When Americans think of education, they almost automatically think of public education. Through the years that idea is slowly changing. Many parents today are deciding to home school their children. Although most people think that a public education is better, most statistics and facts tend to show that home schooling is beneficial in more ways. It is estimated that parents are now teaching over two million children at home, rather than in public or even private schools (Klicka).
Education in our public schools has been on the down slope for over twenty years now. Public schools have lost the values and biblical morality. This was what our country was founded on, and it has been replaced with humanism. One example of humanism in our schools is that they teach evolution, not creationism. In another side, according to The Right To Home School, beginning in 1962 SAT scores have plummeted. Teen pregnancies, teen sexual diseases, teen suicides, teen alcohol, drug abuse, pornography. Violence is one of the main factors effecting our schools today. Rape is a growing problem among juveniles. There is also a higher use of drugs and alcohol among kids in public schools. For example, in The Right Choice Home Schooling, Christopher Klicka says, "In Washington, D.C., drugs and violence were such a problem in one Elementary school, that the principal banned regular recess, and the children are only allowed to play outside in a pit enclosed by eight-foot concrete walls, or on a small section of playground monitored by the police (Klicka)." The disciplinary problems of children usually start even before they reach public school. .
In public school textbooks, marriage is never mentioned as the foundation of the family, and yet these books are supposed to be the textbooks that introduce the child to an understanding of American society (Klicka). Not only that, virtually all sex education textbooks used in public schools throughout the country teach that any kind of sex is all right; such as premarital sex, adultery, masturbation, homosexuality, and lesbianism (Klicka).
