE SYSTEMATIC DATA
,OOKING BACK ABUNDANT DATA EXISTS FROM STATES LIKE #ONNECTI
CUT AND -ASSACHUSETTS TO SHOW THAT BY THE INCIDENCE OF
COMPLEX LITERACY IN THE 5NITED 3TATES WAS BETWEEN AND
PERCENT WHEREVER SUCH A THING MATTERED %VERYONE WAS LITERATE
RICH AND POOR ALIKE )N #ONNECTICUT ONLY ONE CITIZEN OUT OF
WAS ILLITERATE AND YOU PROBABLY DONT WANT TO KNOW NOT REALLY
WHAT PEOPLE IN THOSE DAYS CONSIDERED LITERATE ITS TOO EMBAR
RASSING
4HE hCOMPLEX LITERACYv TO WHICH 'ATTO REFERS AS WITH SO MANY
OTHER THINGS IN EARLY !MERICA PROCEEDED FROM !MERICANS RELIGIOUS
TRADITIONS !S 0AGE 3MITH HAS OBSERVED h;!= CONSTANT REmECTION ON
SUBTLE POINTS OF ;#HRISTIAN= DOCTRINE PRODUCED EVEN IN THE SIMPLEST
FARMER A PRECOCIOUS SKILL IN DIALECTIC THAT WAS AS READILY APPLIED TO
POLITICAL AS WELL AS THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONSv
2EMEMBER THESE LEVELS OF LITERACY WERE ACHIEVED IN AN !MERICA
THAT BY TODAYS STANDARDS WOULD BE CONSIDERED UTTERLY IMPOVERISHED
)T WAS A SOCIETY THAT LACKED ELECTRICITY CENTRAL WATER SYSTEMS MODERN
PLUMBING MODERN HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS AND ALL BUT THE MOST
RUDIMENTARY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION $OC
TORS THEN STILL DID MORE HARM THAN GOOD AND INFANT MORTALITY AND
FATAL DISEASES WERE COMMONPLACE /H AND BY THE WAY THERE WAS NO
UBIQUITOUS SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS NOR WERE THERE COMPULSORY
EDUCATION LAWS NOT EVEN IN -ASSACHUSETTS #HILDREN WERE TYPICALLY
TAUGHT AT HOME AND OFTEN ALSO RECEIVED A FEW YEARS OF FORMAL EDUCA
TION IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS LARGELY ORGANIZED PAID FOR AND CONTROLLED
BY THE STUDENTS PARENTS "UT THAT WAS A SPORADIC AFFAIR AT BEST 'EORGE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
7ASHINGTON FOR EXAMPLE HAD NO MORE THAN lVE YEARS OF SCHOOLING
AND PERHAPS AS FEW AS TWO "ENJAMIN &RANKLIN LEFT SCHOOL AFTER TWO
YEARS AT AGE !BRAHAM ,INCOLN HAD IN THE AGGREGATE ABOUT WEEKS
OF hSCHOOLINGv IN HIS ENTIRE LIFETIME &REDERICK $OUGLASS AND MANY
OTHER WELL KNOWN lGURES HAD LESS OR EVEN NONE 9ET NO ONE THEN
WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT STRANGE )T WAS SIMPLY THE WAY EDUCATION OC
CURRED IN THE DAYS WHEN !MERICAS #HRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL TRADITION WAS
STILL DOMINANT )T WAS ALSO A TIME WHEN NO ONE CONFUSED OBTAINING AN
EDUCATION WITH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING
7HILE IT IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO CRITICIZE !MERICAS ORIGINAL EDUCA
TIONAL TRADITIONS FROM SOME UTOPIAN PERSPECTIVE THEY WERE EFFECTIVE
AND ADAPTED WELL TO CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES -OREOVER AS IS DISCUSSED
IN #HAPTER THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVEMENT THAT OVER TIME REPLACED
THOSE TRADITIONS AND THAT GAVE BIRTH TO OUR CURRENT SYSTEM OF GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS WAS THE PRODUCT OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS NOT A
RESPONSE TO EDUCATIONAL FAILURE
*ACK 3PRATS 7IFE
(OW !MERICAN EDUCATION REACHED ITS CURRENT STATE IS AN INTEREST
ING STORY BUT IT WONT BE TOLD HERE )NSTEAD WHAT #HRISTIAN PARENTS
MUST UNDERSTAND IS WHAT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DOING TO OUR
CHILDREN ACADEMICALLY NOW 7HAT THAT MEANS FOR THEIR FUTURE IS FOR
YOU TO DECIDE
0ERHAPS THE BEST PLACE TO BEGIN IS WITH THE SHEER VASTNESS OF
THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION LEVIATHAN )N ROUGHLY MILLION
CHILDREN IN ST THROUGH TH GRADES ATTENDED APPROXIMATELY
GOVERNMENT ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOLS 2ESOURCES IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS ARE NOT SCARCE
s &ROM TO PER PUPIL EXPENDITURES IN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS PRACTICALLY DOUBLED IN CONSTANT DOLLARS FROM
TO &OR THE SCHOOL YEAR ENDING IN *UNE AVER
AGE PER PUPIL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SPENDING HAD RISEN TO
OVER )N WE SPENT CLOSE TO BILLION ON
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 4O PUT THIS IN PERSPEC
TIVE THE 3TATE OF .EW 9ORK NOW SPENDS ABOUT TO
hEDUCATEv A CHILD THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL
s #LASS SIZES IN WERE STUDENTS PER TEACHER IN
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS PER TEACHER IN SECOND
ARY SCHOOLS "Y AVERAGE CLASS SIZES WERE DOWN TO
STUDENTS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS IN
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
s 4HE AVERAGE SALARY OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLTEACHERS IN
WAS PLUS BENElTS IN DOLLARS
s OF SCHOOLS HAVE )NTERNET ACCESS
s 3CHOOLS HAVE A COMPUTER FOR ROUGHLY EVERY lVE STUDENTS
s OF SCHOOLS OPERATE BELOW CAPACITY OPERATE AT
CAPACITY AND ARE OVERCROWDED
)F THAT DOESNT CONVINCE YOU THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE NOT
BEING STARVED FOR RESOURCES CONSIDER THAT NO COUNTRY AT ANY TIME HAS
EVER SPENT MORE IN THE AGGREGATE ON ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCA
TION THAN WE ARE CURRENTLY SPENDING -OREOVER ACCORDING TO A STUDY
BY THE 4HOMAS " &ORDHAM &OUNDATION OF TWENTY
TWO ECONOMICALLY
ADVANCED NATIONS THE 5NITED 3TATES SPENDS MORE THAN THOSE NA
TIONS AVERAGE PER PUPIL EXPENDITURE ON PRIMARY EDUCATION AND
MORE THAN THEIR AVERAGE PER PUPIL EXPENDITURE ON SECONDARY EDUCA
TION
2EMEMBER IN COMPARISON TO TODAY !MERICA SPENT ALMOST NOTH
ING ON EDUCATION IN THE EARLY TH CENTURY WHEN WHAT *OHN 4AYLOR
'ATTO REFERS TO AS hCOMPLEX LITERACYv WAS RELATIVELY WIDESPREAD 7HAT
EVER THE SOURCE OF THE ACADEMIC FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS MAY BE
IT IS NOT A LACK OF MONEY
$UMB AND $UMBER
!T THE BEGINNING OF THE TH CENTURY PUPILS IN +ANSAS WHO
WANTED TO GRADUATE FROM THE TH GRADE HAD TO PASS A TEST REQUIRING
THEM TO BE ABLE TO SPELL WORDS SUCH AS hELUCIDATIONv AND hANIMOSITY v
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
DElNE WORDS SUCH AS hZENITHv AND hPANEGYRIC v DIAGRAM SENTENCES AND
SOLVE PROBLEMS IN ARITHMETIC SUCH AS lNDING THE INTEREST EARNED ON A
NOTE AT AFTER TWO YEARS TWO MONTHS AND SIX DAYS 4HEY
WERE ALSO EXPECTED TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER EQUALLY CHALLENGING QUESTIONS
IN GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
/F COURSE THOSE YOUNG SCHOLARS WERE PREPARED TO SUCCEED 2EAD
ING INSTRUCTION IN THOSE DAYS WAS PHONETIC AND STILL LARGELY IN THE HANDS
OF h!MERICAS 3CHOOLMASTER v 7ILLIAM ( -C'UFFEY WHOSE -C'UFFEYS
%CLECTIC 2EADERS SOLD OVER MILLION COPIES FROM THEIR lRST PUBLICA
TION IN TO *OSEPH 2AYS ARITHMETIC TEXTBOOKS WERE THEN
AS COMMON AS -C'UFFEYS BOOKS AND ALSO AS DEMANDING 'RAMMAR
INSTRUCTION MAY WELL HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO THE YOUNG SCHOLARS BY
(ARVEYS 'RAMMARS ANOTHER MAINSTAY OF !MERICAN SCHOOLS INTO THE
EARLY PART OF THE TH CENTURY 3O THOSE TURN OF THE CENTURY EIGHTH
GRADERS MANY OF WHOM ATTENDED ONE ROOM RURAL SCHOOLHOUSES WERE
READY 4HOSE WHO PASSED COULD UNDOUBTEDLY GIVE TODAYS AVERAGE COL
LEGE FRESHMAN A RUN FOR HIS MONEY ACADEMICALLY $O YOU THINK ) AM
EXAGGERATING
$R $ONALD (AYES A #ORNELL 5NIVERSITY PROFESSOR EMERITUS
DEVELOPED A COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM CALLED ,%8 TO ANALYZE THE DIFlCULTY
OF TEXTBOOKS ! TYPICAL NEWSPAPER WOULD HAVE A ,%8 SCORE OF !
HIGHER ,%8 SCORE WOULD INDICATE A GREATER LEVEL OF DIFlCULTY 4HUS
THE .EW %NGLAND *OURNAL OF -EDICINE HAS A ,%8 SCORE OF WHILE
4IME MAGAZINE SCORES 7HEN THE ,%8 ANALYSIS WAS APPLIED TO
HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS THE RESULTS WERE STARTLING 4HE AVERAGE HIGH
SCHOOL SCIENCE TEXTBOOK HAD A ,%8 SCORE OF A LOWER SCORE THAN
A NEWSPAPER ,ITERATURE TEXTBOOKS SCORED AN AMAZING NEGATIVE
)N A #ORNELL STUDY OF TEXTBOOKS USED IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS MIDDLE
SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS BETWEEN AND THE RESEARCHERS
FOUND THAT TEXTBOOKS IN GRADES FOUR THROUGH EIGHT WERE LESS DIFlCULT
THAN AT ANY TIME IN !MERICAN HISTORY &URTHER LITERATURE TEXTBOOKS
USED IN THE TH GRADE TODAY ARE WRITTEN IN LANGUAGE THAT IS SIMPLER
THAN THE LANGUAGE IN TH OR TH GRADE READERS BEFORE 7ORLD 7AR )) )F
YOU DOUBT THIS GO TAKE A LOOK AT -C'UFFEYS THIRD FOURTH lFTH AND
SIXTH READERS ANY EDITION
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
3TILL NOT CONVINCED -ANY YEARS AND TRILLIONS OF EDUCATION
DOLLARS AFTER THOSE YOUNG +ANSAN SCHOLARS SAT FOR THEIR EIGHTH GRADE
GRADUATION TEST THE %DUCATIONAL 4ESTING 3ERVICE CONDUCTED A .ATIONAL
!DULT ,ITERACY 3URVEY OF ADULTS OVER AGE SIXTEEN AND WITH AN
AVERAGE OF YEARS OF SCHOOLING "ASED ON THAT SURVEY THE
%DUCATIONAL 4ESTING 3ERVICE CONCLUDED THAT FORTY TWO MILLION ADULTS
IN THE 5NITED 3TATES CANNOT READ AND ANOTHER lFTY MILLION CAN READ AT
A FOURTH OR lFTH GRADE LEVEL BUT CANNOT WRITE A SIMPLE MESSAGE
!NOTHER lFTY lVE TO SIXTY MILLION ARE ONLY ABLE TO READ AT A SIXTH
SEVENTH OR EIGHTH GRADE LEVEL AND INCREDIBLY MOST OF THEM COULD NOT
lGURE OUT THE PER OUNCE PRICE OF A OUNCE JAR OF PEANUT BUTTER
EVEN IF THEY WERE ALLOWED TO ROUND THE ANSWER TO A WHOLE NUMBER
4HIRTY MILLION MORE CAN READ AT A TH OR TH GRADE LEVEL BUT CANNOT
UNDERSTAND A WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF HOW ATTORNEYS AND JUDGES SELECT
JURIES
/NLY OF THE SAMPLE GROUP HAD THE LITERACY SKILLS TO DO
TRADITIONAL COLLEGE LEVEL WORK )N CONTRAST OF ALL HIGH SCHOOL STU
DENTS ACHIEVED THAT LEVEL OF LITERACY IN AND IT IS ACHIEVED TODAY
BY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
4HIS IS WHY EVEN THE MOST hRIGOROUSv OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TH GRADE
EXIT EXAMS TEST STUDENTS FOR COMPETENCY AT WHAT TODAY PASSES FOR AN TH
OR TH GRADE LEVEL )N FACT A STUDY BY !CHIEVE )NC A NON PROlT
ORGANIZATION FOUND THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION EXAMS FOR THE SIX
STATES THAT VOLUNTEERED FOR THE STUDY COVERED MATERIAL THAT WOULD BE
hCONSIDERED MIDDLE SCHOOL CONTENT IN MOST OTHER COUNTRIESv 4HIS IS
ALSO WHY HALF THE STUDENTS WHO GO ON TO FOUR YEAR COLLEGES HAVE TO TAKE
REMEDIAL WORK AND A STUDY BY THE -ANHATTAN )NSTITUTE FOUND THAT
ONLY OF RECENT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES WERE PREPARED TO ATTEND A
FOUR YEAR COLLEGE
4HE LITERACY STORY ISNT GETTING ANY BETTER 4HE .ATIONAL !SSESS
MENT OF %DUCATIONAL 0ROGRESS .!%0 FOUND IN THAT OF ALL
!MERICAN FOURTH GRADERS CANNOT READ AT A PROlCIENT LEVEL AND
OF !FRICAN !MERICANS OF (ISPANIC !MERICANS OF CHILDREN
LIVING IN POVERTY AND OF CHILDREN IN URBAN SCHOOLS CANNOT READ
EVEN AT A BASIC LEVEL 4HIS SHOULD HORRIFY US &OURTH GRADERS WHO CAN
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
NOT READ AT A BASIC LEVEL IN ESSENCE CANNOT READ
%VEN WORSE RESEARCHERS RECOGNIZE THAT TH GRADE IS A CRITICAL
BENCHMARK FOR READING ! CHILD WHO CANNOT READ OR WHO ONLY HAS
MARGINAL READING SKILLS BY TH GRADE IS LIKELY TO BECOME AN ILLITERATE
OR FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE ADULT #ONSEQUENTLY OF ALL CHILDREN ARE
HEADING TOWARDS THE MARGINS OF LITERACY AND A MAJORITY OF !FRICAN
!MERICAN AND (ISPANIC CHILDREN MAY WELL TURN OUT TO BE FUNCTIONALLY
ILLITERATE 4O COMPOUND THIS TRAVESTY THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP BETWEEN
WHITE AND !FRICAN !MERICAN CHILDREN IS ENORMOUS
9OUNG ADULTS ARE NOT DOING ANY BETTER ! STUDY BY THE
/RGANIZATION FOR %CONOMIC #OOPERATION AND $EVELOPMENT FOUND
THAT OF !MERICANS BETWEEN THE AGES OF AND ARE FUNCTION
ALLY ILLITERATE
$ONT +NOW -UCH ABOUT (ISTORY
OR !NYTHING %LSE FOR 4HAT -ATTER
/NE OF THE STAPLES OF MODERN JOURNALISM IS THE STORY REPORTING
HOW !MERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HAVE TROUBLE ANSWERING QUESTIONS
THAT A TH GRADE SCHOOLCHILD SHOULD BE ABLE TO ANSWER ! SPATE OF STO
RIES IN THIS GENRE APPEARED AFTER THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY DONE BY THE
#OLONIAL 7ILLIAMSBURG &OUNDATION WERE PUBLISHED IN THE SUMMER
OF !CCORDING TO THE SURVEY ALMOST A QUARTER OF THE TEENAGERS
HAD NO IDEA THAT !MERICAN STATES FOUGHT EACH OTHER IN THE #IVIL 7AR
MORE THAN A lFTH OF THE TEENAGERS QUESTIONED DID NOT KNOW THAT THE
ORIGINAL THIRTEEN COLONIES DECLARED THEIR INDEPENDENCE FROM %NGLAND
WERE UNAWARE THAT THE 5NITED 3TATES WAS FORMED FROM THIRTEEN
ORIGINAL COLONIES DID NOT KNOW WHAT SIGNIlCANT EVENT IN !MERI
CAN HISTORY HAPPENED ON *ULY AND COULD NOT IDENTIFY
THE lRST 0RESIDENT OF THE 5NITED 3TATES
4HIS IS NOT A RECENT PHENOMENON 4HE SAME GRASP OR BREATHTAK
ING LACK OF A GRASP OF BASIC HISTORICAL FACTS AND BASIC MATHEMATICS AND
WRITING SKILLS WAS DEMONSTRATED BY YEAR
OLDS IN AN ADMINISTRATION
OF THE .!%0 IN THE S &OR EXAMPLE
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
s /NE
THIRD DIDNT KNOW WHOM THE 53 FOUGHT IN 7ORLD
7AR ))
s /NE
THIRD DIDNT KNOW WHO !BRAHAM ,INCOLN WAS
s /NE
THIRD HAD NO IDEA THAT THE -ISSISSIPPI mOWS DOWN TO
THE 'ULF OF -EXICO
s /NE
THIRD THOUGHT #OLUMBUS SAILED TO THE !MERICAS AFTER
s .EARLY TWO
THIRDS DIDNT KNOW WHEN THE #IVIL 7AR
OCCURRED
s DID NOT KNOW HOW TO lND THE AREA OF A RECTANGLE
s *UST WERE ABLE TO COMPOSE A ONE
PAGE JOB
APPLICATION
LETTER TO A LOCAL SUPERMARKET MANAGER
!T ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS MANY OF !MERICAS YEAR OLDS WERE
DEMONSTRATING THAT THEY HAD ROUGHLY THE SAME GRASP OF !MERICAN
HISTORY AS THEY DID OF SAY PARTICLE PHYSICS THE .ATIONAL 'EOGRAPHIC
3OCIETY SURVEYED EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY YEAR OLDS ON THEIR KNOWLEDGE
OF GEOGRAPHY .OT SURPRISINGLY THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE WAS
ASTONISHINGLY POOR GIVEN A MAP JUST COULD lND .EW 9ORK 3TATE
ONE THIRD COULD LOCATE -ICHIGAN ONE QUARTER KNEW WHERE -ASSACHU
SETTS WAS AND SLIGHTLY MORE THAN ONE THIRD WAS ABLE TO lND %NGLAND
! .ATIONAL 'EOGRAPHIC SURVEY BY THE WAY FOUND THAT YOUNG
!MERICANS ARE CONTINUING IN THEIR STATE OF BLISSFUL GEOGRAPHICAL IG
NORANCE /NLY OF YOUNG !MERICANS FOR EXAMPLE COULD lND
!FGANISTAN ON A MAP AND ONLY COULD lND )RAQ
2ESULTS FROM THE .!%0 EXAMINATION ON !MERICAN HISTORY
UNDERSCORE THE DEPTH OF THE PROBLEM "ASED ON A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF
STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS ONLY
OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FOURTH GRADERS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TH
GRADERS AND OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TH GRADERS HAD A PROlCIENT
OR ADVANCED UNDERSTANDING OF !MERICAN HISTORY WHILE OF GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOL TH GRADERS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TH GRADERS
AND OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TH GRADERS LACKED EVEN A BASIC UNDER
STANDING OF !MERICAN HISTORY APPROPRIATE TO THEIR GRADE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
!S BAD AS THESE RESULTS ARE THEY MASK THE UTTER FAILURE OF GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS TO EDUCATE "LACK (ISPANIC AND !MERICAN )NDIAN
CHILDREN IN EVEN THE BASICS OF !MERICAN HISTORY "Y TH GRADE
OF "LACK CHILDREN OF (ISPANIC CHILDREN AND OF !MERICAN
)NDIAN CHILDREN LACKED A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF !MERICAN HISTORY
APPROPRIATE TO THEIR GRADE .OTE TOO THAT THE .!%0 RESULTS
SHOW AN UNMISTAKABLE TREND TOWARD GREATER HISTORICAL IGNORANCE RELA
TIVE TO THEIR AGE THE LONGER STUDENTS ARE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
#HILDREN CONSIGNED TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IT SEEMS CONTRACT A
FORM OF HISTORICAL !LZHEIMERS THAT BECOMES INCREASINGLY SEVERE UNTIL
THE AVERAGE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TH GRADER IS ONLY ABLE TO DISTINGUISH
BETWEEN BEING IN THE 5NITED 3TATES AND SAY "ULGARIA BY THE DIFFER
ENCES IN THE LANGUAGES SPOKEN AND THE RELATIVE QUALITY OF THE SHOPPING
MALLS 4HIS IS NOT ENTIRELY A LAUGHING MATTER )N HIS TESTIMONY
BEFORE A COMMITTEE OF THE 5NITED 3TATES 3ENATE $AVID -C#ULLOUGH
A DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN TESTIlED THAT THE IGNORANCE OF !MERICAN HIS
TORY AMONG STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN !MERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IS
NOW SO PROFOUND THAT IT REPRESENTS A THREAT TO THE NATIONS SECURITY
!CCORDING TO -C#ULLOGH IT IS NOT MERELY THAT STUDENTS AND
TEACHERS ARE HISTORICALLY ILLITERATE ITS THAT THE ILLITERACY HAS ASSUMED
SUCH PROPORTIONS THAT THEY DONT UNDERSTAND THE VALUES UNDERGIRDING
OUR FREE SOCIETY OR OUR CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK h7E CANT FUNCTION
AS A SOCIETY IF WE DONT KNOW WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE CAME FROMv
)S -C#ULLOUGH ENGAGING IN A BIT OF ACADEMIC HYPERBOLE #ONSIDER
THIS FROM HIS TESTIMONY h7E NEED TO KNOW THE #ONSTITUTION AND
WE DONT 7HEN YOU HAVE STUDENTS AT OUR )VY ,EAGUE COLLEGES SAYING
THEY THOUGHT 'ERMANY AND *APAN WERE OUR ALLIES IN 7ORLD 7AR ))
YOU KNOW WE HAVE A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEMv 'ERMANY AND *APAN
WERE OUR ALLIES !CCORDING TO THE .!%0 !MERICAN HISTORY AS
SESSMENT OVER OF TWELFTH
GRADERS THINK THAT AT LEAST ONE OF )TALY
'ERMANY AND *APAN WERE OUR 7ORLD 7AR )) ALLIES 2EMEMBER THIS
NEXT TIME SOMEONE STARTS BLOVIATING ABOUT HOW OUR CHILDREN ARE THE
BEST EDUCATED EVER
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
4HE :OGBY #OLLEGE "OWL
4ODAYS #OLLEGE 3ENIORS 6ERSUS S (IGH 3CHOOL 'RADUATES
)N :OGBY )NTERNATIONAL SURVEYED A RANDOM SAMPLE OF COL
LEGE SENIORS USING QUESTIONS TESTING GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 4HE QUES
TIONS WERE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL TO THOSE USED BY THE 'ALLUP /RGANIZATION
IN A SURVEY OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES IN :OGBY FOUND THAT THE
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES IN ACTUALLY DID A LITTLE BETTER THAN TODAYS
COLLEGE SENIORS
7ERE THE QUESTIONS ESPECIALLY DIFlCULT (ERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES
h7HICH PLANET IS NEAREST THE SUN v h7HAT GREAT SCIENTIST DO YOU AS
SOCIATE WITH THE 4HEORY OF 2ELATIVITY v AND h7HAT IS THE CAPITAL CITY
OF 3PAIN v ) TRUST YOU GOT THEM RIGHT
4HE -ATH AND 3CIENCE $EBACLE
7ELL PERHAPS THE PROBLEMS WITH LITERACY SKILLS HISTORICAL KNOWL
EDGE AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ARE JUST AN ABERRATION 7HAT ABOUT SCI
ENCE AND MATHEMATICS 3URELY WITH ALL THE MONEY COMPUTERS AND
)NTERNET CONNECTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN POURED INTO !MERICAN SCHOOLS
ARENT !MERICAN CHILDREN DOING WELL IN THOSE AREAS 5NFORTUNATELY THE
STORY REGARDING SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS MAY BE EVEN WORSE
! FEW YEARS AGO THE 4HIRD )NTERNATIONAL -ATHEMATICS AND
3CIENCE 3TUDY 4)-33 WAS COMPLETED 4HIS INTERNATIONAL SURVEY
OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE SKILLS INVOLVED STUDENTS IN
COUNTRIES AND MEASURED THE RELATIVE PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS AND
SCIENCE OF EACH COUNTRYS FOURTH EIGHTH AND TWELFTH GRADERS )N MATH
EMATICS !MERICAN FOURTH GRADERS PLACED TWELFTH OUT OF THE FOURTH
GRADERS TESTED FROM COUNTRIES /UR EIGHTH GRADERS CAME IN TH IN
MATHEMATICS OUT OF THE EIGHTH GRADERS TESTED FROM COUNTRIES "Y
TWELFTH GRADE !MERICAN STUDENTS MATHEMATICS SCORES PLACED THEM AT
TH OUT OF THE TWELFTH GRADERS FROM TWENTY
ONE COUNTRIES REPORTING
!MERICAN TWELFTH GRADERS ONLY DID BETTER THAN THE TWELFTH GRADERS
FROM #YPRESS AND 3OUTH !FRICA )N SCIENCE THE RESULTS WERE NOT
DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT !MERICAN FOURTH GRADERS WERE THIRD OUT OF THE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
FOURTH GRADERS FROM TWENTY
SIX COUNTRIES REPORTING !MERICAN EIGHTH
GRADERS WERE TH OUT OF EIGHTH GRADERS FROM TWENTY
SIX COUNTRIES
REPORTING AND !MERICAN TWELFTH GRADERS WERE TH OUT OF THE TWELFTH
GRADERS FROM TWENTY
ONE COUNTRIES REPORTING
4HE 4)-33 REVEALS TWO INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT !MERICAN EL
EMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 4HE lRST IS OBVIOUS /VERALL THE
PERFORMANCE OF !MERICAN STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR PEERS IN OTHER
COUNTRIES IS DISMAL )T IS DISMAL NOT MERELY BECAUSE WITH THE EXCEPTION
OF THE FOURTH GRADERS THE SCORES ARE HORRIBLE IT IS ESPECIALLY DISMAL
IN LIGHT OF THE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS GIVEN TO THE GOVERN
MENT EDUCATION BUREAUCRACY "Y TWELFTH GRADE EVEN THE STUDENTS FROM
RELATIVELY IMPOVERISHED COUNTRIES SUCH AS 3LOVENIA AND THE 2USSIAN
&EDERATION DO BETTER THAN !MERICAN TWELFTH GRADERS IN MATHEMATICS
AND SCIENCE 4HE SECOND FACT IS ASTONISHING 4HE 4)-33 CLEARLY SHOWS
THAT THE LONGER !MERICAN STUDENTS ARE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THE MORE
IGNORANT THEY BECOME IN RELATION TO THEIR INTERNATIONAL PEERS )N FACT
THE DATA SUGGEST THAT PERHAPS WHAT WE HAVE CREATED WITH OUR ANNUAL
EXPENDITURES OF HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
IS NOT A SYSTEM OF EDUCATION BUT AN INSTITUTIONALIZED METHOD OF DE
GRADING THE INTELLECT OF CHILDREN
4HE 7ORLDS ,EAST 0RODUCTIVE 3CHOOLS
)N THE 4HOMAS " &ORDHAM &OUNDATION STUDIED THE EDUCA
TION DATA PUBLISHED BY THE /RGANIZATION FOR %CONOMIC #OOPERATION
AND $EVELOPMENT /%#$ TO EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE OF !MERICAN
SCHOOLS AGAINST THE PERFORMANCE OF SCHOOLS IN OTHER ECONOMICALLY
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 5NLIKE THE 4)-33 THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED
TO EXAMINE THE hVALUE ADDEDv BY SCHOOLS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES BY
EVALUATING STUDENT PROGRESS
4HE STUDY FOUND THAT EXPENDITURES PER PUPIL BY THE 5NITED
3TATES ON PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION WERE THIRD HIGHEST AMONG
MORE THAN ADVANCED COUNTRIES 5NFORTUNATELY BETWEEN AGES AND
THE AVERAGE !MERICANS STUDENTS READING PROGRESS WAS ONLY OF
THE INTERNATIONAL AVERAGE WHICH PLACED !MERICAN STUDENTS DEAD LAST
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
IN READING PROGRESS AMONG THE /%#$ COUNTRIES 4HIS IS PARTICULARLY
SHOCKING BECAUSE THE !MERICAN YEAR
OLDS SCORED SECOND ONLY TO
&INNISH CHILDREN IN READING SKILLS )N MATHEMATICS OUT OF STUDENTS
FROM COUNTRIES !MERICAN STUDENTS ALSO MADE THE LEAST PROGRESS BE
TWEEN GRADES SEVEN AND EIGHT )N SUM THIS STUDY OF THE hVALUED ADDEDv
BY OUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ALSO INDICATES THAT THE LONGER CHILDREN STAY
IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THE WORSE THEY DO INTERNATIONALLY )T ALSO LED
THE AUTHOR (ERBERT * 7ALBERG TO CONCLUDE THAT !MERICAN SCHOOLS
hCAN BE FAIRLY TERMED THE LEAST PRODUCTIVE AMONG THOSE IN ECONOMICALLY
ADVANCED COUNTRIESv %MPHASIS ADDED
!DVANCED 0LACEMENT "ODICE 2IPPERS AND &ILMS
$ONT SUPPOSE THAT THE READING PROGRESS STATISTICS WOULD BE SIG
NIlCANTLY BETTER IF THAT ASSESSMENT WERE MADE WITH RESPECT TO !MERI
CAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS !PART FROM PLUMMETING TEXTBOOK ,%8
SCORES THE READING SKILLS DEMANDED IN HIGH SCHOOLS ARE IN DECLINE
)N FACT EVEN THE SUMMER READING LISTS FOR SCHOOLS ATTENDED BY THE
CHILDREN OF UPPER
INCOME PARENTS ARE SHOWING DElNITE SIGNS OF INTEL
LECTUAL AND CULTURAL ROT 3TUDENTS ATTENDING .EW *ERSEYS 7ATCHUNG
(ILLS (IGH 3CHOOL FOR EXAMPLE WERE GIVEN 0ALOMINO A $ANIELLE
3TEELE hROMANCE v AS A PART OF THEIR SUMMER READING /THER TONEY
SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE INCLUDED SUCH FARE AS 3TEPHEN +ING
AND *OHN 'RISHAM NOVELS .O WONDER THAT YET ANOTHER GOVERNMENT
STUDY RECENTLY FOUND THAT TH GRADE READING SCORES DECLINED BETWEEN
AND
7HILE THE DECLINE IN THE QUALITY OF WHAT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
ARE EXPECTED TO READ IS ONE REASON FOR A DETERIORATION IN LITERACY SKILLS
ANOTHER SIGNIlCANT FACTOR IS THAT UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF OUR HIGHLY
TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS HIGH SCHOOLS ARE INCREASINGLY PROMOT
ING CONCEPTS SUCH AS hMEDIAv LITERACY AND ARE SUBSTITUTING hlLMSv FOR
READING &OR THE UNINITIATED hlLMv IS SIMPLY A PRETENTIOUS WAY OF RE
FERRING TO A MOVIE AS IN hART lLMSv $OUBTLESS THOSE PURSUING hlLMv
DEGREES AT SCHOOLS LIKE .95 REGARD THEMSELVES AS ASPIRING hARTISTES v
BUT THE REALITY IN HIGH SCHOOLS IS THAT LESS SERIOUS LITERATURE IS BEING
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
READ BECAUSE THE STUDENTS ARE TOO BUSY GOING TO THE MOVIES IN CLASS
&OR EXAMPLE IN THE 3EATTLE AREAS SOLIDLY MIDDLE
CLASS &EDERAL
7AY 3CHOOL $ISTRICT THE HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS ROSE
IN INDIGNATION OVER A SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICY THAT WOULD RESTRICT THE
SHOWING OF 2
RATED MOVIES IN CLASS AND SET SOME GUIDELINES FOR THE
SHOWING OF MOVIES RATED ' THROUGH 0'
7HEN THIS DISPUTE MOVED INTO THE PAGES OF THE 3EATTLE AREA PRESS
THE BELEAGUERED PRESIDENT OF THE SCHOOL BOARD %ARL ! 6AN$ORIEN *R
EXPLAINED THAT THERE HAD BEEN hMANY OCCURRENCES OF TEACHERS SHOWING
INAPPROPRIATE lLMS IN CLASSES SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS USING lLMS INSTEAD OF
CONTINUING WITH THE SCHEDULED TEACHING PLAN AND lLMS TAKING NEARLY
A THIRD OF THE TIME IN SOME CLASSES 4HERE WERE TIMES WHEN 0'
AND 2
RATED MOVIES WERE SHOWN WITH NO PERMISSION SLIPS SENT TO THE
PARENTS A CLEAR VIOLATION OF PREVIOUS PROCEDUREv /NE HIGHLY TRAINED
EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL EVIDENTLY FELT THAT SHOWING h4OY 3TORYv WOULD
ENHANCE STUDENTS KNOWLEDGE OF GEOMETRY
6AN$ORIEN WENT ON TO LAMENT THAT HE HAD BEEN DELUGED WITH
TEACHER COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE NEW POLICY RESTRICTING THEIR ABILITY TO
SHOW ANY 2
RATED lLM THEY WANTED DURING CLASS TIME ALTHOUGH NON
TEACHERS WHO CONTACTED HIM ABOUT THE POLICY WERE SUPPORTIVE AND
WONDERED hWHY WE NEVER HAD SUCH COMMON SENSE IN THE lRST PLACEv
)NTERESTINGLY 6AN$ORIEN ALSO POINTED OUT THAT FOR ALL THE ENERGY BEING
EXPENDED AGAINST THE 2
RATED lLM POLICY NOT MUCH WAS BEING MADE
OF THE FACT THAT ONLY PERCENT OF DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND
PERCENT OF DISTRICT JUNIOR SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE MEETING THE STATE MATH
STANDARDS AND THAT ONLY PERCENT OF DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
AND PERCENT OF DISTRICT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE MEETING
THE STATE READING STANDARDS
4HE COUNTERPOINT TO 6AN$ORIEN WAS EXPRESSED BY A HIGH SCHOOL
!DVANCED 0LACEMENT %NGLISH AND JOURNALISM TEACHER +EITH 3WANSON
!CCORDING TO 3WANSON
;)=T IS NOT OUR JOB TO SUGARCOAT HISTORY AND LITERATURE 2ATHER WE
ARE CALLED UPON TO PREPARE OUR STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS AS CITIZENS
OF THIS COUNTRY 4HAT MEANS GIVING THEM SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
WHICH IS WHERE MOVIES CAN HELP 3INCE MANY STUDENTS ARE VISUAL
LEARNERS WHO HAVE BEEN RAISED IN A VIDEO AGE lLMS CAN BE EXCEL
LENT TOOLS WHEN TEACHERS USE THEM TO SUPPLEMENT THEIR CURRICU
LUMx !S FOR THE ARGUMENT THAT TEACHERS USE lLMS FOR hENTER
TAINMENTv INSTEAD OF TEACHING READING ) WOULD OFFER THAT lLMS
CAN HELP STUDENTS BECOME BETTER READERS ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
!S A FORMER PROFESSOR OF MINE ONCE SAID h) GET IT ALL EXCEPT THE
@THEREFOREv
) SUPPOSE THAT UNDER SOME RARE ALIGNMENT OF THE STARS AND PLAN
ETS IT IS POSSIBLE THAT ALMOST ANYTHING CAN HELP SOMETHING ELSE !S
FOR WHETHER SPENDING CLASS TIME WATCHING MOVIES IS ACTUALLY A BETTER
WAY FOR STUDENTS TO ACQUIRE hSKILLS AND KNOWLEDGEv OR BECOME hBETTER
READERSv THAN TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC METHODS THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS MATH
AND READING SCORES WOULD SEEM AS A PRACTICAL MATTER TO SETTLE THE ISSUE
RATHER DECISIVELY
4HIS SORT OF THING IS NOT LIMITED TO THE &EDERAL 7AY 3CHOOL
$ISTRICT OF COURSE 4HERE ARE MANY TEACHERS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
AND ) FEAR ELSEWHERE WHO DONT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT (OLLYWOOD
WRITERS PRODUCERS AND DIRECTORS DO NOT HAVE HISTORICAL ACCURACY FOR
EXAMPLE AS THEIR lRST OR EVEN SECOND OR THIRD CONCERN 4HEY WANT TO
MAKE MONEY CONTINUE TO BE INVITED TO THE RIGHT PARTIES WIN AWARDS
FROM THEIR COLLEAGUES INDULGE FANTASIES AND SO ON /LIVER 3TONE
*AMES 4ARANTINO -ICHAEL -OORE AND 3TEVEN 3PIELBERG ARE SIMPLY
NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF PRODUCING SCHOLARSHIP
-OREOVER CONTRARY TO 3WANSONS CLAIMS lLMS ARE NOT SUPPLE
MENTING THE READING AND ANALYSIS OF SERIOUS LITERATURE n THEY ARE SUP
PLANTING IT 3WANSON HIMSELF IT APPEARS USES CLASS TIME TO SHOW AND
DISCUSS MOVIES %VERY CLASSROOM MINUTE THAT IS SPENT WATCHING AND
TALKING ABOUT h#ATCH v IS A MINUTE THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM SERIOUS
DISCUSSION OF SERIOUS LITERATURE
)N TRUTH ONE RATHER SUSPECTS THAT MANY OF THE INDIGNANT E
MAILS
THAT BOARD PRESIDENT 6AN$ORIEN RECEIVED WERE FROM HIGHLY TRAINED
EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS WHO RATHER LIKE BEING ABLE TO SUBSTITUTE lLMS
FOR WORK AND WHOSE TASTE IN lLMS RUNS TO THE 2
RATED VARIETY RATHER
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
THAN THOSE RATED h'v )N ANY EVENT IF THESE TRENDS CONTINUE PERHAPS
THERE CAN BE A DISCUSSION OF REDUCING PROPERTY TAXES BY GIVING CHILDREN A
SEASON PASS TO THE LOCAL CINEPLEX AND CLOSING THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
9ES "UT /UR 'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS !RE $IFFERENT
3OME PARENTS DELUDE THEMSELVES BY THINKING THAT THE BAD NEWS
BROUGHT BY THE 4)-33 AND OTHER MEASURES OF STUDENT AND SCHOOL
PERFORMANCE DONT APPLY TO THEIR CHILDREN !FTER ALL THEIR CHILDREN ARE
hTOPv STUDENTS IN hGOODv GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND EVERYONE KNOWS
THAT WHILE THE hRIFF RAFF v MAY NOT BE UP TO SNUFF OUR BEST STUDENTS CAN
COMPETE WITH ANYBODY 2EALLY
) FORGOT TO MENTION THAT THE 4)-33 ALSO INCLUDED TESTS OF AD
VANCED MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE THAT WERE GIVEN TO TWELFTH GRADERS )N
ADVANCED MATHEMATICS THE STUDENTS FROM THE 5NITED 3TATES CAME IN
TH OUT OF THE STUDENTS FROM SIXTEEN COUNTRIES REPORTING )N ADVANCED
SCIENCE THE STUDENTS FROM THE 5NITED 3TATES WERE DEAD LAST OUT OF THE
STUDENTS FROM SIXTEEN COUNTRIES REPORTING )T WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN
WORSE BUT SEVERAL COUNTRIES MAINLY !SIAN COUNTRIES WHOSE STUDENTS
HAD CONSISTENTLY TURNED IN SUPERIOR PERFORMANCES DID NOT PARTICIPATE
%VEN SO IT IS BAD ENOUGH THAT OUR BEST STUDENTS WERE BEATEN BY STU
DENTS FROM RELATIVELY POOR COUNTRIES SUCH AS #YPRUS
"Y THE WAY THE RESULTS FOR THE .!%0 SCIENCE ASSESSMENT
SHOW THAT TH GRADERS DID EVEN WORSE IN THAN THEY DID IN
"ECAUSE THESE RESULTS INCLUDED THE SCORES OF CHILDREN ATTENDING PRIVATE
SCHOOLS WHO PERFORMED SIGNIlCANTLY BETTER THAN THEIR GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL COUNTERPARTS THE REPORTED .!%0 RESULTS ACTUALLY MASK
THE EXTENT OF THE WORSENING OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE
3O DONT EXPECT THE INTERNATIONAL STANDING OF !MERICAN STUDENTS IN
SCIENCE TO IMPROVE ANYTIME SOON
.OT -EASURING 5P *UST #HANGE THE 9ARDSTICK
!S EMBARRASSING AS THE 4)-33 RESULTS HAVE BEEN TO THE GOVERN
MENT SCHOOL ESTABLISHMENT IT IS THE MARKED DECLINE IN PERFORMANCE
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
BY STUDENTS SINCE THE EARLY S ON THE 3!4 THAT OVER THE YEARS HAS
GOTTEN THE MOST PUBLIC ATTENTION 4HE 3!4 WAS DEVELOPED AS A TEST
OF SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TO HELP PREDICT A STUDENTS SUCCESS IN COLLEGE
%SSENTIALLY WHAT THE 3!4 TRADITIONALLY HAS MEASURED IS A STUDENTS
READING COMPREHENSION VOCABULARY VERBAL REASONING SKILLS AND ABILITY
TO DO MATHEMATICS THROUGH GEOMETRY AND ALGEBRA .OT SURPRISINGLY
DESPITE DRAMATIC INCREASES IN EXPENDITURES FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING
OVER THE LAST FORTY YEARS OR SO THE ACADEMIC PREPAREDNESS OF !MERICAN
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR COLLEGE AS MEASURED BY THE 3!4 HAS ARGU
ABLY DROPPED SIGNIlCANTLY
)T WOULD BE HARD TO UNDERSTAND THE 3!4 AND THE CONTROVERSY
ENGULlNG IT TODAY WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING ITS ORIGINS 4HE 3!4 WAS
lRST ADMINISTERED TO JUST OVER STUDENTS IN n JUST YEARS
AFTER !LFRED "INET HAD INVENTED THE )1 TEST "EFORE "INETS DEVELOPMENT
OF THE )1 TEST INTELLIGENCE WAS VIEWED AS IN SOME SENSE GENERALLY IN
HERITABLE ALTHOUGH THE EXTENT TO WHICH THIS WAS TRUE REMAINED STRICTLY
CONJECTURE 4HE SIGNIlCANCE OF "INETS WORK WHICH 3TANFORDS ,EWIS
4ERMAN DEVELOPED FURTHER WAS THAT IT MOVED THESE GENERAL UNSYSTEM
ATIC OBSERVATIONS ABOUT INTELLIGENCE INTO THE REALM OF SCIENCE OR SO IT
SEEMED )N ESSENCE "INET WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE MADE hINTELLIGENCEv
RELIABLY MEASURABLE 4HE DEVELOPMENT OF THE )1 TEST ALSO COINCIDED
WITH A PERIOD OF NATIONAL ANXIETY OVER IMMIGRATION AND MANY AMONG
THE !MERICAN ELITE WERE CONCERNED THAT MASS IMMIGRATION OF CERTAIN
GROUPS FROM 3OUTHERN %UROPE AND ELSEWHERE WOULD DILUTE !MERICAS
hSUPERIORv RACIAL STOCK #ONSEQUENTLY THE HISTORIES OF )1 TESTING AND
THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT IN !MERICA ARE INTERTWINED THROUGH THE lRST
DECADES OF THE TH CENTURY BUT THAT IS ANOTHER STORY
7HILE )1 TESTING WAS INITIALLY DONE INDIVIDUALLY PSYCHOLOGISTS
INTERESTED IN GATHERING )1 DATA SUCCESSFULLY LOBBIED THE GOVERNMENT
TO IMPLEMENT MASS )1 TESTING OF ALL ARMY RECRUITS DURING 7ORLD 7AR
) /NE OF THE PSYCHOLOGISTS WHO HAD WORKED ON THE )1 TEST USED BY
THE ARMY KNOWN AS THE h!RMY !LPHA v WAS #ARL "RIGHAM A 0RINCETON
FACULTY MEMBER "RIGHAM IN TURN CREATED THE 3!4 BY ADAPTING
THE !RMY !LPHA FOR USE IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS /RIGINALLY "RIGHAM
MARKETED THE 3!4 TO THE MILITARY ACADEMIES AND A FEW )VY ,EAGUE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
SCHOOLS (ARVARD ADOPTED IT IN THE EARLY S AND BY THE LATE S
THE REST OF THE )VIES WERE ALSO USING THE 3!4 4HUS PRIOR TO 7ORLD
7AR )) THE 3!4 WAS USED FOR ADMISSIONS AT VERY FEW COLLEGES AND
WAS TAKEN BY ONLY A FEW THOUSAND APPLICANTS EACH YEAR &OLLOWING THE
END OF THE SECOND 7ORLD 7AR HOWEVER THE 3!4 BEGAN TO GROW INTO
A WIDELY USED ADMISSIONS TOOL 4ODAY THE 3!4 IS TAKEN BY APPROXI
MATELY MILLION STUDENTS EVERY YEAR .OT SURPRISINGLY THE 3!4
ALSO GENERATES TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN REVENUE ANNUALLY FOR THE
%DUCATIONAL 4ESTING 3ERVICE %43 WHICH ADMINISTERS THE 3!4
4HIS BY THE WAY IS AN IMPORTANT FACT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT
POLITICS OF THE 3!4
(OW DID THE 3!4 BECOME A ROUTINE ELEMENT OF THE ADMISSIONS
PROCESS )TS ADVOCATES WERE INTERESTED IN HAVING A TOOL THAT WOULD AL
LOW COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES TO IDENTIFY INTELLECTUALLY ABLE STUDENTS
FROM UNKNOWN SCHOOLS OR SCHOOLS KNOWN TO BE ACADEMICALLY WEAK
4HE DRIVING IMPULSE WAS TO MAKE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND ESPE
CIALLY PRESTIGIOUS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES MORE OPEN TO INTELLECTUAL
TALENT AND TO DECREASE RELIANCE IN ADMISSIONS DECISIONS ON FAMILY CON
NECTIONS AND ATTENDANCE AT ELITE PREP SCHOOLS 7ITHOUT THE 3!4 OR
SOMETHING LIKE IT THIS ASPIRATION COULD NEVER HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED
IN AN ENORMOUS COUNTRY WITH NO NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND DRAMATIC
VARIATIONS IN QUALITY AND ACADEMIC ORIENTATION AMONG THOUSANDS OF
LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS
3O WHAT KIND OF PSYCHOMETRIC TOOL IS THE 3!4 !T LEAST AS IT
EXISTED INTO THE EARLY S WHEN THE ANTONYM PORTION OF THE VERBAL
TEST WAS ELIMINATED THE VERBAL PORTION OF THE 3!4 INCORPORATED
MOST OF THE BASIC TOOLS OF )1 TESTING 4HE MATH PORTION OF THE 3!4
WAS A MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD TEST OF A RATHER BASIC LEVEL OF MATHEMATICAL
COMPETENCE
&ROM THE S UNTIL THE MID S THE BASIC DESIGN OF THE
3!4 REMAINED FUNDAMENTALLY UNCHANGED WHICH MADE IT USEFUL FOR
INTERGENERATIONAL COMPARISONS OF COLLEGE PREPAREDNESS 4HIS FEATURE
OF THE 3!4 AS IT TURNS OUT ALSO PROVED EMBARRASSING TO THE +
EDUCATION INDUSTRY !VERAGE 3!4 SCORES PEAKED IN AND
AT ON THE VERBAL SECTION OF THE TEST AND ON THE MATHEMATICS
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
SECTION OF THE TEST !FTER SCORES DROPPED STEADILY UNTIL
WHEN THE AVERAGE SCORES WERE ON THE VERBAL SECTION AND ON
THE MATHEMATICS SECTION 5NTIL THE MID S VERBAL SCORES STAYED
NEAR THEIR LOWS AND THE MATHEMATICS SCORES CREPT UP A BIT TO AN
AVERAGE OF
7HEN CONFRONTED WITH THESE DECLINING TEST SCORES APOLOGISTS FOR
THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT TYPICALLY CLAIMED THAT THE 3!4 RESULTS
HAD DECLINED OVER THE YEARS BECAUSE OUR SCHOOLS HAD BECOME MORE
hDEMOCRATICv AND MORE STUDENTS PARTICULARLY MINORITY STUDENTS WERE
TAKING THE 3!4 #ONSEQUENTLY THEY SUGGESTED THE DECLINE IN SCORES
DID NOT INDICATE THAT SCHOOLS WERE DOING A WORSE JOB 2ATHER THE DE
CLINE SIMPLY INDICATED THAT THE POOL OF STUDENTS TAKING THE TEST HAD
BECOME MORE hINCLUSIVEv )N OTHER WORDS THE EDUCATION ESTABLISH
MENT SOUGHT TO PREVENT THE PUBLIC FROM SEEING DECLINING 3!4 SCORES
AS EVIDENCE OF EDUCATIONAL DETERIORATION IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BY
BLAMING BLACKS AND (ISPANICS
/NE PROBLEM WITH THIS EXCUSE IS THAT A MORE CAREFUL LOOK AT THE
DATA n DATA AVAILABLE TO THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL APOLOGISTS ) MIGHT
ADD n INDICATES CLEARLY THAT THE OVERALL DECLINE IN 3!4 PERFORMANCE
BY COLLEGE BOUND STUDENTS IS EVIDENCE OF A PROFOUND DETERIORATION IN
THE EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )N OVER
STUDENTS SCORED ABOVE ON THE VERBAL PORTION OF THE
3!4 4EN YEARS LATER FEWER THAN SCORED ABOVE )N
STUDENTS HAD VERBAL SCORES ABOVE BUT ONLY DID
IN )F THE OVERALL DECLINE IN 3!4 SCORES FROM THE S INTO
THE EARLY S WERE JUST A MATTER OF A LARGER POOL OF TEST TAKERS PULLING
DOWN THE AVERAGE RATHER THAN PROGRESSIVE EDUCATIONAL FAILURE BY GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS YOU WOULD NOT HAVE A STARTLING DECLINE IN ABSOLUTE
TERMS IN THE SCORES OF OUR MOST ABLE STUDENTS )N FACT THE STAGGERING
MAGNITUDE OF THE COLLAPSE IN PERFORMANCE BY OUR MOST ABLE STUDENTS
DURING THIS PERIOD SUGGESTS THAT THEY WERE THE GROUP MOST VICTIMIZED
BY THE DECLINE IN ACADEMIC STANDARDS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )N ADDI
TION THE 3!4 VERBAL SCORES OF NON
(ISPANIC WHITE STUDENTS DIDNT
RISE ABOVE ON THE PRE TEST SCORE REPORTING SCALE FROM THE
LATE S INTO THE EARLY S -OREOVER THE MODEST IMPROVEMENT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
IN 3!4 MATHEMATICS SCORES BEFORE THE 3!4 WAS hRE NORMEDv IN
APPEARS TO CORRELATE WITH HIGHER ENROLLMENTS IN ALGEBRA AND
GEOMETRY COURSES .ONE OF THIS SUPPORTS THE VIEW THAT THE GREATER
hDIVERSITYv OF TEST TAKERS EXPLAINS THE FALL IN 3!4 SCORES 9ES WHO
TAKES THE 3!4 CAN AFFECT THE AVERAGE SCORE "UT THE DECIMATION OF THE
RANKS OF THE HIGH SCORERS ON THE 3!4 AND THE OVERALL PERFORMANCE
OF NON MINORITY TEST TAKERS INDICATES THAT DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS WERE A
VERY SMALL PART OF THE STORY OF THE DECLINE IN 3!4 RESULTS
(IDING THE "ALL
)N NEWS STORIES TRUMPETED THAT 3!4 MATH SCORES HAD
REACHED A
YEAR HIGH OF AND THAT 3!4 VERBAL SCORES HAD
REACHED A
YEAR HIGH OF $OES THIS DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT
IN 3!4 SCORES COMPARED TO SCORES IN THE S AND EARLY S
DEMONSTRATE THAT OUR COLLEGE BOUND STUDENTS ARE NOW TRULY THE BEST
PREPARED EVER (ARDLY
)N %43 hRE
NORMEDv THE SCORING OF THE 3!4 !S A RESULT
A PERFORMANCE THAT WOULD HAVE EARNED A VERBAL SCORE OF BEFORE THE
hRE
NORMINGv WAS REPORTED AS A AFTER THE hRE
NORMINGv /VERALL
THE CHANGE IN TESTING STANDARDS CAUSED ROUGHLY A
POINT UPWARD
SHIFT IN COMBINED 3!4 VERBAL AND MATHEMATICS SCORES 7ITH RESPECT
TO THE RESULTS THE NEWS STORIES DUTIFULLY REPORTED %43 CLAIM
THAT THE NEWS ABOUT THE YEARS hHIGHv 3!4 SCORES DID TAKE INTO AC
COUNT THE RE
NORMING
7HAT WASNT REPORTED SO WIDELY HOWEVER WAS THAT THE
3!4 WAS A VERY DIFFERENT EXAM FROM THE TEST %43 ADMINISTERED IN THE
S S S AND EARLY S (OW SO 3INCE STUDENTS
HAVE BEEN ABLE TO USE CALCULATORS ON THE MATHEMATICS TEST AND IN THE
SAME YEAR AN ANTONYM TEST CONSIDERED ONE OF THE HARDER SECTIONS
OF THE VERBAL TEST WAS DROPPED IN FAVOR OF AN EASIER hVOCABULARY IN
CONTEXTv TEST !ND JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT NO CHILD IS LEFT BEHIND
STUDENTS CLAIMING CERTAIN LEARNING DISABILITIES NOW GET EXTRA TIME ON
THE TEST
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
'OING INTO /VERTIME
/F THE CHANGES MADE TO THE 3!4 SINCE THE MID S PROVID
ING EXTRA TIME TO THE hDISABLEDv COULD EVENTUALLY PROVE TO BE ONE
OF THE MOST SIGNIlCANT FACTORS IN RENDERING INVALID COMPARISONS OF
CURRENT AND FUTURE 3!4 SCORES WITH SCORES FROM EARLIER DECADES
0RIOR TO 3EPTEMBER ABOUT OF STUDENTS TAKING THE 3!4 HAD
TAKEN THE TEST UNDER WHAT %43 REFERS TO AS hNONSTANDARD CONDITIONS v
AND THOSE SCORES WERE REPORTED TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WITH AN
ASTERISK TO INDICATE THAT THE STUDENT HAD RECEIVED A SPECIAL ACCOMMO
DATION WHILE TAKING THE TEST h.ONSTANDARD CONDITIONSv CAN REFER TO
A NUMBER OF DEVIATIONS FROM NORMAL TESTING PROTOCOLS "LIND STUDENTS
MAY TAKE THE TEST IN "RAILLE OR HAVE SOMEONE READ THE QUESTIONS AND
GET EXTRA TIME STUDENTS WITHOUT HANDS TAKING THE TEST ON A COMPUTER
USING A TRACKBALL AND A PRESSURE PAD MAY GET EXTRA TIME AND SO ON
4ODAY THOSE ENTITLED TO ACCOMMODATIONS ARE NOT RESTRICTED HOWEVER
TO STUDENTS WITH SERIOUS PHYSICAL DISABILITIES 3TUDENTS WITH hLEARNING
DISABILITIESv ALSO QUALIFY FOR ACCOMMODATION 4HERES THE RUB
5NDER PRESSURE FROM ACTIVISTS FOR THE DISABLED %43 DECIDED
IN *ULY TO ELIMINATE THE ASTERISK BEGINNING 3EPTEMBER
#ONSEQUENTLY THOSE WHO OBTAIN A SUITABLE hLEARNING DISABILITYv DIAG
NOSIS CAN GET UP TO OF THE NORMAL TIME ON THE 3!4 AND COLLEGE
ADMISSIONS OFlCERS WILL BE NONE THE WISER 0REDICTABLY THIS HAS RESULTED
IN hDIAGNOSIS SHOPPINGv BY PARENTS WHO UNDERSTAND THAT MORE TIME
CAN PRODUCE A HIGHER 3!4 SCORE AND WHO CAN ALSO AFFORD TO hBUYv
A DIAGNOSIS )N FACT IN THE RUN
UP TO THE lRST ASTERISK
FREE TESTING SEA
SON DIAGNOSIS SHOPPING BECAME SO mAGRANT THAT IT WAS THE SUBJECT
OF A 3EPTEMBER FRONT
PAGE STORY IN 4HE .EW 9ORK 4IMES 4HE
4IMES HOWEVER SEEMS TO HAVE MISSED A MAJOR PART OF THE STORY %43
OWN WEBSITE MAKES IT CLEAR THAT PART OF DETERMINING ELIGIBILITY FOR
hTESTING ACCOMMODATIONSv IS WHETHER A STUDENTS HIGH SCHOOL GIVES
HIM ACCOMMODATIONS SUCH AS EXTRA
TIME FOR HIS hDISABILITYv 'IVEN
THE IMPORTANCE OF HIGH 3!4 SCORES FOR SUSTAINING A SCHOOL DISTRICTS
PUBLIC SUPPORT AND MAINTAINING THE DISTRICTS PROPERTY VALUES SCHOOL
DISTRICTS n ALONG WITH DOCTORS PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS n ARE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
GOING TO BECOME THE WILLING ALLIES OF PARENTS LOOKING TO GIVE "IFF AND
"UFFY AN EXTRA EDGE ON THE 3!4
/NE MILDLY AMUSING INDICATION OF HOW WELL SOME PARENTS UN
DERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING EXTRA TIME ON THE 3!4 IS THAT
EVEN BEFORE %43 REMOVED THE ASTERISK FROM 3!4 SCORES IT WAS DIS
COVERED THAT OF THE STUDENTS AT ELITE .EW %NGLAND PREPARATORY
SCHOOLS WERE DESIGNATED IN AS hLEARNING DISABLEDv FOR PURPOSES
OF TAKING THE 3!4 !S TIME PASSES THE RANKS OF THE BLIND AND DEAF
RECEIVING ACCOMMODATIONS WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BE DWARFED IF THEY
ARENT ALREADY BY STUDENTS RECEIVING ACCOMMODATIONS BECAUSE OF THEIR
!$($ DYSLEXIA AND WHATEVER OTHER DIAGNOSES WILL PROVIDE SOME
EXTRA TIME ON THE 3!4
%43 0LAYING $EFENSE
7HAT IS THIS 3!4 SCORE MANIPULATION ALL ABOUT &ROM THE
PERSPECTIVE OF %43 IT SEEMED TO BE A MATTER OF PRESERVING ITS INmU
ENCE AND CASHmOW THROUGH THE POLITICS OF APPEASEMENT !PPEASING
WHOM 4HE +
EDUCATION INDUSTRY WHICH WANTS %43 HELP IN
BURYING ITS MISTAKES AND UNIVERSITY LEFTISTS WHO SEE THE 3!4 AS A
BARRIER TO ACHIEVING THEIR VISION OF INSTITUTIONAL hDIVERSITYv THROUGH
AFlRMATIVE ACTION #ONSEQUENTLY %43 CHANGES TO THE 3!4 HAVE RE
mECTED A CONSISTENT STRATEGY OF DEmECTING CRITICISM RE
NORMING HELPED
ELIMINATE THE EMBARRASSING OPTICS OF LOW 3!4 SCORES INTRODUCING
CALCULATORS HELPED MASK THE DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF ILL
CONCEIVED +
MATH CURRICULA ELIMINATING THE ANTONYM TEST HELPED HIDE THE EGRE
GIOUSLY POOR EDUCATION GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE PROVIDING BLACKS AND
(ISPANICS AND REMOVING THE INFAMOUS ASTERISK BOTH MOLLIlED DIS
ABILITY ACTIVISTS AND HAD THE ADDED BENElT OF ALLOWING UPPER
MIDDLE
CLASS PARENTS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO GAME THE SYSTEM TO PROVIDE SOME
ADDITIONAL UPWARD PRESSURE ON MATH AND VERBAL SCORES
4HESE CHANGES HOWEVER HAVE ALSO ACCOMPLISHED THE INTENDED
RESULT OF RENDERING MEANINGLESS THE USE OF 3!4 SCORES FOR INTERGEN
ERATIONAL COMPARISONS OF COLLEGE PREPAREDNESS 4HE POST
MID S
3!4 IS SIMPLY A DIFFERENT TEST FROM THE ONE TAKEN BY GENERATIONS OF
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
STUDENTS IN THE S S S AND EARLY S !S A RESULT THE HEADLINES
ANNOUNCING THE RESULTS OF THE 3!4 SHOULD HAVE READ h.O
3TATISTICALLY 3IGNIlCANT #HANGES IN 3!4 3CORES n %FFECT OF
$IAGNOSIS 3HOPPING ON !VERAGES .OT +NOWNv
+ILLING THE -ESSENGER
/F COURSE THE SIMPLEST WAY TO DISPENSE WITH ANGST OVER 3!4
SCORES IS TO DISPENSE WITH THE TEST 4HAT NOT SURPRISINGLY IS EXACTLY
WHAT SOME OF THE NOBLEST MINDS AMONG OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION
PROFESSIONALS ARE PROPOSING .OT SATISlED WITH THE LAST DUMBING
DOWN
OF THE 3!4 ACADEMIC LEFTISTS LED BY THE 0RESIDENT OF THE 5NIVERSITY
OF #ALIFORNIA 2ICHARD !TKINSON (ARVARD ,AW 3CHOOL PROFESSOR ,ANI
'UNIER AND 4EXAS ,AW 3CHOOL PROFESSOR 'ERALD 4ORRES HAVE BEEN AGI
TATING TO ELIMINATE THE USE OF THE 3!4 ALTOGETHER BY DEPLOYING THE
FAMILIAR AND BANAL CANARDS THAT THE TEST IS hUNFAIRv AND hBIASED AGAINST
MINORITIESv
7HY MUST THE 3!4 DIE !S ALREADY NOTED THE UNDERLYING ISSUE
FOR THE UNIVERSITY LEFT IS AFlRMATIVE ACTION 7ITH AFlRMATIVE ACTION
HAVING BEEN WEAKENED BY COURT DECISIONS UNIVERSITY MANDARINS ESPE
CIALLY AT MORE SELECTIVE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES RECOGNIZE THE 3!4
AS AN OBSTACLE TO THE ADMISSION OF MINORITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR
INSTITUTIONS DE FACTO QUOTAS
.OT WANTING TO LOSE ITS LARGEST CUSTOMER THE 5NIVERSITY OF #ALI
FORNIA OR WORSE RUN THE RISK OF LOSING THE SUBSTANTIAL REVENUES THAT
THE 3!4 GENERATES %43 HAS ANNOUNCED A hREDESIGNv OF THE TEST THAT
WILL TAKE EFFECT IN !S REDESIGNED QUESTIONS ON VERBAL ANALOGIES
WILL BE ELIMINATED FROM THE 3!4 VERBAL TEST REDUCING IT TO A TEST OF
READING COMPREHENSION ! WRITTEN ESSAY WILL ALSO BE INCLUDED AS PART
OF THE REDESIGN
.OT SURPRISINGLY THE hREDESIGNv WILL MOVE THE 3!4 EVEN
FURTHER AWAY FROM BEING A MEASURE OF GENERAL ACADEMIC APTITUDE TO
WARD BECOMING A SIMPLE ACHIEVEMENT TEST THAT IS MORE hALIGNED WITH
CURRICULAv 4HIS MEANS THAT THE 3!4 IF IT SURVIVES AT ALL WILL NO
LONGER SERVE ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF HELPING COLLEGE ADMISSIONS OFlCERS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
IDENTIFY BRIGHT STUDENTS WHO OTHERWISE MIGHT BE OVERLOOKED BECAUSE
THEY ATTENDED UNKNOWN OR WEAK SCHOOLS )NSTEAD A STUDENTS 3!4
RESULTS WILL TEND TO REmECT THE STRENGTH OF HIS TEACHERS AND THE CUR
RICULA OF THE SCHOOLS HE ATTENDED )RONICALLY THIS MAY MAKE IT EASIER
FOR THE OPPONENTS OF STANDARDIZED TESTING EVENTUALLY TO ELIMINATE THE
REDESIGNED 3!4 BECAUSE DISPARITIES IN 3!4 RESULTS MAY THEN IN
FACT MORE CLOSELY REmECT DISPARITIES IN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
)NTERESTINGLY THE INCLUSION OF AN ESSAY COMPONENT IN THE REDE
SIGNED 3!4 CARRIES WITH IT THE RISK OF FURTHER POLITICIZATION OF THE
TEST SCHOOL CURRICULA AND COLLEGE ADMISSIONS 4HE ESSAY PORTION OF
THE TEST WILL REQUIRE STUDENTS TO TAKE A POSITION ON AN ISSUE AND DEFEND
IT /BVIOUSLY IF THE TOPIC REQUIRES ARGUING THE MERITS OF TONAL VERSUS
ATONAL MUSIC OR DISCUSSING THE INmUENCE OF THE ANCIENT 'REEKS ON THE
2OMANS THE POTENTIAL FOR POLITICAL MISCHIEF IS SLIGHT
#ONSIDER HOWEVER THAT EVERY COLLEGE TO WHICH A STUDENT APPLIES
WILL BE GIVEN A COPY OF THE STUDENTS ESSAY AND THAT STUDENTS COULD
BE ASKED TO WRITE ABOUT TOPICS SUCH AS ABORTION THE hENVIRONMENT v
AFlRMATIVE ACTION CAPITALISM FEMINISM OR THE 5NITED .ATIONS )T
THEN BECOMES CLEAR THAT THIS SEEMINGLY INNOCUOUS REQUIREMENT COULD
BE USED TO ENFORCE THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VIEWS OF THOSE WHO GRADE
THE TEST AND USE THE RESULTS /BVIOUSLY IT IS NO SECRET TO STUDENTS AP
PLYING TO COMPETITIVE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OR TO THEIR TEACHERS
THAT THOSE WHO MAKE ADMISSIONS DECISIONS HAVE POLITICAL VIEWS FAR TO
THE LEFT OF THE MAINSTREAM 4HIS IS ALSO LIKELY TRUE OF THOSE WHO WILL
GRADE THE ESSAYS FOR %43 (OW DO YOU THINK THIS WOULD INmUENCE THE
WAY THAT SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SUBJECTS ARE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS AND HOW
STUDENTS WOULD FEEL THEY NEED TO RESPOND TO THE ESSAYS ) THOUGHT SO
)N ADDITION TO THE REDESIGN IT ALSO APPEARS THAT THE 3!4
MATH SCORES MAY REmECT EFFORTS BEHIND THE SCENES AT %43 TO PRODUCE
INmATED SCORES THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED hGOOD NEWSv (OW SO 4HE
RESULTS FROM THE !#4 THE SECOND MOST USED COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAM
IN THE COUNTRY AND RELEASED A WEEK BEFORE THE 3!4 RESULTS SHOW
NO CHANGE AT ALL IN COLLEGE
BOUND STUDENTS PROlCIENCY IN MATH AND
SCIENCE OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR )N FACT THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE !#4
STATED THAT THE RESULTS SHOW ONLY PERCENT OF COLLEGE
BOUND STUDENTS
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
ARE PREPARED FOR COLLEGE
LEVEL SCIENCE AND THAT ONLY ARE PREPARED
FOR COLLEGE
LEVEL MATH
4HIS LESS THAN GLOWING REPORT FROM THE !#4 IS CORROBORATED BY
STUDIES EXAMINING THE NUMBER OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ENROLLED IN REMEDIAL
MATH AND SCIENCE COURSES !CCORDING THE -ICHAEL +IRST A 3TANFORD
5NIVERSITY EDUCATION PROFESSOR THE !#4 RESULTS ARE CONSISTENT WITH
HIS RESEARCH WHICH INDICATES THAT INCREASES IN ACHIEVEMENT SCORES DO
NOT REmECT GENERALLY HIGHER LEVELS OF STUDENT PREPAREDNESS FOR MATH
AND SCIENCE 3PEAKING OF THE DISPARITY IN THE 3!4 AND !#4
MATH RESULTS AN !#4 VICE PRESIDENT #YNDIE 3CHEMER PUT IT THIS WAY
h) THINK WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A REAL ISSUE SUPPORTED BY REMEDIAL COURSE
WORK THAT SUPPORTS OUR DATAv 3O DO WE BELIEVE THE STORIES COMING
OUT OF %43 WITH HEADLINES LIKE h-ATH 3CORES AT
YEAR (IGH v OR DO
WE BELIEVE THE DATA FROM OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES CONCERNING THE
NUMBER OF STUDENTS TAKING hBONEHEADv MATH AND SCIENCE )LL LET YOU
DECIDE
,IARS #AN &IGURE AND THE ,AKE 7OBEGON %FFECT
4HE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT KNOWS THAT IF THE PUBLIC LOSES
CONlDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM THE mOW OF HUNDREDS
OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CONSTITUENCIES MAY
BE JEOPARDIZED 3O IF YOU ARE A HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THERE IS MOUNTING EVIDENCE OF EDUCATIONAL FAIL
URE AND THE PUBLIC IS DEMANDING ADDITIONAL TESTS OF PERFORMANCE TO
ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY #OOK THE NUMBERS
.O DOUBT YOURE THINKING THAT THIS SURELY CANNOT BE TRUE BUT
IT IS )N FACT IT HAS BEEN OPENLY DISCUSSED FOR YEARS IN THE OBSCURE
PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS DEVOTED TO THE ARCANA OF EDUCATIONAL TESTING
4HE PROBLEM OF THE MANIPULATION OF TEST RESULTS BY EDUCATORS WAS
lRST FORCEFULLY RAISED BY *OHN #ANNELL A 7EST 6IRGINIA PHYSICIAN
#ANNELL NOTICED SOME STATISTICAL ANOMALIES IN THE REPORTED DATA FOR
SOME WIDELY USED STANDARDIZED TESTS IMPLEMENTED IN THE S AS hAC
COUNTABILITY SYSTEMSv IN RESPONSE TO PUBLIC PRESSURE #ANNELL FOUND
THAT NO STATE REPORTED BEING BELOW AVERAGE AT THE PRIMARY LEVEL ON
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ANY OF THE SIX MAJOR NATIONALLY NORMED COMMERCIAL TESTS OF THE
SCHOOL DISTRICTS WERE REPORTING THAT THEIR STUDENTS WERE SCORING ABOVE
THE NATIONAL NORMS AVERAGES FOR THOSE TESTS AND OF STUDENTS
TESTED NATIONWIDE WERE TOLD THEY WERE PERFORMING ABOVE THE NATIONAL
AVERAGE
4HIS PALPABLY PREPOSTEROUS STATISTICAL STATE OF AFFAIRS CAME TO BE
REFERRED TO SATIRICALLY AS hTHE ,AKE 7OBEGON %FFECTv AFTER 'ARRISON
+EILLORS MYTHICAL SMALL TOWN IN -INNESOTA WHERE hALL THE WOMEN
ARE STRONG ALL THE MEN ARE GOOD
LOOKING AND ALL THE CHILDREN ARE ABOVE
AVERAGEv "UT THE PRACTICAL EFFECT #ANNELL CONCLUDED WAS THAT hSTAN
DARDIZED NATIONALLY NORMED ACHIEVEMENT TESTS GIVE CHILDREN PARENTS
SCHOOLS SYSTEMS LEGISLATURES AND THE PRESS INmATED AND MISLEADING
REPORTS ON ACHIEVEMENT LEVELSv $O YOU THINK THAT IT IS AN ACCIDENT
THAT THE TEST SCORES WERE INmATED
%VADING !CCOUNTABILITY 4ESTING AS A 3HELL 'AME
4HE REAL ISSUE #ANNELLS lNDINGS RAISED WAS HOW WAS THIS HAP
PENING !MONG THE REASONS SUGGESTED WERE THE USE OF OLD NORMS THE
REPEATED USE OF THE SAME TEST FORM YEAR AFTER YEAR EXCLUDING CHILDREN
NOT LIKELY TO DO WELL ON THE TEST AT A HIGHER RATE THAN IN THE NORMING
STUDIES AND hTEACHING TO THE TESTv 7HILE RESEARCHERS EXAMINING THIS
QUESTION HAVE POLITELY DECLINED TO hPIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEYv BY
mATLY SAYING THAT MOST IF NOT ALL THE SYSTEMATIC INmATION OF STANDARD
IZED TEST SCORES RESULTS FROM DISHONESTY WITHIN THE EDUCATION ESTAB
LISHMENT RESEARCH FOLLOWING #ANNELLS lNDING STRONGLY POINTS IN THAT
DIRECTION
! STUDY COMMISSIONED BY THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCA
TION CONCLUDED THAT hWITH RESPECT TO NATIONAL AVERAGES DISTRICTS AND
STATES ARE PRESENTING INmATED RESULTS AND MISLEADING THE PUBLICv )N
TWO STUDIES DONE IN THE EARLY S RESEARCHERS ESTABLISHED THAT WHEN
A STANDARDIZED TEST THAT HAD BEEN IN USE FOR SEVERAL YEARS WAS REPLACED
BY A TEST DESIGNED TO TEST THE SAME CONTENT THERE WAS A SHARP DROP IN
STUDENT SCORES IN THE lRST YEAR FOLLOWED BY GAINS IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS
THAT EVENTUALLY RETURNED PERFORMANCE ROUGHLY TO PRIOR LEVELS
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
4HESE RESULTS CONlRMED THAT THE STATES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS WERE
USING STANDARDIZED TESTS TO INmATE IMPRESSIONS OF STUDENT ACHIEVE
MENT "UT WHAT THE TEST SCORES ALSO STRONGLY SUGGESTED WAS DELIBER
ATE MANIPULATION OF RESULTS #LEARLY IF THE TESTS ARE DESIGNED TO COVER
THE SAME MATERIAL AND THE STUDENTS KNOW THE MATERIAL AT THE LEVELS
REPORTED THEN SWITCHING TEST FORMS SHOULD NOT RESULT IN APPRECIABLE
CHANGES IN TEST SCORES 4HE FACT THAT TEST RESULTS DROPPED SHARPLY AND
THEN REBOUNDED OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS STRONGLY SUGGESTS THAT THE
STUDENTS hKNEWv THE TESTS RATHER THAN THE MATERIAL AND THAT THOSE IN
CHARGE OF THE TESTING AT THE STATE AND DISTRICT LEVELS WERE DOING WHATEVER
WAS NECESSARY TO BRING THE TEST SCORES BACK UP TO ACCEPTABLE LEVELS
4HIS SORT OF MANIPULATION CAN BE FACILITATED BY USING THE SAME
TESTS FOR YEARS &OR EXAMPLE IN -ARYLAND SCHOOLS WERE STILL USING
THE SAME VERSION OF THE #ALIFORNIA !CHIEVEMENT 4EST THAT HAD BEEN
USED IN !FTER YEARS IT IS A VIRTUAL CERTAINTY THAT THE TEACH
ERS KNEW EXACTLY WHAT QUESTIONS WERE ON THE TESTS AND WERE TEACHING
THE QUESTIONS RATHER THAN THE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE THAT THE TEST WAS
SUPPOSED TO MEASURE
2ESEARCHERS HAVE ALSO FOUND EVIDENCE OF SCORE INmATION IN THE AD
MINISTRATION OF THE 4ITLE ) %VALUATION AND 2EPORTING 3YSTEM 4)%23
WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED BY #ONGRESS IN TO HOLD ACCOUNTABLE THE
RECIPIENTS OF FUNDS UNDER 4ITLE ) OF THE %LEMENTARY AND 3ECONDARY
%DUCATION !CT -ORE RECENTLY EVIDENCE INVOLVING AT LEAST STATES
HAS SURFACED THAT .!%0 SCORES ARE BEING INmATED 4HE .!%0 IS OFTEN
REFERRED TO AS THE hNATIONS REPORT CARDv AND IS USED TO EVALUATE THE
READING MATHEMATICS AND OTHER ACADEMIC SKILLS OF TH GRADERS TH
GRADERS AND TH GRADERS )T IS TREMENDOUSLY INmUENTIAL IN THE WORLD
OF GOVERNMENT +
EDUCATION AND WAS 0RESIDENT #LINTONS CHOICE FOR
HIS PROPOSED NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
(OW ARE OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS INmATING
STATE .!%0 SCORES 4HE MAIN TACTIC HAS BEEN TO INCREASE THE NUMBER
OF hLEARNING DISABLEDv STUDENTS EXCUSED FROM TAKING THE TEST /BVI
OUSLY THE MORE STUDENTS LIKELY TO MAKE LOW SCORES YOU CAN ELIMINATE
FROM THE POOL OF TEST TAKERS THE BETTER THE TEST RESULTS WILL APPEAR )N
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LOWEST RATE OF EXCLUSION OF LEARNING
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
DISABLED STUDENTS AND THE HIGHEST RATE OF EXCLUSION WAS AND NO
STATE EXCLUDED MORE THAN OF ITS STUDENTS FROM THE .!%0 )N
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST RATES OF EXCLUSION OF
LEARNING DISABLED STUDENTS WAS WITH ,OUISIANA LEADING THE PACK
BY EXCLUDING FULLY OF ITS STUDENTS FROM THE .!%0
+ENTUCKY IS A GOOD ILLUSTRATION OF HOW THIS PARTICULAR EDUCA
TIONAL SCAM WORKS /F THE STATES PARTICIPATING IN THE .!%0 IN BOTH
AND +ENTUCKYS GAINS IN READING SCORES WERE AMONG THE
HIGHEST )NTERESTINGLY IN +ENTUCKY ALSO EXCLUDED TIMES MORE
STUDENTS FROM TAKING THE .!%0 THAN IT DID IN ON THE BASIS THAT
THEY WERE hLEARNING DISABLEDv
-ORE RECENTLY THE PRESS DUTIFULLY REPORTED ON SMALL GAINS BY TH
GRADERS AND TH GRADERS OVER THEIR .!%0 RESULTS ON THE
.!%0 MATHEMATICS TEST 7HAT WASNT REPORTED WAS THE RATE OF IN
CREASE FOR EXCLUSIONS WHICH ONE EXPERT DESCRIBED AS hNOTICEABLY LARGER
THAN ON THE .!%0 READING TESTSv 4HUS .ORTH #AROLINA FOR
EXAMPLE SHOWED GAINS IN THE .!%0 RESULTS BUT NEARLY OF THE
CHILDREN IN .ORTH #AROLINA WHO COULD HAVE TAKEN THE TEST IN WERE
EXCLUDED AS LEARNING DISABLED IN .OTWITHSTANDING THE INCREASE
IN THE RATE OF EXCLUSIONS THE SCORES OF TH GRADERS ON THE .!%0
MATHEMATICS TEST WERE ACTUALLY LOWER THAN THEY WERE IN
4HE RESULTS FROM THE .!%0 READING TEST FOLLOWED THE SAME
FAMILIAR PATTERN TH GRADERS SHOWING NO OR MINIMAL IMPROVEMENT DE
PENDING ON WHICH PRIOR .!%0 TEST RESULTS ARE USED AS A BENCHMARK
TH GRADERS SHOWING NO IMPROVEMENT AND TH GRADERS GETTING WORSE
!LSO FAMILIAR THOUGH TYPICALLY NOT REPORTED TO THE PUBLIC WAS THE
WIDE VARIATION IN hEXCLUSION RATESv AMONG THE STATES -OREOVER SOME
STATES HAD ENORMOUS INCREASES IN THEIR EXCLUSION RATES n $ELAWARE
FOR EXAMPLE INCREASED ITS EXCLUSION RATE BY .EVERTHELESS
THE BOARD THAT GOVERNS THE .!%0 HAS DECIDED NOT TO mAG THE SCORES
OF STATES WHOSE EXCLUSION RATES CHANGED BY AT LEAST THREE PERCENTAGE
POINTS FROM THE PRIOR TEST CLAIMING THAT THEY hCOULD NOT ESTABLISH ANY
PRECISE POINT AT WHICH CHANGES IN EXCLUSION RATES WOULD HAVE A SIGNIl
CANT IMPACT ON AVERAGE TEST SCORESv 3UCH EVASIONS ABOUT PRECISION
ASIDE IT IS KNOWN THAT INCREASES IN EXCLUSION RATES GENERALLY CORRELATE
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
WITH INCREASED STATE .!%0 READING SCORES WHICH IS HARDLY SURPRIS
ING BECAUSE THE EXCLUDED STUDENTS ARE EXCLUDED PRECISELY BECAUSE OUR
HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS KNOW THAT THEY WILL DO POORLY
ON THE TEST AND DRAG THE AVERAGE SCORE DOWN
0ERHAPS THE MOST HILARIOUSLY AUDACIOUS TESTING SWINDLES BASED ON
EXCLUDING STUDENTS FROM STANDARDIZED TESTING OCCURRED IN /KLAHOMA
IN /KLAHOMA LAW PLACES SCHOOLS ON PROBATION IF AVERAGE STUDENT
SCORES ON THE )OWA 4ESTS OF "ASIC 3KILLS RANK IN THE BOTTOM QUARTER
OF SCHOOLS STATEWIDE )N SCHOOLS GOT OFF PROBATION BUT A
SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT A NUMBER OF THEM HAD MANAGED
TO DO IT BY EXCLUDING VERY LARGE NUMBERS OF STUDENTS FROM THE TEST AS
hSPECIAL EDUCATIONv STUDENTS )N FACT IN SCHOOLS TWO
THIRDS OF THE
STUDENTS WERE EXEMPTED FROM TAKING THE TEST
)T APPEARS THAT THE hEXCLUSIONv GAMBIT IS NOT GOING TO WORK
MUCH LONGER TO COVER
UP POOR PERFORMANCE ON THE .!%0 4HIS COULD
BE WHY ELEMENTS OF THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY HAVE BEGUN PUSHING TO
CHANGE THE .!%0 SO THAT IT WILL hMEASUREv TEAMWORK AND SOCIABILITY
ALONG WITH KNOWLEDGE OF ACADEMIC SUBJECTS 0RESUMABLY OUR HIGHLY
TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS THINK THAT PARENTS WILL BE MOLLIlED
IF THEIR CHILDREN ARE GIVEN hWORLD CLASSv SCORES IN hSOCIABILITYv EVEN
THOUGH THEY CANT READ OR DO ARITHMETIC 4HE ONE THING THAT YOU CAN
BE CERTAIN OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS WONT SUGGEST
HOWEVER IS THE HONEST ADMINISTRATION OF NATIONALLY
NORMED STAN
DARDIZED ACHIEVEMENT TESTS TO ALL CHILDREN IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
4HEY KNOW HOW UGLY THE RESULTS WOULD BE
#REATIVE !CCOUNTING AND THE 4EXAS 4!!3 -IRACLE
3TATES HAVE ALSO PROVEN QUITE WILLING TO MOVE THE GOALPOSTS
TO AVOID HAVING TO REPORT EMBARRASSING STANDARDIZED TEST RESULTS )N
FOR EXAMPLE THE 4EXAS %DUCATION !GENCY ANNOUNCED THAT
4EXAS STUDENTS HAD PASSED THE 4EXAS !SSESSMENT OF !CADEMIC 3KILLS
4!!3 AT THE HIGHEST RATE EVER %DUCATION BUREAUCRATS SUPERINTEN
DENTS PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS PROMPTLY BEGAN PROVIDING THE PRESS
WITH STATEMENTS SUCH AS h4EXAS STUDENTS ARE ON A ROLL v WHICH WERE
OBLIGINGLY REPEATED IN PRINT AND BROADCAST MEDIA UNDOUBTEDLY TO THE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
DELIGHT OF CREDULOUS PARENTS
3IMILAR STORIES REGARDING 4!!3 RESULTS APPEARED IN GIVING
PARENTS EVEN MORE REASON TO BE PLEASED 0ROBABLY FEW PARENTS REALIZED
HOWEVER THAT THE STANDARD FOR PASSING THE 4!!3 HAD BEEN SHIFTING
DOWNWARD &OR EXAMPLE TH GRADE STUDENTS NEEDED TO ANSWER COR
RECTLY EIGHT FEWER MATH QUESTIONS OUT OF IN THAN THEY DID
IN TH GRADE STUDENTS HAD TO GET THE RIGHT ANSWERS ON TEN FEWER
MATH QUESTIONS OUT OF THAN THEY DID IN AND TH GRADE STU
DENTS HAD TO GIVE SEVEN FEWER RIGHT ANSWERS OUT OF MATH PROBLEMS
THAN THEY DID IN -OREOVER DURING THE PERIOD IN WHICH 4!!3
PASS RATES WERE REPORTED AS ROCKETING UPWARD 3!4 AND !#4 SCORES
ACTUALLY DECLINED &ORTUNATELY FOR 4EXAS HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION
PROFESSIONALS NO ONE NOTICED THIS ANOMALY UNTIL THE 4!!3 HAD BEEN
hRETIREDv
5NFORTUNATELY EVEN THE LOWERED PASSING SCORES ON THE 4!!3
WERE DEEMED INSUFlCIENTLY HELPFUL BY SOME ADMINISTRATORS IN THE
&ORT "END 3CHOOL $ISTRICT 4O IMPROVE ONE HIGH SCHOOLS PROSPECTS
FOR OBTAINING THE COVETED h%XEMPLARYv RATING FROM THE 4EXAS %DUCA
TION !GENCY SOME STUDENTS WHO WERE NOT LIKELY TO SCORE WELL WERE
PREVENTED FROM TAKING THE TEST AND THE SCORES OF SOME LOW SCORERS
WERE VOIDED
(AVING GOTTEN ABOUT AS MUCH MILEAGE AS POSSIBLE FROM THE STRAT
EGY OF LOWERING PASSING SCORES ON THE 4!!3 TO INCREASE PASSING RATES
THE 4EXAS SUBSIDIARY OF THE NATIONS GOVERNMENT SCHOOL INDUSTRY ABAN
DONED THE 4!!3 FOR SOMETHING NEW AND REALLY IMPROVED THE 4EXAS !S
SESSMENT OF +NOWLEDGE AND 3KILLS OR h4!+3v $OES THE 4!+3 HERALD
A NEW ERA OF EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN 4EXAS .OT QUITE
4EXAS AND 4!+3 ! 0REEMPTIVE 3URRENDER
(AVING BEEN WARNED BY SCHOOL OFlCIALS BEFORE THE TEST WAS TO BE
ADMINISTERED FOR THE lRST TIME THAT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF THEIR EXPEN
SIVELY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLED STUDENTS WOULD FAIL THE 4!+3 THE 4EXAS
EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT PREEMPTIVELY LOWERED THE PASSING STANDARDS
FOR THE 4!+3 FOR ALL GRADES #ONSEQUENTLY UNDER THE 4!+3 A STU
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
DENT CAN PASS THE HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAM FOR EXAMPLE BY ANSWERING
CORRECTLY ONLY OF MATH QUESTIONS OF SOCIAL STUDIES QUES
TIONS OF READING AND %NGLISH QUESTIONS AND OF SCIENCE
QUESTIONS
%VEN THESE LOW STANDARDS FOR THE 4!+3 RESULTED IN PROTESTS AND
EXPRESSIONS OF hCONCERNv FROM EDUCRATS &OR EXAMPLE -IKE -OSES
THE SUPERINTENDENT OF $ALLAS )NDEPENDENT 3CHOOL $ISTRICT AND A FOR
MER 4EXAS %DUCATION #OMMISSIONER PROPOSED IN EARLY THAT THE
PASSING SCORES BE hRE EXAMINEDv READ hLOWEREDv AFTER THE SPRING TEST
RESULTS WERE IN )N FACT A REPORT ON 4!+3 BY HIS SCHOOL DISTRICT AR
GUED THAT 4!+3 IS TOO hDIFlCULTv "UT WHAT hDIFlCULTv REALLY APPEARS
TO MEAN TO -OSES AND HIS COLLEAGUES IS THAT UNLESS THE PASSING SCORES
ARE LOWERED EVEN MORE 4!+3 WILL FURTHER EXPOSE WHAT A BAD JOB 4EXAS
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DOING IN EDUCATING MINORITY CHILDREN
0ERHAPS 4EXAS NEEDS A STEP PROGRAM FOR hTEST RESULT MANIPULA
TION RECIDIVISTSv )N ANY EVENT BE ON THE WATCH FOR FUTURE NEWSPAPER
HEADLINES AND TELEVISION NEWS STORIES BREATHLESSLY REPORTING HOW 4EXAS
CHILDREN ARE PASSING THE 4!+3 AT THE hHIGHEST RATES EVERv
,OW 4EST 3CORES .EVER -IND
!NOTHER STRATEGY FOR BURYING INCONVENIENTLY LOW TEST SCORES IS
TO BLAME THE TEST AND THROW THE TEST RESULTS OUT 4HIS IS EXACTLY WHAT
.ORTH #AROLINAS "OARD OF %DUCATION DID WITH THE RESULTS FOR A
STATEWIDE WRITING TEST FOR TH GRADERS AND TH GRADERS 4HE STUDENTS
IT APPEARS WERE ASKED TO hWRITE ABOUT A TIME YOU HAD A GREAT DAY IN
SCHOOLv OF THE TH GRADERS AND OF THE TH GRADERS FAILED THE
EXAM AND AS A RESULT THE "OARD OF %DUCATION DECLARED THAT THE DIS
MAL SCORES WERE THE RESULT OF THE EXAM NOT BEING WRITTEN CLEARLY ENOUGH
AND AN INCREASE IN TIME FOR WRITING /F COURSE THIS LAST EXCUSE MAKES
NO SENSE BECAUSE THERE IS PARTICULARLY UNCLEAN ABOUT THE TOPIC AND IN
CREASED IN WRITING TIME WAS GIVEN TO IMPROVE SCORES IN THE lRST PLACE
!PPARENTLY NO EXCUSE FOR ABJECT EDUCATIONAL FAILURE IS TOO SHAMELESS
FOR .ORTH #AROLINAS "OARD OF %DUCATION
.EW 9ORK FOLLOWED THE SAME PATH AS .ORTH #AROLINA WHEN IT
THREW OUT THE RESULTS OF THE *UNE 2EGENTS MATH EXAM (ISTORI
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CALLY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES IN .EW 9ORK 3TATE HAVE RECEIVED EITHER
A 2EGENTS DIPLOMA WHICH IS VIEWED AS A COLLEGE PREP DEGREE OR A
LOCAL DIPLOMA 4O EARN A 2EGENTS DIPLOMA STUDENTS MUST SCORE OR
ABOVE ON THE 2EGENTS EXAMS WHICH ARE STATE
WIDE STANDARDIZED TESTS
! SCORE OF OR BETTER IS TYPICALLY REQUIRED TO GET A LOCAL DIPLOMA
7HEN ROUGHLY OF THE STUDENTS TAKING THE *UNE -ATH
! 2EGENTS EXAM FAILED HOWLS OF EXECRATION COULD BE HEARD ACROSS THE
STATE !N hINDEPENDENT PANELv OF EXPERTS WAS PROMPTLY CONVENED TO
INVESTIGATE 3UBSEQUENTLY THE STATE %DUCATION #OMMISSIONER DECLARED
THAT THERE WERE hANOMALIESv IN THE EXAM AND ORDERED THE SCORES
REVISED SO THAT STUDENTS SCORING AS LOW AS WOULD BE DEEMED TO HAVE
ACHIEVED A SCORE OF "UT APPARENTLY THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH TO BRING
THE PASS RATES UP TO A POLITICALLY ACCEPTABLE LEVEL !S A RESULT SCHOOLS
WERE ALLOWED TO SUBSTITUTE COURSEWORK GRADES FOR 2EGENTS EXAM
SCORES 9ET EVEN THIS RETREAT FROM ATTEMPTING TO ENFORCE ACCOUNT
ABILITY PROVED INSUFlCIENT TO CALM THE POLITICAL WATERS !S A RESULT
.EW 9ORK 3TATES EDUCATION COMMISSIONER lNALLY SET ASIDE THE -ATH !
