SHORT COMMUNICATIONS 150
Where God Became Unimportant
By
Roger Behra
The most culturally damaging result of the counterculture movement in America has been the steady and ever increasing lack of respect and attention given to the importance of God in daily living, and that has affected so many areas of American culture.
One of the most crucial areas of American culture affected is the American public school system. When a Supreme Court ruling came down forbidding any mention of God or the Bible in schools, God was removed from the Pledge of Allegiance since that time. That decision, greatly affected the school environment, which has become a discipline nightmare and to a large degree very dysfunctional. The court decision and administrative decisions along with deteriorated family life has done great damage to a well run and productive public school system in America.
Along with God becoming unimportant, public schools have contributed to their own problems and dysfunctional environment. Public schools definitely need a dress code. They should take a lesson from private and religious schools. They do not have the problems of the public schools. In the public schools it seems most anything goes in regards to dress. Just watch the students walking home after school Girl students dress immodestly with their super tight jeans and excessive breast cleavage. Is there any wonder there is teacher-student sexual activity? A guy with hair as long as girls is very out of place. Individual discipline is a joke even with security guards present. In the classroom discipline is poor and leads to poor teaching and knowledge gain. Classrooms are overcrowded, and teachers are burdened with extra duties that plaining time.
Sex- education has turned out to be a bad decision. Research has definitely revealed that schools that teach sex-education have a much higher teen pregnancy. That is no surprise. Sex-education stimulates the desire to have sex when hormones a beginning to rage. It may also stimulate teacher-student sex activity that is increasingly in the news.
A great contributing factor is the fact that family life has deteriorated and is full of irreligious living in 60% of America´s home. That carries over very much into the public school culture. When the students daily at home and then daily in the schools are not, or cannot, be reminded that they are responsible to God for all their behaviour and personal achievement, it becomes great losing situation at home and in the schools. Since God became obsolete in the schools and irreligious living has taken over in the homes, it is not a coincidence that great problems have developed in the American Culture, at home, and in America’s school systems. Parents and public school administrators need to take a lesson from religious and private schools. The writing is on the wall for all to see.
R. B.
2-23-10