The State of Public Education Institutions

Public education institutions are continuing their downward spiral as they reap the consequences of their philosophies.

Today's Mansfield News Journal had many articles that drove home this point, two of them are worth note here. The first article talked about how residents are requesting police presence in the Ontario schools now. After last year's hostage situation, who would blame them?

But can we blame students for their crazed mania and for venting their beast-like passions? Is this not what the public schools have been teaching their students for the last few decades? Has not the basic philosophy been the absence of moral absolutes? Does not the public system teach that we are simply bane animals? Why then should police be responsible for maintaining order? If the subjects that the students study do not themselves enforce the need for sobriety and the reality of a universal, God given system of law, why should we hold students accountable to such things?

The other article reported on the vision Mansfield City School's superintendent set out a few nights ago. From the article, I gather that it was more of a pep rally to get people stirred up to fork over more taxes than a statement of vision with perceived goals and processes.

But will more money solve any of the issues of floundering education? Little old Ashland dumps over $7,500 into every child in the public school system per year. That's quite a bit of money already! (Just to let you know, I paid about $11,000 for for each year of college [that included room and board!] and the cost of Ashland Christian School is less than $2,000 per year.)

The solution is not more revenue, the solution is renovation of philosophy. You wouldn't go out and pay more money to a plumber who does a terrible job, would you? No, you'd look for a plumber who could do the job.

Moreover, the public school system flounders, not because of funding, but because of philosophy. Since public education grows out of the anti-Christian philosophies of Dewey and Jean Jacques Russo should we expect them to be successful in passing on knowledge?

Basically, the schools flounder because they trip over their own feet. And the only way a school will be successful is if they, in the words of the first founders of Harvard, "put Christ in the bottom."