EXAM RESULTS AND DECLARED THAT HE WOULD REDUCE THE FAILURE RATE ON THE
2EGENTS PHYSICS EXAM )N ADDITION IT APPEARS THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS
WILL BE ALLOWED TO USE AS A PASSING SCORE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS
!NOMALIES 7ELL ACCORDING TO THE PANEL THE EXAMS LACK OF TRIG
ONOMETRY QUESTIONS WAS UNFAIR TO STUDENTS WHO KNEW TRIGONOMETRY
AND THE FACT THAT THERE WERE THREE QUESTIONS INVOLVING THE 0YTHAGOREAN
4HEOREM WAS UNFAIR TO STUDENTS WHO DIDNT UNDERSTAND THE 0YTHAGO
REAN 4HEOREM (OW ADDING TRIGONOMETRY QUESTIONS WOULD HELP
JUNIORS AND SENIORS UNCONVERSANT WITH THE 0YTHAGOREAN 4HEOREM WAS
LEFT UNEXPLAINED AS WELL AS WHY IT WAS UNFAIR TO EXPECT HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES TO BE ABLE TO APPLY A SIMPLE AND ABSOLUTELY FUNDAMENTAL
MATHEMATICAL FORMULA "UT OF COURSE THE hEXPERT PANELv AND ITS lND
INGS WERE SIMPLY PROVIDING COVER FOR WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON 4HE
TRUTH ABOUT THE DECISION TO JETTISON THE 2EGENTS -ATH ! 2ESULTS WAS
PERHAPS INADVERTENTLY UTTERED BY %DUCATION $EPARTMENT SPOKESMAN
*ONATHAN "URMAN IN AN INTERVIEW h)T WAS CHANGED REALLY IN RE
SPONSE TO THE CALLS WE HAD GOTTENx 7E JUST WANTED TO RESPOND IN THE
FAIREST WAY TO THE STUDENTSv
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
4HESE INCIDENTS FROM .EW 9ORK AND .ORTH #AROLINA ILLUSTRATE
THE REAL MORAL OF THE STORY EXPLANATIONS DONT NEED TO MAKE MUCH
SENSE AS LONG AS THE EVIDENCE OF EDUCATIONAL FAILURE IS BURIED
!ND .OW THE 2EST OF THE 4ESTING 3TORY
.OW THAT WE KNOW THAT OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSION
ALS ARE COOKING THE NUMBERS WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE FROM THE PERSPEC
TIVE OF THE CLASSROOM 4HIS MATTERS BECAUSE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN ARE
ENTRUSTED DAILY TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FOR INSTRUCTION 0ART OF WHAT
THEY LEARN IS THROUGH CLASSROOM TEACHING BUT THEY ALSO LEARN FROM THE
EXAMPLE OF TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS )F TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRA
TORS ARE DISHONEST IN HOW THEY HANDLE STANDARDIZED TESTING THERE IS A
SUBSTANTIAL RISK THAT THE CHILDREN KNOW IT AND ARE BEING LEAD TO BELIEVE
THAT DISHONESTY IS JUST ANOTHER WAY OF GETTING BY 3O HOW VISIBLE IS
THE INSTITUTIONAL DISHONESTY OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO SCHOOLCHILDREN
7HEN WE SEND THEM TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE THEY SEEING OR WORSE
BEING MADE ACCOMPLICES IN A FRAUD 5NFORTUNATELY THE NEWS ISNT
GOOD
/N $ECEMBER 4HE .EW 9ORK 4IMES BROKE A STORY RE
PORTING AN EPIDEMIC OF CHEATING ON STANDARDIZED READING AND MATH
TESTS IN .EW 9ORK #ITY SCHOOLS 4HE CHEATING TOOK PLACE IN SCHOOLS
OVER A lVE
YEAR PERIOD )T ALSO INVOLVED MISCONDUCT BY MORE TEACH
ERS STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS THAN ANY OTHER REPORTED CHEATING SCANDAL
IN RECENT HISTORY !S REPORTED BY THE 4IMES TEACHERS WOULD GIVE
STUDENTS THE CORRECT ANSWERS PRIOR TO TAKING THE TEST ALLOWED STUDENTS
TO CORRECT ANSWERS IN TEST BOOKLETS AFTER TELLING THEM WHICH ANSWERS
WERE WRONG AND IN SOME CASES CHANGED WRONG ANSWERS THEMSELVES
)N ONE SCHOOL THIS RESULTED IN READING TEST SCORES IMPROVING BY
7HY WERE TEACHERS AND OTHER SCHOOL EMPLOYEES DOING THIS !CCORD
ING TO AN INVESTIGATOR FOR THE .EW 9ORK #ITY SCHOOLS THE TEST RESULTS
WERE IMPORTANT TO CAREERS AND REPUTATIONS AND THE TEACHERS WANTED
TO MAKE IT APPEAR hTHAT THEY WERE DOING A GOOD JOBv 4HE INVESTIGATOR
ALSO ALLEGED THAT THE SCHOOL BOARDS /FlCE OF )NVESTIGATIVE 3ERVICES HAD
FAILED hTO EXPOSE OR PUNISH THE CHEATINGv
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
/N &EBRUARY 4HE .EW 9ORK 4IMES RAN A STORY ON A
SIMILAR SCANDAL IN -ASSACHUSETTS !CCORDING TO THE 4IMES AT LEAST
-ASSACHUSETTS SCHOOLS HAD BECOME EMBROILED IN CHEATING ON
STATEWIDE EXAMS &OR EXAMPLE hEDUCATORSv APPARENTLY WERE TELLING
STUDENTS TO CHANGE THEIR ANSWERS AND WERE GIVING STUDENTS TWO DAYS TO
COMPLETE REQUIRED ESSAYS WHEN THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE ONLY ONE
/NE TEACHER EVEN E MAILED COPIES OF THE TEST QUESTIONS TO TEACHERS IN
OTHER SCHOOLS WITH A NOTE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT PASSING THE QUESTIONS
ALONG WAS hPROBABLY ILLEGALv -OREOVER THIS INVOLVED SOME PRESTIGIOUS
SCHOOLS NOT JUST LOW PERFORMING SCHOOLS OR TROUBLED URBAN SCHOOLS
)N THE lNEST BUREAUCRATIC TRADITION HOWEVER STATE OFlCIALS DID NOT
DESCRIBE WHAT HAD HAPPENED AS hCHEATINGv )NSTEAD THE SCHOOLS WERE
CHARGED WITH hADMINISTRATION OF THE TEST UNDER POSSIBLE NONSTANDARD
CONDITIONSv
)N -EMPHIS A HIGHLY REGARDED PRINCIPAL RETIRED IN 7HY
3HE WAS THOUGHT TO HAVE TURNED HER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN A TOUGH
NEIGHBORHOOD INTO A SUCCESS STORY AT LEAST AS MEASURED BY THE 4ENNES
SEE #OMPREHENSIVE !SSESSMENT 0ROGRAM )T TURNED OUT HOWEVER
THAT HER SCHOOLS REMARKABLE SUCCESS WAS BASED ON SOME FAMILIAR SHORT
CUTS n FALSIFYING ANSWER SHEETS AND MAKING SURE THAT WEAK STUDENTS
DIDNT TAKE THE TEST (ER PURSUIT OF hEXCELLENCEv EVEN EXTENDED TO
LOCKING CLASSROOM DOORS AND REFUSING TO LET INSPECTORS INTO THE SCHOOL
WHILE THE STUDENTS WERE BEING TESTED -EANWHILE -EMPHIS SCHOOL
OFlCIALS ASSURED EVERYONE THAT THIS IS JUST AN ISOLATED INCIDENT )N FACT
THEY ARE SO CONlDENT THAT IT IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT THAT ACCORDING
TO THE -EMPHIS SCHOOLS SPOKESMAN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL NOT BE
INVESTIGATING TEST TAKING PROCEDURES AT OTHER SCHOOLS
)N 3ILVER 3PRINGS -ARYLAND lVE TEACHERS WERE CAUGHT IN
VIOLATING hTESTING PROTOCOLSv FOR A MANDATED STANDARDIZED MATH TEST
!PPARENTLY THE TEACHERS DIDNT REALIZE THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG
WITH PHOTOCOPYING AND DISTRIBUTING THE TEST SO THAT IT COULD BE USED
TO hPREPAREv THEIR CLASSES INCLUDING USING QUESTIONS FROM THE TEST IN
CLASS AND IN HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS 7HEN THE TEACHERS WENT TO THE
SCHOOL DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS TO EXPLAIN THEMSELVES THEY WERE CHEERED
BY A GROUP OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS WHEN THEY WENT IN 5NDOUBT
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
EDLY THE STUDENTS AND PARENTS WANTED THE TEACHERS TO KNOW THAT THEY
UNLIKE THE NARROW
MINDED SORTS WHO WERE INSISTING ON HONEST TEST
ING UNDERSTOOD THAT THE TEACHERS WERE SIMPLY TRYING TO BOLSTER THEIR
STUDENTS SELF
ESTEEM
3IMILAR TESTING MISCONDUCT HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SUBURBAN 0O
TOMAC -ARYLAND AND IN #OLUMBUS /HIO )NCREDIBLY THE !USTIN
4EXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT MANAGED TO GET ITSELF INDICTED FOR CRIMINAL
TAMPERING WITH STANDARDIZED TESTING IN ORDER TO INmATE TEST SCORES
4HE SCHOOL DISTRICT AVOIDED A CRIMINAL TRIAL BY ACCEPTING A DEAL THAT
RESULTED IN hDEFERRED PROSECUTIONv 0RESUMABLY THE CURRICULUM IN
!USTIN HAS NOW EXPANDED BEYOND READING WRITING AND ARITHMETIC TO
INCLUDE PLEA
BARGAINING
4HE #HICAGO 7AY
)N #HICAGO TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS WERE CAUGHT CHEATING
IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE )OWA 4ESTS OF "ASIC 3KILLS )T APPEARS
THAT THESE HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS WERE GIVING STUDENTS
TIPS DURING THE TEST ERASING INCORRECT ANSWERS lLLING IN ANSWERS AND
POINTING OUT THE RIGHT ANSWERS !S THE DIRECTOR OF $E0AUL 5NIVER
SITYS #ENTER FOR 5RBAN %DUCATION "ARBARA 2ADNER OBSERVED AFTER
THE CHEATING WAS REPORTED h4HIS IS BLATANT )TS AMAZINGx 0OINTING
OUT ANSWERS TO KIDS n ITS TEACHING THE KIDS A REALLY BAD LESSONv
0RECISELY
7HAT IS REALLY INTERESTING ABOUT THIS INSTANCE OF ACADEMIC LAR
CENY IS THAT IT WAS UNCOVERED IN PART AS A RESULT OF THE APPLICATION OF
STATISTICAL METHODS DEVELOPED BY A 5NIVERSITY OF #HICAGO ECONOMICS
PROFESSOR 3TEVEN ,EVITT /VERALL 0ROFESSOR ,EVITTS STATISTICAL METHODS
INDICATE THAT THERE WAS CHEATING ON THE )OWA TESTS IN ROUGHLY
#HICAGO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CLASSROOMS PER YEAR BETWEEN AND
!S YOU MIGHT SUSPECT EDUCATION OFlCIALS AROUND THE COUNTRY
HAVE NOT BEEN STAMPEDING TO $R ,EVITTS OFlCE TO REQUEST A STATISTI
CAL AUDIT TO CONlRM THE INTEGRITY OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY TESTS IN THEIR
DISTRICTS AND STATES
7HILE THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE RECENTLY REPORTED CASES OF
BLATANT CHEATING BY TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS THIS IS SCARCELY A
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
NEW PHENOMENON )N 53 .EWS 7ORLD 2EPORT PUBLISHED AN
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ON WIDESPREAD CHEATING IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF
STANDARDIZED TESTS )N THAT REPORT THE AUTHORS REVEALED
s )N )LLINOIS THE PRINCIPAL OF A SCHOOL TOUTED AS hONE OF THE
NATIONS OUTSTANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSv WAS FOUND TO HAVE
TOLD TEACHERS TO hDOCTORv STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES TO IMPROVE
THE SCHOOLS IMAGE
s )N 'REENVILLE 3OUTH #AROLINA A TEACHER WAS lRED FOR
INmATING TEST SCORES BY GIVING HER STUDENTS ANSWERS TO A
STANDARDIZED TEST
s )N 4RENTON .EW *ERSEY A ADMINISTRATION OF THE #ALI
FORNIA !CHIEVEMENT 4EST SHOWED THAT OF ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS MET .EW *ERSEYS MINIMUM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
FOR RD GRADERS 4HE FOLLOWING YEAR THE TEST WAS GIVEN UNDER
STATE SUPERVISION BECAUSE OF CHARGES OF hTEST TAMPERING v AND
ONLY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS SATISlED THE STATES STANDARDS
s )N WIDESPREAD CHEATING IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE
#ALIFORNIA !CHIEVEMENT 4EST WAS REVEALED BY A SURVEY OF
TEACHERS IN -EMPHIS 4ENNESSEE /NE TEACHER HAD
EVEN POSTED THE CORRECT TEST ANSWERS ON THE WALLS OF HER
CLASSROOM
s )N A TEACHER IN 7INSTON
3ALEM .ORTH #AROLINA WAS
SUSPENDED FOR GIVING THE STUDENTS IN HER %NGLISH CLASSES A LIST
OF SPELLING WORDS THAT JUST HAPPENED TO BE ON THE #ALIFORNIA
!CHIEVEMENT 4EST THAT THEY SUBSEQUENTLY TOOK
s "ETWEEN AND THE PRINCIPAL OF A 3TATEN )SLAND EL
EMENTARY SCHOOL CHANGED HIS STUDENTS INCORRECT ANSWERS ON
STANDARDIZED READING TESTS SO THAT HIS SCHOOL HAD THE HIGH
EST READING SCORES IN THE BOROUGH 4HE PRINCIPALS CHEATING
CAME TO LIGHT WHEN A LOCAL PAPER REPORTED THAT A FEW YEARS
PRIOR TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE FRAUD A CHILD WITH LEARNING DIS
ABILITIES HAD SCORED IN THE TH PERCENTILE ON A READING TEST
4HE CHILDS MOTHER TWICE RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INmATED
TEST SCORE WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD BUT WAS IGNORED
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
!N UNSPEAKABLY UGLY CLASSROOM REALITY UNDERLIES THE ABUSES
DOCUMENTED IN THESE STUDIES AND REPORTS &OR THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY
HOWEVER IT IS JUST A MATTER OF DOING WHAT THEY KNOW IS NECESSARY TO
MAINTAIN AND INCREASE THEIR FUNDING AND KEEP THEIR JOBS %VERYTHING
ELSE IS SECONDARY
)F YOU THINK THAT THESE ARE ISOLATED INCIDENTS INVEST A LITTLE TIME
SEARCHING THE INTERNET FOR STORIES ON CHEATING BY TEACHERS 9OU WILL BE
SURPRISED
4AKE *OHNNY *UST ,EAVE HIS 4EST 3CORES
)N THE NEVER
ENDING QUEST TO AVOID EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY
/HIO -ISSOURI )OWA AND PERHAPS SOME OTHER STATES ALLOW NEIGHBOR
HOOD SCHOOLS TO USE TEST SCORES OF CHILDREN WHO DONT ATTEND THOSE SCHOOLS
TO INmATE THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE REPORTS UNDER THE
.O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT 7HY 7OULD IT SURPRISE YOU THAT IT IS TO
PROTECT ACADEMICALLY GIFTED STUDENTS FROM THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS
4HE STORY IS ACTUALLY RATHER SIMPLE
-ANY DISTRICTS HAVE PROGRAMS FOR ACADEMICALLY GIFTED STUDENTS
THAT ALLOW THOSE STUDENTS TO ATTEND SPECIAL SCHOOLS WITH CURRICULA DE
SIGNED TO PROVIDE THEM WITH MORE CHALLENGING WORK .OT SURPRISINGLY
THESE STUDENTS HAVE APPRECIABLY HIGHER TEST SCORES THAN AVERAGE 4HE
.O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT SETS PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS FOR SCHOOLS
AND IF THE BENCHMARKS ARE NOT MET PARENTS ARE GIVEN THE OPTION OF
TRANSFERRING THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOLS THAT DO MEET THE BENCHMARKS
.OT SURPRISINGLY FAILURE TO MEET THESE MINIMAL STANDARDS CAN ALSO
ADVERSELY AFFECT THE CAREERS OF ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS
4O MAKE THEIR SCHOOLS LOOK BETTER ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS
IN NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS BEGAN IN SOME CASES TO REFUSE TO NOMINATE
TALENTED CHILDREN FOR PROGRAMS FOR THE ACADEMICALLY GIFTED )N OTHER
CASES THE ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS ACTIVELY DISCOURAGED PARENTS
FROM PUTTING THEIR CHILDREN IN THOSE PROGRAMS )N FACT THE PROBLEM
WAS SO SEVERE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL THAT SOME ADVOCATES OF SPECIAL PROGRAMS
FOR GIFTED CHILDREN WENT ALONG WITH THE TEST SCORE DECEPTION BECAUSE
ACCORDING TO -ARIA #OUGRAS 0APPAS A FORMER SUPERVISOR OF PROGRAMS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
FOR GIFTED CHILDREN THEY BELIEVED THAT IF THE PLAN FOR INmATING NEIGH
BORHOOD SCHOOLS TEST SCORES WAS NOT ADOPTED hLOCAL ADMINISTRATORS
AND BOARDS OF EDUCATION WOULD BEGIN TO DISMANTLE PROGRAMS FOR
GIFTED EDUCATIONxv #ONSEQUENTLY TO PREVENT NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS
FROM hSABOTAGINGv THE EDUCATION OF ACADEMICALLY GIFTED CHILDREN STATES
SUCH AS /HIO IMPLEMENTED A RULE THAT ALLOWED NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS
TO COUNT IN THEIR PERFORMANCE REPORTS THE TEST SCORES OF CHILDREN THEY
WERE NOT EDUCATING
4HE PROBLEM WITH THIS OF COURSE IS THAT THE .O #HILD ,EFT "E
HIND !CTS PERFORMANCE REPORTING IS SUPPOSED TO LET PARENTS KNOW HOW
WELL SCHOOLS TEACH THE CHILDREN THAT ACTUALLY ATTEND THEM )NCLUDING
THE SCORES OF CHILDREN WHO ARE EDUCATED ELSEWHERE IS SIMPLY A FORM OF
FRAUD ON PARENTS )T MAY BE ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW AS WELL 7HEN IN
FORMED OF THIS INTERESTING EXERCISE IN TEST SCORE MANIPULATION %UGENE
(ICKOK AN ACTING DEPUTY SECRETARY IN THE %DUCATION $EPARTMENT
REMARKED THAT THE PRACTICE MAY VIOLATE THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND
!CT -ORE TO THE POINT HOWEVER $EPUTY 3ECRETARY (ICKOK OBSERVED
THAT h@)T SOUNDS AS IF THE FOLKS WHO WANT TO KEEP GIFTED KIDS IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS @ARE PUTTING THE SYSTEM AHEAD OF THE KIDSv
*UST SO
4HE 'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS %NRON
4HE #ORRUPTION OF )NDICATORS
7HILE PARENTS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HAVE ATTEMPTED
TO REQUIRE ACCOUNTABILITY FROM THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION LEVIATHAN
THROUGH TESTING OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS HAVE
BEEN AGGRESSIVELY DEVISING WAYS OF CONCEALING THEIR FAILURE !S 2OB
ERT , ,INN A RESEARCHER IN THE lELD OF EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT HAS
EUPHEMISTICALLY PUT IT h#ORRUPTION OF INDICATORS IS A CONTINUING
PROBLEM WHERE TESTS ARE USED FOR ACCOUNTABILITY OR OTHER HIGH STAKES
PURPOSESv )N A ARTICLE DISCUSSING THE WIDESPREAD PROBLEM OF
SCHOOL EMPLOYEES AND STUDENTS INTENTIONAL AND UNINTENTIONAL VIOLA
TIONS OF STANDARDIZED TESTING PROTOCOLS A 2AND #ORPORATION SENIOR
RESEARCH ANALYST 3TEPHEN 0 +LEIN ADDRESSED THE SITUATION MORE
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
BLUNTLY h4HERES NO TESTING PROGRAM ) KNOW OF THAT IS IMMUNE TO
THE PROBLEMx7E SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON THESE TESTS AND ITS LIKE
THROWING MONEY AWAY BECAUSE YOU CANT ENSURE THE VALIDITY OF THE
TEST SCORESx7HEN TESTS ARE GIVEN UNDER CONTROLLED CIRCUMSTANCES
AND YOU HAVE SECURITY YOU GET RADICALLY DIFFERENT RESULTSv 7ELL OF
COURSE BUT THOSE ARE PRECISELY THE KINDS OF RESULTS YOUR HIGHLY TRAINED
EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS DONT WANT KNOWN
5NFORTUNATELY THIS IS NO MERE TECHNICAL PROBLEM WITH TESTING
IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THE PURPOSE OF THIS hCORRUPTION OF INDICATORSv
IS SIMPLY TO DECEIVE "UT FAR WORSE THAN hCORRUPTING THE INDICATORSv IS
THE FACT THAT OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS ARE CORRUPTING
THE CHILDREN ENTRUSTED TO THEM WITH THEIR DISHONEST EXAMPLES AND BY
ENCOURAGING THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN DEFRAUDING THEIR PARENTS AND THE
PUBLIC
7E BEGAN OUR DISCUSSION OF THE DISHONESTY OF THE EDUCATION
INDUSTRY BY LOOKING AT WHAT HAS BEEN DONE WITH THE 3!4 THE ,AKE
7OBEGON %FFECT AND RESEARCH ON HOW SCORES ARE BEING DECEPTIVELY
INmATED IN BOTH THE 4)%23 TESTS AND THE .!%0 7E THEN LOOKED AT
TWO CONCRETE EXAMPLES AT THE STATE LEVEL SHOWING HOW 4EXAS AND .ORTH
#AROLINA EDUCRATS HAVE GONE ABOUT DECEIVING PARENTS AND THE PUBLIC
CONCERNING HOW GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DOING &INALLY WE HAVE TRIED
TO PUT A FACE ON THE STATISTICS BY PROVIDING SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT THE
PRACTICES REmECTED IN THE SYSTEMATIC DATA LOOK LIKE hON THE GROUNDv
n THAT IS IN SCHOOLS AND THE CLASSROOM
4O SOME IT MAY BE HARD TO BELIEVE THE LENGTHS TO WHICH THE
EDUCATION INDUSTRY WILL GO TO EVADE BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ITS
PERFORMANCE !S WILL BE POINTED OUT IN #HAPTER &IVE HOWEVER THE
MOTIVATION FOR EVADING ACCOUNTABILITY BECOMES CLEARER ONCE YOU UN
DERSTAND THAT IN REALITY THE PRIME CONCERNS OF THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY
ARE WHO GETS HOW MUCH OF THE ROUGHLY BILLION SPENT ON +
EDUCATION EACH YEAR AND WHAT IDEOLOGICAL AGENDAS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
WILL SERVE
!S IS ALSO OBVIOUS SPENDING BILLION OR SO ANNUALLY CUL
TIVATES A LOT OF FRIENDS 4HAT IS WHY LOCAL STATE AND NATIONAL MEDIA
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
FOR THE MOST PART SIMPLY lND IT EXPEDIENT TO IGNORE THE PROVERBIAL
ELEPHANT
IN
THE
LIVING
ROOM OF THE EDUCATION INDUSTRYS CORRUPTION
OF EDUCATIONAL INDICATORS AND CHILDREN n A SCANDAL THAT DWARFS THE
BUSINESS ACCOUNTING SCANDALS OF RECENT YEARS $OUBTLESS %NRONS EX
ECUTIVES AND ACCOUNTANTS WOULD HAVE BEEN PROFOUNDLY GRATEFUL IF THEIR
CORRUPTION OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTING INDICATORS HAD ENJOYED A SIMILAR LACK
OF SUSTAINED SCRUTINY AND REAL ACCOUNTABILITY
! -ODEST 0ROPOSAL
"ECAUSE OF THE TECHNICAL NATURE OF THE TESTING CONTROVERSY AND OF
THE HIGH STAKES THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY FACES WHEN STANDARDIZED TESTING
SEEKS TO HOLD IT ACCOUNTABLE THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY NEVER LACKS FOR EX
CUSES APOLOGISTS AND EXPLANATIONS FOR WHY EVIDENCE OF FAILURE IS REALLY
EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS 4O CUT THROUGH SMOG HERES A MODEST PROPOSAL
FOR SETTLING HOW GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE DOING ACADEMICALLY
FOR THE NEXT TWO ADMINISTRATIONS OF THE 3!4 GIVE COLLEGE
BOUND
SENIORS VERSIONS OF THE TESTS USED IN THE S UNDER PRECISELY THE SAME
RULES RELATING TO ADMINISTRATION OF THE TEST AND ACCOMMODATIONS USED
THEN AND UNDER STRICT SECURITY PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATORS
AND REQUIRE EVERY STANDARDIZED ACHIEVEMENT TEST GIVEN IN GRADES
+
TO BE STRICTLY ADMINISTERED BY THIRD PARTIES RATHER THAN TEACHERS
AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AS IS CURRENTLY THE CASE AND UNDER STRICT
RULES DESIGNED BY THIRD PARTIES LIMITING EXCLUSIONS 2EST ASSURED
THERE WONT BE ANY TAKERS 4HEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW
3ELF
%STEEM AND -R 2OGERS #LASSROOM
7HAT THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION INDUSTRY LACKS IN ACADEMIC EF
FECTIVENESS IT SEEMS TO TRY TO MAKE UP WITH hINNOVATIONv /VER lFTY
YEARS AGO THE PHONETIC APPROACH TO READING GAVE WAY TO hWHOLE LAN
GUAGEv -ORE RECENTLY hINVENTED SPELLINGv n MAKING UP YOUR OWN WAY
OF SPELLING WORDS n HAS BEEN MAKING HEADWAY IN SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION
AND SOME GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AGAINST TRADITIONAL SPELLING YOU KNOW
THE KIND OF SPELLING IN WHICH YOU ARE EXPECTED TO GET IT RIGHT 4HE
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
CONSEQUENCES OF THESE SORTS OF INNOVATIONS ARE ALL TOO APPARENT IN THE
COLLAPSE OF !MERICAN LITERACY 4HEY ALSO ACCOUNT TO A VERY LARGE EXTENT
FOR THE HIGH LEVEL OF DISSATISFACTION AMONG EMPLOYERS AND PROFESSORS
WITH THE WRITING GRAMMAR AND SPELLING SKILLS OF TODAYS HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES
)N THE SIXTIES REGULAR MATHEMATICS GAVE WAY TO THE hNEW MATH v
AND IN RECENT YEARS SOMETHING VARIOUSLY CALLED hCONSTRUCTIVIST v
hWHOLE v h#HICAGO v hFUZZY v OR hCONNECTEDv MATH HAS BECOME THE
LATEST FAD PUSHED BY OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS
h#ONSTRUCTIVIST MATHv REJECTS TRADITIONAL METHODS OF TEACHING MATH
EMATICS IN FAVOR OF HAVING CHILDREN DISCOVER THEIR OWN WAYS OF SOLVING
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS WHILE WORKING INDIVIDUALLY OR IN GROUPS
4HIS ULTIMATELY INVOLVES THE PREPOSTEROUS ASSUMPTION THAT A
CHILD IS CAPABLE OF REINVENTING YEARS OF MATHEMATICS ON HIS
OWN 4HIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS THE USE OF CALCULATORS HAS PROLIFERATED
IN THE LOWER GRADES n CHILDREN ACTUALLY DONT KNOW HOW TO DO SIMPLE
ARITHMETIC 0ERHAPS THE MOST INSIDIOUS PART OF CONSTRUCTIVIST MATH
HOWEVER IS THAT IT TEACHES CHILDREN THAT CORRECT SOLUTIONS TO MATH
EMATICS PROBLEMS ARE NOT IMPORTANT
! VARIATION ON CONSTRUCTIVIST MATH IS KNOWN AS hRAINFOREST MATHv
BECAUSE IT HAS MORE TO DO WITH INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN WITH POLITICALLY
CORRECT BELIEFS THAN WITH TEACHING MATHEMATICS !N INFAMOUS RAIN
FOREST MATH ALGEBRA TEXTBOOK IS FULL OF IRRELEVANT MATERIAL n DIATRIBES
ON ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS PICTURES OF FORMER 0RESIDENT #LINTON AND
POETRY BY -AYA !NGELOU TO NAME A FEW /NE MOTHER WHOSE DAUGHTER
WAS TAKING RAINFOREST ALGEBRA DISCOVERED THAT HER DAUGHTER WHO HAD
RECEIVED AN h!v IN BEGINNING ALGEBRA DIDNT UNDERSTAND hTHAT WHAT
YOU DO TO ONE SIDE OF AN EQUATION YOU MUST DO TO THE OTHERv
4HE EFFECT ON STUDENTS OF RAINFOREST WHOLE MATH AND SIMILAR
INNOVATIONS IN MATH CURRICULA IS ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE )N FOR
EXAMPLE THE 4EXAS %DUCATION AGENCY REPORTED POOR STATEWIDE ALGEBRA
SCORES AFTER THE ADOPTION OF A RAINFOREST ALGEBRA TEXT THAT GAVE INFORMA
TION ABOUT JALAPENO RECIPES 6IETNAM 7AR PROTESTS AND ENVIRONMEN
TALISM PRIORITY OVER MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES 3IMILARLY MATH TEST
SCORES FELL MARKEDLY IN 0ALO !LTO #ALIFORNIA AFTER THE ADOPTION OF
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
A WHOLE MATH TEXT IN %VIDENTLY INCAPABLE OF LEARNING FROM
THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS .EW 9ORK MAYOR -ICHAEL "LOOMBERG AND
HIS SCHOOLS CHIEF *OEL +LEIN HAVE FORCED THIS SORT OF FAILED MATH CUR
RICULUM AS WELL AS A READING PROGRAM THAT IS NOT PHONICS
BASED ON
ALMOST ALL .EW 9ORK #ITY SCHOOLS )T IS HEART
BREAKING TO THINK OF
THE DAMAGE THIS IS GOING TO DO TO THE FUTURES OF MANY TENS OF THOU
SANDS OF INNER
CITY STUDENTS
%NDLESS ARTICLES AND BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE HARM
DONE TO !MERICAN EDUCATION BY THE HOTHOUSE PEDAGOGICAL THEORIES
PRODUCED BY SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION 9ET NO MORE PROFOUND CHANGE
HAS OCCURRED IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THAN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FROM BEING PRIMARILY A PLACE OF ACADEMIC LEARNING
TO AN INSTITUTION WHOSE PRIMARY MISSION APPEARS TO BE THE DELIVERY OF
PSYCHOTHERAPY
4HE $OCTOR )S )N
7HILE BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGISTS SUCH AS 7ATSON 4HORNDIKE AND
3KINNER HAVE ALL LEFT THEIR MARKS ON GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND HOW THEY
TEACH AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE ALSO BEEN INmUENCED TO A LESSER
EXTENT BY &REUDS THEORIES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS THE hTHIRD FORCEv HUMAN
ISTIC PSYCHOLOGY THAT DEVELOPED OUT OF THE WORK OF #ARL 2OGERS 2OLLO
-AY AND !BRAHAM -ASLOW PERMEATES GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TODAY
2OGERS NONDIRECTIVE THERAPY AND VALUES CLARIlCATION METHODS FOR EX
AMPLE ARE REmECTED IN THE TEACHING METHODS USED IN MANY BEHAVIORAL
PROGRAMS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 3IMILARLY -ASLOWS hHIERARCHY
OF NEEDSv AND hSELF
ACTUALIZATIONv THEORIES ARE OFTEN INCORPORATED IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CURRICULA
(UMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY VIEWS MANS NATURE AS INHERENTLY GOOD
AND AS CONTAINING WITHIN IT VIRTUALLY LIMITLESS POTENTIAL )N THE SIXTIES
THE DEMAND FOR hRELEVANCEv THAT SWEPT THE EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
WAS A DIRECT OUTGROWTH OF 2OGERS VIEW THAT STUDENTS SHOULD NOT HAVE
TO LEARN AND SCHOOLS SHOULDNT ATTEMPT TO TEACH THINGS THE STUDENT
DOESNT SEE AS RELEVANT 4HIS OF COURSE INTRODUCED A RADICAL SUBJECTIVITY
INTO THE EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISE IF SOMETHING DOESNT SEEM IMPORTANT
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
TO A STUDENT THEN HE SHOULDNT BE ASKED TO LEARN IT -OREOVER BECAUSE
RELEVANCE IS RELATIVE TO AN INDIVIDUALS INTERESTS AND KNOWLEDGE THE
2OGERIAN FOCUS ON hRELEVANCEv SUBVERTED THE VERY NOTION OF A COM
MON CURRICULUM )T ALSO TENDED TO LIMIT LEARNING TO THE THINGS THAT A
CHILD WITH HIS NECESSARILY LIMITED LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
COULD UNDERSTAND ARE RELEVANT TO HIS FUTURE 4HIS POINT OF VIEW SURVIVES
TODAY IN !MERICAN EDUCATION IN MANY SUBTLE WAYS BUT THE MOST OVERT
MARK OF 2OGERS INmUENCE IN THE !MERICAN CLASSROOM TODAY IS THE ODD
OBSESSION EDUCATORS HAVE WITH STUDENTS SELF ESTEEM
!MONG THE MORE INmUENTIAL BELIEFS OF HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGISTS
IS THAT TEACHERS NEED TO hHUMANIZEv THE CLASSROOM AND HELP STUDENTS
BUILD THEIR SELF ESTEEM 4HIS VIEW HAS GAINED WIDESPREAD ACCEPTANCE
IN SCHOOLS WITH SOME ATTENTION GETTING RESULTS ! 5NIVERSITY OF -ICHI
GAN PSYCHOLOGIST STUDIED THE SELF CONlDENCE OF !MERICAN *APANESE
4AIWANESE AND #HINESE STUDENTS IN THEIR MATHEMATICS ABILITIES .OT
SURPRISINGLY HE FOUND THAT THE !MERICAN STUDENTS RANKED FAR AHEAD
OF THE OTHERS IN SELF CONlDENCE BUT THE !MERICAN STUDENTS ACTUAL
PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS WAS FAR BEHIND
)N HIS BOOK )NSIDE !MERICAN %DUCATION 4HOMAS 3OWELL EX
AMINES HOW !MERICAN STUDENTS SUFFER FROM AN EXCESS OF SELF ESTEEM
3OWELL lRST TAKES UP THE RESULTS OF AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY IN WHICH THE
MATHEMATICS SKILLS OF YEAR OLDS WERE COMPARED +OREAN STUDENTS
CAME IN lRST AND NOT SURPRISINGLY THE !MERICAN STUDENTS CAME IN
LAST )RONICALLY A SURVEY DONE IN CONNECTION WITH THE STUDY FOUND THAT
OF THE +OREAN STUDENTS AND AN ASTONISHING OF THE !MERICAN
STUDENTS RESPONDED THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOOD AT MATHEMAT
ICS ,ATER IN HIS EXAMINATION OF THE INmATED SELF ESTEEM OF !MERICAN
STUDENTS 3OWELL RECOUNTS THE FOLLOWING EXCHANGE BETWEEN A REPORTER
AND A GRADUATING SENIOR AT A ,OS !NGELES HIGH SCHOOL DESCRIBED AS hTHE
SMARTEST STUDENT IN HIS CLASS v ABOUT WHAT THE STUDENT HAD LEARNED IN
SCHOOL CONCERNING THE 6IETNAM 7AR
) LEARNED THAT IN THE 6IETNAM 7AR .ORTH AND 3OUTH +OREA
FOUGHT AGAINST EACH OTHER AND THEN THERE WAS A TRUCE AT THE TH
PARALLEL AND THAT %ISENHOWER HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
4HE REPORTER ASKED
7OULD IT BOTHER YOU TO KNOW THAT THE THINGS YOU LEARNED WERE
WRONG
4HE ANSWER WAS
.OT REALLY "ECAUSE WHAT WE REALLY LEARNED FROM -ISS 3ILVER WAS
THAT WE WERE WORTH LISTENING TO THAT WE COULD EXPRESS OURSELVES
AND THAT AN ADULT WOULD LISTEN EVEN IF WE WERE WRONG 4HATS
WHY -ISS 3ILVER WILL ALWAYS BE OUR FAVORITE TEACHER 3HE MADE
US FEEL LIKE WE MATTERED LIKE WE WERE IMPORTANT ;EMPHASIS
ADDED=
4HIS EXCHANGE REmECTS HOW HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY LEADS TO THE
TRIUMPH OF hUNCONDITIONAL ACADEMIC LOVEv OVER hACADEMIC TOUGH
LOVEv .O JUDGMENTS NO ACCOUNTABILITY TO FACTS JUST ACCEPTANCE /H
AND OF COURSE NO LEARNING
!NOTHER OF THE WAYS THAT THE SELF
ESTEEM FAD HAS BEEN LEGITI
MIZED IN SCHOOLS IS THROUGH THE WORK OF ACADEMIC PSYCHOLOGISTS SUCH
AS (ARVARD 5NIVERSITYS (OWARD 'ARDNER )N HIS INmUENTIAL BOOK
&RAMES OF -IND 'ARDNER ARGUED WE HAVE hMULTIPLE INTELLIGENCESv AND
THAT ACADEMIC TESTS ONLY MEASURE TWO OF THEM LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE
AND LOGICAL
MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE -USICAL SPATIAL BODILY KINES
THENIC INTRAPERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCES THE ADVOCATES
CLAIM ARE IGNORED 4HUS SOME EDUCATORS ARGUE THAT SCHOOLS MAKE
INVIDIOUS DISTINCTIONS AMONG CHILDREN AND DAMAGE THEIR SELF
ESTEEM
BECAUSE THE TESTS AND CURRICULA DONT EQUALLY VALUE ALL INTELLIGENCES
-OREOVER 'ARDNERS THEORY HAS BEEN USED TO ARGUE THAT DETERIORAT
ING PERFORMANCE ON TESTS IS NOT THE FAULT OF STUDENTS OR TEACHERS BUT
RATHER A REmECTION OF A mAWED SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT
#URRICULA THAT HAVE BEEN REVISED TO REmECT 'ARDNERS THEORIES
ATTEMPT TO DEVOTE EQUAL TIME TO ALL OF THE INTELLIGENCES 3O WHAT DOES
A TEACHER DO IN A CURRICULUM REVISED TO REmECT 'ARDNERS THEORY /NE
SUGGESTED ACTIVITY IS TO HAVE CHILDREN STAND IN A CIRCLE AND TOSS A BALL
TO EACH OTHER WHILE PAYING EACH OTHER COMPLIMENTS !FTER THIS STRENU
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
OUS EXERCISE THE CHILDREN WOULD WRITE SONGS ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE
PLAY CHARADES AND TALK -EANWHILE CHILDREN IN *APAN ARE LEARNING
ALGEBRA AND #HINESE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE EARNING S ON THE
'RADUATE 2ECORD %XAM
3TILL ONE MIGHT ASK WHETHER SELF
ESTEEM PROGRAMS SOMEHOW
WORK THEIR PALPABLE ABSURDITY NOTWITHSTANDING 4HE ANSWER TO THIS
QUESTION WAS AVAILABLE EVEN TO THE PUBLIC AS EARLY AS !N ARTICLE
PUBLISHED IN !PRIL 53 .EWS 7ORLD 2EPORT NOTED THAT
THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO RESEARCH INDICATING THAT SELF
ESTEEM PROGRAMS
WORK 7ITH RESPECT TO ACADEMIC LEARNING 53 .EWS 7ORLD
2EPORTS RESEARCH LED IT TO CONCLUDE THAT SELF
ESTEEM PROGRAMS ACTUALLY
UNDERMINE EDUCATION
7HEN THE SELF ESTEEM MOVEMENT TAKES OVER A SCHOOL TEACHERS
ARE UNDER PRESSURE TO ACCEPT EVERY CHILD AS IS 4O KEEP CHILDREN
FEELING GOOD ABOUT THEMSELVES YOU MUST AVOID ALL CRITICISM
AND ALMOST ANY CHALLENGE THAT COULD CONCEIVABLY END IN FAILURE
)N PRACTICE THIS MEANS THAT EVERY CHILD IS TREATED LIKE A FRAGILE
THERAPY CONSUMER IN CONSTANT NEED OF AN EGO BOOST $IFlCULT
WORK IS OUT OF THE QUESTION AND STANDARDS GET LOWERED IN SCHOOL
AFTER SCHOOL %VEN TESTS BECOME PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE SOMEONE
MIGHT FAIL THEM
)N AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED TWO YEARS LATER .EWSWEEK SIMILARLY NOTED
THE lRM HOLD THAT THE SELF
ESTEEM INDUSTRY HAD IN SCHOOLS AND THE
PROBLEMS IT WAS CAUSING -OREOVER .EWSWEEK NOTED THAT THERE HAD
BEEN ROUGHLY SCIENTIlC STUDIES OF SELF
ESTEEM AND THAT NONE
THELESS hTHERE ISNT EVEN AGREEMENT ON WHAT IT ISv
-ORE RECENTLY A STUDY COMMISSIONED BY THE *OSEPH 2OWNTREE
&OUNDATION "RITAINS LARGEST INDEPENDENT SOCIAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOP
MENT CHARITY HAS TURNED THE hSELF
ESTEEMv DEBATE ON ITS HEAD 4HE
CONVENTIONAL LINE REGARDING LOW SELF
ESTEEM IS THAT ITS A RISK FACTOR FOR
ALL SORTS OF SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES RANGING FROM ALCOHOL ABUSE TO VIOLENCE
)T TURNS OUT HOWEVER THAT IT IS PEOPLE WITH HIGH SELF
ESTEEM RATHER THAN
THOSE WITH LOW SELF
ESTEEM WHO ARE MORE LIKELY TO DRINK TOO MUCH DRIVE
TOO FAST AND OTHERWISE POSE A HIGHER RISK OF INJURY TO OTHERS !CCORD
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ING TO THE AUTHOR OF THE STUDY THE BELIEF THAT RAISING SELF ESTEEM WILL
REDUCE SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS hTHREATENING TO BECOME THE PSYCHOTHERAPEU
TIC EQUIVALENT OF SNAKE OILv
4HE lNAL IRONY OF THE STRANGE TALE OF THE INmUENCE OF HUMANISTIC
PSYCHOLOGY ON GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS THAT BOTH 2OGERS AND -ASLOW
CAME TO HAVE RESERVATIONS CONCERNING THE MORAL CONSEQUENCES TO ADULTS
RESULTING FROM THE APPLICATION OF THEIR THEORIES -OREOVER THEY BOTH
EVENTUALLY REPUDIATED THE USE OF THEIR THEORIES WITH CHILDREN )N FACT
-ASLOW EXPLICITLY CRITICIZED SCHOOLS FOR PROVIDING CHILDREN WITH WHAT
HE TERMED hUNEARNED APPLAUSEv .EVERTHELESS THE SECOND THOUGHTS
AND RESERVATIONS OF THE HIGH PRIESTS OF hSELF ESTEEMv HAVE DONE LITTLE TO
RESTRAIN THEIR ACOLYTES
4HE 3YNTHESIS OF 3ELF
%STEEM AND 0OLITICAL #ORRECTNESS
/NCE THEY BECOME A PART OF THE MAINSTREAM EDUCATION INDUS
TRY FOOLISH EDUCATIONAL THEORIES NEVER SEEM TO DIE )NSTEAD THEY ARE
REPACKAGED OR MUTATE INTO NEW FORMS 7HILE PROGRAMS REmECTING
hSELF
ESTEEMv AND OTHER CONCEPTS OF HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY ARE STILL
PRESENT IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THEORIES ASSERTING THE IMPORTANCE OF
SELF
ESTEEM HAVE FOUND A VIGOROUS NEW LIFE AMONG MULTICULTURAL EDU
CATION THEORISTS
/NE EXAMPLE IS THE CONTROVERSY OVER PROPOSED NATIONAL
STANDARDS FOR TEACHING HISTORY IN TH THROUGH TH GRADES 4HE PRO
POSED HISTORY STANDARDS WERE PRODUCED WITH OVER MILLION FROM
THE .ATIONAL %NDOWMENT FOR THE (UMANITIES AND THE $EPARTMENT
OF %DUCATION BY A COMMITTEE OF SCHOLARS TEACHERS AND ADVOCATES
OF HISTORY EDUCATION AND WAS OVERSEEN BY 'ARY .ASH A PROFESSOR OF
HISTORY AT 5#,! 4HIS PROJECT BEGAN IN AND RESULTED IN A
SET OF PROPOSED NATIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS THAT WERE MADE PUBLIC IN
"ECAUSE RADICAL LEFTISTS DOMINATE !MERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVER
SITIES MUCH OF WHAT HAS PASSED FOR HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP OVER THE LAST
TWO OR THREE DECADES HAS BEEN LARGELY A NEO
-ARXIST MULTICULTURAL RANT
ABOUT RACE CLASS AND GENDER )T IS HARDLY SURPRISING THEN THAT THE
COMMITTEES STANDARDS WERE CONTROVERSIAL 4HE STANDARDS THEMSELVES
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
ACTUALLY CONSISTED OF GENERAL LEARNING GOALS AND EXAMPLES OF TEACHING
ACTIVITIES FOR ACHIEVING THE STANDARDS 7HILE THE GENERAL LEARNING GOALS
EG DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN HISTORICAL FACTS AND INTERPRETATIONS CON
SIDERING MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES EVALUATING DEBATES AMONG HISTORIANS
ETC WERE FOR THE MOST PART UNOBJECTIONABLE THE TEACHING EXAMPLES
WHICH AS A PRACTICAL MATTER WOULD DETERMINE HOW THE HISTORY STAN
DARDS WOULD ACTUALLY BE TAUGHT IN CLASSROOMS WERE ANOTHER STORY !S
,YNNE #HENEY A LEADING CRITIC OF THE PROPOSED STANDARDS PUT IT
)MAGINE AN OUTLINE FOR THE TEACHING OF !MERICAN HISTORY IN
WHICH 'EORGE 7ASHINGTON MAKES ONLY A mEETING APPEARANCE
AND IS NEVER DESCRIBED AS OUR lRST PRESIDENT /R IN WHICH THE
FOUNDING OF THE 3IERRA #LUB AND THE .ATIONAL /RGANIZATION OF
7OMEN ARE CONSIDERED NOTEWORTHY EVENTS BUT THE lRST GATHER
ING OF THE 53 #ONGRESS IS NOT
4HE STANDARDS ALSO HAD A NUMBER OF OTHER PECULIARITIES &OR
EXAMPLE WHILE THE +U +LUX +LAN WAS MENTIONED TIMES THE #ON
STITUTION WAS MENTIONED ONLY ONCE (ARRIET 4UBMAN WAS MENTIONED
TIMES WHILE 5LYSSES 3 'RANT WAS MENTIONED ONLY ONCE AND 2OBERT %
,EE WASNT MENTIONED AT ALL !LSO MISSING WERE !LEXANDER 'RAHAM "ELL
4HOMAS %DISON !LBERT %INSTEIN *ONAS 3ALK AND THE 7RIGHT BROTHERS
-ANSA -USA A TH
CENTURY 7EST !FRICAN KING DID MAKE THE CUT
AS DID A RECOMMENDATION THAT CHILDREN STUDY THE ARCHITECTURE SKILLS
LABOR SYSTEMS AND AGRICULTURE OF THE !ZTECS BUT NOT OF COURSE THEIR
CANNIBALISM AND PRACTICE OF HUMAN SACRIlCE 3IMILARLY AS AN ACTIVITY
FOR STUDYING THE EARLY PERIOD OF !MERICAN HISTORY IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT
STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE ELEMENTS OF .ATIVE !MERICANS RELIGIONS BUT
NO SIMILAR SUGGESTION WAS MADE CONCERNING THE %UROPEANS RELIGIONS
4HESE AND MANY MORE ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY STANDARDS CREATED SUCH A
CONTROVERSY THAT THE 5NITED 3TATES 3ENATE PASSED A RESOLUTION DISAP
PROVING THE STANDARDS BY A VOTE OF
4HIS ULTIMATELY FORCED A REVISION THAT REDUCED BUT DID NOT
ELIMINATE THE HISTORY STANDARDS LEFTWARD SLANT &URTHER THE .ATIONAL
#OUNCIL FOR 3OCIAL 3TUDIES THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR TEACHERS OF
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
HISTORY POLITICAL SCIENCE AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES THAT WAS INVOLVED IN
CREATING THE HISTORY STANDARDS HAS CONTINUED ITS WAR AGAINST ANY MEAN
INGFUL HISTORY INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS )N FACT THE .#33 HAS BEEN SO
SUCCESSFUL IN ELIMINATING !MERICAN HISTORY IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
THAT THE FEW STATES THAT STILL HAVE RIGOROUS + HISTORY STANDARDS ARE
HAVING TROUBLE lNDING TEACHERS WHO CAN IMPLEMENT THEM BECAUSE AS
+AY (YMOWITZ A SENIOR FELLOW AT THE -ANHATTAN )NSTITUTE HAS PUT IT
h-ANY YOUNG PEOPLE ENTERING TEACHING TODAY WENT TO SCHOOLS WHERE
THANKS IN PART TO THE INmUENCE OF THE .#33 THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH
!MERICAN HISTORY WAS LARGELY LIMITED TO REPORTS ON 3OJOUNER 4RUTH
DIORAMAS OF .AVAJO VILLAGES AND @REASONED JUDGMENTS ABOUT SPECIlC
CULTURAL RESPONSES TO PERSISTENT HUMAN ISSUESv
7HILE THE HISTORY STANDARDS MAY SIMPLY SEEM LIKE ANOTHER EX
AMPLE OF ECCENTRICITY BY A GROUP OF EDUCATORS THE STANDARDS ARE A
MANIFESTATION OF THE MULTICULTURALIST ORTHODOXY REIGNING IN OUR EDU
CATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ! KEY TENET OF THE MULTICULTURALIST FAITH IS THAT
ALL CULTURES ARE OF EQUAL VALUE AND THAT ONE OF THE SINS OF !MERICAN
SOCIETY AND THE 7EST GENERALLY IS THAT ITS HISTORY AND CULTURAL NORMS
HAVE hPRIVILEGEDv WHITES PARTICULARLY WHITE MALES THEREBY DAMAGING
THE SELF ESTEEM OF MINORITIES
4HUS THE PROPOSED HISTORY STANDARDS THROUGH THE RECOM
MENDED TEACHING ACTIVITIES AND EXAMPLES WERE IN PART A THERAPEUTIC
EFFORT INTENDED TO DEmATE WHAT THE MULTICULTURAL LEFT CONSIDERS TO BE
THE EXCESSIVE SELF ESTEEM OF SOME GROUPS WHILE RAISING THE SELF ESTEEM
OF OTHERS
h!FROCENTRIC CURRICULAv PRESENT ANOTHER EGREGIOUS EXAMPLE OF
HOW THE EMPHASIS ON RAISING THE hSELF ESTEEMv OF STUDENTS HAS LED
TO THE FALSIlCATION OF HISTORY IN THE CLASSROOM "EGINNING IN THE
S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN URBAN AREAS SUCH AS !TLANTA #LEVELAND
$ETROIT +ANSAS #ITY -ILWAUKEE /AKLAND 7ASHINGTON AND 0ORT
LAND /REGON BEGAN ADOPTING HISTORY CURRICULA INTENDED TO BOOST
THE SELF ESTEEM OF BLACK STUDENTS AND THEREBY KEEP THEM IN SCHOOL
4HESE CURRICULA CLAIM FOR EXAMPLE THAT 3OCRATES WAS BLACK !RISTOTLE
GOT HIS PHILOSOPHY FROM STUDYING AT THE LIBRARY AT !LEXANDRIA %GYPT
IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE !RISTOTLE DIED TWENTY lVE YEARS BEFORE THE LIBRARY
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
WAS BUILT ANCIENT %GYPTIANS USED GLIDERS FOR hEXPEDITIONS AND RECRE
ATION v AND THE $OGON TRIBE OF -ALI DISCOVERED THE WHITE DWARF STAR
3IRIUS " YEARS AGO ONLY IF THEY HAD ALSO INVENTED TELESCOPES
YEARS AGO BECAUSE 3IRIUS " IS ONLY VISIBLE UNDER GOOD CONDITIONS WITH
A lVE INCH TELESCOPE
4HESE AND OTHER CLAIMS MADE BY THE !FROCENTRISTS RANGE FROM
THE UNSUPPORTED TO THE ABSURD .EVERTHELESS IN MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS
!FROCENTRIC CURRICULA ARE WELL ENTRENCHED AND AGGRESSIVELY DEFENDED
)N -ILWAUKEE FOR EXAMPLE ,EON 4ODD A BLACK MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL
BOARD SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF !FROCENTRIC CURRICULAR MATERIALS
IN THE DISTRICTS !FRICAN
!MERICAN
IMMERSION SCHOOLS WHICH TAUGHT
AMONG OTHER THINGS THE BELIEFS OF !FRICAN RELIGIOUS CULTS AND THAT
ANCIENT %GYPTIANS WHOM THE !FROCENTRISTS CLAIM WERE BLACK USED
TO LEVITATE AROUND THE 0YRAMIDS (E ALSO OBJECTED TO THE SCHOOL
DISTRICTS PRACTICE OF HIRING TEACHERS PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THEIR COM
MITMENT TO !FRICAN CULTURE !CCORDING TO -R 4ODD TEACHING lCTION
AS HISTORY hLEADS TO THE MISEDUCATION OF CHILDREN OF COLORv 5NFOR
TUNATELY -R 4ODDS CONCERNS WERE NOT WELL RECEIVED (IS RESOLUTIONS
WERE NOT PASSED BY THE BOARD ANGRY PARENTS THREATENED HIM WITH A
RECALL AND JUST IN CASE THE POINT HADNT BEEN FULLY MADE HIS HOME WAS
lREBOMBED
)N 4EXAS AN ALLEGED FEAR OF ALIENATING -EXICAN AND -EXICAN
!MERICAN STUDENTS HAS LED GOVERNMENT SCHOOL BUREAUCRATS TO ATTEMPT
TO PUSH THE STORY OF THE 4EXAS REVOLUTION TO THE BACK OF TEXTBOOKS IF
NOT TO VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE IT !PPARENTLY THE BATTLE CRY FOR MANY OF
4EXAS HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS IS h&ORGET THE !LAMOv
/F COURSE THE USE OF SELF
ESTEEM TO JUSTIFY THE ADOPTION OR
MODIlCATION OF CURRICULA IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS NOT LIMITED TO
MULTICULTURAL HISTORIANS AND !FROCENTRISTS &EMINISTS AND HOMOSEXUAL
ACTIVISTS HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYED SIMILAR hSELF
ESTEEMv BASED ARGU
MENTS IN THE PURSUIT OF THEIR CURRICULAR AGENDAS
/THERS WITH LEFTIST AGENDAS ENVIRONMENTALISTS FOR EXAMPLE ARE
HIJACKING CLASSROOM TIME %VEN hHIP HOPv MUSIC IS BEGINNING TO
SHOW UP IN CLASSROOMS $OUBTLESS MANY #ALIFORNIA PARENTS AND TAX
PAYERS WOULD BE SURPRISED TO lND THAT SOME HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
SPENDING TIME STUDYING 4UPAC 3HAKURS h3HORTY 7ANNA "E A 4HUGv
AND PONDERING THE RICH POETIC MEANING OF SUCH LYRICS AS h"LAZE UP
GETTIN WITH HOS THROUGH MY PAGERv
-ORE INSIDIOUS IS THE WHOLESALE ELIMINATION OF WORDS FROM TEXT
BOOKS AND OTHER MATERIALS TO REmECT THE IDEOLOGICAL ENTHUSIASMS OF THE
POLITICALLY CORRECT LEFT 4HUS WORDS AND PHRASES SUCH AS h&OUNDING &A
THERS v hSNOWMAN v hLUMBERJACK v hSENIOR CITIZEN v hDIALECT v hSENILE v
hHUT v AND hFRATERNIZE v TO NAME BUT A FEW ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY
TAKEN OUT OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS )N .EW 9ORK A RECENT EXAMINA
TION OF TEN 2EGENTS %NGLISH TESTS REVEALED THAT OF PASSAGES BY
PROMINENT AUTHORS USED IN THE TESTS HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO POLITICALLY
CORRECT CENSORSHIP !N EXCERPT FROM A WORK BY .OBEL 0RIZE WINNER
)SAAC "ASHEVIS 3INGER FOR EXAMPLE WAS EDITED TO REMOVE ALL REFERENCES
TO *UDAISM EVEN THOUGH -R 3INGERS lCTION IS ABOUT *EWS AND *EW
ISH CULTURE 4HE WORKS OF OTHER AUTHORS WERE ALSO EDITED IN WAYS
TO REMOVE ANY REFERENCE TO RACE RELIGION ETHNICITY AND OTHER TOPICS
SOMEHOW DEEMED SENSITIVE BY THE POLITICAL COMMISSARS IN CHARGE OF
THE TEST
4HIS RAMPANT POLITICAL MANIPULATION OF TEXTBOOKS AND TESTS HAS
BEEN THOROUGHLY EXAMINED BY $IANE 2AVITCH A WELL
KNOWN EDUCATION
SCHOLAR IN 4HE ,ANGUAGE 0OLICE (OW 0RESSURE 'ROUPS 2ESTRICT 7HAT
3TUDENTS ,EARN )N 2AVITCH WROTE IN 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL OF
SOME ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES THAT HAVE COME TO HER ATTENTION
! FREELANCE WRITER SENT ME THE hBIAS GUIDELINESv FOR A MAJOR
PUBLISHER OF TEXTS AND TESTSx !LL LESSONS TEST QUESTIONS AND
ILLUSTRATIONS MUST REmECT THE FOLLOWING RATIOS MALE FE
MALE #AUCASIAN !FRICAN !MERICAN (ISPANIC
!MERICAN !SIAN !MERICAN AND hPERSONS WITH DISABILI
TIESv 4HESE lGURES DO NOT TOTAL NOR DO THEY REPRESENT
ACTUAL CENSUS NUMBERS BUT THE PRINCIPLE OF REPRESENTATION IS
WELL UNDERSTOOD BY WRITERS AND EDITORSx 4HE SPECIlCATIONS
FOR PHOTOGRAPHS ) HAVE LEARNED ARE EXQUISITELY DETAILED -EN
AND BOYS MUST NOT BE LARGER THAN WOMEN AND GIRLS !SIANS MUST
NOT APPEAR SHORTER THAN NON !SIANSx NOR SHOULD ANYONE BE
DEPICTED EATING WITH THE LEFT HAND 4HINGS TO AVOID HOLIDAY
-Y #HILD IS /N THE (ONOR 2OLL
DECORATIONS AND SCENES IN WHICH A CHURCH OR A BAR APPEARS IN
THE BACKGROUND
7HILE SOME OF THIS IS SIMPLY SILLY THE NET RESULT ACADEMICALLY
IS CONTINUING DETERIORATION OF CURRICULAR STANDARDS -OREOVER IT IS
FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE /RWELLIAN LENGTHS TO WHICH THOSE IN THE EDU
CATION ESTABLISHMENT WILL GO TO IMPOSE THEIR IDEOLOGICAL NEUROSES ON
OUR CHILDREN AND OUR CULTURE
! 'ENERATION OF (EWERS OF 7OOD AND $RAWERS OF 7ATER
4HE MAJORITY OF PARENTS #HRISTIAN AND OTHERWISE WITH CHILDREN
IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SEEM TO BE LARGELY UNAWARE OF WHAT IS BEING
DONE TO THEIR CHILDREN ACADEMICALLY 7HILE THEY MAY HAVE SOME DOUBTS
ABOUT OTHER SCHOOLS MOST BELIEVE THAT THEIR SCHOOLS ARE DOING A GOOD
JOB !FTER ALL THE SCHOOLS ARE TELLING THEM SO AND HANDING OUT BUMPER
STICKERS AND YARD SIGNS TRUMPETING WHAT ON INSPECTION ARE LIKELY TO BE
MERETRICIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS 4HEIR CHILDREN ON THE WHOLE ARE HAPPY
ACADEMICALLY BECAUSE NOTHING MUCH IS ASKED OF THEM AND FAILURE IS
SELDOM ENCOUNTERED 4HE PROSPECTS FOR THEIR FUTURE HOWEVER ARE
UNSETTLING 4HEY WILL INHERIT A SOCIETY WHOSE CONTINUANCE BOTH ECO
NOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY WILL DEMAND LEVELS OF SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
AND TRAITS OF CHARACTER THAT THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO HAVE 7HILE IT IS HARD
TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE IF NOTHING IS DONE IT
IS A VIRTUAL CERTAINTY THAT THERE WILL NOT BE MUCH OF A MARKET IN
FOR GRADUATES WITH MAJORS IN SELF
ESTEEM FROM -R 2OGERS CLASSROOM
7E WOULD ALSO DO WELL TO REMEMBER *EFFERSONS ADMONITION THAT h)F
A NATION EXPECTS TO BE IGNORANT AND FREE IN A STATE OF CIVILIZATION IT
EXPECTS WHAT NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL BEv
# H A P T E R F O U R
! "L A C KBO A RD * U NG LE
h4HE WAY OF THE WICKED IS AS DARKNESSxv
0ROVERBS
O YOU AVOID PLACES AT WORK BECAUSE YOU ARE AFRAID OF BEING BEATEN
$MANCE AND MAKE YOU EASIER TO MANAGE 7ILL YOUR EMPLOYER SUSPEND
UP $OES YOUR EMPLOYER WANT TO DRUG YOU TO IMPROVE YOUR PERFOR
YOU FROM YOUR JOB IF HE DISCOVERS YOU HAVE -IDOL IN YOUR PURSE 9OU
ARE PROBABLY THINKING THAT THESE QUESTIONS ARE ABSURD AND THAT YOU
WOULDNT TOLERATE WORKING AT SUCH A PLACE 'OOD "UT IF THESE CONDI
TIONS ARE UNACCEPTABLE TO ADULTS WHY WOULD THE OVERWHELMING MAJOR
ITY OF #HRISTIAN PARENTS FORCE THEIR CHILDREN TO SPEND THE EQUIVALENT
OF A WORK DAY lVE DAYS A WEEK IN A PLACE WHERE THEY ARE SUBJECTED TO
THESE PROBLEMS n AND WORSE ,ETS TAKE A BRIEF LOOK AT GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS FROM A CHILDS POINT OF VIEW
7HAT DOES HAVING TO ATTEND A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL LOOK LIKE FROM
THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE #HRISTIAN CHILD OR ANY CHILD FOR THAT MATTER
&OR THOSE WHO CARE TO REMEMBER SCHOOL DOMINATES A CHILDS DAILY LIFE
LIKE NO OTHER INSTITUTION )N THE COURSE OF TWELVE YEARS THE AVERAGE
CHILD IS LIKELY TO SPEND WELL OVER HOURS IN SCHOOL TRAVELING
TO AND FROM SCHOOL DOING HOMEWORK AND PARTICIPATING IN SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL -OREOVER EVERY CHILD KNOWS THAT
TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS HAVE AN ENORMOUS INmUENCE OVER HIS
FUTURE THROUGH GRADES RECOMMENDATIONS AND OTHER INFORMATION
THAT THEY ACCUMULATE AND PASS ON 3MALL WONDER THAT REFORMERS OF ALL
STRIPES HAVE RECOGNIZED THAT SCHOOLS PROVIDE THE !RCHIMEDEAN POINT
FOR TRANSFORMING A SOCIETY THROUGH THE EXTRAORDINARY INmUENCE THEY
EXERT OVER THE MINDS AND CHARACTERS OF CHILDREN
4ODAY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS LIKE PRISONS SEEK COMPREHENSIVE
CONTROL OVER THEIR CHARGES IN PART TO SUPPRESS VIOLENCE AND DISOR
DER AND IN PART BECAUSE THOSE WHO CONTROL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SEE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
THEMSELVES AS AGENTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE )N A VERY REAL SENSE CHILDREN
ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FOOD CHAIN THEY ARE NOT
THE ACTORS BUT THE ACTED
UPON 4HEY ARE COMPELLED TO BE THERE AND
THEY HAVE NEARLY NOTHING TO SAY OVER THE TERMS OR CONDITIONS OF THEIR
INSTITUTIONALIZATION
! CHILDS CONCERNS ABOUT ATTENDING A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TODAY
ARE LIKELY TO BE MUNDANE AND PERSONAL h!M ) SAFE v h$OES THE SCHOOL
TREAT ME FAIRLY v h)S IT A HOSTILE PLACE v -ANY CHILDREN IN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS LIVE WITH THESE WORRIES EVERY DAY !FTER TAKING A LOOK AT SOME
OF THE CONDITIONS THEY CONFRONT DAILY IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ASK
YOURSELF WHETHER THESE BURDENS ARE PROPERLY BORNE BY OUR CHILDREN
4HE .EW 7ILD 7EST
7HILE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS AT #OLUMBINE (IGH 3CHOOL ,ITTLETON
#OLORADO 3PRINGlELD (IGH 3CHOOL 3PRINGlELD /REGON 7ESTSIDE
-IDDLE 3CHOOL *ONESBORO !RKANSAS AND ELSEWHERE SYMBOLIZE SCHOOL
VIOLENCE IN THE MINDS OF MANY PARENTS THESE INCIDENTS ARE ONLY PART
OF THE MUCH LARGER PROBLEM OF CRIME WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )N
A SENSE THESE HIGH PROlLE MASS
SHOOTINGS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS MAY
EVEN BE A DISTRACTION FROM THE DEEPER PROBLEM A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
CULTURE OF CHRONIC VIOLENCE CRIME AND DISORDER
!S WITH SO MANY ASPECTS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL DYSFUNCTION THE
LEVELS OF CRIME AND OTHER FORMS OF DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR WE SEE TODAY
HAVE RISEN OVER THE LAST lFTY YEARS OR SO (OW MUCH HAVE THINGS CHANGED
#ONSIDER WHAT 53 .EWS 7ORLD 2EPORT TELLS US TEACHERS REPORTED AS
THE TOP SCHOOL DISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS IN VERSUS
4ALKING
OUT
OF
TURN !SSAULT
#HEWING GUM 2OBBERY
-AKING .OISE $RUG !BUSE
2UNNING IN THE HALLS !LCOHOL !BUSE
#UTTING IN LINE 0REGNANCY
$RESS
CODE VIOLATIONS 3UICIDE
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
4O ADULTS THESE CHANGES ARE STARTLING BUT SOMEWHAT REMOTE &OR
CHILDREN HOWEVER THIS IS WHAT THEY LIVE WITH DAILY 3O HOW BAD IS IT
!ND .OW FOR A ,ITTLE 1UIZ
(ERES THE QUESTION 0ERSONS INSTITUTIONALIZED IN A LARGE .ORTH
!MERICAN INSTITUTION SUFFERED SERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMES EG RAPE SEXUAL
ASSAULT AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AT A RATE OF APPROXIMATELY PER
7AS THE INSTITUTION THE 53 FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM FOR THE YEAR ENDING
*UNE THE #ANADIAN PRISON SYSTEM FOR THE YEAR ENDING $E
CEMBER OR URBAN !MERICAN GOVERNMENT MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND
HIGH SCHOOLS IN )F YOU ANSWERED hURBAN !MERICAN GOVERNMENT
MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS v YOURE RIGHT
7HY DRAG THE 53 FEDERAL AND THE #ANADIAN PRISON SYSTEMS INTO
THIS &OR THE YEAR ENDING *UNE hASSAULTS ON INMATESv IN 53
FEDERAL PRISONS OCCURRED AT A RATE OF PER &ROM TO
THE RATE OF hMAJOR ASSAULTSv IN #ANADIAN PRISONS WAS NOT QUITE PER
INMATES 7HILE THE DATA ARENT DIRECTLY COMPARABLE IT APPEARS
THAT INMATES IN 53 FEDERAL AND #ANADIAN PRISONS MAY ARGUABLY BE
AS SAFE OR SAFER FROM SERIOUS ASSAULTS THAN STUDENTS IN URBAN !MERICAN
MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS ,EST PARENTS WITH CHILDREN ATTEND
ING SUBURBAN GOVERNMENT MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS THINK THAT
THEIR SCHOOLS ARE DIFFERENT THE RATE OF SERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMES REPORTED
FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE SUBURBS IN WAS PER
"EAR IN MIND TOO THAT THESE RATES OF SERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMES
ARE REPORTED FOR BOYS AND GIRLS COMBINED 4HE RATES OF SERIOUS VIOLENT
CRIME ARE HIGHER FOR BOYS
9ES THIS COMPARISON MAY BE A LITTLE TENDENTIOUS BUT DO YOU THINK
THAT ANYONE IN WOULD HAVE REGARDED A DISCUSSION OF WHETHER A
YEAR
OLD WOULD BE SAFER IN A PRISON OR A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL AS EVEN
REMOTELY PLAUSIBLE
3CHOOL #RIME 9ES )T 2EALLY )S 4HAT "AD
)NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY IS A FREQUENTLY CITED
COMPILATION OF INFORMATION ON CRIME IN SCHOOLS PRODUCED PERIODI
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CALLY THROUGH A JOINT EFFORT OF THE "UREAU OF *USTICE 3TATISTICS AND THE
.ATIONAL #ENTER FOR %DUCATION 3TATISTICS (ERE ARE A FEW INTERESTING
lNDINGS FROM THE EDITION OF THAT PUBLICATION
s )N OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS AGES
THROUGH REPORTED BEING THE VICTIM OF A VIOLENT CRIME AT
SCHOOL
s )N OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS AGES
THROUGH REPORTED THAT THEY WERE VICTIMS OF A CRIME
AGAINST THEIR PROPERTY AT SCHOOL
s )N ABOUT OF STUDENTS IN GRADES THROUGH RE
PORTED BEING THREATENED OR INJURED WITH A WEAPON SUCH AS A
GUN KNIFE OR CLUB ON SCHOOL PROPERTY
s )N OF STUDENTS AGES THROUGH AVOIDED ONE
OR MORE PLACES AT SCHOOL FOR FEAR OF THEIR OWN SAFETY RE
PORTED FEARING BEING ATTACKED OR HARMED AT SCHOOL AND
REPORTED FEARING BEING ATTACKED OR HARMED ON THE WAY TO OR
FROM SCHOOL
s )N OF STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS REPORTED
STREET GANGS WERE PRESENT AT THEIR SCHOOLS WHILE ONLY OF
PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENTS REPORTED THE PRESENCE OF STREET GANGS
s $URING THE
SCHOOL YEAR OF ALL ELEMENTARY
AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WERE
THREATENED WITH INJURY BY A STUDENT AND WERE PHYSICALLY
ASSAULTED BY A STUDENT
4O THE EXTENT THAT THE DATA INCLUDED IN THE )NDICATORS OF
3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY IS BROKEN DOWN BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
SCHOOLS THERE IS NOT SURPRISINGLY MORE CRIME IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAN
PRIVATE SCHOOLS 7ITH RESPECT TO REPORTED PROPERTY CRIMES THE DIFFER
ENCE IS NOT LARGE BUT BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WERE MORE LIKELY TO BE VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIMES THAN STUDENTS
AND TEACHERS IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
4HE )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY REPORTS LITTLE OR
NO CHANGE IN RATES OF SUICIDE ALCOHOL USE MARIJUANA USE DRUG DIS
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
TRIBUTION VIOLENT CRIME AGAINST TEACHERS WITH PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS
CONTINUING TO BE TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE VICTIMS OF A VIOLENT CRIME AND
THREATS OR INJURIES TO STUDENTS INVOLVING WEAPONS SUCH AS GUNS KNIVES
OR CLUBS COMPARED TO PRIOR YEARS /N THE OTHER HAND HOWEVER THE
REPORT CLAIMS THAT FEWER STUDENTS REPORTED BEING VICTIMS OF
PROPERTY AND VIOLENT CRIMES AT SCHOOL ALTHOUGH PUBLIC SCHOOL STU
DENTS CONTINUE TO BE MORE LIKELY VICTIMS OF BOTH VIOLENT AND PROPERTY
CRIMES 4HIS PURPORTED DECLINE IN SUCH REPORTED CRIMES IS RATHER
ODDLY COUPLED HOWEVER WITH UNCHANGED LEVELS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST
TEACHERS THREATS AND INJURIES INVOLVING GUNS KNIVES AND CLUBS
TO OF STUDENTS IN EACH SURVEY YEAR AND LEVELS OF DRUG DISTRIBU
TION TO OF STUDENTS REPORTING HAVING BEEN OFFERED DRUGS AT
SCHOOL IN EACH SURVEY YEAR
9OUNG 3TUDENTS 6IOLENCE AND THE 3HAPE OF 4HINGS TO #OME
#ERTAINLY THE MOST DISCONCERTING RECENT DEVELOPMENT IS AN
APPARENT TREND TOWARD INCREASED VIOLENCE AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHILDREN !CCORDING TO SOME STATE AND LOCAL STATISTICS AND REPORTS OF
SCHOOL SAFETY CONSULTANTS THE YOUNGEST OF STUDENTS ARE MORE VIOLENT
THAN EVER )N #ALIFORNIA FOR EXAMPLE hCRIMES AGAINST PERSONSv BY
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ALMOST DOUBLED FROM TO )N
-ASSACHUSETTS BETWEEN AND SUSPENSIONS MORE THAN
DOUBLED FOR STUDENTS IN THIRD GRADE AND BELOW 4HE .ATIONAL
!SSOCIATION OF 3CHOOL 2ESOURCE /FlCERS .!32/ SURVEY OF SCHOOL
BASED POLICE OFlCERS CONlRMS THESE TRENDS /VER OF THE OFlCERS
REPORTED INCREASES IN AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR BY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHIL
DREN IN THEIR DISTRICTS DURING THE LAST lVE YEARS 7HAT ACCOUNTS FOR
THIS IS UNCLEAR BUT TWO RECENT STUDIES BY THE 5NIVERSITY OF -INNESOTA
AND THE .ATIONAL )NSTITUTE OF #HILD (EALTH AND (UMAN $EVELOPMENT
LINK AGGRESSIVE AND DISOBEDIENT BEHAVIOR WITH INCREASED TIME SPENT
IN DAY CARE )F THESE STUDIES ARE CORRECT THE TIDE OF VIOLENCE IN GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS MAY BE SET TO INCREASE SIGNIlCANTLY NOW THAT NEARLY
TWO THIRDS OF MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN UNDER SIX YEARS OLD ARE WORKING
OUTSIDE THE HOME
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
)N ANY EVENT IT IS EASY TO BE DIVERTED INTO DISCUSSIONS ABOUT
mUCTUATIONS OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS OR SO IN RATES OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
CRIME BUT THAT WOULD MISS THE LARGER POINT 5NLIKE TEACHERS OF THEIR
GRANDPARENTS GENERATION TODAYS TEACHERS HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING
ASSAULTED RATHER THAN THINGS LIKE GUM CHEWING AND MANY STUDENTS
NOW MUST VIEW PARTS OF THEIR SCHOOLS AS hOFF
LIMITSv OUT OF FEAR FOR
THEIR OWN SAFETY
4OTAL 3URVEILLANCE 4HE "RAVE .EW 7ORLD OF 3CHOOLS
,EST THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CRIME PROBLEM SEEM TOO ABSTRACT
CONSIDER SOME OF THE MEASURES THAT ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED TO COMBAT
SCHOOL CRIME ,IKE PRISONS SOME GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE TRYING TO
STEM THE mOOD OF CRIME BY INSTALLING WEBCAMS TO PROVIDE SURVEILLANCE
OF EVERY STUDENT HALLWAY GYM AND CLASSROOM EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY
DAY 0ROFESSOR 7ALTER 7ILLIAMS DESCRIBES THE ELABORATE SECURITY STAFF
ING AND MEASURES IN A 1UEENS .EW 9ORK HIGH SCHOOL
*AMAICA (IGH 3CHOOL WITH A STUDENT BODY OF HAS EIGHT
DEANSx 3TUDENT DISCIPLINE OCCUPIES MUCH OF THEIR TIME 4HE
SCHOOL HAS AN ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL FOR SECURITY AND TWO SECRETAR
IES AND A SCHOOL AIDE ASSIGNED TO THE DEANS OFlCE 4HERE ARE
SCHOOL SECURITY AGENTS ASSIGNED BY THE .EW 9ORK 0OLICE $EPART
MENT TO PATROL *AMAICA (IGH 3CHOOLS HALLS THERERE MORE WHEN
THERE IS RANDOM SCANNING OF STUDENTS FOR WEAPONS !T LEAST
MILLION IS BUDGETED FOR SCHOOL SAFETY AND THAT EXCLUDES THE COST
OF THE SECURITY AGENTS PAID BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
4O COMBAT WHAT HAS BEEN TERMED h.EW %NGLANDS HEROIN
EPIDEMIC v THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS h$RUG #ZARv HAS RECOMMENDED
THAT THE .EW %NGLAND STATES IMPLEMENT RANDOM DRUG TESTING IN THEIR
SCHOOLS )F THE RECOMMENDATION IS ADOPTED ANY STUDENT MAY BE RE
QUIRED ON ANY GIVEN DAY TO PROVIDE A URINE SAMPLE 4HE PROLIFERATION
OF THESE SORTS OF SECURITY MEASURES IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS MARKS AN
ODD SORT OF CONVERGENCE BETWEEN THE INSTITUTIONAL CLIMATES OF SCHOOLS
AND PRISONS
(OW DID GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BECOME THIS WAY
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
7ERE FROM THE 'OVERNMENT AND 7ERE (ERE TO (ELP 9OU
7OULD YOU BE SURPRISED IF THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE AND CRIMI
NALITY WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS IN LARGE PART THE RESULT OF FEDERAL
COURT ORDERS THAT HAVE SUBVERTED SCHOOL DISCIPLINE )N THEIR NEVER
END
ING QUEST TO BE hHELPFUL v THE FEDERAL COURTS DECIDED IN THE LATE S
AND EARLY S THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WOULD BE VASTLY IMPROVED IF
THE COURTS INVOLVED THEMSELVES IN DISCIPLINARY MATTERS 4HE CAPSTONES
OF THIS EFFORT WERE THE 3UPREME #OURTS DECISION IN 4INKER V $ES
-OINES 3CHOOL $ISTRICT AND ITS DECISION IN 'OSS V ,OPEZ
4INKER WAS A 6IETNAM WAR
ERA PROTEST CASE CONCERNING WHETHER
A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HAD THE RIGHT TO PROHIBIT STUDENTS FROM WEARING
ARMBANDS PROTESTING THE 6IETNAM 7AR WHILE IN SCHOOL 4HE 3UPREME
#OURT FOUND THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD NO SUCH RIGHT BUT THE MOST
SIGNIlCANT ASPECT OF THE #OURTS OPINION WAS ITS ASSERTION THAT SCHOOL
CHILDREN HAVE A #ONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR EXPRESSION
EVEN IN SCHOOL (AVING OPENED THE 0ANDORAS BOX OF h#ONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS v THE QUESTION THEN BECAME WHAT OTHER h#ONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTSv
DO SCHOOLCHILDREN HAVE 3IX YEARS LATER THE 3UPREME #OURT FOUND IN
'OSS THAT STUDENTS HAD A #ONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO hDUE PROCESSv BEFORE
THEY COULD BE SUSPENDED FOR MISBEHAVIOR
"EFORE THE FEDERAL COURTS INVITED THEMSELVES INTO YOUR SCHOOL
DISTRICT DISCIPLINE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WAS TREATED AS A LOCAL MATTER
FOR SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL BOARDS !S A RESULT OF 4INKER 'OSS AND OTHER
DECISIONS BY LOWER FEDERAL COURTS HOWEVER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
BECAME THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY ON DISCIPLINE IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY
SCHOOLS FOR THE lRST TIME IN !MERICAN HISTORY )N EFFECT FEDERAL JUDGES
HAVE BECOME THE ULTIMATE VICE PRINCIPALS IN CHARGE OF DISCIPLINE IN
EVERY GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
*OHN 4AYLOR 'ATTO AN EDUCATION WRITER AND AN AWARD
WINNING
FORMER TEACHER IN THE .EW 9ORK #ITY SCHOOLS DESCRIBES THE DESTRUCTIVE
EFFECT OF FEDERAL INTERVENTION IN SCHOOL DISCIPLINE
;4HERE WAS= A TREMENDOUS RISE IN SCHOOL VIOLENCE AND GENERAL
SCHOOL CHAOS WHICH FOLLOWED A POLICY DECLARATIONx THAT THE
DISCIPLINING OF CHILDREN MUST HENCEFORTH MIMIC THE hDUE PRO
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CESSv PRACTICE OF THE COURT SYSTEM 4EACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
WERE SUDDENLY STRIPPED OF ANY EFFECTIVE ABILITY TO KEEP ORDER IN
SCHOOLS SINCE THE DUE PROCESS APPARATUS OF NECESSITY A SLOW DE
LIBERATE MATTER IS COMPLETELY INADEQUATE TO THE CONTINUAL OUT
BREAKS OF CHILDISH MISCHIEF ALL SCHOOLS EXPERIENCEx ;7=ITHOUT
THE TIME
HONORED AD HOC ARMORY OF DISCIPLINARY TACTICS TO FALL
BACK ON DISORDER SPIRALED OUT OF CONTROL PASSING FROM THE
REALM OF ANNOYANCE INTO MORE DANGEROUS TERRAIN ENTIRELY AS
WORD SURGED THROUGH STUDENT BODIES THAT TEACHER HANDS WERE
TIEDx 7HO HAD EVER SEEN KIDS BEHAVE THIS WAY
4HE TYING OF TEACHERS HANDS WENT WELL BEYOND FORCING SCHOOLS
TO ADOPT THE CUMBERSOME MACHINERY OF hDUE PROCESSv IN CONNECTION
WITH DISCIPLINARY MATTERS 4HE COURTS DECLARATION THAT STUDENTS COULD
ASSERT #ONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AGAINST TEACHERS ADMINISTRATORS AND
SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN MATTERS OF SCHOOL DISCIPLINE ALSO MADE EDUCATORS
AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS VULNERABLE TO LITIGATION OVER REAL AND PERCEIVED
VIOLATIONS OF THOSE hRIGHTSv .OT SURPRISINGLY FEAR OF LITIGATION ALSO
CONTRIBUTED TO THE NEAR DISAPPEARANCE OF EFFECTIVE DISCIPLINE IN GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS
"EHIND THE .UMBERS
3TATISTICS ARE BLOODLESS ABSTRACTIONS #HILDREN ARE NOT 7E
SHOULD NOT FORGET THAT THERE IS SOMETHING INDECENT AND INHUMANE
BEHIND THE NUMBERS REPORTING SCHOOL
RELATED CRIME 5NFORTU
NATELY THE PROBLEM IS SO WIDESPREAD THAT ONLY SOME OF THE MOST
EGREGIOUS CASES ARE DEEMED NEWS
WORTHY (ERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES AS
REMINDERS
s !CCORDING TO THE ,OS !NGELES 4IMES ORDER BROKE DOWN SO
COMPLETELY AT 7ASHINGTON 0REP (IGH IN ,OS !NGELES THAT
THE TEACHERS HAD RESORTED TO lLING A COMPLAINT WITH THEIR
UNION STATING THAT THE SCHOOL WAS hOUT OF CONTROLv (OW
SO 3TUDENTS AT 7ASHINGTON 0REP WERE REGULARLY BEATEN AND
ROBBED AND STUDENTS ALSO REPORTED AVOIDING PARTS OF THE
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
SCHOOL SUCH AS THE UPPER mOOR CORRIDORS BECAUSE OF THE
SEX AND DRUG USE THAT COMMONLY OCCURRED THERE )N ADDI
TION TO THESE CONCERNS TEACHERS WERE ALSO SEEKING INCREASED
SECURITY TO PREVENT hSTUDENTS ROAMING IN PACKS AND WREAK
ING HAVOCv 7HY DID THE TEACHERS GO TO THE UNION 4HE
ADMINISTRATORS SIMPLY HAD IGNORED THE TEACHERS REQUESTS FOR
DISCIPLINE n EVIDENTLY THEY HAD TROUBLE RECOGNIZING SEX IN
THE HALLWAYS AND MUST HAVE BEEN UNFAMILIAR WITH THE ODOR
OF MARIJUANA THAT PERMEATED PARTS OF THE SCHOOL
s 3HEEPSHEAD "AY (IGH 3CHOOL IN "ROOKLYN HAS SENT GRADU
ATES TO )VY ,EAGUE SCHOOLS WON A FOOTBALL TITLE AND HAS
HAD WINNING DEBATE AND LAW TEAMS 4HESE ARE THE SORTS OF
THINGS THAT LULL SOME PARENTS INTO THINKING THAT THEIR CHILDS
SCHOOL REALLY IS hDIFFERENTv FROM THE GROSSLY DYSFUNCTIONAL
SCHOOLS THEY READ ABOUT 9ET 2OBERT +ORNHISER AN %NGLISH
TEACHER AT THE SCHOOL DESCRIBES THE DAILY REALITY THERE IN A
WAY THAT FEW PARENTS WOULD EXPECT hxTHE ATMOSPHERE IS
SAPPING AND DEBILITATING IF NOT DOWNRIGHT POISONOUSx&ALSE
lRE ALARMS DAILY &IGHTS DAILY #HAOS IN AND AROUND THE CAF
ETERIAS 3TUDENTS BANGING ON DOORS DURING CLASS 7ANTON
VANDALISMx.O ONE MAKES THIS UP !ND MY SCHOOL IS NOT
CONSIDERED A FAILING SCHOOLv -OREOVER BY MID $ECEMBER
OF SIX TEACHERS A SCHOOL AIDE AND A SECURITY OFlCER
HAD BEEN ASSAULTED AND A STUDENT NEARLY LOST AN EYE IN AN
INCIDENT IN WHICH ANOTHER STUDENT PUNCHED HIM WITH BRASS
KNUCKLES
s )N $ENVERS (ILL -IDDLE 3CHOOL A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL WHO
HAD LOST A LEG TO CANCER WAS FORCED TO LEAVE SCHOOL 7HY
4AUNTS AND PRANKS BY A GROUP OF GIRLS ESCALATED TO PHYSICAL
THREATS AGAINST THE YOUNG AMPUTEE &INALLY THE HARASSMENT
AND BULLYING REACHED THE POINT WHERE SHE AND HER PARENTS
FEARED FOR HER PHYSICAL SAFETY
s )N AN INCIDENT RECORDED BY A BUS VIDEO CAMERA A *ACKSON
VILLE &LORIDA YEAR OLD BOY WAS BEATEN SAVAGELY ON THE
SCHOOL BUS ON THE WAY HOME .O ONE TRIED TO HELP HIM
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
NOT EVEN THE DRIVER WHO INSTEAD OF STOPPING THE BUS AND
THE BEATING JUST lNISHED HER ROUTE AS IF NOTHING HAD HAP
PENED !FTER VIEWING THE VIDEO THE BOYS MOTHER 3ASHEMIA
3MALL REMARKED h!T ONE POINT YOU COULDNT EVEN SEE MY
CHILD 4HERE ARE SO MANY INDIVIDUALS ON HIM YOU COULDNT
EVEN SEE HIMv !S FOR THE BOY HIS MOTHER MADE IT CLEAR
HE WONT BE RETURNING TO HIS SCHOOL h9OU WANT ME TO SEND
MY CHILD BACK THERE x7HAT WILL THE NEXT CALL BE FOR ME TO
VIEW MY SONS BODY SENDING HIM BACK THERE v
s )N !USTIN A GROUP OF STUDENTS ROAMED THEIR HIGH SCHOOL
CAMPUS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO BEAT lNALLY SETTLING ON
A MENTALLY RETARDED SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENT WHO WAS
STANDING ABOUT lFTY FEET OFF THE SCHOOL GROUNDS WAITING
FOR A BUS !FTER CIRCLING THEIR VICTIM FOR SEVERAL MINUTES
AND TAUNTING AND LAUGHING AT HIM THE GROUP OF STUDENTS
KNOCKED HIM TO THE GROUND AND BEAT HIM WITH lSTS AND
FEET !N INVESTIGATION OF THE INCIDENT DETERMINED THAT UP TO
EIGHT OTHER STUDENTS KNEW THE ATTACKERS PLANS AND WATCHED
THE ATTACK %VEN THOUGH IT TURNS OUT THAT THE ASSAULT WAS
VIDEOTAPED THE PARENTS OF ONE OF THE ASSAILANTS CLAIMED THAT
THEIR SON WAS AN hEXEMPLARY STUDENT WHO WAS ABOUT TO BE
GIN INTERVIEWS FOR COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPSv
s ! VIDEOTAPED SAVAGE BEATING OF JUNIOR GIRLS BY SENIOR GIRLS
AT 'LENBROOK .ORTH (IGH 3CHOOL A SCHOOL LOCATED IN A
WEALTHY SUBURB OUTSIDE OF #HICAGO BECAME NEWS IN 3PRING
OF !PPARENTLY EXPECTING TO GO THROUGH A MILD HAZ
ING CONNECTED WITH hPOWDERPUFF FOOTBALL v THE VICTIMS SOON
FOUND THAT THEY WERE BEING KICKED PUNCHED AND BEATEN
WITH BASEBALL BATS AS WELL AS BEING PELTED WITH HUMAN FECES
AND PIG INTESTINES /NE OF THE VICTIMS WAS KNOCKED UNCON
SCIOUS AND AFTERWARDS SUFFERED MEMORY LOSS AND HEADACHES
!CCORDING TO .EWSWEEKS ACCOUNT THIS SPECTACLE WAS CHEERED
BY hA CROWD OF BEER SWILLING STUDENTSv 7HAT WAS THE SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATIONS RESPONSE !CCORDING TO A #HICAGO 3UN
4IMES STORY THE PRINCIPAL HAS STATED THAT ANY PUNISHMENTS
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
WILL BE hPOSSIBLE ACTIONS ON STUDENTS THROUGH EXTRACURRICULAR
ACTIVITIESv )N OTHER WORDS IF YOU BEAT SOMEONE SENSELESS
WITH A BASEBALL BAT AT TONEY 'LENBROOK .ORTH (IGH 3CHOOL
YOU CAN EXPECT THAT YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN
THE &RENCH #LUB OR lELD HOCKEY
s 4HE ."# AFlLIATE IN 0HILADELPHIA REPORTED IN &EBRUARY
THAT GANG ACTIVITY IS MAKING GIRLS AT 4URNER -IDDLE
3CHOOL AFRAID TO COME TO SCHOOL 4HE #RIPS 4HE "LOODS
.O A LESBIAN GANG CALLED h$4/ v WHICH STANDS FOR h$YKES
4AKING /VERv !CCORDING THE ."# AFlLIATE h4HE STRAIGHT
STUDENTS SAY LESBIANS ARE BULLYING GROPING AND HARASSING
THEM IN GYM AND IN THE GIRLS BATHROOMSv /NE OF THE
MOTHERS OF THE GIRLS BEING HARASSED DESCRIBED THE SITUATION A
LITTLE LESS ABSTRACTLY h3HE ;HER DAUGHTER= CALLED ME LAST WEEK
SCREAMING AND HOLLERING AND CRYING BECAUSE THEY HAD HER IN
THE GYM CORNERED OFF TELLING HER WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO
MAKE HER DOv ! STUDENT BEING HARASSED PUT IT THIS WAY
h$ONT NOBODY WANNA BE GAY $ONT NOBODY WANNA BE HA
RASSED $ONT NOBODY WANNA BE SCARED TO COME TO SCHOOLv
4HAT SUMS IT UP PRETTY WELL
2EMEMBER THESE ARE JUST SEVEN EXAMPLES 3IMILAR STORIES ARE
BEHIND EACH OF THE hDATA POINTSv THAT GO INTO THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
CRIME STATISTICS -OREOVER DESPITE THE APPARENT CULTURAL AND SOCIOLOGI
CAL DIFFERENCES A CLOSE ANALYSIS WOULD PROBABLY SHOW THAT 7ASHINGTON
0REP AND 'LENBROOK .ORTH FOR EXAMPLE HAVE MUCH MORE IN COM
MON BELOW THE SURFACE THAN OUTWARD APPEARANCES MIGHT SUGGEST "UT
OF COURSE YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DIFFERENT
!S TIME PASSES THE TIDES OF VIOLENCE AND OTHER CRIMES IN GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS WILL EBB AND mOW /NE THING HOWEVER IS CERTAIN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CANNOT RECOVER THE hAD HOC ARMORY OF DISCIPLINARY
TACTICSv THAT MADE TALKING OUT OF TURN AND CHEWING GUM HEAD THE LIST
OF DISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS IN THE S %VEN IF THE WISDOM AND THE WILL
