Is RELIGION to blame for our failing public schools?

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The claim was recently made here.  Seems a bit silly, but I'm interested to hear your stance and some evidence to support it.  I will provide the same:
During colonial days, the Bible was often one of the books studied.  Prayer was often recited in school.  Our literacy rate was just below 100%.
Now we have kicked God out of school.  No Bibles allowed and no mentions of Jesus or faith unless it is faith in self or crystals.  During this period our standardized test scores have dropped to near the bottom of the industrialized world.  We need remedial college classes to get HS grads up to speed so they can learn at a college level.  School shootings are becoming more common.  Our best performing students (as per standardized test results) are homeschoolers who are predominantly devout people of faith.  The evidence appears to suggest that we need a little more of God in our schools.

? · Accepted Answer

Yes, this was the situation involving two bans 1962 and 1963 when Madlyn Murray O'Hair the Atheist was instrumental in having prayer and Bible-reading  taken out of the public schools by the U.S. Supreme Court. 

 Immediately,  statisticians noticed that there was increased violence, decline in academic scores, gun usage, increased pregnancy, drug usage and divorce rates among parents.  The Columbine tradegy is a case in point of what America has come to among the young people.  

Madlyn Murray O'hair was later killed and her body  dismembered and burnt on a Texas ranch.

rvridge · Answer

Yes !  Religion as a whole, in it's many denominations has not taught the True Word of God from it's begining.  By default anything based on deception can not produce any valuable or lasting foundation.  This is the reason that all denominations have a large turnover in membership.  If you look at the hidden facts you will see that religion is not seperate from the rest of the world and the worldly teachings of fallen mankind.  Rather than seperating as God has commanded to be a Holy people, religion has sault a comfort zone for each different little denomination.  None of wich are able to establish a foundation of Truth on which to build any educational system.  Simply put, if you can't teach the Truth in a small congergation, how can you  fill the world with Truth.  If you don't know what the Truth is, how can you teach it.  This is why the world is coming under greater and greater judgments, God has had enough, repent, seek the Lord in Truth, read the Word of God for yourselves, quite repeating the lies the religions teach.  Time is running out !

budleit2 · Answer

As a teacher what you say may have an effect, but it is not the reason. The reason that I see every day at other schools (I work at a charter school private ownership with public grants) is in general the students run the school. The teachers have no authority. The administration is so afraid to be sued they don't kick anybody out unless it is extremely bad. The kids run around and do what they want because they know they won't get into any real trouble. Many have parents who don't care and should be in jail themselves. Tough love is what is needed and privatization of the school system. The goverment running the schools is the problem.

Dendronbat Crocoduck · Answer

Seems like we need more Buddhism in our schools.  Your don't hear of these problems in Buddhist schools.

Anonymous · Answer

The problem with our school system is Liberalism and the ACLU...

TEH TYME KITTEH =^..^= · Answer

No, the lack of corporal punishment is though

Anonymous · Answer

and after homeschoolers you will find private schools, predominately religious institutions.

Anonymous · Answer

Then how do you explain vast majority of PHD holders are atheist?

papa smurf · Answer

I think religion is to blame.
ATHEISM

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Is RELIGION to blame for our failing public schools?

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