Good Schools, Gallup Poll, public school failure

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Theory of Evolution and Racism

Dawkins --A Dinosaur Defends the Indefensible

Other Letters and My Comments

School Choice
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Home-School Advocate

Texas Essay

Eighth Grade Test

Other Articles of Interest

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--Sidney Hook (1902-1988), disciple of John Dewey, and champion of pragmatism and democracy

Gallup Poll

How are the public schools doing?

Perhaps this recent Gallup Poll might help us to understand just what sort of product our public schools are producing.

In an effort to determine the level of "general knowledge" of a random group of people, they were asked whether the earth revolved around the sun, or the if the opposite were the case.

Eighteen percent of those asked the question got it wrong. Consider that in light of the fact that some of those who were questioned, and who got it right, probably guessed. After all, the way the question was framed, the correct answer would have been rendered 50% of the time by the flip of a coin! Still, 18% got it wrong!

This happens when we are spending more on educating our youth than ever before in our history. DC spends nearly $10,000 per year on a student. On average, government schools across the land spend between $6,000 and $7,000 per student. All this to produce a product (US students) that test last in the industrialized world in math and science. Obviously, as is evident from the Gallup Poll, our students do not know much about history either!

Perhaps the best on-going social commentary is available on the "Tonight Show," when Jay Leno takes to the street in his "Jay Walking" segments. He asks people on the street simple questions, questions that any well-schooled fourth grader ought to know. The tragic humor is that young people do not know the answers to even the most simple of questions.

Had a foreign power entered our nation's borders, and destroyed our system of education, and spoiled a whole generation of our youth, we would have declared war.

How can we be so blasé about what the public schools have done to our youth under the guise of education? Are there no political leaders who will come forward to challenge the strangle hold the NEA (National Education Association) has on the throat of our children?

Perhaps we do not realize that it is wrong to think that the public schools are funded with "government funds." There is no such thing as "government funds." The government does not earn money, you and I earn money. The government spends money! ...And the only money the government has to spend is your money and my money. We earn it, the government spends it. In the case of funding public schools, the government is doing a terrible job with our money.

Instead of going after the Tobacco Industry, we should be going after the NEA. Perhaps when politicians cease to accept campaign contributions from the NEA, things will change.

The fact is this -- if we do not quickly regain control of our schools, our nation will drop off the map. No society cannot survive when it allows its children to be destroyed.

This site features a frank presentation of issues facing parents, taxpayers and schools in reforming schools in the twenty-first century. Good Schools promotes good schools, and explains what is necessary to achieve good schools. We are convinced that good schools can be obtained only with sound curriculum, which does not include the teaching of Darwin's theory of origin, or Darwin's theory of evolution. We believe that local school boards need to be empowered, and the influence of teachers' unions ought to be limited to labor-related issues. Teachers' unions should have no say in curriculum.

We are convinced that the teachings of Darwin, particularly Darwin's teachings on evolution, and Darwin's theories on origins, ought not be taught as fact. Darwin and Darwin's theories are not generally accepted by contemporary physicists and cosmologists, and, therefore, Darwin and Darwin's theories ought not be accepted whole-cloth by our schools of education, and ought not be presented as fact in public schools.

Because Richard Dawkins has set himself up as the number one defender of Darwin and Darwin's theory of evolution, we will go to some length explaining Dawkins' Darwin defenses, and we will do our best to explode Dawkins' Darwin defenses.

We seek to show from Darwin's own hand that Darwin, and Darwin's theory of evolution, are racist at the core. Darwin was a racist, Darwin's theory of evolution is racist, and Darwin's theory of origins is racist.

We further seek to show that Darwin's theory of evolution is not scientific. We show that racism, more than science, was behind Darwin and Darwin's theory of evolution, and Darwin's theory of origins.

Some of the terms commonly used on this site are: Darwin, Dawkins, schools, public schools, education, gun control, teachers, John Dewey, Littleton, racist, racism , school choice, African American, Sidney Hook, evolution, and Mike Carrier.

Bottom line--good schools require work. Good schools do not just happen. We need good schools, if we are to have a good nation.