TO RESTORE A REASONABLE LEVEL OF ORDER EXISTED AT THE LOCAL AND STATE LEVELS
4INKER 'OSS AND OTHER FEDERAL COURT DECISIONS LAWS AND REGULATIONS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
HAVE EFFECTIVELY FROZEN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS INTO THE DISCIPLINARY STATUS
QUO FOR AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE -OREOVER THE COARSENING OF SOCIETY
THAT HAS OCCURRED OVER THE LAST FORTY YEARS MEANS THAT MANY STUDENTS IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS COME FROM HOMES THAT WOULD RESIST A RESTORATION
OF EFFECTIVE SCHOOL DISCIPLINE 0UBLIC RELATIONS GIMMICKS MAY ALLOW
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO PERSUADE PARENTS FROM TIME TO TIME THAT THE
PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE AND CRIME ARE UNDER CONTROL BUT AT BEST
IT WOULD LIKELY ONLY MEAN THAT THESE PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN TEMPORARILY
STABILIZED AT LEVELS CONSIDERED UNCONSCIONABLE BEFORE )S THAT
GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOUR CHILD
! #HILDS "URDEN
,ETS BRING THIS INTO SHARPER FOCUS (OW MANY OF US WORK WHERE
BETWEEN AND OF THE EMPLOYEES AVOID ONE OR MORE PLACES AT
WORK FOR FEAR FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY (OW MANY OF US WORK WHERE
TO OF THE EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN INJURED OR THREATENED WITH A GUN
KNIFE OR CLUB AT WORK IN THE LAST YEAR (OW MANY OF US WORK WHERE AS
MANY AS OF THE EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN OFFERED ILLEGAL DRUGS AT WORK
IN THE LAST YEAR 9ET THIS IS THE hWORKPLACEv OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
INTO WHICH TO OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN ARE SENT
(IDING THE "AD .EWS !BOUT 3CHOOL 6IOLENCE
!S BAD AS THESE STATISTICS ARE THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE THAT AS
WITH OTHER KINDS OF NEGATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
THE BAD NEWS IS SIGNIlCANTLY UNDERREPORTED 'EORGIA FOR EXAMPLE
REQUIRES THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS PROVIDE DETAILED DISCIPLINE REPORTS TO THE
STATE ANNUALLY 4HE 'WINNET #OUNTY 3CHOOL $ISTRICT RECENTLY HAD TO
lLE AN AMENDED REPORT AFTER AN INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT IN THE
SCHOOL YEAR THE DISTRICT HAD UNDERREPORTED hDISCIPLINE INCIDENTSv
BY
!S REVEALED BY THE !TLANTA *OURNAL
#ONSTITUTION THE 'WINNET
SCHOOLS ORIGINAL REPORT OMITTED hSOME SERIOUS INFRACTIONS
INCLUDING VIOLATIONS OF STATE AND FEDERAL WEAPONS DRUGS AND SEX
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
OFFENSESv EMPHASIS ADDED )N THE AMENDED REPORT THE DISTRICT RE
PORTED DISCIPLINE INCIDENTS RATHER THAN THE PREVIOUSLY
REPORTED (OW COULD THERE BE SUCH A DISPARITY BETWEEN THE ORIGINAL
AND AMENDED REPORTS %VIDENTLY THE INVESTIGATION HELPED THE SCHOOL
DISTRICT OFlCIALS DISCOVER WHAT THE MEANING OF hISv IS )N THE AMENDED
REPORT h!LL KNIVES ARE REPORTED AS KNIVES COURT REFERRALS ARE INCLUDED
LEWD EXPOSURE IS CONSIDERED A SEX OFFENSE BULLYING AND ORAL WRITTEN
OR PHYSICAL THREATS ARE REPORTED AS ACTS OF INTIMIDATIONv 4HERE IS
WE ARE ASSURED NO EVIDENCE THAT THE DISTRICT ORIGINALLY UNDERREPORTED
DISCIPLINARY INCIDENTS ON PURPOSE 'WINNETS HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCA
TION PROFESSIONALS SIMPLY DIDNT UNDERSTAND FOR EXAMPLE THAT h@LEWD
SEXUAL EXPOSURE lT THE STATES @SEX OFFENSE CATEGORYv /N THE OTHER
HAND CYNICS MIGHT BE EXCUSED FOR THINKING THAT 'WINNETS GROSS UN
DERREPORTING OF CRIME VIOLENCE AND DISCIPLINARY PROBLEMS PROCEEDED
FROM OTHER MOTIVES AND IS PERHAPS NOT AN ISOLATED PHENOMENON *UST
PERHAPS
5NDERREPORTING 3CHOOL 6IOLENCE IN #ALIFORNIA
0ENNSYLVANIA &LORIDA 4EXAS AND 6IRGINIA
7ELL ACTUALLY WE KNOW THAT THE ANSWER IS MORE THAN JUST hPER
HAPSv 5NDERREPORTING OF CRIME IN SCHOOLS HAS BEEN EXPOSED RECENTLY
IN 3ACRAMENTO #ALIFORNIA 0HILADELPHIA 0ALM "EACH #OUNTY &LORIDA
4EXAS AND 6IRGINIA &OR INSTANCE REPORTED CRIMES JUMPED FROM
IN
TO ALMOST IN
IN 2OANOKE 6IRGINIA
AFTER UNDERREPORTING WAS EXPOSED )N .OVEMBER 4HE .EW 9ORK
4IMES BROKE A STORY ON THE GROSS UNDERREPORTING OF CRIME BY (OUSTON
)NDEPENDENT 3CHOOL $ISTRICT ()3$ ()3$ FOR EXAMPLE REPORTED
ONLY ASSAULTS TO THE STATE OVER THE LAST FOUR SCHOOL YEARS EVEN
THOUGH ()3$S OWN POLICE FORCE HAD LOGGED ASSAULTS IN THE
DATABASE THAT THEY SHARE WITH THE (OUSTON POLICE 7ERE THESE MINOR
OR BORDERLINE OFFENSES .OT EXACTLY (ERE ARE JUST THREE EXAMPLES OF
THE UNREPORTED ASSAULTS THE STOMPING AND BEATING OF A MIDDLE SCHOOL
STUDENT WHO WAS LEFT INJURED ON THE mOOR OF THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA THE
STABBING OF A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IN THE CHEST BY ANOTHER STUDENT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
AND THE RAPE OF A WHEELCHAIR BOUND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IN A BOYS
LAVATORY %VEN THOUGH YOU MAY NOT BE A HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL WOULD YOU HAVE TROUBLE IDENTIFYING THESE INCIDENTS AS
ASSAULTS ) DIDNT THINK SO
!FTER THE 4IMES STORY ()3$ PROVIDED THE STANDARD RITUAL DENIAL
OF WRONGDOING 9OU SEE IN THE CASE OF THE RAPE FOR EXAMPLE ()3$
CLAIMS IT REALLY DID COMPLY WITH THE STATES REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
(OW 7ELL IF YOU DONT TAKE DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST A STUDENT YOU
DONT HAVE TO REPORT THE INCIDENT TO THE STATE "ECAUSE THE SCHOOL AU
THORITIES NEVER TOOK ANY DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST THE STUDENT RAPIST
THERE WAS NOTHING TO REPORT &OR A BUREAUCRAT THIS IS APPARENTLY A
SATISFACTORY EXPLANATION "UT WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS ) SUPPOSE ONE
EXPLANATION IS hCOMPASSIONv THE RAPIST WAS LIKELY TO BE JAILED EVENTU
ALLY HE WAS SO TAKING IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST HIM
MIGHT HAVE DAMAGED HIS SELF
ESTEEM EXCESSIVELY IN THE EYES OF ()3$S
COMPASSIONATE HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS /N THE OTHER
HAND SOME MIGHT THINK THAT FAILING TO TAKE DISCIPLINARY ACTION AND
THEREBY HAVING A TECHNICAL DEFENSE TO A CHARGE OF FAILING TO REPORT JUST
REmECTED AN UNWRITTEN POLICY OF KEEPING AS MUCH BAD NEWS AS POSSIBLE
OUT OF THE REPORTING SYSTEM
!RE YOU HAVING TROUBLE MAKING YOUR MIND UP BETWEEN THE ALTER
NATIVE EXPLANATIONS FOR ()3$S RELUCTANCE TO DISCIPLINE A RAPIST )F SO IT
MIGHT HELP IF YOU ALSO KNEW THAT TWO YEARS BEFORE THE .EW 9ORK 4IMES
RAN ITS STORY THE SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR SAFE SCHOOLS AT THE 4EXAS %DUCATION
!GENCY 4%! FOUND THAT EVEN THOUGH ()3$ HAD TRANSFERRED
STUDENTS TO ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS BECAUSE THEY HAD COMMITTED SERIOUS
CRIMES IN SCHOOL ONLY WERE REPORTED TO THE 4%! 4HIS TIME
()3$ BLAMED THE UNDERREPORTING ON hCOMPUTER PROBLEMSv
/+ IF YOU ARE STILL HAVING TROUBLE lGURING THIS OUT HERES THE
lNAL HINT (OUSTON &EDERATION OF 4EACHERS 0RESIDENT 'AYLE &ALLON
HAS TOLD THE PRESS THAT hDISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS CONSISTENTLY REFUSE TO
HONESTLY REPORT ON
CAMPUS VIOLENCEv &ALLON POINTS OUT THAT VIOLENCE
ON ()3$ CAMPUSES AND PRESUMABLY ALL 4EXAS GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
CAMPUSES IS AT ITS WORST BEFORE /CTOBER 7HY "ECAUSE THIS IS THE
hSNAPSHOT DAYv ON WHICH 4EXAS DETERMINES THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
AT EACH SCHOOL AND THAT NUMBER DETERMINES HOW MUCH MONEY THE
SCHOOL GETS IN PER CAPITA lNANCING #ONSEQUENTLY ACCORDING TO
&ALLON h! STUDENT WOULD DAMN NEAR HAVE TO KILL SOMEBODYxTO BE
EXPELLED BEFORE THAT SNAPSHOT DATEv &ALLON HAS ALSO STATED PUBLICLY
THAT TEACHERS ARE REPORTING TO HER THAT STUDENTS WHO HAVE ASSAULTED OR
THREATENED THEM HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO REMAIN IN SCHOOL IN VIOLATION
OF STATE LAW
.O )TS NOT AN )SOLATED 0HENOMENON
0ERCENT OF 3CHOOL 0OLICE /FFICERS 3AY 3CHOOL #RIME
IS 5NDERREPORTED IN THEIR $ISTRICTS
4HESE INSTANCES OF SCHOOLS GETTING CAUGHT UNDERREPORTING CRIME
AND DISCIPLINARY INFRACTIONS NOTWITHSTANDING STATE DEPARTMENTS OF
EDUCATION GENERALLY HAVE NOT BEEN ENFORCING THEIR REPORTING REQUIRE
MENTS +EN 4RUMP DIRECTOR OF A #LEVELAND
BASED CONSULTING lRM THAT
PROVIDES ADVICE AND TRAINING REGARDING SCHOOL SECURITY AND CRISIS
PRE
PAREDNESS PUTS IT THIS WAY h)TS A POLICY OF DONT ASK DONT TELLx3TATE
DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION ARE FOR THEIR OWN POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY NOT
WANTING TO ENFORCE ITv 3O PERHAPS WE CAN EXCUSE THE CYNICS FOR
THINKING THAT THE FALSIlCATION OF CRIME AND DISCIPLINE REPORTS PERHAPS
lTS THE PATTERN OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FRAUDULENT REPORTING OF TEST
RESULTS AND UNDERREPORTING OF DROPOUT RATES TO MANAGE SCHOOL NEWS
ALL FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAINTAINING AND INCREASING GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
FUNDING
!PART FROM THE PRESS COVERAGE OF SPECIlC INCIDENTS IN WHICH
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT MAKING FALSE REPORTS THERE IS
ADDITIONAL STRONG STATISTICAL EVIDENCE THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE AT
TEMPTING TO CONCEAL THEIR TRUE LEVELS OF CRIME AND DISORDER !S REPORT
ED IN .!32/S SURVEY OF SCHOOL POLICE OFlCERS SAY THAT
SCHOOL CRIME IS UNDERREPORTED IN THEIR DISTRICTS IN .!32/S
SURVEY STATED THAT SCHOOL CRIME IS UNDERREPORTED 4HE
.!32/ SURVEY ALSO SHOWED THAT OVER OF THE RESPONDENTS BELIEVE
SCHOOLS WILL UNDERREPORT CRIME TO AVOID BEING LABELED hPERSISTENTLY
DANGEROUSv
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
4HE MOTIVATION FOR UNDERREPORTING IS JUST WHAT YOU WOULD
EXPECT "EING THOUGHT OF AS A DANGEROUS SCHOOL IS hTHE SCARLET LETTER
IN EDUCATION TODAYv n SOMETHING TO BE AVOIDED BY ANY MEANS NECES
SARY 0ARENTS AFTER ALL MIGHT GET UPSET AND TAKE THEIR CHILDREN OUT
OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IF THEY KNEW THE TRUTH 4HE INTENSITY OF THE
EDUCATION INDUSTRYS DESIRE TO AVOID MEANINGFUL REPORTING ON SCHOOL
CRIME AND DISORDER WAS PUT ON FULL FRONTAL DISPLAY IN CONNECTION
WITH THE lRST REPORTING PERIOD FOR IDENTIFYING hPERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS
SCHOOLSv UNDER THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT
4HE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT MANDATES THAT STATES AN
NOUNCE WHETHER THEY HAD ANY SCHOOLS THAT ARE hPERSISTENTLY DANGER
OUSv 5NDER THE !CT IF A SCHOOL IS FOUND TO BE PERSISTENTLY DANGER
OUS STUDENTS MUST BE ALLOWED TO TRANSFER TO ANY SAFER SCHOOL WITHIN
THE SAME DISTRICT #ARE TO GUESS HOW MANY hPERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS
SCHOOLSv WERE REPORTED BY #ALIFORNIA -ASSACHUSETTS &LORIDA OR THE
$ISTRICT OF #OLUMBIA IN WHICH WAS THE lRST REPORTING PERIOD
UNDER THE !CT )F YOUR ANSWER IS GREATER THAN ZERO YOU ARE WRONG )N
FACT ADDITIONAL STATES ALSO REPORTED THAT THEY DIDNT HAVE EVEN ONE
PERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS SCHOOL !S #HESTER % &INN *R PRESIDENT OF
THE 4HOMAS " &ORDHAM &OUNDATION AND FORMER !SSISTANT 3ECRETARY
OF %DUCATION REMARKED h)T DOES NOT PASS THE LAUGH TEST OR MAYBE
) SHOULD SAY IN THIS CASE THE CRY TESTx%VERYBODY KNOWS BETTERv
-ORE TO THE POINT +EN 4RUMP NOTES h3TATES ARE SENDING A MESSAGE
THAT CREATES A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY AMONG PARENTSv
0ERSISTENTLY $ANGEROUS 3CHOOLS
5H .O 7E $ONT HAVE ANY OF 4HOSE (ERE
(OW COULD THIS HAPPEN %ASILY n LET YOUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCA
TION PROFESSIONALS AND THEIR FRIENDS IN THE STATES DElNE WHAT hPERSIS
TENTLY DANGEROUSv MEANS .OT SURPRISINGLY #ALIFORNIAS STATE SCHOOL
BOARD HELPED SET THE TREND BY DElNING hPERSISTENTLY DANGEROUSv SO
THAT EVEN 7ASHINGTON 0REP (IGH 3CHOOL IN ,OS !NGELES DID NOT
QUALIFY #OMMENTING ON THE REACTION TO THE DElNITION ADOPTED BY
#ALIFORNIA AN EDUCATION CONSULTANT AND FORMER !SSISTANT 3ECRETARY
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
OF %DUCATION IN THE lRST "USH ADMINISTRATION #HRISTOPHER #ROSS RE
MARKED h4HE REACTION ) THINK AMONG MOST OF THE PEOPLE )VE TALKED
TO IS INCREDULITY THAT THE ;STATE= BOARD COULD ADOPT A DElNITION THAT
INCLUDES NO SCHOOLSx0EOPLE FELT IT WAS AN INSULT TO PARENTSv /F
COURSE #ALIFORNIAS EVER RESOURCEFUL BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS ALSO BEEN A
LEADER IN DEVISING WAYS TO EVADE THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CTS OTHER
MODEST ATTEMPTS TO MAKE OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS
MORE ACCOUNTABLE AS IS POINTED OUT IN #HAPTER S DISCUSSION OF THE
#ALIFORNIA h-IRACLE OF THE (IGHLY 1UALIlED 4EACHERSv
-UCH OF THE REACTION IN THE HANDFUL OF STATES THAT DID DESIGNATE
A FEW SCHOOLS AS hPERSISTENTLY DANGEROUSv HAS BEEN INDIGNANT STAM
MERING ABOUT THE UNFAIRNESS OF BEING STIGMATIZED FOR PLAYING BY THE
RULES WHEN OTHER STATES OBVIOUSLY HAVE ACTED IN BAD FAITH !T LEAST
ONE OF THESE STATES HOWEVER DIDNT SIT STILL FOR BEING PLAYED LIKE A
RUBE AT A COUNTY FAIR SHELL GAME 4EXAS EDUCATION OFlCIALS WHO HAD
DESIGNATED SIX SCHOOLS AS hPERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS v SIMPLY DECIDED TO
GIVE THEMSELVES A hDO OVERv /NCE THEY WERE ON TO HOW THE GAME
SHOULD BE PLAYED 4EXAS OFlCIALS DECLARED THAT THEY DIDNT HAVE hPERSIS
TENTLY DANGEROUS SCHOOLS v THEY WERE JUST THE VICTIMS OF hmAWED DATAv
AND OF A hDATA COLLECTION SYSTEM THAT WAS CONFUSING OVERLY BROAD AND
FREQUENTLY CHANGEDv )N ESSENCE 4EXAS TOOK ITSELF OFF THE LIST OF STATES
WITH hPERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS SCHOOLSv BY DECLARING h7E ARENT DANGER
OUS WERE JUST INEPTv !NY PORT IN A STORM ) GUESS
3HOWING THAT EVEN SOME OF OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES CAN EVEN
TUALLY LEARN TO RECOGNIZE A GAME OF 4HREE #ARD -ONTE A FRESHMAN
#ONGRESSWOMAN FROM #OLORADO -ARILYN -USGRAVE REACTED TO THE
hPERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS SCHOOLSv REPORTING lASCO WITH REMARKABLE
RESTRAINT h) THINK THEYRE TRYING TO CONVINCE PARENTS THAT THEIR EN
VIRONMENT IS GOOD FOR CHILDRENxAND SOMETIMES ITS NOTv 7ELL OF
COURSE "UT THE REAL POINT IS THAT NOW THAT SCHOOL CRIME DATA IS IN
PLAY AS AN ACCOUNTABILITY FACTOR YOU CAN BET GRANDMAS HEIRLOOM SILVER
THAT OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS WILL BE AS AGGRESSIVE
IN CORRUPTING THIS DATA AS THEY HAVE BEEN WITH RESPECT TO STANDARDIZED
TEST SCORES AND DROP OUT RATES 3O NOW IF YOU THOUGHT MY LITTLE QUIZ
REGARDING VIOLENCE LEVELS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND IN PRISON SYSTEMS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
WAS A BIT hOVER THE TOP v LET ME ASK YOU n ARE YOU STILL CERTAIN THAT
YOUR CHILD WOULDNT BE SAFER IN A PRISON THAN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL )F
YOUR ANSWER IS STILL hYES v BE SURE TO CONTINUE READING
3O 9OU 4HINK 0EDOPHILE 0RIESTS WERE A 0ROBLEM 4HE %MERGING 3CAN
DAL OF 3EX !BUSE OF #HILDREN BY 0UBLIC 3CHOOL %MPLOYEES
"Y NOW VIRTUALLY EVERY PARENT HAS HEARD THE PAINFUL STORY OF THE
#ATHOLIC #HURCHS PROBLEM WITH PEDOPHILE PRIESTS -ANY KNOW TOO
THAT A STUDY BY THE 53 #ONFERENCE OF #ATHOLIC "ISHOPS REPORTED
THAT NEARLY MINORS WERE SEXUALLY ABUSED BY PRIESTS OVER THE
lFTY
TWO YEAR PERIOD SPANNING TO
7HAT FEW PARENTS KNOW HOWEVER IS THAT THE .O #HILD ,EFT
"EHIND !CT REQUIRED A STUDY OF THE INCIDENCE OF SEX ABUSE OF STU
DENTS BY PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES 4HE DRAFT REPORT n TITLED h%DUCATOR
3EXUAL -ISCONDUCT ! 3YNTHESIS OF %XISTING ,ITERATUREv n HAS NOW
BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION !S AN ARTICLE IN
%DUCATION 7EEK POINTS OUT THE REPORT INDICATES A SEX ABUSE PROBLEM IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THAT DWARFS THE SCANDAL OF THE PEDOPHILE PRIESTS
!ND AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED THE .%! IS IN FULL DENIAL MODE
4HE AUTHOR #HAROL 3HAKESHAFT A PROFESSOR SPECIALIZING IN
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AT (OFSTRA 5NIVERSITY lRST SURVEYED ALL RESEARCH
SOURCES hxTHAT DISCUSSED EDUCATOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT IN SOME FOR
MATv 3HE DISCOVERED THAT AMONG THOSE WERE ONLY EMPIRICAL
STUDIES THAT WERE ON POINT AND SOME OF THOSE WERE FROM #ANADA OR
THE 5NITED +INGDOM !FTER WINNOWING THE AVAILABLE DATA PROFESSOR
3HAKESHAFT CONCLUDED THAT A STUDY BY THE !SSOCIATION OF !MERI
CAN 5NIVERSITY 7OMEN REGARDING THE INCIDENCE OF BULLYING TEASING
AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT PROVIDED THE BEST SOURCE OF DATA FOR ESTIMATING
THE INCIDENCE OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT TOWARD CHILDREN BY PUBLIC SCHOOL
EMPLOYEES
!FTER REANALYZING THE !!57 STUDYS DATA PROFESSOR 3HAKESHAFT
FOUND THAT OF STUDENTS IN TH THROUGH TH GRADES REPORTED SEXUAL
HARASSMENT BY SCHOOL EMPLOYEES INVOLVING PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH
OF STUDENTS REPORTING hNON
CONTACTv HARASSMENT SEXUAL REMARKS
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
ETC /VERALL OF STUDENTS HAD BEEN SUBJECT TO ONE OR THE OTHER
FORM OF HARASSMENT OR BOTH
!CCORDING TO PROFESSOR 3HAKESHAFTS REPORT IF THE !!57S DATA
hxACCURATELY REPRESENT THE EXPERIENCES OF ALL + STUDENTS MORE
THAN MILLION STUDENTS ARE SEXUALLY HARASSED OR ABUSED BY AN EM
PLOYEE OF A SCHOOL SOMETIME BETWEEN KINDERGARTEN AND TH GRADEv
!S PROFESSOR 3HAKESHAFT PUTS THIS IN PERSPECTIVE h3O WE THINK THE
#ATHOLIC #HURCH HAS A PROBLEM xTHE PHYSICAL SEXUAL ABUSE OF STU
DENTS IN SCHOOLS IS LIKELY MORE THAN TIMES THE ABUSE BY PRIESTSv
) KNOW ) KNOW BUT YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IS DIFFERENT
0ROFESSOR 3HAKESHAFT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT h%DUCATOR SEXUAL MIS
CONDUCT IS WOEFULLY UNDERSTUDIEDv AND THAT MORE DATA IS NEEDED
.EVERTHELESS THE INCOMPLETE DATA AVAILABLE SUGGEST A HORRIFYING PROB
LEM THAT DEMANDS IMMEDIATE SCRUTINY 7HEN PROFESSOR 3HAKESHAFT AC
CEPTED THE TASK OF MAKING HER STUDY SHE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE PURPOSE
OF HER WORK WAS TO LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR A COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL
STUDY .OW $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION OFlCIALS ARE SAYING THERE ARE
NO PLANS FOR ANY FURTHER WORK ON THE SUBJECT 4HE OBVIOUS QUESTION
IS h7HY v 4HAT IS THE BILLION QUESTIONx OR MAYBE BILLION
IS THE ANSWER
)N ADDITION TO SCHOLARLY STUDIES NEWSPAPER JOURNALISTS HAVE DUG
INTO THE PROBLEM 4HE BEST WORK OF THIS SORT SO FAR HAS BEEN DONE BY
WRITERS AT THE 0ITTSBURGH 0OST 'AZETTE WHICH HAS PUBLISHED A SERIES
OF ARTICLES ON SEXUAL ABUSE OF STUDENTS BY TEACHERS AND OTHER SCHOOL
EMPLOYEES )N AN EXAMINATION OF A SAMPLE OF SEX ABUSE CASES
ACROSS THE COUNTRY THE 0OST 'AZETTES JOURNALISTS FOUND FOR EXAMPLE
THAT THOSE WHO WERE CAUGHT HAD BEEN MOLESTING STUDENTS FOR YEARS
AND THAT AFTER SOMEONE IS CAUGHT ADMINISTRATORS SOMETIMES HELP THE
OFFENDER lND A NEW TEACHING JOB n A PRACTICE KNOWN AMONG EDUCATORS
AS hPASSING THE TRASHv
!NOTHER 0OST 'AZETTE ARTICLE REPORTS ON $R 3HERRY "ITHNELLS BOOK
%DUCATOR 3EXUAL !BUSE WHICH ESTIMATES THAT OF TEACHERS HAVE EN
GAGED IN SEXUAL ABUSE OF STUDENTS AND RESEARCH BY $R $AN 7ISHNICTSKY
A PROFESSOR AT 7INSTON 3ALEM 3TATE 5NIVERSITY WHOSE STUDIES OF .ORTH
#AROLINA STUDENTS HAVE SHOWN EXTRAORDINARY LEVELS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
OR ABUSE OF STUDENTS BY SCHOOL EMPLOYEES EG ROUGHLY OF GIRLS
REPORTED HAVING HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH A TEACHER
7HILE CURRENT TRENDS AND OTHER ASPECTS OF THE VIOLENT CRIME AND
SEX ABUSE DATA FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CAN BE DISCUSSED AND QUIBBLED
ABOUT ENDLESSLY IT IS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR THAT IN THE SPAN OF A FEW GEN
ERATIONS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS EVEN THE SO CALLED hGOOD ONES v HAVE
INDEED BECOME PERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS COMPARED TO WHAT THEY ONCE
WERE THAT PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE MUCH LESS DANGEROUS TO BOTH CHILDREN
AND TEACHERS AND THAT THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY HAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO
EXPEND CONSIDERABLE EFFORT TO PREVENT PARENTS AND OTHERS FROM DISCOV
ERING JUST HOW PERSISTENTLY DANGEROUS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE 4HESE
FACTS HAVE BEEN HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT !ND NO YOUR CHILDS GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL IS NOT DIFFERENT 9ET PARENTS #HRISTIAN AND NON
#HRISTIAN ALIKE
CONTINUE TO ENTRUST THEIR CHILDREN TO VIOLENT AND DISORDERLY GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS DAY AFTER DAY AND YEAR AFTER YEAR #AN YOU IMAGINE THE
RISKS THAT CHILDREN ATTENDING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE SUBJECTED TO AS A
NORMAL PART OF THEIR DAILY LIVES !ND IF THE CHILD IS A BOY IT IS WORSE
2EAD ON
4HE &EMINAZIS (ATE 9OUR ,ITTLE "OY
"Y NATURE MOST BOYS ARE DAREDEVILS AND WANT TO SPEND THEIR
TIME IN ACTIVE PURSUITS AND HAVING hADVENTURESv 3O NOT SURPRIS
INGLY MANY BOYS HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE RELATIVELY PASSIVE ROUTINE OF
SCHOOLING &RANKLY AS MOST PARENTS KNOW SITTING QUIETLY JUST DOESNT
COME AS EASILY TO MOST BOYS AS IT DOES TO GIRLS 4ODAY HOWEVER A RADI
CAL FEMINIST IDEOLOGY PERVADES GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THAT IS DAMAGING
BOYS IN UNPRECEDENTED WAYS !S ONE FAMILY THERAPIST AND AUTHOR HAS
NOTED h)F (UCK &INN AND 4OM 3AWYER WERE LIVING TODAY THEY WOULD
HAVE BEEN SENT TO A PSYCHIATRIST GIVEN 2ITALIN ;AND= DIAGNOSED WITH
!TTENTION $ElCIT $ISORDER AND A CONDUCT DISORDERxv
4RAGICALLY VERY FEW PARENTS HAVE ANY IDEA ABOUT WHAT IS BEING
DONE TO THEIR SONS IN THE NAME OF PROPAGANDISTIC PHRASES SUCH AS hGEN
DER EQUITYv !S WITH MOST PATHOLOGIES IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THIS
TRAVESTY BEGINS WITH RANK FALSEHOODS AND IS PROPAGATED THROUGH CUR
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
RICULA ATTITUDES OF EDUCATORS AND VARIOUS INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
4HE NET RESULT IS THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE NOW A PARTICULARLY HOS
TILE ENVIRONMENT FOR BOYS AND ARE GETTING WORSE
(YSTERIA AND )TS 5SES
4HE STORY OF HOW VIRULENT STRAINS OF FEMINISM HAVE INCREASINGLY
FOUND THEIR WAY INTO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BEGINS A LITTLE OVER A DECADE
AGO WITH A .EW 9ORK 4IMES -AGAZINE ARTICLE 4HE ARTICLE REPORTED
THAT A (ARVARD 5NIVERSITY 3CHOOL OF %DUCATION PROFESSOR OF hGENDER
STUDIESv HAD DISCOVERED THAT ADOLESCENT !MERICAN GIRLS WERE UNDER
GOING A hCRISISv IN WHICH THEY WERE ALLEGEDLY BEING PUSHED INTO THE
BACKGROUND BY SOCIETY 4HIS IN TURN WAS CAUSING THEM TO LOSE THEIR
SELF
CONlDENCE !LARMED BY THIS lNDING THE !MERICAN !SSOCIATION
OF 5NIVERSITY 7OMEN !!57 PROCEEDED TO HIRE A POLLING lRM TO
INVESTIGATE 4HE POLL REPORTED THAT h-OST GIRLS EMERGE FROM ADOLES
CENCE WITH A POOR SELF
IMAGEv (AVING CONlRMED ITS BELIEF THAT GIRLS
WERE BEING hSHORTCHANGED IN THE CLASSROOM v AND HAVING RECEIVED A
LOT OF PUBLICITY FOR ITS POLL RESULTS THE !!57 HAD A SECOND STUDY
PRODUCED (OW 3CHOOLS 3HORTCHANGE 'IRLS 4HIS STUDY CLAIMED TO lND
THAT GIRLS HAD A SECOND
CLASS STATUS IN THE CLASSROOM AND THAT THIS WAS
DIMINISHING THEIR SELF
ESTEEM )N ADDITION TO INVESTING IN
THE STUDY THE !!57 SPENT AN ADDITIONAL ON A PUBLIC RELA
TIONS CAMPAIGN FOR ITS hlNDINGSv 4HE PUBLIC RELATIONS EFFORT RESULTED
IN OVER NEWS REPORTS AND OTHER MEDIA COVERAGE TRUMPETING THE
STUDYS lNDING THAT ADOLESCENT GIRLS SELF
ESTEEM WAS BEING HARMED
BY DISCRIMINATION IN THE CLASSROOM )N THE STUDYS WAKE ALSO CAME A
mOOD OF BOOKS PORTRAYING ADOLESCENT GIRLS AS VICTIMS OF SCHOOLHOUSE
DISCRIMINATION THAT WAS CAUSING THEIR hSELF
ESTEEMv TO IMPLODE
4HE 'ENDER %QUITY &RAUD
!S A RESULT OF THE HYSTERIA WHIPPED UP BY ACADEMICS THE !!57
AND THE MEDIA OVER THE hCRISISv ADOLESCENT GIRLS WERE SUFFERING #ON
GRESS ENACTED THE 7OMENS %DUCATIONAL %QUITY !CT IN 4HE !CTS
LEGISLATIVE lNDINGS ALLEGED AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT GIRLS WERE BEING
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
hSHORTCHANGEDv BY TEACHING PRACTICES IN SCHOOLS AND THAT h&EDERAL AS
SISTANCE FOR GENDER EQUITY MUST BE TIED TO SYSTEMIC REFORM INVOLVE
COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVE GENDER PRACTICES AT THE
LOCAL LEVEL AND ENCOURAGE PARENTAL PARTICIPATIONxv 4HIS LEGISLATION
AUTHORIZED THE 3ECRETARY OF %DUCATION TO MAKE GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS
AND ORGANIZATIONS FOR A RANGE OF hGENDER
EQUITYv PURPOSES INCLUDING
DEVELOPING MODEL GENDER
EQUITY PROGRAMS AND FUNDING THE IMPLE
MENTATION OF EQUITY PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS ACROSS THE NATION 4HUS
THE #ONGRESS IMPRIMATUR WAS PLACED ON THE IMAGE OF THE DELICATE
VICTIMIZED GIRL PROPAGATED INTO THE MAINSTREAM THROUGH THE MEDIA
-ORE IMPORTANT THE FEDERAL mOODGATES WERE OPENED UNLEASHING A TOR
RENT OF hGENDER
EQUITYv DOLLARS
.OT SURPRISINGLY THOSE GENDER
EQUITY DOLLARS ARE FUNDING AN
ARMY OF PROFESSIONAL GENDER
EQUITY ACTIVISTS WHO CREATE CURRICULA
WORKSHOPS AND OTHER RESOURCES FOR CONFORMING SCHOOLS TO THEIR PRE
CONCEPTIONS 7HAT ARE THOSE PRECONCEPTIONS 7ELL ONE TENET SHARED
BY MANY OF THESE FEMINISTS SEEMS TO BE THAT THERE ARE NO ESSENTIAL
GENDER DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES 4HUS GENDER IDENTI
TIES ARE SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED THAT IS A MALE CHILD CAN AS EASILY BE RAISED
TO HAVE THE hGENDER IDENTITYv OF A hGIRLv AS THAT OF A hBOYv !LL THAT IS
REQUIRED IS AN IRON
WILLED RESOLVE TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT MALE CHILDREN
ARE NOT EXPOSED TO OR PERMITTED TO EXHIBIT THOSE EVIL hBOYv GENDER
TRAITS
!NOTHER TENET IS THAT 7ESTERN #IVILIZATION IS HOPELESSLY hPATRI
ARCHALv THATS NOT GOOD IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING AND IS SUFFUSED
WITH VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN !LL THIS BAD STUFF
IS LARGELY THE RESULT OF 7ESTERN #IVILIZATIONS DEFECTIVELY CONSTRUCTED
hGENDER IDENTITIES v PARTICULARLY THOSE OF MEN 3O THE HEROIC MISSION
OF THESE SELF
APPOINTED PALADINS OF hGENDER JUSTICEv IS TO hDECONSTRUCTv
EXISTING GENDER IDENTITIES AND REPLACE THEM WITH NEW IMPROVED VER
SIONS THAT THEY HAVE CONCOCTED "ECAUSE THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT
OBSESSES ABOUT MALE VIOLENCE AND OTHER ALLEGED FORMS OF MALE OPPRES
SION THIS REALLY MEANS hDECONSTRUCTINGv AND hRECONSTRUCTINGv MALES
3TRIPPED OF THE PRETENTIOUS LANGUAGE THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT
AIMS AT USING SCHOOLS TO FORCE BOYS TO ACT AND THINK LIKE GIRLS
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
&EMINIST 3TATISTICS #OOKING THE .UMBERS
! FURTHER TENET OF THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT ALTHOUGH IT MAY
NOT BE PART OF THE OFlCIAL CATECHISM IS THAT FACTS AND STATISTICS ARE LIKE
GHOST STORIES THEY ARE SOMETHING YOU MAKE UP IN ORDER TO FRIGHTEN
PEOPLE /NE OF THE BENElCIARIES OF THE FEDERAL DOLLARS mOWING TOWARD
THE GENDER
EQUITY FEMINISTS +ATHERINE (ANSON ILLUSTRATES THE ANTI
MALE PREJUDICES OF THESE MOSTLY WOMEN AND THEIR CASUAL ATTITUDE
TOWARD THE TRUTH !CCORDING TO (ANSON MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
IN THE 5NITED 3TATES IS AT GENOCIDAL LEVELS
)N HER BOOK 4HE 7AR !GAINST "OYS #HRISTINA (OFF 3OMMERS SUM
MARIZES (ANSONS CLAIMS ABOUT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AS FOLLOWS
s %VERY YEAR NEARLY FOUR MILLION WOMEN ARE BEATEN TO DEATH
s 6IOLENCE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG WOMEN
s 4HE LEADING CAUSE OF INJURY AMONG WOMEN IS BEING BEATEN
BY A MAN AT HOME
s 4HERE WAS A INCREASE IN RAPES BETWEEN AND
.OT ONLY ARE THESE CLAIMS WRONG BUT THEY ARE EVIDENCE THAT GENDER
EQUITY FEMINISTS ACTUALLY OCCUPY SOME SORT OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE
(OW FAR HAVE (ANSON AND HER ILK DEPARTED FROM REALITY &ARTHER
THAN ANYONE IS LIKELY TO IMAGINE !S 3OMMERS REPORTS
)N FACT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ANNUAL FEMALE DEATHS IN THE ENTIRE
COUNTRY FROM ALL CAUSES COMBINED IS APPROXIMATELY ONE MILLION
/NLY A MINISCULE FRACTION OF THESE DEATHS IS CAUSED BY VIOLENCE
AND AN EVEN TINIER FRACTION IS CAUSED BY BATTERY !CCORDING TO
THE &") THE TOTAL NUMBER OF WOMEN WHO DIED BY MURDER IN
WAS "UT ACCORDING TOx (ANSON !MERI
CAN WOMEN ARE BEATEN TO DEATH EVERY DAYx -ALE VIOLENCE IS
ALSO FAR DOWN THE LIST OF CAUSE OF INJURY TO WOMEN 4WO STUDIES
OF EMERGENCY ROOM ADMISSIONS ONE BY THE 53 "UREAU OF *US
TICE 3TATISTICS AND ONE BY THE #ENTERS FOR $ISEASE #ONTROL AND
0REVENTION SUGGEST THAT APPROXIMATELY PERCENT OF WOMENS
INJURIES IS CAUSED BY MALE PARTNERS (ANSONS OTHER FACTOIDS
ARE NO MORE RELIABLE BETWEEN AND RAPES INCREASED
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
BY PERCENT NOT PERCENT AND THE NUMBER HAS GONE DOWN
STEADILY SINCE ;EMPHASIS IN ORIGINAL=
0LAINLY THE GROSS STATISTICAL lCTIONS SERVED UP BY FEMINISTS SUCH
AS (ANSON ARE NOT THE RESULT OF INADVERTENT ERRORS 7HAT PURPOSE DO
WILDLY FALSE STATISTICAL ASSERTIONS SERVE WITHIN THE GENDER EQUITY MOVE
MENT 3OMMERS EXPLAINS
(ANSONx AND OTHER hGENDER FAIRv ACTIVISTS REGULARLY WHIP
THEMSELVES INTO AN ANTI MALE FRENZY WITH THEIR FALSE STATISTICS
4HEY USE THEIR LURID hFACTSv TO DEVISE AND JUSTIFY PROGRAMS AND
CURRICULA SPREADING THE GOSPEL OF GENDER hEQUITYv
!ND THEYRE DOING IT WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS
!RE (ANSONS PREPOSTEROUS ASSERTIONS THE CLAIMS OF JUST ANY
GENDER
EQUITY FEMINIST .OT QUITE (ANSON RUNS THE 7OMENS %DU
CATIONAL %QUITY !CT %QUITY 2ESOURCE #ENTER WHICH IS A NATIONAL DIS
TRIBUTOR AND PUBLISHER OF hGENDER
FAIRv MATERIALS AND CLAIMS TO HAVE
PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN THE SUCCESS OF THE 7OMENS %DUCATIONAL %QUITY
!CT !CCORDING TO 3OMMERS (ANSONS ORGANIZATION IS
;4=HE hPRIMARY VEHICLEv BY WHICH THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF
%DUCATION PROMOTES GENDER EQUITY !S DIRECTOR (ANSON WORKS
WITH SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO hINFUSE EQUITYv
INTO ALL EDUCATION POLICIES PRACTICES AND MATERIALS
4HIS IS FAR FROM HARMLESS
(ARASSING "OYS
!S YOU MIGHT SUSPECT THE FEMINISTS IN THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVE
MENT DONT MUCH LIKE MEN !ND WHILE THEY PROFESS A CONCERN FOR BOYS
3OMMERS POINTS OUT THAT THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS BOYS IS IN FACT QUITE
HOSTILE
,EADERS IN THE EQUITY MOVEMENT TAKE A VERY DIM VIEW OF ERRANT
BOYS SPEAKING WITH STRAIGHT FACES ABOUT SCHOOLYARD HARASSERS AS
TOMORROWS BATTERERS RAPISTS AND MURDERERS
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
"ECAUSE IT IS TOO LATE TO RE SOCIALIZE MEN AND BECAUSE THEY TEND
TO VIEW BOYS AS RAPISTS AND MURDERERS IN TRAINING THE GENDER EQUITY
CROWD IS VERY FOCUSED ON GETTING THEIR MATERIALS AND PROGRAMS INTO
SCHOOLS WHERE THEY BELIEVE THEY CAN PROPERLY SOCIALIZE BOYS "EAR IN
MIND THEY AIM AT MAKING SURE THAT YOUR SONS ARE SOCIALIZED THEIR WAY
NOT YOURS
%NFORCING A &EMINIST 'RADE 3CHOOL 2EICH
! .ORTH #AROLINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR EXAMPLE SUSPENDED
A SIX
YEAR
OLD FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT (IS CRIME (E KISSED A GIRL ON
THE CHEEK hPARTLY BECAUSE HE LIKED HER AND PARTLY HE SAID BECAUSE SHE
ASKED HIM TOv 3CHOOL OFlCIALS INITIALLY JUSTIlED THEIR ACTION ON THE
GROUNDS THAT THIS BOY WHO WAS OBVIOUSLY A SEXUAL PREDATOR IN TRAIN
ING HAD VIOLATED THE SCHOOLS WRITTEN RULES AGAINST SEXUAL HARASSMENT
,ATER THEY CLAIMED THAT HE HAD ONLY BROKEN A hGENERAL SCHOOL RULE
PROHIBITING UNWARRANTED AND UNWELCOME TOUCHING OF ONE STUDENT BY
ANOTHERv
*OHN ,EO TELLS OF ANOTHER INCIDENT THAT FROM THE GENDER EQUITY
VIEWPOINT ILLUSTRATES THE HORRORS OF PLAYING TAG
-Y FAVORITE ISx THE THIRD
GRADE BOY ACCUSED OF TOUCHING A GIRL
ON THE BREASTS THOUGH IT IS PERHAPS FAIRER TO SAY THAT DURING A
GAME OF TAG HE TAGGED HER ON THE VERY SPOT WHERE HER BREASTS
WOULD PRESUMABLY APPEAR IN THREE OR FOUR YEARS 4HIS IS LIKE BE
ING ACCUSED OF ROBBING A BANK THAT HASNT BEEN BUILT YET
.OT EVERY INCIDENT OF OUT
OF
CONTROL GENDER EQUITY ENTHUSIASM
HAS AN ELEMENT OF HUMOR #HRISTINA (OFF 3OMMERS WRITES OF A 6IR
GINIA NINE YEAR
OLD CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED SEXUAL BATTERY
7HEN HE WAS ACCUSED OF DELIBERATELY RUBBING UP AGAINST A GIRL
IN THE CAFETERIA SCHOOL OFlCIALS NOTIlED POLICE 4HE BOY WAS
CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED SEXUAL BATTERY AND WAS HANDCUFFED
AND lNGERPRINTED 4HE FAMILYS LAWYERx SAID h4HIS IS REALLY
A CASE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN AMUCK ! YEAR
OLD BUMPS
INTO A GIRL IN THE LUNCH LINE WHILE REACHING FOR AN APPLE AND ALL
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
OF A SUDDEN YOUVE GOT 7ORLD 7AR ))) DECLARED AGAINST A FOURTH
GRADERv %VENTUALLY THE CHARGES WERE DROPPED
)N CASE YOURE THINKING THAT THESE SORTS OF INCIDENTS REPRESENT A
LOCAL MISINTERPRETATION OF THE SORT OF SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT IS TRYING TO CREATE DONT
7HEN #ALIFORNIA PASSED A LAW PREVENTING SCHOOLS FROM EXPEL
LING STUDENTS FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT UNLESS THEY WERE IN THE FOURTH OR A
HIGHER GRADE 3UE 3ATTEL WAS DISPLEASED 3ATTEL IS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE
-INNESOTA $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION AND A CO
AUTHOR OF A CURRICULUM
THAT INSTRUCTS lRST GRADERS THAT TEASING BOYS WHO WANT TO JUMP ROPE IS
hHOMOPHOBICv !CCORDING TO 3ATTEL h#ALIFORNIA IS SENDING A MES
SAGE THAT IT IS /+ FOR VERY LITTLE KIDS TO SEXUALLY HARASS EACH OTHERv
7HAT ARE FEMINISTS LIKE 3ATTEL REALLY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH ,INDA
#HAVEZ SUMS UP WELL THE INTENTIONS OF THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT
)F THE FEDS AND THEIR FEMINIST ALLIES HAVE THEIR WAY EVERY LITTLE
BOY AND GIRL IN THE NATION WILL BE TAUGHT THAT mIRTING IS A CRIME
AND EVEN AN ADMIRING LOOK MUCH LESS A KISS CAN LAND YOU IN
COURT
!PPARENTLY NOT CONTENT WITH JUST GETTING MONEY AND hCURRICULAR
SHELF SPACEv FOR GENDER
EQUITY THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT ALSO HAS
INSINUATED ITSELF INTO DRUG EDUCATION 4HE $EPARTMENT OF (EALTH
AND (UMAN 3ERVICES ((3 CURRENTLY FUNDS AN ANTI
DRUG PROGRAM
CALLED h'IRL 0OWER v WHICH IS BASED ON THE IMPROBABLE PREMISE THAT
GIRLS WHO ARE TAUGHT TO REJECT TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF FEMININITY ARE
LESS LIKELY TO SMOKE DRINK AND USE DRUGS ((3 IS ALSO CONSIDERING
CREATING AN ANALOGOUS ANTI
DRUG PROGRAM FOR BOYS CALLED h"OY 4ALK v
WHICH NOT SURPRISINGLY PROCEEDS FROM THE PREMISE THAT IF BOYS WOULD
GIVE UP TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF MASCULINITY THEY WILL BE LESS LIKELY TO
GET INVOLVED WITH SMOKING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS 3O THERE YOU HAVE IT
)F BOYS AND GIRLS JUST QUIT BEING BOYS AND GIRLS THE DRUG PROBLEM WILL
BE SOLVED
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
3OWING THE 3EEDS OF $ISTRUST
3PLENDID "OYS NOW INCREASINGLY HAVE TO ENDURE BEING SYSTEM
ATICALLY VILIlED AND DEMEANED IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FOR NO OTHER
REASON THAN THAT THEY ARE BOYS WHILE GIRLS ARE BEING INDOCTRINATED
WITH A DELUSIONAL VIEW OF THE WORLD AND OF BOYS AND MEN )TS REMI
NISCENT OF A PRACTICAL JOKE THAT GOES LIKE THIS 0ICK TWO PERSONS AT A
LARGE SOCIAL GATHERING AND TELL EACH ONE SEPARATELY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE
TO INTRODUCE HIM TO THE OTHER "E SURE HOWEVER TO CONlDE IN EACH
OF THEM THAT THE PERSON THAT HE IS ABOUT TO MEET IS HARD OF HEARING
AND SENSITIVE ABOUT IT SO IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO SPEAK VERY LOUDLY AND
ENUNCIATE DISTINCTLY TO THE OTHER PERSON -AKE THE INTRODUCTION AND A
STRANGE SPECTACLE WILL UNFOLD
! MORE MALICIOUS VARIATION ON THIS hPRACTICAL JOKEv IS TO lND A
SUBTLE WAY OF TELLING EACH INDIVIDUAL THAT THE OTHER HAS BEEN SAYING
NEGATIVE THINGS ABOUT HIM 4HIS IS WHAT THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT
IS ACTUALLY DOING AND IT CAN SOW PERMANENT SEEDS OF DISTRUST BETWEEN
PEOPLE WHO OTHERWISE WOULD BE DISPOSED TO LIKE EACH OTHER 4HAT THIS
IS BEING DONE SYSTEMATICALLY TO BOYS AND GIRLS IN GOVERNMENT AND
SOME SECULAR PRIVATE SCHOOL CLASSROOMS IS PROFOUNDLY DAMAGING
NOT MERELY TO THEIR PRESENT WELL
BEING BUT TO THEIR FUTURES AS WELL
!FTER BEING SUBJECTED TO THIS INSTITUTIONALIZED FORM OF CHILD ABUSE
CAN MANY BOYS HELP BUT BE SUSPICIOUS AND RESENTFUL TOWARD GIRLS AND
WOMEN #AN MANY GIRLS HELP BUT BE SUSPICIOUS AND RESENTFUL TOWARD
BOYS AND MEN !S THEY MATURE CAN THIS HAVE ANYTHING OTHER THAN A
NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THEIR ABILITY TO FORM THE BONDS OF TRUST RESPECT AND
AFFECTION THAT LEAD TO AND SUSTAIN SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGES AND FAMILIES !S
#HRISTIAN PARENTS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD CONCERN US DEEPLY
)TS 4HERE %VEN IF 9OU $ONT +NOW IT
$ONT THINK THAT YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IS SOMEHOW
IMMUNE TO ALL OF THIS 4HE GENDER
EQUITY IDEOLOGY IS NOW INSCRIBED
IN LEGISLATION 3UPREME #OURT DECISIONS AND $EPARTMENT OF %DUCA
TION REGULATIONS )F A PARTICULARLY VIRULENT FORM OF THE GENDER
EQUITY
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
MOVEMENT HASNT YET MADE IT TO YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT DONT WORRY )T
SOON WILL )N ANY EVENT REST ASSURED THAT IT IS THERE NOW IN SOME FORM
OR OTHER -OREOVER DONT COUNT ON SCHOOL PERSONNEL TO SHIELD YOUR
CHILD FROM THIS RUBBISH /UR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS
LIKE HAVING JOBS AND THEY DONT LIKE LAWSUITS !NY SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT
FAILS TO FALL IN LINE RUNS A SERIOUS RISK OF BEING SUED )F A SCHOOL OFlCIAL
HAS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN PUTTING HIS CAREER IN JEOPARDY AND CALLING THE
POLICE BECAUSE YOUR SON ACCIDENTALLY BUMPED A GIRL IN THE CAFETERIA
LINE REACHING FOR AN APPLE WHAT DO YOU THINK HE IS GOING TO DO )N
CASE YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS CONSIDER HOW ONE OF THE HIGH PRIESTESSES
OF THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT HAS DESCRIBED THE RESPONSE OF SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATORS TO THE CURRENT REGIME OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWS AND
REGULATIONS h)D SAY THEY ARE IN A PANICx 4HERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY
LAWSUITS WITH SO MANY MONETARY DAMAGESx 4HEY ARE PANICKEDv
!ND DONT THINK THAT SHE ISNT QUITE PLEASED ABOUT IT
4HE 2EAL 'ENDER 0ROBLEM IN 3CHOOLS
7OULD IT SURPRISE YOU THAT THE hlNDINGSv OF THE (ARVARD PROFES
SOR OF hGENDER STUDIES v THE !!57 AND THE OTHERS WHO SO BREATHLESSLY
REPORTED ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CRISIS AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS WERE TO
PUT IT POLITELY NOT TRUE 7HILE THE ESTEEMED (ARVARD PROFESSOR WAS
PROMOTING THE NOTION THAT ADOLESCENT GIRLS WERE IMMERSED IN MISERY
BECAUSE OF A CATASTROPHIC ASSAULT ON THEIR CONlDENCE IN THE CLASSROOM
THE 5NIVERSITY OF -ICHIGAN AND THE $EPARTMENT OF (EALTH AND (U
MAN 3ERVICES WERE CONDUCTING A STUDY OF A SCIENTIlC SAMPLE OF THREE
THOUSAND HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS TO DETERMINE HOW SATISlED THEY WERE
WITH THEIR LIVES !LMOST OF THE GIRLS AND OF THE BOYS REPORTED
THAT THEY WERE hPRETTY HAPPYv OR hVERY HAPPYv
3IMILARLY WHILE THE !!57 PUBLIC RELATIONS MACHINE WAS GEN
ERATING LOTS OF PRESS COVERAGE FOR ITS SENSATIONAL hlNDINGS v LEADING
ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGISTS WERE QUESTIONING THE VALIDITY OF THE !!57S
POLL 4HEIR DOUBTS HOWEVER SOMEHOW DIDNT MAKE IT INTO THE
REPORTING ABOUT THE POLL 4HE TRUTH OF THE ENTIRE MATTER WAS SUM
MARIZED YEARS LATER BY $IANE 2AVITCH A FORMER !SSISTANT 3ECRETARY OF
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
%DUCATION FOR %DUCATIONAL 2ESEARCH AND )MPROVEMENT AND .EW 9ORK
5NIVERSITY PROFESSOR IN A .EW 9ORK 4IMES ARTICLE
4HE !!57 REPORT WAS JUST COMPLETELY WRONG 7HAT WAS SO
BIZARRE IS THAT IT CAME OUT RIGHT AT THE TIME THAT GIRLS HAD JUST
OVERTAKEN BOYS IN ALMOST EVERY AREA )T MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE
RIGHT STORY YEARS EARLIER BUT COMING OUT WHEN IT DID IT WAS
LIKE CALLING A WEDDING A FUNERALx 4HERE WERE ALL THESE SPECIAL
PROGRAMS PUT IN PLACE FOR GIRLS AND NO ONE PAID ANY ATTENTION
TO BOYS
/F COURSE BY THE TIME THAT THE hGIRL CRISISv WAS EXPOSED AS A
FRAUD IT WASNT CONSIDERED NEWS "ESIDES IT DIDNT MATTER 4HE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT HAD ALREADY OBTAINED THE LAWS REGULATIONS AND
FEDERAL AND STATE MONEY IT NEEDED TO INSTITUTIONALIZE ITSELF WITHIN
!MERICAS SCHOOLS
)RONICALLY AS THE !!57 AND OTHERS WERE MANUFACTURING THE MYTH
OF THE hSHORT
CHANGED GIRL v THE !!57 KNEW THAT STUDENTS BOTH BOYS
AND GIRLS WERE REPORTING PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE n THAT TEACHERS WERE
CONSISTENTLY FAVORING GIRLS IN THE CLASSROOM )N DATA FROM THE !!57S
3ELF
%STEEM 3URVEY THAT THE !!57 DID NOT PUBLISH BOTH BOYS
AND GIRLS REPORTED THAT CLASSROOM TEACHERS WERE PAYING MORE ATTENTION
TO GIRLS THAN BOYS PREFERRED BEING AROUND GIRLS RATHER THAN BOYS COM
PLIMENTED GIRLS MORE OFTEN THAN BOYS CALLED ON GIRLS MORE OFTEN THAN
BOYS AND THOUGHT THAT GIRLS ARE SMARTER THAN BOYS -OREOVER THESE
PERCEPTIONS WERE HELD BY SIGNIlCANT MAJORITIES OF BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS
&OR EXAMPLE OF GIRLS AND OF BOYS REPORTED THAT TEACHERS PAY
MORE ATTENTION TO GIRLS THAN BOYS WHILE ONLY OF GIRLS AND OF
BOYS THOUGHT THAT TEACHERS PAID MORE ATTENTION TO BOYS &ULLY OF
GIRLS AND OF BOYS REPORTED THAT TEACHERS PREFERRED TO BE AROUND
GIRLS WHILE ONLY OF GIRLS AND OF BOYS REPORTED THAT TEACHERS
PREFERRED TO BE AROUND BOYS 3IMILARLY OF GIRLS AND OF BOYS
REPORTED THAT TEACHERS COMPLIMENTED GIRLS MORE OFTEN WHILE ONLY
OF GIRLS AND OF BOYS REPORTED THAT THE REVERSE WAS TRUE .OTE THAT
CHILDREN WERE REPORTING THESE RESULTS IN !S A CONSEQUENCE OF THE
GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT BECOMING lRMLY ENTRENCHED IN GOVERNMENT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
SCHOOLS IN THE MID TO LATE S THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT FOR BOYS
CAN ONLY HAVE BECOME MORE HOSTILE SINCE THEN
/NE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS THAT GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT HAS
PROSPERED THROUGH INTIMIDATION AND BY hCONSTRUCTINGv A GENDER hNAR
RATIVEv THAT BEARS LITTLE RELATIONSHIP TO THE FACTS 4HE MORE IMPORTANT
POINT HOWEVER IS THAT THE GENDER
EQUITY MOVEMENT HAS SUCCEEDED IN
INSTITUTIONALIZING A FORM OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CHILD ABUSE AGAINST BOYS IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS !ND THIS HAS NOT BEEN WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES
!LIENATING "OYS
4HANKS TO THE EFFORTS OF THE GENDER
EQUITY ACTIVISTS BOYS ARE
INCREASINGLY LESS LIKELY TO ATTEND COLLEGE THAN THEIR FEMALE CLASSMATES
/NE PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR DESCRIBES THE ROLE THAT BOYS EXPERIENCES IN
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS PLAY IN PRODUCING THE COLLEGE ENROLL
MENT GAP
-ALES AREx MORE APT THAN FEMALES TO BELIEVE THAT THE SCHOOL
CLIMATE IS HOSTILE TO THEM THAT TEACHERS DO NOT EXPECT AS MUCH
FROM THEM AND GIVE THEM LESS ENCOURAGEMENT TO DO THEIR BEST
'IRLS ALSO GET BETTER GRADES IN SCHOOL AND ARE SIGNIlCANTLY MORE
LIKELY THAN BOYS TO PARTICIPATE IN NON
ATHLETIC EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
SUCH AS STUDENT GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER OR YEARBOOK AND HONORARY
SOCIETIES 4HUS IT IS HARDLY SURPRISING THAT A (ORATIO !LGER
&OUNDATION SURVEY REPORTED THAT THE MOST OPTIMISTIC AND SUCCESS
FUL STUDENTS WERE DISPROPORTIONATELY GIRLS GIRLS VERSUS
BOYS
"OYS ARE BECOMING ALIENATED FROM THE EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISE )N
THE NUMBER OF UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN IN
AND
YEAR DEGREE
INSTITUTIONS EXCEEDED THE NUMBER OF MEN "Y THE $EPARTMENT
OF %DUCATION PROJECTS THAT THE IMBALANCE OF TOTAL ENROLLMENT IN
AND
YEAR DEGREE INSTITUTIONS WILL BE ROUGHLY WOMEN TO MEN
)F ONLY FULL
TIME ENROLLMENT IS CONSIDERED IN MEN CONSTITUTED
JUST OF FULL
TIME COLLEGE STUDENTS
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
&EMINIZED 3CHOOLS 9IELD THE 3AME (ARMFUL 2ESULTS
IN #ANADA AND THE 5+
4HIS PHENOMENON IS NOT LIMITED TO THE 5NITED 3TATES )N #ANADA
WHERE FEMINISM HAS PROBABLY HAD EVEN MORE INmUENCE BOYS AND MEN
ARE OPTING OUT OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AT LEAST AS FAST AS IN THE 53
)N ONLY OF THE GRADUATES OF #ANADIAN UNIVERSITIES WERE
MALE !T THE 5NIVERSITY OF #ALGARY ONLY OF GRADUATES WERE
MALE IN )N "RITAIN IT IS REPORTED THAT THE FEMINIZED SCHOOL
ENVIRONMENT IS INCREASINGLY LEADING TO A CULTURE AMONG BOYS IN WHICH
IT IS hCOOL NOT TO LEARNv 4HIS PROBLEM IS ESPECIALLY ACUTE FOR hWHITE
WORKING
CLASS BOYS v WHO ARE FALLING BEHIND SO RAPIDLY THAT THEY MAY
WELL BECOME THE hTHE WORST EDUCATED GROUP OF CHILDRENv
7HAT ACCOUNTS FOR THIS IN "RITAIN !CCORDING TO $AVID -ILIBAND
THE GOVERNMENTS 3CHOOLS -INISTER BOYS ARE KNOWN TO THRIVE IN SCHOOLS
WITH A hCULTURE OF ACHIEVEMENT v LIMITED HOMEWORK AND STRONG DIS
CIPLINE 4HESE ARE NOT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FEMINIZED SCHOOLS IN
"RITAIN AND -ILIBAND BELIEVES THAT "RITISH SCHOOLS NEED TO CHANGE SO
THAT hBOYS GET AS MUCH OUT OF SCHOOLS AS GIRLSv $ONT EXPECT ANY
SUCH FRANK ADMISSION CONCERNING THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM OR ITS
SOLUTION IN THE 5NITED 3TATES 4HE FEMINISTS AND THEIR ENABLERS LIKE
THINGS JUST AS THEY ARE
4HE TRUTH IS THAT BOYS ARE INCREASINGLY BEING TREATED ABUSIVELY
BY THE hGENDER
EQUITYv INTERVENTIONS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HEIR
MASCULINITY IS DEMEANED THEY ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY SLANDERED AS
PSYCHOLOGICALLY DISTURBED FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN THAT THEY ARE BOYS
AND THEIR INTERESTS AND LEARNING STYLES ARE BEING IGNORED !S A RESULT THE
FUTURES OF A VAST NUMBER OF BOYS ARE BEING PROFOUNDLY DIMINISHED 9ET
AS BAD AS THIS IS THE EMERGENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AS THE NATIONS
PREEMINENT DRUG
PUSHER MAY DO EVEN WORSE VIOLENCE TO BOYS
2ITALIN 2UNNING FOR THE 3HELTER OF 4EACHERS ,ITTLE (ELPER
)N THE 2OLLING 3TONES RECORDED h-OTHERS ,ITTLE (ELPER v A
SONG ABOUT ADULTS HYPOCRITICALLY USING DRUGS TO ESCAPE THE UNPLEASANT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
NESS OF THEIR LIVES )N CASE YOURE WONDERING THE hMOTHERS LITTLE
HELPERv WAS OF COURSE A LITTLE YELLOW PILL THAT HELPED hMOTHERv THROUGH
HER hBUSY DAYv )T SEEMS THAT IN THE LAST TEN TO TWENTY YEARS GOVERN
MENT SCHOOL EDUCATORS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS CAN
HELP THEM GET THROUGH THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF THEIR hBUSY DAYSv )N THIS
CASE HOWEVER THE DRUGS ARE BEING GIVEN TO CHILDREN AND ESPECIALLY TO
LITTLE BOYS
2ITALIN !DDERALL 0ROZAC :OLOFT 0AXIL AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC
DRUGS BUT MOSTLY 2ITALIN AND !DDERALL ARE BEING USED TO DRUG
SCHOOLCHILDREN AT RATES THAT ARE DIFlCULT TO COMPREHEND !CCORDING
TO A !"# .EWS STORY 2ITALIN IS PRESCRIBED TO AN ESTIMATED
MILLION SCHOOLCHILDREN EACH YEAR 2OUGHLY OF THOSE CHILDREN
ARE BOYS 4HE $RUG %NFORCEMENT !DMINISTRATION HAS ESTIMATED THAT
MILLION CHILDREN AND ADULTS WERE ON 2ITALIN IN 0RESCRIPTIONS
FOR 2ITALIN INCREASED BY FROM TO
)N TESTIMONY BEFORE A PANEL OF THE 5NITED 3TATES (OUSE OF 2EP
RESENTATIVES IN -AY MEDICAL EXPERTS TESTIlED THAT PSYCHOTROPIC
DRUGS SUCH AS 2ITALIN AND !DDERALL ARE BEING OVER
PRESCRIBED TO CHIL
DREN FOR THE PURPOSE OF CALMING THEM DOWN )N FACT ACCORDING TO
THE TESTIMONY OF THE DIRECTOR OF "EHAVIORAL 0EDIATRICS AT #HILDRENS
(OSPITAL OF 0HILADELPHIA $R 7ILLIAM " #AREY PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
SUCH AS 2ITALIN ARE BEING PRESCRIBED TO UP TO PERCENT OF SCHOOL
AGED
CHILDREN 7HAT IS 2ITALIN AND WHAT IS IT BEING USED FOR
4HE 0OOR -ANS #OCAINE
h2ITALINv IS A TRADENAME FOR A PSYCHOTROPIC COMPOUND CALLED
hMETHYLPHENIDATEv THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE &OOD AND $RUG !D
MINISTRATION IN AND THAT WAS OFTEN PRESCRIBED IN THE S FOR
BEHAVIORAL CONTROL "Y THE $RUG %NFORCEMENT !DMINISTRATION
WAS REPORTING THAT MORE THAN OF THE WORLDS 2ITALIN IS BOUGHT AND
CONSUMED IN THE 5NITED 3TATES -ETHYLPHENIDATE IS PHARMACOLOGI
CALLY CLASSIlED WITH AMPHETAMINES )N FACT THE TEXTBOOK 4REATMENTS
OF 0SYCHIATRIC $ISORDERS NOTES THAT COCAINE AMPHETAMINES AND METH
YLPHENIDATE ARE NEUROPHARMACOLOGICALLY ALIKE AND THAT THEIR CLINICAL
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
EFFECTS CANNOT BE DISTINGUISHED IN LABORATORY TESTS -OREOVER BOTH
THE 7ORLD (EALTH /RGANIZATION AND THE &OOD AND $RUG !DMINIS
TRATION PLACE METHYLPHENIDATE IN THE SAME HIGH ADDICTION CATEGORY
3CHEDULE )) IN WHICH THEY PLACE AMPHETAMINES MORPHINE OPIUM
AND BARBITURATES
3O IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE THAT 2ITALIN IS BEING ABUSED AS
A STREET DRUG SOMETIMES BEING REFERRED TO AS h6ITAMIN 2v OR h0OOR
-ANS #OCAINEv 0ERHAPS IT MAY BE MORE SURPRISING THAT A SURVEY
OF -ASSACHUSETTS TEENAGERS ATTENDING GOVERNMENT HIGH SCHOOLS
FOUND THAT REPORTED USING 2ITALIN RECREATIONALLY 4HE MAIN SOURCE
OF THE DRUG IS OF COURSE THE SCHOOLS THEMSELVES )N A .EW 9ORK 4IMES
ARTICLE *ANET $OUGLASS A DIRECTOR OF THE 3CHOOL (EALTH )NSTITUTE AT THE
5NIVERSITY OF -ASSACHUSETTS AT ,OWELL COMMENTED ON THE PREVALENCE OF
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS AFTER VISITING A NEARBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
) THINK THEY GIVE OUT MORE PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION THAN A
PSYCH HOSPITAL DID WHEN ) DID PSYCHx .OT JUST 2ITALIN BUT
HEAVY DUTY PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS
!CCORDING TO A STUDY CONDUCTED IN 7ISCONSIN AND -INNESOTA
OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS AGES TO TAKING MEDICATION
FOR !$($ REPORTED BEING APPROACHED TO SELL OR TRADE THEIR DRUGS
)N ADDITION ACCORDING TO THE $%! 2ITALIN IS ONE OF THE TEN MOST
STOLEN PHARMACEUTICALS
4HE PROBLEM OF THE RECREATIONAL USE OF 2ITALIN HAS BECOME SO
PRONOUNCED THAT FEDERAL OFlCIALS HAD TO BEGIN INVESTIGATING GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS OVER THE THEFT ILLEGAL SALE AND ABUSE OF 2ITALIN AND
SIMILAR DRUGS -OREOVER THIS PROBLEM INVOLVES PRINCIPALS SCHOOL
NURSES AND OTHER SCHOOL EMPLOYEES NOT MERELY STUDENTS )NDEED
IN THE CHAIRMAN OF THE (OUSE #OMMITTEE ON %DUCATION AND
THE 7ORKFORCE 7ILLIAM 'OODLING CHARACTERIZED 2ITALIN AS PERHAPS
hTHE GREATEST DRUG PROBLEM WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRYv 2ESEARCHERS
AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF #ALIFORNIA HAVE FOUND THAT 2ITALIN IS ALSO A hGATE
WAYv DRUG TO OTHER DRUGS ESPECIALLY COCAINE !CCORDING TO THE LEAD
RESEARCHER FOR THE STUDY h;2ITALIN= MAKES THE BRAIN MORE SUSCEPTIBLE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
TO THE ADDICTIVE POWER OF COCAINE AND DOUBLES THE RISK OF ABUSEv
'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE AWASH IN THIS STUFF 3O WHY IS IT THERE
!$($ AND $RUGGING 3CHOOLCHILDREN
4HE MOST DIAGNOSED hMENTAL ILLNESSv AMONG !MERICAN CHILDREN
IS !TTENTION $ElCIT(YPERACTIVITY $ISORDER !$($ AND IT IS
THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS THAT HAS LED TO THE MASS DRUGGING OF !MERICAS
SCHOOLCHILDREN !$($S STATUS AS A MENTAL ILLNESS WAS ESTABLISHED
IN BY A VOTE OF A COMMITTEE OF PSYCHIATRISTS BELONGING TO THE
!MERICAN 0SYCHIATRIC !SSOCIATION !0! !CCORDING TO THE !0!S
$IAGNOSTIC AND 3TATISTICAL -ANUAL OF -ENTAL $ISORDERS $3-
)6 THERE
ARE TWO TYPES OF !$($ ONE CHARACTERIZED BY INATTENTION AND THE
OTHER BY HYPERACTIVITY
IMPULSIVITY
%ACH OF THESE TYPES OF !$($ HAS NINE SYMPTOMS AND A CHILD
IS DIAGNOSED WITH !$($ IF HE EXHIBITS SIX OR MORE OF THE SYMP
TOMS FROM EITHER CATEGORY AND THEY PERSIST FOR MORE THAN SIX MONTHS
TO A DEGREE THAT IS MALADAPTIVE AND INCONSISTENT WITH DEVELOPMENTAL
LEVEL THERE IS CLINICALLY SIGNIlCANT IMPAIRMENT IN SOCIAL ACADEMIC
OR OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTIONING THE IMPAIRMENT IS EVIDENT IN AT LEAST
TWO SETTINGS EG HOME AND SCHOOL AND THERE MUST BE THE ONSET
OF SYMPTOMS CAUSING IMPAIRMENT BY AGE SEVEN
!$($ ! $IAGNOSIS IN 3EARCH OF A $ISEASE
7HAT ARE THESE SYMPTOMS (ERE ARE THE NINE SYMPTOMS FOR THE
hINATTENTIONv FORM OF !$($
s /FTEN FAILS TO GIVE CLOSE ATTENTION TO DETAILS OR MAKES
CARELESS MISTAKES IN SCHOOLWORK WORK OR OTHER ACTIVITIES
s /FTEN HAS DIFlCULTY SUSTAINING ATTENTION IN TASKS OR PLAY
ACTIVITIES
s /FTEN DOES NOT SEEM TO LISTEN WHEN SPOKEN TO DIRECTLY
s /FTEN DOES NOT FOLLOW THROUGH ON INSTRUCTIONS AND FAILS
TO lNISH SCHOOLWORK CHORES OR DUTIES IN THE WORKPLACE
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
NOT DUE TO OPPOSITIONAL BEHAVIOR OR FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND
INSTRUCTIONS
s /FTEN HAS DIFlCULTY ORGANIZING TASKS AND ACTIVITIES
s /FTEN AVOIDS DISLIKES OR IS RELUCTANT TO ENGAGE IN TASKS
THAT REQUIRE SUSTAINED MENTAL EFFORT EG SCHOOLWORK OR
HOMEWORK
s /FTEN LOSES THINGS NECESSARY FOR TASKS OR ACTIVITIES
s )S OFTEN EASILY DISTRACTED BY EXTRANEOUS STIMULI
s )S OFTEN FORGETFUL IN DAILY ACTIVITIES
4HE SYMPTOMS FOR THE HYPERACTIVITY IMPULSIVITY FORM OF
!$($ ARE
s /FTEN lDGETS WITH HANDS OR FEET OR SQUIRMS IN SEAT
s /FTEN LEAVES SEAT IN CLASSROOM OR IN OTHER SITUATIONS IN
WHICH REMAINING SEATED IS EXPECTED
s /FTEN RUNS ABOUT OR CLIMBS EXCESSIVELY IN SITUATIONS IN
WHICH IT IS INAPPROPRIATE IN ADOLESCENTS OR ADULTS MAY BE
LIMITED TO FEELINGS OF RESTLESSNESS
s /FTEN HAS DIFlCULTY PLAYING OR ENGAGING IN LEISURE ACTIVITIES
QUIETLY
s )S OFTEN hON THE GOv OR OFTEN ACTS AS IF hDRIVEN BY A MOTORv
s /FTEN TALKS EXCESSIVELY
s /FTEN BLURTS OUT ANSWERS BEFORE QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN
COMPLETED
s /FTEN HAS DIFlCULTY AWAITING TURN
s /FTEN INTERRUPTS OR INTRUDES ON OTHERS EG BUTTS INTO CON
VERSATIONS OR GAMES
0LAINLY MANY IF NOT MOST CHILDREN hOFTENv DISPLAY SIX OR MORE
OF THESE hSYMPTOMS v AND THEY CERTAINLY DO SO BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER
REACHING AGE SEVEN -OREOVER EVEN A CURSORY EXAMINATION DISCLOSES THE
UTTERLY SUBJECTIVE NATURE OF THE $3- )6 DIAGNOSTIC STANDARDS NOTICE
FOR EXAMPLE HOW THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA RELY ON THE TERM hOFTENv &OR
THOSE WHO BELIEVE HOWEVER THAT !$($ IS A SPECIlC MENTAL ILLNESS OR
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
BRAIN DISEASE THESE SYMPTOMS TEND TO BE SEEN AS IDENTIFYING A MENTAL
DISORDER WITH A GENETIC AND BIOCHEMICAL CAUSE 4HIS IS GENERALLY THE
VIEW OF THE !$($ INDUSTRY
)N AN ARTICLE IN 3CIENTIlC !MERICAN REPEATED THE 2ITALIN
ADVOCATES VIEW NAMELY THAT BY POINTING TO THE RAPID RISE OF !$($
DIAGNOSES AS EVIDENCE OF OVERDIAGNOSIS THE CRITICS HAD THINGS BACK
WARD !CCORDING TO THE EXPERTS QUOTED THE RISE IN DIAGNOSES JUST RE
mECTED THE FACT THAT !$($ HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN UNDER DIAGNOSED
7HILE THE ARTICLE ADMITTED THAT DIAGNOSING !$($ IS SUBJECTIVE THE
ARTICLE CITED SEVERAL STUDIES THAT HAD BEEN DONE WHICH WHILE THEY DID
NOT ESTABLISH ANY PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR !$($ WERE CHARACTERIZED AS
BEGINNING TO BRING THE BIOLOGY OF !$($ INTO FOCUS
)N ESSENCE THOSE WHO ADVOCATE THE USE OF 2ITALIN TO MITIGATE THE
BEHAVIOR DIAGNOSED AS !$($ HAVE GENERALLY ARGUED A !$($ HAS
A PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS IN SOME ABNORMAL BRAIN STRUCTURE OR BRAIN CHEM
ISTRY B !$($ SERIOUSLY IMPAIRS TO OF SCHOOLCHILDREN C
2ITALIN IS A RELATIVELY MILD SAFE DRUG AND D THOSE WHO REJECT THE
CLAIM THAT !$($ IS A MENTAL ILLNESS PROPERLY TREATED BY PSYCHOTROPIC
DRUGS ARE MIRED IN OUTMODED UNSCIENTIlC VIEWS OF DISORDERS AND
INSTEAD ARE WRONGLY BLAMING !$($ ON PARENTS AND SCHOOLS
)N AND A SPATE OF STORIES SUPPORTIVE OF THE !$($
DIAGNOSIS APPEARED IN THE POPULAR PRESS WITH HEADLINES SUCH AS h2ITALIN
IS 3AFE n AND IT 7ORKSv $ETROIT $AILY .EWS AND h!TTENTION $ElCIT
'ENE IS ,OCATEDv 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL 4HESE STORIES AND OTHERS LIKE
THEM REPORT THAT THERE IS NOW SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TO INDICATE THAT
!$($ IS A NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEM #ASE CLOSED /R IS IT
1UESTIONING THE !$($ /RTHODOXY
4HIS VIEW OF !$($ AND 2ITALIN HAS BEEN SHARPLY QUESTIONED
)N $R 2ICHARD "ROMlELD A MEMBER OF THE FACULTY AT (ARVARD
-EDICAL 3CHOOL EXPRESSED HIS CONCERN OVER THE USE OF 2ITALIN
2ITALIN IS BEING DISPENSED WITH A SPEED AND NONCHALANCE COM
PATIBLE WITH OUR DRIVE
THROUGH CULTURE YET ENTIRELY AT ODDS WITH
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
GOOD MEDICINE AND COMMON SENSE 4HE DRUG DOES HELP SOME
PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION AND FUNCTION BETTERx "UT TOO MANY CHIL
DREN AND MORE AND MORE ADULTS ARE BEING GIVEN 2ITALIN INAP
PROPRIATELYx THE lVE
FOLD JUMP IN 2ITALIN PRODUCTION IN THE
PAST lVE YEARS CLEARLY SUGGESTS THATx 2ITALIN IS BEING VASTLY OVER
PRESCRIBED ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
/NE OF THE ODDITIES OF THE !$($ EPIDEMIC IS THAT IT HAS BEEN
ESSENTIALLY AN !MERICAN AND #ANADIAN PHENOMENON &OR EX
AMPLE INTO THE MID
S !$($ WAS RARELY DIAGNOSED IN %UROPEAN
COUNTRIES SUCH AS $ENMARK .ORWAY AND 3WEDEN !S OF IT
WAS REPORTED THAT FEWER THAN CHILDREN IN &RANCE WERE BEING
PRESCRIBED STIMULANTS )N THE "RITISH 0SYCHOLOGICAL 3OCIETY
PUBLISHED A MAJOR REPORT IN WHICH "RITISH PHYSICIANS AND PSYCHOLO
GISTS WERE WARNED NOT TO APPLY THE !$($ LABEL TO THE WIDE VARIETY OF
BEHAVIORS TO WHICH IT IS APPLIED IN THE 5NITED 3TATES AND #ANADA
)NDEED THE REPORT QUESTIONED WHETHER !$($ WAS A MENTAL ILLNESS AT
ALL h4HE IDEA THAT CHILDREN WHO DONT ATTEND OR SIT STILL IN SCHOOL HAVE
A MENTAL DISORDER IS NOT ENTERTAINED BY MOST "RITISH CLINICIANSv )N
PARTICULAR THE REPORT EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THE WIDESPREAD PRACTICE
OF PRESCRIBING 2ITALIN AND SIMILAR DRUGS FOR CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH
!$($ IN THE 5NITED 3TATES NOT BE REPLICATED IN "RITAIN &URTHER
THE )NTERNATIONAL #LASSIlCATION OF $ISEASES PUBLISHED BY THE 7ORLD
(EALTH /RGANIZATION WHICH IS THE DIAGNOSTIC MANUAL USED BY MOST
%UROPEAN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS DOES NOT INCLUDE AS A MENTAL ILLNESS
ANY BROAD ILL
DElNED DISORDER COMPARABLE TO !$($ AS IT IS DElNED
IN $3-
)6
4HE !$($ $IAGNOSIS $ISSENT %MERGES
)N THE LATE S EVEN THOSE WHO HAD BEEN PRESCRIBING 2ITALIN
BEGAN TO QUESTION VIGOROUSLY WHAT WAS BEING DONE IN THE NAME OF
!$($ /NE EXAMPLE IS $R ,AWRENCE $ILLER WHOSE BOOK
2UNNING /N 2ITALIN POINTS OUT THAT SCHOOLS ARE PRESSURING PARENTS TO
PUT THEIR CHILDREN ON 2ITALIN AND THAT THE RESULT IS WIDESPREAD USE OF
THE DRUG WHEN IT ISNT NECESSARY )NTERESTINGLY THIS CAME FROM A DOCTOR
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
WHO PRESCRIBES 2ITALIN AND BELIEVES THAT THERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN
ITS USE IS APPROPRIATE !S A RESULT OF THE PUBLICLY EXPRESSED DOUBTS OF
HEALTH PRACTITIONERS SUCH AS $R $ILLER HOWEVER A MORE FUNDAMENTAL
CRITIQUE OF THE !$($2ITALIN PHENOMENON BEGAN TO RECEIVE MORE
ATTENTION
2ECALL THAT !$($ IS ALLEGED BY ITS PARTISANS WITHIN THE !MERICAN
0SYCHIATRIC !SSOCIATION TO BE A SPECIlC hMENTAL ILLNESS v NOT JUST A WAY
OF DESCRIBING HOW CHILDREN CAN MISBEHAVE 2ESORTING TO 2ITALIN AND
SIMILAR DRUGS HAS BEEN JUSTIlED IN TURN ON THE GROUND THAT A CHILD
WITH !$($ HAS A GENETIC ANDOR BIOCHEMICAL PROBLEM THAT DRUGS
ARE NEEDED TO OVERCOME )N LIGHT OF THIS ONE MIGHT REASONABLY ASK
WHETHER THERE IS CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT THE BROADLY DElNED FORMS OF COM
MON CHILDHOOD MISBEHAVIOR SET FORTH IN THE $3-
)6 AS SYMPTOMS OF
!$($ ARE THE RESULT OF BRAIN MALFUNCTION 4HIS IS THE QUESTION THAT
BEGAN TO GET MORE SERIOUS PUBLIC ATTENTION AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF $R
$ILLERS BOOK
/NE OF THE LEADING VOICES AGAINST !$($ AS A DIAGNOSIS IS $R
&RED "AUGHMAN A PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGIST ,IKE A NUMBER OF OTHER CRIT
ICS $R "AUGHMAN POINTS TO THE LACK OF SCIENTIlC DATA TO SHOW ANY
LINK BETWEEN BRAIN MALFUNCTION AND THE hSYMPTOMSv OF !$($
4HIS IS A CONTRIVED EPIDEMIC WHERE ALL MILLION TO MILLION
CHILDREN ON THESE DRUGS ARE NORMAL 4HE COUNTRYS BEEN LED TO
BELIEVE THAT ALL PAINFUL EMOTIONS ARE A MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE
LEADERSHIP OF THE !0! KNOWS VERY WELL THAT THEY ARE REPRESENT
ING IT ;!$($= AS A DISEASE WHEN THERE IS NO SCIENTIlC DATA TO
CONlRM ANY MENTAL ILLNESS
$R 0ETER "REGGIN PSYCHIATRIST AND AUTHOR OF SEVERAL BOOKS
INCLUDING 4ALKING "ACK TO 0ROZAC HAS SIMILARLY ARGUED THAT NOT ONLY
DOES !$($ NOT EXIST hTHERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF SCIENTIlC EVIDENCE
THAT STIMULANTS CAUSE BRAIN DAMAGE WITH LONG TERM USExv 3O
IS THERE SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CLAIM THAT !$($ IS A
MENTAL ILLNESS OR IS IT AS MANY HAVE SUGGESTED AN EXAMPLE OF NORMAL
CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR BEING VOTED INTO AN hILLNESSv BY A PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATION
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
0UTTING 4HERAPY "EFORE 3CIENCE
"ECAUSE OF THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING !$($ AND SKYROCKET
ING LEVELS OF ADMINISTRATION OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS TO SCHOOLCHILDREN
THE .ATIONAL )NSTITUTES OF (EALTH CONVENED A #ONSENSUS $EVELOPMENT
#ONFERENCE ON THE $IAGNOSIS AND 4REATMENT OF !TTENTION $ElCIT
(YPERACTIVITY $ISORDER IN 4HIRTY
ONE SCIENTIlC PRESENTATIONS
CONCERNING !$($ AND ITS TREATMENT WERE MADE TO THE PANEL WHICH
CONCLUDED
7E DONT HAVE AN INDEPENDENT VALID TEST FOR !$($ THERE ARE
NO DATA TO INDICATE THAT !$($ IS DUE TO A BRAIN MALFUNCTION
EXISTING STUDIES COME TO CONmICTING CONCLUSIONS AS TO WHETHER
THE USE OF PSYCHOSTIMULANTS INCREASES OR DECREASES THE RISK OF
ABUSE AND lNALLY AFTER YEARS OF CLINICAL RESEARCH AND EXPERI
ENCE WITH !$($ OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE CAUSE OR CAUSES OF
!$($ REMAINS SPECULATIVE ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
!PPARENTLY STUNG BY THEIR FAILURE TO GET THE .)( #ONFERENCE
TO DECLARE THAT !$($ IS A REAL BRAIN MALFUNCTION !$($ PARTI
SANS EVENTUALLY DRAFTED THEIR OWN h)NTERNATIONAL #ONSENSUSv LETTER
IN WHICH THEY GRACIOUSLY COMPARE THOSE WHO QUESTION THE VALIDITY
OF THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS TO hmAT
EARTHERSv 4HIS LETTER HAS PROVED
A USEFUL PUBLIC RELATIONS TOOL WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH
THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE .)( CONFERENCE !LL IN ALL THE DEBATE AMONG
PSYCHIATRISTS ON THE VALIDITY OF THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS OFTEN SEEMS TO
RESEMBLE POLITICS MORE THAN SCIENCE
!$($ (OW 'OOD IS THE %VIDENCE
7HAT ABOUT THE STUDIES THAT 3CIENTIlC !MERICAN REPORTED WERE
BEGINNING TO POINT THE WAY TOWARD THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF !$($
5PON SCRUTINY THEY WERE LESS THAN THEY APPEARED TO BE &OR EXAMPLE
THE STATISTICAL SIGNIlCANCE OF THE lNDINGS OF ONE STUDY THAT CLAIMED TO
lND INCREASED BRAIN METABOLISM AMONG ADULTS WITH A HISTORY OF CHILD
HOOD !$($ EVAPORATED WHEN IT WAS FOUND THAT A DISPROPORTION
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ATE NUMBER OF WOMEN WERE INCLUDED IN THE CONTROLS )N ANOTHER
INSTANCE IT APPEARS THAT RATHER THAN ESTABLISHING A BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR
!$($ THE STUDY CONlRMED EARLIER WORK INDICATING THAT LONG TERM
USE OF STIMULANT THERAPY CAUSES BRAIN ATROPHY
7ELL WHAT ABOUT MORE RECENT ARTICLES IN THE POPULAR PRESS RE
PORTING THAT THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS HAS BEEN VINDICATED 4HESE ALSO FAIL
TO BEAR UP UNDER SCRUTINY &OR EXAMPLE THE $ETROIT $AILY .EWS
STORY TRUMPETING THAT 2ITALIN WORKS AND IS SAFE WAS BASED ON A
BRAIN IMAGING STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE *OURNAL OF THE !MERICAN -EDICAL
!SSOCIATION 4HAT STUDY WAS DESCRIBED AS ESTABLISHING THAT !$($
CHILDREN HAVE BRAINS TO SMALLER THAN hNORMALv CHILDREN AND
THAT WHEN TREATED WITH 2ITALIN THE !$($ CHILDREN ENJOYED ENHANCED
BRAIN GROWTH #ONSEQUENTLY THE ARTICLE REASSURES PARENTS CAN RELAX
!$($ IS NOW SHOWN TO HAVE AN ORGANIC BASIS AND 2ITALIN WHEN
PROPERLY USED IS NOT MERELY HARMLESS BUT BENElCIAL )N OTHER WORDS
THE WORRIES ABOUT !$($ AND 2ITALIN ARE SIMPLY BASED ON NOW DIS
CREDITED MYTHS
5NFORTUNATELY FOR THE JOURNALISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STORY THE
STUDY DOESNT END ANY hMYTHSv ABOUT 2ITALIN OR !$($ 4HE LEAD
RESEARCHER $R & 8AVIER #ASTELLANOS HIMSELF HAS ONLY CLAIMED THAT THE
STUDY RAISED THE POSSIBILITY THAT MEDICATION MIGHT ENHANCE THE MATURA
TION OF THE BRAIN IN CHILDREN WITH !$($ "UT ON EXAMINATION THE
STUDY ITSELF IS DEEPLY mAWED )T TURNS OUT THAT THE CLAIM THAT CHILDREN
WITH !$($ HAVE TO SMALLER BRAINS WAS BASED ON COMPAR
ING A CONTROL GROUP OF hNORMALv CHILDREN IE CHILDREN WHO HAD NOT
BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH !$($ WITH UNMEDICATED CHILDREN THAT HAD
BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH !$($ WHO WERE ALSO BOTH TWO YEARS YOUNGER AND
SHORTER AND LIGHTER THAN THE CONTROL GROUP !S A RECENT SCHOLARLY ANALYSIS
OF THE #ASTELLANOS STUDY POINTS OUT HOWEVER hMOST RESEARCH ON BRAIN
SIZE HAS FOUND BRAIN SIZE TO BE CORRELATED WITH BODY WEIGHTx )N FACT
GIVEN ALL THESE OTHER VARIABLES ;HEIGHT WEIGHT AND AGE= IT WOULD BE
NOTEWORTHY IF THEY ;THE UNMEDICATED CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH !$($=
DID NOT HAVE SMALLER BRAINSv ;%MPHASIS IN THE ORIGINAL=
!S ALREADY NOTED THE #ASTELLANOS STUDY WAS BASED ON BRAIN IM
AGING AND THE USE OF VARIOUS BRAIN IMAGING TECHNOLOGIES HAS BEEN
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
ONE OF TWO MAJOR APPROACHES FOR TRYING TO DISCOVER A BRAIN PATHOLOGY
THAT UNDERLIES THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS )N A ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN
4HE *OURNAL OF -IND AND "EHAVIOR $R *ONATHAN ,EO AND $R $AVID
#OHEN CAREFULLY EXAMINE THE BRAIN
IMAGING STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN
PRODUCED OVER THE LAST YEARS IN AN EFFORT TO TIE THE !$($ DIAG
NOSIS TO AN UNDERLYING BRAIN PATHOLOGY 4HE GOAL OF THE RESEARCHERS
HAS BEEN OF COURSE TO IDENTIFY A BRAIN PATHOLOGY THAT WOULD DISTIN
GUISH CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH !$($ FROM hNORMALv CHILDREN 4HE
ANALYSIS BY ,EO AND #OHEN SHOWS THAT VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE STUDIES HAVE
BEEN UNSOUND BECAUSE OF A FAILURE TO CONTROL FOR MEDICATION HISTORY
AND ALCOHOLISM #ASTELLANOS STUDY WHICH DID ATTEMPT TO CONTROL FOR
MEDICATION HISTORY WAS FATALLY mAWED FOR FAILING TO CONTROL FOR AGE
HEIGHT AND WEIGHT
3O WHAT IS TO BE MADE OF THE BRAIN IMAGING STUDIES ,EO AND
#OHEN DESCRIBE THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY AS FOLLOWS
;4=HERE IS VIRTUAL UNANIMITY THAT THIS ;USING BRAIN IMAGING
TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY A BRAIN PATHOLOGY WITH THE !$($ DI
AGNOSIS= CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED AT PRESENT %XPERIMENTS WITH
HIGHLY SELECTIVE PATIENT AND CONTROL GROUPS ARE AT BEST ONLY
PRELIMINARY STUDIES AND WE HAVE SHOWN n IN COMPLEMENT TO
THE CRITICAL ANALYSIS BY "AUMEISTER AND (AWKINS n THAT
THE lNDINGS OF THESE STUDIES MUST BE CALLED INTO QUESTION )N
RESPONSE TO PERSISTENT PRESSURE FROM CRITICS SUCH AS "AUGHMAN
AND "REGGIN IT SEEMS THAT NEUROIMAGING RE
SEARCHERS NOW ACKNOWLEDGE THE IMPORTANCE OF MEDICATION HIS
TORY 4HE PUBLICATION OF THE #ASTELLANOS ET AL ARTICLE
USING NON MEDICATED CHILDREN ESSENTIALLY TRIVIALIZES ANY FURTHER
STUDIES THAT USE MEDICATED CHILDREN 9ET AFTER TWENTY lVE YEARS
AND THIRTY lVE STUDIES THERE IS NOT A SINGLE STRAIGHTFORWARD EX
PERIMENT COMPARING TYPICAL UNMEDICATED CHILDREN WITH AN
!$($ DIAGNOSIS TO TYPICAL CONTROLS 7E ARE PERPLEXED
)N OTHER WORDS NO BRAIN IMAGING STUDY ESTABLISHES THAT A BIO
LOGICAL PATHOLOGY GIVES RISE TO THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS 0ARENTS SHOULD
ALSO BE hPERPLEXED v AS ,EO AND #OHEN PUT IT THAT IN TWENTY
lVE YEARS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
NO ONE HAS DONE THE STRAIGHTFORWARD RESEARCH PROJECT THAT ,EO AND
#OHEN DESCRIBE
!$($ ! 'ENETIC 0ROBLEM
!NOTHER MAJOR APPROACH TO LEGITIMIZING THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS IS
TO ATTEMPT TO ASSOCIATE IT WITH A GENETIC SOURCE 4HE PREVIOUSLY MEN
TIONED 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL ARTICLE REPORTS ON A STUDY PUBLISHED
IN THE !MERICAN *OURNAL OF (UMAN 'ENETICS THAT WAS PRODUCED BY A
RESEARCH TEAM LEAD BY $R 3USAN , 3MALLEY OF THE 5#,! .EUROPSY
CHIATRIC )NSTITUTE !S IS TYPICALLY THE CASE IN THE POPULAR PRESS THE
HEADLINE IS WAY OUT IN FRONT OF THE SCIENCE 4HE h!TTENTION
$ElCIT
'ENE )S ,OCATEDv HEADLINE NOTWITHSTANDING $R 3MALLEYS OWN CLAIMS
ARE SUBSTANTIALLY MORE MODEST
$R 3MALLEY SAID THE WORK WOULD NEED TO BE REPLICATED AND
THAT YEARS OF EFFORT WOULD STILL BE REQUIRED TO lND ACTUAL GENES
THAT CONTRIBUTE TO !$($ h&INDING A GENE IS LIKE lNDING A
CONTACT LENS AT $ISNEYLAND v SHE SAID AND THE CURRENT RESEARCH
IS EQUIVALENT TO lNDING THAT THE CONTACT LENS hPROBABLY IS IN
3PACE -OUNTAINv
)N FACT THE 3MALLEY STUDYS CLAIMS ARE EVEN MORE CIRCUMSCRIBED
n THE RESEARCHERS THINK THAT THEY HAVE FOUND A GENE THAT COULD ACCOUNT
FOR AS MUCH OF THE GENETIC CAUSE OF !$($ WHICH THEY ALSO
BELIEVE IS INmUENCED BY ENVIRONMENT #ONSEQUENTLY THE RESULTS OF THE
3MALLEY STUDY AT BEST INDICATE A DIRECTION FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
4HE TENTATIVE NATURE OF THE 3MALLEY STUDY IS NOTHING NEW !
