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Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
What would really make me feel better Nick would be if Christians, instead of fighting over doctrinal differences between the various denominations out there, would get involved in the political process and amongst other things take back our once great public school system. And yes, I said once great, because at one time it was the very best in the world.
aCW is consumed by the "oh woe, back in the the good old days" delusion.
You know zoo, back in the good ole days before 58 million unborn babies were murdered in the womb. Back in the good ole days before children were getting genital mutilation surgery to pretend that they're of the opposite sex. You know zoo, those "good ole days".
Regarding your biased article from that left wing smut rag the Washington Post:
Fragmented evidence suggests that American schools demanded much more of their students in the 19th Century and early in the 20th Century. Examine, for example, these historic New York State Regents exams in mathematics. But we have no systematic comparative data about what other countries were requiring in those earlier eras.
So the God-hating liberals at the WA Post acknowledge that American schools excelled, but since there is no systematic comparative data, it really didn't.
The God-hating liberals at the WA PO go onto say:
In 1965, the Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) conducted a study of mathematical achievement in 12 countries...
The IEA conducted an international assessment of mathematics during the 1981-82 school year...
The decline started AFTER God/prayer was removed from public schools:
Madalyn Murray O'Hair was an outspoken advocate of atheism and the founder of the organization American Atheists.
In
1960 O'Hair gained notoriety when she sued Baltimore public schools for requiring students to read from the Bible and to recite the Lord's Prayer at school exercises. Bible reading and prayer recitation were common in schools across the nation, and children were excused from the practice if they supplied a note from their parents. But O'Hair argued that the practice violated the First Amendment rights of her and her son as professed atheists "in that it threatens their religious liberty by placing a premium on belief as against non-belief and subjects their freedom of conscience to the rule of the majority; it pronounces belief in God as the source of all moral and spiritual values, equating these values with religious values, and thereby renders sinister, alien and suspect the beliefs and ideals of your Petitioners, promoting doubt and question of their morality, good citizenship and good faith."
The case reached the Supreme Court where it was joined to another similar case and tried as Abington School District v. Schempp. In
1963, the court ruled 8-1 in favor of the plaintiffs. The decision effectively ended Bible reading and prayer recitation in public schools.
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/madalyn-murray-ohair.html
Oh and zoo: thank your fellow God-haters at the Washington Post for proving my point.
