As If They Aren’t Dumb Enough
Christian Fundamentalists are now calling on their flock to pull their children out of public schools… since education obviously threatens their ideology. Truth is… this call to pull children out of the public education system has nothing to do with education, and everything to do with indoctrination.
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Tags: Religion
They not only hurt themselves but they hurt the nation as whole. It does not help our country to have a lot of undereducated people.
However, I do think this is mostly talk. There will always be some who pull them out of school, but homeschooling is very difficult and time-consuming even with pre-prepared materials. I knew some people that did it (staunch conservatives) and they ended up having to put their children back into public schools.
I’ve heard of this from some friends (who have kids) and they think that this is COOL. They think that getting the christianists out of the mainstream means that their kids won’t be competing with these kids for spots at the great schools (high schools and college). It does bother me that folks can look at this in terms of long-term advantage at top rank schools, but I guess I can’t blame them.
Cassandra,
They have their own colleges now. Patrick Henry College is a college for home-schooled kids and at one point, the top provider of interns for the White House.
However, I don’t really think this will last. For one, these parents will still have to pay school taxes. When it will really hit home is if big, prestigious universities won’t accept kids without a certain set of requirements – like learning evolution.
Should have know he was retired USAF ever since they built the USAFA out there in wingnut land most of the officers are religious nuts
The Air Force Academy was built way before Fucus on the Family and those other pseudo-religious gangs settled in The Springs.
Cassandra, I’m ashamed to confess thinking the same thing as your friends.
I think the public school system is full of indoctrination but the solution is to have a more diverse range of people on school boards.
Tom S wrote I think the public school system is full of indoctrination.
This has to be the stupidest thing Tom S have ever written here and that says a lot.
Oh, and by all means, let the fundamentalist christians pull their children out of public school. I’ve got one in public school and I would really appreciate smaller class sizes.
sweet! get rid of them. lower the student per teacher ratio!
You know, this is really funny coming from a Delaware blog. When I lived there, Delaware had the highest percentage of students in private schools in the nation — don’t know if that’s still true — because the public schools in New Castle County were so bad that anyone who could afford to send their kids to private schools did so.
There are 27 private high schools and 108 private Pre-k – 8th grade schools in New Castle County, pretty staggering numbers for a county with only 525,587 people (2006 estimate.)
By the way, my kids went to Corpus Christi in the two years we lived there.
The difference with this new fundamentalist call to action has nothing to do with providing your children with the best education. It’s sole purpose is religious indoctrination… and isolation.
Dana, as for high schools, if you pull out Caravel and Wilm. Montessori and the roughly 20 other high schools (mostly Catholic) that have been around for at least 40 years, you leave nothing but a hand full of radial Christian fundamentalist institutions that indoctrinate less than 500 children (thank “my” God). I would love to have a 5 minute chat with dozen or so of these “graduates” a few years after college (assuming they could get through that).
I have a 22 year old child in her fourth year at Delaware who came completely through NCC public schools. She, her Mother and siblings are all active in their church, none of them are pregnant, none are on drugs and everyone over 16 has had the same job for more than three years……
Despite their exposure to deplorable public schools, exposure to open-minded patriotic constitutionally-based thinking and most of all, exposure to liberally-based interpretation of Christianity and public responsibility, I’d match my children’s long term future against any other child, ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.
Oh, and by the way, good look with your child’s brainwashing.
A good deal of the private school phenomenon in New Castle County is a result of desegregation. It is a shame, but some parents still want their kids segregated. Interestingly, I have seen many parents move their kids from private to public recently, but my experience may not be typical.
I didn’t grow up in Delaware, but I went to all public schools for my education – elementary through high school, college and post-graduate. I grew up in Kentucky, which at the time had the 49th best school system (thank God for Mississippi was our motto). Students can succeed in a variety of conditions. Private schools are only considered better because they can exclude the people that are more difficult to teach, while public schools don’t have that luxury.
We put our kids into public school this year. They attended private elementary school. We choiced out of Red Clay into Brandywine, and have been pleased thus far. The big difference we have found is that there is a lot less homework in public schools.
OMG. Instead of denouncing NCC public schools, how about paying attention to the crap this video puts out there? How about the show of Nazi soldiers and citizens–did y’all miss the none too subtle references to indoctrination of children in our public schools as being like that of Nazi Germany? Yikes. As I always tell people, schools are what we make of them. Public schools are fine.
NCC has always had a large number of private schools because there has always been plenty of big money families around to support the independent schools, including the classier parochial high schools like St. Mark’s and Archmere. It is weird but it is not all a reflection of the success or fsilures of publuic schools. The Deseg came along and we got a new crop of private schools like Independence because these folks did not want their little white children being bused into Wilmington like the rest of us. Then, there have always been a bunch of parochial schools because there is a large Catholic population in the Phila delphia region.
Jeez. What kind of indoctrination do they think is going on in schools? What the hell is Cultural Marxism? I am a teacher and I would be amazed to find out that this relates to anything that I have been teaching, but then, I am not a religious wacko. Thank you, Jesus!