CRITICAL REVIEW PUBLISHED IN BY $R *AY *OSEPH OF THE STUDIES
INVESTIGATING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS AND POSSIBLE
GENETIC CAUSES PROVIDES REASON TO BELIEVE THAT CLAIMS THAT !$($ HAS
A GENETIC CAUSE ARE AT PRESENT FAR FROM WELL SUPPORTED -ORE TO THE
POINT HOWEVER THERE IS NO GENETIC TEST THAT IDENTIlES WHETHER SOME
ONE HAS !$($ OR IS SOMEHOW PREDISPOSED TOWARD !$($ .ONE
4HIS SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISING GIVEN THAT THE ENTIRE lELD OF GE
NETICS IS IN ITS INFANCY -OREOVER IT APPEARS THAT THE WORKINGS OF THE
HUMAN GENOME ARE FAR MORE COMPLICATED THAN SUPPOSED EVEN A RELA
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
TIVELY SHORT TIME AGO &OR EXAMPLE IT HAS LONG BEEN THOUGHT THAT THE
SEQUENCE OF A PERSONS GENES DETERMINES SUCH PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
AS HAIR COLOR .OW IT APPEARS THAT ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS SUCH AS A
MOTHERS DIET DURING PREGNANCY CAN ACTIVATE OR SILENCE THE EXPRESSION
OF GENES SO THAT IDENTICAL GENE SEQUENCES FOR HAIR COLOR CAN PRODUCE
DIFFERENT HAIR COLORS IN OFFSPRING 3CIENTISTS HOPE THAT THIS MAY
POINT TOWARD A RESEARCH PROGRAM THAT WILL EXPLAIN FOR INSTANCE WHY
IDENTICAL TWINS DO NOT ALWAYS HAVE THE SAME GENETIC DISEASES
3INCE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE HUMAN GENOME AND HOW IT WORKS
IS AT BEST RUDIMENTARY WHY IS THERE SO MUCH TALK ABOUT GENETICS IN
CONNECTION WITH !$($ ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GENETIC STUDIES ARE FAR
FROM ESTABLISHING THAT !$($ HAS AN ORGANIC BASIS !S ONE PROPONENT
OF THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS HAS WRITTEN
!NOTHER INmUENCE OF GENETIC lNDINGS IS IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION
AND MEDICATION COMPLIANCE -ANY PARENTS ARE RELUCTANT FOR THEIR
CHILDREN TO TAKE PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION AND OTHERS lND IT DIFl
CULT TO MAINTAIN THE PRESCRIBED REGIMEN 4HESE PROBLEMS ARE MITI
GATED BY DISCUSSING THE GENETIC ETIOLOGY OF !$($x
'ET IT )F A PARENT IS RELUCTANT TO DRUG HIS CHILD IT HELPS TO INVOKE
AN UNPROVEN HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THE hGENETIC ETIOLOGYv OF !$($ TO
GET THE PARENT TO hCOMPLYv !S SHOULD BE APPARENT THE PRACTICE OF
ADMINISTERING PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS TO CHILDREN FOR !$($ IS AN ETHICAL
AND MEDICAL MINElELD
!$($ ! $ISEASE THAT $ISAPPEARS $URING 3UMMER 6ACATION
4HIS LACK OF ANY IDENTIlABLE BRAIN BIOCHEMICAL OR GENETIC
ABNORMALITY AND ITS ABSURDLY BROAD AND SUBJECTIVE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA
ARE NOT THE ONLY STRANGE THINGS ABOUT !$($ AS A DISEASE $R 0ETER
"REGGIN POINTS OUT THAT THE $3-
)6 STATES THAT A CHILD MAY MANIFEST
hSYMPTOMSv OF !$($ WHEN IN SETTINGS hTHAT LACK INTRINSIC APPEAL
OR NOVELTYv AND TEND TO DISAPPEAR WHEN hTHE PERSON IS UNDER VERY
STRICT CONTROL IS IN A NOVEL SETTING IS ENGAGED IN ESPECIALLY INTERESTING
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ACTIVITIES IS IN A ONE TO ONE SITUATIONv "REGGIN ALSO NOTES THAT MOST
SUPPORTERS OF !$($ AS A DIAGNOSIS ADMIT THAT IT TENDS TO DISAPPEAR
DURING SUMMER VACATION #OULD IT BE THAT THE lDGETING LACK OF AT
TENTION AND MANY OF THE OTHER hSYMPTOMSv OF !$($ DO NOT REmECT
A MENTAL ILLNESS BUT THAT CHILDREN AND ESPECIALLY BOYS ARE BORED WITH
FRUSTRATED BY AND ALIENATED FROM THE SCHOOLS IN WHOSE CUSTODY THEY ARE
PLACED #OULD IT ALSO REmECT A LACK OF PARENTAL ATTENTION AND EFFECTIVE
DISCIPLINE AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL /F COURSE THIS IS JUST SPECULATIVE
BUT THEN IT SEEMS SO IS THE VALIDITY OF THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS
2ITALIN ! $RUG THAT #AN 'IVE !NYONE A "UZZ
3OME HAVE ATTEMPTED TO CLAIM THAT THE EXISTENCE OF !$($ IS
CONlRMED BY THE FACT THAT CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH !$($ TEND TO
BECOME MORE FOCUSED AND OBEDIENT AFTER TAKING 2ITALIN 4HE TRUTH
IS HOWEVER THAT GIVING 2ITALIN TO NORMAL CHILDREN ALSO HAS THE SAME
EFFECT )N FACT ALMOST EVERYONES ATTENTION IS IMPROVED BY STIMU
LANTS SUCH AS 2ITALIN AMPHETAMINES CAFFEINE AND NICOTINE #ON
SEQUENTLY SEEING AN IMPROVEMENT IN SOMEONES ATTENTION SPAN AFTER
TAKING 2ITALIN DOESNT ESTABLISH THAT HE HAS SOME DISORDER KNOWN AS
h!$($v )F IT DID THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO CONCLUDE THAT VIRTUALLY
EVERYONE IN THE WORLD HAS !$($
! RECENT STUDY GIVES FURTHER REASON TO QUESTION JUST WHAT IS BEING
DIAGNOSED WHEN A CHILD IS LABELED AS HAVING !$($ !CCORDING
THE STUDY WHICH WAS LED BY RESEARCHERS FROM THE "OSTON 5NIVERSITY
3CHOOL OF -EDICINE CHILDREN WITH SLEEP DISORDERS MANIFEST SYMPTOMS
OF !$($ AT A HIGHER RATE THAN OTHER CHILDREN )N FACT SNORING OR OTHER
SLEEP
DISORDERED BREATHING PROBLEMS WERE FOUND TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH
A TWO
FOLD INCREASE IN THE SYMPTOMS OF !$($ 4HESE SLEEP DISORDERS
AFFECT AN ESTIMATED TO OF CHILDREN "UT IF SLEEP
DISORDERED
BREATHING PROBLEMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASE IN THE SYMPTOMS
OF !$($ COULD IT BE THAT OTHER FACTORS CAUSING CHILDREN TO GET INSUF
lCIENT SLEEP ARE ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASE IN THE SYMPTOMS OF
!$($ #OULD WE BE DRUGGING MANY CHILDREN FOR !$($ WHEN THE
REAL PROBLEM IS A LACK OF SLEEP BECAUSE OF OVER
SCHEDULING TOO MANY
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
LATE HOURS IN FRONT OF TELEVISION OR PLAYING COMPUTER GAMES AND A
FAILURE BY PARENTS TO ENFORCE REASONABLE BEDTIMES
$ONT 7ORRY )TS 0ERFECTLY 3AFE
"UT IF THE VERY EXISTENCE OF !$($ IS QUESTIONABLE WHAT ABOUT
THE BENIGN PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF 2ITALIN AS A MILD STIMULANT AND THE
SAFEST PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG AVAILABLE 4HIS APPEARS NOT TO BE QUITE TRUE
EITHER 3WEDEN BANNED 2ITALIN IN BECAUSE OF ABUSE 4HE )NTER
NATIONAL .ARCOTICS #ONTROL "OARD HAS REPORTED THAT 2ITALINS PHARMA
COLOGICAL EFFECTS ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS THOSE OF AMPHETAMINES AND
METHAMPHETAMINES IE hSPEEDv
)N THE $RUG %NFORCEMENT !DMINISTRATION REPORTED THAT
2ITALIN IS SIMILAR TO COCAINE h)T IS CLEAR THAT 2ITALIN SUBSTITUTES FOR CO
CAINE AND D
AMPHETAMINE IN A NUMBER OF BEHAVIORAL PARADIGMSv
)N THE $RUG %NFORCEMENT !DMINISTRATION HELD A CONFERENCE
ON THE USE OF STIMULANTS IN TREATING !$($ )N A REPORT ABOUT THE
MEETING 'ENE (AISLIP DEPUTY ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE $RUG
%NFORCEMENT !GENCYS /FlCE OF $IVERSION #ONTROL POINTEDLY WARNED
PARENTS ABOUT A LACK OF CANDOR IN HOW 2ITALIN HAS BEEN PROMOTED
ESPECIALLY AS A DRUG FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN
2EGRETTABLY MUCH OF THE LITERATURE AND PROMOTION OF THE DRUG
IN RECENT YEARS HAS IGNORED OR UNDERSTATED THE POTENCY AND
ABUSE POTENTIAL OF METHYLPHENIDATE AND 2ITALINx 4HIS AP
PEARS TO HAVE MISLED MANY PHYSICIANS INTO PRESCRIBING THE DRUG
AS A QUICK lX FOR PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL AND BEHAVIOR
)N FACT EVEN THE OFlCIAL VERSION OF THE RISKS OF TAKING 2ITALIN
INDICATES THAT THE DANGERS ARE FAR FROM TRIVIAL
7ELL .OW 4HAT 9OU !SK 4HERE ARE A &EW 3IDE %FFECTS
(ERE ARE SOME OF THE SIDE EFFECTS FOR 2ITALIN LISTED BY THE 0HYSICIANS
$ESK 2EFERENCE INABILITY TO FALL ASLEEP AND STAY ASLEEP NERVOUSNESS LOSS
OF APPETITE ABDOMINAL PAIN WEIGHT LOSS ABNORMALLY FAST HEARTBEAT
CHEST PAIN DIZZINESS HEADACHE HIVES JERKING PULSE CHANGES SKIN RASH
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
4OURETTES SYNDROME AND SEVERE AND MULTIPLE TWITCHING AND WRITHING
MOVEMENTS 5SERS ARE ALSO WARNED THAT hSUPPRESSION OF GROWTH HAS
BEEN REPORTED WITH THE LONG TERM USE OF STIMULANTS v LONG
TERM ABUSE
CAN LEAD TO TOLERANCE AND MENTAL DEPENDENCE WITH VARYING DEGREES OF
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR AND h,ONG TERM EFFECTS OF 2ITALIN IN CHILDREN HAVE
NOT BEEN WELL ESTABLISHEDv
#RITICS OF 2ITALIN ARE LESS CIRCUMSPECT ABOUT THE RISKS SO BLANDLY
DESCRIBED BY THE 0HYSICIANS $RUG 2EFERENCE $R 0ETER "REGGIN FOR EX
AMPLE NOTES THE FOLLOWING
s 2ITALIN CAN CAUSE INATTENTION HYPERACTIVITY AND AGGRESSION
n IN OTHER WORDS THE SYMPTOMS OF !$($
s 2ITALIN CAN SUPPRESS A CHILDS GROWTH HEIGHT AND WEIGHT
BUT THERE ARE NO STUDIES OF HOW THIS GROWTH SUPPRESSION
MIGHT AFFECT THE CHILDS BRAIN DEVELOPMENT -OREOVER THERE
ARE STUDIES THAT INDICATE THAT LONG
TERM USE OF 2ITALIN CAN
RESULT IN SHRINKAGE OF PARTS OF THE BRAIN
s 2ITALIN CAN CAUSE PERMANENT DISlGURING TICS AND MUSCLE
SPASMS
s 2ITALIN CAN OFTEN MAKE CHILDREN ANXIOUS SOMETIMES CAUSING
THEM TO ACT IN WAYS THAT SEEM hCRAZYv
s 2ITALIN CAN CAUSE WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS WHEN ONE OR MORE
DOSES ARE MISSED
! STUDY BY RESEARCHERS AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF "UFFALO REPORTS
THAT 2ITALIN MAY CAUSE LONG
TERM CHANGES IN THE BRAIN SIMILAR TO THOSE
PRODUCED BY AMPHETAMINES AND COCAINE -ORE SPECIlCALLY 2ITALIN
WAS FOUND TO ACTIVATE CERTAIN GENES LINKED TO ADDICTION KNOWN AS hC
FOS GENESv -OREOVER THESE GENES WERE ACTIVATED hIN A PATTERN SIMILAR
TO THAT SEEN AMONG THOSE WHO USE COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINES v
WHICH MAY PROVIDE THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR THE 5NIVERSITY OF #ALIFORNIA
STUDYS lNDING THAT 2ITALIN IS A hGATEWAYv DRUG
4HE ,ONG
4ERM %FFECT ON 9OUNG #HILDREN 7HO +NOWS
$R *ERRY 2USHTON OF THE 5NIVERSITY OF -ICHIGAN EMPHASIZES
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
HOW LITTLE IS REALLY KNOWN ABOUT HOW 2ITALIN AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC
DRUGS AFFECT YOUNG CHILDREN
) THINK THE SAFETY OF THESE MEDICATIONS n IN THE YOUNG CHILD
ESPECIALLY n IS NOT KNOWN AND WHEN YOU TAKE THEM IN COMBI
NATION ITS A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF SAFETY CONCERNx )TS SOMETHING
THAT NEEDS TO BE STUDIED FURTHER
7ELL AS IT TURNS OUT IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FURTHER )N THE
RESULTS OF A STUDY CONDUCTED AT THE "ROOKHAVEN .ATIONAL ,ABORATORY
COMPARING THE EFFECTS OF COCAINE AND 2ITALIN ON THE BRAIN WERE PUB
LISHED IN THE *OURNAL OF .EUROSCIENCE 4HE ASSOCIATE LABORATORY DIRECTOR
FOR LIFE SCIENCES AT "ROOKHAVEN .ATIONAL ,ABORATORY .ORA 6OLKOW
DESCRIBED THE DATA FROM THE STUDY AS CLEARLY SHOWING hTHAT THE NOTION
THAT 2ITALIN IS A WEAK STIMULANT IS COMPLETELY INCORRECTv ;EMPHASIS
ADDED= !S REPORTED IN THE "ROOKHAVEN STUDY 2ITALIN HAS A STRONGER
EFFECT ON THE DOPAMINE SYSTEM THAN COCAINE
4HIS IS SIGNIlCANT BECAUSE THE DOPAMINE SYSTEM ACCORDING TO
DOCTORS IS AN AREA OF THE BRAIN IN WHICH DRUGS SUCH AS COCAINE AND
2ITALIN HAVE THE MOST EFFECT !PPARENTLY INmUENCED BY THE BENIGN
IMAGE OF 2ITALIN THAT HAS BEEN CULTIVATED WITHIN THE MEDICAL PROFES
SION 6OLKOW A PSYCHIATRIST DESCRIBED HERSELF AS hSHOCKED AS HELLv THAT
2ITALIN HAD SUCH A PROFOUND EFFECT ON THE DOPAMINE SYSTEM
!N ARTICLE THAT APPEARED IN IN THE !MERICAN *OURNAL OF
0SYCHIATRY GIVES MORE REASON FOR CONCERN REGARDING THE USE OF 2ITALIN
AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS 4HE
STUDY CONCLUDED THAT ADOLESCENTS MAY BE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO DRUG
ADDICTION THAN ADULTS BECAUSE OF THE STAGE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR
BRAIN STRUCTURE -OREOVER THE LEAD AUTHOR OF THE STUDY WHO IS ALSO
A PSYCHIATRIST ON THE FACULTY OF 9ALE 2 !NDREW #HAMBERS BELIEVES
THAT FAR MORE RESEARCH SHOULD BE DONE SPECIlCALLY ON THE IMPACT OF
PSYCHIATRIC MEDICINES ON ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DRUG
ADDICTION ,IKE THE RESEARCHERS IN THE "ROOKHAVEN STUDY #HAMBERS
ALSO NOTES THAT ADDICTIVE DRUGS AND PSYCHIATRIC MEDICINES ACT ON THE
SAME BRAIN SYSTEMS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
(ERES 9OUR "RAIN ON 2ITALIN AND 3OME /THER $RUGS
9ET ANOTHER CAUSE FOR CONCERN OVER h2ITALINIZINGv CHILDREN WAS
RAISED BY A STUDY OF RATS CONDUCTED BY A RESEARCH TEAM LED BY $R
7ILLIAM ! #ARLEZON *R AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT (ARVARD -EDICAL
3CHOOL AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE BEHAVIORAL GENETICS LABORATORY AT -C
#LEAN (OSPITAL PUBLISHED IN THE $ECEMBER ISSUE OF "IOLOGICAL
0SYCHIATRY )N THE STUDY JUVENILE RATS WERE DIVIDED INTO A CONTROL
GROUP THAT RECEIVED A PLACEBO AND ANOTHER GROUP THAT WAS GIVEN 2IT
ALIN 4HE BEHAVIOR OF THE RATS AS ADULTS WAS THEN COMPARED 4HE BRAINS
OF THE RATS WHO HAD BEEN GIVEN 2ITALIN AS JUVENILES APPEARED TO HAVE
BEEN PERMANENTLY ALTERED !CCORDING TO $R #ARLEZON h2ATS EXPOSED
TO 2ITALIN AS JUVENILES SHOWED LARGE INCREASES IN LEARNED
HELPLESSNESS
BEHAVIOR ;DETERMINED BY TESTING HOW QUICKLY A RAT UNDER STRESS GAVE UP
ON BEHAVIORAL TASKS= DURING ADULTHOOD SUGGESTING A TENDENCY TOWARD
DEPRESSIONv 4HE RESEARCHERS DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE EFFECTS THEY
OBSERVED ARE SPECIlC TO 2ITALIN BUT ARE RATHER A GENERAL REmECTION OF
HOW STIMULANT DRUGS AFFECT DEVELOPING BRAINS n hEARLY STUDIES INDICATE
THAT JUVENILE EXPOSURE TO COCAINE INSTEAD OF 2ITALIN PRODUCES THE SAME
PATTERN OF RESULTSv 7HILE THE RESULTS OF RAT STUDIES ARE OBVIOUSLY
NOT CONCLUSIVE WITH RESPECT TO HUMANS THE RESEARCH BY $R #ARLEZONS
TEAM MAKES IT CLEAR THAT VERY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE LONG
TERM
NEUROBIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF EXPOSING CHILDREN TO PSYCHOTROPIC
DRUGS .EVERTHELESS THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE PROMISCUOUS DRUGGING
OF SCHOOL CHILDREN MAY LEAD TO MILLIONS OF ADULTS WHO ARE DEPRESSED
AND WHO HAVE LITTLE PROBLEM
SOLVING ABILITY IS A DISQUIETING PROSPECT
)N THE VERY REAL DANGERS OF USING INSUFlCIENTLY RESEARCHED
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS CAME INTO CLEARER FOCUS WHEN THE "RITISH -EDI
CINES #ONTROL !GENCY AN AGENCY SIMILAR TO OUR &$! RULED THAT THE
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG 0AXIL SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TO ANYONE UNDER
YEARS
OLD 7HY "ECAUSE EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT 0AXIL MARKETED AS
3EROXAT IN "RITAIN INCREASES A CHILDS RISK OF SUICIDE 3HORTLY AFTER THE
ACTION TAKEN IN "RITAIN THE &$! RECOMMENDED AGAINST PEDIATRIC USE
OF 0AXIL 4HE MAKER OF 0AXIL 'LAXO 3MITH+LINE IS ALSO BEING SUED
BY OVER 0AXIL
ADDICTED ADULT USERS IN "RITAIN BECAUSE OF INADEQUATE
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
WARNINGS REGARDING THE RISK OF ADDICTION POSED BY 0AXIL
7HAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES "EFORE THESE WARNINGS CAME OUT
MANY PARENTS WERE BEING ASSURED BY THEIR MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS THAT
0AXIL WAS PERFECTLY SAFE TO USE ON THEIR CHILDREN JUST LIKE 2ITALIN !D
DERALL AND THE REST OF THE PHARMACOPIA OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS
(OW MANY PARENTS OF THE AT LEAST FOUR MILLION CHILDREN BEING
DRUGGED WITH 2ITALIN AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS DO YOU THINK
HAVE BEEN CANDIDLY INFORMED ABOUT ALL THESE RISKS (OW MANY OF THESE
PARENTS DO YOU BELIEVE ARE TOLD CANDIDLY ABOUT HOW LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT
THE LONG
TERM EFFECTS OF 2ITALIN AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS ON INFANTS
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
4HE !$($ )NDUSTRY 4ELLING THE 4RUTH
THE 7HOLE 4RUTH AND .OTHING "UT THE 4RUTH
/F COURSE THE THRESHOLD ISSUE CONCERNS THE DIAGNOSIS OF !$($
ITSELF 4O PARAPHRASE 'ERTRUDE 3TEINS COMMENT ABOUT /AKLAND DO
YOU THINK THAT PARENTS HAVE BEEN TOLD THERE MAY NOT BE A hTHEREv
THERE (OW MANY PARENTS DO YOU THINK HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT IN REALITY
2ITALIN IS A CURE FOR A hMENTAL ILLNESSv
s ESTABLISHED BY A VOTE OF PSYCHIATRISTS IN THE !MERICAN 0SY
CHIATRIC !SSOCIATION n THE VERY SAME !MERICAN 0SYCHIATRIC
!SSOCIATION THAT IN THE S DECLARED BY VOTE THAT HOMO
SEXUALITY WAS NO LONGER A MENTAL DISORDER AND THAT IS NOW
DEBATING WHETHER PEDOPHILIA AND SADOMASOCHISM SHOULD
CONTINUE TO BE CONSIDERED MENTAL DISORDERS
s DElNED BY HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE CRITERIA THAT INCLUDE COMMON
FORMS OF CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR
s THAT HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN LARGELY CONlNED TO THE 5NITED
3TATES AND #ANADA AND THAT MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN
COUNTRIES SUCH AS "RITAIN HAVE RESISTED RECOGNIZING
s FOR WHICH THERE IS NO VALID TEST FOR WHICH THERE ARE LITTLE
OR NO DATA TO SUPPORT THE CLAIM THAT IT IS DUE TO A BRAIN
MALFUNCTION OR NEUROCHEMICAL IMBALANCE AND FOR WHICH
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSE OR CAUSES IS PURELY SPECULATIVE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
)N SUM !MERICAN SOCIETY IS CURRENTLY DRUGGING ITS SCHOOLCHILDREN
AT AN ALMOST INCONCEIVABLE RATE BASED ON AN ALLEGED MENTAL ILLNESS THAT
CANNOT BE SHOWN TO HAVE ANY ORGANIC BASIS AND THAT APPEARS TO BE
DIAGNOSED ON THE BASIS OF LITTLE MORE THAN PERSISTENT UNRULY BEHAVIOR
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS *UST 3AY 9ES
)N THE $RUG %NFORCEMENT !GENCY REPORTED THAT OF
SCHOOLCHILDREN HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH !$($ AND AS PREVIOUSLY
NOTED THE CHAIRMAN OF A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE BELIEVES THAT 2ITALIN
MAY BE THE BIGGEST DRUG PROBLEM WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY (OW IS THIS
HAPPENING !RE MILLIONS OF PARENTS SPONTANEOUSLY DRAGGING *UNIOR TO
SEE A PSYCHIATRIST OR PSYCHOLOGIST .OT QUITE 5NFORTUNATELY NOT ONLY
HAVE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BECOME MAJOR DISTRIBUTORS OF PSYCHOTROPIC
DRUGS BUT THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN PROMOTING THE !$($
DIAGNOSIS AND THE DRUGGING OF CHILDREN
7HILE SCHOOL PERSONNEL CANNOT PRESCRIBE 2ITALIN OR OTHER
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS THEY DO hEVALUATEv CHILDREN FOR !$($ 4HESE
hEVALUATIONSv ARE TYPICALLY PERFORMED THROUGH SCHOOL OFlCIALS lLLING
OUT WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE hPENCILPAPER DIAGNOSTIC EXAM v WHICH IS A
FORM BASED ON THE HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE $3-
)6 !$($ SYMPTOMS
"ASED ON THESE EVALUATIONS SCHOOL OFlCIALS MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS
THAT PARENTS SEEK A hMEDICAL EVALUATIONv FOR !$($ FOR THEIR CHILD !S
PEDIATRICIAN $R ,AWRENCE ( $ILLER DESCRIBES IT THIS IS hTEACHER
SPEAK
FOR @'ET YOUR KID ON 2ITALINv
0ROMISCUOUSLY $IAGNOSING !$($
7ORSE THE SCHOOL OFlCIALS EVALUATIONS ARE TYPICALLY USED BY DOC
TORS IN MAKING THEIR DIAGNOSES OF !$($ 4HE ECONOMICS OF OUR
HEALTH CARE SYSTEM COMPOUND THE PROBLEM POSED BY DOCTORS USE OF
THESE SCHOOL PREPARED SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS !S THE HEAD OF THE .ATIONAL
)NSTITUTE OF -ENTAL (EALTH $R 2ICHARD + .AKAMURA HAS PUT IT
7E ARE CONCERNED ABOUT IMPROPER DIAGNOSES OF !$($ 4HERES
A POSSIBILITY THAT PHYSICIANS ARE TOLD h9OU HAVE 8 AMOUNT OF
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
TIME TO DIAGNOSE 89:v BY THEIR MANAGED
CARE ORGANIZATION )
BELIEVE PHYSICIANS ARE BEING GIVEN TOO LITTLE TIME AND MONEY TO
PROPERLY DIAGNOSE
3OME .EW 9ORK PARENTS HAVE REPORTED FOR EXAMPLE THAT DOC
TORS HAVE SPENT ONLY MINUTES WITH THEIR CHILDREN BEFORE PRESCRIBING
2ITALIN 4HIS CONTRASTS WITH $R .AKAMURAS DESCRIPTION OF A PROPER
DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE WHICH WOULD INVOLVE hEXTENSIVE TESTS TO DETER
MINE WHETHER A CHILD BEHAVIOR OR LEARNING DISABILITY MAY BE ATTRIBUTED
TO OTHER PROBLEMSxv #ONSEQUENTLY IT IS NO SURPRISE THAT THESE
EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS BY SCHOOL OFlCIALS HAVE LEAD TO THE
PROMISCUOUS PRESCRIPTION OF 2ITALIN
$R 'RETCHEN ,E&EVER A PEDIATRIC PSYCHOLOGIST PERFORMED A
STUDY OF STUDENTS IN TWO 6IRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS A RESULT OF
THE NUMBER OF !$($ REFERRALS SHE WAS RECEIVING (ER CONCERN WAS
THAT !$($ WAS BEING OVER DIAGNOSED !S A RESULT OF HER STUDY $R
,E&EVER FOUND
s TO OF CHILDREN IN ELEMENTARY GRADES ROUTINELY RE
CEIVED !$($ MEDICATION IN SCHOOL 4HIS SHARPLY CONTRASTS
WITH .ATIONAL )NSTITUTES OF (EALTH ESTIMATES THAT !$($
ONLY AFFECTS TO OF SCHOOLCHILDREN NATIONALLY AL
THOUGH IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE $RUG %NFORCEMENT !DMIN
ISTRATION ESTIMATES THAT OF SCHOOLCHILDREN HAVE
BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH !$($
s 4HREE TIMES AS MANY BOYS AS GIRLS WERE BEING MEDICATED
FOR !$($ AND TWICE AS MANY WHITES AS !FRICAN !MERICAN
CHILDREN WERE BEING MEDICATED FOR !$($
s "Y lFTH GRADE TO OF WHITE BOYS WERE BEING GIVEN
MEDICATION FOR !$($
s #RITERIA FOR DIAGNOSING !$($ VARY WIDELY ACROSS THE
5NITED 3TATES
5NTIL $R ,E&EVERS STUDY REPORTS THAT 2ITALIN USE IN SCHOOLS WAS
HEAVIER THAN HAD BEEN ESTIMATED WERE UNCONlRMED .OW ACCORDING
TO $R ,E&EVER hWE HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE OTHER REGIONS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
THAT PROBABLY LOOK MORE LIKE WE DO THAN THE NATIONAL ESTIMATESv
%VIDENTLY GOVERNMENT SCHOOL EDUCATORS ARE GETTING REALLY PROlCIENT
IN lLLING OUT THE hPENCILPAPER DIAGNOSTIC EXAMv
)N THE FACE OF CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT !$($ MAY NOT EXIST THAT
!$($ IS BEING DIAGNOSED AT LEVELS THAT ARE OBVIOUSLY UNREASONABLE
THAT 2ITALIN POSES SUBSTANTIAL RISK OF HARM TO CHILDREN AND THAT AS A
RESULT OF ITS PREVALENCE IN SCHOOLS 2ITALIN IS BEING WIDELY ABUSED AS A
RECREATIONAL DRUG WHAT ARE OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS
DOING 4HREATENING PARENTS WHO DONT WANT TO DRUG THEIR CHILDREN !RE
YOU SURPRISED
$RUG (IM OR ,OSE (IM
!S INCREDIBLE AS IT MAY SEEM SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE BEGINNING TO
THREATEN PARENTS WITH THE LOSS OF THEIR CHILDREN IF THEY DONT WANT TO
MEDICATE THEM (ERE ARE JUST TWO EXAMPLES
s ! YEAR
OLD BOYS PARENTS WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SIDE
EFFECTS HE WAS SUFFERING FROM 2ITALIN !FTER THE PARENTS
SPOKE TO THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ABOUT THEIR DECISION TO
TAKE THEIR SON OFF THE DRUG THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS CALLED
#HILD 0ROTECTIVE 3ERVICES ALLEGING CHILD ABUSE !S A RESULT
THE PARENTS WERE PLACED ON A STATE
WIDE LIST OF ALLEGED CHILD
ABUSERS AND ENSNARED IN A COURT BATTLE TO CLEAR THEIR NAMES
AND KEEP THEIR CHILD
s )N ANOTHER CASE A MOTHER DECIDED TO TAKE HER YEAR
OLD
SON OFF OF A DRUG COCKTAIL THAT INCLUDED 2ITALIN 0AXIL AND
$EXADRINE BECAUSE THEY CAUSED HIM TO HALLUCINATE 4HIS LED
TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OFlCIALS CALLING THE POLICE AND #HILD
0ROTECTIVE 3ERVICES IN AN EFFORT TO ENFORCE THEIR PREFERENCE
THAT THE BOY BE DRUGGED
!CCORDING TO OBSERVERS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS hARE INCREASINGLY
USING ACCUSATIONS OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECTv IF PARENTS RESIST DRUGGING
THEIR CHILDREN $AVID ,ANSNER A .EW 9ORK #ITY LAWYER WHO HAS
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
SEEN CASES SIMILAR TO THOSE DESCRIBED REPORTS h4HE SCHOOLS ARE NOW
USING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES TO ENFORCE THEIR OWN DESIRES AND THEIR
OWN POLICIESv 3IMILARLY $R ,AWRENCE ( $ILLER HAS NOTED h)T IS
NO LONGER SIMPLY AN ISSUE OF WHICH SCHOOL OR CLASS A CHILD WILL ATTEND
)NSTEAD SOME PARENTS ARE BEING THREATENED WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF LOS
ING CUSTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN IF THEY REFUSE TO COMPLY WITH SUGGESTED
TREATMENT FOR AN ALLEGED MEDICAL CONDITION ;!$($=v
/NE OF THE SHOCKING ASPECTS OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS IS THAT THE
GOVERNMENT HAS TRADITIONALLY RESPECTED PARENTAL DECISIONS REGARDING
MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR THEIR CHILDREN UNLESS THE LIFE OF THE CHILD WAS IN
DANGER )N THESE CASES NOTHING OF THE SORT IS AT STAKE 4HE GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL OFlCIALS IN THESE INSTANCES SIMPLY BELIEVE THAT DRUGGING THE
CHILD IS A BETTER MEDICAL DECISION AND THEY OBVIOUSLY MEAN TO HAVE
THEIR WAY
4RYING TO 2EIN IN 3CHOOLS 0ROMOTION OF 0SYCHOTROPIC $RUGS
%VIDENCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PRESSURING SCHOOL NURSES AND
PARENTS TO PUT CHILDREN ON 2ITALIN ALSO SURFACED IN A CONGRESSIONAL
HEARING )N HER TESTIMONY BEFORE A (OUSE #OMMITTEE /HIO 2EPRE
SENTATIVE $EBORAH 0RYCE TOLD THE #OMMITTEE THAT /HIO 3TATE "OARD
OF 0HARMACY OFlCIALS HAD REPORTED TO HER THAT THEY WERE hCONCERNED
ABOUT THE USE OF 2ITALIN AMONG SCHOOL
AGE CHILDREN IN /HIO AND THE
PRESSURE PLACED ON SCHOOL NURSES AND PARENTS TO PUT CHILDREN ON THIS
DRUGv 4HIS SORT OF PROMOTION OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS BY GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS LED THE #OLORADO "OARD OF %DUCATION TO VOTE TO DISCOURAGE
SCHOOL EMPLOYEES FROM SUGGESTING THE USE OF DRUGS LIKE 2ITALIN AND TO
ENCOURAGE THEM TO RELY ON DISCIPLINE AND INSTRUCTION TO REDUCE UNRULY
CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR
4HE AGGRESSIVE EFFORTS BY SCHOOLS AND OTHERS TO FORCE PARENTS TO
DRUG THEIR CHILDREN WITH PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS lNALLY LED TO A LEGISLATIVE
RESPONSE )N -AY THE 5NITED 3TATES (OUSE OF 2EPRESENTATIVES
VOTED TO IN FAVOR OF A MEASURE PROHIBITING SCHOOLS FROM REQUIR
ING ANY CHILD TO TAKE ANY PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG IN ORDER TO ATTEND SCHOOL
OR GET SCHOOL SERVICES 4HIS BILL HAS BEEN INTRODUCED IN THE 5NITED
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
3TATES 3ENATE BY .EVADA 3ENATOR *OHN %NSIGN AND 4ENNESSEE 3ENATOR
AND FORMER 3ECRETARY OF %DUCATION ,AMAR !LEXANDER #ONNECTICUT
-INNESOTA 6IRGINIA )LLINOIS AND #OLORADO HAVE ALREADY ENACTED
SIMILAR LEGISLATION
#HANGE (IS $IAPER 4HEN 'IVE (IM A (IT OF 2ITALIN
3CHOOL AGE CHILDREN AND ADULTS ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES ENRICHING
THE PSYCHOTROPIC DRUG INDUSTRY 2ESEARCH DONE AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF
-ARYLAND SHOWS THAT THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN AGES
TAKING PSYCHO
TROPIC DRUGS SUCH AS 2ITALIN 0ROZAC :OLOFT AND 0AXIL INCREASED BY
BETWEEN AND -OREOVER IT IS REPORTED THAT OVER A
QUARTER OF A MILLION PEDIATRICIANS ARE PRESCRIBING 2ITALIN TO CHILDREN
UNDER AGE !PPARENTLY A LOT OF TWO THREE FOUR AND lVE YEAR
OLDS
ARE SHOWING UNMISTAKABLE SIGNS OF !$($ 9OU KNOW STUFF LIKE NOT
WANTING TO SIT STILL OFTEN NOT LISTENING WHEN SPOKEN TO AND HAVING A
SHORT ATTENTION SPAN $O THE PEDIATRICIANS AND PSYCHIATRISTS HAVE THE
VAGUEST IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THESE CHILDREN /F COURSE NOT )N
A &EBRUARY ARTICLE IN THE .EW 9ORK 4IMES $R *OSEPH #OYLE
THE CHAIRMAN OF PSYCHIATRY AT (ARVARD -EDICAL 3CHOOL COMMENTED
ON THE DRUGGING OF THESE VERY YOUNG CHILDREN h4HESE INTERVENTIONS
ARE OCCURRING AT A CRITICAL TIME IN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND WE DONT
KNOW WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES AREv ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
%VIDENTLY ELEMENTS OF THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY WANTED
TO REMEDY THEIR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW THESE DRUGS AFFECT TOD
DLERS 4HIS APPEARS TO EXPLAIN A FEDERALLY FUNDED
WEEK STUDY ON THE
EFFECTS OF 2ITALIN ON VERY YOUNG CHILDREN BEGUN IN LATE IN .EW
9ORK #ITY BY SIX MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS -OST OF THE CHILDREN WERE
UNDER YEARS OLD WITH SOME OF THEM BEING AS YOUNG AS AGE !C
CORDING TO REPORTS THE CHILDREN WERE STARTED ON SMALL DOSES OF 2ITALIN
AND THEN THE DOSES WERE INCREASED TO SEE HOW MUCH THEY COULD TOLER
ATE !FTER THE CHILDREN REACHED THE MAXIMUM DOSAGE THEY WERE ABLE
TO TOLERATE THEY WERE PLACED IN A SIMULATED CLASSROOM WITH ONE
WAY
MIRRORS SO THAT THE RESEARCHERS COULD STUDY THEIR BEHAVIOR WHILE BEING
WEANED OFF 2ITALIN
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
)F THIS SOUNDS A BIT LIKE THE KIND OF MEDICAL RESEARCH PERFORMED
IN %ASTERN %UROPE BY CERTAIN 'ERMAN MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS WHO hRE
LOCATEDv TO 3OUTH !MERICA IN THE MID TO LATE S DONT WORRY !N
OFlCIAL AT ONE OF THE PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS WHO UNDERSTANDABLY
WANTED TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS AVERS THAT THE STUDY WILL ENABLE DOC
TORS TO hMAKE INTELLIGENT DECISIONSv ) GUESS WE ARE SUPPOSED TO FEEL
BETTER KNOWING THAT AFTER ALREADY DRUGGING MILLIONS OF TODDLERS AND
CHILDREN THE PSYCHIATRIC PROFESSION IS NOW TRYING TO lGURE OUT WHAT
IT HAS BEEN DOING
7HERE DOES THE IDEA THAT TODDLERS SUFFER FROM !$($ AND NEED
TO BE DRUGGED COME FROM $R *ULIE -AGNO :ITO THE AUTHOR OF THE
5NIVERSITY OF -ARYLAND STUDY CITES AS A FACTOR THE INCREASED RELIANCE
ON DAYCARE AND THE CONSEQUENT NEED TO HAVE CHILDREN hCONFORM IN
THEIR BEHAVIORv 4HIS OBSERVATION IS CONlRMED BY THE .EW 9ORK
#ITY STUDY IN WHICH SOME OF THE hRESEARCH SUBJECTSv AKA hCHILDRENv
HAVE BEEN REFERRED BY SCHOOLS
*UST IN CASE YOU CONTINUE TO BE SKEPTICAL THAT OUR TRUSTED PROFES
SIONALS COULD REALLY BE DOING THIS TO CHILDREN CONSIDER THAT IN
OVER PRESCRIPTIONS FOR 0ROZAC WERE WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN UNDER
MONTHS OLD !ND JUST EXACTLY HOW DOES A PSYCHIATRIST OR A DOCTOR
DETERMINE THAT A MONTH
OLD BABY FOR EXAMPLE IS DEPRESSED AND IS
IN NEED OF 0ROZAC $O YOU THINK THAT THERE IS A SOUND BODY OF RESEARCH
INDICATING THAT ITS JUST OKEY
DOKEY TO GIVE 0ROZAC TO INFANTS $O YOU
THINK THAT ANYONE HAS THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT THE LONG
TERM EFFECTS OF
GIVING 0ROZAC TO INFANTS AND PRESCHOOLERS ARE
0SYCHOTROPIC $RUGS AND #HILDREN 2EADY &IRE !IM
7HEN WE GET BEYOND THE SURFACE ITS CLEAR THAT SOMETHING VERY
WRONG IS GOING ON !DVOCATES OF THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS ARE STILL SEARCH
ING FOR A BIOLOGICAL JUSTIlCATION 4HAT MEANS THAT MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
ARE BEING DRUGGED TO TREAT SOMETHING THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN SHOWN TO
BE A REAL DISEASE AS DISTINGUISHED FROM UNRULY OR BAD BEHAVIOR 7ORSE
NO ONE REALLY KNOWS WHAT THE TRUE SHORT TERM OR LONG TERM EFFECTS
OF ADMINISTERING THESE DRUGS TO CHILDREN ARE )T IS SHOCKING THAT THE
DRUGGING OF MILLIONS OF SCHOOLCHILDREN HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO PROCEED
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
WITHOUT PROOF THAT THERE IS A DISEASE AND ESPECIALLY WITHOUT SUFlCIENT
TESTING OF THE EFFECTS OF THESE POWERFUL PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS ON CHILDREN
)N FACT IT IS HARD TO THINK OF A MORE EGREGIOUS EXAMPLE OF MEDICAL
MALPRACTICE THAN TO PRESCRIBE DRUGS TO INFANTS PREADOLESCENTS AND
ADOLESCENTS WHEN THE CONSEQUENCES TO THEM IN THOSE PARTICULAR STAGES
OF DEVELOPMENT ARE LARGELY UNKNOWN
7HEN THE LEGITIMACY OF THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS IS CHALLENGED
MORE THAN A FEW OF ITS DEFENDERS RESORT TO DERIDING THE SKEPTICS AS
hmAT EARTHERS v h3CIENTOLOGISTS v OR hPREJUDICEDv 3OME OF THE SKEPTICS
CLAIM ON THE OTHER HAND THAT THIS AD HOMINEN DEFENSE OF THE !$($
DIAGNOSIS REmECTS VENALITY AND PROFESSIONAL ARROGANCE 0ERHAPS BUT )
DONT DOUBT THAT THE NAME CALLING MAY ALSO REmECT IN SOME CASES A PAS
SIONATELY HELD VIEW THAT !$($ DIAGNOSIS IS VALID AND THAT PRESCRIBING
PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS TO BY SOME ESTIMATES AS MANY AS TWENTY PERCENT
OF OUR SCHOOLCHILDREN IS SOMEHOW MEDICALLY JUSTIlED 3TILL THOSE OF
US WHO ARE NOT PSYCHIATRISTS MIGHT BE EXCUSED IF THE VOTES CONSENSUS
LETTERS PUBLIC RELATIONS EFFORTS AND NAMING CALLING THAT APPEAR TO BE
INTEGRAL TO ESTABLISHING A PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS STRIKE US AS RESEMBLING
POLITICS RATHER THAN SCIENCE
)T IS POSSIBLE THAT AMONG THE CHILDREN SWEPT UP IN THE VERY
BROAD AND SUBJECTIVE !$($ DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA THAT THERE MAY BE
SOME CHILDREN THAT DO HAVE AN ORGANIC PROBLEM THAT PSYCHOTROPIC
DRUGS RELIEVE WHETHER THEY DO IT SAFELY IS ANOTHER MATTER .OR IS IT
IMPOSSIBLE FOR 2ITALIN AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS TO HAVE SOME
LEGITIMATE APPLICATIONS "UT NO ONE NOW REALLY KNOWS WHETHER THAT
IS THE CASE WITH !$($ AND CHILDREN )NSTEAD SCHOOLS AND PARENTS ARE
MEDICATING RATHER THAN DISCIPLINING MEDICATING RATHER THAN PROVID
ING A STIMULATING ENVIRONMENT MEDICATING INSTEAD OF HAVING RECESS
AND MEDICATING INSTEAD OF CORRECTING THE INSTITUTIONALIZED ABUSE OF
BOYS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HE PRICE OF ALLOWING SCHOOLS TO RELY ON
hMOTHERS LITTLE HELPERv TO MAINTAIN ORDER IS LIKELY EVENTUALLY TO CARRY A
PRICE TAG THAT WE CANT EVEN BEGIN TO COMPREHEND NOW
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
!S *AZZED AS !NY 3PEED &REAK
4HERE IS AMPLE SCIENTIlC EVIDENCE TO INDICATE THAT 2ITALIN IS A
VERY POWERFUL DRUG WITH SERIOUS SIDE EFFECTS "UT WHAT IS IT REALLY LIKE
TO BE MEDICATED WITH 2ITALIN 7HAT IS IT LIKE ON THE hINSIDEv #HIL
DREN UNFORTUNATELY ARE NOT ARTICULATE OR EXPERIENCED ENOUGH TO GIVE
US MUCH INSIGHT INTO THIS QUESTION "UT 7ALTER +IRN A PROFESSIONAL
WRITER DESCRIBES ELOQUENTLY HIS EXPERIENCE WITH 2ITALIN AFTER HE HAD
BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ADULT h!$$v !CCORDING TO +IRN THE h2ITAL
INIZEDv STATE OF MIND IS FAR FROM BENIGN n NO MATTER HOW CALM OR IN
CONTROL THE 2ITALIN USER MAY SEEM TO OUTSIDE OBSERVERS
) FELT GUILTY EACH TIME ) RENEWED MY PRESCRIPTION BUT LIKE 2ITALINS
OTHER EFFECTS IT DIDNT SHOW ) FELT GUILTY BECAUSE THE DRUG WAS
SO DAMNED POWERFUL n EASILY AS EUPHORIA INDUCING AS ANY ILLEGAL
SUBSTANCE )D EVER TRIED )N FACT ITS EFFECTS WERE BETTER #LEANER
4IGHTER 0LUS COMPARED TO STREET DRUGS THE STUFF WAS CHEAP &OR
THE SAME AMOUNT COKEHEADS PAY FOR ONE NIGHTS HIGH ) COULD SOAR
FOR A MONTH WITHOUT FEAR OF THE POLICE .OT THAT ) DIDNT FEEL
PARANOID ANYHOW $URING THE EIGHTEEN MONTHS ) TOOK THE DRUG )
REHEARSED COUNTLESS TIMES A SCENE IN WHICH A COP PULLED ME OVER
FOR A TRAFlC INFRACTION LOOKED DEEP INTO MY DILATED PUPILS THEN
SPOTTED THE PILL BOTTLE ON THE SEAT BESIDE ME h)TS A PRESCRIPTION
OFlCER v )D SAY !ND WHAT COULD HE DO ABOUT IT .OT A THING
4HERE ) AM AS JAZZED AS ANY SPEED FREAK WHOS JUST PUT HIS GIRL
FRIEND IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER AN ALL
NIGHT QUARREL IN A MOTEL ROOM
AND YET )M UNTOUCHABLE INNOCENT FREE TO GO
!RE YOU STILL WONDERING WHY 2ITALIN IS BEING ABUSED AS A STREET
DRUG OR WHY IT IS BEING WIDELY USED AS A RECREATIONAL DRUG BY TEEN
AGERS +IRNS EXPERIENCE WITH 2ITALIN ALSO SHOWED HIM HOW 2ITALIN
COULD BE PRESCRIBED TO SO MANY CHILDREN h)TS NO WONDER ) THOUGHT
THAT PARENTS AND TEACHERS LOVE THE STUFFx &ORGET HOW THE LITTLE WHITE
PILLS MAKE *OHNNY FEELx THEY MAKE THE ADULTS LOOKING AFTER HIM FEEL
GREATv +IRN ULTIMATELY TOOK HIMSELF OFF OF 2ITALIN #HILDREN DONT
HAVE THAT OPTION EVEN IF THEY LIKE +IRN COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
BEING DONE TO THEM
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
7HAT )S 'OING /N
4HERE IS MORE TO THIS CONTROVERSY THAN MERE INSTITUTIONAL STU
PIDITY AND PROFESSIONAL CUPIDITY ALTHOUGH THEY ARE PRESENT IN GOOD
MEASURE TOO 3CHOOLS DO HAVE SERIOUS DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS AND THE REA
SONS ARE MANY %FFECTIVE DISCIPLINE OF STUDENTS PARTICULARLY THE HIGHLY
EFFECTIVE CORPORAL VARIETY HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY ELIMINATED FROM SCHOOLS
BECAUSE OF COURT RULINGS AND BIASES AGAINST TRADITIONAL DISCIPLINE IN
SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AND AMONG SOME ELEMENTS OF SOCIETY &OR SOME
OF THE SAME REASONS DISCIPLINE IS OFTEN LARGELY ABSENT IN THE HOME
4HIS PROBLEM IS PARTICULARLY ACUTE WHEN FATHERS ARE ABSENT FROM THE
HOME OR UNINVOLVED WITH THEIR CHILDREN -ANY BOYS UNDOUBTEDLY
RESENT BEING TREATED AS hDISTURBEDv FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN THE FACT
THAT THEY ARE BOYS AND ARE FRUSTRATED BY THE SCHOOLS FAILURE TO TEACH
THEM HOW TO READ PROPERLY "OYS AND GIRLS ALIKE ARE ALSO DOUBTLESSLY
BORED BY THE THIN INTELLECTUAL GRUEL THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS LADLE OUT
TODAY 4HE INCREASINGLY POLITICALLY
CORRECT CURRICULA INmICTED ON CHIL
DREN n OFTEN BY MARGINALLY COMPETENT OR INCOMPETENT TEACHERS n ALSO
INVITE REBELLION 6ALUES CLARIlCATION AND OTHER NON
ACADEMIC CURRICULA
SUBTLY UNDERMINE THE AUTHORITY OF THE TEACHER AND SCHOOL AS WELL AS
THAT OF PARENTS AND THE VALUES OF STREET GANGS ARE PRESENT IN SCHOOLS
AS NEVER BEFORE &OR THESE AND OTHER REASONS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE
DIFlCULT PLACES TO TEACH AND TO MANAGE
6IEWED FROM THIS INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVE !$($ AND PSYCHO
TROPIC DRUGS SUCH AS 2ITALIN ARE GODSENDS &ACED WITH A SEVERE BREAK
DOWN OF DISCIPLINE MANY TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS UNDOUBTEDLY
BELIEVE THAT 2ITALIN AND SIMILAR DRUGS ARE PERHAPS THE ONLY EFFECTIVE
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TOOLS LEFT TO THEM !ND WHAT IS EVEN BETTER
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CAN GET EXTRA MONEY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
FOR CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH !$($ COURTESY OF THE )NDIVIDUALS WITH
$ISABILITIES !CT &URTHER BECAUSE THE %LEMENTARY AND 3ECONDARY %DU
CATION !CT OF BROUGHT AN ARMY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS PSYCHIATRISTS
SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHIATRIC PROGRAMS INTO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
IN SOME SENSE IT IS PROBABLY NATURAL NOW FOR MANY EDUCATORS TO SEE
BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS AS MEDICAL PROBLEMS 4HIS MAY GIVE YOU SOME
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
INSIGHT INTO WHY $R &RED "AUGHMAN A PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGIST WHO IS
ONE OF THE MORE OUTSPOKEN CRITICS OF !$($ EPIDEMIC AND 2ITALIN
BELIEVES
%VERY CHILD WHO GOES TO PUBLIC SCHOOL IS AT RISK 0SYCHOLOGY AND
PSYCHIATRY AWAIT 4EACHERS TEACH NO MORE 4HEY HAVE BECOME
hDIAGNOSTICIANSv ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
"UT HOW DOES ALL OF THIS LOOK TO SCHOOLCHILDREN
3URELY SCHOOLCHILDREN MUST VIEW THE SITUATION AS DEEPLY IRONIC
4HEY ARE TOLD THAT THEY SHOULDNT USE DRUGS UNLESS OF COURSE THEY
HAVE REACHED THE OPPOSITE CONCLUSION AS A RESULT OF PARTICIPATION IN
A PROGRAM THAT TAUGHT THEM hCRITICAL THINKINGv OR hVALUES CLARIlCA
TIONv AND YET THEIR SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN TURNED INTO VIRTUAL PHARMACIES
OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS THAT SCHOOL OFlCIALS ARE URGING THEM TO TAKE
4HE UBIQUITOUS PRESENCE OF 2ITALIN AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS IN
TURN HAS CREATED MASSIVE RECREATIONAL ABUSE OF THESE DRUGS IN SCHOOLS
3TUDENTS MAY WELL BE ASKING THEMSELVES WHY USING DRUGS IS BAD IF THEY
USE THEM TO ESCAPE THEIR PROBLEMS FOR A WHILE BUT ITS JUST lNE IF THE
SCHOOL NURSE GIVES THEM DRUGS SO THAT TEACHERS CAN ESCAPE FROM THEIR
!$($ OPPOSITIONAL DElANCE DISORDER OR SOME OTHER PSYCHIATRIC
MUMBO JUMBO DIAGNOSIS 0ERHAPS THEY ARE CONCLUDING THAT IT IS JUST A
MATTER OF WHOSE PROBLEMS COUNT
"Y THE WAY IF YOU THINK THAT IT SOUNDS AS IF THE #ALI DRUG CARTEL
HAS INlLTRATED GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PRO
FESSIONALS RECOMMEND THAT YOU SEEK A hMEDICAL EVALUATIONv
4HE :ERO 4OLERANCE 'ULAG
(ERE IS ANOTHER LITTLE QUIZ 7HAT DO YOU DO IF AN EIGHT YEAR
OLD
BOY IN A SCHOOL CAFETERIA PICKS UP ONE OF HIS CHICKEN lNGERS POINTS
IT AT A TEACHER AND SAYS h0OWv $O YOU TELL HIM NOT TO PLAY WITH
HIS FOOD OR DO YOU SUSPEND HIM FROM SCHOOL FOR MAKING TERRORISTIC
THREATS )F YOU ANSWERED THAT THE BOY SHOULD BE TOLD NOT TO PLAY WITH
HIS FOOD YOU PROBABLY ARENT CUT OUT FOR A CAREER IN A GOVERNMENT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
SCHOOL 4HIS INCIDENT AND OTHERS LIKE IT REALLY HAPPENED 7ELCOME
TO THE hZERO TOLERANCEv GULAG
7HATS IN A .AME
7HILE MANY OF THE SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
TAKE PLACE OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE BY THE S THE PUBLIC BEGAN TO
NOTICE INCREASES IN SCHOOL DISORDER AND CRIME AND PUBLIC CONlDENCE
IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS STARTED TO ERODE )N AN EFFORT TO RESTORE CONl
DENCE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BEGAN ANNOUNCING IN THE EARLY S THAT
THEY WERE ADOPTING hZERO TOLERANCEv POLICIES REGARDING SUCH MATTERS AS
GUNS DRUGS AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT 4HIS TREND GATHERED MOMENTUM
IN WHEN #ONGRESS JUMPED ON THE BANDWAGON BY PASSING THE
'UN &REE 3CHOOLS !CT 4HAT LEGISLATION IMPOSED A NATIONAL hZERO TOLER
ANCEv POLICY REGARDING WEAPONS THAT REQUIRED STATES TO EXPEL FOR AT
LEAST ONE YEAR ANY STUDENT WHO BRINGS A WEAPON TO SCHOOL OR RISK THE
LOSS OF FEDERAL FUNDS
7HAT IS hZERO TOLERANCEv )T REFERS TO SCHOOL DISCIPLINARY POLICIES
THAT ESTABLISH BROAD RULES REGARDING SUCH MATTERS AS DRUGS WEAPONS
AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT THAT ARE STRICTLY AND SEVERELY ENFORCED 4YPICALLY
IF A STUDENT BREACHES A hZERO TOLERANCEv RULE THE STUDENT IS AUTOMATI
CALLY SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL OR WORSE 5NFORTUNATELY THE CREATORS AND
ENFORCERS OF hZERO TOLERANCEv POLICIES HAVE PROVED STRANGELY INCAPABLE OF
DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN NAIL CLIPPERS AND A SWITCHBLADE A -IDOL TABLET
AND A SYRINGE lLLED WITH HEROIN OR A HUG BY A lVE
YEAR
OLD AND RAPE
$ONT BE TEMPTED TO THINK THAT THIS IS SIMPLY EVIDENCE OF RANK
STUPIDITY ON THE PART OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL EDUCATORS 4HAT ISNT REALLY
THE STORY h:ERO TOLERANCEv IS BEST UNDERSTOOD AS A PUBLIC RELATIONS
SLOGAN THAT HAS READILY LENT ITSELF TO THE INSTITUTIONALIZED ABUSE OF
SCHOOLCHILDREN BY AGENDA
DRIVEN ZEALOTS
#RIMINALIZING -IDOL
/F COURSE GUNS ILLEGAL DRUGS AND SEXUAL ASSAULT WERE AGAINST
SCHOOL RULES EVEN BEFORE GOVERNMENT EDUCATORS DISCOVERED hZERO TOLER
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
ANCEv "UT WITH THE PUBLIC BECOMING RESTIVE OVER SCHOOL CRIME AND THE
GENERAL LACK OF DISCIPLINE WITHIN SCHOOLS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS NEEDED
TO SHOW THEY WERE hDOING SOMETHINGv !T THE MARGINS hZERO TOLER
ANCEv POLICIES MAY HAVE MADE PUNISHMENT MORE CERTAIN FOR SERIOUS
RULE INFRACTIONS BUT IT IS NOT CLEAR THAT EVEN THAT IS TRUE .OTHING IN
THE CRIME DATA INDICATES THAT hZERO TOLERANCEv POLICIES HAVE STEMMED
THE TIDE OF ILLEGAL DRUG USE AND TRAFlCKING ON SCHOOL CAMPUSES OR RE
DUCED OVERALL SCHOOL CRIME 7HAT hZERO TOLERANCEv CLEARLY SEEMS TO
HAVE DONE HOWEVER IS ALLOW ELEMENTS WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
WHO ARE lXATED ON ISSUES SUCH AS GENDER VIOLENCE AND DRUGS TO SATISFY
THEIR OBSESSIONS BY CREATING AND ENFORCING ILL
DElNED IRRATIONAL RULES
TO THE DETRIMENT OF CHILDREN (ERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES AND REMEMBER
AS $AVE "ARRY MIGHT SAY ) AM NOT MAKING THESE UP
s 4WO .EW *ERSEY SECOND GRADERS hWERE CHARGED WITH MAKING
@TERRORISTIC THREATS AFTER PLAYING COPS
AND
ROBBERS WITH PAPER
GUNSv
s ! .EW *ERSEY BOY WHOSE FATHER IS IN THE MILITARY WAS SUS
PENDED FOR lVE DAYS FOR DRAWING A STICK lGURE OF A -ARINE
SHOOTING A MEMBER OF THE 4ALIBAN 3CHOOL OFlCIALS CLAIMED
THE DRAWING WAS hNOT THE WORK OF A NORMAL MINDv 0ERHAPS
THE SAME COULD BE SAID OF THE SCHOOL OFlCIALS JUDGMENT
s ! &LORIDA SIXTH GRADER WAS ARRESTED HANDCUFFED AND TAKEN
TO JAIL IN A SQUAD CAR FOR THE hCRIMEv OF STOMPING IN A PUD
DLE AND SPLASHING CLASSMATES AND A SCHOOL EMPLOYEE
s )N /REGON A THIRTEEN
YEAR
OLD WAS SUSPENDED FOR COMBATING
HIS HALITOSIS WITH 3COPE MOUTHWASH WHILE AT SCHOOL 7HY
"ECAUSE 3COPE CONTAINS ALCOHOL
s ! SIX
YEAR
OLD BOY IN /HIO hWAS SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL FOR
SEXUAL HARASSMENT AFTER HE JUMPED FROM THE TUB IN WHICH HE
WAS BATHING AT HOME TO WAVE OUT THE WINDOW AT THE SCHOOL
BUS THAT WAS PICKING UP HIS SISTERv
s ! THIRTEEN
YEAR
OLD 4EXAS GIRL WAS SUSPENDED AFTER A DRUG
SNIFlNG DOG DETECTED DRUGS IN HER BACKPACK 3HE HAD A
BOTTLE OF !DVIL
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
s ! SIX YEAR OLD WAS DISCIPLINED FOR CARRYING A WEAPON TO
SCHOOL IN HIS LUNCH SACK 4HE hWEAPON v IT TURNS OUT WAS
A PLASTIC KNIFE THAT HIS GRANDMOTHER HAD PUT INSIDE SO HE
COULD SPREAD HIS PEANUT BUTTER
s !FTER BEING COMMENDED BY SCHOOL OFlCIALS FOR TAKING A
KNIFE FROM A STUDENT WHO WAS THREATENING SUICIDE A 6IRGINIA
MIDDLE SCHOOLER WAS SUSPENDED BECAUSE THE SCHOOL BOARD
DECIDED THAT HE HAD NOT GIVEN THE KNIFE TO AN ADULT QUICKLY
ENOUGH
s ! #OLORADO 3PRINGS SIX YEAR OLD WAS SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL
FOR DRUG POSSESSION 7AS IT HEROIN (ASHISH #OCAINE .O
LEMON DROPS (IS MOTHER WAS TOLD THAT hA CHILD WHO BRINGS
CANDY TO SCHOOL IS COMPARABLE TO A TEEN WHO TAKES A GUN TO
SCHOOLv
s ! YEAR OLD #OLORADO GIRL WAS SUSPENDED FOR SEXUAL HARASS
MENT !PPARENTLY SHE WAS PART OF A GROUP OF GIRLS AND SHE
COMMITTED THE UNPARDONABLE SIN OF hSEXUAL HARASSMENTv BY
REPEATEDLY ASKING A BOY ON THE PLAYGROUND IF HE LIKED THEM
s ! BOY WHO OFFERED A FRIEND A #ERTS BREATH MINT WAS SUS
PENDED FOR DISTRIBUTING DRUGS
s ! THIRD GRADE BOY WAS SUSPENDED FROM HIS -OBILE !LA
BAMA SCHOOL FOR lVE DAYS (IS hCRIMEv WAS TAKING A VITAMIN
WITH HIS LUNCH IN VIOLATION OF THE SCHOOLS hZERO TOLERANCE
POLICY FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSEv
s ! SIXTH GRADE 3OUTH #AROLINA HONORS STUDENT WAS HAULED OFF
IN A POLICE CAR AFTER SCHOOL OFlCIALS DISCOVERED THAT SHE HAD
A WEAPON 3HE WAS GUILTY OF PACKING hA PARING KNIFE IN HER
LUNCH BOX TO CUT UP A PIECE OF LEFT OVER CHICKENv
,AWRENCE -IDDLE 3CHOOL 'OING TO THE "ATHROOM
IS A 0RIVILEGE .OT A 2IGHT
)N A DISPLAY OF TRUE ZEAL FOR DISCIPLINE THAT MIGHT BE CONSIDERED
A VARIATION ON THE hZERO TOLERANCEv THEME THE !SSOCIATED 0RESS REPORTS
THAT ,AWRENCE -IDDLE 3CHOOL IN ,AWRENCE .EW *ERSEY PROHIBITS TH
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
AND TH
GRADERS FROM LEAVING CLASS TO GO TO THE BATHROOM MORE THAN
TIMES A MONTH 4HE RESULT HAS BEEN CHILDREN DECREASING THEIR
CONSUMPTION OF LIQUIDS AND IN SOME CASES TRYING TO hHOLD ITv UNTIL
THEY GET HOME 4HIS HOWEVER CAN LEAD TO INFECTIONS INCONTINENCE
AND CONSTIPATION ACCORDING TO UROLOGISTS ! PEDIATRIC UROLOGIST IN
TERVIEWED FOR THE STORY BY THE !SSOCIATED 0RESS $R #HRISTOPHER 3
#OOPER STATED THAT THE POLICY OBVIOUSLY DOESNT MAKE SENSE h7HEN
CHILDREN NEED TO GO THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO GO )T ISNT GOOD TO HOLD
IT IN OR DRINK LESS mUIDS )T COULD HAVE LONG
TERMS EFFECTS ON A CHILDS
HEALTHv /NE PARENT CALLED THE SCHOOL TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE POLICY
AND WAS TOLD BY A HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL THAT hxGOING
TO THE BATHROOM IS A PRIVILEGE NOT A RIGHTxv
&AR FROM BEING ISOLATED INSTANCES THERE ARE SO MANY EXAMPLES
OF hZERO TOLERANCEv ABUSES THAT IT IS DIFlCULT TO DECIDE WHICH ARE THE
MOST EGREGIOUS OR ABSURD %VEN THE !MERICAN "AR !SSOCIATION !"!
HAS RECOGNIZED THAT THOSE IN CHARGE OF SCHOOL DISCIPLINE HAVE BECOME
STRANGERS TO COMMONSENSE .OTING THAT hZERO TOLERANCEv POLICIES APPLY
THEORIES OF PUNISHMENT TO lRST GRADERS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY DIRECTED
TO ADULT CRIMINALS AND HAVE LED TO hTHOUSANDS OF UNNECESSARY EXPUL
SIONS AND SUSPENSIONS v THE LEADERSHIP OF THE !"! HAS VOTED THAT hZERO
TOLERANCEv POLICIES BE ABOLISHED
)N LIGHT OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO CHILDREN IN THE NAME OF
hZERO
TOLERANCE v RATHER THAN DRUGGING CHILDREN WITH 2ITALIN PERHAPS
OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS OUGHT TO BE EVALUATED FOR
0ROZAC
"URIED !LIVE
'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE INCREASINGLY BECOME SEETHING CAUL
DRONS OF BEHAVIORAL AND INSTITUTIONAL PATHOLOGIES 4HE .ORMAN 2OCK
WELL IMAGE OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IS AT LEAST TWO GENERATIONS
OUT OF DATE -ODERN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE PLACES OF CHRONIC VIO
LENCE DISORDER AND RAMPANT DRUG ABUSE 4HEY ARE ALSO PLACES WHERE
CHILDREN MUST LEARN TO LIVE WITH BEING THE SUBJECT OF hEDUCATORSv
IDEOLOGICAL ENTHUSIASMS BULLYING AND HOSTILITIES 7ORSE THEY ARE IN
DANGER OF BEING COERCED INTO THE LARGEST UNCONTROLLED PHARMACOLOGI
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CAL EXPERIMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
#HILDREN ATTENDING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TODAY BEAR A DAILY BUR
DEN OF ANXIETY FRUSTRATION AND ALIENATION THAT FEW ADULTS WOULD BE
WILLING TO TOLERATE &OR #HRISTIAN CHILDREN IT IS WORSE 4HE VERY NATURE
OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CURRICULA PRACTICES AND STANDARDS TODAY OPPOSE
AND DENIGRATE THE #HRISTIAN SCHOOLCHILDS YOUNG FAITH 4HIS IN TURN
FORCES ON THE #HRISTIAN CHILD A CONmICT BETWEEN HIS FAITH AND lNDING
PEACE AND ACCEPTANCE WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL THAT LOOMS AS A
COLOSSUS IN HIS LIFE !ND BECAUSE THEY ARE CHILDREN THEY HAVE NO CHOICE
EXCEPT TO BEAR IT
#AN IT BE A SURPRISE THEN THAT OVER TIME THESE PRESSURES TEND
TO LEAD #HRISTIAN CHILDREN TO DOUBLE
MINDEDNESS AND A FALLING AWAY
FROM THEIR FAITH 7E KNOW THAT BETWEEN AND OF #HRISTIAN
CHILDREN IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS STOP ATTENDING CHURCH WITHIN TWO
YEARS AFTER GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL 7E KNOW THAT CHILDREN AT
TENDING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE IN GREATER DANGER OF BEING SEDUCED BY
THE WORLD THAN ARE THOSE WHO ATTEND SOUND #HRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
OR WHO ARE HOMESCHOOLED !ND WHILE THERE ARE ALWAYS EXCEPTIONS YOU
CAN PROBABLY CONlRM THE TRUTH OF THESE PROPOSITIONS IN YOUR OWN
CHURCH
)F YOU HAVE PLACED YOUR CHILDREN 'ODS GIFT TO YOU UNDER THE
AUTHORITY OF PAGANS AND THE GODLESS DURING THEIR MOST VULNERABLE AND
IMPRESSIONABLE YEARS DO YOU TRULY EXPECT TO BE TOLD AT THE END OF YOUR
RACE h7ELL DONE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTv
# ( ! 0 4 % 2 & ) 6 %
3CHOO L 2E F O RM ! 0O PU LA R $ E LU SI O N
h"UT BE YE DOERS OF THE WORD AND NOT HEARERS ONLY
DECEIVING YOUR OWN SELVESv
*AMES
h;4=HE WILLINGNESS TO ENDURE FOUR YEARS IN A TYPICAL SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
OFTEN CONSTITUTES AN EFFECTIVE NEGATIVE INTELLIGENCE TESTv
*OHN 3ILBER FORMER PRESIDENT OF "OSTON 5NIVERSITY
)BY F YOU ARE STILL THINKING THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CAN BE REFORMED
YOU HAVENT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION &IRST A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
ITS VERY NATURE CANNOT PROVIDE AN EDUCATION APPROPRIATE FOR
#HRISTIAN CHILDREN )NDEED THE VERY FACT THAT #HRISTIANS ARE SUF
FERING FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF MANY TH
CENTURY 0ROTESTANTS WRONGLY BELIEVING THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS COULD
BE CREATED AND MAINTAINED AS 0ROTESTANT SCHOOLS 3ECOND #HRISTIANS
MUST UNDERSTAND THAT EVEN CONVENTIONAL REFORMS AIMED MERELY AT
RESTORING TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC AND MORAL STANDARDS TO GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS ARE AS A PRACTICAL MATTER IMPOSSIBLE ,ETS lRST TAKE A LOOK
AT THE REASONS WHY THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY HAS FRUSTRATED AND WILL
CONTINUE TO FRUSTRATE CONVENTIONAL REFORMS 4HEN WE WILL EXAM
INE IN THE NEXT CHAPTER WHY #HRISTIANS MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO MAKE
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS EVEN IF SUCH A THING WERE
POSSIBLE
#ANT 7E !LL *UST 'ET !LONG
h3CHOOL REFORMv HAS BEEN A STAPLE OF !MERICAN SOCIAL AND PO
LITICAL DEBATE SINCE AT LEAST THE S /F COURSE SCHOOL REFORM HAS
ALSO ALWAYS MEANT DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE &OR SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL REFORMERS SCHOOL REFORM IS TYPICALLY A SUBTERFUGE FOR GETTING
CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE THEIR VERSION OF SOCIAL AND
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
POLITICAL CHANGE FOR THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY
hSCHOOL REFORMv ALWAYS MEANS POURING MORE MONEY INTO GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS AND FOR PARENTS AND THE MAN ON THE STREET hSCHOOL REFORMv
GENERALLY MEANS TRYING TO IMPROVE ACADEMIC AND MORAL STANDARDS
WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS /F COURSE THIS LAST KIND OF SCHOOL REFORM
IS PRECISELY THE TYPE OF REFORM THAT IS LEAST LIKELY TO SUCCEED
5NFORTUNATELY MOST !MERICANS AND ESPECIALLY PARENTS CHARI
TABLY ASSUME THAT EVERYONE ADVOCATING REFORM IS ALSO PRIMARILY CON
CERNED WITH HAVING SCHOOLS DO A BETTER JOB OF TEACHING CHILDREN TO
READ AND WRITE DO MATHEMATICS AND DEVELOP SOUND TRADITIONAL MORAL
STANDARDS 4HOSE WITH OTHER SOCIAL POLITICAL OR ECONOMIC AGENDAS UN
DERSTAND THIS AND THEY ARE ALL TOO WILLING TO CLAIM DISINGENUOUSLY THAT
THEY SHARE THESE AS THEIR PRIMARY GOALS 7ORSE THEY HAVE MANAGED
TO CONVINCE THE PUBLIC THAT THE WAY TO MAKE THESE IMPROVEMENTS IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS BY hINVESTINGv MORE MONEY IN THEM 4HIS HAS
BECOME SUCH AN ARTICLE OF FAITH THAT THE POLITICAL DEBATE ON FUNDING
FOR EDUCATION IS TYPICALLY NOTHING MORE THAN AN ARGUMENT OVER HOW
MUCH MORE TAX MONEY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY
!S YOU KNOW BY NOW !MERICA SPENDS MORE PER PUPIL ON EDU
CATION THAN ALMOST ANY OTHER COUNTRY AND AMONG DEVELOPED COUN
TRIES HAS THE WORLDS LEAST PRODUCTIVE SCHOOLS .ATIONALLY THE AVERAGE
TEACHERS WAGES EXCEED THE AVERAGE WORKERS WAGES BY AND THE
AVERAGE TEACHER ALSO RECEIVES BENElTS EQUAL TO OF HIS SALARY
.EVERTHELESS 3!4 SCORES SINCE THE S HAVE DECLINED AND .!%0
SCORES AT BEST HAVE REMAINED MORE OR LESS mAT DESPITE THE FACT THAT
SINCE SPENDING ON EDUCATION HAS INCREASED BY BETWEEN
TO PER PUPIL AFTER ADJUSTING FOR INmATION &URTHER AN EXTENSIVE
ACADEMIC STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF SPENDING ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
HAS SHOWN THAT THERE IS NO STRONG OR CONSISTENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
SPENDING AND STUDENT PERFORMANCE
,AVISH FUNDING AND DISMAL RESULTS NOTWITHSTANDING THE EDUCATION
LOBBY CONTINUES TO CLAMOR FOR MORE MONEY 2ECENTLY EVEN 3ECRETARY
OF %DUCATION 2OD 0AIGE FELT CONSTRAINED TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE EDU
CATION ESTABLISHMENTS RITUAL BLEATINGS THAT EDUCATION IS UNDERFUNDED
)N FACT 3ECRETARY 0AIGE POINTS OUT THAT FROM TO + EDU
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
CATION SPENDING INCREASED AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND THAT NATIONALLY
ROUGHLY BILLION IS NOW SPENT ON +
EDUCATION 4HAT IS MORE
THAN WE SPEND ON NATIONAL DEFENSE 3TILL !MERICANS REMAIN AMAZINGLY
OBLIVIOUS TO THE TRUTH AND ALL TOO WILLINGLY ACCEPT THE CLAIM THAT MORE
MONEY IS A KEY PART OF WHAT IS NEEDED TO lX EDUCATION "ECAUSE THE
SYSTEMATIC DATA SHOWING THERE IS NO CORRELATION BETWEEN EVER HIGHER
SPENDING AND IMPROVED EDUCATION DOESNT SEEM TO MAKE MUCH OF AN
IMPRESSION LETS USE ONE LAST EXAMPLE TO DRIVE THE POINT HOME 4HEN
WE WILL BE IN A POSITION TO CONSIDER WHY MORE MONEY WILL NOT REFORM
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND WHY ANY MEANINGFUL REFORM OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS WONT HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON
%VERYTHINGS UP TO $ATE IN +ANSAS #ITY
7HENEVER GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FAIL TO IMPROVE AFTER THERE HAS
BEEN A REFORM
DRIVEN INCREASE IN SPENDING THE EXCUSE IS ALWAYS THAT
ENOUGH MONEY WASNT SPENT -OST !MERICANS STILL BUY THIS ARGUMENT
!FTER ALL IT IS AT LEAST THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE THAT YET MORE MONEY COULD
DO THE TRICK 3UPPOSE HOWEVER THAT WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE A LARGE
TROUBLED SCHOOL DISTRICT AND UNDERTAKE A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM OF
REFORM IN WHICH MONEY IS NO OBJECT 3UPPOSE ALSO THAT THE REFORMS
WERE OVERSEEN BY AN INDEPENDENT PARTY COMMITTED TO MAKING USE OF
ALL OF THE VERY BEST GOVERNMENT SCHOOL REFORM STRATEGIES )F WE COULD
MAKE SUCH AN EXPERIMENT DONT YOU THINK THAT IT WOULD lNALLY SETTLE
THE ISSUE 7ELL THERE WAS SUCH AN EXPERIMENT AND PEOPLE STILL SEEM TO
LOSE CONTROL OF THEIR CRITICAL FACULTIES WHEN REFORMERS APPEAL FOR MORE
SPENDING ON GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
)N FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE 2USSELL ' #LARK SEIZED
CONTROL OF THE +ANSAS #ITY 3CHOOL $ISTRICT TO IMPLEMENT A SCHOOL
DESEGREGATION PLAN !S PART OF *UDGE #LARKS REIGN HE INVITED EDUCA
TORS TO THINK BIG AND COME UP WITH A WISH LIST OF EVERYTHING THAT THEY
THOUGHT WOULD IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN +ANSAS #ITY SCHOOLS
4O IMPLEMENT THE DREAMS OF +ANSAS #ITYS HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION
PROFESSIONALS *UDGE #LARK ORDERED OVER BILLION SPENT TO CREATE THE
PERFECT SCHOOL SYSTEM 4O lNANCE ALL OF THIS SPENDING THE JUDGE BY lAT
ALMOST DOUBLED THE +ANSAS #ITY PROPERTY TAX RATE IMPOSED A
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
INCOME TAX SURCHARGE AND FORCED THE 3TATE OF -ISSOURI TO PROVIDE ALL
ADDITIONAL FUNDS NEEDED TO IMPLEMENT HIS PLAN
+ANSAS #ITY SCHOOLS DID CHANGE DRAMATICALLY AS A RESULT OF THE
SPENDING MANDATED BY *UDGE #LARK (ERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT
BILLION BOUGHT
s 0ER PUPIL SPENDING ROSE TO THE HIGHEST IN THE NA
TION ON A COST
OF
LIVING ADJUSTED BASIS FOR ANY MAJOR SCHOOL
DISTRICT IN THE NATION
s 4HE STUDENT TEACHER RATIO FELL TO TO THE LOWEST FOR ANY
MAJOR SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE NATION
s 4EACHERS PAY WAS INCREASED ACROSS THE BOARD AND THEIR
WORKLOADS WERE CUT
s 3TUDENTS WERE GIVEN lELD TRIPS TO -EXICO AND 3ENEGAL
s ! MODEL 5NITED .ATIONS FACILITY WAS BUILT THAT INCLUDED SI
MULTANEOUS TRANSLATION CAPABILITIES
s NEW SCHOOLS WERE BUILT !MENITIES INCLUDED AN /LYMPIC
SIZED SWIMMING POOL WITH UNDERWATER VIEWING ROOM A ZOO
A TWENTY
lVE ACRE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY TELEVISION AND ANIMA
TION STUDIOS AND A ROBOTICS STUDIO
s 4EACHERS FROM "ELGIUM #AMEROON 0UERTO 2ICO !RGENTINA
AND 'ERMANY WERE RECRUITED TO PROVIDE FOREIGN LANGUAGE
IMMERSION PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH
TH GRADE
s #OMPUTER MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WERE EQUIPPED WITH
ONE PERSONAL COMPUTER FOR EVERY TWO STUDENTS
3O BILLION BOUGHT A LOT OF PERKS SALARIES AND STUFF "UT WHAT
DID IT DO FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS PERFORMANCE !RE YOU EMBARRASSED
BECAUSE YOU lND YOURSELF CYNICALLY THINKING THE ANSWER IS hNOTHINGv
)F SO RELAX 9OU ARE IN FACT A WILD
EYED OPTIMIST 4HE RESULTS ARE WORSE
THAN THAT (ERE THEY ARE
s 4HE DROPOUT RATE WENT UP
s 4HE -ISSOURI "OARD OF %DUCATION STRIPPED THE SCHOOL DIS
TRICT OF ITS ACCREDITATION IN -AY FOR FAILURE TO MEET
EVEN ONE OF ELEVEN PERFORMANCE GOALS
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
s 4HE SCHOOL DISTRICT HEMORRHAGED STUDENTS TO CHARTER
SCHOOLS LEAVING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN A lNANCIAL CRISIS WITH
OVERSTAFFED PROGRAMS AND HALF
EMPTY BUILDINGS
s 4HE EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF BLACK STUDENTS DID NOT IM
PROVE AND THE THREE GRADE
LEVEL ACHIEVEMENT GAP BETWEEN
BLACK AND WHITE STUDENTS DIDNT IMPROVE
s +ANSAS #ITY 3UPERINTENDENT "ERNARD 4AYLOR *R WAS SO DES
PERATE TO RAISE STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES THAT HE HAS PROPOSED
PAYING STUDENTS TO IMPROVE THEIR TEST SCORES
-AYBE THEY JUST NEEDED MORE MONEY
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS #ANT 2EFORM 4HEMSELVES "ECAUSE
4HEY !RE A 3UCCESS FOR THE #ONSTITUENCIES 4HAT #OUNT
+ANSAS #ITY IS ONLY A FAILURE IF YOU INSIST ON LOOKING AT IT FROM
THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE HAPLESS MAN
IN
THE
STREET WHO NAIVELY THINKS
THAT THE WAVES OF hREFORMv THAT PERIODICALLY SWEEP OVER GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED TO IMPROVE THE INTELLECT MORALS AND
SAFETY OF STUDENTS /N THE OTHER HAND IF YOU ARE AMONG THOSE WITH A
SOCIAL POLITICAL OR ECONOMIC AGENDA +ANSAS #ITY WAS A FABULOUS SUC
CESS h%DUCATORSv GOT VASTLY BETTER SALARIES LESS WORK AND MUCH IM
PROVED WORKING CONDITIONS 4HOSE CONCERNED WITH SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
ISSUES GOT ALL THE MONEY THEY COULD WANT FOR IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS
THE MODEL 5NITED .ATIONS MUST HAVE BEEN FUN 'ENERAL CONTRACTORS
ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS GOT A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS ,AWYERS
ACCOUNTANTS AND INVESTMENT BANKERS MADE A LOT OF MONEY FROM
HELPING ISSUE SCHOOL BONDS 6ENDORS OF TEXTBOOKS COMPUTERS DESKS
CARPET AND ELECTRONIC GEAR OF ALL KINDS GOT THEIR SHARE OF THE BILLION
%VEN THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY GOT IN ON THE FEEDING FRENZY REMEMBER THE
BOONDOGGLES TO 3ENEGAL AND -EXICO 4HIS FAR FROM EXHAUSTS THE LIST
OF THE BENElCIARIES OF THE +ANSAS #ITY REFORM
)N TRUTH +ANSAS #ITY REVEALS IN MICROCOSM THE INTERESTS THAT
!MERICAN EDUCATION REALLY SERVES 4HE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM
FUNCTIONS lRST AND FOREMOST AS A WAY OF OBTAINING AND DISTRIBUTING
ALMOST BILLION TO VARIOUS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS AND AS A MEANS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
OF GAINING INmUENCE OVER CHILDREN 4EACHERS ADMINISTRATORS TEXTBOOK
PUBLISHERS CONTRACTORS ARCHITECTS ENGINEERS LAWYERS MAINTENANCE
WORKERS FOOD SERVICE WORKERS PROVIDERS OF SECURITY SERVICES PSYCHOLO
GISTS NURSES BUS DRIVERS CURRICULUM DEVELOPERS EDUCATIONAL CONSUL
TANTS VENDORS OF ALL KINDS OF EQUIPMENT SERVICES AND FOOD AND ISSUE
ADVOCATES OF ALL KINDS HAVE A VITAL INTEREST IN THE CONCEPT OF hREFORMv
AS MORE MONEY .OT SURPRISINGLY THEY HAVE RELATIVELY LITTLE INTEREST IN
PROPOSALS THAT MIGHT THREATEN THEIR SHARE OF THE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS THAT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM MAKES AVAILABLE ANNUALLY
TO THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY
4HIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT MOST GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHERS AND
ADMINISTRATORS ARE INDIFFERENT TO WHETHER CHILDREN LEARN TRADITIONAL
ACADEMIC SUBJECTS AND ARE KEPT SAFE $OUBTLESS THEY WOULD BE PLEASED
IF THAT WERE TO OCCUR AND IN MANY CASES THEY ARE GENUINELY PUZZLED
OVER WHY THEIR SCHOOLS CANT MANAGE FOR EXAMPLE TO TEACH READING OR
REDUCE THE PRESENCE OF DRUGS AND VIOLENCE )T IS TO SAY HOWEVER THAT
INSTITUTIONALLY THESE SORTS OF THINGS ARE NO LONGER REALLY THE PRIMARY
CONCERNS OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS !S A RESULT EFFORTS TO RESTORE A
FOCUS ON TRADITIONAL EDUCATIONAL AND MORAL VALUES CANNOT SUCCEED
BECAUSE THE NECESSARY CHANGES WOULD THREATEN TOO MANY POWERFUL
CONSTITUENCIES -OREOVER ANY CHANGE THAT WOULD IMPERIL THE mOW OF
DOLLARS TO SCHOOLS AND THEIR SPENDING CONSTITUENCIES WILL MEET DETER
MINED OPPOSITION
4HE SESSION OF THE 4EXAS LEGISLATURE PROVIDED A PARTICU
LARLY ASTONISHING ILLUSTRATION OF HOW THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY WORSHIPS
AT THE SHRINE OF -AMMON "Y NOW VIRTUALLY EVERYONE IS AWARE THAT
OBESITY AND OBESITY RELATED DISEASES SUCH AS DIABETES ARE INCREASING AT
AN ALARMING RATE AMONG SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN /NE IMPORTANT REASON IS
THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME PART OF THE DISTRIBUTION CHAIN
FOR FAST FOOD AND VENDING MACHINE COMPANIES !CCORDING TO A
STUDY BY THE #ENTERS FOR $ISEASE #ONTROL OF SCHOOLS SELL BRANDED
FAST FOOD IN COMPETITION WITH THE SCHOOLS REGULAR LUNCH PROGRAM )N
ADDITION THE #ENTERS FOR $ISEASE #ONTROL FOUND THAT VIRTUALLY ALL HIGH
SCHOOLS THREE QUARTERS OF MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND NEARLY HALF OF GRADE
SCHOOLS HAVE VENDING MACHINES 7HY 3CHOOLS MAKE NO MONEY
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
AND SOMETIMES LOSE MONEY ON THEIR TRADITIONAL FEDERALLY SUBSIDIZED
SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS &AST FOOD AND VENDING MACHINE ITEMS SUCH
AS POTATO CHIPS HOWEVER CAN OFFER THE SCHOOLS PROlT MARGINS OF
OR MORE
/VER THE LAST DECADE OR TWO FAST FOOD AND VENDING MACHINE
SALES HAVE BECOME A SIGNIlCANT SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS
(OUSTON )NDEPENDENT 3CHOOL $ISTRICT FOR EXAMPLE REPORTS THAT IT
GROSSES ABOUT MILLION PER YEAR FROM VENDING MACHINE SALES ALONE
#ONSEQUENTLY WHEN 4EXAS 3TATE 3ENATOR %DDIE ,UCIO *R SPONSORED A
BILL IN THE SESSION OF THE 4EXAS LEGISLATURE THAT WOULD HAVE MERELY
RESTRICTED THE AVAILABILITY OF SOME VENDING MACHINE FOOD AND DRINKS
DURING SCHOOL MEAL TIMES THE SCHOOLS AND THE JUNK
FOOD INDUSTRY
RESPONDED WITH A LOBBYING BLITZ THAT BLOCKED THE BILL IN COMMITTEE
)NSTEAD ,UCIOS BILL WAS CONVERTED INTO A MEASURE CREATING A COMMIT
TEE TO hSTUDYv THE PROBLEM
!FTER THE LEGISLATIVE DUST HAD SETTLED ,UCIO OBSERVED h) REAL
IZE REVENUES FROM VENDING MACHINES AND OTHER COMPETITIVE FOODS ARE
IMPORTANT BUT WHAT IS THE PRICE OF THE HEALTH OF OUR CHILDREN v 7ELL
THE PRICE TAG PLACED ON CHILDRENS HEALTH BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS IS NOT RE
ALLY THAT HARD TO lGURE OUT )F WE ASSUME FOR EXAMPLE A PROlT
MARGIN ON VENDING MACHINE SNACKS FOR THE (OUSTON )NDEPENDENT
3CHOOL $ISTRICT IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE PRICE TAG FOR ITS STUDENTS HEALTH
IS ABOUT MILLION PER YEAR
)N TIME EMBARRASSING CRITICISM FROM GROUPS SUCH AS THE !MERI
CAN !CADEMY OF 0EDIATRICS MAY WELL FORCE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN
4EXAS AND ELSEWHERE TO GIVE UP THEIR ADDICTION TO JUNK
FOOD MONEY
)F THEY DO HOWEVER IT WILL ONLY BE THE RESULT OF HAVING BEEN SHAMED
BY DISCLOSURE OF HOW SCHOOLS HAVE PLACED lNANCIAL GAIN AHEAD OF
CHILDRENS HEALTH
4HE *OY OF -ONOPOLY 3CHOOLS
4HE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM IS A TEXTBOOK CASE OF A MONOPOLY
)T HAS ROUGHLY AN TO MARKET SHARE AND AS WELL CONlRMED
ECONOMIC THEORY PREDICTS THE GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY SCHOOL SYSTEM
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
DELIVERS A SHODDY PRODUCT AT A HIGH PRICE "UT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
SYSTEM IS NOT JUST ANY GARDEN
VARIETY MONOPOLY )T IS ONE WHOSE SER
VICES GOVERNMENT REQUIRES EVERY !MERICAN TO PURCHASE WHETHER HE
USES IT OR NOT )F FOR EXAMPLE YOU WERE THE MONOPOLY PROVIDER OF
PASSENGER AIRLINE SERVICE CONSUMERS WOULD STILL HAVE THE OPTION OF NOT
USING YOUR SERVICES BY STAYING HOME TAKING A BUS DRIVING TRAVELING
BY SHIP AND SO ON WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY AIRFARE FOR A SERVICE THEY DONT
USE )F YOUR PASSENGER AIRLINE SERVICE MONOPOLY HAD THE SAME RIGHTS AS
THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM HOWEVER NOT ONLY WOULD THOSE NOT
USING YOUR SERVICE BE COMPELLED TO PAY YOU THE COST OF AIRFARE ANYWAY
THEY WOULD BE COMPELLED TO DO A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TRAVELING 3O THE
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM ISNT JUST A MONOPOLY ITS A MONOPOLY ON
STEROIDS n LETS CALL IT A hHYPER
MONOPOLYv /BVIOUSLY HAVING CONTROL
OF A MONOPOLY LIKE THAT WOULD BE VERY VALUABLE )N CASE YOU ARE WON
DERING THE RECIPIENTS OF THE NEARLY BILLION IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
SPENDING HAVE ALREADY lGURED THIS OUT AND NO ONE HAS lGURED IT OUT
BETTER THAN THE TEACHERS UNIONS
7ERE &ROM THE 5NION BUT 7ERE .OT (ERE 4O (ELP 9OU
4HE TEACHERS UNIONS THE .ATIONAL %DUCATION !SSOCIATION
.%! AND THE !MERICAN &EDERATION OF 4EACHERS !&4 ARE BY FAR
!MERICAS MOST POWERFUL UNIONS 4OGETHER THEY HAVE ABOUT MILLION
MEMBERS WITH ROUGHLY MILLION OF THOSE BELONGING TO THE .%!
/F THE COMBINED MEMBERSHIP ABOUT MILLION ARE TEACHERS WHO
REPRESENT ROUGHLY
OF THE TEACHERS IN !MERICA 4HE !&4
WHICH WAS FOUNDED IN AND FROM WHOM *OHN $EWEY RECEIVED
MEMBERSHIP CARD WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED OF AS A TRADITIONAL LABOR
UNION AND IS AN AFlLIATE OF THE !&,
#)/ 5NTIL THE S THE OLDER
AND LARGER .%! UNLIKE THE THEN MORE RADICAL !&4 THOUGHT OF ITSELF
AS A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION )N THE S THE .%! WAS RADICALIZED
AND RESHAPED AS A UNION 4ODAY THE RADICALIZATION OF THE .%! HAS
GONE SO FAR THAT IT MAKES THE !&4 SEEM ALMOST STAID IN COMPARISON
.EVERTHELESS BOTH UNIONS SHARE THE SAME ECONOMIC CONCERNS AND
FAR
LEFT POLITICAL ORIENTATION )N KEEPING WITH THE BROAD RANGE OF CON
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
STITUENCIES ON THE PAYROLL IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THESE UNIONS ARE
NOT JUST COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGENTS FOR TEACHERS THEY ACTIVELY RECRUIT
AS MEMBERS ANYONE WHO WORKS IN A SCHOOL INCLUDING COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES
4HE STRENGTH OF THE .%! AND THE !&4 IS BOTH ORGANIZATIONAL
AND lNANCIAL 4HE .%! FOR EXAMPLE HAS AN AFlLIATE IN EVERY STATE
AND IN OVER COMMUNITIES -OREOVER THE .%! ITSELF HAS AT
LEAST ONE REPRESENTATIVE IN EVERY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT AND GENERALLY
MORE !LTHOUGH THE OFlCIAL DUTY OF THESE .%! EMPLOYEES IS TO AS
SIST THE AFlLIATES IN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING THEY ALSO CONSTITUTE A LARGER
GROUP OF PAID POLITICAL ORGANIZERS AND LOBBYISTS THAN THE 2EPUBLICAN
.ATIONAL #OMMITTEE AND $EMOCRATIC .ATIONAL #OMMITTEE COMBINED
ARE ABLE TO MUSTER !ND THAT IS JUST THE .%! 4HE TEACHERS UNIONS
ARE lNANCIAL 'OLIATHS HAVING DUES
BASED INCOME ALONE OF OVER A BIL
LION DOLLARS A YEAR
7ITH THESE RESOURCES THE .%! THE !&4 AND THEIR LOCAL AFlLIATES
CAN MARSHAL TRULY IMPRESSIVE FORCES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL )N 7ASHINGTON
3TATE FOR EXAMPLE THE .%! AFlLIATE 7%! ALONE COLLECTS ROUGHLY
MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY FROM OVER MEMBERS 7HERE
DOES THIS MONEY GO !CCORDING TO "OB 7ILLIAMS OF THE %VERGREEN
&REEDOM &OUNDATION
"ASED ON OUR INVESTIGATIONS NO MORE THAN PERCENT OF THAT
AMOUNT ;ANNUAL 7%! DUES= IS ACTUALLY BEING USED FOR TRADI
TIONAL CHARGEABLE UNION FUNCTIONS SUCH AS COLLECTIVE BARGAIN
ING ;OR= MAINTENANCE OF THE CONTRACT AND GRIEVANCES 4HE REST
IS USED FOR OTHER MAINLY POLITICAL PURPOSES 4HIS
MEANS THAT ONE UNION IN ONE STATE HAS MORE THAN MILLION
TO SPEND PER TWO YEAR ELECTION CYCLE 4HAT IS SIX TO EIGHT TIMES
THE AMOUNT SPENT FROM VOLUNTARY SOURCES BY 2EPUBLICANS AND
$EMOCRATS IN 7ASHINGTON 3TATE
4HESE RESOURCES ALLOW THE 7%! PAY FOR AMONG OTHER THINGS A
DOZEN POLITICAL OPERATIVES FULL TIME REGIONAL DIRECTORS AND MORE
THAN LOCAL UNION REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE ENTITLED TO BE RELEASED
FROM THEIR TEACHING OBLIGATIONS TO CARRY OUT 7%! ACTIVITIES 4HUS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
IN A RELATIVELY SMALL STATE THE .%!S AFlLIATE HAS A FORCE OF NEARLY
PAID OPERATIVES THAT IT CAN USE FOR LOBBYING AND POLITICAL WORK "EAR
IN MIND THAT THIS DOESNT EVEN COUNT THE LOCAL PAID REPRESENTATIVES OF
THE .%! ITSELF 2ESOURCES OF THIS MAGNITUDE MAKE THE .%!S STATE
AFlLIATES ALMOST UNTOUCHABLE POLITICALLY AND LEGALLY
&OR EXAMPLE IT IS ILLEGAL FOR TEACHERS TO STRIKE BUT THEY STRIKE
ANYWAY AND THE LAW IS SELDOM ENFORCED AGAINST THEM )N FACT THE
TEACHERS STRIKE IN -IDDLETON .EW *ERSEY BECAME NATIONAL NEWS
PRECISELY BECAUSE A JUDGE WAS ENFORCING THE LAW AGAINST THE STRIKING
TEACHERS SOMETHING THE UNION REPRESENTATIVES SAID HADNT HAPPENED
SINCE
!NTI
STRIKING LAWS ARE NOT THE ONLY LAWS TEACHERS UNIONS mOUT )T
IS ILLEGAL UNDER 4ITLE 6)) OF THE #IVIL 2IGHTS !CT OF FOR EXAMPLE
FOR A UNION TO FORCE AN EMPLOYEE TO SUPPORT THE UNION lNANCIALLY IF
DOING SO VIOLATES THE EMPLOYEES SINCERELY HELD RELIGIOUS BELIEFS 7HEN
THERE IS A CONmICT BETWEEN THE EMPLOYEES RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND UNION
ACTIVITIES THE EMPLOYEE IS SUPPOSED TO BE ALLOWED TO DONATE HIS DUES
TO A CHARITY OF HIS CHOICE 4HE .%! AND ITS AFlLIATES HAVE SO mAGRANTLY
OBSTRUCTED EMPLOYEES EXERCISE OF THESE RIGHTS THAT IN -AY THE
%QUAL /PPORTUNITY %MPLOYMENT #OMMISSION WAS lNALLY FORCED TO
ISSUE AN ORDER DEMANDING THAT THE .%! AND ITS AFlLIATES STOP VIOLAT
ING THE RELIGIOUS RIGHTS OF THEIR MEMBERS WHO CONSCIENTIOUSLY OBJECT
TO THE ORGANIZATIONS POLITICAL ACTIVITIES !S LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS PUT IT h4HE .%! UNIONS ILLEGAL SCHEME IS
INTENDED TO FORCE TEACHERS OF FAITH TO SHUT UP AND PAY UPx 4HE
%%/#S ACTION FURTHER UNDERSCORES THAT THE NATIONS LARGEST TEACHER
UNION IS SYSTEMATICALLY PERSECUTING PEOPLE OF FAITHv
)T ALSO APPEARS THAT LIKE ,EONA (ELMSLEY THE .%! BELIEVES
THAT hTAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLEv )N 3EPTEMBER ,ANDMARK
,EGAL &OUNDATION REQUESTED THAT THE )23 AND THE #RIMINAL AND 4AX
$IVISIONS OF THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF *USTICE INVESTIGATE THE .%! FOR
mAGRANTLY VIOLATING FEDERAL REPORTING AND TAX REQUIREMENTS !CCORD
ING TO ,ANDMARK ITS EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF THE .%!S INTERNAL STRATEGIC
PLANNING AND BUDGETARY DOCUMENTS TAX RETURNS AND OTHER MATERIALS
CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE THAT THE .%! ILLEGALLY AND ROUTINELY USES ENOR
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
MOUS AMOUNTS OF TAX
EXEMPT DUES FOR POLITICAL ACTIVITIES n EXPENDI
TURES FOR WHICH THE .%! IS LEGALLY REQUIRED TO PAY TAXES !S A RESULT
THE )23 HAS COMMENCED AN AUDIT OF THE .%!
5NLESS THE *USTICE $EPARTMENT AND )23 LOSE THEIR NERVE THE HU
BRIS OF THE .%! MAY PROVE ITS UNDOING AS A RESULT OF AN INVESTIGATION
OF ITS ALLEGED USE OF TAX
EXEMPT DUES FOR POLITICAL ACTIVITIES SINCE
THE .%! HAS REPORTED TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT IT HAS SPENT NOT
A SINGLE DOLLAR ON POLITICAL ACTIVITIES ON WHICH IT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO
PAY TAXES ,ANDMARK CLAIMS THAT A REVIEW OF .%! INTERNAL DOCU
MENTS WILL MAKE IT CLEAR THAT IN FACT THE .%! HAS BEEN SPENDING TENS
OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO FUND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES FOR WHICH THE .%!
SHOULD HAVE PAID TAXES 7HILE THERE MAY BE A REASONABLE QUESTION
REGARDING THE EXACT AMOUNT IT IS VERY HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THE .%!
HASNT SPENT SIGNIlCANT SUMS ON POLITICAL ACTIVITIES SINCE
7ASHINGTON 3TATE PROVIDES ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE POWER OF THE
TEACHERS UNIONS AFlLIATES )N OF 7ASHINGTON VOTERS PASSED
A CAMPAIGN REFORM INITIATIVE BANNING EMPLOYERS FROM DEDUCTING
MONEY FROM EMPLOYEES PAYCHECKS WITHOUT OBTAINING WRITTEN PERMIS
SION ANNUALLY 4HIS ENRAGED THE 7%! AND IT PROMPTLY OBTAINED
THE ASSISTANCE OF ELECTED OFlCIALS IN DEVISING REGULATIONS INTENDED TO
FRUSTRATE THE PURPOSES OF THE INITIATIVE 7HEN VOUCHERS AND CHARTER
SCHOOLS WERE PUT ON THE BALLOT IN THE 7%! DELIBERATELY VIOLATED
EVEN THE WATERED DOWN PROVISIONS OF THE CAMPAIGN REFORM INITIATIVE
BY PUTTING TOGETHER A MILLION CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INITIATIVES
EVEN THOUGH IT ONLY HAD POLITICAL INCOME OF PER MONTH
/NCE THIS LAWBREAKING WAS UNCOVERED A COMPLAISANT ATTORNEY
GENERAL PREEMPTED LAWSUITS AGAINST THE 7%! BY SECRETLY NEGOTIAT
ING A SETTLEMENT INVOLVING A SMALL lNE AND LITTLE ELSE 7HY WERE
ELECTED STATE OFlCIALS SO EAGER TO ASSIST THE 7%! IN CIRCUMVENTING THE
CAMPAIGN REFORM INITIATIVE AND TO ENSURE THAT THE 7%!S INTENTIONAL
LAWBREAKING CARRIED NO SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES 'O BACK AND TAKE A
LOOK AT THE POLITICAL RESOURCES THAT THE 7%! CAN PUT INTO THE lELD
)MAGINE THE POWER .%! AFlLIATES WIELD IN LARGE STATES SUCH AS .EW
9ORK #ALIFORNIA 0ENNSYLVANIA AND -ICHIGAN
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
4EACHERS 5NION "ARGAINING .EGOTIATING 7ITH 9OURSELF AND 7INNING "IG
4HE VAST MAJORITY OF EDUCATION DOLLARS ARE SPENT AT THE SCHOOL
DISTRICT LEVEL (OW THOSE DOLLARS GET SPENT IS INmUENCED BY ELECTED LO
CAL SCHOOL BOARDS &URTHER SCHOOL BOARDS ALSO EXERCISE SOME CONTROL
OVER HOW MUCH THERE IS TO SPEND THROUGH THEIR ABILITY TO AFFECT BOND
ELECTIONS AND TAX RATES #ONSEQUENTLY IF YOU ARE ON THE RECEIVING END
OF THOSE DOLLARS WOULDNT IT BE NICE TO HAVE INmUENCE WITH THE SCHOOL
BOARD TOO 4HE .%! AND THE !&4 lGURED THIS OUT A LONG TIME AGO
AND THAT IS A MAJOR REASON WHY NOTHING MUCH ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL SYSTEM REALLY CHANGES FOR THE BETTER n THAT IS FROM THE CONSUM
ERS POINT OF VIEW
(OW DO THE UNIONS TYPICALLY MANAGE TO MAKE SURE THAT SCHOOL
BOARDS ARE hFRIENDLYv )TS NOT HARD REALLY #ONSIDER THE FOLLOWING
SERVING ON A SCHOOL BOARD IS GENERALLY AN UNPAID POSITION SCHOOL
BOARD ELECTIONS ARE NON
PARTISAN AND THEY ARE HELD AT ODD TIMES THAT
VIRTUALLY ENSURE A LOW VOTER TURNOUT 4HE ONLY GROUPS THAT HAVE A
LARGE DIRECT INTEREST IN THE OUTCOME OF SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS ARE THE
TEACHERS UNIONS AND ALL THE OTHER ALLIED INTERESTS WHO MAKE A GOOD
LIVING AT LEAST IN PART FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS SPENDING
4HE AVERAGE VOTER ON THE OTHER HAND HAS LITTLE INFORMATION ON
WHAT IS REALLY AT STAKE IN THESE ELECTIONS AND LITTLE INCENTIVE EVEN TO
SHOW UP AT THE POLLS !S A RESULT THE TEACHERS UNIONS AND THEIR FRIENDS
CAN PRETTY MUCH ENSURE THAT MOST OF THE TIME SCHOOL BOARDS WONT RESIST
THEIR DEMANDS AND PROJECTS TOO STRENUOUSLY )F YOU DOUBT THIS LET ME
ASK YOU A QUESTION #AN YOU NAME ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD
IN YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT ) GUARANTEE THAT THE LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
.%! AND !&4 AFlLIATES IN YOUR DISTRICT CAN -OREOVER WHAT PROVES
DIFlCULT TO OBTAIN AT THE LOCAL LEVEL THE TEACHERS UNIONS AND RELATED
INTERESTS ARE OFTEN ABLE TO OBTAIN THROUGH MANDATES IMPOSED AT THE
STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS )N FACT LOCAL CONTROL OF SCHOOLS IS INCREASINGLY
BECOMING JUST A MEMORY 3TATE AND ESPECIALLY FEDERAL LEGISLATION HAVE
REMOVED A GREAT DEAL OF DECISION
MAKING POWER FROM SCHOOL BOARDS
4HIS IN TURN MAKES THE POSSIBILITY OF REFORMING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
AT THE LOCAL LEVEL EVEN MORE REMOTE
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
.O )TS .OT 'OING TO #HANGE
3TILL YOU MAY BE THINKING THAT EVEN IF THIS IS TRUE WHY ISNT IT
POSSIBLE TO REFORM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SO THAT WE ARE JUST OVERPAYING
FOR GOOD SCHOOLS 7ELL ONE ANSWER IS THAT THAT IS NOT HOW MONOPOLIES
WORK 7HILE THE MONOPOLIST IS ALWAYS INTERESTED IN INCREASING THE
RESOURCES mOWING TO HIM HE HAS NO PARTICULAR INCENTIVE TO IMPROVE
HIS PRODUCT BECAUSE HE HAS NO COMPETITION 4HIS IS ALL THE MORE TRUE
WHEN THE MONOPOLIST HAS A hHYPER
MONOPOLYv "UT RATHER THAN DIS
CUSS THESE THEORETICAL ISSUES LETS TAKE A LOOK AT A FEW OF THE FACTORS THAT
MAKE THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL MONOPOLY UNREFORMABLE FROM WITHIN
4HE VAST AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT THROUGH OR IN CONNECTION
WITH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS THE CEMENT THAT BINDS TOGETHER A BROAD
INFORMAL COALITION OF INTERESTS THAT EFFECTIVELY CONTROLS GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS )N FACT A VESTED INTEREST IN THE NEARLY BILLION SPENT BY
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS PROBABLY THE ONLY SIGNIlCANT COMMON INTEREST
SHARED BY THE TEACHERS UNIONS ARCHITECTS ENGINEERS VENDORS OF FOOD
TO LUNCH PROGRAMS AND ALL THE OTHERS INVOLVED IN THE EDUCATION INDUS
TRY )F GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SPENDING WERE STAGNANT OR DECLINING THIS
COALITION WOULD BE SPLINTERED BY RIVALRIES FOR THE AVAILABLE FUNDS /F
COURSE THOSE INVOLVED KNOW THIS AND THAT IS WHY ALL OF THE INTERESTED
PARTIES CAN GENERALLY BE RELIED UPON TO SUPPORT STRONGLY BOND ELEC
TIONS SCHOOL TAX INCREASES INCREASED STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING AND
THE ELECTION OF THE hRIGHTv CANDIDATES TO SCHOOL BOARDS
4HE DRAMATIC INCREASE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FUNDING OVER THE
LAST FORTY YEARS DESPITE THE INCREASING FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
TO EDUCATE TESTIlES TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INFORMAL NETWORK OF
INTERESTS THAT BENElTS FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SPENDING !LL OF THE
GROUPS INTERESTED IN INCREASED SPENDING ARE NOT HOWEVER EQUAL "E
CAUSE OF THEIR HUGE MEMBERSHIP GEOGRAPHICAL REACH WEALTH AND VAST
POLITICAL INmUENCE THE TEACHERS UNIONS ARE CLEARLY THE SENIOR PARTNERS
AMONG THE MULTITUDE OF INTERESTED PARTIES 4HIS MAKES A TREMENDOUS
DIFFERENCE REGARDING THE EXTENT TO WHICH CHANGE CAN OCCUR WITHIN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
5NIONS AS 0OLITICAL 0ARTIES
4HERE ARE TWO KEY REASONS WHY THE TEACHERS UNIONS WILL NEVER
WILLINGLY ACCEPT ANY MEANINGFUL REFORM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HE
lRST IS THAT AS ORGANIZATIONS THE TEACHERS UNIONS AND ESPECIALLY THE
.%! HAVE MORPHED INTO A HYBRID OF A POLITICAL PARTY AND A TRADITIONAL
UNION .OT ONLY HAVE THEY INCREASED THEIR EXPLICIT POLITICAL ACTIVISM
OVER THE LAST THIRTY TO FORTY YEARS BUT TEACHERS UNIONS HAVE ALSO SOUGHT
TO GAIN ADDITIONAL POLITICAL ALLIES 4HE .%! FOR EXAMPLE HAS FOLLOWED
A CLEAR STRATEGY OF ALIGNING ITSELF WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF ACTIVIST GROUPS
ON THE FAR LEFT IN ORDER TO EXPAND ITS POLITICAL BASE
/NE MOTIVATION FOR THIS IS lNANCIAL 7HILE THE UNIONS HAVE
BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL AT OBTAINING EVER
GREATER AMOUNTS OF MONEY
THROUGH LOCAL TAXES THEY RECOGNIZE THAT RISK OF TAXPAYER BACKLASH LIMITS
HOW MUCH MONEY CAN BE EXTRACTED AT THE LOCAL LEVEL #ONSEQUENTLY
STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING INCREASES ARE ESSENTIAL TO KEEP THE lNANCIAL
PIE GROWING
"Y WORKING IN CONCERT WITH HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS ABORTION
GROUPS LEFT
WING FEMINISTS ENVIRONMENTALIST RADICALS AND OTHERS
ON THE RADICAL LEFT THE TEACHERS UNIONS HAVE GREATLY EXPANDED THEIR
INmUENCE OVER STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT )N FACT THE .%! CLAIMS
THAT ITS MEMBERS ALONE HAVE BEEN THE SINGLE LARGEST BLOC OF DELEGATES
TO THE $EMOCRATIC .ATIONAL #ONVENTION SINCE !T THE
$EMOCRATIC .ATIONAL #ONVENTION THE .%! ACCOUNTED FOR NEARLY
ONE DELEGATE IN EIGHT AN EXTRAORDINARY LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION THAT THE
.%! WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN AT BOTH THE AND $EMOCRATIC
.ATIONAL #ONVENTIONS !ND REMEMBER THESE NUMBERS DO NOT INCLUDE
THE DELEGATES BELONGING TO THE !&4 -OREOVER THE TEACHERS UNIONS
PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTHS ARE $EMOCRAT CANDIDATES GOT
OF THE TEACHERS UNIONS POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE YEARS
TO
4HIS DOESNT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE VALUE OF THE UNIONS STAFF WORK
THAT IS OFTEN INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ACTIVITIES OF THE $EMOCRATIC
.ATIONAL #OMMITTEE AND OTHER $EMOCRAT ORGANIZATIONS !S *AMI
,UND OF THE %VERGREEN &REEDOM &OUNDATION POINTS OUT h%VERYTHING
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE A POLITICAL PARTY DOES THESE UNIONS DO "UT
BECAUSE IT IS ALL IN THE AREA OF STAFF ACTIVITY IT DOESNT SHOW UP ON THE
RADAR SCREENv
!S IF THIS WERENT ENOUGH STUDENTS ARE NOW BEING DRAFTED AS FOOT
SOLDIERS FOR PROMOTING THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL AGENDA OF THE TEACH
ERS UNIONS (OW 4HROUGH MANIPULATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT REQUIRE
MENTS MANDATING hCOMMUNITY SERVICEv OR hSERVICE LEARNINGv CREDITS
FOR GRADUATION -ONTGOMERY #OUNTY -ARYLANDS HIGHLY TRAINED EDU
CATION PROFESSIONALS FOR EXAMPLE WERE ABLE TO BOOST ATTENDANCE AT AN
!NNAPOLIS POLITICAL DEMONSTRATION IN FAVOR OF A BILL AUTHORIZING
BILLION IN EDUCATION SPENDING BY OFFERING STUDENTS hSERVICE CREDITSv FOR
ATTENDING .O WONDER MANY NOW VIEW THE TEACHERS UNIONS AS THE
hHEART AND SOULv OF THE $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY
!LL OF THIS HAS PAID OFF HANDSOMELY FOR THE TEACHERS UNIONS BE
GINNING WITH THE CREATION OF THE $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION DURING THE
#ARTER ADMINISTRATION AND CONTINUING TO THE PRESENT WITH INCREASED
EDUCATION SPENDING AND ENHANCED INmUENCE OVER LEGISLATION AT BOTH
THE STATE AND THE FEDERAL LEVELS 4HIS HAS ALSO ENABLED THE .%! TO
MOVE EVER FURTHER LEFTWARD !S LEFT
WING ACTIVISTS HAVE HELPED THE
TEACHERS UNIONS WITH THEIR LEGISLATIVE AGENDAS THE TEACHERS UNIONS
HAVE INCREASINGLY ADOPTED THE POLITICAL SOCIAL AND CURRICULAR AGENDAS
OF THE ACTIVISTS 4HIS IS WHY FOR EXAMPLE THE RESOLUTIONS AT THE .%!S
ANNUAL CONVENTIONS HAVE COME TO RESEMBLE THE PLANKS IN A POLITICAL
PARTYS PLATFORM DEPARTING FAR FROM TRADITIONAL EDUCATION CONCERNS
TO STAKE OUT POSITIONS ON FOREIGN POLICY THE ENVIRONMENT ABORTION
HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS HEALTH CARE AND A HOST OF OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES
!T THE LOCAL LEVEL ALL OF THESE ACTIVIST GROUPS ARE INTERESTED IN SEE
ING THEIR POLICIES AND CURRICULAR PROPOSALS ADOPTED IN THE SCHOOLS 4HIS
RESULTS IN SOME DISSENTION AND NEGOTIATION AMONG FACTIONS WITHIN THE
TEACHERS UNIONS BECAUSE THERE IS A lXED AMOUNT OF CURRICULAR AND POLICY
hSHELF SPACEv 7HAT IS CLEAR HOWEVER IS THAT THE TEACHERS UNIONS DONT
HAVE WELL
ORGANIZED POWERFUL INTERNAL CONSTITUENCIES DEMANDING THAT
THE UNIONS PRESSURE SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO ADOPT PROGRAMS THAT WILL FOSTER
FOR EXAMPLE COMPLEX LITERACY AND TRADITIONAL MORALITY )NTERNALLY THE
DEBATE IS ABOUT HOW TO ACCOMMODATE THE COMPETING CURRICULAR AND
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
POLICY DEMANDS OF ENVIRONMENTALIST RADICALS HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS
FEMINISTS AND ALL THE REST "ECAUSE THE TEACHERS UNIONS HAVE VIRTU
ALLY BECOME POLITICAL PARTIES OF THE LEFT THERE IS NO PROSPECT THAT REAL
SCHOOL REFORM n THAT IS hSCHOOL REFORMv AS IT IS UNDERSTOOD BY SAY THE
AVERAGE PARENT n WILL BECOME THE FOCUS OF THE TEACHERS UNIONS EFFORTS
IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE
4EACHERS 5NIONS AS 4ERRORIST /RGANIZATIONS
7ELL MAYBE NOT LITERALLY BUT THIS WAS HOW THE 3ECRETARY OF
%DUCATION 2OD 0AIGE CHARACTERIZED THE .%! AT A PRIVATE MEETING
WITH GOVERNORS IN &EBRUARY 3ECRETARY 0AIGE LATER AMENDED HIS
REMARKS TO SAY THAT hTERRORIST ORGANIZATIONv MIGHT HAVE BEEN A POOR
CHOICE OF WORDS BUT HE MADE IT CLEAR THAT HE BELIEVED THAT THE UNION
USES hOBSTRUCTIONIST SCARE TACTICSv TO THWART ANY MEANINGFUL REFORM OF
EDUCATION AND THAT hTHE .%!S HIGH
PRICED 7ASHINGTON LOBBYISTS HAVE
MADE NO SECRET THAT THEY WILL lGHT AGAINST BRINGING REAL ROCK
SOLID
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WAY WE EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN REGARDLESS OF SKIN
COLOR ACCENT OR WHERE THEY LIVEv 0REDICTABLY THE .%! DEMANDED
THAT 0RESIDENT "USH lRE 3ECRETARY 0AIGE
0ERHAPS BECAUSE OF HIS ROOTS IN URBAN SCHOOLS 2OD 0AIGE HAS
CHAMPIONED SERIOUS SCHOOL REFORM MORE AGGRESSIVELY THAN ANY OF HIS
PREDECESSORS (IS SOMEWHAT HYPERBOLIC REMARKS ABOUT THE .%! ARE
CERTAINLY A MEASURE OF THE FRUSTRATION OF A MAN WHO KNOWS AS WELL AS
ANYONE THE URGENT NEED FOR CHANGE IN !MERICAN EDUCATION AND WHO
ALSO SEES THE STRENGTH OF THE ENTRENCHED SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT PURSUE
THEIR INTERESTS AT THE EXPENSE OF !MERICAS CHILDREN
"UT 3ECRETARY 0AIGE IS NOT THE ONLY MAJOR POLITICAL lGURE TO ERUPT
IN FRUSTRATION OVER ELEMENTS OF THE +
EDUCATION INDUSTRY )N *ANU
ARY )LLINOIS 'OVERNOR 2AY "LAGOJEVICH TOOK ON THE )LLINOIS 3TATE
"OARD OF %DUCATION IN HIS ANNUAL h3TATE OF THE 3TATEv ADDRESS )N HIS
SPEECH 'OVERNOR "LAGOJEVICH REFERRED TO THE 3TATE "OARD OF %DUCA
TION AS AMONG OTHER UNPLEASANT THINGS hxA BUREAUCRATIC NIGHT
MARE OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS v AN hOLD 3OVIET STYLE BUREAUCRACY v AN
ORGANIZATION THAT hISNT ACCOUNTABLE TO ANYONE FOR ANYTHING v AND hAN
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
ORGANIZATION THAT EXISTS MORE FOR THE BENElT OF ITS OWN ADMINISTRATORS
THAN FOR THE BENElT OF THE CHILDREN OF THIS STATEv /N THE WHOLE
PERHAPS THE )LLINOIS "OARD OF %DUCATION WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO HAVE
BEEN REFERRED TO SIMPLY AS A hTERRORISTv ORGANIZATION
!S IF ALL OF THIS WERE NOT ENOUGH TO SUGGEST THAT THERE IS A GREAT
DEAL OF TURMOIL BEHIND THE RESPECTABLE BRICK FA½ADE OF THE GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL SYSTEM IN SPRING A JUDGE IN +ANSAS ORDERED ALL +ANSAS
SCHOOLS CLOSED BECAUSE OF FUNDING INEQUITIES
9OU CAN EXPECT TO SEE MANY MORE STORIES LIKE THESE IN THE FUTURE
7HETHER ONE LOOKS AT THE ACADEMIC AND MORAL COLLAPSE OF THE SCHOOLS
THEIR VORACIOUS APPETITE FOR TAX DOLLARS AND PRECARIOUS lNANCIAL CONDI
TION OR THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY ATTEMPT TO EVADE BEING HELD ACCOUNT
ABLE IT IS CLEAR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE IN CRISIS AND THE MEDIA ARE
BEGINNING TO NOTICE
5NION /FFICIALS ,IVIN ,A 6IDA ,OCA
0ETER "RIMELOW A VETERAN EDUCATION REPORTER AND OTHERS HAVE
CHRONICLED THE LAVISH SALARIES AND PERKS ENJOYED BY TEACHERS UNION
OFlCIALS AND HOW TEACHERS UNION OFlCIALS ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL THIS FROM
THE RANK
AND
lLE 7HILE THIS MAY NOT BE ENTIRELY SURPRISING WHAT
IS ALSO BEING DISCOVERED IS THAT SOME VERY WELL COMPENSATED TEACHERS
UNION OFlCIALS REPRESENTING VERY LARGE SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE BEEN STEAL
ING FROM THE RANK
AND
lLE TEACHERS
)N 7ASHINGTON $# A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATED A FORMER PRESI
DENT OF THE LOCAL !MERICAN &EDERATION OF 4EACHERS AFlLIATE "ARBARA
"ULLOCK HER AIDE AND A FORMER TREASURER OF THE UNION LOCAL FOR THEIR
INVOLVEMENT IN AN EMBEZZLEMENT SCHEME THAT APPARENTLY INVOLVED
THE MISAPPROPRIATION OF AT LEAST MILLION IN TEACHERS UNION DUES
%VIDENTLY THESE OFlCIALS WERE UNABLE TO LIVE LARGE ENOUGH ON THEIR
SALARIES TO SATISFY THEIR EGOS SO THEY TURNED THE UNION RANK
AND
lLE
TEACHERS DUES INTO A SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE OF INCOME 4HE MONEY IT
WAS ALLEGED WAS USED FOR SUCH LIFE
STYLE NECESSITIES AS A mEET OF #ADIL
LACS MINK COATS A
PIECE SET OF 4IFFANY STERLING SILVERWARE CUS
TOM
MADE CLOTHING WIGS ART JEWELRY #ARIBBEAN VACATIONS OUTINGS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
TO NIGHTCLUBS AND RESTAURANTS FURNITURE GIFTS AND SPENDING MONEY
"ULLOCK EVENTUALLY PLED GUILTY TO MAIL FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY CHARGES
!S A RESULT SHE WILL BE TAKING A NINE TO TEN YEAR SABBATICAL AT #LUB
&ED
%VEN THOUGH !&4 POLICY REQUIRES THAT LOCALS CONDUCT AUDITS
EVERY TWO YEARS THE 7ASHINGTON ORGANIZATION HAD NOT HAD AN AUDIT
SINCE )T SEEMS THAT NO ONE IN THE NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE
!&4 CARED OR NOTICED THAT ONE OF ITS LARGEST AFlLIATES WAS IGNORING A
CRITICAL SAFEGUARD FOR PROTECTING MEMBERS DUES )NSTEAD THE LOOTING
OF THE UNION TREASURY CAME TO LIGHT BECAUSE A UNION MEMBER SAW
IN THE SUMMER OF THAT IN DUES HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM HIS
PAYCHECK WHEN THE DEDUCTION SHOULD HAVE BEEN 4HE RANK AND
lLE MEMBER COMPLAINED TO THE !&4S NATIONAL ORGANIZATION WHICH
lNALLY AUDITED THE LOCAL AND FOUND THE lNANCIAL IRREGULARITIES THAT BE
CAME THE SUBJECT OF THE GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION !S A RESULT "ULLOCK
AND HER CRONIES WERE FORCED OUT AND "ULLOCK PROMPTLY TOOK A JOB
AS n SURPRISE SURPRISE n EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE 7ASHINGTON $#
$EMOCRATIC #OMMITTEE
)TS NOT THAT THE LOOTING OF THE LOCAL WASNT RATHER OBVIOUS )NDEED
THE 53 $ISTRICT #OURT JUDGE PRESIDING OVER THIS MATTER CRITICIZED
THE !&4 NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS FOR DERELICTION IN ITS OVERSIGHT OF ITS
7ASHINGTON $# LOCAL h)TS A SAD COMMENTARYx )T SEEMS EVERYONE
IN A RESPONSIBLE POSITION FELL ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH 4HE ONLY ONES WHO
WERE VIGILANT WERE THE THIEVES WHO TOOK EVERYTHING THAT WASNT NAILED
DOWNv 0ERHAPS NO ONE REALLY WANTED TO NOTICE
!N ISOLATED INCIDENT 0ERHAPS BUT IN LATE !PRIL THE &")
AND -IAMI $ADES 0UBLIC #ORRUPTION 4ASK &ORCE SERVED A SEARCH WAR
RANT ON THE LOCAL .%! AFlLIATE 5NITED 4EACHERS OF $ADE WHICH IS THE
SOLE BARGAINING AGENT FOR ALMOST TEACHERS 3OURCES FAMILIAR
WITH THIS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION SAY THAT THE UNION LOCALS PRESIDENT
0AT 4ORNILLO HAD BEEN SUSPECTED OF EMBEZZLING MONEY FOR PERSONAL
EXPENDITURES SUCH AS HOMES HOTEL BILLS AND OTHER PERKS AS WELL AS
OTHER MISUSES OF MEMBERS DUES )T DOESNT APPEAR THAT 4ORNILLO WENT
TO MUCH TROUBLE OVER THE YEARS TO CONCEAL WHAT WAS GOING ON !S ONE
CRITIC OF THE LOCAL UNION $AMARIS $AUGHTERY HAS OBSERVED h4HE MIS
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
MANAGEMENT AND LAVISH LIFESTYLE AND ALL OF THE PERKS AT THE MEMBERS
EXPENSE HAVE BEEN PRETTY OBVIOUSv ,IKE "ULLOCK 4ORNILLO lNALLY
COPPED A PLEA AND WILL ALSO BE SPENDING SOME QUALITY TIME IN A FEDERAL
FACILITY
)N -ASSACHUSETTS THE FORMER lNANCE DIRECTOR OF THE -ASSACHU
SETTS 4EACHERS !SSOCIATION 2ICHARD !NZIVINO WAS CONVICTED IN
FOR STEALING FROM THE UNION LOCAL %VIDENTLY MOST OF THE
MONEY WAS GAMBLED AWAY %VEN THOUGH !NZIVINO MAY HAVE BEEN UN
LUCKY IN THE CASINOS HE HIT A HOT STREAK WITH THE COURTS HE WAS ONLY
SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN PRISON AND DOESNT HAVE TO PAY ANY OF THE
MONEY BACK
7HAT IS PARTICULARLY STRIKING ABOUT THESE INCIDENTS IS THAT THEY
OCCURRED IN LARGE HIGHLY VISIBLE LOCALS NOT IN THE BACKWATERS OF THE
TEACHERS UNIONS EMPIRE 4HERE HAD TO HAVE BEEN MANY PEOPLE ASSOCI
ATED WITH THESE LARGE LOCAL UNIONS WHO KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON OR
WHO SUSPECTED THAT SOMETHING IMPROPER WAS OCCURRING 9ET IT APPEARS
THAT THE CORRUPT LOCAL OFlCIALS WERE ABLE TO PERPETRATE THEIR FRAUDS FOR
YEARS WITHOUT BEING QUESTIONED /VER THE NEXT FEW YEARS WE MAY LEARN
THAT THE LAWLESSNESS THAT CHARACTERIZES UNION ACTIVITY IN THE POLITICAL
REALM n INCLUDING THEIR UNLAWFUL USE OF DUES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
AND THEIR REFUSAL TO ABIDE BY THE 3UPREME #OURTS "ECK DECISION n HAS
BROADLY INFECTED THEIR INTERNAL OPERATIONS FURTHER VICTIMIZING THE
RANK
AND
lLE
!ND JUST WHAT IS THE .%! DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT ITS AFlLIATES
PROTECT THEIR MEMBERS UNION DUES )NSISTING ON CAREFUL REPORTING
AND DISCLOSURE BY THE AFlLIATES .O SUING THE $EPARTMENT OF ,ABOR
TO PREVENT .%! AFlLIATES FROM HAVING TO DISCLOSE THEIR INCOME AND
EXPENDITURES INCLUDING THE SALARIES AND PERKS OF OFlCERS IN ANNUAL
REPORTS UNDER THE ,ANDRUM
'RIFlN !CT
*OB 3ECURITY FOR THE 0EDAGOGICALLY #HALLENGED
4HE SECOND REASON THE TEACHERS UNIONS WILL NEVER WILLINGLY AC
CEPT ANY MEANINGFUL REFORM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAS TO DO WITH THE
NATURE OF UNIONISM ITSELF &ROM AN ECONOMIC POINT OF VIEW ONE OF THE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
KEY THINGS A UNION DOES IS SELL JOB SECURITY IN EXCHANGE FOR DUES .O
UNION HAS A BETTER RECORD OF PROTECTING MEMBERS FROM LAYOFFS OR DIS
MISSAL THAN THE TEACHERS UNIONS &IRING A TEACHER FOR INCOMPETENCE IS
VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE )N FACT PROBABLY ONLY UNIONIZED CIVIL SERVANTS
HAVE JOB SECURITY COMPARABLE TO TENURED TEACHERS 4HIS LEVEL OF JOB
SECURITY IS FATAL TO THE PROSPECTS FOR GENUINE SCHOOL REFORM BECAUSE
REAL REFORM WOULD REQUIRE AMONG OTHER THINGS WHOLESALE CHANGES IN
SCHOOL PERSONNEL 7HY "ECAUSE TESTING HAS CONlRMED ANECDOTAL EVI
DENCE THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF THOSE TO WHOM THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS ENTRUSTED ARE INCAPABLE OF DOING THEIR JOBS
0RIOR TO IN MOST IF NOT ALL STATES YOU COULD BECOME A
TEACHER SIMPLY BY TAKING A PRESCRIBED COURSE OF STUDY IN A SCHOOL OR
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION !S A RESULT OF THE INCREASINGLY POOR PERFOR
MANCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES OR SO THE
PUBLIC BEGAN DEMANDING THAT THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY DEMONSTRATE THE
COMPETENCE OF THOSE DRAWING SALARIES AS TEACHERS #OMPETENCY TESTING
OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHERS WAS IMPLEMENTED IN 4EXAS IN THE MID
S AS A RESULT OF SCHOOL REFORM MEASURES PUSHED THROUGH THE 4EXAS
LEGISLATURE BY A SELECT COMMITTEE HEADED BY 2OSS 0EROT 4HE TEACH
ERS UNIONS IN 4EXAS lERCELY RESISTED TESTING AND THE TEST ULTIMATELY
USED WAS SHROUDED IN SECRECY TO CONCEAL FROM THE PUBLIC HOW LOW THE
STANDARDS HAD BEEN SET
4HE LOW STANDARDS NOTWITHSTANDING MANY 4EXAS TEACHERS INITIAL
LY FAILED THE EXAM 4HE FAILING TEACHERS GOT A SECOND CHANCE HOWEVER
AND AFTER SOME hADJUSTMENTv OF THE TEST AND INTENSIVE COACHING ALMOST
ALL OF THOSE WHO FAILED WERE ABLE TO PASS /VER THE OBJECTIONS OF THE
TEACHERS UNIONS COMPETENCY TESTING HAS BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD IN
THE LAST DECADE AND HALF 4HEY ARE NOT HOWEVER TYPICALLY REQUIRED OF
INCUMBENT TEACHERS )NSTEAD SOME FORM OF COMPETENCY TESTING IS NOW
ALMOST UNIVERSALLY TIED TO CERTIlCATION OF THOSE WANTING TO BECOME
TEACHERS 3TILL TEACHER COMPETENCY TESTING IS A CHARADE BECAUSE OF LOW
STANDARDS AND BECAUSE MANY STATES ALLOW CANDIDATES TO BECOME TEACH
ERS EVEN IF THEY FAIL THE COMPETENCY EXAMS !T THE SAME TIME THE TEST
RESULTS ARE SHOCKING BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS
WHO CANNOT PASS TESTS THAT DEMAND ALMOST NOTHING .OT UNEXPECTEDLY
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
THE TEACHERS UNIONS CONTINUE TO lGHT ANY SORT OF COMPETENCY TESTING
LET ALONE MEANINGFUL TESTING
&ORTY
ONE STATES AND THE $ISTRICT OF #OLUMBIA REQUIRE SOME
FORM OF TEACHER
CERTIlCATION TEST (ERE ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES OF WHAT
TESTING HAS REVEALED
s #ALIFORNIA REQUIRED TEACHER CANDIDATES TO TAKE A SIMPLE LIT
ERACY TEST FOR THE lRST TIME IN 4WENTY PERCENT OF THE
TEST TAKERS FAILED
s )N -ASSACHUSETTS IMPLEMENTED A TEACHER CERTIlCATION
EXAMINATION FOR NEW TEACHERS %VEN THOUGH THE TEST WAS RATED
AT ABOUT THE TH GRADE LEVEL BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE 3TATE "OARD
OF %DUCATION OF THE PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS FAILED /NE
ILLUSTRATION OF THE DEPTH OF THE FAILURE ON THE TEST WAS THE DIC
TATION PORTION OF THE TEST INCLUDED TO EVALUATE KNOWLEDGE OF
SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION 4HE TEST TAKERS WERE READ A PORTION
OF THE &EDERALIST 0APERS AND ASKED TO WRITE DOWN WHAT WAS BE
ING READ TO THEM -ANY OF THESE SUPPOSEDLY EDUCATED TEACHER
CANDIDATES COULD NOT ACCURATELY COPY WHAT THEY HEARD 4HE
RESULT WAS BROKEN SENTENCES AND hINNOVATIVEv SPELLINGS SUCH
AS hBODYES v hRELIF v AND hBOUTHv FOR hBOTHv 4HIS WAS IN
A STATE WHERE THE AVERAGE TEACHER IN THE
SCHOOL YEAR
RECEIVED OVER PER YEAR PLUS BENElTS ABOUT OF
SALARY FOR ROUGHLY DAYS OF WORK THAT YEAR
s /VER OF THE TEACHERS HIRED IN (AWAII FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR HAD NOT COMPLETED OR PASSED TEACHER
CERTIlCA
TION TESTS
s )N ONLY OF 6IRGINIAS EDUCATION STUDENTS WERE
ABLE TO PASS A TEST OF BASIC READING WRITING AND MATHEMAT
ICS SKILLS 0RAXIS ) WHICH IS REQUIRED FOR INITIAL TEACHER
LICENSURE 7HAT WAS THE "OARD OF %DUCATIONS RESPONSE
,OWER THE STANDARDS )T WILL BE NOW BE SUFlCIENT IF A TEACHER
CANDIDATE CAN PASS THE TEST IN TWO OF THE THREE SKILL AREAS
.OT TO BE OUTDONE BY THE "OARD OF %DUCATION BOTH
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES DEMONSTRATED THEIR CONCERN FOR
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
QUALITY EDUCATION BY PROMISING MORE MONEY FOR TEACHER SAL
ARIES CURRENT AVERAGE SALARY IS ABOUT PLUS BENElTS
WHICH ARE ABOUT OF SALARY
s )N MORE THAN HALF THE STUDENTS FROM lVE 'EORGIA
TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS FAILED THE 0RAXIS )) TEST OF SUBJECT
MATTER KNOWLEDGE
!POLOGISTS FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL EDUCATORS WOULD RESPOND TO
THESE AND OTHER EXAMPLES BY SAYING THAT IN MANY STATES BETWEEN
AND OF TEACHERS ARE PASSING COMPETENCY EXAMS 4HESE STATISTICS
HOWEVER ARE HIGHLY MISLEADING
4EACHING 3OON TO "E 4HE "EST 0AID 3EMI
3KILLED
0ART
TIME *OB IN THE 7ORLD
4O UNDERSTAND HOW THE PUBLIC IS MISLEAD BY PASS RATES ON TEACHER
COMPETENCY EXAMINATIONS LETS BRIEmY LOOK AT THE %DUCATIONAL 4ESTING
3ERVICES 0RAXIS ) ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY USED TEACHER COMPETENCY
TESTS 4HE 0RAXIS ) IS A LICENSURE TEST OF BASIC SKILLS FOR ASPIRING TEACHERS
)T ALLEGEDLY TESTS AT THE TH GRADE LEVEL AND AT LEAST TWENTY
lVE STATES
USE IT (ERE ARE TWO QUESTIONS FROM A VERSION OF THE 0RAXIS )
7HICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS EQUAL TO A QUARTER OF
A MILLION
A
B
C
D OR
E
-ARTIN ,UTHER +ING *R INSERT THE CORRECT CHOICE
FOR THE POOR OF ALL RACES
A SPOKE OUT PASSIONATELY
B SPOKE OUT PASSIONATE
C DID SPOKE OUT PASSIONATELY
D HAS SPOKE OUT PASSIONATELY OR
E HAD SPOKEN OUT PASSIONATE
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
!S YOU ARE CONTEMPLATING THE DEPTH OF LEARNING REQUIRED TO
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE THAT THERE ARE NO
NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR PASSING THE 0RAXIS ) OR ANY OTHER TEACHER COMPE
TENCY EXAMINATION 4HUS IN SOME STATES A TEACHER CAN SCORE LESS THAN
ON THE 0RAXIS ) OR SIMILAR TESTS AND PASS /BVIOUSLY TO SAY THAT
PERCENT OF THE TEACHERS IN SOME STATE PASSED THE 0RAXIS ) FOR
EXAMPLE MEANS NEARLY NOTHING &URTHER AN EDUCATION PROFESSOR WHO
TOOK THE 0RAXIS ) REPORTED THAT THE TEST IS LARGELY BASED ON hPROGRESSIVEv
EDUCATIONAL THEORIES !S A RESULT PART OF WHAT QUALIlES A PROSPECTIVE
TEACHER FOR THE CLASSROOM FOR EXAMPLE IS HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE WHOLE
LANGUAGE THEORY OF READING INSTRUCTION RATHER THAN HIS KNOWLEDGE OF
PHONICS AND SPELLING
)N MANY INSTANCES PASSING A CERTIlCATION TEST SUCH AS THE 0RAXIS )
IS NOT EVEN A REQUIREMENT FOR BEING IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CLASSROOM
&OR EXAMPLE IN A 3EPTEMBER STORY THE #HICAGO 3UN
4IMES RE
PORTED THAT IN )LLINOIS VARIOUS hLOOPHOLESv ALLOWED NEARLY TEACHERS
INTO CLASSROOMS WITHOUT HAVING PASSED THE BASIC SKILLS TEST )N FACT
ACCORDING TO THE #HICAGO 3UN
4IMES ONE TEACHER WHO HAD mUNKED
OF BASIC SKILLS TESTS AND ALL TESTS ON TEACHING LEARNING
DISABLED
CHILDREN WAS ASSIGNED TO TEACH LEARNING
DISABLED CHILDREN )N CONNECTION
WITH ITS STORY THE #HICAGO 3UN
4IMES GAVE THE BASIC SKILLS TEST USED BY
)LLINOIS TO TEN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FRESHMEN THROUGH JUNIORS 4HE
STUDENTS TOOK BETWEEN AND MINUTES TO lNISH THE TEST !LL BUT
TWO PASSED THE MATHEMATICS AND GRAMMAR PORTIONS AND ABOUT HALF
PASSED THE READING COMPREHENSION PORTION
,OW 3TANDARDS AND (IGH "ARRIERS TO %NTRY
! REPORT BY 2OD 0AIGE 3ECRETARY OF %DUCATION PUTS ALL
OF THIS IN CONTEXT /F THE STATES THAT USE THE 0RAXIS ) TO ASSESS
PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS BASIC SKILLS IN MATH READING AND WRITING ONLY
6IRGINIA REQUIRES THAT PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY
CAN READ AT THE NATIONAL AVERAGE LEVEL 4HE OTHER STATES ACCEPT
AS TEACHERS THOSE WHO SCORE BELOW THE NATIONAL AVERAGE )N FACT IN
THE $ISTRICT OF #OLUMBIA &LORIDA 4EXAS AND TWELVE OTHER STATES YOU
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CAN QUALIFY TO BE A TEACHER IF YOUR READING ABILITY IS BELOW THE TH
PERCENTILE #ALIFORNIA n NOT WANTING TO BE OUTDONE BY THE $ISTRICT
OF #OLUMBIA &LORIDA OR 4EXAS n REQUIRES THAT PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS BE
ABLE TO PASS THE #ALIFORNIA "ASIC %DUCATIONAL 3KILLS 4EST A TEST THAT IS
SET AT ABOUT THE TH GRADE LEVEL 3ECRETARY 0AIGE HIMSELF HAS OBSERVED
THAT STATE TEACHER HIRING RULES MANAGE TO hMAINTAIN LOW STANDARDS AND
HIGH BARRIERS ;TO ENTRY= AT THE SAME TIMEv
! FORMER !RIZONA STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION AND CHIEF
EXECUTIVE OFlCER OF THE %DUCATION ,EADERS #OUNCIL ,ISA 'RAHAM
+EEGAN MINCES NO WORDS IN DESCRIBING THE FRAUD OF TEACHER COMPE
TENCY TESTING
4HE TESTS THAT TEACHERS ARE BEING ASKED TO TAKE ARE NOT JUST BASIC
THEYRE PAINFULLY BASICx IT IS ONLY WHAT WE EXPECT THE CHILDREN
TO KNOW AT THE END OF THEIR JOURNEY WITH US /N TOP OF THAT THE
STATE SETS ITS OWN CUTOFF SCORE USUALLY WAY BELOW THE PERCENT
LIMIT 4HE FACT THAT TEACHERS ARE NOT PASSING THESE BASIC TESTS IS
OUTRAGEOUSx 4HE .%! IS APPALLING ON THIS MATTER 4HEY SAY
IT IS DEMEANING TO GIVE TEACHERS THESE EXAMINATIONS THAT IT SUG
GESTS THEY ARENT PROFESSIONAL 7ELL ITS ONLY DEMEANING WHEN
THEY FAIL THEM PROVING THEY ARENT PROFESSIONALSx4HE VICTIMS
ARE THE STUDENTS THEYRE HIRED TO TEACH
'IVEN THAT TEACHERS TODAY ONLY NEED TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY
CAN SORT OF READ WRITE AND DO MATH WE COULD PROBABLY RELIEVE THE
TEACHER SHORTAGE IMPROVE INSTRUCTION AND SAVE MONEY BY PUTTING
SMART HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CLASSROOMS PART TIME AND LETTING THOSE
WHO ARE IN THE LOWER REACHES OF THE TEACHER APPLICANT POOL REPLACE THE
HIGH SCHOOL KIDS AT THE LOCAL "URGER +ING
3CHOOLS OF %DUCATION $ISABLING THE !BLE
)TS NO SECRET THAT TEACHERS AS A GROUP SCORE LOWER ON STANDARDIZED
TESTS SUCH AS THE 3CHOLASTIC !PTITUDE 4EST AND THE 'RADUATE 2ECORD
%XAMINATION THAN JUST ABOUT ANY OTHER GROUP IN COLLEGE OR GRADU
ATE SCHOOL 3O MANY CRITICS HAVE CONCLUDED THAT ATTRACTING MORE
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
INTELLECTUALLY CAPABLE TEACHER CANDIDATES IS THE KEY TO lXING THE PROB
LEM 7HILE THAT IN ITSELF WOULD NOT BE A BAD THING IT STILL WOULD NOT
DISCERNIBLY IMPROVE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HE PERVASIVE AND BALEFUL
INmUENCE OF SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION AND OTHER INSTITU
TIONAL FACTORS ARE TOO STRONG FOR MERE INTELLECT TO OVERCOME
3IMPLY PUT IT IS A MISTAKE TO CLAIM THAT THE UNDISTINGUISHED
INTELLECTUAL TALENTS OF THE AVERAGE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLTEACHER AND AD
MINISTRATOR ARE A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
4HE AVERAGE TEACHER DOESNT NEED TO BE ABLE TO WRITE A NOVEL COMPOSE
A SYMPHONY DO ADVANCED MATHEMATICS OR UNDERSTAND QUANTUM ME
CHANICS TO DO A GOOD JOB OF TEACHING CHILDREN SUCH THINGS AS READING
WRITING MUSIC HISTORY AND MATHEMATICS 7HAT A GOOD PRIMARY OR
SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER DOES NEED HOWEVER IS A THOROUGH GROUND
ING IN WHAT IS TO BE TAUGHT AND PERSONAL QUALITIES SUCH AS DILIGENCE
ENTHUSIASM AND PATIENCE .ONE OF THIS IS BEYOND THE REACH OF PEOPLE
OF NORMAL INTELLIGENCE )N FACT ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL TRAITS SUCH AS PA
TIENCE ARE UNDOUBTEDLY FAR MORE IMPORTANT FOR TEACHING A SIX YEAR
OLD
ARITHMETIC THAN AN ABOVE AVERAGE )1 3O IF THE INHERENT INTELLECTUAL
ABILITY OF MOST OF THOSE WHO BECOME TEACHERS IS NOT THE REASON MANY
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS ARE NOT UP TO THEIR
JOBS WHAT IS THE PROBLEM 4HE PROBLEM IS THOSE PECULIAR INSTITUTIONS
KNOWN AS hSCHOOLS OF EDUCATIONv
! 3CHOOL OF 4HEIR /WN
&ROM THE BEGINNING OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL MOVEMENT CREATING
SPECIAL SCHOOLS FOR TRAINING TEACHERS WAS INTEGRAL TO THE PLAN FOR CRE
ATING A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN !MERICA %ARLY ON THESE
INSTITUTIONS WERE REFERRED TO AS hTEACHERS SEMINARIESv ,ATER THEY WERE
CALLED hNORMAL SCHOOLSv OR hTEACHERS COLLEGES v BUT TODAY THEY ARE
COMMONLY KNOWN AS hSCHOOLS OF EDUCATIONv
7ITHIN ACADEMIA SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION HAVE LONG BEEN NOTORI
OUS FOR LOW STANDARDS AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SPURIOUS THEORIES )N
FOR EXAMPLE THE PRESIDENT OF (ARVARD 5NIVERSITY MADE HIS CONTEMPT
FOR (ARVARDS 'RADUATE 3CHOOL OF %DUCATION CLEAR BY TELLING (ARVARDS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
BOARD OF OVERSEERS THAT THE 'RADUATE 3CHOOL OF %DUCATION WAS A
hKITTEN THAT OUGHT TO BE DROWNEDv -ORE RECENTLY $EAN %DWIN *
$ELATTRE OF THE "OSTON 5NIVERSITY 3CHOOL OF %DUCATION HAS EXPLAINED
THE SITUATION AS FOLLOWS
3CHOOLS OF EDUCATION ARE CASH COWS TO UNIVERSITIESx 4HEY AD
MIT AND GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO HAVE LOW LEVELS OF INTELLECTUAL
ACCOMPLISHMENT AND THESE PEOPLE ARE IN TURN VISITED UPON
SCHOOLCHILDREN 4HEY ARE WELL
INTENTIONED DECENT NICE PEOPLE
WHO BY AND LARGE DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING
)N GENERAL SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION HAVE THE REPUTATION OF BEING THE
hINTELLECTUAL SLUMSv OF THE UNIVERSITY (OW DID THIS COME ABOUT
!S THEY CURRENTLY EXIST SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION
ARE THE CREATION OF PROPONENTS OF hPROGRESSIVEv THEORIES OF EDUCATION
)N FACT MOST OF WHAT THESE INSTITUTIONS ARE TODAY CAN BE TRACED TO THE
INmUENCE OF *OHN $EWEY %LLWOOD #UBBERLY AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL
PROGRESSIVES IN THE lRST HALF OF THE TH CENTURY
)N THE PROGRESSIVES VISION OF EDUCATION SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS
OF EDUCATION WERE TO SERVE AS THE CHANNELS OF DISTRIBUTION FOR THEIR EDU
CATIONAL THEORIES 4O ENSURE THAT THEIR THEORIES WERE IN FACT INCULCATED
IN ASPIRING TEACHERS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATIONAL hREFORMERSv MADE THESE
INSTITUTIONS GATEKEEPERS FOR THE TEACHING PROFESSION THROUGH TEACHER
CERTIlCATION AND LICENSURE LAWS
3INCE AT LEAST THE S THOSE WHO PURSUE A TEACHING CAREER HAVE
GENERALLY BEEN REQUIRED TO PASS THROUGH A SCHOOL OR DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION )N 4ENNESSEE FOR EXAMPLE A STUDENT WHO WANTS TO BE
COME A TEACHER IS REQUIRED TO COMPLETE A TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM
THROUGH AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY 4HE TEACHER PREPARATION
PROGRAM MUST INCLUDE AMONG OTHER THINGS CERTAIN PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION COURSES 4HIS IS TYPICAL OF HOW SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS
OF EDUCATION FUNCTION BY LAW AND REGULATION AS GATEKEEPERS IN THE
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HYPER
MONOPOLY 7HILE SOME ALTERNATIVE CERTIl
CATION PROGRAMS NOW EXIST THEY ACCOUNT FOR RELATIVELY FEW TEACHERS
AND ARE VOCALLY OPPOSED BY THE TEACHERS UNIONS
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
4HE PROGRESSIVES VISION OF USING SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS OF EDU
CATION TO CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS IN !MERICAS CLASSROOMS HAS PROBABLY
SUCCEEDED FAR BEYOND THEIR EXPECTATIONS 3CHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS OF
EDUCATION HAVE RELENTLESSLY DE
EMPHASIZED THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADI
TIONAL ACADEMIC SKILLS AND THE TEACHING OF CONTENT )NSTEAD STUDENTS
CLASS TIME IS INCREASINGLY DEVOTED TO INDOCTRINATION IN POLITICALLY CORRECT
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND THE TEACHING OF ALLEGED SKILLS SUCH AS
hHOW TO THINKv 4HESE ATTITUDES HAVE RESULTED IN A WILD PROLIFERATION OF
PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC AND OTHER NON
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS IN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS 4HEY HAVE ALSO CREATED STRANGE BELIEFS AMONG EDUCATORS SUCH
AS hIF CHILDREN KNOW HOW MULTIPLICATION IS USED THEY DONT NEED TO
KNOW MULTIPLICATION FACTSv BECAUSE CALCULATORS ARE PRESUMABLY ALWAYS
AVAILABLE OR hCHILDREN REALLY DONT HAVE TO LEARN PARTICULAR HISTORICAL
FACTSv BECAUSE THEY CAN ALWAYS LOOK UP THE FACTS
(ERES A REPORT OF A CONVERSATION ONE AUTHOR HAD WITH A HIGH
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL DEMONSTRATING THE INGRAINED BIAS OUR HIGHLY TRAINED
EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS HAVE AGAINST ACTUALLY TEACHING CHILDREN ANY
THING IN PARTICULAR
4HE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IN #OLORADO INSISTEDx THAT STUDENTS
DID NOT HAVE TO LEARN ANY SPECIlC FACTS OF HISTORY OR BE ABLE
TO DElNE EITHER 7ORLD 7AR )) 4HE (OLOCAUST OR THE 'REAT
$EPRESSION )T WAS THE PRINCIPAL WAS CONVINCED hARBITRARYv TO
SINGLE OUT ONE EVENT IN HISTORY AS BEING MORE IMPORTANT THAN
ANY OTHER ,IKEWISE STUDENTS DIDNT HAVE TO KNOW THE LOCATION
OF &LORIDA AS LONG AS THEY MASTERED hGEOGRAPHICAL THINKING v
WHATEVER THAT IS
"ELIEVING THAT YOU CAN TEACH hGEOGRAPHICAL THINKINGv OR hHISTORI
CAL THINKINGv WITHOUT TEACHING FACTS OF GEOGRAPHY OR HISTORY IS LIKE
THINKING YOU CAN HAVE A #HESHIRE CATS GRIN WITHOUT THE CAT )T MAY
SOUND GOOD IN BOOKS BUT DONT EXPECT THAT IT WILL HAPPEN IN REALITY
)T SHOULD BE CLEAR BY NOW THAT THE VERY EXISTENCE OF SCHOOLS AND
DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION IS INTIMATELY BOUND UP WITH THE ODD BELIEF
THAT PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS REALLY ONLY NEED TO BE TAUGHT THE MYSTER
IES OF THE hDISCIPLINEv OF EDUCATION RATHER THAN LEARN ACTUAL SUBJECT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CONTENT !FTER ALL IF IT WERE ACKNOWLEDGED FOR EXAMPLE THAT THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING FOR A MATHEMATICS TEACHER TO KNOW IS THE MATHEMAT
ICS HE IS GOING TO TEACH WHY WOULD YOU NEED DEGREE GRANTING SCHOOLS
OF EDUCATION AND THEIR FACULTIES 0ROSPECTIVE TEACHERS WOULD THEN JUST
MAJOR IN REAL SUBJECTS SUCH AS HISTORY %NGLISH BIOLOGY CHEMISTRY AND
MATHEMATICS RATHER THAN IN hEDUCATIONv -OREOVER THEY COULD DO THAT
IN THE TRADITIONAL DEPARTMENTS OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES DEVOTED TO
THOSE SUBJECTS
5NFORTUNATELY A GREAT MANY STUDENTS ARE BEING TAUGHT BY TEACH
ERS WITH LITTLE OR NO TRAINING IN THE SUBJECTS THEY TEACH !
