Research Shows Public Schools Corrupt Our Children

It's True! Research Shows Public Schools Corrupt Our Children.

BABYLON, AMSTERDAM, HIGH SCHOOL, What's the Difference? Well, the first two are voluntary! In the eyes of many parents, Christians especially, that's about the end of it.

Most parents choose to home school their children for one reason and one reason only: they want to avoid the values and social philosophies that come with the public schools. Now, a new study reveals they have much to fear, and all the trouble they have to go through might well be worth it.

June 3, 2002, an article in the esteemed journal Nature, summarized the results of studies by researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina:

Pregnancies in unmarried teenagers rise and fall with the school year, say researchers. Conception rates drop markedly with the summer, when teenagers are on school holidays and so fraternize less, and soar abruptly when school starts again in the autumn.

If I have anything to add, it is to suggest a small correction to the authors' assumptions. The authors do show clearly that there is a problem in the public school environment. But I think they fail to make a good analysis, perhaps because they desire to deflect the blame from where it belongs, when they tell us that teenagers “fraternize less” during their summer holidays away from school. I do not think that is true.

I think teenagers "fraternize" every bit as much (perhaps even more in settings that could allow sexual activity!) in the summer, as during the school year. That unlikely assertion ("...and so fraternize less"), by the authors, allows them to make the implication that the pregnancies merely result from the teenagers being in crowds, rather than attribute the dramatic rise in pregnancies to the specific culture of the crowds they are in while at the schools. If the implication the authors make were correct, then teenagers in cities, in suburbs, in church youth groups, in shopping malls, indeed in crowds anywhere, should have “soaring” pregnancy rates. Clearly, they do not, as the study shows.

What happens in the summers, during the teenagers' holidays away from the public schools, and school hallways and cafeterias, is that they fraternize less with teens who are being taught and stimulated by the schools' “sex education” and so-called “diversity training” programs. Instead, they fraternize more with peers they can choose, more with teenagers that share their own (or their parents') values, and more with teenagers who are not being inculcated with the libertine lesson-plans and public school culture. Teenagers actually get a vacation from an environment that officially and authoritatively denigrates more conservative (“old-fashioned”) values, and really does keep sex on the minds of students continually, while preaching “sex is good for you” - especially if done any way but the old fashioned way!

The argument has long been made, by those folks who finally opt out of the public schools, that it really doesn't matter whether you are teaching sex for health, for contraception, for AIDS and STD prevention, for “tolerance” and “diversity” (read, homosexuality) training, the end result is more sex at younger ages. The diseases are still rampant, the pregnancies “soar abruptly” after class, and the teenagers are even more confused about sexuality, morality, family values, and the religions of their parents.

The Duke study gives support to that argument. It should lead to some rethinking on the part of the political and educational establishments about their programs, but of course it won't. They are too enamored of their own ideas, too “intolerant” of the “fundamentalists”, and too infiltrated and sold out to social and political factions pushing their own cultural revolutions through the public school culture factories.

I'll repeat here: I consider parents who dare to home school their children heroes of the most unselfish sort, and will continue to dedicate much of this website to supporting them with resources to make their task more feasible.


	Home Home School Corner It's True! Research Shows Public Schools Corrupt Our Children. BABYLON, AMSTERDAM, HIGH SCHOOL, What's the Difference? Well, the first two are voluntary! In the eyes of many parents, Christians especially, that's about the end of it. Most parents choose to home school their children for one reason and one reason only: they want to avoid the values and social philosophies that come with the public schools. Now, a new study reveals they have much to fear, and all the trouble they have to go through might well be worth it. June 3, 2002, an article in the esteemed journal Nature, summarized the results of studies by researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina: Pregnancies in unmarried teenagers rise and fall with the school year, say researchers. Conception rates drop markedly with the summer, when teenagers are on school holidays and so fraternize less, and soar abruptly when school starts again in the autumn. If I have anything to add, it is to suggest a small correction to the authors' assumptions. The authors do show clearly that there is a problem in the public school environment. But I think they fail to make a good analysis, perhaps because they desire to deflect the blame from where it belongs, when they tell us that teenagers “fraternize less” during their summer holidays away from school. I do not think that is true. I think teenagers "fraternize" every bit as much (perhaps even more in settings that could allow sexual activity!) in the summer, as during the school year. That unlikely assertion ("...and so fraternize less"), by the authors, allows them to make the implication that the pregnancies merely result from the teenagers being in crowds, rather than attribute the dramatic rise in pregnancies to the specific culture of the crowds they are in while at the schools. If the implication the authors make were correct, then teenagers in cities, in suburbs, in church youth groups, in shopping malls, indeed in crowds anywhere, should have “soaring” pregnancy rates. Clearly, they do not, as the study shows. What happens in the summers, during the teenagers' holidays away from the public schools, and school hallways and cafeterias, is that they fraternize less with teens who are being taught and stimulated by the schools' “sex education” and so-called “diversity training” programs. Instead, they fraternize more with peers they can choose, more with teenagers that share their own (or their parents') values, and more with teenagers who are not being inculcated with the libertine lesson-plans and public school culture. Teenagers actually get a vacation from an environment that officially and authoritatively denigrates more conservative (“old-fashioned”) values, and really does keep sex on the minds of students continually, while preaching “sex is good for you” - especially if done any way but the old fashioned way! The argument has long been made, by those folks who finally opt out of the public schools, that it really doesn't matter whether you are teaching sex for health, for contraception, for AIDS and STD prevention, for “tolerance” and “diversity” (read, homosexuality) training, the end result is more sex at younger ages. The diseases are still rampant, the pregnancies “soar abruptly” after class, and the teenagers are even more confused about sexuality, morality, family values, and the religions of their parents. The Duke study gives support to that argument. It should lead to some rethinking on the part of the political and educational establishments about their programs, but of course it won't. They are too enamored of their own ideas, too “intolerant” of the “fundamentalists”, and too infiltrated and sold out to social and political factions pushing their own cultural revolutions through the public school culture factories. I'll repeat here: I consider parents who dare to home school their children heroes of the most unselfish sort, and will continue to dedicate much of this website to supporting them with resources to make their task more feasible.