“In 1787, the very year the Constitution was written and approved by Congress, that same Congress passed the famous Northwest Ordinance. In it they emphasized the essential need to teach religion and morality in the schools. Here is the way they said it:
“Article III. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. …..”
Formal education was to include among its responsibilities the teaching of three important subjects:
1. Religion, which might be defined as a “fundamental system of beliefs concerning man’s origin and relationship to the cosmic universe as well as his relationship with his fellowmen.”
2. Morality, which may be described as “a standard of behavior distinguishing right from wrong.”
3. Knowledge, which is “an intellectual awareness and understanding of established facts relating to any field of human experience or inquiry (i.e., history, geography, science, etc.)”
The “Fundamental Points” to Be taught in the Schools.
The five points of fundamental religious belief expressed or implied in Franklin’s statement are these:
1. There exists a Creator who made all things, and mankind should recognize and worship Him.
2. The Creator has revealed a moral code of behavior for happy living which distinguishes right from wrong.
3. The Creator holds mankind responsible for the say they treat each other.
4. All mankind live beyond this life.
5. In the next life mankind are judged for their conduct in this one.
All five of these tenets run through practically all of the Founders’ writings. These are the beliefs which the Founders sometimes referred to as the “religion of America,” and they felt these fundamentals were so important in providing “good government and the happiness of mankind” that they wanted them taught in the public schools along with morality and knowledge.
San Francisco Chronicle
Homeschoolers' setback sends shock waves through state
Friday, March 7, 2008
"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare," the judge wrote, quoting from a 1961 case on a similar issue. The ruling was applauded by a director for the state's largest teachers union.”
Government Schools have forgotten the purpose of education. They have become centers of brainwashing for social control.
"It is unconstitutional for the Ten Commandments to hang on the walls of a classroom since the students might be led to read them, meditate upon them, respect them, or obey them."
Stone v. Graham; 449 U.S. 39 (1980), Ring v. Grand Forks Public Sch. Dist; 483 R. Supp. 272 (D.C-N.D. 1980). Lanner v. Wimmer, 662 F. 2d 1349 (10th Cir. 1981).
Our taxes support public education. We, therefore, want, the Ten Commandments restored to their rightful place on the walls of the classrooms so that students may be led to read them, meditate upon them, respect them, and obey them, as well as pictures of the founding fathers of this nation.
Progressive education has not been an improvement over the Little Red School House and a set of McGuffey Readers.