STUDY BY THE .ATIONAL #ENTER FOR %DUCATION 3TATISTICS FOUND THAT
NEARLY OF TEACHERS NATIONWIDE ARE TEACHING ACADEMIC SUBJECTS
IN WHICH THEY NEITHER MAJORED NOR MINORED n RANGING FROM OF
FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS TO OF SCIENCE TEACHERS -ORE RECENTLY
THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION REPORTED THAT OF TH GRADE
MATHEMATICS TEACHERS DID NOT MAJOR IN MATHEMATICS AND OF
%NGLISH TEACHERS NEITHER MAJORED NOR MINORED IN %NGLISH LITERATURE
COMMUNICATIONS OR JOURNALISM 4HE FACT THAT THERE ARE TEACHERS IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TEACHING HISTORY MATHEMATICS OR BIOLOGY WHO
MAY NEVER HAVE TAKEN A COLLEGE LEVEL COURSE IN THOSE SUBJECTS IS JUST
ONE RESULT OF THE BELIEF THAT THERE IS A DISCIPLINE CALLED hEDUCATION v
THE MASTERY OF WHICH QUALIlES SOMEONE TO TEACH )N FACT THE TEACHERS
UNIONS ARE ENORMOUSLY HOSTILE TO PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS FROM OUTSIDE
THE USUAL TEACHERS CERTIlCATIONSCHOOL OF EDUCATION CHANNELS AND
THEY REGULARLY OPPOSE PROGRAMS MAKING IT EASIER FOR UNCERTIlED COL
LEGE GRADUATES WITH DEGREES IN THE lELDS IN WHICH THEY WOULD TEACH TO
ENTER THE TEACHING PROFESSION !S A RESULT IT IS EASIER FOR SOMEONE
WITH A TEACHING CERTIlCATE AND A SLENDER GRASP OF MATHEMATICS TO GET
A JOB TEACHING ALGEBRA THAN IT IS FOR SOMEONE WHO MAJORED IN MATH
EMATICS
"EYOND THESE CONCERNS SCHOOLS AND DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION
TODAY HAVE BECOME HIGHLY POLITICIZED 4HIS IS PRIMARILY A REmECTION
OF THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VIEWS OF THEIR FACULTIES &OR EXAMPLE A
STUDY OF #OLORADOS SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION BY THE #OLORADO #OUNCIL
OF (IGHER %DUCATION FOUND THAT THAT THE PROGRAM IN THE 5NIVERSITY
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
OF #OLORADOS SCHOOL OF EDUCATION THE mAGSHIP PROGRAM AT "OULDER
#OLORADO WAS hSYSTEMATICALLY SHAPED BY PROGRESSIVE THEORIES OF SOCIAL
JUSTICEv AND THAT MOST OF THE COURSES INVOLVED hEXCESSIVE PROSELYTIZINGv
AND hSTRIDENT INDOCTRINATION OF STUDENTSv !CCORDING TO THE SYLLABUS
FOR ONE BEGINNING EDUCATION COURSE THE STUDENTS hWILL BE EXAMINING
GENERAL CURRICULUM ISSUES QUESTIONS ABOUT TEACHER PROFESSIONALISM
ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND RACE CLASS ETHNICITY GENDER SEXUAL ORIENTATION
AND POWERv
! STUDY BY $AVID - 3TEINER OF "OSTON 5NIVERSITY OF MORE
THAN COURSE OUTLINES FROM SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION INCLUDING
RANKED IN THE TOP BY 53 .EWS 7ORLD 2EPORT REACHED SIMILAR
CONCLUSIONS .OT ONLY DID 0ROFESSOR 3TEINER REPORT THAT PROSPECTIVE
TEACHERS ARE BEING GIVEN A PREPARATION THAT hIS AT BEST UNEVEN AND
AT WORST INTELLECTUALLY THIN AND INEFFECTUAL v THEIR PROFESSORS hARE
TOO OFTEN TRYING TO TEACH AN IDEOLOGY TO TEACHERSv 7HAT IDEOLOGY
4HE USUAL hMULTICULTIv STUFF n hTRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IS REPRESSIVE v
hMEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE MUST BUBBLE UP FROM EACH INDIVIDUAL AND
ETHNIC GROUP v AND hTEACHERS SHOULD lRST AND FOREMOST RESPOND TO THE
DIVERSITY BEFORE THEMv !LSO INTERESTING WAS 3TEINERS lNDING THAT
OF OUTLINES FOR READING INSTRUCTION COURSES INDICATED THE USE OF A
hBALANCED APPROACHv n IN OTHER WORDS AN APPROACH TO TEACHING READ
ING THAT INCLUDES A SMALL AMOUNT OF PHONICS AS CAMOUmAGE FOR WHAT
IS IN SUBSTANCE A hWHOLE LANGUAGEv CURRICULUM 4HINK OF IT AS WHOLE
LANGUAGE IN DRAG !N ADDITIONAL TEN READING COURSE OUTLINES SHOWED
THAT THE COURSES WERE UNABASHEDLY BASED ON THE DISCREDITED hWHOLE
LANGUAGEv APPROACH WHILE ONLY THREE COURSES APPEARED TO PREPARE
READING TEACHERS TO USE A TRADITIONAL PHONICS
BASED APPROACH
!S YOU MAY EXPECT DEFENDERS OF THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT
HAVE BEEN EAGERLY ATTACKING 0ROFESSOR 3TEINERS RESULTS AND METHODOL
OGY 7HAT YOU SHOULD KNOW HOWEVER IS THAT 3TEINERS WORK IS SIMPLY
THE LATEST RESEARCH CONlRMING THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY PRESENTED BY
%$ (IRSCH IN HIS BOOK 4HE 3CHOOLS 7E .EED )N THAT WORK
(IRSCH DESCRIBES HOW SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION CONTINUE TO PROMOTE FAULTY
THEORIES OF LEARNING EVEN IN THE FACE OF WELL CONlRMED RESEARCH SHOW
ING THE THEORIES TO BE WRONG !S (IRSCH OBSERVES hTHE EDUCATION
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
COMMUNITY OPERATING BEHIND A WEB OF SLOGANS AND BROOKING NO IN
TERNAL DISSENT RESISTS SCRUTINY AND THE ROUGH
AND
TUMBLE OF SCIENTIlC
CRITICISM THAT CHARACTERIZES SUBJECT MATTER DISCIPLINESv 4HIS EXPLAINS
HOW TOXIC THEORIES SUCH AS WHOLE LANGUAGE AND CONSTRUCTIVE MATH
CONTINUE TO THRIVE EVEN IN PRESTIGIOUS SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION
)N A SIMILAR VEIN *OHN ,EO WROTE A FEW YEARS AGO OF THE COURSE
OFFERINGS IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AT THE 5NIVERSITY OF -ASSACHUSETTS
!MHERST IN HIS 53 .EWS 7ORLD 2EPORT COLUMN 4HERE EDUCATION
STUDENTS WERE BEING NURTURED ON SUCH FARE AS ,EADERSHIP IN #HANGING
4IMES 3OCIAL $IVERSITY IN %DUCATION %MBRACING $IVERSITY $IVERSITY
AND #HANGE /PPRESSION AND %DUCATION )NTRODUCTION TO -ULTICUL
TURAL %DUCATION "LACK )DENTITY #LASSISM 2ACISM *EWISH /PPRES
SION ,ESBIAN'AY"ISEXUAL /PPRESSION AND %RRONEOUS "ELIEFS
4HIS MAY GIVE YOU SOME IDEA WHY SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION TO PARAPHRASE
4HOMAS 3OWELL DONT MERELY FAIL TO ATTRACT THE BEST STUDENTS THEY
REPEL THEM
%NFORCING )DEOLOGICAL #ONFORMITY .#!4%S #ATECHISM FOR %DUCATORS
4HE USE OF SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AS POLITICAL RE
EDUCATION CAMPS
IS NOT UNCOMMON )N FACT THE .ATIONAL #OUNCIL FOR !CCREDITATION
OF 4EACHER %DUCATION .#!4% WHICH IS THE NATIONAL ACCREDITING
ORGANIZATION FOR SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION REQUIRES ADHERENCE TO SUCH
POLITICALLY CORRECT SHIBBOLETHS AS hMULTICULTURALISMv AND hDIVERSITYv IN
HIRING AND CURRICULUM AS A CONDITION OF ACCREDITATION 4HINK OF
.#!4% AS THE ENFORCER OF THE IDEOLOGY EMBRACED BY THE EDUCATOR
ELITES
!T ITS ,AS 6EGAS CONVENTION .#!4%S AGENDA MOVED
FARTHER INTO THE OPEN $URING A PRESENTATION JUST PRIOR TO THE OPENING
OF THE CONVENTION .#!4%S SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT $ONNA 'OLLNICK
TOLD AN AUDIENCE OF HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS FROM
AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT hDIVERSITYv IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STANDARD BY
WHICH .#!4% WILL EVALUATE THOSE WHO TRAIN TEACHERS
!ND JUST WHAT IS hDIVERSITYv !CCORDING TO .#!4%S GLOSSARY
FOR ITS h0ROFESSIONAL 3TANDARDS v hDIVERSITYv MEANS hDIFFERENCES AMONG
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
GROUPS OF PEOPLE AND INDIVIDUALS BASED ON ETHNICITY RACE SOCIOECO
NOMIC STATUS GENDER EXCEPTIONALITIES LANGUAGE RELIGION SEXUAL ORI
ENTATION AND GEOGRAPHICAL AREAv 7HY IS THIS IMPORTANT "ECAUSE
NOW .#!4% WANTS TO REQUIRE THAT TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY
ARE SHOWING CORRECT hDISPOSITIONSv REGARDING DIVERSITY AND THAT THEY ARE
TEACHING hMULTICULTURAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVESv
)T TURNS OUT THAT hGLOBAL PERSPECTIVEv AND hMULTICULTURAL PERSPEC
TIVEv LIKE hDIVERSITYv ALSO HAVE DETAILED IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN DElNI
TIONS BURIED IN .#!4%S GLOSSARY h'LOBAL PERSPECTIVEv IS DElNED AS
4HE VIEWPOINT THAT ACCEPTS THE INTERDEPENDENCY OF NATIONS AND
PEOPLES AND THE INTERLINKAGE OF POLITICAL ECONOMIC ECOLOGICAL
AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN A TRANSNATIONAL AND GLOBAL CHARACTER
! hMULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVEv IS
4HE SOCIAL POLITICAL ECONOMIC ACADEMIC AND HISTORICAL
REALITIES EXPERIENCED BY INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS IN COMPLEX HU
MAN ENCOUNTERS THE REPRESENTATION AND INCORPORATION OF
ISSUES RELATED TO CULTURE DEMOGRAPHICS ETHNICITY RACE GENDER
SEXUAL ORIENTATION RELIGION SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND EXCEP
TIONALITIES IN THE EDUCATION PROCESS AND THE INCLUSION OF A
COHESIVE INCLUSIVE CURRICULUM REPRESENTING THE CONTRIBUTIONS
OF DIVERSE POPULATIONS
$ESPITE THE DElNITIONS RATHER SMOGGY PROSE YOU PROBABLY
ALREADY RECOGNIZE .#!4%S REAL PROJECT IMPOSING A MANDATORY IDEOL
OGY OF CULTURAL -ARXISM ON THOSE WHO WOULD BE PART OF THE TEACHING
PROFESSION WHETHER THEY WANT TO TEACH IN SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION OR IN
+ SCHOOLS
!S YOU MIGHT ALSO HAVE ALREADY SURMISED .#!4%S VIEW OF THE
CORRECT hDISPOSITIONv WITH RESPECT TO SAY hSEXUAL ORIENTATIONv IS THAT
HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE AND h(EATHER HAVING TWO MOMMIESv IS JUST
lNE ) IMAGINE YOU CAN lGURE OUT WHAT THE CORRECT hDISPOSITIONSv ARE
REGARDING GLOBAL WARMING THE 5NITED .ATIONS AFlRMATIVE ACTION
#HRISTIANITY ABORTION AND ANY NUMBER OF OTHER SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ISSUES )F YOU WANT TO BE A MEMBER OF THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY IN GOOD
STANDING .#!4% WANTS YOU TO TOE AN IDEOLOGICAL LINE IN HOW AND
WHAT YOU TEACH n THEIRS
.OT SURPRISINGLY .#!4% IS A COALITION OF THIRTY
THREE SPE
CIALTY PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS INCLUDING THE TEACHERS UNIONS "ECAUSE
SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION GENERALLY HAVE FACULTIES THAT ARE QUITE POLITICALLY
LEFT IT IS A MEASURE OF .#!4%S POLITICAL HEAVY
HANDEDNESS THAT ONLY
ABOUT HALF OF THE NATIONS SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION ARE WILLING TO BE
ACCREDITED BY .#!4% 3TILL THAT AMOUNTS TO CONSIDERABLE INmU
ENCE AND IN SOME STATES PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS MUST HAVE ATTENDED AN
ACCREDITED SCHOOL IF THEY WANT TO BECOME LICENSED -OREOVER IF THE
.ATIONAL #OMMISSION ON 4EACHING AND !MERICAS &UTURE .#4!&
HAS ITS WAY .#4!& IS AN ORGANIZATION FUNDED BY THE #ARNEGIE &OUN
DATION AND LOCATED AT #OLUMBIA 5NIVERSITYS 4EACHERS #OLLEGE NO ONE
WILL BE ALLOWED TO TEACH IF HE HASNT GRADUATED FROM OR BEEN CERTIlED BY AN
.#!4% ACCREDITED SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
7HAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR PARENTS &IRST YOU NEED TO REALIZE THAT
THE CULTURAL -ARXISM .#!4% PROMOTES IS THE DOMINANT WORLDVIEW OF
SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AND THEY HAVE BEEN CATECHIZING THEIR STUDENTS IN
THE CREEDS OF GLOBALISM MULTICULTURALISM SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY
FOR YEARS "ECAUSE AS PREVIOUSLY POINTED OUT EDUCATION MAJORS TEND
TO BE DRAWN FROM THE RANKS OF THE STUDENTS LEAST ABLE TO RESIST INDOCTRI
NATION THROUGH CRITICAL THOUGHT THEY LEAVE THEIR SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION
HAVING ABSORBED MUCH OF THIS WORLDVIEW .OT SATISlED HOWEVER WITH
MERELY IMMERSING EDUCATION STUDENTS IN THEIR WORLDVIEW AND HOPING
IT SHOWS UP IN THE CLASSROOM .#!4% IS AIMING AT MAKING SURE THAT
THEIR TEACHING REmECTS IT 4HAT IS THE POINT OF .#!4%S BLATHER ABOUT
SHOWING CORRECT hDISPOSITIONSv 3O .#!4% NOW WANTS TO MAKE SURE
THAT THE SCHOOLS IT ACCREDITS AND ALL STUDENTS GRADUATED OR CERTIlED BY
THOSE SCHOOLS DEMONSTRATE ALLEGIANCE TO .#!4%S IDEOLOGY IN THEIR
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES -OREOVER IF .#!4% IS SUCCESSFUL THERE WILL
BE NO PATH TO TEACHING EXCEPT THROUGH AN .#!4% ACCREDITED SCHOOL
.OW JUST HOW IS IT THAT YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DIFFERENT
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
-AKING THE 3IGHTED "LIND
%VERY YEAR LARGE NUMBERS OF
YEAR
OLDS AND OTHERS ENTER COL
LEGES AND UNIVERSITIES WITH A DESIRE TO BECOME TEACHERS 3OME ARE
INTELLECTUALLY VERY CAPABLE BUT MOST ARE OF ORDINARY INTELLECT "ECAUSE
THE VAST MAJORITY ATTENDED GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FROM KINDERGARTEN
THROUGH TH GRADE MOST OF THEM HAVE SIGNIlCANT GAPS IN THEIR ACA
DEMIC SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE AND HAVE LITTLE CAPACITY FOR CRITICAL THINK
ING .EVERTHELESS FOR THE MAJORITY OF THESE STUDENTS A DEMANDING
WELL
CONCEIVED UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM COULD CERTAINLY OVERCOME
THEIR ACADEMIC DElCIENCIES AND ENABLE THEM TO DO A GOOD JOB IN THEIR
CHOSEN PROFESSION
)NSTEAD THESE STUDENTS ARE FORCED INTO AN INTELLECTUAL WASTELAND
IN WHICH THEY ARE BLUDGEONED WITH POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION AND
MUST ENDURE A DIET OF COURSES PROMOTING ABSURD EDUCATIONAL THEORIES
FREQUENTLY TAUGHT BY PROFESSORS WHO HAVE THE SAME INTELLECTUAL WEAK
NESSES THAT THE STUDENTS HAVE 4HIS IN TURN LEADS MANY OF THE MORE
INTELLECTUALLY ABLE AND WELL PREPARED TO SEEK OTHER CAREER PATHS 4HE
MORE CREDULOUS STUDENTS THE STUDENTS WHO FEEL IRRESISTIBLY CALLED TO
TEACH AND THE STUDENTS WHO DONT BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE ATTRACTIVE CA
REER PROSPECTS OUTSIDE OF TEACHING RECONCILE THEMSELVES TO OR EMBRACE
THEIR PROFESSORS POLITICS )N EFFECT THEY MUST ACCUSTOM THEMSELVES TO
HAVING TO BELIEVE LIKE ,EWIS #ARROLLS 7HITE 1UEEN hSIX IMPOSSIBLE
THINGS BEFORE BREAKFASTv -OREOVER IT IS FROM THESE REMAINING STU
DENTS THAT MUCH OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF PROFESSORS OF EDUCATION WILL
BE DRAWN
4HUS SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION ENGENDER A KIND OF ADVERSE SELF
SELEC
TION PERPETUATING THEMSELVES AS A STRANGE INBRED INSTITUTION WITHIN AN
INSTITUTION 4HIS IS ONE IMPORTANT REASON WHY REAL EDUCATION HAS BEEN
DECLINING FOR DECADES IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE NECESSARILY STAFFED BY LARGE NUMBERS OF
PEOPLE WHOSE ACADEMIC GROWTH HAS BEEN STUNTED BY SCHOOLS OF EDUCA
TION AND WHO HAVE ABSORBED THE FALSE AND HARMFUL VIEWS THAT PASS FOR
THOUGHT IN THOSE INSTITUTIONS -OREOVER TODAYS CLIMATE IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS CERTAINLY ENCOURAGES TALENTED TEACHERS TO LEAVE 4HIS IS A
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
KEY REASON WHY MORE MONEY WILL NEVER lX GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND IT
IS THE REASON WHY REAL SCHOOL REFORM WOULD REQUIRE SOMETHING THAT THE
TEACHERS UNIONS WOULD NEVER PERMIT n WHOLESALE CHANGES IN SCHOOL
PERSONNEL
$RIVING !WAY -ISS $AISY
5NFORTUNATELY THE PATHOLOGICAL PHENOMENON OF ADVERSE SELEC
TION CONTINUES BEYOND GRADUATION FROM SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION
&OR THE HARDY SOULS WHO ARE BOTH COMPETENT AND ABLE TO ENDURE
FULlLLING THE INANE REQUIREMENTS FOR A DEGREE OR CERTIlCATE IN EDUCATION
FURTHER TRIALS AWAIT 0UBLIC !GENDA A NONPROlT ORGANIZATION BASED IN
.EW 9ORK RECENTLY PUBLISHED h7HERE 7E !RE .OW 4HINGS 9OU
.EED TO +NOW !BOUT 0UBLIC /PINION AND 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS v A REPORT
COVERING THE RESULTS OF ITS SURVEYS REGARDING EDUCATION IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS !CCORDING TO 0UBLIC !GENDA OF TEACHERS SAY THAT
THEY SPEND MORE TIME TRYING TO KEEP ORDER IN THEIR CLASSROOMS THAN
TEACHING AND OF TEACHERS SAID THAT BETTER STUDENT BEHAVIOR AND
PARENTAL SUPPORT WERE MORE IMPORTANT TO THEM THAN MORE MONEY
!CCORDING TO SUPERINTENDENTS THE OVERWHELMING REASON TALENTED
TEACHERS LEAVE TEACHING IS POLITICS AND BUREAUCRACY NOT LOW PAY AND
PRESTIGE VERSUS 6IOLENCE AGAINST TEACHERS HOWEVER IS
ANOTHER REASON MANY LEAVE )N MANY URBAN SCHOOLS TEACHERS EVIDENTLY
NOW JOKE THAT IN THEIR SCHOOLS hCORPORAL PUNISHMENT IS A THING OF THE
PAST EXCEPT WHEN STUDENTS BEAT THEM UPv
(OW BAD IS THE PROBLEM OF TEACHER ATTRITION !CCORDING TO 4OM
#ARROLL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE .ATIONAL #OMMISSION ON 4EACH
ING !ND !MERICAS &UTURE h7E HAVE A BUCKET WITH HUGE HOLES IN IT
4HEYRE LEAVING AS FAST AS WE POUR THEM INv )N 4EXAS FOR EXAMPLE
OF NEW TEACHERS LEAVE WITHIN THEIR lRST THREE YEARS OF TEACHING
WHICH HAS BEEN ESTIMATED TO COST THE STATE AS MUCH AS BILLION IN
TERMINATION RECRUITING AND TRAINING EXPENSES .ATIONALLY HALF OF
ALL NEW TEACHERS LEAVE BEFORE THEIR lFTH YEAR
7HILE IT ISNT POSSIBLE TO SAY PRECISELY HOW MANY COMPETENT
TEACHERS ARE LEAVING TEACHING IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IT IS A CERTAINTY
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
THAT EVERY YEAR MANY OF THE CAPABLE TEACHERS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
ARE MOVING ON BECAUSE THEY ARE SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME ON DISCIPLINE
POLITICS AND BUREAUCRACY !ND OF COURSE IT IS PRECISELY THESE GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL TEACHERS WHO HAVE THE SKILLS TO PURSUE OTHER CAREERS
)F 'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS #ANT 2EFORM 4HEMSELVES
#AN 4HEY "E 2EFORMED &ROM THE /UTSIDE
4ODAY GOVERNMENT SCHOOL REFORMERS GENERALLY PIN THEIR HOPES ON
COMPETITION FROM CHARTER SCHOOLS OUTSIDE MANAGEMENT AND VOUCHERS
TO FORCE IMPROVEMENT ON GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS !LL OF THESE EFFORTS TO USE
EXTERNAL PRESSURES TO FORCE REFORM ARE MEETING WITH MASSIVE RESISTANCE
FROM THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY ESPECIALLY THE TEACHERS UNIONS
#HARTER 3CHOOLS .ICE 4RY .O #IGAR
#HARTER SCHOOLS ARE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THAT OPERATE UNDER
SPECIAL LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS INDIVIDUALS NON
PROlT ORGANIZATIONS
AND FOR
PROlT ORGANIZATIONS TO OPERATE A SCHOOL UNDER CONTRACT WITH A
SCHOOL DISTRICT 4HE lRST CHARTER SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED IN -INNESOTA
IN AND BY THE LATE S THERE WERE ROUGHLY STUDENTS
ATTENDING ABOUT CHARTER SCHOOLS IN TWENTY
NINE STATES AND THE
$ISTRICT OF #OLUMBIA "Y THE END OF ROUGHLY CHARTER
SCHOOLS IN STATES WERE EDUCATING BETWEEN AND
STUDENTS
)N THEORY CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE
TO TRADITIONAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BECAUSE THEY OPERATE OUTSIDE OF THE
CONSTRAINTS OF THE TRADITIONAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL AND CAN BE MORE
INNOVATIVE 4HEY WERE CONCEIVED OF BROADLY AS SECULAR GOVERNMENT
FUNDED QUASI
PRIVATE SCHOOLS 0RECISELY BECAUSE CHARTER SCHOOLS HAVE
THE POTENTIAL FOR CREATING A LARGE SYSTEM OF SCHOOLS IN COMPETITION
WITH CONVENTIONAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TEACHERS UNIONS HAVE WORKED
HARD TO CRIPPLE THE CHARTER SCHOOL MOVEMENT (OW )N PART THROUGH
USING THEIR POLITICAL INmUENCE TO HAVE SO MANY REGULATIONS IMPOSED ON
CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT THEY REALLY CANT BE ALL THAT DIFFERENT FROM TRADI
TIONAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )N PARTICULAR THE TEACHERS UNIONS HAVE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
BEEN ADAMANT ABOUT REQUIRING CHARTER SCHOOLS TO HIRE ONLY CERTIlED
TEACHERS /NE SIGN OF THE POLITICAL SUCCESS THAT THE TEACHERS UNIONS
HAVE HAD AGAINST CHARTER SCHOOLS IS THAT CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE TYPICALLY
ONLY FUNDED WITH OF THE OPERATING DOLLARS THAT TRADITIONAL GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS GET AND THEY RECEIVE NO FUNDING AT ALL FOR CAPITAL
COSTS SUCH AS BUILDINGS
%VEN WHERE CHARTER SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL AND SOME HAVE
NOT BEEN TEACHERS UNIONS AND THEIR ALLIES HAVE BEEN ABLE TO FRUSTRATE
BOTH PARENTS AND THE CHARTER SCHOOL MOVEMENT )N 3AN &RANCISCO FOR
EXAMPLE THE LOWEST PERFORMING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE CITY BECAME
A CHARTER SCHOOL RUN BY %DISON 3CHOOLS )NC A FOR
PROlT COMPANY
4HE NEW OPERATOR OF THE SCHOOL IMPROVED DISCIPLINE AND RAISED THE
STUDENTS READING AND MATH SCORES DRAMATICALLY 5NDER THE NEW MAN
AGEMENT CHILDREN WERE HAPPY AND PARENTS WERE DELIGHTED 3O WHAT
HAPPENED &EELING THREATENED BY THE SUCCESS OF %DISON THE TEACHERS
UNIONS GOT A GROUP OF CANDIDATES ELECTED TO THE LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD WHO
WERE WILLING TO REVOKE THE CHARTER SCHOOLS CONTRACT WITH THE SCHOOL
DISTRICT OVER THE LOUD PROTESTS OF PARENTS
.EW 9ORK 3TATE LEGISLATORS AND TEACHERS UNIONS HAVE CONCOCTED
PERHAPS THE MOST BREATHTAKINGLY ABSURD ARGUMENT DEPLOYED AGAINST EX
PANDING CHARTER SCHOOLS )N ORDER TO STOP THE OPENING OF A DOZEN CHAR
TER SCHOOLS ALREADY APPROVED FOR OPERATION THE USUAL SUSPECTS mOATED
THE ARGUMENT THAT OPENING MORE CHARTER SCHOOLS SHOULD BE POSTPONED
BECAUSE OF BUDGET CONSTRAINTS RESULTING FROM THE ATTACK ON THE
7ORLD 4RADE #ENTER .O ONE SEEMED TO HAVE A GOOD EXPLANATION
OF HOW CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT ONLY GET ROUGHLY OF THE GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL OPERATING BUDGET PER PUPIL WOULD STRAIN .EW 9ORKS GENERAL
BUDGET !S !LNANDO ,EARPEL A .EW 9ORK PARENT WITH A CHILD IN A CHAR
TER SCHOOL ACCURATELY ASSESSED THE SITUATION h4HE SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME
CONSUMED WITH POLITICS AND CONTROLLED BY SPECIAL INTERESTS WHO DONT
PUT THE KIDS lRSTv 4HIS IS A PARENT WHO hGETS ITv
4HOUGH FEW IN NUMBER CHARTER SCHOOLS HAVE INTRODUCED A SMALL
ELEMENT OF COMPETITION !CCORDING TO RESEARCH BY #AROLINE (OXBY AN
ECONOMICS PROFESSOR AT (ARVARD CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE MORE LIKELY THAN
CONVENTIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO HAVE TEACHERS FROM SELECTIVE COLLEGES
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
AND WITH BETTER THAN AVERAGE ACADEMIC RECORDS 4EACHERS IN CHARTER
SCHOOLS ARE ALSO MORE LIKELY TO DEVOTE MORE TIME TO ACADEMICS THAN
THEIR CONVENTIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL COUNTERPARTS "UT THE COMPETITION
ISNT LIMITED TO WHAT GOES ON IN THE CLASSROOM !CCORDING TO +ATHY
#HRISTIE A POLICY ANALYST FOR THE %DUCATION #OMMISSION OF THE 3TATES
CHARTER SCHOOLS UNLIKE THEIR CONVENTIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL COUNTERPARTS
NEED TO KEEP PARENTS HAPPY AS hCLIENTSv 3O IT ISNT SURPRISING THAT
ACCORDING TO ONE ESTIMATE THE CHILDREN ON WAITING LISTS FOR EXISTING
CHARTER SCHOOLS COULD lLL ANOTHER CHARTER SCHOOLS
,ETS SEE n SMARTER BETTER EDUCATED TEACHERS MORE EMPHASIS ON
ACADEMICS AND A PARENT FRIENDLY ATTITUDE 4EACHERS UNIONS AND THE
REST OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT HAVE GOT TO
HATE IT n AND THEY DO &EELING THREATENED BY EVEN A HANDFUL OF CHARTER
SCHOOLS THE USUAL SUSPECTS HAVE MARSHALED THEIR OVERWHELMING RE
SOURCES TO STRANGLE THE CHARTER SCHOOL BABY IN ITS CRIB
&OR EXAMPLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN /KLAHOMA AND -ASSACHUSETTS
HAVE SOUGHT MORATORIA ON THE CREATION OF ANY NEW CHARTER SCHOOLS )N
)LLINOIS -ICHIGAN AND .ORTH #AROLINA LEGISLATION TO RAISE CAPS ON THE
NUMBER OF CHARTER SCHOOLS AND THEIR ENROLLMENT HAS BEEN DEFEATED
)N 4EXAS THE + VIRTUAL CHARTER SCHOOL LEAD BY 7ILLIAM "EN
NETT HAD ITS CHARTER DENIED AT THE LAST MINUTE AFTER HAVING RECEIVED
REPEATED ASSURANCES THAT IT WOULD BE GRANTED 2OUGHLY TWO YEARS AFTER
"ENNETTS + WAS SANDBAGGED BY 4EXAS BUREAUCRATS 4EXAS TEACHERS
UNIONS INTIMIDATED THE 5NIVERSITY OF .ORTH 4EXAS INTO WITHDRAWING
ITS PROPOSAL TO CREATE AN ONLINE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
)N /HIO A TEACHERS UNION IS BOTH LITIGATING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY
OF CHARTER SCHOOLS AND SPENDING MONEY ON ADVERTISING TO CONVINCE THE
PUBLIC THAT CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE A MENACE TO EDUCATION *EANNE !L
LEN PRESIDENT OF THE #ENTER FOR %DUCATIONAL 2EFORM A CHARTER SCHOOL
ADVOCACY GROUP SUMMARIZED THE OVERALL SITUATION h7E HAVE HAD
OBSTACLES AND NUISANCES ALL ALONG BUT THERE HASNT BEEN A CONCERTED
EFFORT LIKE THE ONE WE HAVE SEEN RECENTLYv
4HE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ESTABLISHMENTS STRATEGY FOR THWARTING
THE CHARTER SCHOOL MOVEMENT IS SIMPLE &IRST USE FUNDING LIMITATIONS
AND CAPS ON THE NUMBER OF CHARTER SCHOOLS AND ON CHARTER SCHOOL
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ENROLLMENT TO RESTRICT THE GROWTH OF CHARTER SCHOOLS 3ECOND WHERE
CHARTER SCHOOLS ALREADY EXIST OR CANNOT BE PREVENTED DILUTE THEIR QUAL
ITY BY GRADUALLY IMPOSING A REGULATORY REGIME THAT MAKES THEM ALMOST
INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM CONVENTIONAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
4HE TRUTH IS THAT TEACHERS UNIONS AND THEIR ALLIES HAVE THE
MONEY MANPOWER AND POLITICAL INmUENCE TO PREVENT CHARTER SCHOOLS
FROM BECOMING A SOURCE OF SIGNIlCANT AND EMBARRASSING COMPETITION
ANY TIME SOON IF EVER
6OUCHERS AND 4RENCH 7ARFARE
%DUCATION VOUCHERS ARE ANOTHER STRATEGY THAT REFORMERS HAVE
PURSUED AS AN END
RUN AROUND THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HYPER
MO
NOPOLY 6OUCHERS OF COURSE HAVE BEEN BITTERLY OPPOSED BY TEACHERS
UNIONS 0ETER "RIMELOW FOR EXAMPLE RECOUNTS IN HIS BOOK 4HE 7ORM
IN THE !PPLE HOW THE .%!S #ALIFORNIA AFlLIATE ATTEMPTED TO PREVENT
A VOUCHER INITIATIVE FROM GETTING ON THE BALLOT IN 4O GET THE
VOUCHER MEASURE ON THE BALLOT #ALIFORNIA LAW REQUIRED ITS PROPONENTS
TO OBTAIN A LARGE NUMBER OF SIGNATURES ON A PETITION 4HE UNIONS
TACTICS AGAINST THE VOUCHER MEASURE INCLUDED hBLOCKING ;PHYSICALLY=
WOULD
BE SIGNERS ACCESS TO THE PETITION IN SHOPPING MALLS ALLEGEDLY
SABOTAGING THE PETITION WITH FAKE NAMES AND OFFERING A SIGNATURE
COL
LECTING lRM TO DECLINE THE ACCOUNTv
(OW COULD A TEACHERS UNION JUSTIFY THIS SORT OF BEHAVIOR !CCORD
ING TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE .%!S #ALIFORNIA AFlLIATE $! 7EBER h4HERE
ARE SOME PROPOSALS THAT ARE SO EVIL THAT THEY SHOULD NEVER BE PRESENTED
TO THE VOTERSv %VIDENTLY TEACHERS UNIONS ARE FOR DEMOCRACY ONLY IF IT
DOESNT THREATEN THEIR ECONOMIC AND IDEOLOGICAL INTERESTS
!N !TLANTIC -ONTHLY INTERVIEW WITH "OB #HASE A FORMER PRESI
DENT OF THE .%! FURTHER DEMONSTRATES THE UNIONS IMPLACABLE OPPO
SITION TO ANY VOUCHER MEASURE THAT MIGHT ALLOW STUDENTS TO ESCAPE THE
FAILING GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM )N THAT INTERVIEW WRITER -ATTHEW
-ILLER ASKED #HASE WHETHER THE UNION MIGHT RELENT IN ITS OPPOSITION
TO VOUCHERS FOR INNER
CITY STUDENTS IF VOUCHERS WERE COUPLED WITH
MORE MONEY FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
-ILLER )S THERE ANY CIRCUMSTANCE UNDER WHICH THAT WOULD BE
SOMETHING THATx
#HASE .O
-ILLERxYOU GUYS COULD LIVE WITH 7HY
#HASE .O
-ILLER $OUBLE SCHOOL SPENDINGx
#HASE .O
-ILLERxIN INNER CITIES
#HASE .O
-ILLER 4RIPLE IT
#HASE .O
)N CASE YOU MISSED IT THE ANSWER IS h.Ov 'ET IT
5NION OPPOSITION NOTWITHSTANDING IN THE 3UPREME #OURT
HELD IN :ELMAN V 3IMMONS
(ARRIS THAT #LEVELANDS VOUCHER PROGRAM
WHICH ALLOWS VOUCHERS TO BE USED AT ANY SECULAR OR RELIGIOUS PRIVATE
SCHOOL DOES NOT VIOLATE THE %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE OF THE &IRST !MEND
MENT "UT DONT THINK THAT :ELMAN IS THE HARBINGER OF THE RAPID SPREAD
OF VOUCHER PROGRAMS 6OUCHERS ARE IN FACT STILL A LONG WAY FROM BE
COMING A SIGNIlCANT FEATURE OF THE EDUCATIONAL LANDSCAPE )MMEDIATELY
FOLLOWING THE :ELMAN DECISION THE .%! ISSUED A PRESS RELEASE IN WHICH
IT hPLEDGES TO CONTINUE TO lGHTx DIVISIVE AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
PROPOSALS TO DIVERT ENERGY ATTENTION AND RESOURCES TO PRIVATE SCHOOL
TUITION VOUCHERSxv 4HIS MEANS THAT THE .%! AND ITS ALLIES ARE GO
ING TO CONTINUE WAGING THE VERY EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST VOUCHERS
AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVELS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING FOR YEARS
)N PARTICULAR THE TEACHERS UNIONS WILL BE LOOKING FOR HELP FROM THE
STATE COURTS TO BLOCK VOUCHERS
3TATE COURT LITIGATION IS AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF
THE .%!S STRATEGY FOR DELAYING OR STOPPING VOUCHER PROGRAMS (AVING
LOST IN THEIR EFFORT TO HAVE THE 5NITED 3TATES 3UPREME #OURT DECLARE
VOUCHERS UNCONSTITUTIONAL IF THEY CAN BE USED IN RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS THE
TEACHERS UNIONS AND THEIR ALLIES ARE lGHTING VIGOROUSLY IN STATE COURTS
CLAIMING THAT VOUCHER PROGRAMS VIOLATE STATE CONSTITUTIONS
5NKNOWN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL PROVI
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
SIONS ON WHICH THE TEACHERS UNIONS ARE RELYING ARE KNOWN AS h"LAINE
!MENDMENTS v AFTER THEIR INSPIRATION *AMES ' "LAINE A TH CENTURY
53 3ENATOR FROM -AINE )N "LAINE PROPOSED AN AMENDMENT TO
THE 5NITED 3TATES #ONSTITUTION THAT WOULD HAVE PROHIBITED THE STATES
FROM DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY AIDING WITH TAX DOLLARS ANY CHURCH OR RELI
GIOUS DENOMINATION OR INSTITUTION "LAINES MOTIVE WAS WELL KNOWN
"LAINE ASPIRED TO THE PRESIDENCY AT A TIME WHEN ANTI
#ATHOLICISM WAS
WIDESPREAD !LTHOUGH NOT APPARENT FROM THE LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE
THE WHOLE lGHT WAS ABOUT SCHOOLS !S WILL BE DISCUSSED LATER hPUBLIC
SCHOOLSv AT THE TIME WERE LARGELY 0ROTESTANT SCHOOLS THOUGH UNOF
lCIALLY SO !S A RESULT #ATHOLICS WANTED TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN SCHOOLS
AND "LAINE AND HIS NATIVIST ANTI
#ATHOLIC ALLIES WERE DETERMINED TO
SEE AS MANY #ATHOLIC CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE FORCED BY ECONOMIC NECES
SITY INTO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SO THAT THEY COULD BE h0ROTESTANTIZEDv
4HIS WAS THE SORT OF LEGISLATION THAT EVEN THE +LAN COULD LOVE &ORTU
NATELY THE FEDERAL "LAINE !MENDMENT WAS NOT RATIlED 5NFORTUNATELY
EVERY STATE EXCEPT ,OUISIANA -AINE AND .ORTH #AROLINA EVENTUALLY
INCORPORATED IN THEIR CONSTITUTIONS h"LAINE !MENDMENTv LANGUAGE OR
SOMETHING SIMILAR
!S A RESULT OF :ELMAN TEACHERS UNIONS HAVE BECOME THE CHIEF
ENFORCERS OF STATE h"LAINE !MENDMENTS v AND THEIR EFFORTS HAVE PRO
DUCED FRUIT )N THE SUMMER OF FOR EXAMPLE A &LORIDA STATE COURT
STRUCK DOWN A VOUCHER LAW DESIGNED TO HELP MOSTLY POOR AND
MINORITY STUDENTS IN FAILING SCHOOLS ON THE GROUND THAT IT VIOLATED
A PROVISION IN THE &LORIDA CONSTITUTION PROHIBITING STATE ASSISTANCE
TO RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS n IN OTHER WORDS A STATE h"LAINE !MEND
MENTv ! SUCCESSFUL APPEAL FOLLOWED BUT FOR A TIME &LORIDAS MODEST
VOUCHER PLAN AND THE STUDENTS WHO BENElTED FROM IT WERE PUT ON
HOLD -OREOVER &LORIDAS VOUCHER PLAN CONTINUES TO BE SUBJECT TO LEGAL
AND POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY #HALLENGES TO VOUCHERS HAVE NOT BEEN BASED
ONLY ON "LAINE !MENDMENTS HOWEVER
)N THE #OLORADO 3UPREME #OURT KILLED THE STATES VOUCHER
LAW BEFORE IT COULD GO INTO EFFECT !CCORDING TO THE JUDGE THE LAW WAS
UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE IT STRIPS LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS OF CONTROL OVER
EDUCATION
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
4HIS PROCESS OF LITIGATING EXISTING AND FUTURE VOUCHER PROGRAMS
WILL PLAY ITSELF OUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR YEARS -OREOVER EVEN IF THE
COURTS EVENTUALLY CLEAR THE WAY FOR VOUCHERS THERE WILL REMAIN MANY
POLITICAL BATTLES TO BE FOUGHT AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT )N &LORIDA FOR
EXAMPLE THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL INDUSTRY IS NOW TRYING TO PASS LEGISLA
TION THAT WOULD REGULATE &LORIDAS PILOT VOUCHER PROGRAM TO DEATH
6OUCHER PROPONENTS SCORED ONE VISIBLE VICTORY WHEN #ONGRESS lNALLY
ENACTED A SMALL VOUCHER PROGRAM FOR EXERCABLE 7ASHINGTON $#
SCHOOL SYSTEM IN 5NDER THE PROGRAM A MAXIMUM OF
OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS STUDENTS WOULD BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE
3HORTLY AFTERWARD 3ENATOR +ENNEDY AND OTHERS ANNOUNCED THAT THEY
WILL WORK TO REPEAL THE PROGRAM
4HE LEGISLATIVE AND LEGAL BATTLES OVER VOUCHERS WILL GENERATE HEAD
LINES FOR YEARS TO COME 4HE FACT REMAINS HOWEVER THAT THERE ARE TENS
OF MILLIONS OF CHILDREN IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WHILE IN VOUCH
ERS WERE AVAILABLE AT BEST TO ROUGHLY STUDENTS !S WITH ANY
CONTROVERSIAL POLITICAL PROGRAM WITH A NARROW BASE THE DEMISE OF ANY
VOUCHER PROGRAM IS ALWAYS JUST ONE ELECTION AWAY
(OW EFFECTIVE HAS THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HYPER
MONOPOLYS
WAR AGAINST VOUCHERS BEEN WITH THE PUBLIC &OR SOME YEARS TEACHERS
UNIONS HAVE DEPLOYED THEIR CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES TO WAGE AN EFFECTIVE
POLITICAL AND PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN AGAINST VOUCHERS 6OUCHERS IN
FACT HAVE HAD EVEN LESS SUCCESS THAN CHARTER SCHOOLS 3UCH VOUCHER
PROGRAMS AS EXIST HAVE BEEN LARGELY LIMITED TO MINORITY CHILDREN IN
FAILING SCHOOLS AND INVOLVE FAR FEWER CHILDREN THAN CHARTER SCHOOLS
%VEN MORE OMINOUS FOR THE PROSPECTS OF VOUCHER PROGRAMS IS THAT
VOTERS HAVE BEEN TURNING DOWN BALLOT INITIATIVES TO PROVIDE PARENTS
WITH VOUCHERS AS A WAY OF OPENING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO COMPETI
TION &OR EXAMPLE A #ALIFORNIA INITIATIVE THAT WOULD HAVE PRO
VIDED PARENTS WITH A VOUCHER WORTH LOST OVERWHELMINGLY EVEN
THOUGH THE hFORv CAMPAIGN ENJOYED SUBSTANTIAL lNANCIAL SUPPORT FROM
A #ALIFORNIA VENTURE CAPITALIST ! SIMILAR VOUCHER MEASURE WENT DOWN
TO DEFEAT IN IN -ICHIGAN 4EACHERS UNIONS HAVE PLAYED NO SMALL
PART IN SHAPING THE PERCEPTIONS THAT LED TO THOSE OUTCOMES
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
!S SHOULD BE CLEAR VOUCHER PROPONENTS VICTORY AT THE 5NITED
3TATES 3UPREME #OURT IN :ELMAN WAS NOT THE lNAL BATTLE OF THE
VOUCHER WARS )T WAS INSTEAD THE lRST BATTLE OF WHAT WILL PROVE TO BE
A LONG LONG WAR OF ATTRITION 5NFORTUNATELY NO SIGNIlCANT CHANGE IS
LIKELY TO BE FORCED UPON GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE
AS A RESULT FROM COMPETITION CREATED BY VOUCHERS
"UT EVEN IF A NATIONWIDE VOUCHER SYSTEM WERE PUT IN PLACE TO
MORROW WOULD THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BE TRANSFORMED /F COURSE
NOT (OW COULD THEY BE 'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS WOULD STILL BE DRAWING
FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS PRIMARILY FROM THE SAME DISMAL POOL OF
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION GRADUATES THE MULTICULTURALISTS FEMINISTS ENVI
RONMENTAL FANATICS AND OTHER LIBERAL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS WOULD
STILL HAVE A HAMMERLOCK ON THE CURRICULUM AND THE ADMINISTRATORS
WOULD STILL BE HAMSTRUNG BY ALL THE COURT DECISIONS AND REGULATIONS
THAT MAKE EFFECTIVE DISCIPLINE WITHIN THE SCHOOLS AN IMPOSSIBILITY
"UT OF COURSE A UNIVERSAL VOUCHER SYSTEM WILL NOT BE PUT IN
PLACE TOMORROW 3O AT BEST VOUCHERS MIGHT IN THE GREAT BY
AND
BY
PARTIALLY DEPOPULATE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS "UT EVEN IF ONE HAS A FAVOR
ABLE VIEW OF VOUCHERS AND NOT ALL OPPONENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
HYPERMONOPOLY DO IT IS VERY UNLIKELY THAT VOUCHERS WILL PROVIDE DRAMATIC
IMPROVEMENTS IN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IN TIME TO HELP THIS GENERATION
OF SCHOOLCHILDREN )F YOU ARE WAITING FOR VOUCHERS TO RESCUE YOUR
CHILDREN FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS YOU HAVE EFFECTIVELY DECIDED TO
ABANDON YOUR CHILDREN TO THE PATHOLOGIES OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
4HE %DUCATIONAL (YPER
-ONOPOLY
#OMMITTED TO 7INNING BY &AIR -EANS AND &OUL
4WO RECENT EVENTS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE COUNTRY PUT THE EX
CLAMATION POINT ON THE TEACHERS UNIONS REFUSAL TO ALLOW ANY CHANGE
THAT MIGHT CHALLENGE THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HYPER
MONOPOLY )N
.OVEMBER OF A BALLOT INITIATIVE WAS DEFEATED THAT WOULD HAVE
ALLOWED THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN THE ,OS !NGELES COMMUNITY OF
#ARSON TO SECEDE FROM THE ,OS !NGELES 5NIlED 3CHOOL $ISTRICT AND
FORM ITS OWN SCHOOL DISTRICT !DVOCATES OF THE INITIATIVE BELIEVED
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
THAT BY SECEDING LOCAL RESIDENTS WOULD BE ABLE TO SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVE
EDUCATION IN THE LOCAL SCHOOLS 4HE TEACHERS UNIONS AND OTHER PUBLIC
EMPLOYEE UNIONS ON THE OTHER HAND OPPOSED THE MEASURE FEARING
THAT A TREND TOWARD CREATING SMALLER SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND SMALLER CITIES
WOULD ERODE THEIR POWER BASE !S A RESULT THE TEACHERS UNIONS AND
THEIR ALLIES OUTSPENT THE ADVOCATES OF SECESSION BY A FACTOR OF TWENTY
lVE TO ONE SCORES OF TEACHERS WERE MOBILIZED TO WALK PRECINCTS AND
WORK TELEPHONE BANKS AND THE SECESSION INITIATIVE WAS DEFEATED BY A
MARGIN OF NEARLY THREE TO ONE
)N 0HILADELPHIA THE TEACHERS UNIONS AND THEIR $EMOCRATIC
0ARTY ALLIES HAVE SHOWN HOW BRAZENLY THEY WILL OPPOSE CHANGE EVEN
IN THE FACE OF ABJECT FAILURE BY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 0HILADELPHIA HAS
STUDENTS IN ITS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS .EARLY OF THOSE
STUDENTS FAIL STATE
MANDATED MATHEMATICS AND READING TESTS OF
SCHOOLS ARE ON A LIST OF FAILING SCHOOLS AND THERE IS A DROPOUT
RATE /F THE STUDENTS WHO STAY IN SCHOOL LONG ENOUGH TO BECOME
HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS ONLY CAN READ A NEWSPAPER WITH BASIC COM
PREHENSION "ECAUSE OF THIS MASSIVE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FAILURE THE
STATE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD TAKE OVER 0HILADELPHIAS
SCHOOLS lRE THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS TOP ADMINISTRATORS AND REPLACE
THEM WITH MANAGERS HIRED FROM %DISON AND TURN OVER THE DISTRICTS
WORST PERFORMING SCHOOLS TO %DISON OR OTHER PRIVATE lRMS TO OPER
ATE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CLERGY UNIVERSITIES BUSINESS OWNERS AND LOCAL
POLITICIANS
.EEDLESS TO SAY THIS DIDNT SIT WELL WITH THE LOCAL TEACHERS UNIONS
AND THEIR POLITICAL FRIENDS 4O MAKE THEIR DISPLEASURE KNOWN THE OP
PONENTS ARRANGED TO HAVE SEVERAL HUNDRED STUDENTS WALK OUT OF CLASS
IN PROTEST A CROWD OF UNIONIZED SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES MARCH
TO CITY HALL TO DISRUPT A #HRISTMAS TREE
LIGHTING CEREMONY AND THE
.!!#0 AND A GROUP OF BLACK MINISTERS BLOCK AN INTERSECTION DURING
RUSH HOUR ON A &RIDAY AFTERNOON /F COURSE THE PART OF THE PLAN
THAT IS DRAWING THE MOST lRE FROM THE TEACHERS UNIONS IS THE ROLE TO
BE PLAYED BY %DISON AND OTHER PRIVATE COMPANIES IN THE REORGANIZED
SCHOOL SYSTEM
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
*UST PRIOR TO 0ENNSYLVANIAS TAKEOVER OF THE 0HILADELPHIA GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS ON $ECEMBER A SECRET MEMORANDUM
SURFACED THAT HAD BEEN CIRCULATING WITHIN THE OFlCE OF 0HILADELPHIAS
$EMOCRAT MAYOR *OHN 3TREET 4HE PAGE MEMORANDUM INCLUDED
HEADINGS SUCH AS h-AKING THE 4AKEOVER $IFlCULTv AND OUTLINED WAYS TO
HELP hACCELERATE %DISONS ANTICIPATED FAILUREv THROUGH ACTS OF SABOTAGE
AGAINST 0HILADELPHIAS SCHOOL SYSTEM SUCH AS REFUSING TO COLLECT TAXES
AND STRIPPING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM OF KEY PERSONNEL 7HAT THIS MEANS
OF COURSE IS THAT THE $EMOCRAT MACHINE IN 0HILADELPHIA AND ITS TEACH
ERS UNION ALLIES ARE QUITE WILLING TO DESTROY 0HILADELPHIAS GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS TO PREVENT REFORM 4HIS OBVIOUSLY STRIPS AWAY THE PRETENCE
THAT THE WELFARE OF SCHOOLCHILDREN IS OF ANY REAL SIGNIlCANCE TO THE
UNIONS AND POLITICIANS WHO HAVE CONTROLLED 0HILADELPHIAS SCHOOLS
"UT IT APPEARS THAT 3TREETS PLAN FOR SABOTAGING THE SCHOOLS
WASNT REALLY NECESSARY "Y THE MIDDLE OF !PRIL THE 0HILADELPHIA
3CHOOL 2EFORM #OMMISSION WHICH WAS GIVEN BROAD LEGAL POWER TO
IMPLEMENT REFORM HAD LIMITED PRIVATIZATION TO ONLY OF FAILING
0HILADELPHIA SCHOOLS AND HAD SUBSTANTIALLY DIMINISHED THE ROLE THAT
%DISON WOULD PLAY IN THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE 0HILADELPHIA
3CHOOL $ISTRICT 7HAT IS ESPECIALLY STRIKING ABOUT THE SITUATION IN
0HILADELPHIA IS THAT THE #OMMISSION WAS GIVEN ALL THE POWER IT NEEDED
TO DO THE NECESSARY JOB BUT IT LACKED THE HEART FOR THE lGHT
!S THE STATE PLAN GOES FORWARD 0HILADELPHIAS TEACHERS UNIONS
AND THEIR POLITICAL ALLIES WILL KEEP UP THE lGHT )F HISTORY IS A GUIDE
THEY HAVE GOOD PROSPECTS FOR PREVAILING EVENTUALLY 3CHOOL DISTRICTS
IN (ARTFORD AND -INNEAPOLIS ADOPTED PRIVATE MANAGEMENT OF THEIR
SCHOOLS OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF TEACHERS UNIONS BUT WERE EVENTUALLY
FORCED TO ABANDON PRIVATE MANAGEMENT -ORE RECENTLY AFTER A SEVEN
YEAR BATTLE THE -ASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS UNIONS lNALLY MANAGED TO OUST
%DISON FROM "OSTON 2ENAISSANCE #HARTER 3CHOOL BY lRST GETTING THE
SCHOOL BOARD TO TAKE AWAY %DISONS FREEDOM TO HIRE TEACHERS AND MAKE
OTHER INSTRUCTIONAL DECISIONS AND THEN LIKE #APTAIN ,OUIE 2ENAULT IN
THE lLM h#ASABLANCA v EXPRESSING hSHOCKv THAT THE SCHOOLS TEST SCORES
WERE LAGGING
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
)T IS QUITE CLEAR THAT TEACHERS UNIONS SUBSCRIBE TO THEIR OWN
VERSION OF THE ,OMBARDI PRINCIPLE n h7INNING ISNT EVERYTHING ITS
THE ONLY THINGv )N FAIRNESS TO 6INCE ,OMBARDI HOWEVER ) SHOULD
POINT OUT THAT HE WAS NOT ADVOCATING WINNING BY BREAKING THE RULES
OF FOOTBALL (E WAS JUST EMPHASIZING THAT YOU PLAY TO WIN 4HE TEACH
ERS UNIONS VERSION IS RATHER MORE LIKE 3AUL !LINSKYS -ARXIST DICTUM
h4HE ONLY RULE IS THAT THERE ARE NO RULESv
4HE %VER
(ELPFUL 5NCLE 3AM
)F CHARTER SCHOOLS AND VOUCHERS CANT DO THE REFORM JOB WHAT
ABOUT THE UBERMENSCHEN IN 7ASHINGTON $# )N THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT PASSED THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT ,IKE MOST EDUCA
TION LEGISLATION IT REALLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN TITLED THE h.O $OLLAR ,EFT
"EHIND !CTv .EVERTHELESS THIS PIECE OF 7ASHINGTON INGENUITY DOES
SEEM TO BE RAPIDLY AND OVERTLY ACHIEVING SOMETHING THAT hSCHOOL
REFORMv LEGISLATION NORMALLY ONLY ACCOMPLISHES SLOWLY AND IMPERCEP
TIBLY n LOWERING ACADEMIC STANDARDS &UNDING UNDER THE LEGISLATION
IS TIED TO THE PERFORMANCE OF SUBGROUPS OF STUDENTS THAT ARE DElNED
BY RACIAL ETHNIC LIMITED %NGLISH PROlCIENCY ECONOMIC AND hSPECIAL
NEEDSv CRITERIA 3TATES WILL BE PENALIZED IN THEIR FEDERAL FUNDING UNLESS
APPROXIMATELY OF THE STUDENTS IN EACH SUBGROUP PASS READING AND
MATH TESTS &ACED WITH THIS POLITICALLY CORRECT SYSTEM OF hACCOUNTABIL
ITY v WHAT IS A BUSY EDUCATION BUREAUCRAT TO DO ,OWER THE STANDARDS
FOR PASSING )N FACT NOT LONG AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT
"EHIND !CT THE #ONNECTICUT "OARD OF %DUCATION TOOK UP A PROPOSAL
TO LOWER #ONNECTICUTS PROlCIENCY STANDARDS TO AVOID LOSING FEDERAL
FUNDS WHEN THE !CTS hACCOUNTABILITYv STANDARDS WENT INTO EFFECT
/THER STATES INCLUDING 4EXAS -ICHIGAN AND #OLORADO HAVE FOLLOWED
#ONNECTICUTS LEAD PROMPTING LONG
TIME EDUCATION REFORMER AND
FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF EDUCATION #HESTER % &INN *R TO RE
MARK h3OME STATES ARE LOWERING THE PASSING SCORES THEYRE REDElNING
SCHOOLS IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT AND THEYRE DEFERRING THE HARD TASK OF
ACHIEVEMENT
BOOSTING INTO THE DISTANT FUTURE 4HATS A REALLY CYNICAL
APPROACHv
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
#ALIFORNIAS -IRACLE OF THE (IGHLY 1UALIFIED 4EACHERS
)F YOU STILL ARENT GRASPING THAT hSCHOOL REFORMv IS REALLY ABOUT
WHO GETS HOW MUCH MONEY RATHER THAN IMPROVING EDUCATION CONSIDER
#ALIFORNIAS RECENT BEATIlCATION OF TEACHERS AS hHIGHLY QUALI
lEDv !S A REQUIREMENT OF GETTING FEDERAL 4ITLE ) MONEY UNDER THE
.O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT SCHOOLS SERVING POOR CHILDREN MUST BE
STAFFED BY hHIGHLY QUALIlEDv TEACHERS WITHIN FOUR YEARS 5NFORTUNATELY
THE GENIUS 7ASHINGTON POLITICIANS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS LATEST FANTASY IN
SCHOOL REFORM hFORGOTv TO DElNE WHAT A hHIGHLY QUALIlEDv TEACHER IS
THUS LEAVING IT UP TO THE STATES .ATURALLY NOT WANTING TO LEAVE ANY
FEDERAL DOLLAR BEHIND AND RECOGNIZING THAT COMING UP WITH ENOUGH
TRULY hHIGHLY QUALIlEDv TEACHERS WOULD REQUIRE REAL WORK #ALIFORNIAS
HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION BUREAUCRATS SIMPLY REDElNED WHAT COUNTS
AS A hHIGHLY QUALIlEDv TEACHER 3O IN #ALIFORNIA YOU NOW CAN BE A
hHIGHLY QUALIlEDv TEACHER WITHOUT EVER HAVING BEEN IN A CLASSROOM OR
HAVING RECEIVED A #ALIFORNIA TEACHING CERTIlCATE 4HE MAIN REQUIRE
MENT UNDER THE NEW DElNITION IS ) THINK BEING ABLE TO BREATHE
4HIS BIT OF CREDENTIALING ALCHEMY PROVED A BIT CHEEKY EVEN FOR
#ALIFORNIA #ONGRESSMAN 'EORGE -ILLER A LEFTIST STALWART WHO ALONG
WITH 3ENATOR 4ED +ENNEDY HELPED USHER THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND
!CT THROUGH #ONGRESS !PPARENTLY ASTONISHED THAT LIKE PAST SCHOOL
REFORM EFFORTS THIS hREFORMv WAS GOING TO PROVE TO BE NO REFORM #ON
GRESSMAN -ILLER SPUTTERED IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW h4HEYRE GETTING
JILLIONS OF FEDERAL DOLLARS AND STILL TRYING TO DO IT THE OLD WAY 4HEY
WANT TO FUND THE STATUS QUOx 4HEY KEEP GAMING THE SYSTEMv )N
A SUBSEQUENT LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
-ILLER CONTINUED TO EXCORIATE THEIR ACTION COMPLAINING THAT IT WAS
AN hAUDACIOUS AND TRUTH
DEFYING STEPv AND THAT h"Y DECLARING EVERY
TEACHER @HIGHLY QUALIlED THE STATE HAS ESSENTIALLY ABANDONED ANY EF
FORT AT REFORMv /F COURSE THE STATE OFlCIALS SIMPLY FELT THAT THEY
WERE DOING WHAT WAS NECESSARY TO GET MORE MONEY !S ONE STATE OF
lCIAL HELPFULLY POINTED OUT IN RESPONSE TO -ILLERS COMMENTS WITHOUT
THE NEW DElNITION #ALIFORNIA WOULD LOSE SOME FEDERAL FUNDING
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
*UST IN CASE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT RECEIVING VAST AMOUNTS OF
PUBLIC MONEY REQUIRES SOME ACCOUNTABILITY DIDNT FULLY GRASP THE
POINT LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER THE MIRACLE OF THE HIGHLY QUALIlED TEACH
ERS #ALIFORNIAS "OARD OF %DUCATION SCUTTLED ANOTHER MUCH HERALDED
hREFORMv 4HIS TIME THEY CANCELLED THE #ALIFORNIA (IGH 3CHOOL %XIT
%XAM 0ASSING THE EXAM WAS TO BE A REQUIREMENT FOR GRADUATION FOR
THE #LASS OF AND SUBSEQUENT CLASSES 5NFORTUNATELY IT SEEMS
THAT ONLY OF THE VICTIMS OF #ALIFORNIAS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN
THE #LASS OF HAD BEEN ABLE TO PASS THE TEST BY THE SUMMER OF
n EVEN AFTER THE PASSING SCORE HAD BEEN LOWERED TO JUST ABOVE
#ONSEQUENTLY NOT WANTING TO HARM THE STUDENTS SELF
ESTEEM
OR TO DRAW MORE ATTENTION TO THE UTTER FAILURE OF #ALIFORNIAS GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS THE REQUIREMENT WAS DELAYED FOR YEARS 4HE "OARD
PROMISES THAT THEY REALLY WILL MAKE PASSING THE TEST A REQUIREMENT FOR
THE #LASS OF 3COUTS HONOR n UNLESS OF COURSE THE RESULTS WOULD
BE EMBARRASSING
-EETING THE #HALLENGE OF 0ROVIDING
(IGHLY 1UALIFIED 4EACHERS
#ALIFORNIA OF COURSE IS NOT ALONE IN HAVING TO MEET THE .O
#HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CTS REQUIREMENT THAT VIRTUALLY OF TEACHERS
BE hHIGHLY QUALIlEDv BY THE
SCHOOL YEAR !S OF
HOWEVER THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION REPORTED THAT ONLY ABOUT
HALF OF TEACHERS CURRENTLY QUALIFY 3OME MAY THINK ITS OBVIOUSLY IM
POSSIBLE FOR OF TEACHERS TO BECOME hHIGHLY QUALIlEDv BY
BUT IS IT
0ESSIMISM ABOUT ACHIEVING THE GOAL MAY SIMPLY REmECT
AN OUTMODED hINSIDE THE BOXv TRADITIONALIST MENTALITY #ALIFORNIA HAS
BRAVELY POINTED TO ONE SOLUTION BUT THERE ARE OTHERS IN PROSPECT )N
4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL RAN A FRONT
PAGE STORY ON HOW MANY OF
OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS HAVE BEEN OBTAINING THEIR
MUCH
COVETED MASTERS DEGREES
!S YOU PROBABLY KNOW TEACHERS WHO HAVE MASTERS DEGREES ARE
TYPICALLY PAID SIGNIlCANTLY MORE THAN THOSE WHO DO NOT )N MANY STATES
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
GETTING A MASTERS DEGREE IS A CONDITION FOR CONTINUED EMPLOYMENT AF
TER THE lRST FEW YEARS OF TEACHING !LTHOUGH THE DEMANDS IMPOSED BY
TRADITIONAL SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMS ARE NOTORI
OUSLY SLENDER THE *OURNAL DISCOVERED THAT THEY ARE NEVERTHELESS DEEMED
TOO DEMANDING BY MANY OF THE HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS
TO WHOM WE ENTRUST OUR CHILDREN !S THE *OURNAL FOUND INCREASING
NUMBERS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE OBTAINING THEIR hMASTERS
DEGREESv FROM SCHOOLS THAT ARE NOT MUCH MORE THAN DIPLOMA MILLS
n NONE OF THESE GRADUATE SCHOOLS REQUIRE ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS AND
SOME DONT EVEN REQUIRE A MINIMUM GRADE POINT FOR ADMISSION
!T ONE OF THESE SCHOOLS #AMBRIDGE #OLLEGE THE TYPICAL STUDENT
COMPLETES ONE
HALF OF THE MASTERS DEGREE COURSE WORK IN lVE WEEKS
ONE COURSE IS COMPLETED EACH WEEK (OW CAN YOU CRAM WHAT
NORMALLY TAKES AT LEAST A SEMESTER INTO lVE WEEKS !CCORDING TO ONE
INSTRUCTOR *AMES *ENKINS A FORMER /REGON SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
h!CADEMIC RIGOR IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU GIVE UP IN THIS PROGRAMv
7ELL JUST HOW MUCH ACADEMIC RIGOR IS GIVEN UP )N -R *ENKINS CLASS
THERE WAS NO TEXTBOOK BUT HIS GRADUATE STUDENTS DID HAVE TO WRITE A
TWO
PAGE PAPER AND GIVE AN HOUR
LONG GROUP PRESENTATION )N AD
DITION THE HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS IN HIS CLASS HAD TO
DEMONSTRATE hWAYS OF PRAISING SCHOOLCHILDREN INCLUDING THE @SILENT
CHEER @CLAM CLAP @LOBSTER CHEER @RAINBOW CHEER @BUTTERmY CLAP AND
@SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHERSv
"ESIDES TEACHING METHODS COURSES #AMBRIDGE #OLLEGE ALSO HELPS
TEACHERS SATISFY MORE SUBJECT MATTER ORIENTED REQUIREMENTS 7HEN
.EW 9ORK REQUIRED TEACHERS TO HAVE TWO SEMESTERS OF A FOREIGN LAN
GUAGE #AMBRIDGE STEPPED INTO THE BREACH WITH A ONE
WEEK 3PANISH
COURSE FOR WHICH IT GRANTED ONE SEMESTERS WORTH OF CREDIT (OW MUCH
3PANISH CAN YOU LEARN IN A WEEK !PPARENTLY THE GOAL WAS TO LEARN
ABOUT TWENTY PHRASES n CHALLENGING STUFF SUCH AS h(ABLA )NGLES v
4HE POINT HERE IS THAT THE SCHOOL REFORMERS MIGHT AS WELL TRY
TO NAIL *ELL
/ TO A WALL .OT ONLY ARE TRADITIONAL SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
MASTERS DEGREES OF DUBIOUS EDUCATIONAL SIGNIlCANCE THE PROLIFERATION
OF MASTERS DEGREES FROM PLACES LIKE #AMBRIDGE #OLLEGE SHOWS THAT
STATE AND LOCAL OFlCIALS ARE WILLING COLLABORATORS IN WHAT MOST PARENTS
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
AND TAXPAYERS WOULD CONSIDER A RANK CREDENTIALING SCAM 4HE .O
#HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CTS DEMANDS THAT TEACHERS HAVE BETTER GROUNDING
IN SUBJECT MATTER AREAS WILL BE CIRCUMVENTED 4HERE ARENT ENOUGH BU
REAUCRATS IN 7ASHINGTON OR ANYWHERE ELSE COMMITTED TO TRUE REFORM
TO MONITOR EVERY COURSE OR TEST TAKEN TO SATISFY THE hHIGHLY QUALIlEDv
TEACHER REQUIREMENTS !FTER AN INITIAL ADJUSTMENT PERIOD THE STATE
AND LOCAL EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENTS WILL SIMPLY lND WAYS TO PRETEND
TO FULlLL THEM AND 7ASHINGTON WILL lND WAYS TO PRETEND THAT THE
REQUIREMENTS HAVE BEEN SATISlED 3OMETIME THEREAFTER THE NEXT ROUND
OF REFORM WILL BEGIN WHICH WILL OF COURSE REQUIRE MORE MONEY
!N %LECTION 9EAR 0RE
%MPTIVE 3URRENDER
)N FACT IT MAY NOT EVEN BE NECESSARY FOR STATE AND LOCAL EDUCA
TION ESTABLISHMENTS TO WORRY THEIR PRETTY LITTLE HEADS ABOUT lGURING
OUT HOW TO CIRCUMVENT THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND
!CT )N AN HOMAGE TO THE POWER OF THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY AND THE
TEACHERS UNIONS THE $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION IS PREPARING A PRE
EMP
TIVE SURRENDER ON PORTIONS OF THE !CTS ACCOUNTABILITY PROVISIONS
4HOSE INSIDE THE "ELTWAY HAVE NOTICED THAT EVEN 2EPUBLICAN LEG
ISLATORS IN CONSERVATIVE STATES SUCH AS 5TAH ARE IN OPEN REVOLT AGAINST
THE !CTS MODEST EFFORT TO IMPOSE STANDARDS 3EEING THE POLITICAL
WRITING ON THE WALL IN &EBRUARY THE $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION
ANNOUNCED THAT IT WAS GOING TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR SCHOOLS TO COMPLY
WITH THE !CTS REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING MAKING IT EASIER FOR ALL TEACHERS
TO BECOME HIGHLY QUALIlED 4O SAVE TIME PERHAPS THE $EPARTMENT
OF %DUCATION COULD JUST CONSULT WITH #ALIFORNIAS BOARD OF EDUCATION
REGARDING THE FASTEST WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL TEACHERS ARE hHIGHLY
QUALIlEDv
3O JUST AS THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HYPER
MONOPOLY HASNT RE
FORMED ITSELF IT HAS ALSO SUCCESSFULLY RESISTED EVERY EFFORT BY OUTSIDERS
TO REFORM IT &URTHER THERE ARE NO SIGNS THAT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
SYSTEM WILL PERMIT ITSELF TO BE REFORMED IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE
.EARLY BILLION A YEAR PROVIDES A LOT OF POWER AND BUYS A LOT
OF FRIENDS 7HICH BRINGS US TO THE NEXT QUESTION FOR REFORM
MINDED
#HRISTIAN PARENTS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
7HY !RE 9OU &IDDLING WITH THE 3CHOOL "OARD
7HILE 9OUR #HILDS &UTURE )S "URNING
-ANY #HRISTIAN AND NON
#HRISTIAN PARENTS HAVE NOTICED OR
SEEN SOME OF THE PROBLEMS ENDEMIC TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND HAVE
OFTEN EXPENDED EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS TO REFORM THEIR LOCAL SCHOOLS )N
SOME CASES THEY HAVE ENJOYED A DEGREE OF SUCCESS 0ROGRAMS HAVE BEEN
DROPPED DELAYED OR MODIlED SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE AGREED TO OBTAIN
PARENTAL CONSENT BEFORE PRESENTING CERTAIN KINDS OF INFORMATION AND
COMMITMENTS TO CHANGE TEACHING METHODS HAVE BEEN GIVEN "UT WHILE
THE MOTIVES OF THESE PARENTS CANT BE FAULTED IT IS CLEAR THAT THEY HAVE
FAILED TO RECOGNIZE THAT THEY ARE AT BEST WINNING A FEW SKIRMISHES IN A
WAR THAT THEY AND ESPECIALLY THEIR CHILDREN ARE LOSING BADLY
"Y NOW IT SHOULD BE APPARENT THAT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYS
TEM AS AN INSTITUTION IS DRIVEN BY INTERESTS THAT ARE LARGELY UNRELATED
TO ANY MEANINGFUL CONCEPTION OF EDUCATION )N REALITY THE EDUCATION
INDUSTRY THAT CONTROLS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS A VERY BROAD INFORMAL
COALITION OF GROUPS THAT USE THE SCHOOLS AS A VEHICLE FOR PURSUING THEIR
SOCIAL POLITICAL PROFESSIONAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS 4HE NEARLY
BILLION DISTRIBUTED EVERY YEAR THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM
IS THE GLUE THAT BINDS THE DISPARATE ELEMENTS OF THE COALITION TOGETHER
!RE THE GENERAL CONTRACTORS FOOD VENDORS AND OTHER COMMERCIAL
ELEMENTS OF THE COALITION NECESSARILY OPPOSED TO PARENTAL PROPOSALS
TO MOVE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TOWARD MORE TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC AND
MORAL STANDARDS /F COURSE NOT "UT IF THE TEACHERS UNIONS GENDER
FEMINISTS HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS AND OTHERS MAKE AN ISSUE OF IT THE
COMMERCIAL INTERESTS ARENT GOING TO JEOPARDIZE THEIR PIECE OF THE CASH
THAT PASSES THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM BY OPPOSING MORE
POWERFUL ELEMENTS OF THE COALITION
7HEN PARENTS DO WIN A LOCAL SKIRMISH IT INVOLVES CONSIDERABLE
PERSONAL SACRIlCE OF TIME AND EFFORT "ECAUSE PARENTS DONT MAKE THEIR
LIVING POLICING SCHOOLS HOWEVER THERE ARE VERY DElNITE LIMITS ON
WHAT THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH /N THE OTHER SIDE ARE ARRAYED GROUPS WHO
DO MAKE THEIR LIVING THROUGH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS &OR THOSE IN THE
COALITION WHO ARE IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN THEIR AGENDA FOR GOVERNMENT
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
SCHOOLS IS THEIR LIFE -OREOVER THE COALITION HAS DEVELOPED MATERIALS
AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE FOR TEACHING SOPHISTICATED TECHNIQUES FOR DEALING
WITH DISSIDENT PARENTS
4HE BEST KNOWN OF THESE IS 2ONALD (AVELOCKS 4HE #HANGE
!GENTS 'UIDE TO )NNOVATION IN %DUCATION (AVELOCK A PROFESSOR AT
THE 5NIVERSITY OF -ICHIGAN WROTE THE GUIDE USING FUNDING PROVIDED
BY THE 5NITED 3TATES /FlCE OF %DUCATION 4HE GUIDE IS ESSENTIALLY
A MANUAL INSTRUCTING OUR HIGHLY TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS IN
METHODS FOR FORCING THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND CURRICULA OVER
THE OBJECTIONS OF PARENTS AND TAXPAYERS #HARLOTTE )SERBYT A CRITIC OF
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WHO AS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ATTENDED A WORK
SHOP BASED ON THE GUIDE DESCRIBES HER EXPERIENCE AS FOLLOWS
4HE PRESENTER CHANGE AGENT TAUGHT US HOW TO hMANIPULATEv
THE TAXPAYERSPARENTS INTO ACCEPTING CONTROVERSIAL PROGRAMS (E
EXPLAINED HOW TO IDENTIFY THE hRESISTERSv IN THE COMMUNITY AND
HOW TO GET AROUND THEIR RESISTANCE (E INSTRUCTED US IN HOW TO
GO TO THE HIGHLY RESPECTED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY n THOSE
WITH THE #HAMBER OF #OMMERCE 2OTARY *UNIOR ,EAGUE ,ITTLE
,EAGUE 9-#! (ISTORICAL 3OCIETY ETC n TO MANIPULATE THEM
INTO SUPPORTING THE CONTROVERSIALNON
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND
INTO BAD
MOUTHING THE RESISTERS !DVICE WAS ALSO GIVEN AS TO
HOW TO GET THE MEDIA TO SUPPORT THESE PROGRAMS
!S YOU MIGHT SUSPECT FOR THOSE WHOSE LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS RE
VOLVE AROUND THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM THERE IS SIMPLY TOO MUCH
AT STAKE NOT TO HAVE WELL DESIGNED STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR PREVENTING
PARENTS AND OTHER ANNOYING hOUTSIDERSv FROM hINTERFERINGv
(AVELOCKS GUIDE IS NOT THE ONLY WORK IN THIS GENRE 4HE #ALIFOR
NIA 4EACHERS !SSOCIATION FOR EXAMPLE PREPARED AND HAS DISTRIBUTED
A h0RIMER ON THE %XTREMIST !TTACKS ON %DUCATIONv 3IMILAR HAND
BOOKS ON COPING WITH hEXTREMISTSv HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY !RIZONA
-ICHIGAN &LORIDA 4EXAS .EVADA AND 7ASHINGTON 3TATE AFlLIATES OF
THE .%! AND THE .%!S 'OVERNMENTAL !FFAIRS UNIT HAS DEVELOPED
h! #HECKLIST FOR #ONTENDING WITH 2IGHT
WING %XTREMISMv ,IKE
(AVELOCKS GUIDE THE PURPOSE OF THESE PUBLICATIONS IS TO HELP UNION
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
AFlLIATES AND THEIR MEMBERS COMBAT THEIR ENEMIES n DRUM ROLL PLEASE
n THE hEXTREMISTSv
7HO ARE THE TEACHERS UNIONS LIKELY TO TRY TO SMEAR AS hEXTREM
ISTSv 7ELL IT APPEARS THAT lRST AND FOREMOST THE hEXTREMISTSv ARE THE
DREADED h#HRISTIANS v ESPECIALLY #HRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS &OCUS
ON THE &AMILY THE .ATIONAL !SSOCIATION OF #HRISTIAN %DUCATORS AND
THE #HRISTIAN #OALITION 4HEN OF COURSE THERE ARE THE PARENTS AND
TAXPAYERS WHO OBJECT TO SUCH TWADDLE AS WHOLE LANGUAGE READING IN
STRUCTION AND VALUES CLARIlCATION ANYONE WHO MIGHT OPPOSE A SCHOOL
BOND ISSUE ANYONE WHO THINKS VOUCHERS MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA OR
MORE GENERALLY ANYONE WHO OPPOSES THE UNIONS IDEOLOGICAL ENTHUSI
ASMS OR THEIR STRANGLEHOLD ON GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
4O KEEP TRACK OF ALL OF THESE THREATS THE INTREPID EMPLOYEES AND
