Public Education

I don’t, as a Christian, have the option to “opt out” of the societal contract. Instead, I live under a mandate to be the most involved, missional societal participant that I can be.

Juan Willliams reports: “My main take-away from reporting for this documentary is that ‘Digital Learning’ shows tremendous promise as an immediate solution for helping American students to succeed immediately.”

“Nothing I can do will really make that big of a difference … They should be happy I’m even working here … I could be doing so much better somewhere else.”

“In Ms. Morris’ health education class in Greenville, Miss., a lesson on sexually transmitted diseases is almost comic… (she) soldiers on, using cups of candy, and sharing them among students, to demonstrate the spread of an STD.” Education Week/State Edwatch

“Nearly 100 smarties at the city’s top-performing high school bared their bodies in “risque” outfits yesterday to denounce their school’s conservative dress code…”

“All the new advocacy groups promote variations on the idea that they represent students’ interests over those of adults.”

A U.S. District Court in Roanoke, Va., presiding over a case in which a local school is fighting to keep its public display of the Ten Commandments, has suggested that the display be narrowed down to the last six commandments, which he believes can be applied to secular society.

“A high school student in Tennessee was awarded with a $1,000 scholarship by an atheist organization for dressing up as Jesus Christ during ‘Fictional Character Day’ at his school.”

“The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s law banning sexual contact between teachers and students, finding that people 18 or older have a constitutional right to engage in a consensual sexual relationship.”

Battling Anew Over the Place of Religion in Public Schools