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.

Critics argue that qualified professionals do not teach home schooled children. In practice, educators who worry about "unqualified" people teaching their children almost always define "qualified" to mean teachers trained in schools of education and holding teaching certificates. Others, in contrast, believe teaching skills are related to commonsense social interaction that, unless we are misguided, we learn only from experience.

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 c

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