OFlCIALS OF THE TEACHERS UNIONS AND THEIR ALLIES REGULARLY PLACE THEM
SELVES IN HARMS WAY BY ATTENDING MEETINGS OF h&AR 2IGHTv GROUPS SUCH
AS WELL JUST ABOUT ANY #HRISTIAN ORGANIZATION THAT IS MORE CONSERVA
TIVE THAN THE 7ORLD #OUNCIL OF #HURCHES )N CASE YOU ATTEND SUCH AN
EVENT IN THE FUTURE YOULL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE UNION OPERATIVES BY
LOOKING FOR MEN AND WOMEN WEARING FALSE NOSES AND GLUED ON MUS
TACHES THE WOMEN ARE ESPECIALLY CONSPICUOUS "UT OF COURSE DIRECT
SURVEILLANCE IS NEVER ENOUGH 4O BE SURE THEY DONT MISS ANYTHING
THEY ALSO GET MATERIALS FROM #HRISTIAN BOOKSTORES RADIO STATIONS AND
NEWSPAPERS )N ANY EVENT LIKE +OKO THE ,ORD (IGH %XECUTIONER
IN 'ILBERT AND 3ULLIVANS -IKADO TEACHERS UNIONS HAVE COMPILED hA
LITTLE LISTv OF PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO IN THEIR ESTIMATION NEVER
WILL BE MISSED )F YOU ARE A #HRISTIAN OR EVEN IF YOU ARE JUST SKEPTICAL
OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT YOU MIGHT BE ON IT
4HIS BRINGS US BACK TO THE FUTILITY OF SCHOOL REFORM EFFORTS !LL
TOO OFTEN EVEN A SUCCESSFUL REFORM SKIRMISH IS LIKE STICKING A lNGER
IN A BUCKET OF WATER !S LONG AS THE lNGER IS THERE IT DISPLACES SOME
WATER ALTHOUGH NOT VERY MUCH !S SOON AS THE lNGER IS REMOVED THE
DISPLACEMENT VANISHES WITHOUT A TRACE #HARLOTTE )SERBYT DESCRIBES JUST
THIS EXPERIENCE WHEN WRITING ABOUT HER TENURE AS A DISSIDENT SCHOOL
BOARD MEMBER
3CHOOL 2EFORM ! 0OPULAR $ELUSION
7HATEVER GOOD ) ACCOMPLISHED WHILE ON THE SCHOOL BOARD n x
GETTING VALUES CLARIlCATION BANNED BY THE BOARD AND DEMAND
ING lVE YES MINUTES OF GRAMMAR PER DAY ETC n WAS TOSSED
OUT TWO WEEKS AFTER ) LEFT OFlCE
!RE YOU REALLY SURPRISED
!TTEMPTING TO REFORM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS NOT UNLIKE THE AT
TEMPTS TO REFORM 3OVIET AGRICULTURE IN THE LATE NOT MUCH LAMENTED
5332 'OVERNMENT SCHOOL REFORM IS NOT ONLY BLOCKED BY POWER
FUL FORMS OF REFORM
RESISTANT CORRUPTION BUT THE VERY NATURE OF THE
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM PRECLUDES TRANSFORMING IT INTO A MEANS OF
PROVIDING AN EDUCATION APPROPRIATE TO #HRISTIAN CHILDREN JUST AS THE
VERY NATURE OF 3OVIET AGRICULTURE PRECLUDED THE POSSIBILITY OF MAKING
FARMERS IN 3OVIET COLLECTIVES AS EFlCIENT AS !MERICAN FARMERS &OR THOSE
#HRISTIANS WHO REMAIN DEDICATED TO IMPROVING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THE
ONLY EFFECTIVE STRATEGY IS TO TAKE OUR CHILDREN OUT /NLY CRISIS WILL BEGET
CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS "UT PLEASE DONT MISUNDERSTAND ME
.O MATTER HOW THEY MIGHT BE REFORMED GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CANNOT
PROVIDE THE #HRISTIAN EDUCATION THAT #HRISTIAN PARENTS ARE OBLIGATED
TO GIVE THEIR CHILDREN -OREOVER AS IS DISCUSSED IN THE NEXT CHAPTER IT
WOULD BE SIN FOR #HRISTIANS EVEN TO ATTEMPT TO TRANSFORM THE GOVERN
MENT SCHOOL SYSTEM INTO A SYSTEM OF #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS
9OUR #HILDS %DUCATION
9OU /NLY (AVE /NE #HANCE TO 'ET )T 2IGHT
) HAVE OFTEN BEEN AMAZED BY THE EXTRAORDINARY EFFORT THAT SOME
#HRISTIAN PARENTS INVEST IN lGHTING A FUTILE GUERILLA WAR FOR hSCHOOL
REFORMv WHILE THEIR CHILDREN LANGUISH IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS !S PARENTS
WE ONLY GET ONE OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN IN THE NURTURE AND
THE ADMONITION OF THE ,ORD 4HERE ARE NO SECOND CHANCES #ONSIDER
HOW MANY MORE #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS COULD BE STARTED OR STRENGTHENED
AND HOW MANY MORE #HRISTIAN CHILDREN COULD BE HOMESCHOOLED IF
#HRISTIANS WOULD GIVE UP THE DELUSION OF hSCHOOL REFORMv AND PUT
THE SAME ENERGY INTO CREATING MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GIVING CHILDREN
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION )F YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP THE CHILDREN LEFT
BEHIND IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THE MOST EFFECTIVE THING YOU CAN DO IS
TAKE YOUR CHILD OUT AND URGE AS MANY OTHER PARENTS AS YOU CAN TO DO
THE SAME THING 'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS WONT REFORM THEMSELVES OR ALLOW
OTHERS TO REFORM THEM IN ANY MEANINGFUL WAY 4HEY WILL ONLY CHANGE
IF THEY ARE FACED WITH BEING PUBLICLY DELEGITIMIZED AND DEFUNDED BY A
MASS EXODUS OF CHILDREN
# ( ! 0 4 % 2 3 ) 8
'O V E RN M E N T 3C H O O LS
THE 7A GE S O F # HRIS T I AN 3 I N
h! GENERAL 3TATE EDUCATION IS A MERE CONTRIVANCE
FOR MOLDING PEOPLE TO BE EXACTLY LIKE ONE ANOTHERx
IN PROPORTION AS IT IS EFlCIENT AND SUCCESSFUL
IT ESTABLISHES A DESPOTISM OVER THE MINDv
*OHN 3TUART -ILL h/N ,IBERTYv
N h! .ATION AT 2ISK v THE .ATIONAL #OMMISSION ON %XCELLENCE IN
) %DUCATION REPORTED IN ON THE CONDITION OF !MERICAN EDUCA
TION !MONG THEIR lNDINGS THE AUTHORS OBSERVED
)F AN UNFRIENDLY FOREIGN POWER HAD ATTEMPTED TO IMPOSE ON
!MERICA THE MEDIOCRE EDUCATIONAL PERFORMANCE THAT EXISTS TO
DAY WE MIGHT WELL HAVE VIEWED IT AS AN ACT OF WAR
4HE #OMMISSION WAS OF COURSE TALKING ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL
PERFORMANCE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS .OT UNEXPECTEDLY THE #OM
MISSIONS REPORT RESULTED IN LOUD CALLS FOR REFORM -ANY HUNDREDS OF
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF hREFORMv LATER HOWEVER IT IS CLEAR THAT THE EDUCA
TION INDUSTRY HAS SUCCESSFULLY RESISTED ANY MEANINGFUL RESTRUCTURING
OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WHICH CONTINUE TO FUNCTION AS DISORDERLY AND
SOMETIMES DANGEROUS FACTORIES OF IGNORANCE AND BAD CHARACTER
"Y NOW YOU MAY BE WONDERING HOW THIS UTTERLY DYSFUNCTIONAL
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING WAS FOISTED UPON !MERICA IN THE lRST
PLACE 7AS IT FORCED ON #HRISTIANS BY ANTI #HRISTIAN ZEALOTS .OT QUITE
)N FACT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THAT TODAY ARE DESTROYING THE FAITH
MORALS AND INTELLECT OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN ONLY CAME INTO EXISTENCE
BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF 0ROTESTANTS COLLABORATED WITH 5NITARIANS AND
SECULARISTS IN THE TH CENTURY IN THE h#OMMON 3CHOOLv MOVEMENT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
)N A SENSE IT WOULD BE FAIR TO SAY THAT WE #HRISTIANS AT LEAST THE
0ROTESTANTS AMONG US DID THIS TO OURSELVES 4O UNDERSTAND WHY THIS
IS SO LETS TAKE A BRIEF LOOK AT !MERICAS EARLY EDUCATIONAL TRADITIONS
AND THEIR SOURCES 4HEN WE WILL TURN TO HOW !MERICAS ORIGINAL EDU
CATIONAL TRADITIONS DEGENERATED INTO OUR CURRENT GOVERNMENT SCHOOL
HYPER
MONOPOLY &INALLY WE WILL CONSIDER WHY ON A DEEPER MORE
PRINCIPLED LEVEL #HRISTIANS MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO REFORM GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS SO THAT THEY WOULD PROVIDE AN EDUCATION APPROPRIATE FOR
#HRISTIAN CHILDREN
%DUCATION IN %ARLY !MERICA
'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND COMPULSORY SCHOOLING HAVE NOT ALWAYS
BEEN THE NORM IN !MERICA &ROM THE FOUNDING OF THE lRST COLONIES
UNTIL WELL INTO THE TH CENTURY YOUNG CHILDREN IN !MERICA WERE OFTEN
TAUGHT AT HOME BY PARENTS OR TUTORS AND FORMAL SCHOOLING CONSTITUTED
A FAR SMALLER PART OF A CHILDS EDUCATION THAN IT DOES TODAY )N MANY
INSTANCES SCHOOLS WOULD NOT ACCEPT STUDENTS WHO DID NOT ALREADY
KNOW HOW TO READ "UT AS ALREADY MENTIONED THERE WAS NO LACK OF
LITERACY IN EARLY !MERICA EVEN THOUGH SCHOOL ATTENDANCE WAS SPORADIC
BY CONTEMPORARY STANDARDS
3UCH SCHOOLS AS EXISTED BEFORE THE DEVELOPMENT OF TODAYS GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM DID NOT ALWAYS lT INTO TODAYS FAMILIAR NEAT
CATEGORIES OF hPUBLICv AND hPRIVATEv &INANCIAL SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS
DURING THAT PERIOD CAME PRIMARILY FROM PARENTS WITH PHILANTHROPIC
AND TAX SUPPORT ALSO SOMETIMES PLAYING A ROLE 3UCH TAX SUPPORT AS
WAS PROVIDED WAS SOMETIMES IN THE FORM OF A hRATE BILL v WHICH ASSESSED
PARENTS A FEE FOR THE CHILDREN THEY HAD IN THE COMMUNITYS SCHOOL )N
EFFECT THE hRATE BILLv COULD BE VIEWED AS SIMPLY A MECHANISM FOR COL
LECTING TUITION FROM PARENTS &URTHER COMPLICATING OUR UNDERSTANDING
OF !MERICAS EARLY SCHOOLS AND THEIR lNANCING ARRANGEMENTS IS THE FACT
THAT SOME OF THE COLONIES AND STATES n -ASSACHUSETTS AND #ONNECTI
CUT FOR EXAMPLE n WERE FOR GENERATIONS THEOCRACIES IN SOME MEASURE
)N FACT THE #ONGREGATIONAL #HURCH DID NOT BECOME DISESTABLISHED IN
-ASSACHUSETTS AND #ONNECTICUT UNTIL AND RESPECTIVELY
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
"Y TODAYS STANDARDS HOWEVER MOST SCHOOLS IN EARLY !MERICA
WOULD BE CONSIDERED PRIVATE #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS EVEN THOUGH SOME OF
THEM WERE lNANCIALLY HETEROGENEOUS AFFAIRS )N FACT IN !LEXIS
DE 4OCQUEVILLE OBSERVED THAT ALMOST ALL EDUCATION IN !MERICA WAS
ENTRUSTED TO 0ROTESTANT CLERGY
"Y THE SECOND AND THIRD DECADES OF THE TH CENTURY SCHOOL
BASED EDUCATION WAS AVAILABLE TO VIRTUALLY EVERYONE INCLUDING THE
POOR &OR EXAMPLE IN .OVEMBER THE "OSTON 3CHOOL #OMMITTEE
ANNOUNCED THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY IT HAD COMMISSIONED TO DETERMINE
THE EXTENT OF SCHOOL ATTENDANCE BY CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF
AND 4HE SURVEY SHOWED THAT OF "OSTONS CHILDREN WERE AT
TENDING SCHOOL !CCORDING TO THE SURVEY WHICH CAME TO BE KNOWN AS
THE h"ULLlNCH 2EPORT v ALMOST TWO THIRDS OF THESE STUDENTS ATTENDED
PRIVATELY SUPPORTED SCHOOLS 4HE CHILDREN NOT ATTENDING SCHOOL WERE
LARGELY AGES AND UNDER AND CHARITY SCHOOLS WERE AVAILABLE IF THEIR
PARENTS WANTED TO SEND THEM TO SCHOOL BUT LACKED THE lNANCIAL ABIL
ITY TO DO SO -ORE GENERALLY IN AN ADDRESS TO THE !MERICAN
0HILOSOPHICAL 3OCIETY A WELL KNOWN AUTHOR AND *EFFERSONIAN POLITICAL
LEADER #HARLES * )NGERSOLL OBSERVED THAT h.EARLY THE WHOLE MINOR
POPULATION OF THE 5NITED 3TATES ARE RECEIVING SCHOOL EDUCATIONv
%VEN THOUGH SCHOOLING WAS WIDELY AVAILABLE IN !MERICA AT
THE TIME OF )NGERSOLLS ADDRESS PRIVATE SCHOOLS STILL EDUCATED MANY
MORE CHILDREN THAN SCHOOLS THAT IN ANY CONTEMPORARY SENSE COULD
BE CONSIDERED hPUBLICv #OMMON SCHOOLS THE PROTOTYPE FOR WHAT
WE WOULD CONSIDER PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE NOWHERE MORE WIDESPREAD
THAN IN -ASSACHUSETTS n AND IN -ASSACHUSETTS COMMON SCHOOLS WERE
MOST FREQUENTLY FOUND IN THE "OSTON AREA 9ET AS THE "ULLlNCH 2E
PORT SHOWED FULLY PRIVATE SCHOOLS WERE DOMINANT EVEN IN "OSTON
-OREOVER EDUCATION HISTORIAN 3AMUEL "LUMENFELD POINTS OUT THAT IN
THE THIRD DECADE OF THE TH CENTURY hTHE TREND OUTSIDE OF "OSTON WAS
AWAY FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOL ON THE SECONDARY LEVEL TO THE PRIVATE
ACADEMYv 7HY !S "LUMENFELD EXPLAINS
4HE FREE MARKET IN EDUCATION WAS CLEARLY PHASING OUT THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS BECAUSE THE LATTER WERE NOT SUPPLYING THE SERVICES THAT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
MORE AND MORE PARENTS WANTED 4HE PRIVATE SCHOOLS WERE MORE
EFlCIENTLY ORGANIZED PROVIDED BETTER INSTRUCTION PUPIL SUPER
VISION AND SOCIAL ATMOSPHERE 4HEY WERE LESS CROWDED AND OF
FERED A MORE PRACTICAL CURRICULUM
!DVOCATES OF THE COMMON SCHOOLS VIEWED THIS TREND WITH ALARM
AND OVER TIME SUCCEEDED IN MAKING IT INCREASINGLY BURDENSOME TO
ESCAPE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS .EVERTHELESS AS (ENRY 3TEELE #OMMAGER
A WELL
KNOWN HISTORIAN HAS OBSERVED AS LATE AS TWO
THIRDS OF THE
STUDENTS IN !MERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS WERE ATTENDING PRIVATE SCHOOLS
0ARTLY BECAUSE OF IGNORANCE OF !MERICAN HISTORY AND PARTLY BE
CAUSE OF PROPAGANDIZING BY THE PARTISANS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS MOST
PEOPLE TODAY BELIEVE THAT IF !MERICA HAD NO SYSTEM OF COMPULSORY EDU
CATION DOMINATED BY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THERE WOULD BE WIDESPREAD
ILLITERACY 4HIS IS FAR FROM THE TRUTH !S ALREADY NOTED WELL BEFORE WE
HAD ANYTHING LIKE OUR CURRENT SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS !MERICA
WAS PERHAPS THE MOST LITERATE SOCIETY IN THE WORLD )NDEED THE PRESENT
SYSTEM OF SCHOOLING THAT WE ARE APT TO ASSUME IS THE NATURAL ORDER
OF THINGS IS AN EXPERIMENT THAT DID NOT FULLY TRIUMPH OVER !MERICAS
ORIGINAL EDUCATIONAL TRADITIONS UNTIL WHEN -ISSISSIPPI BECAME
THE FORTY
EIGHTH STATE TO ADOPT A COMPULSORY EDUCATION LAW
9ET IF RAMPANT ILLITERACY DID NOT GIVE RISE TO OUR SYSTEM OF GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS AND COMPULSORY EDUCATION HOW DID IT COME ABOUT
4HE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS BOUND UP WITH THE EARLY RELIGIOUS HIS
TORY OF !MERICA
4HE 2EFORMATION AND THE !MERICAN %DUCATIONAL )MPERATIVE
4HE 7ESTERN IDEAL OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION IS A LEGACY OF THE 2EF
ORMATION 7HILE ALL 0ROTESTANTS KNOW THAT THE 2EFORMATION WAS BORN
OF ,UTHERS REDISCOVERY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF JUSTIlCATION BY FAITH ALONE
FEWER UNDERSTAND HOW THE 2EFORMATION MADE A HIGH LEVEL OF LITERACY
A RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION FOR 0ROTESTANTS
!T THE TIME THAT ,UTHER NAILED HIS 4HESES TO THE CHURCH DOOR
IN 7ITTENBERG THE #ATHOLIC #HURCH HAD A HIERARCHICAL BUREAUCRATIC
STRUCTURE MODELED ON THE (OLY 2OMAN %MPIRE AND IT VIEWED ITSELF
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
AS THE PRIESTLY MEDIATOR BETWEEN 'OD AND -AN -OREOVER FROM THE
-IDDLE !GES UNTIL THE 2EFORMATION THE "IBLE WAS VIRTUALLY TREATED AS
THE PROPERTY OF THE 2OMAN #ATHOLIC #HURCH )N 0OPE 'REGORY
6)) PROHIBITED TRANSLATION OF THE "IBLE INTO THE VERNACULAR LANGUAGES
OF THE #HRISTIAN LAITY )N THE TH CENTURY THE #ATHOLIC #HURCH OF
lCIALLY SPOKE AGAINST THE LAITY MEMORIZING PREACHING OR POSSESSING
THE "IBLE !S A RESULT OF CONCERN OVER THE SPREAD OF 7YCLIFFES
TRANSLATION OF THE "IBLE INTO %NGLISH THE #ATHOLIC #HURCH DECLARED
IN THAT ANYONE FOUND READING THE "IBLE IN %NGLISH WOULD FORFEIT
HIS PROPERTY AND HIS LIFE
!LTHOUGH THE #ATHOLIC #HURCH HAD OFTEN PROVIDED AN EXCEP
TIONAL EDUCATION TO ITS ELITE AND HAD DONE MUCH TO PRESERVE THE LEARN
ING OF ANTIQUITY FOLLOWING THE FALL OF THE 2OMAN %MPIRE PRIOR TO
THE 2EFORMATION NO RELIGIOUS IMPORTANCE WAS ATTRIBUTED TO HAVING A
LITERATE #HRISTIAN LAITY ,AYMEN RECEIVED THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE "IBLE
FROM THE 2OMAN #HURCH THROUGH ITS PRIESTS AND IT WAS THROUGH THIS
MONOPOLIZATION OF THE "IBLE THAT THE 2OMAN #HURCH BUREAUCRACY
REGULATED THE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF #HRISTIANS )F ANYTHING LITERACY
AMONG THE LAITY WAS SEEN AS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS BECAUSE IT COULD
LEAD TO QUESTIONING OF THE AUTHORITY OF 2OME PARTICULARLY IF THAT LIT
ERACY PERMITTED THEM TO READ THE "IBLE
4HE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE 0ROTESTANT ATTITUDE TOWARD EDUCA
TION IS TO RECOGNIZE HOW THE 2EFORMATION CHANGED THE 0ROTESTANTS
UNDERSTANDING OF HIS RELATIONSHIP TO 'OD )N ADDITION TO RECOVERING
THE "IBLICAL DOCTRINE THAT WE ARE JUSTIlED BY FAITH ALONE THE 2EFORMA
TION ALSO SWEPT AWAY THE UNBIBLICAL BELIEF THAT A CHURCH BUREAUCRACY
OR PRIESTLY CLASS IS REQUIRED AS AN INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN -AN AND 'OD
)NSTEAD 0ROTESTANTS ASSERTED THE PRIESTHOOD OF ALL BELIEVERS AND UN
DERSTOOD THAT -ANS RELATIONSHIP TO 'OD IS DIRECT AND PERSONAL "UT IF
-ANS RELATIONSHIP TO 'OD WAS PERSONAL SO TOO WERE THE SNARES LAID
FOR HIM BY 3ATAN 4HE "IBLE THEN WAS BOTH THE #HRISTIANS KEY TO
UNDERSTANDING 'ODS PLAN OF SALVATION AND HIS BULWARK AGAINST EVIL
9ET WHAT USE WAS A "IBLE TO A #HRISTIAN WHO COULD NOT READ
4HUS IN CONTRAST TO THE #ATHOLIC #HURCH AT THAT TIME 2EFOR
MATION 0ROTESTANTISM DEMANDED AN EDUCATED PEOPLE BECAUSE THEIR
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
SALVATION DEPENDED UPON IT ,UTHER AND HIS FOLLOWERS FOR EXAMPLE
STRONGLY ADVOCATED EDUCATION FOR ALL SOCIAL CLASSES AND FOR BOTH BOYS
AND GIRLS 0ROTESTANTS IN THE 2EFORMED TRADITION OFTEN CALLED h#ALVIN
ISTS v WERE EVEN MORE COMMITTED TO POPULAR EDUCATION /NE HISTORIAN
OF #ALVINISM PUTS THE POINT BLUNTLY
7HEREVER #ALVINISM HAS GONE IT HAS CARRIED THE SCHOOL WITH IT
AND HAS GIVEN A POWERFUL IMPULSE TO POPULAR EDUCATIONx )N
FACT WE MAY SAY ITS VERY EXISTENCE IS TIED UP WITH THE EDUCA
TION OF THE PEOPLE -ENTAL TRAINING IS REQUIRED TO MASTER THE
;THEOLOGICAL= SYSTEM AND TO TRACE OUT ALL IT INVOLVES )T MAKES
THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE APPEAL TO THE HUMAN REASON AND INSISTS
THAT MAN MUST LOVE 'OD NOT ONLY WITH HIS WHOLE HEART BUT
ALSO WITH HIS WHOLE MINDx 4HIS #ALVINISTIC LOVE FOR LEARNING
PUTTING MIND ABOVE MONEY HAS INSPIRED COUNTLESS MEMBERS OF
#ALVINISTIC FAMILIES IN 3COTLAND IN %NGLAND IN (OLLAND AND IN
!MERICA TO PINCH THEMSELVES TO THE BONE IN ORDER TO EDUCATE
THEIR CHILDREN
4HIS 0ROTESTANT PERSPECTIVE ON EDUCATION WAS PRESENT IN !MERICA
FROM THE EARLIEST COLONIAL TIMES BECAUSE UNTIL AT LEAST THE TH CENTURY
THE PREPONDERANCE OF SETTLERS IN !MERICA ADHERED TO SOME VERSION OF
2EFORMED THEOLOGY
&ROM THEIR lRST ARRIVAL THE 0URITANS FOR EXAMPLE SOUGHT TO
MAINTAIN THE #ALVINIST STANDARDS OF LITERACY THEY HAD BROUGHT WITH
THEM FROM THE /LD 7ORLD !S THE -ASSACHUSETTS "AY #OLONY BECAME
MORE lRMLY ESTABLISHED AND SETTLEMENTS BECAME MORE NUMEROUS THE
0URITANS 'ENERAL #OURT ENACTED A LAW IN REQUIRING THAT FAMI
LIES AND MASTERS TEACH CHILDREN AND APPRENTICES HOW TO READ %NGLISH
hPERFECTLY v PROVIDE THEM WITH KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAPITAL LAWS OF THE
COLONY AND INSTRUCT THEM IN ORTHODOX CATECHISMS &IVE YEARS LATER
THE 'ENERAL #OURT ENACTED THE lRST SCHOOL CODE IN THE !MERICAN COLO
NIES KNOWN AS THE h/LD $ELUDER 3ATANv LAW 4HE PREAMBLE OF THIS
EARLY LEGISLATION CLEARLY REmECTS THE 2EFORMATION VIEW THAT #HRISTIANITY
AND EDUCATION ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
)T BEING ONE CHIEF POINT OF THAT OLD DELUDER 3ATAN TO KEEP MEN
FROM THE KNOWLEDGE OF 3CRIPTURES AS IN FORMER TIMES BY KEEP
ING THEM IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE SO THAT IN THESE LATTER TIMES
BY PERSUADING THEM FROM THE USE OF TONGUES THAT SO AT LEAST
THE TRUE SENSE AND MEANING OF THE ORIGINAL MIGHT BE CLOUDED
WITH FALSE GLOSSES OF SAINT SEEMING DECEIVERS THAT LEARNING NOT
BE BURIED IN THE GRAVE OF OUR FATHERS IN CHURCH AND COMMON
WEALTH THE ,ORD ASSISTING OUR ENDEAVORS n IT IS THEREFORE OR
DEREDx
4HIS STATUTE REQUIRED EVERY TOWNSHIP WITH lFTY OR MORE FAMILIES
TO APPOINT SOMEONE TO TEACH SUCH CHILDREN INCLUDING APPRENTICES
TO READ AND WRITE AS WERE SENT FOR AN EDUCATION 4HE TEACHER WAS TO
BE PAID BY THE PARENTS AND MASTERS OF APPRENTICES OF THE CHILDREN
IN ATTENDANCE OR BY THE INHABITANTS IN GENERAL 4HE LAW ALSO REQUIRED
THAT IF A TOWN HAD ONE HUNDRED OR MORE FAMILIES IT HAD TO ESTABLISH
A GRAMMAR SCHOOL
"Y THE TIME OF THE 7AR FOR )NDEPENDENCE !MERICA HAD ROUGHLY
THREE MILLION FREE INHABITANTS /F THOSE IT IS ESTIMATED THAT
WERE 0RESBYTERIANS WERE #ONGREGATIONALISTS THE SPIRITUAL
DESCENDANTS OF THE 0URITANS AND WERE 'ERMAN OR $UTCH
2EFORMED !LL OF THESE DENOMINATIONS SHARED A FORM OF 2EFORMED
THEOLOGY )N ADDITION THE %PISCOPALIANS WHO WERE THE !MERICAN
BRANCH OF THE !NGLICAN #HURCH ALSO HAD A #ALVINISTIC CONFESSION AND
MANY (UGUENOTS HAD mED PERSECUTION IN &RANCE TO SETTLE IN !MERICA
4HUS THE HIGH LEVELS OF LITERACY IN EARLY !MERICA WERE AN EXPRESSION OF
!MERICAN 0ROTESTANT RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS .OT 3URPRISINGLY OF COURSE
THE INmUENCE OF EARLY !MERICAS VARIOUS COMMUNITIES OF 2EFORMED
0ROTESTANTS WENT WELL BEYOND EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES THE 2EFORMED
WERE CENTRAL TO THE SHAPING OF !MERICAN CHARACTER !S 0ROFESSOR 0AGE
3MITH A WELL
KNOWN HISTORIAN OBSERVED h/F ALL THOSE FORCES n PHYSI
CAL OR MENTAL n THAT GAVE SHAPE TO THE !MERICAN CONSCIOUSNESS THAT
CREATED SO FAR AS THERE WAS ONE A NEW MAN THE REFORMED FAITH OF
0ROTESTANT #HRISTIANITY WAS PRE
EMINENTv
!PART FROM EFFORTS BY !MERICANS THEMSELVES TO PROMOTE LITERACY
THE !NGLICAN #HURCH SENT MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED MISSIONARIES
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
TO !MERICA THROUGH AN ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS THE h3OCIETY FOR THE
0ROPAGATION OF THE 'OSPEL IN &OREIGN 0ARTSv 4HESE MISSIONARIES EF
FORTS FOCUSED HEAVILY ON TEACHING READING AND WRITING TO CHILDREN
ESPECIALLY THOSE OF SLAVES AND )NDIANS
4HE !MERICAN EMPHASIS ON LITERACY WAS FURTHER REINFORCED BY THE
INmUENCE OF THE MINISTRY OF 'EORGE 7HITElELD IN !MERICA 4HROUGH
HIS MANY VOYAGES TO !MERICA 7HITElELD CONTRIBUTED SIGNIlCANTLY TO
CREATING AND SUSTAINING THE REVIVAL KNOWN AS THE h'REAT !WAKENINGv
)N ADDITION TO HIS ROLE IN THE 'REAT !WAKENING 7HITElELDS WORK WAS
AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF -ETHODISM IN THE !MERICAN
COLONIES ,IKE EARLIER FORMS OF !MERICAN 0ROTESTANTISM THE -ETHODISTS
EMPHASIZED EDUCATION AND WORKED EFFECTIVELY THROUGH THEIR -ETHODIST
3OCIETIES TO PROVIDE EDUCATION TO BOTH CHILDREN AND ADULTS
"Y THE S "APTIST CHURCHES WHOSE MEMBERSHIP HAD BEGUN
TO GROW RAPIDLY AS A RESULT OF THE DISESTABLISHMENT OF THE !NGLICAN
AND OTHER CHURCHES IN MANY !MERICAN STATES FOLLOWED THE EXAMPLE OF
THE -ETHODISTS BY URGING THEIR MEMBERS NOT TO NEGLECT THEIR DUTY TO
EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN
'IVEN THIS CULTURAL MILIEU IT IS HARDLY SURPRISING THAT LITERACY
WAS WIDESPREAD IN EARLY !MERICA "UT AGAIN THIS BRINGS US BACK TO
OUR EARLIER QUESTION h(OW WAS A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND
COMPULSORY SCHOOLING FOISTED UPON AN !MERICA THAT ALREADY HAD ALL
THE EDUCATION THAT FREE !MERICANS OF THAT ERA COULD NEED v
4HE 2ISE OF THE 0UBLIC 3CHOOL )DEOLOGY
)N THE VERY BEGINNING THE PROJECT OF PROMOTING THE SYSTEM OF
#OMMON 3CHOOLS WAS PURSUED LARGELY BY -ASSACHUSETTS 5NITARIANS
AND A GROUP OF UTOPIAN SOCIALISTS KNOWN AS h/WENITESv )N TIME HOW
EVER AS THE SCHOOL HISTORIAN ,LOYD 0 *ORGENSON NOTES THE #OMMON
3CHOOL MOVEMENT BECAME ONE OF A NUMBER OF INTERRELATED 0ROTESTANT
LED SOCIAL REFORM EFFORTS
,EADERS OF THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVEMENT ALSO SERVED AS LEAD
ERS IN OTHER HUMANITARIAN CAUSES OF THE DAYx4HE #OMMON
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
3CHOOL MOVEMENT WAS THEREFORE BY NO MEANS AN ISOLATED PHE
NOMENON NOR IS IT TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS A MERELY POLITICAL OR
CIVIL MOVEMENTx4HE SCHOOL MOVEMENT WAS ONE PART n ALBEIT
AN IMPORTANT PART n OF A FAR REACHING AND INTERTWINED COM
PLEX OF COOPERATIVE REFORM EFFORTS ALL OF THEM SUFFUSED WITH THE
SPIRIT OF EVANGELICAL 0ROTESTANTISMx4HE ENSUING SPIRITUALIZA
TION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLSx WAS TO HAVE PROFOUND SIGNIlCANCE
FOR !MERICAN EDUCATION
.EVERTHELESS EVEN THOUGH ORTHODOX 0ROTESTANTS PLAYED A DECISIVE
ROLE IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVEMENT THE
REAL ROOTS OF THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVEMENT ARE TO BE FOUND WITHIN
5NITARIANISM AND /WENITE SOCIALISM
4HE /WENITES
4HE h/WENITESv WERE FOLLOWERS OF 2OBERT /WEN A 7ELSHMAN WHO
IS MAINLY REMEMBERED AS THE FATHER OF MODERN SOCIALISM /WEN WAS A
SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRIALIST WHO WAS CONVINCED THAT AN INDIVIDUALS CHARACTER
WAS ENTIRELY THE PRODUCT OF THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE LIVED -OREOVER
/WEN ALSO BELIEVED THAT HUMAN EVIL RESULTED FROM THE COMPETITIVE AND
ALLEGEDLY IRRATIONAL SOCIAL ORDER CREATED BY CAPITALISM AND RELIGION
4HE REMEDY FOR THE SOCIAL ILLS CAUSED BY CAPITALISM AND RELIGION
ACCORDING TO /WEN WAS EDUCATION 4HE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM HE ENVI
SIONED INCLUDED A UNIFORM SECULAR STATE
SPONSORED SYSTEM OF SCHOOLS
THAT ALL WOULD ATTEND 4HESE SCHOOLS WERE ALSO TO BE AUGMENTED BY A
SYSTEM OF TRAINING COLLEGES FOR TEACHERS 'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS WOULD IN
ESSENCE RAISE CHILDREN FROM INFANCY )N FACT THE /WENITES ADVOCATED
SEPARATING CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS AS EARLY AS AGE TWO BY PLACING
THEM IN BOARDING SCHOOLS 4HE EDUCATION TO BE PROVIDED IN THESE
SCHOOLS WAS TO FOCUS PRIMARILY ON FORMING A WELL
ADJUSTED OBEDIENT
CHARACTER INSTEAD OF TEACHING LITERACY AND INTELLECTUAL SKILLS %DUCA
TION AS /WEN SAW IT SHOULD IN LARGE PART FORM CHARACTER TO ADVANCE
THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE AND HE EVEN BOASTED THAT HE HAD INSPIRED THE
0RUSSIANS TO CREATE THEIR NEW NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN
/WENS VIEWS ON EDUCATION GREW OUT OF THE EDUCATIONAL EX
PERIMENTS HE UNDERTOOK AS MANAGER AND PART OWNER OF A MILL IN .EW
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
,ANARK 3COTLAND )N AND /WEN PUBLISHED HIS VIEWS ON
SOCIETY ECONOMICS AND EDUCATION IN THREE VOLUMES TITLED ! .EW 6IEW
OF 3OCIETY OR %SSAYS ON THE &ORMATION OF THE (UMAN #HARACTER )N THE
lRST OF HIS ESSAYS /WEN STATED CLEARLY HIS BELIEF THAT HUMAN CHARACTER
CAN BE MOLDED INTO ANY FORM BY THE hAPPLICATION OF PROPER MEANSv
!NY GENERAL CHARACTER FROM THE BEST TO THE WORST FROM THE
MOST IGNORANT TO THE MOST ENLIGHTENED MAY BE GIVEN TO ANY
COMMUNITY EVEN TO THE WORLD AT LARGE BY THE APPLICATION OF
PROPER MEANS WHICH MEANS ARE TO A GREAT EXTENT AT THE COM
MAND AND UNDER THE CONTROL OF THOSE WHO HAVE INmUENCE IN THE
AFFAIRS OF MEN
4HE hPROPER MEANSv REFERRED TO BY /WEN WERE OF COURSE PRI
MARILY EDUCATIONAL
/WENS VIEWS ON EDUCATION INmUENCED !MERICAS MOVE TOWARD A
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING THROUGH TWO CHANNELS OF INmUENCE
4HE lRST CHANNEL WAS THE "OSTON 5NITARIANS AND OTHERS IN !MERICA
WHO READ /WENS WRITINGS ON EDUCATION SHORTLY AFTER THEIR PUBLICA
TION )N FACT IN *OHN 1UINCY !DAMS WHO WAS THEN !MBASSADOR
TO "RITAIN PERSONALLY ASKED /WEN FOR ENOUGH COPIES OF HIS WRITINGS
ON EDUCATION TO DISTRIBUTE TO EVERY GOVERNOR IN !MERICA 7HILE
THE 5NITARIANS WERE COOL TO /WENS SOCIALISM THEY WERE RECEPTIVE TO
HIS BELIEF THAT SOCIETY COULD BE MADE RATIONAL AND VIRTUOUS THROUGH A
NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATION BECAUSE THEY TOO BELIEVED THAT -AN IS
INNATELY GOOD AND PERFECTIBLE
4HE SECOND CHANNEL OF INmUENCE THROUGH WHICH /WENS IDEAS
MOVED IN !MERICA GREW OUT OF /WENS ATTEMPT IN TO CREATE A UTO
PIAN SOCIALIST COMMUNITY IN .EW (ARMONY )NDIANA WHICH INVOLVED
CLOSE TO 3COTTISH AND !MERICAN ENTHUSIASTS 5NFORTUNATELY FOR
/WEN THE .EW (ARMONY EXPERIMENT FAILED SOON AFTER IT WAS BEGUN
&ROM THIS FAILURE /WEN CONCLUDED THAT A SOCIALIST SOCIETY WOULD ONLY
BE SUCCESSFUL IF THE INHABITANTS HAD lRST BEEN PROPERLY EDUCATED TO LIVE
IN SUCH A SOCIETY
!LTHOUGH /WEN RETURNED TO %NGLAND IN HIS SON 2OBERT
$ALE /WEN AND MANY OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE .EW (ARMONY EX
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
PERIMENT REMAINED IN !MERICA AND DEVOTED THEIR ENERGIES TO CREATING
IN !MERICA A SYSTEM OF EDUCATION THAT THEY HOPED WOULD EVENTUALLY
LEAD TO SUCCESSFUL SOCIALISM 4O THIS END THE /WENITES ENGAGED NEWS
PAPER PUBLISHING AND POLITICAL AND LABOR ORGANIZING 2OBERT $ALE
/WEN BECAME AN !MERICAN CITIZEN AND PROMOTED /WENITE IDEAS IN
VARIOUS CAPACITIES INCLUDING AS A MEMBER OF THE )NDIANA LEGISLATURE
AND THE 5NITED 3TATES #ONGRESS
3OME OF THE /WENITES WERE ALSO 5NITARIANS /NE OF THE MORE
PROMINENT AMONG THESE WAS /RESTES "ROWNSON A 5NITARIAN CLERGY
MAN IN THE "OSTON AREA !S PUBLISHER OF THE "OSTON 1UARTERLY 2EVIEW
"ROWNSON WAS ALSO IN CONTACT WITH MANY 5NITARIAN INTELLECTUALS )N AN
AUTOBIOGRAPHY WRITTEN AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO #ATHOLICISM "ROWNSON
RECALLED HIS FORMER ACTIVITIES AS AN /WENITE AND HOW THE ORGANIZATION
HAD BECOME A SECRET SOCIETY IN TO PURSUE THE /WENITE CAMPAIGN
FOR A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
4HE GREAT OBJECT WAS TO GET RID OF #HRISTIANITY AND TO CONVERT
OUR CHURCHES INTO HALLS OF SCIENCE 4HE PLAN WAS NOT TO MAKE
OPEN ATTACKS ON RELIGION ALTHOUGH WE MIGHT BELABOR THE CLERGY
AND BRING THEM INTO CONTEMPT WHERE WE COULD BUT TO ESTABLISH
A SYSTEM OF STATE n WE SAID NATIONAL n SCHOOLS FROM WHICH
ALL RELIGION WAS TO BE EXCLUDED IN WHICH NOTHING WAS TO BE
TAUGHT BUT SUCH KNOWLEDGE AS IS VERIlABLE BY THE SENSES AND
TO WHICH ALL PARENTS WERE TO BE COMPELLED BY LAW TO SEND THEIR
CHILDRENx 4HE lRST THING TO BE DONE WAS TO GET THIS SYSTEM
OF SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED &OR THIS PURPOSE A SECRET SOCIETY WAS
FORMED AND THE WHOLE COUNTRY WAS TO BE ORGANIZEDx 4HIS OR
GANIZATION WAS COMMENCED IN IN THE CITY OF .EW 9ORKx
THIS MUCH ) CAN SAY THE PLAN HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY PURSUED THE
VIEWS WE PUT FORTH HAVE GAINED GREAT POPULARITY AND THE WHOLE
ACTION OF THE COUNTRY ON THE SUBJECT HAS TAKEN THE DIRECTION WE
SOUGHT TO GIVE IT
7HILE THE /WENITES WERE THE RADICALS PROMOTING PUBLIC SCHOOLS
THE 5NITARIANS WERE AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING THE RESPECTABLE PUBLIC
FACE OF THE MOVEMENT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
4HE 5NITARIANS
5NITARIANISM IN !MERICA LARGELY GREW OUT OF CERTAIN LIBERAL THEO
LOGICAL TENDENCIES THAT DEVELOPED WITHIN #ONGREGATIONALIST CHURCHES
IN THE TH CENTURY 7HILE THE VARIOUS THEOLOGICAL VIEWS THAT ULTIMATELY
COALESCED INTO 5NITARIANISM REPRESENTED THE BELIEFS OF RELATIVELY FEW IN
-ASSACHUSETTS AT THE TURN OF THE TH CENTURY MANY WHO DID HOLD THOSE
VIEWS WERE AMONG THE WEALTHY AND INmUENTIAL LIVING IN AND AROUND
"OSTON 7HEN THE 5NITARIANS MANAGED TO TAKE OVER (ARVARD FROM
THE ORTHODOX #ONGREGATIONALISTS IN 5NITARIANISM BEGAN A PRO
CESS OF DEVELOPMENT THAT IN THE SECOND AND THIRD DECADES OF THE TH
CENTURY LED TO A lNAL BREAK WITH #ONGREGATIONALISM .EVERTHELESS
IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT AS 2OUSAS 2USHDOONY HAS POINTED
OUT h;%=ARLY TH CENTURY 5NITARIANISM HAD NOT YET AS IT WAS TO DO
SUBSEQUENTLY SEPARATED ITSELF FROM #HRISTIANITY 2ATHER IT PRESENTED
ITSELF AS THE TRUE VERSION OF #HRISTIANITY AND THE FULlLLMENT OF 0ROTES
TANTISMv )N A SENSE 5NITARIANISM COULD BE UNDERSTOOD WELL INTO THE
TH CENTURY AS THE AGGREGATION OF SEVERAL ANTI
#ALVINIST THEOLOGICAL
TRENDS WITHIN 0ROTESTANT #HRISTIANITY
!LTHOUGH 5NITARIANISM HAD SEVERAL DISTINCTIVE DOCTRINES MOST
NOTABLY THE DENIAL OF THE 4RINITY THE THEOLOGICAL VIEW MOST RELEVANT TO
THEIR EDUCATIONAL VIEWS WAS THEIR REJECTION OF THE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL
SIN 4HE 5NITARIANS BELIEVED INSTEAD THAT -AN WAS PERFECTIBLE AND
THAT THE ROAD TO SALVATION LAY THROUGH WORKS 'IVEN THIS PERSPECTIVE
IT WAS NATURAL THAT THEY WOULD VIEW THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SYSTEM
OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THAT THEY CONTROLLED AS THE GREATEST OF GOOD
WORKS THESE SCHOOLS WERE TO BE THE 5NITARIANS INSTRUMENT FOR PERFECT
ING SOCIETY
5LTIMATELY THE -ASSACHUSETTS 5NITARIAN LEADERSHIP SELECTED THEIR
FELLOW 5NITARIAN (ORACE -ANN AS THE MAN TO IMPLEMENT THIS VISION
AND MANAGED TO HAVE HIM MADE 3ECRETARY OF THE -ASSACHUSETTS "OARD
OF %DUCATION IN ! LAWYER AND POLITICIAN -ANN BROUGHT TO HIS
POSITION A PRAGMATIC SENSE OF HOW TO PURSUE 5NITARIAN EDUCATIONAL
OBJECTIVES COVERTLY IN A SOCIETY THAT WOULD HAVE mATLY REJECTED THEM IF
THEY HAD BEEN PURSUED OPENLY
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
4YPICAL OF THE 5NITARIANS BELIEF IN THE REDEMPTIVE POWER OF
EDUCATION AND THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS WERE THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
#ATHERINE "EECHER IN A LETTER TO -ANN DURING HIS TENURE AS 3ECRETARY
OF THE -ASSACHUSETTS "OARD OF %DUCATION
;!=LL THE CHILDREN AT AGE FOUR SHALL BE PLACED SIX HOURS A DAY FOR
TWELVE YEARS UNDER THE CARE OF TEACHERS HAVING THE SAME VIEWS
THAT ) HAVEx ) HAVE NO HESITATION IN SAYING n ) DO NOT BELIEVE
THAT NONE NO NOT A SINGLE ONE WOULD FAIL OF PROVING A RESPECT
ABLE AND PROSPEROUS MEMBER OF SOCIETY NAY MORE ) BELIEVE
THAT EVERY ONE WOULD AT THE CLOSE OF LIFE lND ADMISSION INTO
THE WORLD OF ENDLESS PEACE AND JOY ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
4HESE VIEWS WERE NOT UNUSUAL AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE -AS
SACHUSETTS 5NITARIAN SOCIAL ELITE WHO BELIEVED THAT THEY COULD WORK
OUT THEIR SALVATION THROUGH SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND EDUCATION #REATING
A SYSTEM OF SCHOOLING THAT WOULD IMPRINT THEIR VALUES ON SOCIETY WAS
A SIGNIlCANT WAY IN WHICH THIS THEOLOGICAL IMPULSE FOUND EXPRESSION
)N EFFECT THE 5NITARIANS SOUGHT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF 5NITARIANISM
THROUGH THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS hSEMINARIESv
THAT THEY CHAMPIONED
4HE 3INS OF THE &ATHERS
!LTHOUGH -ANN WAS OFTEN IN CONmICT WITH ORTHODOX 0ROTESTANTS
IN -ASSACHUSETTS THROUGH SKILLFUL MUTING OF HIS OWN 5NITARIAN THEO
LOGICAL VIEWS AND WITH THE AID OF THE SOCIAL AND lNANCIAL INmUENCE
OF HIS 5NITARIAN SPONSORS -ANN SUCCESSFULLY ADVANCED THE PROJECT
OF CREATING A CENTRALIZED TAX lNANCED AND STATE CONTROLLED SYSTEM OF
COMPULSORY EDUCATION !FTER THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVEMENT BEGAN TO
CONSOLIDATE ITS POSITION IN THE .EW %NGLAND AND -ID
!TLANTIC STATES
IT BEGAN TO ACCUMULATE THE MOMENTUM THAT IN TIME WOULD ALLOW IT
TO METASTASIZE THROUGH THE ENTIRE COUNTRY /NCE THE IDEA OF CREATING A
TAX FUNDED SYSTEM OF #OMMON 3CHOOLS BEGAN TO TAKE lRM ROOT THE
REFORMERS ADDED COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE LAWS TO THEIR PROGRAM WITH
-ASSACHUSETTS BEING THE lRST TO ENACT SUCH A LAW IN
-ANNS POLITICAL ACUMEN NOTWITHSTANDING THE #OMMON 3CHOOL
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
MOVEMENT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE FAILED IN -ASSACHUSETTS AND ELSEWHERE
IF A LARGE NUMBER OF ORTHODOX 0ROTESTANTS HAD NOT COME OVER TO -ANNS
SIDE &OR EXAMPLE IN A PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH THE 3TATE "OARD OF
%DUCATION WAS PUT TO A VOTE OF THE -ASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE 4HE MEA
SURE WAS HANDILY DEFEATED ONLY BECAUSE A LARGE NUMBER OF ORTHODOX
0ROTESTANTS HAD COME TO SUPPORT THE IDEA OF hPUBLIC EDUCATIONv
7HY DID ORTHODOX 0ROTESTANTS PROVIDE THE DECISIVE SUPPORT FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF -ANNS EDUCATIONAL VISION "ECAUSE OF )RISH #ATHOLIC
IMMIGRATION !ND IT WAS CONCERN AMONG 0ROTESTANTS OVER #ATHOLIC IMMI
GRATION THAT SUSTAINED THE MOMENTUM OF THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVEMENT
FROM THE S ONWARD
!S EARLY AS THE S ELEMENTS OF !MERICAN 0ROTESTANTISM HAD
BEGUN TO MAKE PUBLIC THEIR OPPOSITION TO #ATHOLIC IMMIGRATION "Y
)RISH #ATHOLIC IMMIGRATION TO "OSTON WAS RISING DRAMATICALLY
AND THE NUMBER OF #ATHOLICS IN !MERICA TRIPLED DURING THAT DECADE
)N MORE THAN OF THE STUDENTS IN "OSTONS PRIMARY
SCHOOLS HAD FOREIGN
BORN PARENTS 7HILE THE )RISH WERE BY NO MEANS
THE ONLY #ATHOLICS IMMIGRATING TO !MERICA IN THE LATE S AND BE
YOND THE CONCENTRATION OF THEIR ARRIVALS IN THE CITIES OF THE .ORTHEAST
TENDED TO MAKE THE )RISH THE SYMBOL OF #ATHOLIC IMMIGRATION
0ROTESTANIZING #ATHOLICS
4O UNDERSTAND THE REACTION OF !MERICAN 0ROTESTANTS TO MASS
#ATHOLIC IMMIGRATION IT IS NECESSARY TO RECALL THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE
DOMINANT 0ROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS IN !MERICA WERE NOT UNAWARE
THAT THEIR FOREBEARS HAD SUFFERED TERRIBLE PERSECUTION IN %UROPE AT THE
HANDS OF #ATHOLICS -OREOVER NOT ONLY DID THE HISTORICAL FACT OF THAT
PERSECUTION LIVE IN THE MEMORY OF 0ROTESTANTS BUT #ATHOLICISM WAS
ALSO ASSOCIATED IN THEIR MINDS WITH IGNORANCE AND MONARCHICAL FORMS
OF CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL GOVERNMENT !LL THESE THINGS WERE ALIEN TO
THE 0ROTESTANT CULTURE THAT HAD DEVELOPED IN !MERICA
7HEN LARGE NUMBERS OF IMPOVERISHED )RISH BEGAN ARRIVING IN
THE LATE S AND S HISTORICAL MEMORIES OF THE #ATHOLICISM OF
THE TH CENTURY WERE REVIVED ,ACKING A CLEAR AWARENESS THAT THE 2EF
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
ORMATION THAT HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO 0ROTESTANTISM HAD ALSO LED TO NEEDED
REFORMS WITHIN THE #ATHOLIC #HURCH AND NOT UNDERSTANDING THAT
THE GENERALLY DEGRADED CONDITION OF THE )RISH WAS THE RESULT OF THEIR
BRUTALIZATION BY THE %NGLISH NOT #ATHOLICISM 0ROTESTANTS TENDED TO
SEE THE #ATHOLIC IMMIGRATION AS A RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL PROBLEM THAT
REQUIRED A lRM RESPONSE
4HIS IS WHAT BROUGHT A CRITICAL MASS OF 0ROTESTANTS IN -ASSA
CHUSETTS AND ELSEWHERE OVER TO THE #OMMON 3CHOOL CAUSE %VEN IN
FAR
OFF #ALIFORNIA FOR EXAMPLE *OHN 3WETT THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT
OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION DURING THE S ARGUED THAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WERE INDISPENSABLE BECAUSE h.OTHING CAN !MERICANIZE THESE CHAOTIC
ELEMENTS AND BREATHE INTO THEM THE SPIRIT OF OUR INSTITUTIONSx EX
CEPT THE PUBLIC SCHOOLSv 4HE hCHAOTIC ELEMENTSv REFERRED TO BY 3WETT
WERE OF COURSE PRIMARILY #ATHOLIC IMMIGRANTS ,IKE OTHER hPROGRES
SIVESv OF HIS AGE 3WETT ALSO VIEWED HUMAN BEINGS AS A FORM OF COLLECTIVE
PROPERTY h;#=HILDREN ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF MATURITY BELONG NOT TO THE
PARENTS BUT TO THE 3TATE TO SOCIETY TO THE COUNTRYv
)N SUM THE PUBLIC SCHOOL WAS SOLD FROM THE BEGINNING AS AN INSTRU
MENT FOR COERCIVELY ASSIMILATING #ATHOLIC CHILDREN INTO 0ROTESTANTISM AND
!MERICAN CULTURE #ONCERN OVER #ATHOLIC IMMIGRATION AND #ATHOLI
CISM WAS ALSO THE REASON THAT PUBLIC FUNDING AT THE STATE LEVEL FOR ANY
SCHOOLS EXCEPT PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAME TO AN END LONG BEFORE THE ISSUE WAS
RAISED IN A #ONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT IN THE LATE S
"Y USING COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAWS AND DENYING TAX FUNDS TO hSEC
TARIAN SCHOOLSv WHICH WAS NOTHING BUT A VEILED REFERENCE TO #ATHOLIC
SCHOOLS 0ROTESTANTS HOPED TO FORCE #ATHOLIC CHILDREN INTO WHAT WERE
ESSENTIALLY 0ROTESTANT PUBLIC SCHOOLS !S ,LOYD 0 *ORGENSON DESCRIBES
THE STRATEGY
;4=HEY APPROACHED THEIR GOALS BY INDIRECTION 4HE PROSCRIP
TION OF PUBLIC AID TO hSECTARIANv SCHOOLS WAS A WIDELY EMPLOYED
METHODx 4HE MOST DRASTIC METHOD OF ISOLATING THE NON PUB
LIC SCHOOLS CAME IN THE FORM OF COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE LAWS
SPECIFYING THAT SUCH ATTENDANCE MUST BE IN STATE APPROVED
SCHOOLS .OT ONLY THE lNANCIAL SUPPORT BUT THE VERY EXISTENCE
OF NON PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS PLACED IN JEOPARDY BY THESE LAWS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
0ROGRESSIVES THE +LAN AND 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
"Y THE TURN OF THE TH CENTURY PROGRESSIVES WERE BEGINNING TO
STATE OPENLY THAT PARENTS WERE OBSTACLES TO CREATING THE NEW SOCIETY
THAT THEY ENVISIONED &OR EXAMPLE %DWARD 2OSS A WELL KNOWN SOCI
OLOGIST AND COMMENTATOR ON EDUCATION IN HIS TIME WROTE IN THAT
SCHOOLS PROVIDED THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO REPLACE PARENTAL INmUENCE
WITH THAT OF THE TEACHER
!NOTHER GAIN LIES IN THE PARTIAL SUBSTITUTION OF THE TEACHER FOR
THE PARENT AS THE MODEL UPON WHICH THE CHILD FORMS HIMSELF
#OPY THE CHILD WILL AND THE ADVANTAGE OF GIVING HIM HIS TEACH
ER INSTEAD OF HIS FATHER TO IMITATE IS THAT THE FORMER IS A PICKED
PERSON WHILE THE LATTER IS NOT #HILDHOOD IS IN FACT THE HEYDAY
OF PERSONAL INmUENCE 4HE POSITION OF A TEACHER GIVES HIM PRES
TIGE AND THE LAD WILL TAKE FROM HIM SUGGESTIONS THAT THE ADULT
WILL ACCEPT ONLY FROM RARE AND SPLENDID PERSONALITIES
"Y THE THIRD DECADE OF THE TH CENTURY HOWEVER THE CO OPTED
0ROTESTANTS WERE HOISTED ON THEIR OWN PETARD 7ITH SOME EXCEPTIONS
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BY THEN WERE lRMLY UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE
hPROGRESSIVES v WHO VIEWED THEIR ASCENDANCY IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
AND SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO REMAKE CHIL
DREN AND THEREFORE SOCIETY IN THEIR OWN IMAGE .EEDLESS TO SAY THAT
IMAGE DID NOT INCLUDE ANY FORM OF #HRISTIANITY 'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS
WERE NOW TO BE VEHICLES FOR LIBERATING CHILDREN FROM hTHE COERCIVE
INmUENCE OF THE SMALL FAMILY OR COMMUNITY GROUPv /F COURSE SUCH
AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT WOULD BE BETTER ASSURED OF SUCCESS IF ALL CHILDREN
WERE REQUIRED TO ATTEND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
2EMINISCENT OF THE EARLY STAGES OF THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVE
MENT THE INITIAL IMPETUS FOR FORCING ALL CHILDREN TO ATTEND GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS CAME LARGELY FROM A COALITION OF ATHEISTS SPIRITUALISTS
AGNOSTICS FREETHINKERS AND NON #HRISTIAN THEISTS UNITED IN AN ORGA
NIZATION KNOWN AS THE h.ATIONAL ,IBERAL ,EAGUE v AS WELL AS SOME
5NITARIANS 2EFORM *EWS AND OTHER THEOLOGICAL LIBERALS /RGANIZED
IN BY A FORMER 5NITARIAN &RANCIS %LLINGWOOD !BBOT THE .A
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
TIONAL ,EAGUE WAS DEVOTED TO WHAT IT TERMED THE ABSOLUTE SEPARATION
OF CHURCH AND STATE 4HE PHRASE hSEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATEv
HAD BEEN SOMEWHAT IN VOGUE PRIOR TO THE FORMATION OF THE .ATIONAL
,IBERAL ,EAGUE AND WAS MAINLY UNDERSTOOD AS STANDING FOR RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY AND FREEDOM OF CHURCHES FROM THE STATE ALTHOUGH FOR MANY
THE PHRASE ALSO CARRIED AN ANTI
#ATHOLIC CONNOTATION !S UNDERSTOOD
BY THE .ATIONAL ,IBERAL ,EAGUE HOWEVER THE PHRASE MEANT THAT THE
GOVERNMENT HAD TO BE COMPLETELY SECULARIZED AND HAVE NO CONNECTION
WITH ORGANIZED RELIGION 7ITH RESPECT TO SCHOOLS A PORTION OF THE
LYRICS FROM A .ATIONAL ,IBERAL ,EAGUE HYMN SUCCINCTLY EXPRESSED THEIR
PROGRAM
7E WANT NO COUNSEL FROM THE PRIESTS
.O BISHOPS CROOK OR GOWN
.O SANCTIMONIOUS RIGHTEOUSNESS
.O CURSE OR GODLY FROWN
7E WANT NO "IBLES IN THE SCHOOLS
.O CREEDS OR DOCTRINES THERE
7E WANT NO SUPERSTITIONS TOOLS
4HE CHILDRENS MINDS TO SCARE
4HE .ATIONAL ,IBERAL ,EAGUE HAD NEITHER MANY ADHERENTS NOR A
LONG LIFE .OT SURPRISINGLY SEX TURNED OUT TO BE THE ,EAGUES !CHILLES
HEEL 0ROFESSOR 0HILIP (AMBURGER DESCRIBES THE TENSIONS WITHIN THE
.ATIONAL ,IBERAL ,EAGUE OVER THIS ISSUE h&OR !BBOT AND HIS THEIST AL
LIES OBSCENITY WAS BOTH MORALLY REPUGNANT AND A DISTRACTION )N CON
TRAST FOR MANY ATHEISTS AMONG THE ,IBERALS SEXUAL FREEDOM SEEMED OF
ALMOST RELIGIOUS IMPORTANCExv 4HE RESULT WAS THAT lVE YEARS AFTER
ITS FORMATION THE ,EAGUE DISINTEGRATED OVER THE ISSUE OF THE REPEAL OF
OBSCENITY LAWS
4HE DEMISE OF THE .ATIONAL ,IBERAL ,EAGUE NOTWITHSTANDING ITS
REINTERPRETATION OF THE SLOGAN hSEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATEv CONTIN
UED TO BE INmUENTIAL )N THE AREA OF SCHOOLING 0ROFESSOR (AMBURGER
NOTES THAT THE ,EAGUE EVENTUALLY SIDED WITH THE +LAN AND VARIOUS OTHER
NATIVIST GROUPS TO PROMOTE COMPULSORY PUBLIC EDUCATION
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
,ATER IN THE CENTURY ,IBERALS JOINED NATIVISTS IN SEEKING COM
PULSORY PUBLIC EDUCATION &OR EXAMPLE IN WHEN PURSU
ING SEPARATION THE .ATIONAL ,EAGUE RESOLVED h4HAT UNIVERSAL
EDUCATION IS THE ONLY SAFEGUARD OF UNIVERSAL LIBERTY THAT NO
CHILD IN THE REPUBLIC SHOULD BE PERMITTED TO GROW UP WITHOUT AT
LEAST A GOOD COMMON SCHOOL EDUCATIONv $RAWING UPON THE LIB
ERAL THEOLOGICAL IDEALS THAT HAD BECOME A PRONOUNCED FEATURE
OF !MERICANISM THE +LAN ARGUED THAT INTELLECTUAL INDEPEN
DENCE AND THEREFORE ALSO THE FOUNDATIONS OF !MERICAN LIBERTY
DEPENDED ON PUBLIC EDUCATIONx /N SUCH ASSUMPTIONS WHICH
SOMETIMES CAME REMARKABLY CLOSE TO THOSE OF LIBERAL INTELLECTU
ALS THE +LAN AND ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING MANY -ASONIC
LODGES JOINED MOVEMENTS FOR OBLIGATORY PUBLIC SCHOOLING IN
VARIOUS STATES INCLUDING !LABAMA !RKANSAS #ALIFORNIA -ICHI
GAN .EBRASKA /HIO /KLAHOMA /REGON 4EXAS 7ASHINGTON
AND 7YOMING ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
4HE NATIVISTS AND THE .ATIONAL ,IBERAL ,EAGUE OBVIOUSLY DIFFERED
OVER THE PROPER NATURE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WITH THE ,EAGUE WANT
ING THEM TO BE ENTIRELY SECULAR AND THE NATIVISTS WANTING THEM TO BE
DE FACTO 0ROTESTANT IN TONE EVEN IF THE 0ROTESTANTISM WAS OF A HEAVILY
DILUTED VARIETY .EVERTHELESS THEY BOTH AGREED THAT NO CHILD SHOULD BE
PERMITTED TO BE EDUCATED OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 5LTIMATELY
THE MOVEMENTS INITIAL SUCCESS IN /REGON PROVED ITS UNDOING
/REGON WAS FERTILE GROUND FOR BEGINNING THE STATE
BY
STATE
IMPLEMENTATION OF MANDATORY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING 7HY ,IBER
ALS HAD ENJOYED GREAT SUCCESS IN /REGON IN PLANTING THEIR hCHURCHESv
THERE WERE RELATIVELY FEW #ATHOLICS OR NEW IMMIGRANTS AND THE /RE
GON NATIVISTS WHO INCLUDED MANY 0ROTESTANTS HAD ALSO DEMONSTRATED
POLITICAL STRENGTH .OT SURPRISINGLY THEN IN /REGON VOTERS
URGED ON BY PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS NATIVIST ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE
+U +LUX +LAN THE $EMOCRAT NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR AND ELEMENTS OF
THE -ASONS APPROVED A REFERENDUM REQUIRING CHILDREN BETWEEN THE
AGES OF AND TO ATTEND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HE MAIN OBJECT OF
THE REFERENDUM OF COURSE WAS TO SHUT DOWN #ATHOLIC SCHOOLS
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
4HE RESULTS OF THE REFERENDUM WERE VIGOROUSLY DENOUNCED BY
A NUMBER OF VOICES INCLUDING *OHN $EWEY THE PRESIDENTS OF 9ALE
#OLUMBIA AND THE 5NIVERSITY OF 4EXAS AND THE "APTISTS THIS MAY BE
ONE OF THE FEW RECORDED INSTANCES IN WHICH "APTISTS AND *OHN $EWEY
AGREED ON ANYTHING &OLLOWING THE REFERENDUM THE 3OCIETY OF THE
3ISTERS OF THE (OLY .AMES OF *ESUS AND -ARY AND THE (ILL -ILITARY
!CADEMY A SECULAR PRIVATE SCHOOL LITIGATED THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF
THE /REGON LAW )N A RULING THE 5NITED 3TATES 3UPREME #OURT
STRUCK DOWN THE /REGON LAW STATING
4HE FUNDAMENTAL THEORY OF LIBERTY UPON WHICH ALL GOVERNMENTS
IN THIS 5NION REPOSE EXCLUDES ANY GENERAL POWER OF THE STATE TO
STANDARDIZE ITS CHILDREN BY FORCING THEM TO ACCEPT INSTRUCTION
FROM PUBLIC TEACHERS ONLY 4HE CHILD IS NOT THE MERE CREATURE OF
THE STATE THOSE WHO NURTURE HIM AND DIRECT HIS DESTINY HAVE THE
RIGHT COUPLED WITH THE HIGH DUTY TO RECOGNIZE AND PREPARE HIM
FOR ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS
4HUS THE VICTORY OF THE ,IBERAL ,EAGUES hPROGRESSIVEv HEIRS THE
+LAN AND OTHERS IN /REGON WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A CRUSHING DEFEAT
THAT PUT AN END TO STATUTORY EFFORTS TO PREVENT CHILDREN FROM BEING
EDUCATED OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS .EVERTHELESS STATE CON
STITUTIONAL PROVISIONS PROHIBITING AID TO hSECTARIANv SCHOOLS AND THE
POLITICAL INmUENCE OF THE POLITICAL LEFT AND THE +LAN AS WELL AS OTHER
NATIVIST GROUPS SUCCEEDED IN MAKING PRIVATE EDUCATION SO lNANCIALLY
BURDENSOME THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF PARENTS COULD ONLY EXERCISE THEIR
RIGHT TO EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AT CON
SIDERABLE lNANCIAL SACRIlCE IF AT ALL
#ONFLICT AND 3ECULAR $RIFT
)F NOT QUITE 5NITARIANISM THE 0ROTESTANTISM OF THE TH CENTURY
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TENDED OVER TIME TOWARD A #HRISTIANITY OF THE
LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR /NE INDICATOR OF THE TREND TOWARD
SECULARIZATION IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WAS THE CHANGE OVER TIME IN
-C'UFFEYS 2EADERS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
7ILLIAMS (OLMES -C'UFFEY WAS THE INITIAL COMPILER OF THE WELL
KNOWN SERIES OF TH CENTURY READERS THAT BORE HIS NAME -C'UFFEY
A COLLEGE PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND A
THEOLOGICALLY CONSERVATIVE 0RESBYTERIAN MINISTER WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE CONTENT OF THE EDITION OF THE BOOKS THAT CAME TO BE KNOWN
AS -C'UFFEYS 2EADERS 4HE EDITION WAS SO SUCCESSFUL THAT IT
CREATED A -C'UFFEY BRAND THAT ULTIMATELY SOLD AN ESTIMATED MIL
LION READERS BETWEEN AND )N FACT -C'UFFEYS 2EADERS WERE
SO WIDELY USED THAT BY THIRTY
SEVEN STATES HAD ADOPTED THEM AS
THEIR SCHOOLS BASIC READERS
-C'UFFEYS EDITION INCORPORATED A STRONGLY THEISTIC
2EFORMED WORLDVIEW "UT EVEN THOUGH SUBSEQUENT REVISIONS OF -C
'UFFEYS 2EADERS CONTINUED TO BEAR HIS NAME FOR MARKETING PURPOSES
AFTER -C'UFFEY HAD NO INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR PRODUCTION AT ALL
AND WOULD NOT HAVE APPROVED OF THE CHANGES
4HE TRANSFORMATION OF WORLDVIEW FROM -C'UFFEYS OWN
EDITION TO THE -C'UFFEY BRANDED EDITION IS BOTH STARTLING AND
INSTRUCTIVE !S DESCRIBED BY *OHN ( 7ESTERHOFF ))) IN HIS -C'UFFEY
AND (IS 2EADERS
"Y THE THEISTIC #ALVINIST WORLD VIEW SO DOMINANT IN THE
lRST EDITIONS HAD DISAPPEARED AND THE PROMINENT VALUES OF SAL
VATION RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PIETY WERE ENTIRELY MISSING !LL THAT
REMAINED WERE LESSONS AFlRMING THE MORALITY AND LIFE STYLES OF
THE EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS AND THOSE CULTURAL BELIEFS ATTITUDES
AND VALUES THAT UNDERGIRD !MERICAN CIVIL RELIGION
4HE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE AND EDITIONS OF -C'UFFEYS
2EADERS CLEARLY REmECT THE SECULAR DRIFT IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THAT HAD
OCCURRED IN THE SPACE OF LESS THAN lFTY YEARS )RONICALLY -C'UFFEY SUP
PORTED THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVEMENT IN HIS NATIVE /HIO PERHAPS
EVEN BEFORE -C'UFFEYS 2EADERS WERE BORN AND THE CAREER OF -C'UFFEYS
2EADERS PARALLELED AND REmECTED THE RISE AND ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF THE
#OMMON 3CHOOL MOVEMENT )N RETROSPECT BEGINNING IN AT LEAST THE
S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WERE IN THE INCIPIENT STAGES OF hPROGRES
SIVEv CURRICULAR REVISIONS THAT EVENTUALLY WOULD INCREASINGLY ESTRANGE
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
!MERICAN CHILDREN FROM A #HRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
.EVERTHELESS THROUGHOUT THE TH CENTURY 0ROTESTANTS WERE GEN
ERALLY IN CONTROL OF THE SCHOOLS AND THE SCHOOL "IBLE WAS THE +ING
*AMES "IBLE NOT THE #ATHOLIC $OUAY TRANSLATION OF THE "IBLE 4HIS LED
TO CONSIDERABLE STRIFE BETWEEN #ATHOLICS AND 0ROTESTANTS WHICH SOME
TIMES ESCALATED INTO VIOLENCE AND ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR &OR EXAMPLE IN
0HILADELPHIA THE FORCED USE OF THE +ING *AMES "IBLE IN SCHOOLS LED TO
RIOTING AND BLOODSHED )N "OSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS OFlCIALS INmICTED
PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT ON #ATHOLIC SCHOOLBOYS WHO REFUSED TO RECITE
THE +ING *AMES TRANSLATIONS VERSION OF THE 4EN #OMMANDMENTS /NE
#ATHOLIC BOY 4HOMAS 7ALL HAD HIS HANDS WHIPPED WITH A RATTAN FOR
HALF AN HOUR BY THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL OF HIS "OSTON COMMON SCHOOL
OVER THIS ISSUE
)N PUBLIC DEBATE #ATHOLIC PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS THE #ATHOLIC
7ORLD DENOUNCED EFFORTS TO USE #OMMON 3CHOOLS TO ACHIEVE hTHE
SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS UNIlCATION OF THE !MERICAN PEOPLE BY A SYSTEM
OF UNIVERSAL AND UNIFORM COMPULSORY EDUCATIONv -OREOVER THIS
hUNIlCATIONv WAS CLEARLY SEEN BY #ATHOLICS AS AN ATTEMPT TO FORCE
!MERICANS hOF %UROPEAN AND !FRICAN ORIGIN )NDIANS AND !SIATICS
0ROTESTANTS AND #ATHOLICS *EWS AND PAGANS INTO ONE HOMOGENEOUS
PEOPLE AFTER WHAT MAY BE CALLED THE .EW %NGLAND %VANGELICAL TYPEv
5LTIMATELY CONmICTS BETWEEN #ATHOLICS AND 0ROTESTANTS OVER THE NA
TURE OF THE hPUBLICv SCHOOLS LED TO THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF
#ATHOLIC SCHOOLS
-ANY MOSTLY CONSERVATIVE 0ROTESTANTS CONTINUED TO OPPOSE THE
PROGRAM OF hPUBLICv SCHOOLS BEING FOISTED ON !MERICA AS A RESULT OF
THE EARLIER UNLIKELY ALLIANCE OF 5NITARIANS /WENITES AND CO
OPTED
0ROTESTANTS /NE OF THE CENTRAL OBJECTIONS OF THE 0ROTESTANT OPPONENTS
OF THE #OMMON 3CHOOLS WAS THAT THE #OMMON 3CHOOLS WERE DEBASING
THE STANDARD OF RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE BEING TAUGHT TO CHILDREN AND THAT
DOCTRINAL DISPUTES RELATING TO THE #OMMON 3CHOOLS WERE AIDING THOSE
WHO DESIRED TO SECULARIZE THEM !S THEY CLEARLY SAW ONCE THE #OM
MON 3CHOOLS WERE SECULARIZED #OMMON 3CHOOLS WOULD TURN OUT TO
HAVE BEEN A &AUSTIAN BARGAIN WITH THE NET RESULT BEING THAT #HRISTIANS
HAD TRADED THEIR INDEPENDENT #HRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS FOR A
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
SECULARIZED SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HIS MEANT THAT EVENTUALLY
THE VAST MAJORITY OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN WOULD RECEIVE A SECULAR RATHER
THAN A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION
)N RESPONSE SOME 0RESBYTERIANS ,UTHERANS %PISCOPALIANS
AND OTHERS ATTEMPTED TO CREATE THEIR OWN SYSTEM OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS
AS THE #ATHOLICS WERE DOING 5NFORTUNATELY THE DIVISION OF OPINION
WITHIN THE 0ROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS OVER THE #OMMON 3CHOOL ISSUE
PREVENTED THESE ALTERNATIVE 0ROTESTANT SCHOOL SYSTEMS FROM BECOMING
WIDESPREAD
)N ADDITION TO THESE CONCERNS MANY 0ROTESTANT OPPONENTS OF
THE #OMMON 3CHOOLS ALSO BELIEVED THAT THE EFFORT TO h0ROTESTANTIZEv
#ATHOLIC CHILDREN BY MEANS OF THE #OMMON 3CHOOLS AND COMPUL
SORY ATTENDANCE LAWS WAS FUNDAMENTALLY UNJUST &OR EXAMPLE 2,
$ABNEY A PROMINENT TH CENTURY 0RESBYTERIAN THEOLOGIAN AND NO
FRIEND OF #ATHOLIC THEOLOGY UNDERSTOOD NOT ONLY THAT STATE CONTROLLED
EDUCATION WOULD BECOME TOTALLY SECULARIZED BUT THAT IT WOULD BE
COME SO PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THE INJUSTICE BEING DONE BY 0ROTESTANTS
TO #ATHOLICS
#ATHOLICS MAKE AN EFFECTIVE POINT WHEN THEY ARGUE THAT THE
3TATE MUST NOT USE THE PEOPLES MONEY TO TEACH USING THE +ING
*AMES 6ERSION WHICH THEYx BELIEVE TO BE HERETICALx :EAL
OUS 0ROTESTANTS USUALLY ZEALOUS ADVOCATES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS TRY
TO REFUTE THIS "UT WOULD THEY ASSENT TO THE TEACHING OF THEIR
CHILDREN WITH THEIR MONEY A VERSION WHICH SAYS h%XCEPT YE
DO PENANCE YE SHALL LIKEWISE PERISH v 4HEY EXCLAIM h4HAT THIS
IS AN ERRONEOUS VERSION WHILE THE +ING *AMES IS FAITHFULvx
"UT SHALL THE 3TATE BE APPOINTED TO JUDGE WHETHER THAT PROPOSI
TION IS TRUE x )N THE PUBLIC ARENA OUR COMMITMENT IS TO RE
SPECT THE VIEWS OF #ATHOLICSx5NLESS WE ADMIT THAT OUR MIGHT
MAKES RIGHT WE OUGHT NOT TO INmICT SUCH WRONGSx
&OR $ABNEY AND THE MANY OTHER TH CENTURY #HRISTIANS WHO
UNDERSTOOD THIS ISSUE THE CRUX OF THE PROBLEM WAS THE ERROR OF TRANS
FERRING RESPONSIBILITY FOR EDUCATION FROM PARENTS AND THE CHURCH TO
THE GOVERNMENT !S LONG AS THE GOVERNMENT HELD RESPONSIBILITY FOR
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
EDUCATION THERE COULD ONLY BE ONE OF TWO UNACCEPTABLE OUTCOMES %I
THER CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WOULD BE USED IN AN EFFORT TO
IMPOSE SOME FORM OF SECTARIAN BELIEF OR IT WOULD BE USED TO PROVIDE
AN ANTI
#HRISTIAN SECULAR EDUCATION )T WAS OBVIOUS TO $ABNEY THAT
THE LATTER WOULD IN FACT BE THE RESULT h;4HE PUBLIC SCHOOLS= COMPLETE
SECULARIZATION IS LOGICALLY INEVITABLE #HRISTIANS MUST PREPARE THEMSELVES
THEN FOR THE FOLLOWING RESULTS !LL PRAYERS CATECHISMS AND "IBLES WILL
ULTIMATELY BE DRIVEN OUT OF THE SCHOOLSv ;EMPHASIS ORIGINAL=
! HANDFUL OF STATE COURT DECISIONS IN THE LATE TH CENTURY AND
THE lRST DECADES OF THE TH CENTURY BEGAN TO FORESHADOW WHAT WAS
TO COME 7HILE THE QUESTION OF "IBLE READING IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
WASNT MUCH LITIGATED DURING THIS PERIOD AND IN SUCH CASES AS AROSE
THE COURTS GENERALLY DEFERRED TO THE DECISIONS OF LOCAL SCHOOL AUTHORI
TIES A FEW STATE COURT DECISIONS BEGAN TO POINT TOWARD THE COMING
SECULARIZATION OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS "Y THE SUPREME COURTS
OF h/HIO 7ISCONSIN .EBRASKA MODIlED IN
)LLINOIS ,OUISIANA 7ASHINGTON AND
3OUTH $AKOTA v HAD UPHELD BANS ON "IBLE READING IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS
!S DISCUSSED IN #HAPTER WITH *USTICE (UGO "LACKS
OPINION IN THE %VERSON CASE DECLARING THAT THE %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE
OF THE &IRST !MENDMENT APPLIED TO THE STATES AND REQUIRED A hWALL
OF SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE v THE FOUNDATION FOR THE
FUTURE FORESEEN IN THE LATE TH CENTURY BY $ABNEY AND OTHERS WAS
COMPLETED )RONICALLY "LACK WHO BEGAN AS A LIBERAL "APTIST POPULIST
IN TIME DEPARTED FROM THE "APTISTS AND FOUND A NEW HOME AMONG THE
5NITARIANS AT !LL 3OULS 5NITARIAN #HURCH IN 7ASHINGTON $#
4HE 3NARE OF 3CHOOL 2EFORM
4HIS BRINGS US BACK TO THE PRESENT AND THE THOUGHT THAT SOMEHOW
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS CAN BE REFORMED TO PROVIDE A PROPER EDUCATION
FOR #HRISTIAN CHILDREN )T SHOULD BE EVIDENT BY NOW THAT THIS IS NEITHER
POSSIBLE NOR A PROPER AIM FOR #HRISTIANS ! #HRISTIAN EDUCATION MUST
IMPART A #HRISTIAN WORLDVIEW IN WHICH THE SOVEREIGNTY OF 'OD AND
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
THE CENTRAL ROLE OF *ESUS #HRIST IN HUMAN HISTORY AND AFFAIRS ARE UNDER
STOOD BY EVERY #HRISTIAN CHILD !S $ABNEY PUT IT OVER ONE HUNDRED
YEARS AGO h%VERY LINE OF TRUE KNOWLEDGE MUST lND ITS COMPLETENESS
AS IT CONVERGES ON 'OD JUST AS EVERY BEAM OF DAYLIGHT LEADS THE EYE
TO THE SUNv
"UT THIS IS NOT AN EDUCATION THAT #HRISTIANS SHOULD DESIRE TO
PROVIDE THROUGH A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS -OREOVER EVEN IF
IT WERE POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION THROUGH THE EXISTING
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS #HRISTIANS SHOULD OPPOSE IT BECAUSE IT
WOULD BE SIN JUST AS IT WOULD BE SIN TO USE THE COERCIVE POWER OF THE
STATE TO EVANGELIZE AND CATECHIZE NON
#HRISTIAN CHILDREN IN SOME OTHER
FASHION #HRIST TOLD (IS DISCIPLES h3UFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO
ME AND FORBID THEM NOTv ,UKE (E DIDNT TELL THEM TO HIRE
TRUANT OFlCERS TO DRAG THEM OVER TO (IM OR TO BELEAGUER THEIR PARENTS
WITH TAXES REGULATIONS AND THREATS OF IMPRISONMENT TO hENCOURAGEv
THEM TO BRING THEIR CHILDREN TO (IM #HRISTIAN CHILDREN MUST RECEIVE
A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION THAT IS PROVIDED IN A #HRISTIAN MANNER AND THAT
CAN ONLY BE DONE THROUGH THE FAMILY AND THE CHURCH
4HE POINT HERE IS THAT #HRISTIAN PARENTS MUST NOT BE DISTRACTED
FROM THEIR DUTY TO THEIR CHILDREN BY HOPING FOR A REFORM OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS THAT WILL NOT AND SHOULD NOT HAPPEN )NSTEAD #HRISTIAN PARENTS
