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ESSAY 56
THE
"CERTIFIED AND ACCREDITED"
MYTH
Public schools are certified and accredited, but they
have failed. They have let down our children, parents and our
nation. How disappointing. How sad for our children who are
the ones who will pay for the failed social experiment.
The phrase, "dumbing-down of America," comes from the
failure of the public schools to teach students basic
academic skills.
The phrase, "fool-making of America," comes from stu-
dents being indoctrinated in atheism and the failure of the
public schools to instill good character. Both children and
their parents have been deceived and defrauded by government
and the educational establishment.
Some have used the term, "conspiracy." The idea is that
the educational elite have devised a macabre plot to make a
whole generation ignorant in order to facilitate their indoc-
trination into a Nazi-type of social structure. Our nation
does have the appearance of pre-Hitler days. Whether or not
there is a conspiracy afoot, the children are not learning
basic academic skills. Even worse, they are being trained to
engage in premarital sex, homosexual conduct, and to believe
anti-Semitic and anti-Christian values.
The Department of Education has failed in spite of all
the money the Democratic Congress has thrown at it. If the
Department of Education were an individual employee in the
private sector, it would have been fired long ago. How do
you fire a failed bureaucracy?
Certification has to do with teachers and administrators
meeting a basic standard. Usually it involves taking speci-
fied college courses and an internship. Just because a
teacher is certified is no assurance that he can teach. "The
proof of the pudding is in the eating." In other words, a
teacher's effectiveness is demonstrated in the progress of
the student. Does the student do well on standardized tests?
Does he demonstrate in behavior and word that he has become
a person of better character? Has he developed socially and
spiritually? Has he developed physical skills? One Christian
school system discovered that academics do not always make
the teacher. SOME TEACHERS WHO DID NOT HAVE THE ACADEMIC
CREDENTIALS DID BETTER THAN SOME WHO DID!
Accreditation has to do with a school meeting a basic
standard. Again, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
If the school is "accredited" by some group's standards and
yet does not produce a better student, how good is the
"accreditation"? Public schools usually have more money and
can add more bells and whistles. Too often, attractive new
buildings, furniture and equipment amount to nothing more
than "eyewash." Generally, tests by independent agencies as
well as internal inventories by groups such as the Associa-
tion of Christian Schools International indicate that
Christian schools outdo their secular counterparts academi-
cally and characterwise.
Harvard University is not accredited. Why? Because it
needs no accreditation by an outside body when it has proven
itself academically over the years. Likewise, a private
school that graduates students who score high academically
does not need "accreditation" by a failed system. To do so
would ruin the private school also.
A bonus in Christian schools is character training. The
private schools can teach moral values and discipline. Public
schools cannot teach anything but moral relativism and
immorality, BY LAW. Character training and academic learning
go hand in glove. There is no learning without discipline.
END