Bruce Shortt’s book, The Harsh Truth About Public Schools
In Bruce Shortt’s book, The Harsh Truth About Public Schools, he wonderfully chronicles how the civil government schools cannot be reformed: “Unfortunately, most Americans, and especially parents, charitably assume that everyone advocating reform is also primarily concerned with having schools do a better job of teaching children to read and write, do mathematics, and develop sound traditional moral standards. Those with other social, political, or economic agendas understand this, and they are all too willing to claim disingenuously that they share these as their primary goals.”
When humanists kick the can down the road it is not for reform purposes, but to buy time to further inculcate humanism. Three pages later Mr. Shortt has the guts to accurately state, “The [civil] government school system functions first and foremost as a way of obtaining and distributing almost five hundred billion dollars to various special interest groups, and as a means of gaining influence over children.” Well said. Along with that, Mr. Shortt observes how “[E]fforts to restore a focus on traditional educational and moral values cannot succeed because the necessary changes would threaten too many powerful constituencies. Moreover, any change that would imperil the flow of dollars to schools and their spending constituencies will meet determined opposition.”
The civil government school system is a machine; it is a machine that does not care about your child learning the Christian worldview; it is a machine that does not care about whether your child spends eternity with Jehovah.
Shortt, Bruce. The Harsh Truth About Public Schools. Vallecito, California: Chalcedon Foundation, 2004. Book.
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