MUST SQUARELY CONFRONT WHAT IS NOW BEING DONE TO THEIR CHILDREN
3ECULAR HUMANISTS AND .EW !GERS ARE USING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS COERCIVELY
TO EVANGELIZE #HRISTIAN CHILDREN TO THEIR ATHEISTIC OR PAGAN BELIEFS 4HESE
GOVERNMENT
SPONSORED EVANGELISTS ARE RELENTLESS AND AS THE DATA FROM
THE .EHEMIAH )NSTITUTE AND "ARNA 2ESEARCH SHOW THEY HAVE BEEN
VERY EFFECTIVE )F WE ARE TO BE FAITHFUL STEWARDS OF THE CHILDREN 'OD HAS
GIVEN US #HRISTIAN PARENTS MUST LEAD THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF 0HARAOHS
SCHOOLS NOW
# ( ! 0 4 % 2 3 % 6 % .
!R E 9 O U R # HIL DRE N 5N E Q U ALLY 9 O K E D
hxAND WHAT COMMUNION HATH LIGHT WITH DARKNESS x
7HEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEMv
)) #ORINTHIANS
9 OU WOULD THINK THAT PARENTS ACROSS !MERICA WOULD BE IN OPEN RE
VOLT OVER WHAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DOING TO THEIR CHILDREN "UT
THEY ARENT )NSTEAD AS THE (ORATIO !LGER !SSOCIATION POLL MENTIONED
IN THE THIRD CHAPTER SHOWS AS FAR AS THEIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE
CONCERNED MOST PARENTS ARE QUITE CONTENT (OW COME
!LTHOUGH THERE IS UNDOUBTEDLY MORE THAN ONE REASON CHIEF
AMONG THEM IS THIS THE AVERAGE PARENT DOESNT HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT
IS REALLY GOING ON AT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL )N FACT THE AVERAGE
PARENT PROBABLY DOESNT KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT THE CURRICULA TEACH
ERS ADMINISTRATORS AND OTHER ASPECTS OF HIS LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
THAN HE DOES ABOUT :AMBOANGA 9ES HE MAY KNOW THE NAMES OF SOME
OF HIS CHILDS TEACHERS AND PERHAPS A FEW BITS OF UNIMPORTANT BIO
GRAPHICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THEM "UT UNLESS A TEACHER HAPPENS TO BE
A NEIGHBOR OR A FRIEND IT IS A VIRTUAL CERTAINTY THAT HE KNOWS NOTHING
IMPORTANT ABOUT THE TEACHERS MORAL BELIEFS RELIGIOUS COMMITMENTS
LEVEL OF LITERACY KNOWLEDGE OF SUBJECT AREAS SOCIAL VIEWS AND SO ON
9ES THE PARENT HAS A VAGUE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL IS OSTENSIBLY TEACHING MATHEMATICS LANGUAGE ARTS SOCIAL STUD
IES AND OTHER SUBJECTS BOTH REAL AND IMAGINED "UT HE HAS NO ACTUAL
IDEA OF WHAT IS IN THE CURRICULUM )S THE SCHOOL TEACHING CONSTRUCTIVIST
MATH AND h2AINFORESTv ALGEBRA (E DOESNT KNOW )S THE SCHOOL TEACH
ING READING BY WHOLE LANGUAGE OR PHONICS (E DOESNT KNOW )S THE
SCHOOL TEACHING HISTORY OR hSELF
ESTEEM STUDIESv (E DOESNT KNOW )S
THE SCHOOL HONEST IN ITS STANDARDIZED TESTING (E DOESNT KNOW $OES
THE SCHOOL TEACH VALUES CLARIlCATION OR HAVE A 'AY3TRAIGHT !LLIANCE
CLUB (E DOESNT KNOW !ND EVEN IF HE HAS HEARD OF ANY OF THESE YOU
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CAN ALMOST BET THAT HE DOESNT KNOW IN ANY DEPTH WHAT THE GOVERN
MENT SCHOOL IS ACTUALLY DOING .OT REALLY
)S THIS A SIGN THAT THE AVERAGE PARENT IS INDIFFERENT TO WHAT
HAPPENS TO HIS CHILD .O 4HERE ARE TWO FACTORS AT WORK HERE &IRST
PARENTS TODAY AND THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR PARENTS BEFORE THEM WERE
RAISED IN A SOCIETY THAT UNREmECTIVELY CAME TO ACCEPT THE BELIEF THAT
THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IS THE BUSINESS OF THE STATE NOT PARENTS
'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS AFTER ALL EMPLOY LEGIONS OF hHIGHLY TRAINED
EDUCATION PROFESSIONALSv WHO HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO REMIND QUESTION
ING PARENTS THAT THEY NOT THE PARENTS ARE THE hEXPERTSv &ROM THE
PERSPECTIVE OF TODAYS PARENTS WHY SHOULD THEY UNDERTAKE SOMETHING
THAT IS THE GOVERNMENTS JOB THAT THEY HAVENT BEEN hTRAINEDv FOR AND
THAT THEYVE ALREADY PAID TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE DO "ESIDES BEING PER
SONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CHILDRENS EDUCATION MIGHT CAUSE SOME
ANXIETY AND FORCE THEM TO REORDER THEIR LIVES
3ECOND AS BAD AS THEY ARE AT WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DO
ING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE PRETTY SLICK AT PUBLIC RELATIONS %IGHTY
SEVEN PERCENT OF CHILDREN COME HOME WITH ABOVE AVERAGE GRADES ON
THEIR REPORT CARDS WITH OVER HAVING NOTHING LOWER THAN A h"v
3TANDARDIZED TESTS ALSO REGULARLY SHOW THAT MOST CHILDREN AND SCHOOL
DISTRICTS ARE ABOVE AVERAGE ,OTS OF BUMPER STICKERS ARE HANDED OUT TO
BUILD THE SELF
ESTEEM OF THE PARENTS OF SOME ABSURDLY HIGH PERCENTAGE
OF CHILDREN WHO ARE ON A SCHOOLS h(ONOR 2OLLv 9ARD SIGNS ARE LIBER
ALLY DISTRIBUTED SO THAT EVERY NEIGHBOR CAN KNOW THAT "UFFY OR "OBBY
IS INVOLVED IN DRILL TEAM BAND OR SOME OTHER ACTIVITY ,OCAL PAPERS
OBEDIENTLY TRANSCRIBE SCHOOL DISTRICT PRESS RELEASES AND PRINT THEM AS
NEWS AND NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REPORT ON SCHOOL SPORTS AND
OTHER EXTRACURRICULAR GOINGS
ON )N SUM WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME
URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHOSE PATHOLOGIES CANT BE CONCEALED PARENTS
IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS !MERICA UNWITTINGLY INHABIT A PSYCHOLOGI
CAL ,AKE 7OBEGON UNOBTRUSIVELY CONSTRUCTED FOR THEM BY THEIR LOCAL
SCHOOL DISTRICT !ND OF COURSE IF THEY RECENTLY ATTENDED GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS THEY PROBABLY WOULDNT GET THE JOKE ABOUT ALL OF THE CHILDREN
BEING ABOVE AVERAGE
!RE 9OUR #HILDREN 5NEQUALLY 9OKED
!S FOR THEIR CHILDREN THEY ARE GENERALLY RECONCILED TO THEIR LOT
.OTHING MUCH IS ASKED OF THEM THEY SELDOM CONFRONT FAILURE AND
THEY LACK THE EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BE
ING DONE TO THEM /NCE A CHILD GETS USED TO BEING INSTITUTIONALIZED
WHATEVER SCHOOL IS THATS WHAT IS NORMAL BECAUSE ITS ALL THE CHILD HAS
KNOWN IN HIS SHORT LIFE
"UT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT PARENTS IN GENERAL 7HAT ABOUT
#HRISTIAN PARENTS !RE THEY UNEQUALLY YOKING THEIR CHILDREN 4O WHAT
EXTENT ARE THEY FORCING THEIR CHILDREN TO WALK IN THE COUNSEL OF THE
UNGODLY 0S
7HERE )S 9OUR 4REASURE
4O ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS WE NEED TO CONSIDER SOME FACTS !C
CORDING TO THE !MERICAN 2ELIGIOUS )DENTITY 3URVEY OF
ADULTS OF !MERICAN ADULTS IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS #HRISTIANS
!CCORDING TO /CTOBER 53 #ENSUS "UREAU ESTIMATES THERE ARE
ALMOST MILLION CHILDREN IN THE AGE RANGE FROM ST THROUGH TH
GRADE 4HE #OUNCIL FOR !MERICAN 0RIVATE %DUCATION ESTIMATES THAT
ABOUT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLCHILDREN ATTEND PRI
VATE SCHOOLS AND IT APPEARS THAT STUDENTS IN #HRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
CONSTITUTE ROUGHLY OF THE PRIVATE SCHOOL TOTAL 4HERE ARE NO
HARD lGURES ON HOW MANY CHILDREN ARE HOMESCHOOLED BUT PRIVATE
ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT THE NUMBER IS LIKELY TO BE IN THE RANGE OF
MILLION TO MILLION /F HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN IT IS ESTIMATED THAT
ROUGHLY TO ARE FROM #HRISTIAN FAMILIES !S A RESULT IF WE
ASSUME THAT OF SCHOOLCHILDREN ARE FROM #HRISTIAN FAMILIES AND
THAT THERE ARE MILLION HOMESCHOOLERS IT APPEARS THAT ABOUT
OF CHILDREN FROM #HRISTIAN FAMILIES ARE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 3O
IT SEEMS THAT WITH RESPECT TO THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN THE VAST
MAJORITY OF #HRISTIAN PARENTS ARE NOT VERY DIFFERENT FROM THEIR NON
#HRISTIAN COUNTERPARTS 4HEY TOO HAVE FALLEN PREY TO THE ASSUMPTION
THAT THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN IS PROPERLY A GOVERNMENT FUNC
TION AND THEY HAVE BEEN LULLED INTO COMPLACENCY BY THE EDUCATION
INDUSTRYS PUBLIC RELATIONS EFFORTS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
7HILE IT IS CLEAR THAT #HRISTIANS IN GENERAL ARE NOT FULlLLING THEIR
OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE THEIR CHILDREN WITH A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION SOME
CHURCH DENOMINATIONS ARE BEING MORE FAITHFUL THAN OTHERS "ELOW IS
A TABLE THAT ESTIMATES FOR EACH OF SEVERAL MAJOR DENOMINATIONS A THE
PERCENTAGE OF ALL #HRISTIANS IN !MERICA THAT THE DENOMINATION REPRE
SENTS B THE PERCENTAGE OF ALL CHILDREN ATTENDING #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS
THAT THE DENOMINATION EDUCATES AND C ENROLLMENT IN THE DENOMI
NATIONS SCHOOLS EXPRESSED AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF
THE DENOMINATIONS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL
AGE CHILDREN !S
INDICATED IN THE ENDNOTES SOME OF THESE lGURES ARE BASED ON VARIOUS
ASSUMPTIONS AND ESTIMATES BUT THEY ILLUSTRATE FAIRLY THAT !MERICAN
#HRISTIANS ARE PROVIDING A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION TO VERY FEW OF THEIR
SCHOOL
AGE CHILDREN
%NROLLMENT IN A
0ERCENT OF $ENOMINATIONS
!LL #HILDREN 3CHOOLS AS A
0ERCENT OF IN #HRISTIAN 0ERCENT OF THE
0ROFESSING 3CHOOLS IN THE $ENOMINATIONS
#HRISTIANS BY $ENOMINATIONS 3CHOOL
AGE
$ENOMINATIONS $ENOMINATION 3CHOOLS #HILDREN
#ATHOLICS
"APTISTS
-ETHODISTS
,UTHERANS
0RESBYTERIANS
#HURCH OF #HRIST
3EVENTH
$AY !DVENTISTS
4HIS SIMPLE TABLE DEMONSTRATES SEVERAL THINGS &IRST OF THE MA
JOR DENOMINATIONS #ATHOLICS ARE EDUCATING A VASTLY DISPROPORTIONATE
SHARE OF THE CHILDREN IN #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS INCLUDING MANY 0ROTES
TANT CHILDREN !LTHOUGH 0ROTESTANTS CONSTITUTE ROUGHLY TWO
THIRDS OF
!MERICAN #HRISTIANS THEY EDUCATE LESS THAN OF THE CHILDREN IN
#HRISTIAN SCHOOLS 4HAT 0ROTESTANTS FAIL TO PROVIDE #HRISTIAN EDUCATION
IS CLEARLY ONE OF THE MANY UNFORTUNATE CONSEQUENCES OF THE MAJORITY
OF TH CENTURY 0ROTESTANTS EMBRACING THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVE
MENT )F 0ROTESTANTS WERE TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR A #HRISTIAN
!RE 9OUR #HILDREN 5NEQUALLY 9OKED
EDUCATION JUST IN THE SAME PROPORTION AS #ATHOLICS THE PERCENTAGE OF
ALL SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN ATTENDING #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS WOULD INCREASE TO
APPROXIMATELY ALMOST DOUBLE THE CURRENT LEVEL 4HIS WOULD
FURTHER MEAN THAT #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS WOULD BE ABLE TO EDUCATE ROUGHLY
OF ALL #HRISTIAN CHILDREN )NTERESTINGLY IN RELATION TO THEIR
NUMBERS THE 3EVENTH
$AY !DVENTISTS HAVE BEEN THE MOST FAITHFUL OF
ALL #HRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS IN PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR #HRISTIAN
EDUCATION "UT EVEN IN THE CASE OF THE 3EVENTH
$AY !DVENTISTS A MA
JORITY OF THEIR CHILDREN IS LIKELY ENROLLED IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
!S NOTED BEFORE IF WE TAKE INTO ACCOUNT BOTH #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS
AND HOMESCHOOLS IT IS LIKELY THAT BETWEEN AND OF CHILDREN
FROM #HRISTIAN FAMILIES ARE ATTENDING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 7HY IS
THAT &OR SOME IT IS A MATTER OF NEVER HAVING THOUGHT ABOUT THE IS
SUE /THERS LIKE MOST PARENTS ACTUALLY THINK THAT THEIR SCHOOL DISTRICT
IS DOING A GOOD JOB BASED ON INFORMATION THEY RECEIVE FROM SCHOOL
OFlCIALS 9ET OTHERS SUSPECT THAT SOMETHING IS GENUINELY WRONG WITH
SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BUT FOR VARIOUS REA
SONS ARE ATTEMPTING TO IGNORE THE PROBLEM OR TO RATIONALIZE WHAT THEY
ARE DOING
(OW CAN A #HRISTIAN RATIONALIZE SENDING HIS CHILDREN TO THE
SPIRITUALLY MORALLY AND ACADEMICALLY CORROSIVE ENVIRONMENT OF THE
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HERE ARE A NUMBER OF COMMON EXCUSES ,ETS
CONSIDER SOME OF THEM
4HE 2ITUAL OF %VASION AND $ENIAL
0ERHAPS YOUVE DISCUSSED WITH #HRISTIAN PARENTS OF SCHOOL
AGE
CHILDREN SOME OF THE REASONS WHY #HRISTIAN CHILDREN SHOULD NOT AT
TEND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )F YOU HAVE THEN YOU MAY ALSO HAVE BEEN
TOLD THAT h9OURE RIGHT BUTx v AS IN h9OURE RIGHT THAT OUR HIGH SCHOOL
HAS A SERIOUS GANG DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEM BUT v OR h9OURE RIGHT
THAT MOST OF THE CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS HAVE TROUBLE READING AND CANT
lND 4EXAS ON A MAP BUTx v OR h9OURE RIGHT THAT THE LOCAL SCHOOLS
ARE PROMOTING EARTH
WORSHIP AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE CLASSROOM
BUTxv (ERE ARE SOME OF THE MORE COMMON hBUTSv
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
"UT /UR 'OVERNMENT 3CHOOL )S $IFFERENT
)N A TRIVIAL SENSE THIS IS TRUE WHICH IS WHY THIS CLAIM HAS SOME
SUPERlCIAL PLAUSIBILITY "UT LETS ASK SOME RELEVANT QUESTIONS $OES
YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
AND IS IT SUBJECT TO FEDERAL LAWS REGULATIONS AND COURT DECISIONS INTER
PRETING THE #ONSTITUTION AND FEDERAL STATUTES $OES YOUR GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE STATE GOVERNMENT AND IS IT SUBJECT TO
STATE LAWS REGULATIONS STATE COURT DECISIONS INTERPRETING YOUR STATE
CONSTITUTION AND STATUTES !RE TEACHERS UNIONS PRESENT IN YOUR SCHOOL
$ID MOST OF THE TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS IN YOUR SCHOOL RECEIVE
TRAINING IN A SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 4HE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS WILL
OF COURSE BE h9ESv
3O IN WHAT RELEVANT SENSE CAN YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL BE DIFFER
ENT )T IS SUBJECT TO THE SAME FEDERAL LAWS AND COURT DECISIONS THAT HAVE
DRIVEN THE "IBLE AND #HRISTIANITY OUT OF THE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE REN
DERED EFFECTIVE DISCIPLINE IMPOSSIBLE AND THAT VIRTUALLY FORCE SCHOOLS
TO HAVE HOMOSEXUAL CLUBS )T IS ALSO AS SUBJECT TO THE PROGRAMMATIC
INCENTIVES AND DISINCENTIVES CREATED BY VARIOUS FORMS OF FEDERAL FUND
ING AS ANY OTHER SCHOOL &OR EXAMPLE AS NOTED IN #HAPTER IF YOU ARE
A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR AND YOU DONT WANT A HOMOSEXUAL
CLUB IN YOUR MIDDLE SCHOOL OR HIGH SCHOOL YOU ARENT FREE TO MAKE THAT
DECISION ENTIRELY ON THE MERITS "Y FEDERAL LEGISLATION YOUR ALTERNA
TIVES TO THE HOMOSEXUAL CLUB ARE A GIVING UP THE ROUGHLY OF YOUR
BUDGET THAT COMES FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT B SHUTTING DOWN
ALL NON
CURRICULAR CLUBS OR C SPENDING A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY ON A
LAWSUIT THAT YOU MIGHT NOT WIN
!T THE STATE LEVEL YOUR SCHOOL IS SUBJECT TO THE SAME STATUTES
AND COURT DECISIONS AS EVERY OTHER SCHOOL IN YOUR STATE )F YOU LIVE IN
#ALIFORNIA FOR EXAMPLE THAT MEANS THAT YOUR BOYS AND GIRLS GET TO
CHOOSE WHETHER FOR PURPOSES OF SCHOOL THEY WILL BE CONSIDERED hBOYSv
OR hGIRLS v OR SOMETHING ELSE 4HE PRESENCE OF THE TEACHERS UNIONS
WHICH ARE LITTLE MORE THAN LEFTIST POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE TRAINING OF
THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS IN SCHOOLS
OF EDUCATION CONTROLLED BY THE hMULTICULTURALv LEFT HELP CREATE A GOV
!RE 9OUR #HILDREN 5NEQUALLY 9OKED
ERNMENT SCHOOL INSTITUTIONAL CULTURE DEEPLY ANTAGONISTIC TO #HRISTIAN
ITY TRADITIONAL MORALITY AND INTELLIGENT APPROACHES TO TEACHING
3O YES IN SOME SUPERlCIAL RESPECTS NOT EVERY GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL IS THE SAME "UT NONE OF THEM IS REALLY DIFFERENT ENOUGH TO
JUSTIFY LEAVING A #HRISTIAN CHILD BEHIND IN THE SEETHING CAULDRON OF
SPIRITUAL MORAL AND ACADEMIC PATHOLOGIES THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
HAVE BECOME
4HE TRUTH IS HARD BUT SIMPLE 4HOSE WHO CONTROL GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS WANT YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR MONEY 4HEY DONT WANT YOU
STICKING YOUR NOSE INTO WHAT THEY CONSIDER TO BE THEIR BUSINESS AND
THEY DONT WANT TO CHANGE 4O PREEMPT ANNOYING PARENTAL SCRUTINY
AND DEMANDS FOR CHANGE SCHOOL DISTRICTS MAKE LIBERAL USE OF THE TOOLS
OF PUBLIC RELATIONS ! STEADY mOW OF GLOSSY BROCHURES PRESS RELEASES
PERSONAL CONTACTS AND OTHER FORMS OF COMMUNICATION ARE USED TO
CREATE AN EDUCATIONAL 0OTEMKIN 6ILLAGE TO PACIFY PARENTS ,IKE AN
ILLUSIONISTS SLEIGHT OF HAND TECHNIQUES PICTURES OF NEW BUILDINGS
REPORTS ABOUT THE FORTUNES OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM AND HUMAN
INTEREST
STORIES ABOUT STUDENTS TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS ARE USED TO CREATE
AN UNDESERVED WHOLESOME IMAGE AND TO DISTRACT ATTENTION FROM THE
SPIRITUAL MORAL AND ACADEMIC ROT ENDEMIC TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
9ES IT IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE FOR THE OFlCIALS OF JUST ABOUT ANY SCHOOL
DISTRICT TO POINT TO SOME OTHER DISTRICT n SAY 0HILADELPHIA n FOR THE
PURPOSE OF CONVINCING PARENTS THAT IN COMPARISON THINGS ARENT SO
BAD )N THIS SENSE THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN 0HILADELPHIA 7ASH
INGTON $# ,OS !NGELES .EW 9ORK AND A FEW OTHER PLACES PLAY AN
INDISPENSABLE ROLE FOR THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT 4HEY CAN ALWAYS
BE USED TO PERSUADE PARENTS THAT THINGS COULD BE WORSE /F COURSE
THIS IS BESIDE THE POINT 4HE QUESTION IS WHETHER THE EDUCATION OF
#HRISTIAN CHILDREN SHOULD BE ENTRUSTED TO AN ANTI
#HRISTIAN INSTITUTION
THAT IS DESTROYING OUR CHILDREN SPIRITUALLY MORALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY
"Y THAT STANDARD IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE FOR EXAMPLE WHETHER
OR hMERELYv OF TEACHERS WERE PHYSICALLY THREATENED IN SCHOOL IN THE
LAST YEAR .O GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IS DIFFERENT ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY LEAVING
THE #HRISTIAN CHILDREN IN THEM BEHIND
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
"UT -Y #HILD )S 3ALT AND ,IGHT
3OME #HRISTIAN PARENTS RATIONALIZE SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BY CLAIMING THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE hSALT AND
LIGHT v OR THAT THEIR CHILDREN MUST PARTICIPATE IN CARRYING OUT THE 'REAT
#OMMISSION )N FACT IT ALMOST SEEMS THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO CONVINCE
YOU THAT THEIR
YEAR
OLD IS REALLY A #HRISTIAN EVANGELIST WITH A PUBLIC
MINISTRY /F COURSE WHEN #HRIST SPOKE ABOUT hSALT AND LIGHTv AND
THE 'REAT #OMMISSION HE WAS SPEAKING TO ADULTS &URTHER (E WASNT
SPEAKING TO JUST ANY ADULTS BUT TO (IS DISCIPLES WHO HAD BEEN WITH
(IM DAY AND NIGHT IN (IS MINISTRY )N FACT BY THE TIME #HRIST GAVE
THE 'REAT #OMMISSION (IS DISCIPLES HAD BEEN WITH (IM FOR ABOUT
THREE YEARS 9ET EVEN THEN #HRIST TOLD (IS DISCIPLES TO STAY IN *ERUSALEM
UNTIL AFTER THEY WERE hENDUED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGHv 4HUS DE
SPITE THE EXTENSIVE TEACHING (E HAD PROVIDED THEM #HRISTS DISCIPLES
WERE NOT READY TO UNDERTAKE THEIR MISSION UNTIL THE (OLY 3PIRIT HAD
COME TO THEM 0LAINLY THEY NEEDED TO HAVE ON THE hWHOLE ARMOR OF
'ODv %PH BEFORE THEY VENTURED OUT
#HRISTIANS REALLY SHOULDNT HAVE TO BE REMINDED THAT #HRIST WAS
NOT SPEAKING TO
YEAR
OLDS
YEAR
OLDS OR
YEAR
OLDS WHEN (E GAVE
THE 'REAT #OMMISSION OR WHEN (E DESCRIBED (IS DISCIPLES AS hSALT AND
LIGHTv #HRISTIAN ADULTS BEAR THIS RESPONSIBILITY NOT CHILDREN )N FACT THE
"IBLE IS QUITE CLEAR THAT CHILDREN REQUIRE NURTURING TRAINING AND YES
EVEN BEING hSET APART FOR A SEASONv !S 0SALM
TELLS US
2ID ME AND DELIVER ME FROM THE HAND OF STRANGE CHILDREN
WHOSE MOUTH SPEAKETH VANITY AND THEIR RIGHT HAND IS A RIGHT
HAND OF FALSEHOOD 4HAT OUR SONS MAY BE AS PLANTS GROWN UP
IN THEIR YOUTH THAT OUR DAUGHTERS MAY BE AS CORNERSTONES POL
ISHED AFTER THE SIMILITUDE OF A PALACE
/BVIOUSLY THE 0SALMIST UNDERSTOOD THAT CHILDREN SHOULD BE GIVEN
TIME TO GROW AND DEVELOP BEFORE FACING A HOSTILE AND SINFUL WORLD ON
THEIR OWN )N OTHER WORDS CHILDHOOD IS A TIME OF DISCIPLING
% 2AY -OORE *R FOUNDER OF THE %XODUS -ANDATE AND A RETIRED
ARMY CHAPLAIN DESCRIBES THE hSALT AND LIGHTv ERROR AS FOLLOWS
!RE 9OUR #HILDREN 5NEQUALLY 9OKED
4HE SALT AND LIGHT OF THE EARTH THEOLOGY IS LAUDABLE BUT MISAP
PLIED IN EDUCATION BECAUSE SMALL CHILDREN SIMPLY DONT HAVE THE
EXPERIENCE TO BE EVANGELISTS FOR THE #HRISTIAN FAITH GIVEN THE
ONSLAUGHT OF SECULAR HUMANISM POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS AND THE
DEMAND FOR CONFORMITY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS #ONFRONTING THESE
IS WORK FOR ADULTS #HRISTIAN FAMILIES SHOULD NOT BE SENDING IN
CHILDREN AS SURROGATE EVANGELISTS BEFORE THEY ARE OLD ENOUGH AND
MATURE ENOUGH IN THEIR OWN FAITH TO HANDLE THE PRESSURES OF
THE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT NOW REPRESENTED BY THE PAGAN SCHOOL
SYSTEM ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
3TILL MANY PARENTS PERSIST IN THE BELIEF THAT YOUNG CHILDREN OR
TEENAGERS SHOULD BE PLACED IN AN EXCEPTIONALLY HOSTILE ANTI
#HRIS
TIAN ENVIRONMENT OR HOURS A WEEK TO WIN
YEAR
OLD .EW
!GERS AND
YEAR
OLD GANG MEMBERS TO #HRIST 3IMPLY STATING THE
PROPOSITION REVEALS ITS ABSURDITY AND WHAT AN UNSPEAKABLE BURDEN TO
PLACE ON A CHILD %VEN #HRISTIAN ADULTS IN THE WORKPLACE DONT HAVE TO
CONFRONT ANYTHING REMOTELY RESEMBLING THE PERVASIVELY HOSTILE ANTI
#HRISTIAN ENVIRONMENT FOUND IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS &URTHER EVEN
IF THEY DID THEY WOULD BE FACING IT AS ADULTS DEALING WITH ADULTS NOT
AS CHILDREN SUBMERGED IN A PAGAN SEMINARY CONTROLLED BY ADULTS WITH
KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND POWER THAT CHILDREN CAN BARELY BEGIN TO
COMPREHEND
4HIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT #HRISTIAN CHILDREN CANNOT BE hSALT AND
LIGHTv IN THE SENSE OF SETTING A #HRISTIAN EXAMPLE IN A MANNER CON
SISTENT WITH THEIR STILL DEVELOPING LEVEL OF MATURITY 4HEY CAN VISIT THE
ELDERLY IN NURSING HOMES THEY CAN INVOLVE THEMSELVES IN COMMUNITY
PROJECTS AND THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN A HOST OF OTHER CONSTRUCTIVE AC
TIVITIES IN WHICH THEY DISPLAY THE #HRISTIAN CHARACTER THAT THEY ARE DE
VELOPING "UT OUR CHILDREN MUST BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO DEVELOP n TO GROW
AND BE POLISHED /THERWISE THEY ARE LIKELY TO FALL AWAY )F YOU DOUBT
THIS GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE lNDINGS BY THE .EHEMIAH )NSTITUTE
&OR THOSE WHO CARE TO PAY ATTENTION THE FACTS SHOW THAT BY SEND
ING OUR CHILDREN TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WE ARE PLUNGING THEM INTO
ACID AND DARKNESS 4HEY ARE LOSING THEIR hSALTINESSv AND THEIR LIGHT IS
BEING EXTINGUISHED 'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE EVANGELISTIC INSTITUTIONS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
FOR SECULARISTS .EW !GERS 7ICCANS AND THE REST !S THE DATA ALSO
SHOW THE ANTI
#HRISTIAN ELEMENTS WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DO
ING A REMARKABLY EFFECTIVE JOB OF EVANGELIZING #HRISTIAN CHILDREN 7E
KNOW EMPIRICALLY THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE THAT #HRISTIAN CHILDREN ARE
hSALT AND LIGHTv IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )NSTEAD GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
ARE CONVERTING OUR CHILDREN TO ALIEN CREEDS AND INFUSING THEM WITH
FALSE AND DESTRUCTIVE VALUES
0ERHAPS THE NEXT TIME A PARENT TELLS YOU THAT HIS CHILD GOES TO
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO BE hSALT AND LIGHT v YOU MIGHT GENTLY ASK
h7HO IS EVANGELIZING WHOM v "UT ASKING h7HO IS KIDDING WHOM v
MIGHT BE MORE TO THE POINT
"UT 7E #ANT *UST 7ITHDRAW FROM THE #ULTURE
4HIS EXCUSE PRESUPPOSES THAT SURRENDERING OUR CHILDREN TO AN AG
GRESSIVELY ANTI
#HRISTIAN INSTITUTION IS SOMEHOW THE ONLY OR THE BEST
WAY TO ENGAGE THE hCULTUREv /N THE CONTRARY SENDING OUR CHILDREN TO
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS IN FACT A PRE
EMPTIVE SURRENDER IN THE CULTURE WARS
4HE EVIDENCE CLEARLY INDICATES THAT CHILDREN EDUCATED IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS OVERWHELMINGLY END UP BEING BOTH hIN THE WORLDv AND
hOF THE WORLDv "Y RESCUING OUR CHILDREN AND PROVIDING THEM WITH A
SOLID #HRISTIAN EDUCATION WE WOULD INSTEAD lNALLY JOIN THE BATTLE BY
DECLARING THAT THE WORLDS VALUES AND BELIEFS ARE NOT OURS -OREOVER WE
CAN PROVIDE NO BETTER WITNESS TO OTHERS THAN BY SHOWING THOSE OUTSIDE
THE #HURCH OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR FAITH AND CHILDREN
&URTHER IF ALL #HRISTIANS WITHDREW THEIR CHILDREN FROM GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS SENDING CHILDREN TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WOULD NO LONGER
REPRESENT THE CULTURAL NORM n WE WOULD HAVE CHANGED IT 4HIS IS IN PART
THE POINT "Y BEING FAITHFUL IN THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN WE ARE IN
FACT ADOPTING THE MOST EFFECTIVE STRATEGY FOR CHANGING THE CULTURE
"UT /UR 0ASTOR (ASNT 3AID )TS A 0ROBLEM
)T IS CERTAINLY TRUE THAT VERY FEW #HRISTIANS HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT
THEIR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HABIT FROM THE PULPIT BUT THIS IS BESIDE THE
POINT /UR OBLIGATIONS AS #HRISTIANS ARE NOT DETERMINED BY WHAT IS
!RE 9OUR #HILDREN 5NEQUALLY 9OKED
SAID FROM THE PULPIT BUT INSTEAD ARE ENJOINED UPON US THROUGH THE
"IBLE 3ECOND MANY CHURCHES ARE QUITE POLITICAL AND PASTORS ARE OFTEN
PRESSURED TO AVOID SOME ISSUES TO MAINTAIN THE COHESION AND PEACE OF
THE CONGREGATION 4HIS IS WHY SIN OFTEN SEEMS NOT TO BE MUCH SPOKEN
ABOUT FROM THE PULPIT THESE DAYS 3IMILARLY MANY PASTORS ARE RELUCTANT
TO PREACH AGAINST SENDING #HRISTIAN CHILDREN TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
FOR FEAR OF ALIENATING THOSE IN THE CONGREGATION WHO MAKE THEIR LIVINGS
DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SYSTEM 4HEY
ALSO FEAR OFFENDING PARENTS WHO ARE SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS BY TELLING THEM THAT THEY ARE SINNING AGAINST THEIR
CHILDREN AND AGAINST 'OD
"UT THIS TOO IS BESIDE THE POINT 4HE RESPONSIBILITY IS lRST AND
FOREMOST OURS AS PARENTS NOT OUR PASTORS -OREOVER DO YOU SERIOUSLY
DOUBT THAT THOSE WHO RAISE THIS hBUTv WOULD JUST lND ANOTHER EXCUSE
IF THEIR PASTORS DID PREACH ABOUT THE SIN OF SENDING #HRISTIAN CHILDREN
TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
"UT /UR 'OVERNMENT 3CHOOL (AS 3OME #HRISTIAN 4EACHERS
-ANY PARENTS THINK THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE A GETTING A SOMEWHAT
#HRISTIAN EDUCATION AT THEIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOL BECAUSE THERE
ARE SOME #HRISTIAN TEACHERS OR ADMINISTRATORS "Y NOW IT SHOULD BE
APPARENT THAT THIS IS FALSE COMFORT 4HE LAW CURRICULA AND OTHER FAC
TORS MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO PROVIDE A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION WITHIN ANY
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL )N FACT MOST PARENTS PROBABLY DONT FULLY APPRECI
ATE HOW DIFlCULT THE POSITION OF #HRISTIAN TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
WITHIN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IS 4ODAY A TEACHER OR ADMINISTRATOR WHO
OPENLY AFlRMS HIS FAITH IN ANY SIGNIlCANT WAY WITHIN THE SCHOOL IS LIKELY
TO BE HARASSED DISCIPLINED OR DISMISSED &URTHER IN MANY INSTANCES
THEY MUST TEACH OR ADMINISTER CURRICULA AND PARTICIPATE IN PROGRAMS
THAT ARE ANTITHETICAL TO THEIR #HRISTIAN BELIEFS #ONSEQUENTLY MANY
#HRISTIAN TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS HAVE LEFT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FOR
#HRISTIAN SCHOOLS OR OTHER lELDS 4HOSE WHO REMAIN BEHIND STRUGGLE TO
lND SOME WAY OF RECONCILING THEIR FAITH WITH THEIR WORK !S #HRISTIANS
WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL THAT SOME #HRISTIAN TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
FEEL CALLED TO REMAIN IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 4HIS HOWEVER IS HARDLY
AN EXCUSE FOR LEAVING OUR CHILDREN THERE
"UT 7HAT ABOUT 3OCIALIZATION
3OME #HRISTIAN PARENTS ARE A LITTLE SCHIZOPHRENIC n THEY WANT
THEIR CHILDREN TO BE #HRISTIAN AND TO BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE 4HIS IS OB
VIOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE #HRIST OFFENDED MANY BECAUSE (IS WORDS AND (IS
ACTIONS WERE A REBUKE TO SINNERS (IS APOSTLES KNEW THAT THEY WOULD
SUFFER BECAUSE THEY WOULD GIVE OFFENSE FOR (IS SAKE #HRISTIANS ARE
NOT COMMANDED h'O AND BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSEv )N #ORINTHIANS
AND WE ARE ASKED hWHAT COMMUNION HATH LIGHT WITH DARK
NESS v AND ARE THEN TOLD TO hCOME OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE YE
SEPARATEx AND TOUCH NOT THE UNCLEAN THINGxv 3IMILARLY 0SALM
ADMONISHES US NOT TO WALK IN THE COUNSEL OF THE UNGODLY STAND IN THE
WAY OF SINNERS OR SIT IN THE SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL 3O THE REAL QUESTION
IS TO WHICH STANDARDS ARE WE GOING TO SOCIALIZE OUR CHILDREN n TO THOSE OF
0HARAOHS SCHOOLS OR TO THOSE OF #HRIST
"UT 7HAT ABOUT %XTRACURRICULAR !CTIVITIES
3OME CHILDREN BECOME VERY ENGAGED IN SPORTS AND OTHER EXTRA
CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 4HIS CAN BE A GOOD THING )TS A PROBLEM FROM THE
#HRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE HOWEVER IF WE ALLOW THESE SORTS OF ACTIVITIES TO
BECOME AN EXCUSE FOR FAILING TO PROVIDE OUR CHILDREN WITH A #HRISTIAN
EDUCATION #HRIST ASKS US WHERE OUR TREASURE IS 7HAT ARE OUR PRIORI
TIES 7HAT IS lRST #HRIST OR THE FOOTBALL TEAM #HRIST OR THE SCHOOL
BAND #HRIST DOESNT TELL US TO SEEK lRST THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DRILL
TEAM BUT RATHER THE +INGDOM OF 'OD -ATT
/UR TRUE PRIORITIES ARE WHAT WE DO NOT WHAT WE SAY OUR PRIORITIES
ARE #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS HOMESCHOOL GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES PROVIDE
A WIDE VARIETY OF EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 7ITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME
TEAM SPORTS SUCH AS FOOTBALL BASEBALL AND BASKETBALL THE QUALITY OF
THE ACTIVITIES SPONSORED THROUGH THESE SOURCES IS LIKELY TO BE AT LEAST
AS GOOD AS THOSE PROVIDED THROUGH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS #OULD THERE
!RE 9OUR #HILDREN 5NEQUALLY 9OKED
BE A CLEARER EXAMPLE OF MISPLACED PRIORITIES THAN LEAVING A CHILD IN A
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL SO HE CAN PARTICIPATE IN A MORE COMPETITIVE SPORTS
OR OTHER EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAM
"UT 7HAT 7OULD -Y &AMILY AND &RIENDS 4HINK
4HIS IS SELDOM A PROBLEM FOR PARENTS WHO DECIDE TO SEND THEIR
CHILDREN TO A #HRISTIAN SCHOOL )T USED TO BE A SIGNIlCANT PROBLEM
FOR THOSE WHO CHOSE TO HOMESCHOOL &ORTUNATELY TO THE CHAGRIN
OF THE TEACHERS UNIONS MOST PEOPLE NOW HAVE A FAVORABLE VIEW OF
HOMESCHOOLING 0ARENTS WHO DECIDE TO HOMESCHOOL TODAY ARE FAR
MORE LIKELY TO ENCOUNTER CURIOSITY THAN HOSTILITY "UT IF GRANDPARENTS
OR OTHERS DO REACT NEGATIVELY #HAPTER POINTS YOU TOWARD SOME OF
THE MANY STUDIES AND OTHER MATERIALS AVAILABLE TO ALLAY THEIR CONCERNS
-ANY TIMES JUST SHOWING WORRIED GRANDPARENTS HOMESCHOOLING CUR
RICULUM MATERIALS IS ENOUGH TO CONVINCE THEM THAT THEY DONT NEED TO
BE CONCERNED (OMESHOOLING PARENTS ALSO HAVE FOUND THAT DOUBTERS
HAVE BECOME BELIEVERS WHEN THEY HAVE SEEN HOW THEIR HOMESCHOOLED
CHILDREN HAVE mOURISHED )N THE lNAL ANALYSIS HOWEVER YOU ARE RE
SPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING YOUR CHILDREN WITH A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION NO
MATTER WHAT OTHERS MAY THINK
"UT 7E 7ENT TO 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS AND 7E 4URNED /UT *UST &INE
.O WE WERE SENT TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND WHILE WE MAY NOT
HAVE DEVELOPED AN ALCOHOL OR DRUG PROBLEM GOTTEN PREGNANT OUT
OF
WEDLOCK HAD AN ABORTION BECOME $RUIDS EXPERIMENTED WITH HOMO
SEXUALITY OR FAILED TO LEARN THAT THE 5NITED 3TATES IS LOCATED IN .ORTH
!MERICA GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WERE A BAD PLACE FOR CHILDREN EVEN WHEN
WE ATTENDED THEM n OUR NOSTALGIC MEMORIES NOTWITHSTANDING 4HE
PATHOLOGIES OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WERE JUST FAR BETTER CONCEALED THEN
AND NOT AS FAR ADVANCED
4ODAY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE VASTLY WORSE THAN THEY WERE EVEN
TEN OR TWENTY YEARS AGO -OREOVER THE HAZARDS THEY POSE TODAY TO ANY
CHILD NOT JUST #HRISTIAN CHILDREN ARE OBVIOUS FOR ANY PARENT WHO
CARES TO LOOK 9OU WOULDNT LET YOUR CHILD PLAY 2USSIAN 2OULETTE SO
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
WHY WOULD YOU CHOSE TO GIVE YOUR CHILDREN TO AN INSTITUTION THAT IS
ANTI
#HRISTIAN THAT AGGRESSIVELY PROMOTES ANTI
#HRISTIAN VALUES THAT
IS PHYSICALLY DANGEROUS AND THAT CRIPPLES CHILDREN INTELLECTUALLY AND
HOPE THAT YOUR CHILD WILL SOMEHOW PASS THROUGH THE lRE UNSCATHED
"UT 7E #ANT !FFORD )T
!PART FROM WORKING OUT OUR OWN SALVATION WE AS #HRISTIAN
PARENTS HAVE NO MORE IMPORTANT TASK ON THIS EARTH THAN RAISING OUR
CHILDREN AS THE "IBLE COMMANDS US )F WE ARE GIVING OUR CHILDREN OVER
TO AN ANTI
#HRISTIAN INSTITUTION FOR THEIR EDUCATION WE ARE FAILING TO
BE FAITHFUL AND WE ARE HARMING OUR CHILDREN SPIRITUALLY MORALLY AND
INTELLECTUALLY n PERHAPS EVEN PHYSICALLY 4HUS THE QUESTION FOR US CAN
NOT BE h#AN WE AFFORD A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION v )NSTEAD IT MUST BE
h(OW ARE WE GOING TO DO IT v
4HOSE OF US WHO ARE MIDDLE CLASS !MERICANS ALREADY HAVE BEEN
GRACED WITH ABUNDANT MEANS )F WE ASK h#AN WE AFFORD A #HRISTIAN
EDUCATION v WHAT WE ARE REALLY ASKING IS WHETHER WE CAN PROVIDE OUR
CHILDREN ONE WITHOUT DISTURBING OUR EXISTING MATERIAL PRIORITIES #AN
YOU GIVE YOUR CHILDREN A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION IN A #HRISTIAN SCHOOL
OR BY HOMESCHOOLING WITHOUT CHANGING HOW YOU LIVE ) DONT KNOW
BUT ALL OF US NEED TO CONSTANTLY REMIND OURSELVES THAT CARS BOATS
HOBBIES CLOTHES VACATIONS LARGE HOUSES AND RESTAURANT MEALS ARE ALL
EPHEMERA ,IKE OUR mESH THEY WILL WITHER AND FADE !S PARENTS WE ARE
OBLIGATED TO ENSURE THAT THE 7ORD ABIDES WITHIN OUR CHILDREN AND THAT
THEY RECEIVE A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION
&OR THOSE OF US WHOSE MATERIAL MEANS ARE LESS THAN AVERAGE GIVING
OUR CHILDREN A TRULY #HRISTIAN EDUCATION SEEMS A GREAT CHALLENGE 9ET IN
!MERICA WE ALL TEND TO MEASURE OUR MATERIAL CIRCUMSTANCES IN RELATION
TO OTHERS USUALLY IN RELATION TO THOSE WHOM WE BELIEVE ARE DOING BETTER
ECONOMICALLY THAN WE ARE "UT CONSIDER OUR EARLY !MERICAN FOREBEARS
)N TH AND EARLY TH CENTURY #ONNECTICUT FOR EXAMPLE VIRTUALLY
EVERYONE WAS LITERATE EVEN THOUGH BY TODAYS STANDARDS THE WELL
TO
DO
THEN WOULD BE CONSIDERED TO BE LIVING IN SHOCKING POVERTY %VEN THE
hPOORv IN !MERICA TODAY ENJOY THINGS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNIMAGI
!RE 9OUR #HILDREN 5NEQUALLY 9OKED
NABLE LUXURIES TO THE WEALTHY OF THAT ERA %ARLY !MERICAN CHILDREN
LIVING IN HOMES WITHOUT RUNNING WATER AND WITHOUT CENTRAL HEATING OR
AIR
CONDITIONING RECEIVED A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS
COULDNT IMAGINE HAVING A HIGHER PRIORITY THAN RAISING THEIR CHILDREN
AS 'OD COMMANDS 4HEY DID WHATEVER WAS NECESSARY TO DEMONSTRATE
THEIR FAITHFULNESS IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN )F THE MEANS FOR
DOING SO WERENT CLOSE AT HAND THEY lGURED OUT HOW TO PROVIDE WHAT
WAS NEEDED AS A COMMUNITY OF #HRISTIANS 7E NEED TO BE MINDFUL
OF THEIR WITNESS !CTING TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY OF #HRISTIANS IS THE
SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO TO ENSURE THAT ALL OF THE CHIL
DREN IN OUR CHURCHES CAN GET A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION
"UT 7E #ANT 3END /UR #HILDREN TO #HRISTIAN 3CHOOL
AND ) $ONT 4HINK ) AM 1UALIFIED TO 4EACH
-ANY PARENTS WHO CANT AFFORD A #HRISTIAN SCHOOL WOULD CON
SIDER HOMESCHOOLING BUT THEY ARE AFRAID TO HOMESCHOOL BECAUSE THEY
DONT THINK THEY ARE QUALIlED TO TEACH )F THIS STILL BOTHERS YOU GO BACK
AND RE
READ #HAPTER
-ANY TEACHERS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS UNFORTUNATELY DONT
REALLY KNOW HOW TO TEACH )N FACT THEY ARE STEEPED IN EDUCATIONAL
THEORIES THAT VIRTUALLY ASSURE THAT THEY WONT BE ABLE TO TEACH 4HE
DWINDLING REMNANT OF TEACHERS WHO DO KNOW HOW TO TEACH ARE OFTEN
REQUIRED TO USE CURRICULA THAT MAKE TEACHING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE &OR
EXAMPLE -ATTHEW #LAVEL A CAPABLE YOUNG MATH TEACHER IN .EW 9ORK
FOUND THAT THE DISTRICT
MANDATED h&UZZY -ATHv CURRICULUM ACTUALLY
PREVENTED LEARNING AND WAS DEMORALIZING HIS STUDENTS (IS SOLUTION
#IVIL DISOBEDIENCE !S HE PUT IT h)F SCHOOL OFlCIALS KNEW HOW FAR MY
LESSONS WOULD DEVIATE FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT
MANDATED PROGRAM IN
THE MONTHS AHEAD THEY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE lRED ME ON THE SPOTv
#LAVEL BY THE WAY IS NO LONGER TEACHING
9OU ACTUALLY HAVE SEVERAL ADVANTAGES OVER THOSE WHO TEACH IN GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS YOUR HEAD HASNT BEEN STUFFED FULL OF FALSE THEORIES OF
LEARNING BY A SCHOOL OF EDUCATION YOU ARE FREE TO USE WITH YOUR CHILDREN
WHATEVER CURRICULUM YOU DISCOVER WORKS WELL FOR THEM YOU KNOW YOUR
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
PUPILS BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE AND CAN DISCIPLINE THEM AS NEEDED AND
YOU DONT HAVE TO MANAGE A CLASSROOM OF TO CHILDREN OR DEAL
WITH GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE RED
TAPE )N ADDITION THERE ARE
MANY TURN
KEY CURRICULA AVAILABLE THAT BESIDES BOOKS PROVIDE DAILY
LESSON PLANS VIDEO COURSES GRADING AND TESTING SERVICES TRANSCRIPTS
AND OTHER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT MAKE IT EASY TO HOMESCHOOL )F YOU
ARE STILL WORRIED TAKE A LOOK AT THE STUDY REFERENCED IN THE NEXT CHAPTER
THAT FOUND THAT HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN SUBSTANTIALLY OUTPERFORM THEIR
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL COUNTERPARTS EVEN IF A PARENT HADNT GRADUATED FROM
HIGH SCHOOL
"UT 7E #ANT 3END OUR #HILDREN TO #HRISTIAN 3CHOOL
AND $ONT (AVE 4IME TO (OMESCHOOL
.O TIME 4HIS IS ALMOST NEVER TRUE (OMESCHOOLERS lNISH THEIR
SCHOOLWORK ON AVERAGE WITHIN THREE TO FOUR HOURS AND ONLY A PART OF
THAT TIME INVOLVES INSTRUCTION BY A PARENT -ANY FAMILIES IN WHICH BOTH
PARENTS WORK HOMESCHOOL BY TEACHING IN THE EVENINGS 3INGLE PARENTS
OFTEN lND WAYS TO HOMESCHOOL )N FACT IN MY FAMILYS CHURCH THERE IS
A SINGLE MOTHER OF MODEST MEANS WHO HAS SUCCESSFULLY HOMESCHOOLED
HER lVE CHILDREN )F SHE CAN DO IT THE REST OF US DONT HAVE ANY EXCUSES
7E MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO HOMESCHOOL AND WATCH AS MUCH TELEVISION
AS WE DO NOW WE MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO HOMESCHOOL AND GO OUT AS
MUCH AS WE DO NOW WE MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO HOMESCHOOL AND PLAY
OR WATCH AS MUCH SPORTS AS WE DO NOW n BUT WE DO HAVE TIME )F YOU
ARE WORRIED ABOUT TIME PERHAPS YOU SHOULD ALSO ASK YOURSELF IF YOU
HAVE THE TIME TO DEAL WITH THE MANY PROBLEMS THAT ARE LIKELY TO AFFECT
YOUR CHILDREN IF YOU DO LEAVE THEM IN 0HARAOHS SCHOOLS
7HY !RE 7E &AILING IN THE %DUCATION OF /UR #HILDREN
/BVIOUSLY OUR FAILURE TO BE FAITHFUL IN THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHIL
DREN IS NOT A DENOMINATIONAL PROBLEM 7E ARE ALL FALLING SHORT n EVEN
!RE 9OUR #HILDREN 5NEQUALLY 9OKED
DENOMINATIONS KNOWN TO BE "IBLICALLY CONSERVATIVE
&OR EXAMPLE IN A ADDRESS TO THE 3OUTHERN "APTIST #ONVEN
TION %XECUTIVE #OMMITTEE 4# 0INCKNEY PROVIDED ONE OF THE BEST
MOST SUCCINCT STATEMENTS OF THE REASONS WHY WE ARE FAILING TO PROVIDE
OUR CHILDREN WITH A #HRISTIAN EDUCATION
7HY HAVE WE FAILED OUR 'OD IN THIS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT RE
SPONSIBILITY 7E HAVE FAILED BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN WILLFULLY
BLISSFULLY IGNORANTx AND SATISlED IN OUR IGNORANCE 7E HAVE
FAILED BECAUSE THE GREAT MAJORITY OF US HAVE NOT MADE THE EFFORT
TO INFORM OURSELVES OF THE FACTSx EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE BOOKS
AND ARTICLES GALORE READILY AVAILABLE 7E HAVE FAILED BECAUSE n
EVEN WHEN WE HAVE KNOWN THE FACTS n WE HAVE NOT HAD THE COURAGE
TO POINT THEM OUT TO OUR PEOPLE ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
)GNORANCE SLOTH AND A FAILURE OF COURAGE n THIS IS A 3OUTHERN
"APTIST INDICTING HIS OWN CONVENTION FOR ITS FAILURE TO BE FAITHFUL IN
THE EDUCATION OF ITS CHILDREN 2OUSAS * 2USHDOONY LONG AGO SOUNDED
THE SAME ALARM AMONG 0RESBYTERIANS AND SIMILAR VOICES HAVE BEEN
SPEAKING OUT AMONG ,UTHERANS -ETHODISTS #ATHOLICS 0ENTECOSTALS
AND OTHERS
)T 4AKES A #HURCH
7HAT ARE WE DOING AS A COMMUNITY OF #HRISTIANS TO PROVIDE #HRIS
TIAN EDUCATION FOR OUR CHILDREN 4HAT QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED
ALREADY n NEARLY NOTHING -OST CHURCHES HAVE MINISTRIES OF ALL SORTS
)RONICALLY MANY OF THEM ARE DIRECTED AT HELPING WITH THE PROBLEMS
OF ADULTS n FOR EXAMPLE THE CONSEQUENCES OF CRIME USING DRUGS AND
DIVORCE n THAT HAVE BECOME COMMONPLACE BECAUSE WE AND EARLIER GEN
ERATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN FAITHFUL IN HOW WE EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN
3OMEHOW CHURCHES FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THERE IS NO MINISTRY MORE
URGENT AND IMPORTANT THAN HELPING ASSURE THAT NO #HRISTIAN CHILD IS LEFT
BEHIND IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL 4HIS DOESNT MEAN THAT EVERY CHURCH
NEEDS TO START A SCHOOL "UT EVERY CHURCH SHOULD BE COUNSELING PARENTS
WHOSE CHILDREN ARE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS TO TAKE THEIR CHILDREN OUT
EVERY CHURCH SHOULD BE DISCUSSING WITH PARENTS OF LIMITED MEANS HOW
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
THEIR CHILDREN CAN BE RESCUED FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS EVERY CHURCH
SHOULD BE ACTIVELY EDUCATING PARENTS ABOUT HOMESCHOOLING AND SUP
PORTING HOMESCHOOLING GROUPS AND EVERY CHURCH SHOULD BE COLLABORAT
ING WITH OTHER CHURCHES TO lND WAYS OF BRINGING EVERY #HRISTIAN CHILD
OUT FROM GOVERNMENT SCHOOL BONDAGE
# ( ! 0 4 % 2 % ) ' ( 4
, E A DIN G 9O U R # H I LD R E N
IN TO THE 0RO M IS E D , AND O F
(OMES C HO O L IN G A N D # HRI ST I A N 3 C H O O LS
h!ND HE SHALL TURN THE HEART OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN
AND THE HEART OF THE CHILDREN TO THE FATHERSxv
-ALACHI
# HRISTIAN EDUCATION ISNT SOMETHING TO TURN TO RELUCTANTLY 2ATHER WE
SHOULD EMBRACE IT WITH A SENSE OF JOY AND HOPE /UR FAILED NATIONAL
EXPERIMENT WITH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING OVER THE COURSE OF A CENTURY
AND MORE HAS CREATED INTENSE CONmICT BETWEEN #HRISTIAN HOMES AND
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND BETWEEN #HRISTIAN PARENTS AND THEIR OWN
CHILDREN "ECOMING OBEDIENT TO THE OBLIGATIONS 'OD HAS ENJOINED
UPON US IN THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN ALLOWS US TO ELIMINATE THAT
CONmICT #HRISTIAN EDUCATION ALIGNS THE VALUES OF EDUCATION WITH THOSE
OF #HRISTIAN HOMES AND PREVENTS SCHOOLING FROM ALIENATING CHILDREN
FROM THEIR PARENTS -OREOVER AS IN ALL THINGS 'OD HAS PROVIDED US
WITH THE MEANS TO DO THIS
#HRISTIAN SCHOOLS ARE PLENTIFUL IN MANY PARTS OF THE COUNTRY AND
HOMESCHOOLING RESOURCES ARE MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE TODAY THAN EVER
BEFORE -OREOVER WHETHER YOU ARE INTERESTED IN TRADITIONAL #HRISTIAN
SCHOOLS OR HOMESCHOOLING THE )NTERNET PROVIDES #HRISTIAN PARENTS
AN ASTONISHING AMOUNT OF INFORMATION REGARDING THESE ALTERNATIVES TO
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )F YOU DO NOT HAVE AN )NTERNET CONNECTION YOU
PROBABLY HAVE A FRIEND WHO DOES OR A LOCAL LIBRARY THAT CAN GIVE YOU
ACCESS TO THE 7ORLD 7IDE 7EB .OTHING PROVIDES AN EASIER OR MORE
COMPREHENSIVE WAY OF BECOMING FAMILIAR WITH THE MANY OPPORTUNI
TIES FOR #HRISTIAN EDUCATION THAN THE )NTERNET )F YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR
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PARENTS ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN
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THE SCHEDULE FOR THEIR CHILDRENS SCHOOL DAY AND SCHOOL YEAR TUTOR THEIR
CHILDREN ON THEIR SCHOOL WORK AND EVALUATE THEIR CHILDRENS WORK AND
ARRANGE FOR TESTING
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DENTS ARE NOT NECESSARILY TAUGHT EXCLUSIVELY BY THEIR PARENTS (OME
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PARENTS WITH KNOWLEDGE OF SPECIALIZED SUBJECTS PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN
THOSE SUBJECTS TO THE CHILDREN IN THE GROUP ! NUMBER OF PROVIDERS OF
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JECTS TO HOMESCHOOL STUDENTS OVER THE )NTERNET USING STREAMING VIDEO
AND AUDIO "ECAUSE OF THE PROFOUND CHANGES IN THE CAPABILITIES AND
COST OF COMPUTERS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS OVER THE LAST lVE YEARS
HOMESCHOOLING CHILDREN HAVE ACCESS TO A RANGE OF EDUCATIONAL AND SO
CIAL OPPORTUNITIES THAT NOT LONG AGO WOULD HAVE BEEN UNIMAGINABLE
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TION THAT LIKE SCHOOLTEACHERS HOMESCHOOL PARENTS MUST SPEND lVE
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TYPICAL HOMESCHOOLED CHILD SPENDS ABOUT THREE TO FOUR HOURS A DAY
ON hSCHOOL v INCLUDING HOMEWORK 4HIS REDUCED TIME COMMITMENT
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TIME
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4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
CALLY SPENT WORKING INDEPENDENTLY OR MAKING USE OF OTHER RESOURCES
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RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR EDUCATION AND MUST LEARN HOW TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES
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LEVEL FELL BETWEEN THE ND AND ND PERCENTILES IN READING AND WERE AS
HIGH AS THE TH PERCENTILE IN MATHEMATICS 'ENERALLY HOMESCHOOL
ERS MEDIAN TEST SCORES REPORTED BY GRADE WERE BETWEEN THE TH AND
TH PERCENTILES WHILE THE TEST SCORES OF PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE
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SCORED IN THE TH AND ND PERCENTILES RESPECTIVELY -OREOVER THE
STUDY FOUND THAT BY TH GRADE THE AVERAGE HOMESCHOOLED STUDENT
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THE LONGER A CHILD WAS HOMESCHOOLED THE BETTER HE DID ACADEMICALLY
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STUDENTS WHO HAD BEEN HOMESCHOOLED FOR ONE YEAR "UT FOR STUDENTS
WHO HAD BEEN HOMESCHOOLED FOR SEVEN YEARS THE AVERAGE 3!4 SCORE
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TANK PUBLISHED A SURVEY OF THE RESEARCH THAT HAD BEEN DONE ON
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IMPRESSIVE RESULTS HAVE BEEN OBSERVABLE FOR AT LEAST YEARS
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!PART FROM PERFORMING WELL ON STANDARDIZED TESTS HOMESCHOOL
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SCORE
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FROM ITS SPELLING COMPETITION
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REGULATION OF HOMESCHOOLERS IMPROVE THEIR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
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OF MINORITY STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THEY WERE EQUAL
TO THE READING SCORES OF WHITE HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN )N
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TO OUTPERFORM MINORITY STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BY
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SEVEN PERCENTILE POINTS AND THEY WERE WITHIN PER
CENTILE POINTS OF THE AVERAGE SCORE OF WHITE HOMESCHOOLED
CHILDREN 4HE ACADEMIC SUCCESS ENJOYED BY MINORITY HOME
SCHOOLERS IS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE REASON WHY AN ESTIMATED
OF HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN IN WERE BLACK AND WHY BLACK
CHILDREN WERE lVE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE HOMESCHOOLED IN
THAN THEY WERE IN )N FACT BLACK FAMILIES ARE
PROBABLY THE FASTEST GROWING SUBGROUP AMONG HOMESCHOOL
ERS /NE INDICATION OF A COMING BOOM IN MINORITY HOME
SCHOOLING COMES FROM A SURVEY OF STUDENTS AT 6ANDERBILT 5NI
VERSITY AND .ASHVILLE 3TATE 4ECH /F THE RESPONDENTS OF
THE BLACK STUDENTS AND TWO
THIRDS OF THE NON
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RESPONDED hYESv OR hMAYBEv WHEN ASKED IF THEY WOULD HOME
SCHOOL THEIR CHILDREN )N CONTRAST LESS THAN OF THE WHITE
STUDENTS ANSWERED hYESv OR hMAYBEv
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CENTILE IN MATHEMATICS AND THE RD PERCENTILE IN READING
WHILE THE AVERAGE GIRL IS IN THE TH PERCENTILE IN MATHEMAT
ICS AND THE TH PERCENTILE IN READING !MONG HOMESCHOOL
ERS BOYS AND GIRLS HAVE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL READING SCORES TH
PERCENTILE FOR BOYS VERSUS TH PERCENTILE FOR GIRLS )N MATH
EMATICS BOYS MAINTAIN THEIR AVERAGE FOUR PERCENTILE POINT
ADVANTAGE BUT THE AVERAGE HOMESCHOOLED GIRLS MATHEMATICS
SCORE IS THIRTY
ONE PERCENTILE POINTS HIGHER TH PERCENTILE
THAN SCORES FOR GIRLS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
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AND THE TH PERCENTILE IN MATHEMATICS 3TUDENTS IN GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOLS WHOSE PARENTS HAD GRADUATED FROM COL
LEGE SCORED IN THE ST PERCENTILE IN WRITING AND IN THE RD
PERCENTILE IN MATHEMATICS )N CONTRAST IN A BASIC BATTERY OF
TESTS THAT INCLUDED WRITING AND MATHEMATICS HOMESCHOOLED
STUDENTS WHOSE MOTHERS HADNT lNISHED HIGH SCHOOL SCORED
IN THE RD PERCENTILE WHILE STUDENTS WHOSE FATHER HADNT lN
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INDUSTRY IS INCREASINGLY RELUCTANT TO QUESTION THE QUALITY OF HOME
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PUBLIC 2ATHER THE EDUCATION INDUSTRY CRITICS OF HOMESCHOOLING SUG
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IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND HOMESCHOOLERS WITH RESPECT TO
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STUDIES A STUDY SHOWED THAT HOMESCHOOLERS WERE
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LEADERSHIP AS PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENTS AND MORE INVOLVED
IN SUCH ACTIVITIES THAN GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS AND
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AND CONCLUDED THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT THESE ADULTS
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PER DAY WHILE IN CONTRAST OF ALL STUDENTS WATCH TELEVISION ONE
HOUR OR LESS PER DAY 3IMILARLY IT HAS BEEN FOUND THAT ONLY OF
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MAKING
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STANDARDS OF OUR ANTI
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ARE WORKING TO ELIMINATE #HRISTIAN INmUENCE FROM SOCIETY BY GRADUALLY
ELIMINATING #HRISTIANITY .OT BY EXTERMINATION OR FORCIBLY SHUTTING
OUR CHURCHES BUT BY GRADUALLY EUTHANIZING #HRISTIANITY THROUGH THEIR
INmUENCE OVER THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN 7E HAVE INADVERTENTLY
,EADING 9OUR #HILDREN INTO THE 0ROMISED ,AND OF (OMESCHOOLING AND #HRISTIAN 3CHOOLS
BEEN ACCOMPLICES IN THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR CHILDREN OUR CULTURE AND
OUR FAITH 9ET THIS CAN ALL BE CHANGED IN THE hTWINKLING OF AN EYEv
7E ARE STILL FREE TO LEAD OUR CHILDREN OUT OF THE %GYPT OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS AND INTO THE 0ROMISED ,AND OF #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS AND HOME
SCHOOLING !LL THAT IS REQUIRED IS A hFRESH OBEDIENCEv 7ILL WE BE
FOUND TO HAVE BEEN GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANTS OR WICKED AND SLOTHFUL
SERVANTS 7E HAVE A DECISION TO MAKE
0O S TS C RIPT TO 4E A C H E R S
A N D ! DM IN IS TRA T O R S
h;7=HEN GOOD PEOPLE ARE WORKING IN A BAD SYSTEM THE SYSTEM WINSv
-ARSHALL &RITZ
) F YOURE READING THIS YOURE ALMOST CERTAINLY PART OF THE REMNANT OF
CAPABLE TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS TRYING TO STICK IT OUT IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS ) WENT TO hPUBLICv SCHOOLS FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH
HIGH SCHOOL ) HAVE TAUGHT TEACHERS DURING hIN
SERVICEv DAYS AND IN
ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS BOTH OF MY GRANDMOTHERS TAUGHT IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS n ONE OF THEM BEGAN TEACHING IN A ONE
ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE MY
MOTHER WAS A SCHOOL NURSE ) HAVE MORE THAN A FEW UNCLES AUNTS AND
COUSINS WHO HAVE TAUGHT OR WHO ARE TEACHING IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
) HAVE SERVED IN A COMMUNITY ARTS ORGANIZATION WITH A NUMBER OF
CURRENT AND RETIRED PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS AND A WONDERFUL #HRISTIAN
WOMAN IN OUR CHURCH WHO TEACHES AT ONE OF OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS HAS ALSO TAUGHT OUR OLDEST SONS 3UNDAY SCHOOL CLASS )N SUM
) HAVE MORE THAN A PASSING PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCE WITH GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS
9OU OF COURSE LIVE WITH THIS STRANGE EXPENSIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE
INSTITUTION DAILY AND THE ODDS ARE THAT YOU HAVE SEEN MANY OF THE
PROBLEMS ) HAVE DISCUSSED 7HETHER YOU ARE A NEW OR EXPERIENCED
TEACHER OR ADMINISTRATOR YOU PROBABLY FEEL TRAPPED BELEAGUERED ISO
LATED FRUSTRATED BETRAYED AND PERHAPS A BIT PERSECUTED
9OU ALSO PROBABLY FEEL A BIT CONmICTED 7HILE THE RIGHT COURSE
OF ACTION FOR #HRISTIAN PARENTS IS CLEAR YOUR POSITION IS AMBIGUOUS
&OR SOME OF YOU THERE ARE COMPELLING REASONS TO STAY AND SOLDIER ON
FOR OTHERS OF YOU ITS TIME TO MOVE ON 4HIS IS A QUESTION THAT EACH OF
YOU MUST WEIGH IN LIGHT OF YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES 4HERE ARE A FEW THINGS
HOWEVER THAT MAY BE USEFUL TO BEAR IN MIND AS YOU TRY TO SORT OUT FROM
TIME TO TIME WHETHER YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOL HAS SIMPLY REDUCED YOU
TO THE ROLE OF AN ENABLER FOR ITS MANY PATHOLOGIES
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
'ETTING /UT OF $ODGE
/NE OF THE RECURRING THEMES ) HAVE RUN ACROSS IN MY RESEARCH
IS THE DEPTH OF DISSATISFACTION WITH THE CURRENT STATE OF GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS AMONG THE MOST EXPERIENCED TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
,INDA 3CHROCK 4AYLOR A -ICHIGAN TEACHER WRITER AND ENTREPRENEUR
VOICES ELOQUENTLY WHY AS SHE PUTS IT SEASONED TEACHERS hARE LEAVING
THE TEACHING PROFESSION IN DROVESv
;7=E BEGAN TEACHING WHEN LEARNING WAS VALUED STUDENTS WERE
MOTIVATED AND ADMINISTRATION WAS SUPPORTIVE OF EXCELLENCE IN
EDUCATION 7E THEN SPENT THESE THIRTY YEARS OBSERVING WITH NO
POWER TO STOP THE TRASHING OF TRADITIONAL TEACHING METHODS
THE ENTRENCHING OF INFERIOR FADS AND MATERIALS THE LOWERING OF
EXPECTATIONSx THE hOTHER
WORLDv CRAZINESS OF ADMINISTRATIVE
LEADERSHIP 7E HAVE WATCHED OUR SCHOOLS BE VANDALIZED TRADI
TIONAL CURRICULUM BE COMPROMISED STUDENTS SPEAK DRESS AND
ACT LIKE THE LOWEST OF CLASSES 7E WORK FOR YOUNG BOSSES WHO ARE
PROUD OF NEVER EARNING ANYTHING HIGHER THAN A h#v IN SCHOOL
BUT WHO EXPECT US TO APPLAUD THEIR hACHIEVEMENTSvx7E HAVE
NO CHOICE BUT TO PICK UP TURN IN OUR KEYS AND LEAVEx
4HIS CRITIQUE IS BORNE OUT BY VARIOUS STUDIES /NE OF THE MOST
RECENT WAS PRODUCED BY 0UBLIC !GENDA A .EW 9ORK
BASED NON
PROlT POLLING ORGANIZATION BY ANALYZING OF A DECADE OF RESEARCH .OT
SURPRISINGLY 0UBLIC !GENDA FOUND THAT EVEN THOUGH MANY TEACHERS
MAY SUPPORT HIGHER ACADEMIC STANDARDS THEY ALSO OFTEN FEEL THAT
STUDENTS LACK THE NECESSARY WORK
ETHIC TO MEET THOSE STANDARDS AND
THAT PARENTS AND ADMINISTRATORS DONT GIVE TEACHERS THE SUPPORT THEY
NEED TO ENFORCE THEM !LSO NOT SURPRISINGLY STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
REPORT UNRULY STUDENTS AND SCHOOL VIOLENCE AS SIGNIlCANT PROBLEMS
!PART FROM THESE CONCERNS FORTY
SEVEN PERCENT OF PRINCIPALS REPORTED
THAT TALENTED TEACHERS ARE MOST LIKELY TO LEAVE BECAUSE OF hPOLITICS AND
BUREAUCRACYv
4HE DAY
TO
DAY REALITY BEHIND THESE DISTURBING STATISTICS WAS
VIVIDLY DESCRIBED IN A REPORT BY 4HE 0ALM "EACH 0OST WHICH IN
TERVIEWED DOZENS OF 0ALM "EACH #OUNTY TEACHERS AND SCHOOL DISTRICT
0OSTSCRIPT TO 4EACHERS AND !DMINISTRATORS
OFlCIALS !CCORDING TO THE TEACHERS INTERVIEWED STUDENT DISCIPLINE
PROBLEMS IN THE 0ALM "EACH #OUNTY SCHOOLS ARE WORSE THAN EVER /B
SCENE GRAFlTI WRITTEN ON WALLS STUDENTS CURSING AT TEACHERS SPITTING IN
TEACHERS COFFEE THROWING DESKS AT TEACHERS AND THREATENING TO HAVE
THEM BEATEN UP AND GENERAL CLASSROOM DISRUPTIONS WERE AMONG THE
PROBLEMS 0ALM "EACH #OUNTY TEACHERS HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING WITH
INCREASING FREQUENCY !T THE SAME TIME TEACHERS ALSO COMPLAINED THAT
ADMINISTRATORS hBRUSH ASIDE ;STUDENT= BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS v PARTLY OUT
OF A DESIRE TO AVOID A hNEGATIVE IMAGEv FOR THEIR SCHOOLS PARTLY BECAUSE
THEY ARE hOVERWHELMED WITH OTHER DUTIES v AND PARTLY FOR FEAR OF LITI
GATION IF THEY DISCIPLINE hTOO HARSHLYv 7HATS A TEACHER TO DO 4HE
ANSWER FOR MANY TEACHERS IN 0ALM "EACH #OUNTY SCHOOLS IS TO LEAVE
THE PROFESSION !ND MOST OF THOSE LEAVING ARE VERY LIKELY THOSE WHO ARE
COMPETENT AND WHO THEREFORE CAN lND OTHER SUITABLE EMPLOYMENT
-ORE RECENTLY THE !SSOCIATED 0RESS WROTE ABOUT hDISRUPTIVE STU
DENT BEHAVIORv IN /KLAHOMA #ITYS &$ -OON !CADEMY A MAGNET
SCHOOL FOR MASS MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY /N ONE DAY
OF ALONE OF SIXTH GRADERS WERE SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL
FOR PICKING UP TABLES IN THE CAFETERIA AND SLAMMING THEM INTO THE
mOOR AND MOUTHING OFF TO FACULTY %ARLIER IN THE WEEK ANOTHER
STUDENTS FROM THE SAME SIXTH GRADE CLASS HAD BEEN SUSPENDED FOR hCLASS
DISRUPTIONSv !T A MEETING WITH PARENTS THE PRINCIPAL %LAINE &ORD
SAID THAT ROUGHLY OF FACULTY TIME IS TAKEN UP WITH DISCIPLINING
STUDENTS /NE PARENT AT THE MEETING TOLD THE REPORTER THAT hSHE WASNT
SURPRISED BY THE STUDENTS BEHAVIOR BECAUSE SOME OF THE PARENTS IN
THE AUDIENCE WERE YELLING WHILE SCHOOL OFlCIALS TALKEDv 4HESE ARE
THE SORTS OF CONDITIONS THAT ARE DRIVING MANY LONG TIME TEACHERS AND
ADMINISTRATORS OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
"UT ITS NOT JUST THE CAPABLE EXPERIENCED TEACHERS WHO ARE BEING
DRIVEN FROM THE PROFESSION *OSHUA +APLOWITZ RECOUNTS IN h-Y #LASS
ROOM FROM (ELLv PART OF HIS ALL TOO BRIEF CAREER AS A lFTH GRADE TEACHER
IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL IN 7ASHINGTON $# +APLOWITZ A RECENT
9ALE GRADUATE DISCOVERED RAPIDLY AFTER ARRIVING AT %MERY %LEMENTARY
WHAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME .OT ONLY WERE +APLOWITZS
EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN CLASSROOM ORDER NOT SUPPORTED BY THE ADMINIS
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
TRATION THE ADMINISTRATION ACTUALLY THWARTED THEM (ONEST GRADING
+APLOWITZ WAS TOLD IN EFFECT THAT IT WAS PROHIBITED BY LAW AND HE
WAS CITED FOR INSUBORDINATION WHEN HE INSISTED ON GIVING STUDENTS THE
FAILING GRADES THEY HAD EARNED !S FOR TRYING TO PROTECT STUDENTS FROM
ASSAULTS BY OTHER STUDENTS HE SOON LEARNED THAT HIS COLLEAGUES WERE IN
A SURVIVAL MODE AND BOUND BY WHAT CAN ONLY BE CONSIDERED INHUMANE
SCHOOL DISTRICT RULES
7HEN ) ASKED OTHER TEACHERS TO HELP ME STOP A lGHT THEY RE
MINDED ME THAT $# 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS BANNED TEACHERS FROM
LAYING HANDS ON STUDENTS EVEN TO PROTECT OTHER CHILDREN 9OU
HAVE TO BE MADE OF IRON TO WAIT PASSIVELY FOR THE SECURITY GUARD
WHILE ONE ENRAGED CHILD TRIES TO HURT ANOTHER
4HE COUP DE GRAS FOR +APLOWITZS BRIEF TEACHING CAREER CAME
WHEN AN EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CHILD FALSELY ALLEGED THAT +APLOWITZ
HAD INJURED HIS HEAD AND BACK BY VIOLENTLY SHOVING HIM IN THE CHEST
7HILE BEING ACQUITTED ON A CRIMINAL CHARGE OF MISDEMEANOR ASSAULT
AND HAVING TO ENDURE A CIVIL PROCEEDING IN WHICH THE BOYS MOTHER
THOUGHT SHE WOULD WIN THE LITIGATION LOTTERY +APLOWITZ LEARNED THAT
THE TEACHERS UNION IS mOODED YEARLY WITH FABRICATED CORPORAL PUN
ISHMENT CHARGES .EEDLESS TO SAY *OSHUA +APLOWITZ IS NO LONGER A
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLTEACHER
!NOTHER lRST YEAR TEACHER IN THE .EW 9ORK #ITY GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS RECENTLY WROTE ANONYMOUSLY OF THE SHAM THAT PASSES FOR EDU
CATION THERE #HILDREN HE QUICKLY LEARNED WERE hOFTEN THE LAST THING
ON TEACHERS MINDSv )NSTEAD SCHOOL POLITICS COLLECTING FREE LUNCH
FORMS AND OTHERWISE lGURING OUT HOW TO SURVIVE IN A DYSFUNCTIONAL
INSTITUTION WERE THE ORDER OF THE DAY -OREOVER DESPITE THE VAST BUD
GET FOR .EW 9ORK #ITY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HE ALSO LEARNED THAT LITTLE
OF IT WAS REACHING THE CLASSROOMS 'ETTING BOOKS CHALK AND EVEN
STAPLES WAS A STRUGGLE NOT TO MENTION lGURING OUT HOW TO TEACH IN A
BUILDING WHERE THERE WERE DEAD RODENTS IN THE HALLWAYS AND THE AIR
CONDITIONING OFTEN DIDNT WORK
9ET ANOTHER YOUNG TEACHER -ATTHEW #LAVEL RECENTLY WROTE
OF HIS FRUSTRATIONS AS A MATH TEACHER REQUIRED TO USE A hFUZZY MATHv
0OSTSCRIPT TO 4EACHERS AND !DMINISTRATORS
CURRICULUM THAT WAS DOOMING HIS STUDENTS TO A LIFE OF MATHEMATI
CAL ILLITERACY (OW DID ADMINISTRATORS RESPOND TO COMPLAINTS FROM
TEACHERS THAT THE hFUZZY MATHv CURRICULUM WAS A DISASTER !CCORDING
TO #LAVEL h$ISTRICT OFlCIALS TOLD US THAT WE SHOULD JUST KEEP GOING
n EVEN IF NOT A SINGLE CHILD IN OUR ROOMS UNDERSTOOD WHAT WE WERE TALK
ING ABOUTv;EMPHASIS ADDED= #LAVEL BY THE WAY IS ALSO NO LONGER
TEACHING
)N 0IPER +ANSAS A SECOND
YEAR BIOLOGY TEACHER #HRISTINE 0ELTON
mUNKED STUDENTS WHO HAD CHEATED IN A CLASS PROJECT THAT ACCOUNTED
FOR OF THE CLASS GRADE )NDIGNANT PARENTS LOBBIED THE SCHOOL
BOARD AND AS A RESULT THE SCHOOL BOARD INSTRUCTED 0ELTON TO CHANGE
THE WEIGHTING AND THE SCORES ON THE PROJECT n CHANGES THAT WOULD HAVE
RESULTED IN OUT OF THE STUDENTS PASSING THE COURSE 2ATHER THAN
CHANGE THE GRADES 0ELTON RESIGNED !FTERWARDS 0ELTON COMMENTED
ON THE EFFECT OF THE SCHOOL BOARDS IRRESPONSIBLE ACTION ON STUDENTS
THINKING h)D LOST THE KIDS RESPECT ) HEARD KIDS TALKING ABOUT THAT IF
THEY DIDNT LIKE WHAT ) DID IN THE FUTURE THEY COULD GO TO THE BOARD OF
EDUCATION AND THEY COULD CHANGE THAT xv
4HERE IS AN ENDLESS SUPPLY OF STORIES LIKE THESE AND IF YOUVE
BEEN WORKING IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL FOR A WHILE YOU PROBABLY KNOW
MORE THAN A FEW
3URVIVAL OF THE 5NFITTEST
4HE POINT HERE IS THAT THERE ARE POWERFUL FORCES OF hADVERSE SE
LECTIONv AT WORK IN GOVERNMENT EDUCATION 4HINK OF IT AS A SYSTEM
THAT ENCOURAGES THE hSURVIVAL OF THE UNlTTESTv -OREOVER CAPABLE
VETERAN TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS ARE NOT MERELY RETIRING OR WALKING
AWAY ,INDA 3CHROCK 4AYLOR REPORTS THAT THAT THERE ARE NOW MANY IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION WHO ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING TO DRIVE
OUT TEACHERS WHO HAVENT BOUGHT INTO THE LATEST SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
FADS
4HE WINNER OF THE .ATIONAL 2IGHT TO 2EAD &OUNDATIONS
4EACHER OF THE 9EAR !WARD VETERAN TEACHER !NN %DWARDS EXPRESSED
THE SAME SENTIMENT IN HER TESTIMONY BEFORE THE 3UBCOMMITTEE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ON %ARLY #HILDHOOD %DUCATION OF THE 53 (OUSE OF 2EPRESENTATIVES
#OMMITTEE ON %DUCATION AND THE 7ORKFORCE
) HAVE AN IDEA NOW WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE FELT LIKE FOR MINORITIES
IN THE 3OUTH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE #IVIL 2IGHTS -OVEMENT
WHEN ONE MIGHT HAVE TO SIT AT THE BACK OF THE BUS )T IS NOW AS
THOUGH TRADITIONAL TEACHERS HAVE TO GO TO THE BACK OF THE SCHOOL
BUS 3ITTING WITH THEM ARE STUDENTS MANY OF WHOM WILL BE MI
NORITIES THAT WILL NEVER BECOME PROlCIENT READERS AND WILL LACK
OTHER SKILLS NECESSARY TO COMPETE IN THE REAL WORLD IN THE ST
CENTURY -ANY IN THE EDUCATION PROFESSION TODAY WORSHIP AT THE
hSHRINE OF CHANGEv AND HAVE A hCHILD
CENTEREDv AS OPPOSED TO A
hSUBJECT
CENTEREDv APPROACH TO EDUCATION $ISCIPLINES NEEDED
TO HAVE A CHANCE AT SUCCEEDING IN LIFE HAVE BEEN ABANDONED
)N ADDITION TO THE LOSS OF VETERAN TEACHERS MANY ASPIRING TEACH
ERS WHO WOULD BE GREAT EDUCATORS NEVER MAKE IT TO THE STARTING LINE
TODAY BECAUSE THEY ARE REPULSED BY THE RANK PEDAGOGICAL AND POLITICAL
STUPIDITIES SERVED UP IN THE CURRICULA OF SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION /F THE
MOTIVATED AND CAPABLE ASPIRING TEACHERS WHO ACTUALLY DO MAKE IT INTO
THE CLASSROOM MANY ARE EITHER DRIVEN OUT LIKE *OSHUA +APLOWITZ
OR LEAVE BECAUSE LIKE -ATTHEW #LAVEL THEY CANNOT STAND BEING AC
COMPLICES IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR STUDENTS FUTURES "EYOND THIS
CONSIDER THAT MORE THAN A MILLION VETERAN TEACHERS ARE NEARING RETIRE
MENT
'OVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE BEING UTTERLY TRANSFORMED BY THE LOSS
OF THIS ENORMOUS CADRE OF TEACHERS THAT ON THE WHOLE TENDS TO SHARE
YOUR VALUES AND STANDARDS 7HAT WILL IT BE LIKE TO BE SURROUNDED
INCREASINGLY BY hTEACHERSv WHO HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE THAT ACADEMIC
STANDARDS ARE AN IMPEDIMENT TO SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THAT THE MAIN FUNC
TION OF SCHOOLS SHOULD BE TO RECONSTRUCT IDENTITIES VALUES BELIEFS AND
LIFESTYLES 7HAT WILL IT BE LIKE TO lND YOURSELF INCREASINGLY AMONG hCOL
LEAGUESv IMBUED WITH HIGH hSELF
ESTEEM v BUT MANY OF WHOM WOULD
HAVE TROUBLE PASSING A TH
GRADE LITERACY TEST )F YOU ARE CANDID YOU
WILL HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS AND IS
INTENSIFYING
0OSTSCRIPT TO 4EACHERS AND !DMINISTRATORS
4HE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT CAPABLE CONSCIENTIOUS TEACHERS AND
ADMINISTRATORS ARE GOING TO BE INCREASINGLY ISOLATED 4HE VAST BULK OF
THE SURVIVORS ARE GOING TO BE THOSE WITHOUT REAL JOB SKILLS OR WHO ARE
SO DIM THAT THEY THINK THAT GROSS MISTAKES SUCH AS hWHOLE LANGUAGEv
READING INSTRUCTION AND hFUZZY MATHv ARE JUST lNE &OR THE DIMIN
ISHING REMNANT HOWEVER GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WILL BECOME LONELIER
PLACES BY THE YEAR
4HE SITUATION FOR #HRISTIAN TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS IS EVEN
WORSE 9OUR FAITH HAS BEEN VIRTUALLY CRIMINALIZED WITHIN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS &OR MANY OF YOU EVEN THE SLIGHTEST AFlRMATION OF YOUR #HRIS
TIAN BELIEFS AT SCHOOL WOULD LEAD TO DISCIPLINE OR TERMINATION IF FOUND
OUT &URTHER YOU MUST COPE WITH A SYSTEM IN WHICH ANY PRETENSE TO
UPHOLDING REAL ACADEMIC STANDARDS HAS LONG AGO DISAPPEARED FADDISH
CURRICULA MAKE EFFECTIVE TEACHING ALL BUT IMPOSSIBLE AND MUCH OF
THE SCHOOL DAY FOR THE CHILDREN IN YOUR SCHOOL NECESSARILY INVOLVES
INDOCTRINATION IN LEFTIST IDEOLOGY IMMORAL VALUES AND .EW !GE AND
OTHER PAGAN THEOLOGIES .OT IN YOUR CLASS PERHAPS BUT ITS THERE IN
YOUR SCHOOL AND THE PROBLEM IS METASTASIZING
!CCOUNTABILITY AND -ISSION )MPOSSIBLE
!S THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAS BECOME MORE APPARENT
THE PUBLIC RIGHTLY HAS BEEN DEMANDING MORE ACCOUNTABILITY THAT IS
THE PUBLIC INCREASINGLY WANTS SCHOOLS ADMINISTRATORS AND TEACHERS TO
FEEL SOME ECONOMIC OR OTHER hPAINv IF THEIR STUDENTS FAIL TO LEARN &OR
MANY OF YOU THE LACK OF DISCIPLINE WITHIN YOUR SCHOOLS MAKES EFFEC
TIVE TEACHING AT BEST A RATHER REMOTE PROSPECT 7HAT FOR EXAMPLE CAN
A PRINCIPAL LIKE %LAINE &ORD DO
-OREOVER ONE OF THE CRUELEST IRONIES YOU FACE IS THAT YOU ARE
BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ACHIEVING RESULTS WHILE OFTEN BEING DENIED
n IN FACT PROHIBITED FROM USING n THE TOOLS YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO DO
YOUR JOB #ONSIDER THE UPSIDE
DOWN WORLD IN WHICH -ATTHEW #LAVEL
FOUND HIMSELF AS A MATH TEACHER (OW COULD HE PRODUCE RESULTS IF HE
USED THE MANDATED hFUZZY MATHv CURRICULUM !ND WHAT ABOUT THOSE
WHO TEACH READING (OW CAN YOU PRODUCE READING RESULTS WHEN YOU
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ARE FORCED TO USE SOMETHING OTHER THAN A SOUND PHONICS
BASED CUR
RICULUM $URING A CONVERSATION WITH A PRINCIPAL OVER TEACHERS BEING
FORCED TO USE A POORLY
CONCEIVED AND INEFFECTIVE NEW READING CURRICU
LUM !NN %DWARDS EXPRESSED WELL THE FRUSTRATION OF A SKILLED TEACHER
) FEEL LIKE A DOCTOR WITH PATIENTS WHO ARE DYING AND THE DIS
TRICTx IS ONLY ALLOWING ME TO TREAT PATIENTS WITH ONE TYPE OF
MEDICINE 4HE MEDICINE THAT ) AM REQUIRED TO USE DOES NOT
WORK AS WELL AS THE PROVEN TREATMENT ) AND OTHER EXPERIENCED
TEACHERS HAVE USED SUCCESSFULLY FOR SEVERAL YEARS )N FACT SEVERAL
PATIENTS ARE DYING WITH THE NEW MEDICINE 4HE OLD MEDICINE
WORKS YOU KNOW IT WORKS AND ) KNOW IT WORKS !S A PROFES
SIONAL ) AM NOW IN A MORAL AND ETHICAL DILEMMA 9OU WANT ME
TO WATCH MY CHILDREN FAIL AT READING AND NOT TEACH WHAT ) KNOW
WORKS BEST ;EMPHASIS ADDED=
4HE TRUTH IS BEING ASKED TO TEACH AND GET RESULTS UNDER THE
CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH MANY OF YOU MUST WORK IS A LOT LIKE BEING
ASKED TO PAINT THE 'OLDEN 'ATE "RIDGE WITH A HAMMER AND A BUCKET
OF MILK
7HAT )S TO "E $ONE
3OME OF YOU HAVE GOOD REASONS TO STAY IN YOUR GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS BUT MOST OF YOU OVER TIME ARE GOING TO LEAVE "UT WHETHER
YOU STAY OR GO THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT YOU CAN AND MUST DO AS
#HRISTIAN EDUCATORS
&IRST IF YOU HAVE A CHILD IN A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TAKE HIM OUT
9OUR WITNESS IS IMPORTANT n BOTH TO YOUR CHILD AND TO OTHER PARENTS
3ECOND YOU MUST TELL YOUR PASTORS AND THE PARENTS IN YOUR CHURCH THE
TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS n THE WHOLE
TRUTH hWITH THE BARK OFFv 4O REMAIN SILENT IS TO COLLABORATE IN THE
DESTRUCTION OF OUR CHILDREN 4HIRD YOU MUST HELP YOUR CHURCH THINK
THROUGH WAYS OF PROVIDING ALTERNATIVES TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND
HELP ENCOURAGE PARENTS AFmICTED WITH A hGOVERNMENT SCHOOL HABITv
TO RESCUE THEIR CHILDREN FROM 0HARAOHS SCHOOLS &OURTH YOU NEED TO
0OSTSCRIPT TO 4EACHERS AND !DMINISTRATORS
DREAM 7HAT COULD YOU AND OTHERS LIKE YOU DO IF YOU WERE FREE TO PRO
VIDE THE KIND OF EDUCATION THAT YOU KNOW #HRISTIAN CHILDREN SHOULD
HAVE BUT THAT YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PROVIDE 'OD MAY BE READY TO
OPEN SOME DOORS FOR YOU &INALLY AND MOST IMPORTANT PRAY n PRAY
THAT #HRISTIAN PARENTS BE GIVEN WISDOM IN EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN
! . /4 % /. %.$./ 4%3 !.$ &).$) .' 7 % "
0!' % 3
F YOU HAVE GOTTEN THIS FAR YOU KNOW THAT THIS BOOK COVERS A WIDE
) RANGE OF TOPICS 9OU ALSO KNOW THAT MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN TREATED
IN GREAT DEPTH OVER THE YEARS BY VARIOUS WRITERS 4HE ENDNOTES THAT
FOLLOW REPRESENT ONLY SOME OF THE SOURCES CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION
OF THIS MANUSCRIPT BUT THEY ARE OFTEN SOURCES THAT WILL LEAD THE CURI
OUS READER INTO A LARGER LITERATURE FOR ANY GIVEN CONTROVERSY -OREOVER
VIRTUALLY EVERY CONTROVERSY ) DISCUSS IS A SUBJECT OF CONTINUING TYPI
CALLY VITRIOLIC DEBATE #ONSEQUENTLY THE INTERNET IS AN INVALUABLE TOOL
FOR MONITORING THE CURRENT hSTATE
OF
PLAYv WITH RESPECT TO ANY OF THE
ISSUES ) HAVE ADDRESSED ) HOPE THAT YOU WILL lND THIS BOOK A HELP
FUL INTRODUCTION TO THE MANY PROBLEMS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ) ALSO
HOPE YOU WILL READ AT LEAST SOME OF THE SOURCES CITED IN THE ENDNOTES
AND MAKE USE OF THE INTERNET TO GET A BETTER FEEL FOR HOW EMBEDDED
THOSE PATHOLOGIES ARE
9OU HAVE UNDOUBTEDLY NOTICED THAT IN MANY INSTANCES IN THE TEXT
AND IN THE FOLLOWING ENDNOTES ) HAVE POINTED READERS TOWARD A WEBSITE
OR A WEB
PAGE 4HE WEB ADDRESSES OR h52,Sv ALL WORKED AT THE TIME
OF lNAL SUBMISSION OF THIS MANUSCRIPT FOR PUBLICATION !LAS WEBSITES
ARE SOMETIMES DISCONTINUED OR MOVED AND IT APPEARS THAT THE SOURCE
IS LOST .EVER FEAR HOWEVER THERE IS ALWAYS THE h7AYBACK -ACHINEv
4HE 7AYBACK -ACHINE IS THE CREATION OF THE )NTERNET !RCHIVE WHICH
IS BUILDING A DIGITAL LIBRARY OF )NTERNET SITES AND OTHER CULTURAL ARTIFACTS
IN DIGITAL FORM !CCESS IS FREE TO RESEARCHERS HISTORIANS SCHOLARS AND
THE GENERAL PUBLIC 4HE 7AYBACK -ACHINE GIVES YOU ACCESS TO OVER
BILLION WEB
PAGES AND CAN HELP YOU lND JUST ABOUT ANYTHING 3O IF
YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE lNDING A WEBSITE OR WEB
PAGE JUST GO TO WWW
ARCHIVEORG AND ENTER THE URL FOR THE DOCUMENT YOU ARE SEEKING
&INALLY YOU WILL NOTICE THAT WE HAVE DISPENSED WITH CERTAIN
CONVENTIONS TYPICALLY USED IN NOTES n REFERENCES SUCH AS h)Dv h/P
#ITv ETC 4HESE CONVENTIONS ARE STILL WIDELY USED FOR EXAMPLE IN
THE ACADEMIC PRESS BUT THEY ARE REALLY A VESTIGE FROM A TIME WHEN
IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SHORTEN REFERENCES TO SAVE TYPESETTERS TIME 7E
BELIEVE THAT DISPENSING WITH THESE CONVENTIONS MAKES THE ENDNOTES
MORE ACCESSIBLE
% N DN O TE S
0REFACE
!S QUOTED IN 4AMMI 2EED ,EDBETTER h#HRISTIAN 3CHOOLS (OMESCHOOLING -AKE 'AINS !MONG
3OUTHERN "APTISTS v "0.EWS -ARCH
)NTRODUCTION
$ANIEL * 3MITHWICK h! @7ORLD OF $IFFERENCE IN 0UBLIC AND #HRISTIAN 3CHOOLS v 4HE .EHEMIAH
)NSTITUTE )NC ,EXINGTON +ENTUCKY P
4# 0INCKNEY h7E ARE ,OSING /UR #HILDREN v REMARKS TO THE 3OUTHERN "APTIST #ONVENTION %X
ECUTIVE #OMMITTEE .ASHVILLE 4ENNESSEE 3EPTEMBER 0INCKNEY STATES THAT RESEARCH INDICATES
OF TEENAGERS INVOLVED IN CHURCH YOUTH GROUPS STOP ATTENDING CHURCH WITHIN TWO YEARS FOLLOWING
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION )F THIS SEEMS TOO PESSIMISTIC THE 3OUTHERN "APTIST #OUNCIL ON &AMILY ,IFE
REPORTED AT THE 3OUTHERN "APTIST #ONVENTIONS MEETING IN 3T ,OUIS THAT h OF THE CHILDREN
RAISED IN EVANGELICAL HOMES LEAVE CHURCH AT THE AGE OF NEVER TO RETURNv *ON 7ALKER h#OUNCIL 3AYS
)TS 4IME TO "RING &AMILY "ACK TO ,IFE v 3OUTHERN "APTIST 4EXAN *ULY %VEN IF THESE SOURCES
OVERSTATE THE EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM BY THIRTY TO FORTY PERCENT IT IS CLEAR THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG
IN THE WAY WE ARE DISCIPLING OUR CHILDREN
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4HAT PUBLIC RELATIONS EFFORT HAS SO MISREPRESENTED THE FACTS THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE .ATIONAL #OUNCIL
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NOT MADE MORE DIFlCULT 4HE DECLINE OF 3!4 AND !#4 SCORES WHILE 4!!3 PASS RATES hSOAREDv MAKE IT
QUITE UNLIKELY HOWEVER THAT THE 4!!3 WAS TESTING HARDER MATERIAL
-ELANIE -ARKLEY h4!!3 3CORES 2OSE AS 3!4S &ELL v (OUSTON #HRONICLE *UNE &OR A
GOOD SUMMARY OF HOW 4EXAS EDUCATORS ARE DECEIVING THE PUBLIC ABOUT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN 4EXAS
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*ANET %LLIOTT h0ERRY $EFENDS 4!+3 !GAINST 2ISING #ONCERN v (OUSTON #HRONICLE *ANUARY
*ANET %LLIOTT h0ERRY $EFENDS 4!+3 !GAINST 2ISING #ONCERN v (OUSTON #HRONICLE *ANUARY
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4IMES /CTOBER
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4IMES /CTOBER
*OE 7ILLIAMS h IN 2EGENTS -ATH 4EST v 4HE .EW 9ORK $AILY .EWS !UGUST
!S QUOTED IN 2ICK +ARLIN h2EGENTS $IPLOMAS 2EMAIN IN 2EACH v !LBANY 4IMES 5NION *ULY
!NOTHER REASON EDUCATION BUREAUCRATS LOWERED THE PASSING STANDARDS IS THAT NON !SIAN MINORITY
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LOW EXPECTATIONS HAS BEEN CRITICIZED BY "ARBARA #LARK A BLACK !SSEMBLYWOMAN FROM 1UEENS 3PEAK
ING AGAINST THE DILUTION OF STANDARDS !SSEMBLYWOMAN #LARK STATED h7HEN A MAJORITY OF THE STUDENTS
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4ESTS v %DUCATION 2EPORTER *ANUARY 3EE ALSO h4EACHERS !CCUSED OF #HEATING ON 3TUDENTS 4ESTS v
3CHOOL "OARD .EWS *ANUARY
*ODI 7ILGOREN h#HEATING ON 3TATEWIDE 4ESTS )S 2EPORTED IN -ASSACHUSETTS v 4HE .EW 9ORK 4IMES
&EBRUARY 4HE ACCOUNT OF THE CHEATING SCANDAL IN -ASSACHUSETTS IS BASED ON 7ILOGRENS ARTICLE
!IMEE %DMONDSON h-ODEL SCHOOL CHEATED OFlCIALS SAY 4EST SCANDAL OUSTS #ALDWELL PRINCIPAL v
WWW'O-EMPHISCOM -ARCH
!IMEE %DMONDSON h-ODEL SCHOOL CHEATED OFlCIALS SAY 4EST SCANDAL OUSTS #ALDWELL PRINCIPAL v
WWW'O-EMPHISCOM -ARCH
!IMEE %DMONDSON h-ODEL SCHOOL CHEATED OFlCIALS SAY 4EST SCANDAL OUSTS #ALDWELL PRINCIPAL v
WWW'O-EMPHISCOM -ARCH
!IMEE %DMONDSON h-ODEL SCHOOL CHEATED OFlCIALS SAY 4EST SCANDAL OUSTS #ALDWELL PRINCIPAL v
WWW'O-EMPHISCOM -ARCH
-ANUEL 0EREZ 2IVAS h!CCUSED 4EACHERS $ISCUSS !CTIONS v 4HE 7ASHINGTON 0OST -AY
-ANUEL 0EREZ 2IVAS h!CCUSED 4EACHERS $ISCUSS !CTIONS v 4HE 7ASHINGTON 0OST -AY
"ARBARA +ANTROWITZ AND $ANIEL -C'INN h7HEN 4EACHERS ARE #HEATERS v AND %VAN 4HOMAS AND
0AT 7INGERT h"ITTER ,ESSONS v .EWSWEEK *UNE
"ARBARA +ANTROWITZ AND $ANIEL -C'INN h7HEN 4EACHERS ARE #HEATERS v AND %VAN 4HOMAS AND
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4IMES /CTOBER
2OSALIND 2OSSI AND !NNE 3WEENEY h4EACHERS &ACE &IRING IN #HEATING 3CANDAL v #HICAGO 3UN
4IMES /CTOBER
2OSALIND 2OSSI AND !NNE 3WEENEY h4EACHERS &ACE &IRING IN #HEATING 3CANDAL v #HICAGO 3UN
4IMES /CTOBER
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4IMES /CTOBER
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&OR EXAMPLE OFlCIALS IN #ALIFORNIA ACCORDING TO ,EVITT HAVE NOT RESPONDED TO REQUESTS TO USE
HIS STATISTICAL ANALYSIS THERE 2OSALIND 2OSSI AND !NNE 3WEENEY h4EACHERS &ACE &IRING IN #HEATING
3CANDAL v #HICAGO 3UN 4IMES /CTOBER
4HOMAS 4OCH AND "ETSY 7AGNER h3CHOOLS FOR 3CANDAL v 53 .EWS 7ORLD 2EPORT !PRIL
$ANIEL 'OLDEN h7ITH %YE ON 3CORES 3CHOOLS &IGHT /VER 'IFTED +IDS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL
&EBRUARY ! -Y ACCOUNT OF THESE GOINGS ON IN /HIO -ISSOURI AND /HIO IS BASED ON THE
FACTS REPORTED IN -R 'OLDENS STORY
!S QUOTED IN $ANIEL 'OLDEN h7ITH %YE ON 3CORES 3CHOOLS &IGHT /VER 'IFTED +IDS v 4HE 7ALL
3TREET *OURNAL &EBRUARY !
-ARIA #OUGRAS 0APPAS CHARACTERIZED THESE ACTIONS AS hSABOTAGEv 3EE $ANIEL 'OLDEN h7ITH %YE
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!S QUOTED IN $ANIEL 'OLDEN h7ITH %YE ON 3CORES 3CHOOLS &IGHT /VER 'IFTED +IDS v 4HE 7ALL
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CERN THAT hSTUDENT ABSENCES UNCERTAIN WEATHER AND DISTRICT LEVEL SCHEDULING CONmICTSv WOULD MAKE
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TION WOULD BE COST PROHIBITIVE 7HAT -R -ARTIN SEEMS TO BE OVERLOOKING IS THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE
LONG MANAGED TO SCHEDULE THIRD PARTY ADMINISTERED TESTS SUCH AS THE 3!4 AND THE !#4 AND THAT THE
COST OF THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATION ACCORDING TO 3TEPHEN +LEIN IS APPROXIMATELY PER STUDENT
WHICH IS HARDLY PROHIBITIVE 4HE RESPONSE TO THE THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATION PROPOSAL THAT MOST CLEARLY
INDICATES WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CAME FROM ,ISA 'RAHAM +EEGAN WHO IS IN
CHARGE OF !RIZONAS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS !CCORDING TO +EEGAN THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATION OF STANDARD
IZED TESTS IS BAD IDEA BECAUSE IT MIGHT HURT EDUCATORS FEELINGSx IT SAYS THAT THEY CANT BE TRUSTED )N
EXPLICABLY +EEGAN ALSO THINKS IT WOULD BE A SIN AGAINST THE POSTMODERN VIRTUE OF INCLUSIVENESS h) FEEL
STRONGLY THAT ;EDUCATORS= OWN THIS TEST AND ) WOULD RATHER ERR OR THE SIDE OF INCLUSIONv 7ELL MAYBE
+EEGANS POINT IS THIS 7E CANT ADOPT TESTING PROCEDURES THAT WOULD SHOW WHAT A BAD JOB OUR HIGHLY
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THEIR hEXCLUSIONv n AS IN GETTING lRED
h$ISCONNECTING #HILDREN FROM @#ONNECTED -ATH v %DUCATION 2EPORTER /CTOBER 3EE ALSO
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TION THE .EW 9ORK #ITY SCHOOLS DISCONTINUED h3UCCESS FOR !LL v A STRONG PHONICS
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THAT THEIR CHILDREN WOULD BE RIDICULED FOR NOT BEING ON THE HONOR ROLL THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BANNED
PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF THE HONOR ROLL 4HEN THE DISTRICT LAWYERS GOT INTO THE ACT ADVISING THE DISTRICT
THAT DISCLOSING WHO WAS ON THE HONOR ROLL WITHOUT STUDENT PERMISSION MIGHT VIOLATE STATE PRIVACY
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INmUENCED BY THEM HAVE PURSUED A STRATEGY OF CAPTURING INSTITUTIONS AND USING THOSE INSTITUTIONS TO
TRANSFORM 7ESTERN SOCIETIES 4HIS IS WHY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE NOW SO DANGEROUS )T IS NOT SIMPLY
THAT THEY MAKE OUR CHILDREN IGNORANT THEY ARE CREATING A hFALSE CONSCIOUSNESSv n A DELUSIONAL VIEW
OF REALITY n IN OUR CHILDREN AND INCULCATING THEM WITH ANTI
#HRISTIAN DESTRUCTIVE VALUES /F COURSE
MOST OF THE PEOPLE HELPING TO IMPLEMENT THIS h'RAMSCIAN VISION v INCLUDING THOSE WHO WORK IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING 4HEY ARE SIMPLY CARRYING OUT THE IMPERATIVES
OF THE INSTITUTIONS FOR WHICH THEY WORK BUT THAT WORK IS INCREASINGLY DElNED AND STRUCTURED TO IMPLE
MENT A VERSION OF CULTURAL -ARXISM 2ESEARCH BY ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE .EHEMIAH )NSTITUTE SHOW
HOW EFFECTIVELY OUR CHILDREN ARE BEING PROSELYTIZED BY THE CULTURAL -ARXISTS
3AUL + 0ADOVER 4HOMAS *EFFERSON ON $EMOCRACY .EW 9ORK !PPLETON
#ENTURY #OMPANY )NC
P
#HAPTER &OUR
! "LACKBOARD *UNGLE
4HOMAS 4OCH ET AL h6IOLENCE IN THE 3CHOOLS v 53 .EWS 7ORLD 2EPORT .OVEMBER PP
0 +AUFMAN 8 #HEN 30 #HOY 3! 2UDDY !+ -ILLER +! #HANDLER #$ #HAPMAN -2
2AND AND 0 +LAUS )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY 53 $EPARTMENTS OF %DUCATION AND
*USTICE .#%3
.#*
7ASHINGTON $# lGURE h3ERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMESv
ARE DElNED AS INCLUDING RAPE SEXUAL ASSAULT ROBBERY AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT 4HE STATISTICS REPORTED IN
lGURE APPEAR TO INCLUDE THE DATA FOR STUDENTS AGES THROUGH IN BOTH GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE
%NDNOTES
SCHOOLS AND REPRESENT THE COMBINED INCIDENCE OF SERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMES AT SCHOOL AND ON THE WAY TO
AND FROM SCHOOL FOR EXAMPLE ON SCHOOL BUSES 4HE RATE OF VICTIMIZATION IS REPORTED AS PER
FOR BOYS AND PER FOR GIRLS .OTE THAT IN lGURE HOWEVER THE DATA SHOW THAT IN A SIX
MONTH
PERIOD OF STUDENTS AGES THROUGH IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WERE MORE LIKELY TO BE
VICTIMS OF hVIOLENT CRIMEv AT SCHOOL THAN STUDENTS IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS )N THIS CASE A hVIOLENT CRIMEv IN
CLUDES PHYSICAL ATTACKS OR TAKING PROPERTY FROM A STUDENT DIRECTLY BY FORCE WEAPONS OR THREATS 4HUS
THIS CATEGORY IS BROADER THAN THE CATEGORY OF hSERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMESv REPORTED IN lGURE BUT THERE
IS NO REASON TO THINK THAT hSERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMESv ARE A LARGER PROPORTION OF hVIOLENT CRIMESv REPORTED
BY PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENTS THAN THEY ARE AMONG GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS &URTHER THERE IS NO
REASON TO THINK PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENTS SUFFER HIGHER RATES OF VICTIMIZATION GOING TO AND FROM SCHOOL
THAN GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS !S A RESULT USING THE DATA SHOWN IN lGURE AS REPRESENTING THE
RATE AT WHICH GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS SUFFER SERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMES PROBABLY UNDERSTATES THE RATE
AT WHICH GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE VICTIMIZED BECAUSE THE DATA FROM THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS TEND TO
PULL DOWN THE AVERAGE 4HE DATA IN BOTH lGURES AND WERE COLLECTED BY THE "UREAU OF *USTICE
3TATISTICS IN AND .ATIONAL #RIME 6ICTIMIZATION 3URVEYS
4HE DATA ON ASSAULTS ON INMATES IN 53 FEDERAL PRISONS ARE TAKEN FROM *AMES * 3TEPHAN #ENSUS OF
3TATE AND &EDERAL #ORRECTIONAL &ACILITIES 53 $EPARTMENT OF *USTICE "UREAU OF *USTICE 3TATISTICS
!UGUST 4ABLE P .#*
4HE hASSAULTSv CITED IN THE #ENSUS WERE REPORTED IN
RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION h"ETWEEN *ULY AND *UNE WERE THERE ANY INMATE
INmICTED
PHYSICAL OR SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON INMATES v !RGUABLY THIS IS A LOWER THRESHOLD FOR REPORTING THAN THE
hSERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMESv CATEGORY REPORTED IN THE SCHOOLS DATA #ONSEQUENTLY IT MAY BE THAT hSERIOUS
VIOLENT CRIMESv WOULD ONLY BE A SUBSET OF hASSAULTS ON INMATESv IF THAT DATA WERE COLLECTED FOR PURPOSES
OF THE PRISONS CENSUS WHEREAS ON THE OTHER HAND hSERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMESv MIGHT INVOLVE THE REPORT
ING OF A BROADER RANGE OF INCIDENTS THAN THE hMAJOR ASSAULTv CATEGORY USED IN REPORTING BY #ANADIAN
AUTHORITIES AS DISCUSSED IN THE FOOTNOTE BELOW
h6IOLENCE AND 3UICIDE IN #ANADIAN )NSTITUTIONS 3OME 2ECENT 3TATISTICS v 6OLUME .UMBER
n 0RISON 6IOLENCE AND )NMATE 3UICIDE AND 3ELF
)NJURY ! hMAJOR ASSAULTv IS DElNED AS A DELIBERATE
ATTACK CAUSING GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM EXAMPLES ARE UNCONSCIOUSNESS BROKEN BONES KNIFE WOUNDS
ETC 7HILE hSERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMESv REPORTED CONCERNING !MERICAN STUDENTS APPEARS TO BE A BROADER
CATEGORY THAN hMAJOR ASSAULTS v THE VICTIMIZATION RATE FOR hSERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMESv IS MORE THAN THREE
TIMES THAT FOR hMAJOR ASSAULTSv #ONSEQUENTLY IT COULD STILL WELL BE THAT THE RATE OF WHAT THE #ANADI
ANS REFER TO AS hMAJOR ASSAULTSv IS HIGHER AMONG !MERICAN STUDENTS IN URBAN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS
THAN AMONG INMATES IN #ANADIAN PRISONS
"Y THE RATE OF hASSAULTS ON INMATESv IN FEDERAL PRISONS HAD RISEN TO PER *AMES *
3TEPHAN #ENSUS OF 3TATE AND &EDERAL #ORRECTIONAL &ACILITIES 53 $EPARTMENT OF *USTICE "UREAU OF
*USTICE 3TATISTICS !UGUST 4ABLE P .#*
.O DATA EXIST FOR THE FEDERAL PRISONS FOR
0 +AUFMAN 8 #HEN 30 #HOY 3! 2UDDY !+ -ILLER + ! #HANDLER #$ #HAPMAN -2
2AND AND 0 +LAUS )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY 53 $EPARTMENTS OF %DUCATION AND
*USTICE .#%3
.#*
7ASHINGTON $# lGURE
'IVEN THAT THE PRISON POPULATION IS OVERWHELMINGLY MALE THE HIGHER RATES OF VICTIMIZATION FOR BOYS
IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARGUABLY WOULD BE A BETTER MEASURE FOR COMPARING THE RATES OF VIOLENCE IN PRISON
AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS 0 +AUFMAN 8 #HEN 30 #HOY 3! 2UDDY !+ -ILLER +! #HANDLER
#$ #HAPMAN -2 2AND AND 0 +LAUS )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY 53 $EPART
MENTS OF %DUCATION AND *USTICE .#%3
.#*
7ASHINGTON $# lGURE
4HIS INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND IN THE %XECUTIVE 3UMMARY AND IN lGURES
AND TO 0 +AUFMAN 8 #HEN 30 #HOY 3! 2UDDY !+ -ILLER +! #HANDLER #$
#HAPMAN -2 2AND AND 0 +LAUS )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY 53 $EPARTMENTS OF
%DUCATION AND *USTICE .#%3
.#*
7ASHINGTON $#
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
4HIS DATA APPEARS TO INCLUDE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENTS "ECAUSE STUDENTS AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS
REPORT VICTIMIZATION BY VIOLENT CRIMES AT A SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER RATE THAN DO STUDENTS AT GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN WERE VERY PROBABLY BEING THREATENED OR INJURED WITH
A WEAPON AT SCHOOL AT A RATE HIGHER THAN
4HESE PERCENTAGES APPEAR TO BE BASED ON AGGREGATE DATA FROM BOTH GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE
SCHOOLS #ONSEQUENTLY BECAUSE PRIVATE SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE VICTIMIZED AT LOWER RATES THAN STUDENTS IN
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THE AGGREGATE DATA PROBABLY UNDERSTATE THE SEVERITY OF THE PROBLEM IN GOVERN
MENT SCHOOLS 2ESEARCH BY !LEX !LVAREZ AND 2ONET "ACHMAN ALSO CONlRMS THAT STUDENTS AT PUBLIC
SCHOOLS HAVE A HIGHER LEVEL OF FEAR OF ASSAULT THAN STUDENTS AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS !LEX !LVAREZ AND 2ONET
"ACHMAN h0REDICTING THE &EAR OF !SSAULT AT 3CHOOL AND 7HILE 'OING TO AND FROM 3CHOOL IN AN !DO
LESCENT 0OPULATION v 6IOLENCE AND 6ICTIMS PP
.OTABLY DURING THE SAME TIME PERIOD TEACHERS IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS REPORTED THAT THEY WERE THREAT
ENED WITH PHYSICAL INJURY BY STUDENTS AT A RATE LESS THAN ONE
THIRD THAT OF TEACHERS IN GOVERNMENT
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS WERE ONLY ONE
HALF AS LIKELY TO BE PHYSICALLY ATTACKED BY A
STUDENT
)F YOU THINK THAT THIS IS STRICTLY AN INNER CITY PHENOMENON THINK AGAIN 4EACHERS IN RURAL PUBLIC
SCHOOLS REPORTED BEING ATTACKED BY STUDENTS PHYSICALLY MORE OFTEN THAN THEIR PRIVATE SCHOOL
COUNTER
PARTS
$EVOE *& 0ETER + +AUFMAN 0 2UDDY 3! -ILLER !+ 0LANTY - 3NYDER 4$ AND
2AND -2 )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY .#%3
.#* 53 $EPART
MENTS OF %DUCATION AND *USTICE 7ASHINGTON $#
$EVOE *& 0ETER + +AUFMAN 0 2UDDY 3! -ILLER !+ 0LANTY - 3NYDER 4$ AND
2AND -2 )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY .#%3
.#* 53 $EPART
MENTS OF %DUCATION AND *USTICE 7ASHINGTON $# P )N STREET GANGS WERE REPORTED
AS PRESENT AT LOWER LEVELS IN BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS ALTHOUGH AS IN THE REPORT GANGS
WERE MORE THAN FOUR TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE REPORTED IN PUBLIC THAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS VERSUS
$EVOE *& 0ETER + +AUFMAN 0 2UDDY 3! -ILLER !+ 0LANTY - 3NYDER 4$ AND 2AND
-2 )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY .#%3
.#* 53 $EPARTMENTS
OF %DUCATION AND *USTICE 7ASHINGTON $# PP
4HOSE FAMILIAR WITH THE POLITICS OF 7ASHINGTON $# KNOW THAT hEXECUTIVE SUMMARIESv FOR GOV
ERNMENT REPORTS OFTEN ARE EXERCISES IN MANAGING THE NEWS FOR SOME POLITICAL AGENDA 4HE hBIG NEWSv
IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY IS A DECLINE IN SOME RATES
OF VIOLENT CRIME AND THEFT IN SCHOOLS 0LAINLY AS IS DISCUSSED ELSEWHERE SCHOOLS HAVE BECOME MORE
PRISON
LIKE IN THEIR SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS AND RULES 4HIS COULD WELL ACCOUNT FOR SOME OR ALL OF THE
REPORTED DECLINE IN SOME RATES OF VICTIMIZATION /N THE OTHER HAND THE RESEARCHERS WHO COMPILE THE
REPORT HAVE TO WORK WITH THE DATA THEY ARE PROVIDED !MPLE INCENTIVE EXISTS FOR THOSE IN THE EDUCATION
INDUSTRY TO MANAGE THE REPORTING OF CRIME IN SCHOOLS TO MAINTAIN A POSITIVE IMAGE 4HIS TEMPTATION
AS IS NOW APPARENT IS PARTICULARLY ACUTE AND IS BECOMING MORE SO BECAUSE OF STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLA
TION DESIGNED TO HOLD SCHOOLS ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIGH LEVELS OF CRIME AND DISORDER #ONSEQUENTLY WHEN
ONE SEES CLAIMS THAT THE ANNUAL RATE OF PHYSICAL THREATS AGAINST TEACHERS HAS DROPPED FROM TO
BUT THAT RATE OF ACTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST TEACHERS IS UNCHANGED ONE BECOMES A BIT SUSPICIOUS )TS RATHER
LIKE TRYING TO PERSUADE SOMEONE THAT PIT BULLS ARE BITING PEOPLE AT THE SAME RATE AS BEFORE BUT BARKING
LESS 3IMILARLY THE FACT THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO DECLINE IN THE RATE OF THREATS AND INJURIES TO STUDENTS
INVOLVING GUNS KNIVES AND CLUBS ALSO MAKES ONE WONDER ABOUT THE CLAIMED REDUCTION IN THE RATES
OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE 3OME OF THE APPARENT ANOMALIES IN THE )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY
MAY ALSO REmECT THE FACT THAT THE REPORTS ARE COMPILATIONS OF DATA FROM SEVERAL SOURCES 4HE MORAL OF
THE STORY IF THERE IS ONE HOWEVER IS THAT ACCURATE STATISTICS REGARDING SOCIAL PHENOMENA ARE HARD TO
COME BY UNDER THE BEST OF CIRCUMSTANCES 7HEN THE STATISTICS COULD AFFECT THE FUNDING OF POWERFUL
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS AS EDUCATION STATISTICS DO IT IS A VIRTUAL CERTAINTY THAT EFFORTS WILL BE MADE TO
%NDNOTES
hCORRUPT THE INDICATORSv )N SUM IT IS LIKELY THAT THE DATA REGARDING SCHOOL CRIME ARE SUBJECT TO KINDS
OF MANIPULATION SIMILAR TO THOSE SEEN IN CONNECTION WITH THE REPORTING OF STANDARDIZED TESTING SCORES
AND DROPOUT RATES "Y THE WAY JUST AS THE AUTHORS OF THE VERSION OF )NDICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME
AND 3AFETY WERE REPORTING SOMEWHAT LOWER LEVELS OF CRIME IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS THE NEWSPAPERS WERE
REPORTING THAT THE
SCHOOL YEAR WAS OFF TO A DEADLY START "Y MID
/CTOBER VIOLENT DEATHS
HAD OCCURRED IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS n MORE THAN IN EITHER OF THE TWO PRECEDING SCHOOL YEARS 4HIS WAS
PARTICULARLY WORRISOME BECAUSE ACCORDING TO SCHOOL SAFETY EXPERTS SCHOOL VIOLENCE IS NORMALLY AT ITS
WORST IN THE SPRING 'REG 4OPPO h6IOLENT $EATHS 3URGE !CROSS 53 v 53! 4ODAY /CTOBER
'REG 4OPPO h3CHOOL 6IOLENCE (ITS ,OWER 'RADES v 53! 4ODAY *ANUARY
'REG 4OPPO h3CHOOL 6IOLENCE (ITS ,OWER 'RADES v 53! 4ODAY *ANUARY
4HE RESULTS FROM THE SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE .ATIONAL !SSOCIATION OF 3CHOOL 2ESOURCE /F
lCERS .!32/ CAN BE FOUND ONLINE AT HTTPWWWECSORGHTMLOFFSITEASP DOCUMENT HTTP!&
&WWW%SCHOOLSECURITY%ORG&
"ROOKE !DAMS h3TUDY ,INKS !GGRESSION AND 4IME IN $AY #ARE v 3ALT ,AKE 4RIBUNE !UGUST
! REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT TIME IN DAY CARE CORRELATES WITH AGGRESSIVENESS IS PRO
VIDED IN "RIAN 2OBERTSON $AY #ARE $ECEPTION 7HAT THE #HILD #ARE %STABLISHMENT )SNT 4ELLING 5S 3AN
&RANCISCO %NCOUNTER "OOKS
'REG 4OPPO h7EBCAMS IN !LL #LASSROOMS v 53! 4ODAY !UGUST
7ALTER % 7ILLIAMS h(OW -UCH 7E 4OLERATE v (UMAN %VENTS *UNE 7ILLIAMS ACCOUNT
IS BASED ON AN ARTICLE BY -ARC %PSTEIN A DEAN AT *AMAICA (IGH 3CHOOL !S 7ILLIAMS PUTS IT h)F AN
!MERICAN WHO PASSED AWAY AS LATE AS WERE SOMEHOW RESURRECTED HED PROBABLY THINK %PSTEIN
FABRICATED THE STORYv %PSTEINS ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE 3UMMER ISSUE OF %DUCATION .EXT
4HOMAS #AYWOOD h$RUG #ZAR 4EST +IDS v "OSTON (ERALD /CTOBER !PPARENTLY #O
LOMBIAN DRUG TRAFlCKERS ARE MARKETING HEROIN TO CHILDREN DIRECTLY AND AT PRICES AS CHEAP AS PER
BAG h7HITE (OUSE $RUG #ZAR 2ECOMMENDS $RUG 4ESTING IN 3CHOOLS v !SSOCIATED 0RESS /CTOBER
4HE "OSTON (ERALD ARTICLE NOTES THAT LOCAL EDUCATORS POLITICIANS THE !#,5 AND SOME OTHERS
ARE RELUCTANT TO IMPLEMENT OR ARE OPPOSED TO IMPLEMENTING A REGIME OF SCHOOL
BASED RANDOM DRUG
TESTING CITING SUCH CONCERNS AS COST AND VIOLATIONS OF #ONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF PRIVACY /NE ALSO SUS
PECTS HOWEVER THAT AMONG THE POLITICIANS AND EDUCATORS SOME OF THE hCONCERNv STEMS FROM A WORRY
THAT SUCH TESTING MIGHT MAKE IT MORE APPARENT TO THE PUBLIC HOW SERIOUS THE DRUG PROBLEM IS IN THEIR
SCHOOLS !CCORDING TO *OHN 7ALTERS THE FEDERAL $RUG #ZAR OF .EW %NGLAND CHILDREN BETWEEN
AND YEARS OLD ARE DRUG ABUSERS OR DRUG DEPENDENT
(ERE IS A PORTION OF *USTICE 7HITES OPINION IN 'OSS IN WHICH HE DESCRIBES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE
OFFENDING STUDENTS h4HE PROOF BELOW ESTABLISHED THAT THE SUSPENSIONS AROSE OUT OF A PERIOD OF WIDE
SPREAD STUDENT UNREST IN THE #033 ;#OLUMBUS 0UBLIC 3CHOOL 3YSTEM= DURING &EBRUARY AND -ARCH
3IX OF THE NAMED PLAINTIFFS 2UDOLPH 3UTTON 4YRONE 7ASHINGTON 3USAN #OOPER $EBORAH
&OX #LARENCE "YARS AND "RUCE (ARRIS WERE STUDENTS AT THE -ARION
&RANKLIN (IGH 3CHOOL AND WERE
EACH SUSPENDED FOR DAYS ON ACCOUNT OF DISRUPTIVE OR DISOBEDIENT CONDUCT COMMITTED IN THE PRES
ENCE OF THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR WHO ORDERED THE SUSPENSION /NE OF THESE 4YRONE 7ASHINGTON WAS
AMONG A GROUP OF STUDENTS DEMONSTRATING IN THE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM WHILE A CLASS WAS BEING CONDUCTED
THERE (E WAS ORDERED BY THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TO LEAVE REFUSED TO DO SO AND WAS SUSPENDED 2UDOLPH
3UTTON IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PRINCIPAL PHYSICALLY ATTACKED A POLICE OFlCER WHO WAS ATTEMPTING TO
REMOVE 4YRONE 7ASHINGTON FROM THE AUDITORIUM (E WAS IMMEDIATELY SUSPENDED 4HE OTHER FOUR
-ARION
&RANKLIN STUDENTS WERE SUSPENDED FOR SIMILAR CONDUCT .ONE WAS GIVEN A HEARING TO DETERMINE
THE OPERATIVE FACTS UNDERLYING THE SUSPENSION BUT EACH TOGETHER WITH HIS OR HER PARENTS WAS OFFERED
THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND A CONFERENCE SUBSEQUENT TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE SUSPENSION TO DISCUSS
THE STUDENTS FUTURE 4WO NAMED PLAINTIFFS $WIGHT ,OPEZ AND "ETTY #ROME WERE STUDENTS AT THE
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
#ENTRAL (IGH 3CHOOL AND -C'UFFEY *UNIOR (IGH 3CHOOL RESPECTIVELY 4HE FORMER WAS SUSPENDED IN
CONNECTION WITH A DISTURBANCE IN THE LUNCHROOM THAT INVOLVED SOME PHYSICAL DAMAGE TO SCHOOL PROP
ERTY ,OPEZ TESTIlED THAT AT LEAST OTHER STUDENTS WERE SUSPENDED FROM HIS SCHOOL ON THE SAME DAY
(E ALSO TESTIlED BELOW THAT HE WAS NOT A PARTY TO THE DESTRUCTIVE CONDUCT BUT WAS INSTEAD AN INNOCENT
BYSTANDER "ECAUSE NO ONE FROM THE SCHOOL TESTIlED WITH REGARD TO THIS INCIDENT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE
IN THE RECORD INDICATING THE OFlCIAL BASIS FOR CONCLUDING OTHERWISE ,OPEZ NEVER HAD A HEARING "ETTY
#ROME WAS PRESENT AT A DEMONSTRATION AT A HIGH SCHOOL OTHER THAN THE ONE SHE WAS ATTENDING 4HERE
SHE WAS ARRESTED TOGETHER WITH OTHERS TAKEN TO THE POLICE STATION AND RELEASED WITHOUT BEING FORMALLY
CHARGED "EFORE SHE WENT TO SCHOOL ON THE FOLLOWING DAY SHE WAS NOTIlED THAT SHE HAD BEEN SUSPENDED
FOR A
DAY PERIOD "ECAUSE NO ONE FROM THE SCHOOL TESTIlED WITH RESPECT TO THIS INCIDENT THE RECORD
DOES NOT DISCLOSE HOW THE -C'UFFEY *UNIOR (IGH 3CHOOL PRINCIPAL WENT ABOUT MAKING THE DECISION TO
SUSPEND #ROME NOR DOES IT DISCLOSE ON WHAT INFORMATION THE DECISION WAS BASED )T IS CLEAR FROM THE
RECORD THAT NO HEARING WAS EVER HELDv
*OHN 4AYLOR 'ATTO 4HE 5NDERGROUND (ISTORY OF !MERICAN %DUCATION .EW 9ORK 4HE /XFORD 6IL
LAGE 0RESS P
*OE -ATTHEWS %RIKA (AYASAKI AND $UKE (ELFAND h3CHOOL #ALLED @/UT OF #ONTROL v ,OS !NGELES
4IMES .OVEMBER 4HE ACCOUNT OF THE SITUATION AT 7ASHINGTON 0REP IS BASED ON THIS ARTICLE
!S QUOTED IN *OE -ATTHEWS %RIKA (AYASAKI AND $UKE (ELFAND h3CHOOL #ALLED @/UT OF #ON
TROL v ,OS !NGELES 4IMES .OVEMBER
4HE ODORS PERMEATING 7ASHINGTON 0REPS HALLS MAY HAVE BEEN MORE THAN JUST MARIJUANA &OLLOW
ING YEARS OF COMPLAINTS THE ,OS !NGELES SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS ADOPTED A PILOT PROGRAM OF SURPRISE HEALTH
INSPECTIONS 7HATS THE PROBLEM !PPARENTLY THE DISTRICTS RESTROOMS ARE OFTEN lLTHY DESCRIBED AS
hCONTAMINATED WITH EXCREMENT AND ;HAVING= DIRTY OR CLOGGED TOILETSv OR CLOSED AND THERE IS ALSO A LACK
OF SANITATION IN THE CAFETERIAS !CCORDING TO TESTIMONY TO THE "OARD OF 3UPERVISORS BY ,OS !NGELES
#ITY !TTORNEY 2OCKY $ELGADO h4HERE ARE CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS TODAY WHO CANT USE THE RESTROOMS
WHO HAVE CEILING TILES FALLING ON THEM AND WHO HAVE TO DEAL WITH VERMIN IN THEIR CAFETERIASx "UT
EVERY PRISONER HAS THEIR OWN RESTROOM AND A CAFETERIA WITH HEALTH STANDARDSv /H DEAR THERES ANOTHER
ONE OF THOSE DISTURBING OVER
THE
TOP COMPARISONS OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WITH PRISONS &OR THE REST
OF THE STORY SEE 4ROY !NDERSON AND *AMES .ASH h3UPERVISORS /+ )NSPECTIONS OF 3CHOOL 2ESTROOMS v
,! $AILY .OVEMBER
#ARL #AMPANILE h4HUGS 2UN 7ILD IN 4ROUBLED (3 v .EW 9ORK 0OST $ECEMBER
!S QUOTED IN #ARL #AMPANILE h4HUGS 2UN 7ILD IN 4ROUBLED (3 v .EW 9ORK 0OST $ECEMBER
#ARL #AMPANILE h4HUGS 2UN 7ILD IN 4ROUBLED (3 v .EW 9ORK 0OST $ECEMBER
#AMPANILES ARTICLE ALSO REPORTS ON THE DISORDER AND VIOLENCE IN .EW 9ORK #ITYS &AR 2OCKAWAY (IGH
3CHOOL 4HE CONDITIONS THERE WERE SUCCINCTLY DESCRIBED BY A TH
GRADER *OLENA &AVORv)T SUCKS .O
ONE IS LEARNING 4OO MANY KIDS ARE RUNNING AROUND THE BUILDING AND lGHTING 4EACHERS AND SECURITY
DONT HAVE CONTROL OF THE KIDSv
*IM +IRKSEY h(ARASSMENT #HASES 4EEN FROM 3CHOOL v $ENVER 0OST &EBRUARY
h3CHOOL "US 6IDEO 3HOWS 3EVERAL +IDS "EATING
9EAR
/LD v 7*84 .EWS*AXCOM &EBRUARY
!S QUOTED IN h3CHOOL "US 6IDEO 3HOWS 3EVERAL +IDS "EATING
9EAR
/LD v 7*84 .EWS*AX
COM &EBRUARY
!S QUOTED IN h3CHOOL "US 6IDEO 3HOWS 3EVERAL +IDS "EATING
9EAR
/LD v 7*84 .EWS*AX
COM &EBRUARY
4HIS ACCOUNT IS BASED ON THE FACTS REPORTED IN 4ONY 0LOHETSKI h 4EENS #HARGED IN 4APED
!SSAULT v 4HE !USTIN !MERICAN
3TATESMAN *ANUARY
%NDNOTES
4ONY 0LOHETSKI h 4EENS #HARGED IN 4APED !SSAULT v 4HE !USTIN !MERICAN 3TATESMAN *ANUARY
3USANNAH -EADOWS AND $IRK *OHNSON h'IRL &IGHT 3AVAGERY IN THE #HICAGO 3UBURBS v .EWSWEEK
-AY
3USANNAH -EADOWS AND $IRK *OHNSON h'IRL &IGHT 3AVAGERY IN THE #HICAGO 3UBURBS v .EWSWEEK
-AY
!S QUOTED IN "RYAN 3MITH AND *ANET 2AUSA &ULLER h4APE OF ,OCAL (IGH 3CHOOL (AZING "ECOMES
7ORLD .EWS v 4HE #HICAGO 3UN 4IMES -AY
h3TUDENTS &EAR @,ESBIAN 'ANG AT 3CHOOL v ."#COM &EBRUARY
h3TUDENTS &EAR @,ESBIAN 'ANG AT 3CHOOL v ."#COM &EBRUARY
!S QUOTED IN h3TUDENTS &EAR @,ESBIAN 'ANG AT 3CHOOL v ."#COM &EBRUARY
h3TUDENTS &EAR @,ESBIAN 'ANG AT 3CHOOL v ."#COM &EBRUARY
$ !ILEEN $ODD h'WINNET !TLANTA 3CHOOLS .OW 2EPORT )NCIDENTS (AD REPORTED
v !TLANTA *OURNAL #ONSTITUTION *UNE
$ !ILEEN $ODD h'WINNET !TLANTA 3CHOOLS .OW 2EPORT )NCIDENTS (AD REPORTED
v !TLANTA *OURNAL #ONSTITUTION *UNE
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v !TLANTA *OURNAL #ONSTITUTION *UNE
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v !TLANTA *OURNAL #ONSTITUTION *UNE
$ !ILEEN $ODD h'WINNET !TLANTA 3CHOOLS .OW 2EPORT )NCIDENTS (AD REPORTED
v !TLANTA *OURNAL #ONSTITUTION *UNE
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OBLIGATIONS AVOIDS OR DELAYS STARTING TASKS THAT REQUIRE A LOT OF THOUGHT lDGETS OR SQUIRMS WITH
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ANSWER hOFTENv TO ANY OF AND h)T MAY BE BENElCIAL FOR YOU TO TALK WITH YOUR HEALTHCARE
PROVIDER ABOUT AN EVALUATIONv )N OTHER WORDS YOU CAN PROBABLY GET A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL TO WRITE
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THE STORY ITSELF IT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE JOURNALISTS BELIEVED THEY WERE JUSTIlED IN TARTING UP
#ASTELLANOS VIEWS INTO A STORY SUGGESTING SOMETHING FAR LESS TENTATIVE REGARDING BRAIN GROWTH -ORE
OVER GIVEN THE DISPARITY IN THE AGES HEIGHTS AND WEIGHTS BETWEEN THE CONTROL GROUP AND THE CHILDREN
DIAGNOSED WITH !$($ IS IT HARD TO SEE HOW INCREASES IN BRAIN SIZE OVER TIME COULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO
2ITALIN AS OPPOSED TO THE NATURAL PROCESS OF MATURATION ON THE BASIS OF #ASTELLANOS STUDY )N ADDITION
BECAUSE MOST STUDIES INDICATE THAT THE LONG TERM USE OF STIMULANTS CORRELATES WITH BRAIN ATROPHY IT
WOULD BE ODD TO SAY THE LEAST FOR THE POWERFUL STIMULANT METHYLPHENIDATE 2ITALIN TO CAUSE BRAIN
GROWTH &URTHER AN INCREASE IN THE SIZE OF THE BRAIN IS NOT IN ITSELF EVIDENCE OF A PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPROVE
MENT )N ANY EVENT THE #ASTELLANOS STUDY AS IT WAS DESIGNED SIMPLY DOES NOT ESTABLISH ANYTHING AT ALL
REGARDING THE EFFECTS OF 2ITALIN ON BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
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&OR A VERY READABLE SUMMARY OF THIS CONTROVERSY OF BRAIN IMAGING STUDIES SEE +ELLY 0ATRICIA
/-EARA h)N !$($ 3TUDIES 0ICTURES -AY ,IE v )NSIGHT -AGAZINE !UGUST 2ESEARCHERS
BY THE WAY EXPLAIN THE LACK OF STUDIES USING UNMEDICATED CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH
!$($ AS RESULTING FROM THE DIFlCULTY OF lNDING CHILDREN WITH THE DIAGNOSIS WHO HAVE NOT BEEN
MEDICATED 9ET WHEN #ASTELLANOS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THIS HE CHOSE AN INAPPROPRIATE CONTROL
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4HIS ARTICLE THOUGH ENTERTAININGLY WRITTEN APPEARS TO BE THE PRODUCT OF UNCRITICAL DISCUSSIONS
WITH ADVOCATES OF THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS /NE BIZARRE ELEMENT IN THE &UMENTO ARTICLE IS HIS APPARENTLY
APPROVING QUOTATION OF $R 2USSELL "ARKLEYS STATEMENT THAT THE LACK OF ANY PHYSIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
OF !$($ IS NOT PROBLEMATIC h7HERE ARE THE LAB TESTS FOR HEADACHES AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND
!LZHEIMERSx 3UCH A STANDARD WOULD VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE ALL MENTAL DISORDERSv &UMENTO AND "ARKLEY
SHOULD KNOW THAT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IS OFTEN VERIlABLE WITH A BRAIN SCAN THAT SHOWS WHITE MATTER LE
SIONS ALTHOUGH THE PROCEDURE IS NOT ACCURATE 4HIS IS SO WELL KNOWN THAT INSURANCE COMPANIES
WILL PAY FOR -2)S TO DETECT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS BUT NO INSURANCE COMPANY WILL PAY FOR ANY SORT OF
BRAIN SCAN TO CONlRM A DIAGNOSIS OF !$($ !T THE TIME &UMENTOS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN !LZHEIMERS
WAS NOT DETECTABLE THROUGH A LAB TEST ON LIVING INDIVIDUALS BUT WAS IDENTIlABLE THROUGH THE PRESENCE
OF PATHOLOGICAL LESIONS ON THE PATIENTS BRAIN DISCOVERABLE IN A POST MORTEM EXAMINATION )T HAS BEEN
REPORTED RECENTLY THAT 0OSITRON %MISSION 4OMOGRAPHY BRAIN SCANS CAN NOW DIAGNOSE !LZHEIMERS WITH
ABOUT ACCURACY ,AURA *OHANNES h&INDING !LZHEIMERS %ARLY v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL /CTOBER
" "RAIN SCANS AND LAB TESTS ALSO CAN IDENTIFY PHYSICAL CAUSES OF SOME HEADACHES -ORE
OVER THE SYMPTOMS OF !LZHEIMERS AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ARE MODELS OF DIAGNOSTIC CLARITY COMPARED TO
THE SYMPTOMS DElNING THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS !S FOR "ARKLEYS REDUCTIO AD ABSURDAM ARGUMENT EITHER
A DIAGNOSIS SATISlES A REASONABLE SCIENTIlC STANDARD OR IT DOESNT &UMENTO ALSO WRITES THAT hOFTEN THE
BEST DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR AN AILMENT IS HOW IT RESPONDS TO TREATMENTv 4HIS IS ODD BECAUSE HE CITES $R
*UDITH 2APOPORT IN SUPPORT WHEN HER WORK IN FACT HAS SHOWN AS OTHERS KNOW THAT 2ITALIN WILL HELP
ANYONE PAY ATTENTION "Y &UMENTOS TREATMENT RESPONSE STANDARD OF DIAGNOSIS THEN EVERY HUMAN ON
THE PLANET HAS !$($ &UMENTOS ARTICLE MAKES OTHER CLAIMS IN FAVOR OF THE !$($ DIAGNOSIS WHICH
IN MY VIEW ARE MORE POLEMICAL AND CONFUSED THAN SUBSTANTIVE
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ACTIVITY $ISORDER v $EVELOPMENTAL 2EVIEW PP *OSEPHS ARTICLE DREW A RESPONSE 3TEPHEN
6 &ARAONE AND *OSEPH "IEDERMAN h.ATURE .URTURE AND !TTENTION $ElCIT (YPERACTIVITY $ISORDER v
$EVELOPMENTAL 2EVIEW PP TO WHICH *OSEPH RESPONDED h0ROBLEMS IN 0SYCHIATRIC 'ENETIC
2ESEARCH ! 2EPLY TO &ARAONE AND "IEDERMAN v $EVELOPMENTAL 2EVIEW PP
3HARON "EGLEY h$IET $URING 0REGNANCY #OULD (AVE %FFECTS THAT ,AST TO !DULTHOOD v 4HE 7ALL
3TREET *OURNAL !UGUST " !CCORDING TO "EGLEYS SOURCES SEQUENCE VARIATIONS DONT CORRELATE
WELL WITH DISEASES #ONSEQUENTLY ATTENTION IS INCREASINGLY BEING GIVEN TO WHAT IS KNOWN AS hEPI
GENETICS v WHICH STUDIES THE PATTERN OF GENE SILENCING AND ACTIVATION
3TEPHEN &ARAONE AS QUOTED IN *AY *OSEPH h0ROBLEMS IN 0SYCHIATRIC 'ENETIC 2ESEARCH ! 2EPLY TO
&ARAONE AND "IEDERMAN v $EVELOPMENTAL 2EVIEW PP
4HE BELIEF THAT MANY MENTAL ILLNESSES RESULT FROM BIOLOGICAL CAUSES THAT ARE GENETIC IN ORIGIN
SEEMS TO BE BROADLY ACCEPTED AS JUSTIFYING TREATING MENTAL ILLNESSES WITH MEDICATIONS 4HIS BELIEF IN
TURN APPEARS TO REST LARGELY ON A BODY OF RESEARCH PURPORTING TO HAVE FOUND A CONCORDANCE RATE
FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA FOR IDENTICAL TWINS BUT ONLY A CONCORDANCE RATE FOR FRATERNAL TWINS )N ESSENCE
IT APPEARS THAT MANY IF NOT MOST PSYCHIATRISTS BELIEVE EXPLICITLY OR IMPLICITLY THAT THESE TWIN STUDIES
PROVE THAT BIOLOGICAL DElCITS ARE THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF MENTAL ILLNESSES 4HIS VIEW ALONG WITH THE
VALIDITY OF THE SCHIZOPHRENIA TWIN STUDIES IS CHALLENGED BY *AY *OSEPH IN 4HE 'ENE )LLUSION 2OSS ON
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7YE 5NITED +INGDOM 0##3 "OOKS *ONATHAN ,EO PROVIDES AN INFORMATIVE ESSAY REVIEW OF
4HE 'ENE )LLUSION IN (UMAN .ATURE 2EVIEW PP
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CONNECTION WITH !$($ SEE h4HE %THICS AND 3CIENCE OF -EDICATING #HILDREN v BY *ACQUELINE !
