Public education vs
Public education vs. home schoPublic Education vs. Home Schooling
Education in our public schools has been on the down slope for over twenty years. With an increasing amount of school shootings, drugs, and other dementia, many parents today are home schooling their children. Although most people deem public education more suitable, many statistics and facts show that home schooling is equally beneficial. There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods of teaching; therefore, the debate is ongoing and increasing rapidly.
Public schools seem to have lost value and biblical morality. Many believe the standards, which founded our country, have been replaced. For example, public schools teach evolution rather than creation, a highly debated topic among parents and politicians. This humanistic view may be due to the removal of God and prayer in public schools, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962. Since then, SAT scores have plummeted, while teen pregnancies, suicides, alcoholism, drug abuse, violence, and illiteracy rates have increased dramatically.
Many believe disciplinary problems begin before a child’s introduction to public school. In Washington, D.C., the principal of one elementary school banned regular recess due to drugs and violence. The children played outside only within an enclosed eight-foot concrete barrier. At times, play was allowed on a small section of playground monitored by the police (Klicka, 51). In the last ten years, research shows that infants raised in daycare "are more prone to behavioral problems as young children than their home-reared cousins (Klicka, 124)."
Millions of dollars are spent on security for our nation's public schools. Due to the amount of time spent trying to clean up and keep our schools safe, we are more or less falling behind in our education. Americans are farther behind in educational status than countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and China. The teachers spend an enormous amount of time being peacekeepers and tend to neglect the real reason why the children are there. Besides busy teachers, countless textbooks are laden with inaccurate information and lack very important details. Some textbooks state that the atomic bomb ended the Korean War (instead of World War II), and that only 53,000, rather than 126,000, Americans were killed in World War I (Klicka 24-25). One book summarizes Abraham Lincoln's and George Washington's life in a mere six lines each. Textbooks also tend to focus on immoral values. Public school textbooks never mention marriage as the foundation of family, and yet these books are suppose to introduce children to a better understanding of American society. A lawsuit has been filed against one Michigan school district after seventh through eleventh graders received instruction in "Self-Pleasuring Techniques" implicating masturbation and descriptions of sexual fantasies involving group and homosexual acts (Klicka 56).
Often forgotten is the option of home schooling when parents are deciding how to educate their children. The idea of home schooling started many years ago, but really began to...
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