Public School or Christian School? What Difference Does It Make? |
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Author:
| Keith, Gene Keith, Tuelah |
ISBN: | 978-1-5150-7032-0 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2015 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $5.00 |
Book Description:
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There was a time when Americans were the best educated people in the world. This is no longer true. Thanks to public schools, we now are living in the most illiterate period in American history. American farmers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were better educated than some of our college graduates of today. Read letters from that period and you will see what we are talking about.Consider the results of one survey of some American High School students of today.34 percent of...
More DescriptionThere was a time when Americans were the best educated people in the world. This is no longer true. Thanks to public schools, we now are living in the most illiterate period in American history. American farmers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were better educated than some of our college graduates of today. Read letters from that period and you will see what we are talking about.Consider the results of one survey of some American High School students of today.34 percent of the public school students surveyed knew the island in "Survivor" is in the South Pacific. But only 30 percent of them could find the state of New Jersey on a map of the United States.50 percent of the students could not find New York on a map of the United States.30 percent of the students couldn't even find the Pacific Ocean on a map of the world.Only 13 percent of the students surveyed could find Iraq on a map of the world. Does it really matter where your child or children attend school? This book was written to help answer that question.