3PARKS 0H$ #ENTER FOR &AMILY 3ERVICES AND "ARRY , $UNCAN 0SY$ )NSTITUTE FOR THE 3TUDY OF
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6OLUME PP
0ETER 2 "REGGIN -$ AND 'INGER 2OSS "REGGIN h4HE (AZARDS OF 4REATING @!TTENTION $ElCIT
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6OLUME PP
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(YPERACTIVITY $ISORDER WITH -ETHYLPHENIDATE 2ITALIN v 4HE *OURNAL OF #OLLEGE 3TUDENT 0SYCHOTHERAPY
6OLUME PP
! *ANUARY STORY IN THE (ARVARD #RIMSON REPORTS ON STUDENTS USE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
SUCH AS 2ITALIN AND !DDERALL AS hSTUDY DRUGSv !CCORDING TO THE #RIMSON MANY STUDENTS BELIEVE THAT
THESE DRUGS ARE FAR BETTER THAN CAFFEINE FOR ENHANCING STUDY PERFORMANCE !CCORDING TO ONE STUDENT
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MINUTESx9OU DONT NECESSARILY HAVE TO HAVE !$$ FOR IT TO DO SOMETHING TO YOUx %SPECIALLY IF YOU
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$RUGS TO 3TUDY v (ARVARD #RIMSON *ANUARY
'OTTLIEB $* ET AL h3YMPTOMS OF 3LEEP $ISORDERED "REATHING IN YEAR OLD CHILDREN ARE !S
SOCIATED WITH 3LEEPINESS AND 0ROBLEM "EHAVIORS v 0EDIATRICS /CTOBER 4HIS STUDY
INVOLVED A FAIRLY LARGE SAMPLE n CHILDREN
3EE EG 4HE 0HYSICIANS $ESK 2EFERENCE h!$($ -AY BE /VERDIAGNOSED 3TUDY 3AYS v #..
COM 3EPTEMBER AND +RISTIN ,EUTWYLER h0AYING !TTENTION n 4HE #ONTROVERSY /VER !$($
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!MERICAN !UGUST
h2ITALIN 6IOLENCE !GAINST "OYS $RUG IS "EING 5SED TO 3EDATE !CTIVE 9OUNG "OYS v 4HE -ASSA
CHUSETTS .EWS .OVEMBER AVAILABLE AT WWWMASSNEWSCOMVIOBOYHTM
+ELLY 0ATRICIA /-EARA h$OPING +IDS v )NSIGHT -AGAZINE *UNE
+ELLY 0ATRICIA /-EARA h$OPING +IDS v )NSIGHT -AGAZINE *UNE
!S QUOTED IN %PHRAT ,IVNI h! $IAGNOSIS %XCESS ! ,AWSUIT !LLEGES !TTENTION $ElCIT $ISORDER
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6OLUME PP
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3EE ALSO "RENDAN -C'ARRY h5" 2ESEARCHERS &INDINGS ON 2ITALIN !TTRACT .ATIONAL !TTENTION v
4HE 3PECTRUM .OVEMBER
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
h2ITALIN -AY #HANGE "RAIN ,ONG 4ERM 3TUDY 3HOWS v 2EUTERS .EWS 3ERVICE .OVEMBER
$R *ERRY 2USHTON AS QUOTED IN h2ITALIN AND 0ROZAC #OMBINATION 5SED BY -ORE #HILDREN v
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!S QUOTED IN +ELLY 0ATRICIA /-EARA h.EW 2ESEARCH )NDICTS 2ITALIN v )NSIGHT -AGAZINE *ULY
+ELLY 0ATRICIA /-EARA h.EW 2ESEARCH )NDICTS 2ITALIN v )NSIGHT -AGAZINE *ULY
+ELLY 0ATRICIA /-EARA h.EW 2ESEARCH )NDICTS 2ITALIN v )NSIGHT -AGAZINE *ULY
!S QUOTED IN +ELLY 0ATRICIA /-EARA h.EW 2ESEARCH )NDICTS 2ITALIN v )NSIGHT -AGAZINE *ULY
2OBERT -C'OUGH h"RAIN 3TRUCTURE -AY -AKE 4EENS !DDICTION 0RONE v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL
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2OBERT -C'OUGH h"RAIN 3TRUCTURE -AY -AKE 4EENS !DDICTION 0RONE v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL
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2OBERT -C'OUGH h"RAIN 3TRUCTURE -AY -AKE 4EENS !DDICTION 0RONE v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL
*UNE
4HE #ARLEZON STUDY SHOULD BE AVAILABLE ONLINE SOMETIME IN AT "IOLOGICAL 0SYCHIATRYS
HOMEPAGE HTTPWWW EASTELSEVIERCOMBPS
!S QUOTED IN h2ITALIN 5SE $URING #HILDHOOD -AY )NCREASE $EPRESSION $ECREASE #OCAINE 3EN
SITIVITY IN !DULTS v 0RESS 2ELEASE BY -C#LEAN (OSPITAL $ECEMBER AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTP
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h2ITALIN 5SE $URING #HILDHOOD -AY )NCREASE $EPRESSION $ECREASE #OCAINE 3ENSITIVITY IN
!DULTS v 0RESS 2ELEASE BY -C#LEAN (OSPITAL $ECEMBER AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTPWWW
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)T MUST ALSO BE NOTED THAT THE STUDY ALSO FOUND THAT THE RATS THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN 2ITALIN DEM
ONSTRATED A LOWER LEVEL OF INTEREST IN COCAINE THAN THE RATS IN THE CONTROL GROUP .OTE HOWEVER THAT
THE 5NIVERSITY OF #ALIFORNIA AND 5NIVERSITY OF "UFFALO STUDIES MENTIONED INDICATE THAT 2ITALIN MAY BE
A hGATEWAYv DRUG FOR HUMANS /BVIOUSLY THE DIFFERENCES IN HUMAN AND RODENT BIOLOGY MAY BE SUCH
THAT ALL SOME OR NONE OF THE lNDINGS FROM #ARLEZONS STUDY MAY BE APPLICABLE TO HUMANS
,AURAN .EERGAARD h&$! #ITES 0OSSIBLE 3UICIDE ,INK IN 0AXIL v !SSOCIATED 0RESS *UNE
+ELLY 0ATRICIA /-EARA h$OPING +IDS v )NSIGHT -AGAZINE *UNE
4HE !MERICAN 0SYCHIATRIC !SSOCIATION SPONSORED A SYMPOSIUM AT ITS ANNUAL CONVENTION TO
DEBATE WHETHER PEDOPHILIA EXHIBITIONISM FETISHISM TRANSVESTISM VOYEURISM AND SADOMASOCHISM
SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE CONSIDERED MENTAL ILLNESSES 3OME BELIEVE THAT THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THOSE PUSH
ING FOR SUCH CHANGES IS THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF PEDOPHILES 3EE ,AWRENCE -ORAHAN
h0SYCHIATRIC !SSOCIATION $EBATES 2ECLASSIFYING 0EDOPHILIA v #.3.EWSCOM *UNE
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)F THE .%! IS NOT CALLED TO ACCOUNT FOR ITS TAX EVASION THAT WILL TELL US A GREAT DEAL ABOUT HOW
DANGEROUS THE POWER OF THE TEACHERS UNIONS HAS BECOME
4HIS DISCUSSION OF THE 7%! IS BASED IN PART ON INFORMATION THAT CAN BE FOUND IN *AMI ,UND h%V
ERGREEN &REEDOM &OUNDATION 4AKES 4EACHERS 5NION TO #OURT v #APITAL 2ESEARCH #ENTER *UNE
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5NDER THE 3UPREME #OURTS "ECK DECISION UNION MEMBERS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FORCED TO CON
TRIBUTE MONEY USED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES "ECK HAS NEVER BEEN FULLY ENFORCED AND IS ROUTINELY VIOLATED
BY THE UNIONS !S PREVIOUSLY NOTED UNIONS REGULARLY IGNORE OR OBSTRUCT A WORKERS RIGHT TO DIVERT TO
CHARITIES OF THE WORKERS CHOOSING FUNDS THAT THE UNIONS WOULD OTHERWISE USE FOR A PURPOSE THAT WOULD
VIOLATE THE WORKERS SINCERELY HELD RELIGIOUS BELIEFS )N 7ASHINGTON 3TATE FOR EXAMPLE A PASTOR WHO
WAS ALSO A PART TIME PUBLIC SCHOOL BUS DRIVER TOLD THE UNION THAT HE WANTED HIS DUES SENT TO A FOOD
BANK )NSTEAD THE UNION INFORMED HIM THAT IT HAD DECIDED TO SEND HIS DUES TO THE !#,5 3EE h'IVE
4EACHERS 4HEIR $UES v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL *UNE !
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3CHEDULING ELECTIONS ALSO GIVES THE HYPER
MONOPOLISTS A NOTABLE ADVANTAGE IN PASSING REVENUE
MEASURES 4O ILLUSTRATE A LARGE SUBURBAN (OUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT WITH AN ENROLLMENT OF ROUGHLY
STUDENTS SET A MILLION BOND ELECTION FOR $ECEMBER )N ADDITION TO RENOVATING
SCHOOLS THE FUNDS WERE EAR
MARKED FOR AN AGRICULTURAL FARM A SECOND ATHLETIC STADIUM OF A CALIBER
PREVIOUSLY SEEN ONLY AT UNIVERSITIES AN hEDUCATIONAL SUPPORT CENTERv TO HOLD MORE THAN PEOPLE
A TRANSPORTATION CENTER THE EXPANSION OF FOOD SERVICES AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE !S REPORTED IN THE
LOCAL PAPER THE MEASURE PASSED BY A LANDSIDE GETTING PERCENT OF THE VOTE /F COURSE FEWER THAN
VOTERS OUT OF WELL OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND IN THE DISTRICT VOTED 4HIS MEANS THAT THE VOTES OF
SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES ALONE COULD HAVE CARRIED THE ELECTION 4HIS SORT OF LOW TURNOUT WAS UNDOUBT
EDLY WHAT THE DISTRICT HAD IN MIND WHEN IT SET THE ELECTION &OR MORE INFORMATION SEE 0ARIS !CHEN
h6OTERS !PPROVE #Y
&AIR )3$S MILLION "OND v 4HE 3UN $ECEMBER
4HE LEADERSHIP OF THE TEACHERS UNIONS GENERALLY HAS HAD RADICAL POLITICAL VIEWS SO FORMING OVERT
ALLIANCES WITH LEFTWING ORGANIZATIONS IS CONGENIAL TO THE LEADERSHIP 0OINTING OUT THAT ADDITIONAL POLITI
CAL POWER WOULD FURTHER ECONOMIC AND OTHER TRADITIONAL UNION INTERESTS HOWEVER WAS UNDOUBTEDLY
THE WAY THIS STRATEGY WAS SOLD TO MANY OF THE RANK
AND
lLE MEMBERS WHO TEND TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY LESS
RADICAL THAN THE LEADERSHIP
2OBERT " "LUEY h$EMS 'ET .EARLY !LL 4EACHER 5NION #ONTRIBUTIONS 2EPORT 3AYS v #.3COM
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&EBRUARY /F COURSE STUDENTS ARE ALSO INCREASINGLY BEING USED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES BY SOME
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lGURES IN SUPPORT OF POSITIONS ADVOCATED BY THE TEACHERS
2OBERT 4ANNER v2OD 0AIGE #RITICIZES 4EACHERS 5NION v !SSOCIATE 0RESS &EBRUARY
!S QUOTED IN "EN &ELLER h.%! !SKS "USH TO &IRE %DUCATION 3ECRETARY v !SSOCIATED 0RESS &EBRUARY
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4IMES *ANUARY
h*UDGE /RDERS +ANSAS 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS #LOSED v !SSOCIATED 0RESS -AY
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.EW 9ORK (ARPER #OLLINS #HAPTER
-ICHELLE -ALKIN h4HE ,OOTERS ,IBERALS )GNORE v 7ORLDNET$AILY -AY AVAILABLE AT WWW
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TON $# !MERICAS 3CANDAL #APITAL v -IDDLE !MERICAN .EWS -ARCH
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GOTTEN GOODS WAS COMPILED FROM .ICHOLAS 3TIX h7ASHINGTON $#
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,IBERALS )GNORE v 7ORLD.ET $AILY -AY
h5NION $OOZY v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL !
4HIS ARTICLE ALSO DISCUSSES HOW LAX TEACHERS UNIONS
lNANCIAL REPORTING OBLIGATIONS HAVE BEEN
.ICHOLAS 3TIX h7ASHINGTON $# !MERICAS 3CANDAL #APITAL v -IDDLE !MERICAN .EWS -ARCH
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
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PROVIDES A QUICK SUMMARY THAT IS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTPHOMEEARTHLINKNET^MANTONUCCIAR
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h4EACHER 4ESTING n 2ECENT $EVELOPMENTS v .ATIONAL #OUNCIL ON 4EACHER 1UALITY *ULY
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2OD 0AIGE h-EETING THE (IGHLY 1UALIlED 4EACHERS #HALLENGE 4HE 3ECRETARYS !NNUAL 2EPORT ON
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REPORT SEE h! "ETTER #LASS OF 4EACHERS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL *ULY P !
2OD 0AIGE h-EETING THE (IGHLY 1UALIlED 4EACHERS #HALLENGE 4HE 3ECRETARYS !NNUAL 2EPORT ON
4EACHER 1UALITY v AVAILABLE AT WWWTITLEORG AND WWWNOCHILDLEFTBEHINDGOV &OR A SUMMARY OF THE
REPORT SEE h! "ETTER #LASS OF 4EACHERS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL *ULY P !
2OD 0AIGE h-EETING THE (IGHLY 1UALIlED 4EACHERS #HALLENGE 4HE 3ECRETARYS !NNUAL 2EPORT ON
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REPORT SEE h! "ETTER #LASS OF 4EACHERS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL *ULY P !
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4EACHER 1UALITY v AVAILABLE AT WWWTITLEORG AND WWWNOCHILDLEFTBEHINDGOV
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TORS WITHOUT "ASIC 3KILLS v 7ORLD.ET$AILYCOM 3EPTEMBER AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTPWWW
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GOOD SUMMARY OF THE CURRENT STATE OF TEACHER COMPETENCY TESTING
)N FAIRNESS ADMINISTRATORS WHO ARE OFTEN DRAWN FROM THE RANKS OF COACHES ARE NOTORIOUS FOR BE
ING ON AVERAGE EVEN LESS INTELLECTUALLY DISTINGUISHED THAN THE TEACHERS THEY MANAGE /NE OF THE MORE
NOTEWORTHY EXAMPLES IS THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ,AWRENCE -ASSACHUSETTS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
7ILFREDO 4 ,ABOY ,ABOY IT TURNS OUT FAILED A MANDATORY #OMMUNICATIONS 3KILLS AND ,ITERACY 4EST
THREE TIMES 0ASSING THE TEST IS REQUIRED FOR LICENSURE IN -ASSACHUSETTS AND BEFORE HIS SHORT COMINGS
CAME TO LIGHT ,ABOY HAD PUT TEACHERS ON UNPAID ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE FOR FAILING THE SAME TEST THAT
HE HAD FAILED REPEATEDLY 5NLIKE THE TEACHERS HE SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY ,ABOY CONTINUED TO DRAW HIS
SALARY OF AND BENElTS EVEN AFTER HIS THIRD FAILURE ,ABOY CLAIMS THAT HE WAS STUMPED BY THE
TESTS QUESTIONS ON RULES OF GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION )MAGINE SOMEONE IN CHARGE OF AN INSTITUTION
RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING PUNCTUATION AND RULES OF GRAMMAR WHO CANNOT HIMSELF DEMONSTRATE A MOD
EST GRASP OF THESE SAME SIMPLE MATTERS YET HE EARNS A SIX lGURE SALARY AND CAN IN EFFECT lRE OTHERS
FOR NOT MEETING THAT SAME STANDARD 7ORSE THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR RECRUITING ,ABOY AS SUPERINTENDENT
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
HAD REASON TO KNOW THAT HE COULD NOT PASS THE MANDATORY #OMMUNICATIONS 3KILLS AND ,ITERACY 4EST
4HEY EVIDENTLY FELT THAT ,ABOYS STATUS AS A (ISPANIC MINORITY TRUMPED ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS 4HE
SITUATION WITH ,ABOY ILLUSTRATES WHY GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE BOTH EXPENSIVE AND INEFFECTIVE &OR MORE
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SOCIATED 0RESS !UGUST
&OR A DISCUSSION OF THE ACADEMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATION MAJORS AND SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FAC
ULTY SEE EG 4HOMAS 3OWELL )NSIDE !MERICAN %DUCATION .EW 9ORK 4HE &REE 0RESS PP
2OBERT 0 3TRAUSS h7HO 'ETS (IRED TO 4EACH 4HE #ASE OF 0ENNSYLVANIA v 4HOMAS " &ORDHAM
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&OR AN ENTERTAINING lRST
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+RAMERS BOOK REPORTS ON WHAT SHE FOUND AS SHE TRAVELED AROUND THE COUNTRY SITTING IN ON CLASSES IN
SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AND RANGING FROM THOSE THOUGHT TO BE hPRESTIGIOUSv
TO THOSE REGARDED AS PEDESTRIAN .O MATTER WHAT THE REPUTATION OF THE SCHOOL +RAMER CONCLUDES THAT
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THOSE TEACHING SCIENCE HAD NEITHER A MAJOR NOR A MINOR IN THE SUBJECTS THEY WERE TEACHING h#ONFRONT
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, 'ROSS 4HE #ONSPIRACY OF )GNORANCE 4HE &AILURE OF !MERICAN 3CHOOLS .EW 9ORK (ARPER #OLLINS
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4HIS QUIP CIRCULATING AMONG TEACHERS IS REPORTED BY (EATHER -AC$ONALD IN h5NSAFE AT !NY
'RADE v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL -ARCH $ A BOOK REVIEW OF 2ICHARD !RUMS *UDGING 3CHOOL
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*OHN &UND h7ILL 4ERROR ,EAVE 5S .O #HOICE 4EACHERS 5NIONS 4RY TO 5SE 3EPTEMBER AS
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-ARJORIE #OEYMAN h#HARTER 3CHOOLS "UILD ON A $ECADE OF %XPERIMENTATION v 4HE #HRISTIAN
3CIENCE -ONITOR *ANUARY
-ARJORIE #OEYMAN h#HARTER 3CHOOLS "UILD ON A $ECADE OF %XPERIMENTATION v 4HE #HRISTIAN
3CIENCE -ONITOR *ANUARY
2OBERT 4OMSHO h#HARTER 3CHOOL -OVEMENT 3PUTTERS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL *ANUARY
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h5.4 $ROPS 0LANS FOR 6IRTUAL 3CHOOL v (OUSTON #HRONICLE !SSOCIATED 0RESS .OVEMBER
4EACHERS UNIONS AND THEIR ALLIES BECOME PARTICULARLY HYSTERICAL OVER VIRTUAL CHARTER SCHOOLS
/NLINE EDUCATION n IN ESSENCE A FORM OF HOMESCHOOLING n WOULD DRAMATICALLY REDUCE THE NEED FOR
TEACHERS CLASSROOMS STAFlNG AT SCHOOLS OF EDUCATION AND PERSONNEL AND SERVICES OF EVERY KIND ASSOCI
ATED WITH TRADITIONAL GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING 6IRTUAL CHARTER SCHOOLS ALSO DIMINISH THE ACCESS TO CHIL
DREN NOW ENJOYED BY THE SUNDRY IDEOLOGUES CURRENTLY INmUENCING CURRICULA AND PROGRAMS 4HEY KNOW
THAT FOR EXAMPLE EVEN IF A CONTEST TO SEE WHO CAN PUT A CONDOM ON A BANANA FASTEST IS INCLUDED IN THE
VIRTUAL SCHOOL CURRICULUM MOMS WILL SKIP THAT PART OF THE LESSON PLAN
2OBERT 4OMSHO h#HARTER 3CHOOL -OVEMENT 3PUTTERS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL *ANUARY
!
!S QUOTED IN 2OBERT 4OMSHO h#HARTER 3CHOOL -OVEMENT 3PUTTERS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL
*ANUARY ! -ORE RECENTLY THE EDITORIAL PAGE WRITERS FOR 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL HAVE
SOUNDED MORE UPBEAT ABOUT THE PROSPECTS FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS h4HE #HARTER "OOM v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET
*OURNAL .OVEMBER ! 5NFORTUNATELY THEIR OPTIMISM IS UNSUPPORTED BY SIGNS OF SUBSTAN
TIAL PROGRESS 4HEY ALSO DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE HOW EASILY CHARTER SCHOOLS CAN BE CO OPTED OR SABOTAGED
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TION .EW 9ORK (ARPER #OLLINS P
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!MERICAN %DUCATION .EW 9ORK (ARPER #OLLINS P
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QUOTED IN 0ETER "RIMELOW 4HE 7ORM IN THE !PPLE (OW THE 4EACHER 5NIONS ARE $ESTROYING !MERICAN
%DUCATION .EW 9ORK (ARPER #OLLINS P
h3TATEMENT OF "OB #HASE 0RESIDENT OF THE .ATIONAL %DUCATION !SSOCIATION ON THE 53 3UPREME
#OURT $ECISION ON 0RIVATE 3CHOOL 4UITION 6OUCHERS v *UNE 0RESS 2ELEASE WWWNEAORG
!NOTHER POTENTIAL LEGAL PROBLEM FOR VOUCHERS AROSE WHEN THE 3UPREME #OURT LET STAND IN ,OCKE
V $AVEY A 7ASHINGTON 3TATE LAW EXCLUDING STUDENTS WHO WISH TO PURSUE THEOLOGICAL STUDIES FROM
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WHILE PROPONENTS CLAIM THAT IT SHOULD NOT HAVE A BROAD IMPACT &OR A BRIEF COMMENTARY FROM THE PRO
VOUCHER )NSTITUTE FOR *USTICE VISIT THEIR WEBSITE AT HTTPWWWIJORGCASESSCHOOL
h4HE .EXT 6OUCHER "ATTLEGROUND v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL !UGUST !
$AVID 2OYSE h&LORIDA *UDGE 3TRIKES $OWN 6OUCHER ,AW v !SSOCIATED 0RESS /NLINE !UGUST
*ON 3ARCHE h#OLORADO 3UPREME #OURT 3TRIKES 3CHOOL 6OUCHERS v !SSOCIATED 0RESS *UNE
h4HE %MPIRE 3TRIKES "ACK v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL -ARCH !
'EORGE !RCHIBALD h3CHOOL 6OUCHERS 3TART BY &ALL v 4HE 7ASHINGTON 4IMES *ANUARY
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4HE )NSTITUTE FOR *USTICE PROVIDES A VERY HELPFUL SUMMARY OF EXISTING VOUCHER PROGRAMS THEIR
CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR ENROLLMENTS AT HTTPWWWIJORGCASESSCHOOL
!S IS PLAIN ) THINK THAT VOUCHERS ARE A DANGEROUS DISTRACTION FOR #HRISTIAN PARENTS )T IS A PRO
FOUND MISTAKE TO BE WAITING FOR A hVOUCHER CAVALRYv THAT MAY NEVER COME AND THAT UNDER THE BEST
OF CIRCUMSTANCES WILL NOT ARRIVE IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE 4HIS IS NOT MEANT HOWEVER TO DEMEAN THE
MOTIVES OR THE EFFORTS OF THE MANY PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE PUSHING FOR VOUCHERS %VEN IF THEY
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
ULTIMATELY DONT ENJOY THE SUCCESS FOR WHICH THEY ARE STRIVING THEIR ACTIVITIES HAVE DONE A GREAT DEAL TO
BRING MUCH NEEDED ATTENTION TO THE EDUCATIONAL DISASTER KNOWN AS hPUBLIC SCHOOLSv
&OR A GOOD DISCUSSION OF THE POLITICAL DYNAMICS OF VOUCHERS SEE 0ETER "RIMELOW 4HE 7ORM IN THE
!PPLE (OW THE 4EACHER 5NIONS ARE $ESTROYING !MERICAN %DUCATION .EW 9ORK (ARPER #OLLINS
PP
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ENJOYED BY AN INSTITUTION THE ,EFT DOMINATES 3OME #HRISTIANS AND OTHERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT VOUCH
ERS BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE VOUCHERS MAY POSE A RISK TO THE AUTONOMY OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS #ONSEQUENTLY
#HRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE !SSOCIATION OF #LASSICAL AND #HRISTIAN 3CHOOLS THE
!MERICAN !SSOCIATION OF #HRISTIAN 3CHOOLS AND THE &OUNDATION FOR !MERICAN #HRISTIAN %DUCATION
OPPOSE VOUCHERS OUT OF FEAR THAT THEY WILL LEAD TO GOVERNMENT CONTROL 3IMILARLY SOME LIBERTARIANS
HAVE ARGUED THAT VOUCHERS POSE A SERIOUS THREAT OF EXPANDING RATHER THAN REDUCING THE INmUENCE OF
GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL INDUSTRY IN !MERICAN EDUCATION 3EE EG $WIGHT 2 ,EE
h4HE 0OLITICAL %CONOMY OF %DUCATIONAL 6OUCHERS v 4HE &REEMAN &EBRUARY P 3EE ALSO
-ARSHALL 3 3MITH AND *ENNIFER /$AY 3YSTEMIC 3CHOOL 2EFORM 0OLITICS OF %DUCATION !SSOCIATION 9EAR
BOOK P /THER #HRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE !SSOCIATION OF #HRISTIAN
3CHOOLS )NTERNATIONAL SUPPORT VOUCHERS WITH RESERVATIONS
6OUCHERS AND SCHOOL
CHOICE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN VERY USEFUL IN MAKING PUBLIC THE DEPTH OF DIS
SATISFACTION INNER
CITY PARENTS HAVE WITH GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS &OR EXAMPLE ACCORDING TO THE #HICAGO
3UN
4IMES STUDENTS ARE hVYINGv FOR TRANSFERS TO hHIGHER PERFORMINGv SCHOOLS UNDER THE CHOICE
PROVISIONS OF THE .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT 4HE PROBLEM IS THAT THERE ARE ONLY PLACES AVAILABLE
UNDER THE PROGRAM 2OSALIND 2OSSI h#HOICE 0ROGRAM #OULD /VERWHELM 3CHOOLS v #HICAGO 3UN
4IMES !UGUST
4HIS ACCOUNT OF THE SECESSION EFFORT BY THE #ARSON SCHOOLS IS BASED ON FACTS REPORTED BY *EAN -ERL
AND -ASSIE 2ITSCH h,ESSONS OF 3ECESSION "ID &AILURE v ,OS !NGELES 4IMES .OVEMBER
-ICHAEL ! &LETCHER h0HILADELPHIAS 3CHOOLS TO BE 0RIVATELY 2UN 5NDER 0A 0LAN v 4HE 7ASH
INGTON 0OST .OVEMBER AND h#ITY OF "ROTHERLY 4HUGS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL %DITORIAL
$ECEMBER
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TON 0OST .OVEMBER
h#ITY OF "ROTHERLY 4HUGS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL %DITORIAL $ECEMBER
h'OVERNMENT 4AKES /VER 0HILLY 3CHOOLS v !SSOCIATED 0RESS $ECEMBER
h3TREET *USTICE v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL %DITORIAL $ECEMBER
h3TREET *USTICE v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL %DITORIAL $ECEMBER
h0HILADELPHIAS ,OSS v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL !PRIL !
$ANIEL 'OLDEN h"OSTON 3CHOOL 3EVERS ITS 4IES WITH %DISON #ITING 4EST 3CORES v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET
*OURNAL -AY "
$AVID ,IMBAUGH h$UMBING $OWN 3CHOOLS TO 0LEASE THE &EDS v 7ORLD.ET$AILYCOM *UNE
2ICHARD 2OTHSTEIN h(OW 53 0UNISHES 3TATES WITH (IGHER 3TANDARDS v 4HE .EW 9ORK 4IMES
3EPTEMBER
3AM $ILLON h3TATES ARE 2ELAXING 3TANDARDS ON 4ESTS TO !VOID 3ANCTIONS v .EW 9ORK 4IMES -AY
!LTHOUGH EVERYTHING -R &INN SAYS IS CORRECT YOU WOULD THINK THIS IS HIS lRST RODEO .O
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&INN
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0ETER 3CHRAG h#ALIFORNIAS .EW @(IGHLY 1UALIlED 4EACHERS v 4HE 3ACRAMENTO "EE !U
GUST
0ETER 3CHRAG h#ALIFORNIAS .EW @(IGHLY 1UALIlED 4EACHERS v 4HE 3ACRAMENTO "EE !U
GUST
!S QUOTED IN 0ETER 3CHRAG h#ALIFORNIAS .EW @(IGHLY 1UALIlED 4EACHERS v 4HE 3ACRA
MENTO "EE !UGUST
0ETER 3CHRAG h#ALIFORNIAS .EW @(IGHLY 1UALIlED 4EACHERS v 4HE 3ACRAMENTO "EE !U
GUST
0ETER 3CHRAG h#ALIFORNIAS .EW @(IGHLY 1UALIlED 4EACHERS v 4HE 3ACRAMENTO "EE !U
GUST
"ILL ,INDELOF h3TATE 3CHOOLS TO $ELAY %XIT %XAM 9EARS v 4HE 3ACRAMENTO "EE *ULY
"ILL ,INDELOF h3TATE 3CHOOLS TO $ELAY %XIT %XAM 9EARS v 4HE 3ACRAMENTO "EE *ULY
AND $AN 7ALTERS h%XIT %XAM 2ESULTS $EMONSTRATE #ALIFORNIAS 4WO 4IER 3CHOOL 3YSTEM v 4HE 3ACRA
MENTO "EE /CTOBER
4HE FEDERAL DElNITION OF A HIGHLY QUALIlED TEACHER HAS THREE PARTS
s 4HE TEACHER MUST HAVE AT LEAST A BACHELORS DEGREE
s 4HE TEACHER MUST DEMONSTRATE SUBJECT MATTER KNOWLEDGE IN THE SUBJECTS TAUGHT AND
s 4HE TEACHER MUST HAVE FULL STATE CERTIlCATION
&OR A SPEECH GIVEN TO EDUCATORS BY A $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION OFlCIAL !SSOCIATE $EPUTY
5NDERSECRETARY 0ETRILLI REGARDING THESE REQUIREMENTS GO TO HTTPWWWEDGOVNEWSSPEECH
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STANDARDS )T PLANS TO SUE TO STOP THEIR IMPLEMENTATION 7HY 4HE REASON GIVEN PUBLICLY IS THAT IT
WANTS MORE MONEY FOR EDUCATION BEFORE ANY CHANGES ARE MADE 7HILE IT IS CERTAINLY TRUE THAT THE .%!
ALWAYS WANTS MORE MONEY FOR THE EDUCATION MONOPOLY IT IS ALSO UNDOUBTEDLY HOSTILE TO THE hHIGHLY
QUALIlEDv TEACHER STANDARDS BECAUSE THE .%! ALSO ALWAYS OPPOSES HIGHER STANDARDS AND EFFORTS TO HOLD
ITS MEMBERSHIP ACCOUNTABLE "IRDS GOTTA mY lSH GOTTA SWIM ETC
$ANIEL 'OLDEN h#OLLEGES %ASE 7AY FOR 4EACHERS TO 'ET !DVANCED $EGREES v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET
*OURNAL 3EPTEMBER !
4HE INCREASED EMPHASIS ON OBTAINING GRADUATE DEGREES THE PROLIFERATION OF TEACHER STANDARDS
BOARDS AND OTHER TRAPPINGS DESIGNED TO CREATE THE IMPRESSION OF GREATER PROFESSIONALISM ON THE PART
OF TEACHERS GOT ITS INITIAL IMPETUS FROM THE REPORT h! .ATION AT 2ISK v AND THE #ARNEGIE #OR
PORATIONS h! .ATION 0REPARED 4EACHERS FOR THE ST #ENTURYv "UT LIKE A 0OTEMKIN VILLAGE WHAT HAS
BEEN DELIVERED IS APPEARANCE RATHER THAN SUBSTANCE !S #HESTER % &INN *R HAS PUT IT h;7=HAT STARTED
AS AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING PROFESSION HAS TURNED INSTEAD INTO PROFESSIONALIZING TEACHER IM
PROVEMENT WITH LITTLE TO SHOW IN THE WAY OF IMPROVED SCHOOLS PERFORMANCEv &INN REFERS TO THIS AS
hRESULTS FREE PROFESSIONALISMv 3EE #HESTER % &INN *R h0ROFESSIONALIZING 4EACHERS VERSUS )MPROVING
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$ANIEL 'OLDEN h#OLLEGES %ASE 7AY FOR 4EACHERS TO 'ET !DVANCED $EGREES v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET
*OURNAL 3EPTEMBER !
$ANIEL 'OLDEN h#OLLEGES %ASE 7AY FOR 4EACHERS TO 'ET !DVANCED $EGREES v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET
*OURNAL 3EPTEMBER !
$ANIEL 'OLDEN h#OLLEGES %ASE 7AY FOR 4EACHERS TO 'ET !DVANCED $EGREES v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET
*OURNAL 3EPTEMBER !
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
$ANIEL 'OLDEN h#OLLEGES %ASE 7AY FOR 4EACHERS TO 'ET !DVANCED $EGREES v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET
*OURNAL 3EPTEMBER !
$ANIEL 'OLDEN h#OLLEGES %ASE 7AY FOR 4EACHERS TO 'ET !DVANCED $EGREES v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET
*OURNAL 3EPTEMBER ! )F THE LIKES OF #AMBRIDGE #OLLEGE PROVE TOO RIGOROUS TEACHERS
MIGHT CONSIDER GETTING THEIR MASTERS DEGREES FROM 3T 2EGIS 5NIVERSITY AN ONLINE UNIVERSITY LOCATED IN
,IBERIA THAT OFFERS DEGREES BASED ON hLIFE EXPERIENCEvxOH YES AND FOR A PAYMENT OF DOCTORATES
ARE h4EACHERS IN 'EORGIA 'OT 2AISES FOR &AKE $EGREES v &OX .EWS!SSOCIATED 0RESS -ARCH
!PPARENTLY 'WINNETT #OUNTY 'EORGIA DISCOVERED THAT IT WAS PAYING SOME OF ITS HIGHLY
TRAINED EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS HIGHER SALARIES BECAUSE OF THEIR 3T 2EGIS 5NIVERSITY hDEGREESv
$ANIEL 'OLDEN h#OLLEGES %ASE 7AY FOR 4EACHERS TO 'ET !DVANCED $EGREES v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET
*OURNAL 3EPTEMBER !
2OBERT $ODGE h!DMINISTRATION TO -ODIFY .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT v 3EATTLE 4IMES &EBRUARY
4HE STANDARD COMPLAINT BY STATE POLITICIANS IS THAT THE !CT IS AN UNDERFUNDED MANDATE 4HIS
IS NOT EXACTLY TRUE 4HE !CT REQUIRES STATES TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN TESTS AND PROGRESS STANDARDS /NCE
THEY HAVE SET THOSE STANDARDS THE !CT REQUIRES THEM TO MEET THEM 4HIS IS IN FACT ONE OF THE WEAK
NESSES OF THE !CT AND AS NOTED PREVIOUSLY STATES HAVE BEEN LOWERING STANDARDS TO MAKE SURE THAT NO
FEDERAL DOLLAR GETS AWAY /BVIOUSLY THE STATES HAVE THE LEEWAY TO SET STANDARDS AT A LEVEL THEY CAN FUND
&OR MORE ON THIS SEE h.O 0OLITICIAN ,EFT "EHIND v 4HE 7ALL 3TREET *OURNAL &EBRUARY !
2ONNIE ,YNN h.O #HILD 2EBELLION 0ICKING UP -OMENTUM v 4HE 3ALT ,AKE 4RIBUNE &EBRUARY
2OBERT $ODGE h!DMINISTRATION TO -ODIFY .O #HILD ,EFT "EHIND !CT v 3EATTLE 4IMES &EBRUARY
#HARLOTTE 4HOMPSON )SERBYT 4HE $ELIBERATE $UMBING $OWN OF !MERICA 2AVENNA /HIO #ON
SCIENCE 0RESS P XVII
0ETER "RIMELOW 4HE 7ORM IN THE !PPLE (OW THE 4EACHER 5NIONS ARE $ESTROYING !MERICAN %DUCA
TION .EW 9ORK (ARPER #OLLINS P
0ETER "RIMELOW 4HE 7ORM IN THE !PPLE (OW THE 4EACHER 5NIONS ARE $ESTROYING !MERICAN %DUCA
TION .EW 9ORK (ARPER #OLLINS P
0ETER "RIMELOW 4HE 7ORM IN THE !PPLE (OW THE 4EACHER 5NIONS ARE $ESTROYING !MERICAN %DUCA
TION .EW 9ORK (ARPER #OLLINS P
#HARLOTTE 4HOMPSON )SERBYT 4HE $ELIBERATE $UMBING $OWN OF !MERICA 2AVENNA /HIO #ON
SCIENCE 0RESS P XVI
#HAPTER 3IX
'OVERNMENT 3CHOOLS 4HE 7AGES OF #HRISTIAN 3IN
! .ATION AT 2ISK 4HE )MPERATIVE FOR %DUCATIONAL 2EFORM .ATIONAL #OMMISSION ON %XCELLENCE IN
%DUCATION !PRIL AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTPWWWGOALLINEORG'OAL,INE.AT!T2ISKHTML )T
IS WELL WORTH THE EFFORT TO COMPARE THE COMMISIONS RISK FACTORS INDICATING THE EDUCATIONAL FAILURE OF
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WITH THE MORE RECENT EVIDENCE OF THEIR EDUCATIONAL FAILURE SET FORTH IN #HAPTER
3EE *OHN 4AYLOR 'ATTO !N 5NDERGROUND (ISTORY OF !MERICAN %DUCATION .EW 9ORK 4HE /XFORD 6IL
LAGE 0RESS P AND 3AMUEL , "LUMENFELD )S 0UBLIC %DUCATION .ECESSARY "OISE 4HE
0ARADIGM #OMPANY P
,LOYD 0 *ORGENSON 4HE 3TATE AND THE .ON
0UBLIC 3CHOOL n #OLUMBIA 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF
-ISSOURI 0RESS PP
%NDNOTES
3AMUEL , "LUMENFELD )S 0UBLIC %DUCATION .ECESSARY "OISE 4HE 0ARADIGM #OMPANY PP
-ARTIN -ORSE 7OOSTER !NGRY #LASSROOMS 6ACANT -INDS 7HATS (APPENED TO OUR (IGH 3CHOOLS 3AN
&RANCISCO 0ACIlC 2ESEARCH )NSTITUTE P 3OME SCHOOLS IN #ONNECTICUT FOR EXAMPLE WERE AT
LEAST PARTIALLY SUPPORTED BY RATE BILLS #OMMON 3CHOOL PROPONENTS VIEWED THIS FORM OF FUNDING IN
WHICH THE GOVERNMENT WAS ESSENTIALLY DOING LITTLE MORE THAN COLLECTING TUITION FROM PARENTS ON BEHALF OF
SCHOOLS AS AN OBSTACLE TO THEIR PLANS AND WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN HAVING THIS SCHOOL lNANCING MECHANISM
REPEALED
&OR AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE METHODS OF PUBLIC lNANCE IN TH CENTURY .EW %NGLAND SEE (ER
BERT , /SGOOD h.EW %NGLAND #OLONIAL &INANCE IN THE 3EVENTEENTH #ENTURY v 0OLITICAL 3CIENCE 1UAR
TERLY -ARCH AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTPWWWDINSDOCCOMOSGOOD HTM !S ALREADY
NOTED CHURCH AND GOVERNMENT WERE INTERTWINED IN EARLY COLONIAL .EW %NGLAND h)N THE 0URITAN COLO
NIES THE SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY THE BUILDING AND REPAIR OF CHURCHES AND THE SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS WERE
REGULAR OBJECTS OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURE 4HIS BURDEN WITH THE BUILDING AND REPAIR OF ROADS AND BRIDGES
THE BUILDING AND REPAIR OF JAILS THE CARE OF THE POOR AND THE SUPPORT OF LOCAL OFlCIALS AND COURTS
RESTED MAINLY ON THE LOCALITIES ,AWS MAKING SUCH EXPENDITURES OBLIGATORY ABOUND "UT ON OCCASION
SUPPLEMENTARY GRANTS WERE MADE FROM THE COLONY TREASURYv /SGOOD P 4HE PRIMARY OBJECT OF
PUBLIC EXPENDITURE HOWEVER WAS DEFENSE /SGOOD PP 7ITH RESPECT TO EARLY EFFORTS BY THE
CORPORATE COLONIAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO PROVIDE lNANCING FOR SCHOOLS /SGOOD WRITES h5NDER
THE ACT OF THE TOWNS OF -ASSACHUSETTS BEGAN THEIR EXPENDITURES FOR ELEMENTARY AND GRAMMAR
SCHOOLS THE SAME POLICY BEING FOLLOWED IN THE OTHER THREE COLONIES 3PECIAL EFFORTS WERE MADE FOR THE
FOUNDING OF A COLONY GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT .EW (AVEN THE GENERAL COURT CONDITIONALLY APPROPRIATING
a FOR THE PURPOSE "UT THIS SCHEME DID NOT PROSPER -ASSACHUSETTS OCCASIONALLY MADE GRANTS OF
LAND FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF GRAMMAR SCHOOLS AND #ONNECTICUT IN SET APART SIX HUNDRED ACRES
OF LAND IN EACH TO BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE )N THE GENERAL COURT OF 0LYMOUTH VOTED TO DEVOTE
THE REVENUE WHICH AROSE FROM lSHING AT THE #APE TO THE SUPPORT OF A FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT THE TOWN
OF 0LYMOUTH 7ITH THIS FUND A SCHOOL WAS SOON STARTED )N A GRANT OF a WAS MADE TOWARD THE
SUPPORT OF A SCHOOL AT 2EHOBOTH 'RANTS CAME REGULARLY TO BE MADE OUT OF THE FUND FROM THE lSHERY
BOTH TO THE SCHOOLS IN THESE TOWNS AND TO ONE IN $UXBURY 4HE SUPPORT OF BOTH THE GRAMMAR AND
THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS CONTINUED TO BE MAINLY A LOCAL CHARGE 4OWNS THAT FAILED TO MAINTAIN THEM AS
REQUIRED BY LAW WERE LIABLE TO lNE /F ACTIVITY ON THE PART OF THE COLONY GOVERNMENT IN 2HODE )SLAND
IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION WE HEAR NOTHINGv /SGOOD PP /SGOODS ARTICLE ALSO POINTS OUT
THE MANY DIFlCULTIES INVOLVED IN COLLECTING REVENUES UNDER THE RELATIVELY PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS THAT EX
ISTED IN TH CENTURY .EW %NGLAND NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH WAS THE INADEQUATE SUPPLY OF COINS WHICH
RESULTED IN COLLECTIONS OFTEN HAVING TO BE TAKEN IN KIND )N 3OUTH #AROLINA WHICH BECAME A ROYAL
PROVINCE IN THE 'ENERAL !SSEMBLY AUTHORIZED THE CONSTRUCTION OF A FREE SCHOOL IN EACH COUNTY
THAT WOULD PROVIDE INSTRUCTION TO POOR CHILDREN FREE OF CHARGE )N 3OUTH #AROLINA ENACTED A
FURTHER FREE SCHOOL LAW TO PROVIDE FREE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION TO ALL BUT WITH A PREFERENCE FOR ORPHANS
AND THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR 3EE h! "RIEF (ISTORY OF 0UBLIC %DUCATION IN 3OUTH #AROLINA v AVAILABLE
ONLINE AT HTTPWWWSDESTATESCUSPUBLICINFORMATIONHISTORYHTM
&ROM THE TIME OF THE RATIlCATION OF THE #ONSTITUTION UNTIL %VERSON THE %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE WAS
VIEWED AS A CONSTRAINT ON THE POWERS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT #ONSEQUENTLY STATE AND LOCAL SUPPORT
OF #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS DURING THAT PERIOD DID NOT RAISE #ONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES )N FACT THE #ONGREGATIONAL
#HURCH WAS THE ESTABLISHED RELIGION IN -ASSACHUSETTS UNTIL A STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT WAS UNDERSTOOD
AT THAT TIME TO BE OUTSIDE THE REACH OF THE %STABLISHMENT #LAUSE
,LOYD 0 *ORGENSON 4HE 3TATE AND THE .ON 0UBLIC 3CHOOL n #OLUMBIA 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF
-ISSOURI 0RESS P
3AMUEL , "LUMENFELD )S 0UBLIC %DUCATION .ECESSARY "OISE 4HE 0ARADIGM #OMPANY PP
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
3AMUEL , "LUMENFELD )S 0UBLIC %DUCATION .ECESSARY "OISE 4HE 0ARADIGM #OMPANY PP
3AMUEL , "LUMENFELD )S 0UBLIC %DUCATION .ECESSARY "OISE 4HE 0ARADIGM #OMPANY PP
3AMUEL , "LUMENFELD )S 0UBLIC %DUCATION .ECESSARY "OISE 4HE 0ARADIGM #OMPANY PP
#HARLES *ARED )NGERSOLL .ORTH !MERICAN 2EVIEW *ANUARY P AS QUOTED IN 3AMUEL ,
"LUMENFELD )S 0UBLIC %DUCATION .ECESSARY "OISE 4HE 0ARADIGM #OMPANY PP
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*OHN ( 7ESTERHOFF ))) -C'UFFEY AND (IS 2EADERS -ILFORD -ICH -OTT -EDIA P
*OHN ( 7ESTERHOFF ))) -C'UFFEY AND (IS 2EADERS -ILFORD -ICH -OTT -EDIA PP
#HARLES ,ESLIE 'LENN *R 4HE -YTH OF THE #OMMON 3CHOOL !MHERST 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF -ASSACHU
SETTS 0RESS PP
,LOYD 0 *ORGENSON 4HE 3TATE AND THE .ON
0UBLIC 3CHOOL n #OLUMBIA 4HE 5NIVERSITY
OF -ISSOURI 0RESS PP
)N PART THE EFFORT MADE BY THOSE IN CONTROL OF THE #OMMON
3CHOOLS TO MAKE THEM hNONSECTARIANv WAS THE PROBLEM 4HE #ATHOLIC LEADERSHIP BELIEVED THAT EDUCA
TION SHOULD BE hSECTARIANv THAT IS IT SHOULD INCLUDE THE TEACHING OF A SPECIlC RELIGIOUS TRADITION &OR
A DISCUSSION OF THIS ASPECT OF THE STRUGGLE OVER #OMMON 3CHOOLS SEE #HARLES ,ESLIE 'LENN *R 4HE
-YTH OF THE #OMMON 3CHOOL !MHERST 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF -ASSACHUSETTS 0RESS PP
,LOYD 0 *ORGENSON 4HE 3TATE AND THE .ON
0UBLIC 3CHOOL n #OLUMBIA 4HE 5NIVERSITY
OF -ISSOURI 0RESS PP
3EE ALSO #HARLES ,ESLIE 'LENN *R 4HE -YTH OF THE #OMMON
3CHOOL !MHERST 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF -ASSACHUSETTS 0RESS PP
!S QUOTED IN ,LOYD 0 *ORGENSON 4HE 3TATE AND THE .ON
0UBLIC 3CHOOL n #OLUMBIA
4HE 5NIVERSITY OF -ISSOURI 0RESS P
&ROM #ATHOLIC 7ORLD AS QUOTED IN ,LOYD 0 *ORGENSON 4HE 3TATE AND THE .ON
0UBLIC 3CHOOL
n #OLUMBIA 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF -ISSOURI 0RESS P
#HARLES ,ESLIE 'LENN *R 4HE -YTH OF THE #OMMON 3CHOOL !MHERST 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF -ASSACHU
SETTS 0RESS PP
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
2, $ABNEY /N 3ECULAR %DUCATION $OUGLAS 7ILSON ED -OSCOW )DAHO #ANON 0RESS
PP 4HE FACT THAT $ABNEY OPPOSED USING GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ATTEMPTING TO
h0ROTESTANTIZEv #ATHOLIC CHILDREN DOES NOT MEAN THAT HE HAD A FAVORABLE VIEW OF THE #ATHOLIC #HURCH
2ATHER HIS OPPOSITION WAS IN SPITE OF HIS DEEP DISAPPROVAL OF #ATHOLIC THEOLOGY AND INSTITUTIONS
2, $ABNEY /N 3ECULAR %DUCATION $OUGLAS 7ILSON ED -OSCOW )DAHO #ANON 0RESS
PP 4HE -ASSACHUSETTS 0ROTESTANTS WHO SUPPORTED THE #OMMON 3CHOOL MOVEMENT HAD LITTLE
APPRECIATION OF THE RISKS INVOLVED IN EMBRACING A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS )N AN REPORT
SUPPORTING PARTICIPATION IN THE #OMMON 3CHOOL PROGRAM BY THE 0ROTESTANT !SSOCIATION OF -ASSACHU
SETTS THE AUTHORS OFFERED THE FOLLOWING hCOSTBENElTv ANALYSIS
h4HE BENElTS OF THIS SYSTEM IN OFFERING INSTRUCTION TO ALL ARE SO MANY AND SO GREAT THAT ITS RELIGIOUS
DElCIENCIES ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY CAN BE OTHERWISE SUPPLIED DO NOT SEEM TO BE A SUFlCIENT REASON FOR
ABANDONING IT AND ADOPTING IT IN PLACE OF IT A SYSTEM OF DENOMINATIONAL PAROCHIAL SCHOOLSx/N THE
WHOLE IT SEEMS TO BE THE WISEST COURSE AT LEAST FOR THE PRESENT TO DO ALL IN OUR POWER TO PERFECT SO
FAR AS IT CAN BE DONE NOT ONLY ITS INTELLECTUAL BUT ALSO ITS MORAL AND RELIGIOUS CHARACTER )F AFTER A FULL
AND FAITHFUL EXPERIMENT IT SHOULD AT LAST BE SEEN THAT lDELITY TO THE RELIGIOUS INTERESTS OF OUR CHILDREN
FORBIDS A FURTHER PATRONAGE OF THE SYSTEM WE CAN UNITE WITH THE %VANGELICAL #HRISTIANS IN THE ESTAB
LISHMENT OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN WHICH MORE FULL DOCTRINAL RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION MAY BE POSSIBLE 3EE
#OMMON 3CHOOL *OURNAL 6OL )) .O *ULY AS QUOTED IN 3AMUEL , "LUMENFELD
h%DUCATION AND THE #HURCH v 4HE #HALCEDON 2EPORT -AY
4HE AUTHORS BELIEF THAT HAVING ONCE ESTABLISHED A GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED AND FUNDED SYSTEM OF
SCHOOLS THEY COULD SIMPLY REVERSE COURSE IF THE INSTITUTION PROVED UNSATISFACTORY BETRAYS A REMARKABLE
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P N AND THE SOURCES CITED THEREIN
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-ARCH BY THE 0EW 2ESEARCH #OUNCIL FOUND THAT OF THE
ADULTS SURVEYED IDENTIlED THEMSELVES AS #HRISTIAN 4HIS INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT WWWADHERENTS
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4HIS INFORMATION IS TAKEN FROM THE WEBSITE OF THE 53 #ENSUS "UREAU AND IS AVAILABLE AT HTTP
WWWCENSUSGOVPOPULATIONSOCDEMOSCHOOLPPL
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)T IS HARD TO lND DElNITIVE CURRENT DATA FOR THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ATTENDING #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS OR
PRIVATE SCHOOLS GENERALLY /NE USEFUL SOURCE OF INFORMATION IS 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION .A
TIONAL #ENTER FOR %DUCATIONAL 3TATISTICS 0RIVATE 3CHOOL 5NIVERSE 3URVEY
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BY
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3CHOOL 5NIVERSE 3URVEY COVERS ONLY THE
PERIOD
4HE .ATIONAL (OME %DUCATION 2ESEARCH )NSTITUTE .(%2) FOR EXAMPLE ESTIMATES THAT IN
BETWEEN MILLION AND MILLION CHILDREN WERE HOMESCHOOLED 4HIS ESTIMATE AND OTHER INFORMA
TION ON HOMESCHOOLING IS AVAILABLE FROM .(%2) ONLINE AT HTTPWWWNHERIORGMODULESPHP NAME
#ONTENTPA SHOWPAGEPID
"ECAUSE OF THE LACK OF lRM DATA ON THE NUMBER OF HOMESCHOOLERS THERE ARE VARIOUS ESTIMATES OF THE
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PERCENTAGE OF HOMESCHOOLERS WHO ARE #HRISTIAN $R "RIAN 2AY PRESIDENT OF THE .ATIONAL (OME %DU
CATION 2ESEARCH )NSTITUTE ESTIMATES THAT #HRISTIANS CONSTITUTE OF HOMESCHOOLERS AS CITED IN %PH
RAT ,IVNI h+EEPING THE &AITH n -ORE AND -ORE -USLIM !MERICANS ARE #HOOSING TO (OME
3CHOOL v
ABC.%73COM $ECEMBER /THER ESTIMATES ARE AND HIGHER
4HE CALCULATION IS MADE BY ADDING THE PERCENTAGE OF SCHOOLCHILDREN ATTENDING #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS
X TO THE HYPOTHESIZED PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN BEING HOMESCHOOLED BY #HRISTIAN
FAMILIES X AND THEN DIVIDING THAT PERCENTAGE BY THE PERCENTAGE OF SELF
IDENTIlED
#HRISTIANS IN THE POPULATION /BVIOUSLY THIS ASSUMES AMONG OTHER
THINGS THAT ALL CHILDREN IN #HRISTIAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE FROM #HRISTIAN FAMILIES AND THAT NO CHILDREN
IN SECULAR PRIVATE SCHOOLS ARE FROM #HRISTIAN FAMILIES 4HESE ASSUMPTIONS ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT TRUE
BUT THEY SHOULD NOT MATERIALLY AFFECT THE ACCURACY OF THE ESTIMATES
4HIS PERCENTAGE SHOWS HOW MUCH EDUCATIONAL hCAPACITYv A DENOMINATION IS PROVIDING IN RELATION TO
AN ESTIMATE OF ITS OWN CHILDREN 4HUS FOR EXAMPLE EVEN THOUGH #ATHOLIC SCHOOLS PROVIDE NEARLY TWO
THIRDS OF THE EXISTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR #HRISTIAN SCHOOLING THEY ONLY HAVE ENOUGH CAPACITY TO EDUCATE
ROUGHLY OF ALL #ATHOLIC CHILDREN /F COURSE ENROLLMENTS IN ANY DENOMINATIONS SCHOOLS INCLUDE
CHILDREN FROM OUTSIDE THAT DENOMINATION BUT THIS PERCENTAGE ILLUSTRATES HOW MANY MORE #HRISTIAN
SCHOOLS ARE NEEDED
0LEASE NOTE THAT THESE COLUMNS WILL NOT SUM TO BECAUSE THE CHART DOES NOT INCLUDE ALL DE
NOMINATIONS AND IT DOES NOT INCLUDE DATA CONCERNING CHILDREN ATTENDING NONDENOMINATIONAL #HRIS
TIAN SCHOOLS
4HESE NUMBERS SHOW THE PERCENTAGE A GIVEN DENOMINATION REPRESENTS OF ALL #HRISTIANS IN !MERICA
4HEY HAVE BEEN ARRIVED AT BY DIVIDING THE PERCENTAGE OF THE ADULT POPULATION THAT IDENTIlED ITSELF
WITH THE SPECIlED DENOMINATION BY THE PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION IDENTIFYING ITSELF AS h#HRISTIANv
!LL OF THE DATA ARE FROM THE !MERICAN 2ELIGIOUS )DENTITY 3URVEY AS REPORTED AT WWW
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4HESE NUMBERS SHOW THE PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN ENROLLED IN #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS
THAT ARE ENROLLED IN SCHOOLS MAINTAINED BY THE SPECIlED DENOMINATION 4HEY HAVE BEEN CALCULATED BY
DIVIDING THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE SPECIlED DENOMINATIONS SCHOOLS BY THE ESTIMATED TO
TAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS 4HE DATA ARE TAKEN FROM 4ABLE OF
THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION .ATIONAL #ENTER FOR %DUCATIONAL 3TATISTICS 0RIVATE 3CHOOL 5NIVERSE
3URVEY
.#%3
BY 3TEPHEN 0 "ROUGHMAN AND ,ENORE ! #OLACIELLO
4HESE NUMBERS SHOW HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE ENROLLED IN THE SPECIlED DENOMINATIONS SCHOOLS
EXPRESSED AS A PERCENTAGE OF AN ESTIMATE OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF THE DENOMINATIONS PRIMARY AND SEC
ONDARY SCHOOL
AGE CHILDREN 4HE ESTIMATE OF THE DENOMINATIONS TOTAL NUMBER OF SCHOOL
AGE CHILDREN
h$ENOMINATIONS #HILDRENv IS CALCULATED BY MULTIPLYING THE PERCENTAGE OF SELF
IDENTIlED MEMBERS
OF THAT DENOMINATION IN THE TOTAL POPULATION BY MILLION WHICH IS AN ESTIMATE THAT ASSUMES
MILLION CHILDREN ENROLLED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS MILLION CHILDREN ENROLLED IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS SECULAR AND
#HRISTIAN AND MILLION HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN 4HE DATA ON THE PERCENTAGE THAT THE DENOMINA
TION CONSTITUTES OF THE TOTAL POPULATION IS FROM THE !MERICAN 2ELIGIOUS )DENTITY 3URVEY WHILE
THE DATA ON THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN ENROLLED IN SCHOOLS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ARE ESTIMATES FROM THE
.ATIONAL #ENTER &OR %DUCATION 3TATISTICS FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR 4HEN THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN
ENROLLED IN THE DENOMINATIONS SCHOOLS USING THE DATA FROM 4ABLE OF THE 0RIVATE 3CHOOL 5NIVERSE
3URVEY IS DIVIDED BY THE $ENOMINATIONS #HILDREN TO ARRIVE AT THE PERCENTAGE SHOWN /BVIOUSLY ) AM
ASSUMING FOR THIS CALCULATION AMONG OTHER THINGS THAT EACH DENOMINATION HAS A NUMBER OF SCHOOL
AGE CHILDREN PROPORTIONATE TO THE DENOMINATIONS PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION )N ADDITION THE DATA
FOR THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN ATTENDING #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS AND THE DATA REGARDING THE DENOMINATIONS
PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION ARE FOR SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PERIODS 4HE NUMBER OF HOMESCHOOLED CHILDREN
IS NOT EXACTLY KNOWN #ONSEQUENTLY THE NUMBER USED IS AN ESTIMATE FOR THE
SCHOOL YEAR
AND IS BASED ON ESTIMATES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES )T IS EXTREMELY UNLIKELY THAT ANY OF THESE ISSUES WOULD
4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
BE MATERIAL HOWEVER FOR THE PURPOSE OF ILLUSTRATING HOW SMALL THE ENROLLMENT CAPACITY OF #HRISTIAN
SCHOOLS IS IN RELATION TO THE NUMBER OF #HRISTIAN CHILDREN
4HIS ESTIMATE ASSUMES THAT OF THE TYPICALLY ESTIMATED TO BE ATTENDING PRIVATE
SCHOOLS OF MILLION SCHOOLCHILDREN SCHOOL YEAR ENROLLMENT lGURES ATTEND #HRISTIAN
SCHOOLS AND THAT #ATHOLICS CONTINUE TO ENROLL OF ALL CHILDREN ATTENDING #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS
4HIS ESTIMATE RESULTS FROM DIVIDING BY
)NTERESTINGLY FOR /RTHODOX *EWS IT IS THE NORM TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO *EWISH DAY SCHOOLS AND
THERE IS A GROWING TREND TOWARD EDUCATING *EWISH CHILDREN IN *EWISH SCHOOLS AMONG NON /RTHODOX
*EWS 3EE (EIDI * 3CHRAGER h+EEPERS OF THE &AITH *EWISH $AY 3CHOOLS 3PREAD IN THE 53 v 4HE 7ALL
3TREET *OURNAL -AY P "
/NE OF THE GREATEST DELUSIONS PARENTS SUFFER FROM IS THINKING THAT SOMEHOW hTOP RATEDv SUBURBAN
SCHOOLS ARE JUST lNE 4HE PARENTS OF THE GIRLS INJURED AND HUMILIATED AT 'LENBROOK .ORTH (IGH 3CHOOL
SEE #HAPTER PROBABLY BELIEVED THAT TOO 7HILE IT IS TRUE THAT EVEN IF WE HAD HONEST REPORTING ON
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL CRIME THE LEVEL OF VIOLENCE IS PROBABLY SOMEWHAT HIGHER IN THE AVERAGE INNER CITY
SCHOOL THAN THE AVERAGE SUBURBAN SCHOOL THERE ARE OTHER SORTS OF PROBLEMS THAT MAY BE WORSE IN
WEALTHIER SCHOOLS THAN IN INNER CITY SCHOOLS n DRUGS FOR EXAMPLE #HILDREN FROM WEALTHIER HOMES
AFTER ALL TEND TO HAVE MORE SPENDING MONEY 4HIS IS BORN OUT IN PART BY THE lNDINGS OF THE )N
DICATORS OF 3CHOOL #RIME AND 3AFETY SEE #HAPTER IN WHICH APPROXIMATELY MORE WHITE STUDENTS
THAN BLACK STUDENTS VERSUS REPORTED IN THAT DRUGS HAD BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO THEM
ON SCHOOL PROPERTY WITHIN THE LAST MONTHS SEE &IGURE
% 2AY -OORE *R ,ET -Y #HILDREN 'O 7HY 0ARENTS -UST 2EMOVE 4HEIR #HILDREN FROM 0UBLIC
3CHOOLS .OW #OLUMBIA 3# 'ILEAD -EDIA P
-ATTHEW #LAVEL h(OW .OT TO 4EACH -ATH .EW 9ORKS #HANCELLOR +LEINS 0LAN $OESNT #OM
PUTE v #ITY -AGAZINE -ARCH
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AVAILABLE ONLINE AT WWWSEPSCHOOLORG -R 0INCKNEY IS A RETIRED 53 !IR &ORCE "RIGADIER
'ENERAL A FORMER ND 6ICE 0RESIDENT OF THE 3OUTHERN "APTIST #ONVENTION AND THE EDITOR OF 4HE "AP
TIST "ANNER
% 2AY -OORE *R FOUNDER OF THE %XODUS -ANDATE AND RETIRED !RMY CHAPLAIN PROVIDES SOME
EXCELLENT ADVICE FOR PASTORS AND OTHER CHURCH LEADERS ON HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND APPROACH THE SCHOOL
ING ISSUE IN HIS ,ET -Y #HILDREN 'O 7HY 0ARENTS -UST 2EMOVE 4HEIR #HILDREN FROM 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS .OW
PARTICULARLY IN #HAPTERS AND -OORE HAS A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE IN ADDRESSING THE GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL ISSUE IN CHURCHES AND FRANKLY ,ET -Y #HILDREN 'O SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR ALL PASTORS
ELDERS AND DEACONS
#HAPTER %IGHT
,EADING 9OUR #HILDREN INTO THE 0ROMISED ,AND OF (OMESCHOOLING AND #HRISTIAN 3CHOOLS
"ECAUSE HOMESCHOOLING IS A RELATIVELY NEW CONCEPT TO MOST PARENTS MY DISCUSSION OF HOMESCHOOL
ING IS LONGER THAN MY DISCUSSION OF TRADITIONAL #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS
!T THE CURRENT RATE OF GROWTH OF HOMESCHOOLING HOMESCHOOLED #HRISTIAN STUDENTS MAY OUTNUMBER
CHILDREN EDUCATED IN TRADITIONAL #HRISTIAN SCHOOLS WITHIN lVE TO SEVEN YEARS
3EE 4ABLE OF THE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION .ATIONAL #ENTER FOR %DUCATIONAL 3TATISTICS
0RIVATE 3CHOOL 5NIVERSE 3URVEY
.#%3
BY 3TEPHEN 0 "ROUGHMAN AND ,ENORE !
#OLACIELLO 7ASHINGTON $#
3EE EG -ARTIN , 'ROSS 4HE #ONSPIRACY OF )GNORANCE 4HE &AILURE OF !MERICAN 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS .EW
9ORK (ARPER#OLLINS 0UBLISHERS )NC PP
4HIS IS ALSO TRUE OF STUDENTS IN PRIVATE
%NDNOTES
SECULAR SCHOOLS )N ADDITION 'ROSS DEBUNKS THE EXCUSES THAT GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OFlCIALS GIVE FOR THIS
STATE OF AFFAIRS (IS ANALYSIS INDICATES PERSUASIVELY THAT THE KEY FACTOR ACCOUNTING FOR THE DIFFERENCE IN
PERFORMANCE IS THE NATURE OF THE SCHOOLS
4HESE COSTS ARE EXPRESSED IN DOLLARS AND ARE TAKEN FROM 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION .A
TIONAL #ENTER FOR %DUCATIONAL 3TATISTICS 4HE #ONDITION OF %DUCATION 7ASHINGTON $# 53
'OVERNMENT 0RINTING /FlCE 3UPPLEMENTAL 4ABLE
+IRK ! *OHNSON AND +RISTA +AFER h7HY -ORE -ONEY 7ILL .OT 3OLVE !MERICAS %DUCATION #RISIS v
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4HE (ERITAGE &OUNDATION *UNE PP
&OR DATA ON AVERAGE TUITION AND OTHER INFORMATION SEE 53 $EPARTMENT OF %DUCATION .ATIONAL
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TABLE HTTPNCESEDGOVPROGRAMSDIGESTDTABLES0$&TABLEPDF
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3CHOOLS #OST ,ESS 4HAN 9OU 4HINK v #ATO )NSITUTE 3EPTEMBER AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTP
WWWCATOORGDAILYS
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)F YOU ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE TERM hWORLDVIEW v VISIT HTTPWWWCHRISTIANWORLDVIEWNET )N A
NUTSHELL THE #HRISTIAN WORLDVIEW MOVEMENT ASSISTS #HRISTIANS IN DEVELOPING A #HRISTIAN UNDERSTAND
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CASIONAL 0APER .UMBER &RASER )NSTITUTE PP 4HIS IS BY FAR THE BEST SURVEY AVAILABLE
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TIONAL 3TATISTICS PUBLISHED A BRIEF STUDY ON HOMESCHOOLING (OMESCHOOLING IN THE 5NITED 3TATES IN
4HIS STUDY PRIMARILY EXPLORES SUCH QUESTIONS AS THE NUMBER OF HOMESCHOOLERS THEIR FAMILY
CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR REASONS FOR HOMESCHOOLING AVAILABLE ONLINE IN 0$& AT HTTPNCESEDGOV
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3CHOOL 3TUDENTS IN v %DUCATIONAL 0OLICY !NALYSIS !RCHIVES 6OLUME .UMBER -ARCH
AVAILABLE AT HTTPEPAAASUEDUEPAAVN
#HRISTIANS ARE VARIOUSLY ESTIMATED TO COMPRISE TO OF HOMESCHOOLERS 4HE BULK OF THE
REMAINING HOMESCHOOLERS ARE SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS hUNSCHOOLERSv 5NSCHOOLERS TYPICALLY REJECT
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING FOR REASONS OF EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND TEND TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE VIEWS OF
EDUCATION CRITICS SUCH AS *OHN (OLT !3 .EILL AND 0AUL 'OODMAN &OR A DESCRIPTION OF h5NSCHOOL
INGv SEE %ARL 3TEVENS h7HAT IS 5NSCHOOLING v AVAILABLE ONLINE AT HTTPWWWNATURALCHILDCOMGUEST
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DEAL OF INFORMATION ON UNSCHOOLING AS AN APPROACH TO EDUCATION "ECAUSE OF THE OVERREPRESENTATION
OF #HRISTIANS IN HIS SAMPLE $R 2UDNERS STUDY DOES NOT PROVIDE STRONG EVIDENCE REGARDING HOW UN
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4HE (ARSH 4RUTH !BOUT 0UBLIC 3CHOOLS
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AVAILABLE AT HTTPEPAAASUEDUEPAAVN &AMILIES OF TH GRADE HOMESCHOOLERS WHO SPENT
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PERCENTILE WHILE HOMESCHOOLERS WHOSE FAMILIES SPENT OR MORE SCORED IN THE TH PERCENTILE &OR
TH GRADE HOMESCHOOLERS THE AVERAGE COMPOSITE SCORE FOR STUDENTS WHOSE FAMILIES SPENT TO WAS
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SCORES IN THE RD PERCENTILE
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TEMBER WWWTHEITEMCOM 4HE FACT THAT TENNIS STARS 6ENUS AND 3ERENA 7ILLIAMS WERE
HOMESCHOOLED HAS ALSO MADE HOMESCHOOLING MUCH MORE VISIBLE WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY !PART
FROM THE INCREASED VISIBILITY OF HOMESCHOOLING AMONG MINORITIES MUCH OF THE IMPETUS FOR MINORITY
PARENTS TO TAKE THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS COMES FROM THE INCREASING RECOGNITION THAT
%NDNOTES
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ARE DESTROYING THEIR CHILDRENS FUTURES &OR A WELL
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EDUCATORS WHO USED CURRICULUM TO CREATE CITIZENS SUITABLE FOR THEIR
OWN VISION OF A UTOPIAN SOCIALIST SOCIETY 4HIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WILL
SHOW YOU HOW AND WHY !MERICAS PUBLIC EDUCATION DECLINED 9OU
WILL SEE THE EDUCATOR ENGINEERED DECLINE OF READING SKILLS 4HE AUTHOR
DESCRIBES THE CAUSES FOR THE DECLINE AND THE WAY BACK TO COMPETENT
EDUCATION METHODOLOGIES THAT WILL RESULT IN A SELF EDUCATED COMPE
TENT AND FREEDOM LOVING POPULACE
0APERBACK PAGES INDEX
4HE 0HILOSOPHY OF THE #HRISTIAN #URRICULUM
"Y 2* 2USHDOONY 4HE #HRISTIAN 3CHOOL REPRESENTS A BREAK WITH
HUMANISTIC EDUCATION BUT TOO OFTEN IN LEAVING THE STATE SCHOOL
THE #HRISTIAN EDUCATOR HAS CARRIED THE STATES HUMANISM WITH HIM
! CURRICULUM IS NOT NEUTRAL IT IS EITHER A COURSE IN HUMANISM OR
TRAINING IN A 'OD
CENTERED FAITH AND LIFE 4HE LIBERAL ARTS CURRICU
LUM MEANS LITERALLY THAT COURSE WHICH TRAINS STUDENTS IN THE ARTS OF
FREEDOM 4HIS RAISES THE KEY QUESTION IS FREEDOM IN AND OF MAN OR
#HRIST 4HE #HRISTIAN ART OF FREEDOM THAT IS THE #HRISTIAN LIBERAL
ARTS CURRICULUM IS EMPHATICALLY NOT THE SAME AS THE HUMANISTIC ONE
)T IS URGENTLY NECESSARY FOR #HRISTIAN EDUCATORS TO RETHINK THE MEAN
ING AND NATURE OF THE CURRICULUM
0APERBACK PAGES INDEX
4HE -ESSIANIC #HARACTER OF !MERICAN %DUCATION
"Y 2* 2USHDOONY 2USHDOONYS STUDY TELLS US AN IMPORTANT PART
OF !MERICAN HISTORY EXACTLY WHAT HAS PUBLIC EDUCATION BEEN TRYING
TO ACCOMPLISH "EFORE THE S AND (ORACE -ANN NO SCHOOLS IN
THE 53 WERE STATE SUPPORTED OR STATE CONTROLLED 4HEY WERE LOCAL
PARENT
TEACHER ENTERPRISES SUPPORTED WITHOUT TAXES AND TAKING
CARE OF ALL CHILDREN 4HEY WERE REMARKABLY HIGH IN STANDARD AND
WERE #HRISTIAN &ROM -ANN TO THE PRESENT THE STATE HAS USED EDU
CATION TO SOCIALIZE THE CHILD 4HE SCHOOLS BASIC PURPOSE ACCORDING
TO ITS OWN PHILOSOPHERS IS NOT EDUCATION IN THE TRADITIONAL SENSE
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A SOCIALIZED CITIZENRY 0UBLIC EDUCATION BECAME THE MEANS OF CREATING A SOCIAL ORDER OF THE
EDUCATORS DESIGN 3UCH MEN SAW THEMSELVES AND THE SCHOOL IN MESSIANIC TERMS 4HIS BOOK
WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN LAUNCHING THE #HRISTIAN SCHOOL AND HOMESCHOOL MOVEMENTS
(ARDBACK PAGES INDEX
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)NTELLECTUAL 3CHIZOPHRENIA
"Y 2* 2USHDOONY 7HEN THIS BRILLIANT AND PROPHETIC BOOK WAS
lRST PUBLISHED IN THE #HRISTIAN HOMESCHOOL MOVEMENT WAS
YEARS AWAY AND EVEN #HRISTIAN DAY SCHOOLS WERE HARDLY CONSIDERED A
VIABLE EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVE "UT THIS BOOK AND THE AUTHORS LATER
-ESSIANIC #HARACTER OF !MERICAN %DUCATION WERE A RESOLUTE CALL TO
ARMS FOR #HRISTIANS TO GET THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF THE PAGAN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH A GENUINE #HRISTIAN EDUCATION
$R 2USHDOONY HAD PREDICTED THAT THE HUMANIST SYSTEM BASED
ON ANTI
#HRISTIAN PREMISES OF THE %NLIGHTENMENT COULD ONLY GET
WORSE 2USHDOONY WAS INDEED A PROPHET (E KNEW THAT EDUCATION
DIVORCED FROM 'OD AND FROM ALL TRANSCENDENTAL STANDARDS WOULD
PRODUCE THE EDUCATIONAL DISASTER AND MORAL BARBARISM WE HAVE
TODAY 4HE TITLE OF THIS BOOK IS PARTICULARLY SIGNIlCANT IN THAT $R 2USHDOONY WAS ABLE TO
IDENTIFY THE BASIC CONTRADICTION THAT PERVADES A SECULAR SOCIETY THAT REJECTS 'ODS SOVER
EIGNTY BUT STILL NEEDS LAW AND ORDER JUSTICE SCIENCE AND MEANING TO LIFE !S $R 2USH
DOONY WRITES hTHERE IS NO LAW NO SOCIETY NO JUSTICE NO STRUCTURE NO DESIGN NO MEANING
APART FROM 'ODv !ND SO MODERN MAN HAS BECOME SCHIZOPHRENIC BECAUSE OF HIS REBELLION
AGAINST 'OD
0APERBACK PAGES INDEX
-ATHEMATICS )S 'OD 3ILENT
"Y *AMES .ICKEL 4HIS BOOK REVOLUTIONIZES THE PREVAILING UNDER
STANDING AND TEACHING OF MATH 4HE ADDITION OF THIS BOOK IS A
MUST FOR ALL UPPER
LEVEL #HRISTIAN SCHOOL CURRICULA AND FOR COLLEGE
STUDENTS AND ADULTS INTERESTED IN MATH OR RELATED lELDS OF SCIENCE
AND RELIGION )T WILL SERVE AS A SOLID REFUTATION FOR THE CLAIM OFTEN
MADE IN COURT THAT MATHEMATICS IS ONE SUBJECT WHICH CANNOT BE
TAUGHT FROM A DISTINCTIVELY "IBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
2EVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
0APERBACK PAGES
4HE &OUNDATIONS OF #HRISTIAN 3CHOLARSHIP
%DITED BY 'ARY .ORTH 4HESE ARE ESSAYS DEVELOPING THE IMPLICATIONS
AND MEANING OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF $R #ORNELIUS 6AN 4IL FOR EVERY
AREA OF LIFE 4HE CHAPTERS EXPLORE THE IMPLICATIONS OF "IBLICAL FAITH FOR
A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES
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4HE # HA L C E DO N &O U ND A T I O N
HALCEDON LABORS TO ARTICULATE IN THE CLEAREST POSSIBLE TERMS A DISTINCTLY
# #HRISTIAN AND EXPLICITLY "IBLICAL SOLUTION TO THE PREVALENT EVILS OF THE
MODERN WORLD /UR OBJECTIVE IS NOTHING SHORT OF SETTING FORTH THE VISION
AND PROGRAM FOR REBUILDING THE THEOLOGICAL FORTIlCATIONS OF #HRISTIAN CIV
ILIZATION 4HESE FORTIlCATIONS HAVE BEEN ERODED BY THE FORCES OF HUMAN
ISM AND SECULARISM OVER THE PAST THREE CENTURIES 7E ARE NOT COMMITTED
THOUGH MERELY TO REPRODUCING A GLORIOUS #HRISTIAN PAST 7E WORK TO PRESS
THE CLAIMS OF HISTORIC #HRISTIANITY AS THE "IBLICAL PATTERN OF LIFE EVERYWHERE
7E WORK FOR GODLY CULTURAL CHANGE ACROSS THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF LIFE 7E
STRIVE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS OBJECTIVE BY TWO PRINCIPAL METHODS
&IRST #HALCEDON IS COMMITTED TO RECOVERING THE INTELLECTUAL FOUN
DATIONS OF #HRISTIAN CIVILIZATION 7E DO THIS IN TWO MAIN WAYS NEGATIVELY
WE EXPOSE THE BANKRUPTCY OF ALL NON
#HRISTIAN AND ALLEGED BUT COMPRO
MISING #HRISTIAN SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT AND PRACTICES 0OSITIVELY WE PROPOSE
AN EXPLICITLY "IBLICAL SYSTEM OF THOUGHT AND ACTION AS THE EXCLUSIVE BASIS
FOR CIVILIZATION /NLY BY RESTORING THE #HRISTIAN &AITH AND "IBLICAL LAW AS
THE STANDARD OF ALL OF LIFE CAN #HRISTIANS HOPE TO RE
ESTABLISH #HRISTIAN
CIVILIZATIONS
3ECOND #HALCEDON IS DEDICATED TO PROVIDING THE TOOLS FOR REBUILD
ING THIS #HRISTIAN CIVILIZATION 7E WORK TO ASSIST INDIVIDUALS FAMILIES AND
INSTITUTIONS BY OFFERING EXPLICITLY "IBLICAL ALTERNATIVES TO ANTI
#HRISTIAN
IDEAS AND PRACTICES )N THE WAY WE GUIDE #HRISTIANS IN THE TASK OF GOVERN
ING THEIR OWN SPHERES OF LIFE IN TERMS OF THE ENTIRE "IBLE IN FAMILY CHURCH
SCHOOL VOCATION ARTS ECONOMICS BUSINESS MEDIA THE STATE AND ALL OTHER
AREAS OF MODERN LIFE
7E BELIEVE THAT THE SOURCE OF GODLY CHANGE IS REGENERATION BY THE
(OLY 3PIRIT NOT REVOLUTION BY THE VIOLENCE OF MAN !S 'OD REGENERATES
MORE AND MORE INDIVIDUALS AND AS THEY REORIENT THEIR LIVES AND AREAS OF PER
SONAL INmUENCE TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE "IBLE (E EMPLOYS THEM TO ADVANCE
(IS KINGDOM AND ESTABLISH #HRISTIAN CIVILIZATION 7E BELIEVE THAT 'ODS LAW
IS THE DIVINE PATTERN OF SANCTIlCATION IN EVERY AREA OF LIFE BUT IT IS NOT THE
MEANS OF JUSTIlCATION MAN IS SAVED BY GRACE NOT BY LAW 4HE ROLE OF EVERY
EARTHLY GOVERNMENTINCLUDING FAMILY GOVERNMENT CHURCH GOVERNMENT
SCHOOL GOVERNMENT VOCATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL GOVERNMENTIS TO
SUBMIT TO "IBLICAL LAW .O GOVERNMENT IN ANY FORM CAN MAKE MEN #HRIS
TIANS OR TRULY OBEDIENT THIS IS THE WORK OF 'OD SOVEREIGN GRACE -UCH
LESS SHOULD CIVIL GOVERNMENT TRY TO IMPOSE "IBLICAL LAW ON AN UNBELIEVING
SOCIETY "IBLICAL LAW CANNOT BE IMPOSED IT MUST BE EMBRACED
! GUIDING PRINCIPLE OF #HALCEDON IN FACT IS ITS DEVOTION TO MAX
IMUM INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM UNDER 'ODS LAW #HALCEDON DERIVES ITS NAME
FROM THE GREAT ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCIL OF #HALCEDON !$ WHICH PRO
DUCED THE CRUCIAL #HRISTOLOGICAL DElNITION OF *ESUS #HRIST AS 'OD OF VERY
'OD AND -AN OF VERY MAN A FORMULA DIRECTLY CHALLENGING EVERY FALSE CLAIM
OF DIVINITY BY ANY HUMAN INSTITUTION STATE CHURCH CULT SCHOOLS OR HUMAN
ASSEMBLY #HRIST ALONE IS BOTH 'OD AND MAN THE UNIQUE LINK BETWEEN
HEAVEN AND EARTH !LL HUMAN POWER IS THEREFORE DERIVATIVE ONLY #HRIST
MAY ANNOUNCE THAT h!LL POWER ;AUTHORITY= IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND
EARTHv -ATTHEW (ISTORICALLY THEREFORE THE #HALCEDONIAN CREED IS
THE FOUNDATION OF 7ESTERN LIBERTY SETTING LIMITS ON ALL AUTHORITARIAN HUMAN
INSTITUTIONS BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE VALIDITY OF THE CLAIMS OF THE /NE WHO IS
THE SOURCE OF ALL HUMAN FREEDOM 'ALATIANS #ONSEQUENTLY WE OPPOSE
TOP
HEAVY AUTHORITARIAN SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT WHICH ARE BY DElNITION
NON
#HRISTIAN 7E ADVOCATE INSTEAD A SERIES OF INDEPENDENT BUT COOPERA
TIVE INSTITUTIONS AND A HIGHLY DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL ORDER
#HALCEDON IS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION )T SUPPORTS THE EFFORTS OF
#HRISTIANS AND #HRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THE VISION OF #HRIS
TIAN CIVILIZATION 4HOUGH UNAPOLOGETICALLY 2EFORMED #HALCEDON SUPPORTS
THE KINGDOM WORK OF ALL ORTHODOX DENOMINATIONS AND CHURCHES #HALCE
DON IS AN INDEPENDENT #HRISTIAN FOUNDATION GOVERNED BY A BOARD OF TRUST
EES #HRISTIAN MEN IN ACCORD WITH #HALCEDONS VISION STATEMENT 4HE FOUN
DATION IS NOT SUBORDINATE TO THE AUTHORITY OF ANY PARTICULAR DENOMINATION
OR ECCLESIASTICAL BODY
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