A division of the National Association of Christian Educators
Issues in Education/
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A 26-Minute
Weekly Program
Public schools have become breeding grounds for drugs, crime and immorality. Ever increasing numbers of young people leave school functionally illiterate and ill-equipped to make a positive contribution to society or to their own futures. The result is frustration, bitterness, poverty and violence.
Out of this personal sense of inadequacy and frustration has spawned cynicism and despair.
Most Christians would refuse to attend a church that denied God was the Creator, denied the virgin birth, ridiculed the resurrection, taught that homosexuality and fornication were acceptable. Yet 90% of evangelic Christians send their children to government schools where all of these anti-Christian ideas are taught as the gospel truth.
Is it any wonder 70% of Christian youth don't return to church 2 years after high school graduation?
Schools have become a war zone! Nationwide, an estimated one fifth of all students arm themselves daily. When school taught that God answered prayers children learned to trust in God, not in guns or knives.
Teaching absolute values based on God's Word has been replaced with moral relativity, creating a society that doesn't even know right from wrong.
C.S. Lewis said, "We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
Many American educators who laugh at religion, preferring to teach "values clarification," are shocked to find 12 year old criminals in our midst.
Teen pregnancy has grown proportionately to the number of school clinics that pass out condoms and teach birth control techniques. In fact, as the amount of contraceptive information increased, so did the rate of pregnancy.
The illiteracy, the violence drugs and sexual promiscuity are only symptoms, not the cause.
The root cause of our problems is that our schools have turned away from God.
Unless America repents and returns to God, our perilous descent into violence and anarchy will not be stopped.
That's why we produce Issues In Education. We feel it's time to return moral sanity and academic excellence to our schools. What do you think?
Bob and Geri
Boyd
James Madison, the chief framer of the Constitution said, "We have staked America's future on the capacity of each of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."
What's to happen to an America where schools prohibit even the posting of the Ten Commandments, and won't allow a teacher to have his/her Bible on their desk? Statistics show a large percent of all crimes are committed by school age youth; the very group prohibited from learning absolute values.
