What Can We Do About

The Public Schools?

by John Morris, Ph.D.

For those of us who attended public

schools some years ago, it is often

difficult to believe the shocking tales

we hear about the decadence, drugs,

inferior teaching, etc., that seem to

reign there now. When I was going to

school, the wrong influences were

certainly present, but they weren't

that bad.

The situation in public schools is

now much different. The mood now in

many schools is aggressively anti-

Christian, although there are still

many fine and dedicated public

school teachers and administrators.

We especially thank God for Christian

teachers who consider their jobs a

mission field and a Christian calling.

But our Judeo-Christian morality and

ethics are often but a faded memory,

and attempts to retain them are fre-

quently met with opposition and intim-

idation.

I am most familiar with the situation

in California, of course, and perhaps

here it is the worst. Open drug sales

and use, ethnic gang wars, and stu-

dent/teacher violence are easily

recognized problems, but how about

the more subtle attempts at "values

clarification," or the encouragement

of experimentation in "sex educa-

tion" classes, or the inclusion of

homosexuality as a legitimate life-

style, or easy access to abortions

through school clinics.

In Los Angeles, a recent State-

encouraged pilot program actually

described the step-by-step process

by which students could contact their

"spirit guides." Literature courses are

now less dominated by humanistic

classics (offensive as even they are),

but, instead, by occultic and demonic

readings, including ritualistic murder.

My own niece and her first-grade

classmates were recently taken from

the school grounds and driven to an

ancient Indian site of worship, where

certain initiation rites, incantations,

and individual prophecies were given.

What has happened to our schools?

What can we do about them?

In our dealings with the State De-

partment of Education here in Cali-

fornia, we have come to recognize a

virtual stronghold on education by the

humanistic "elite." Even these usually

atheistic educators, however, are now

welcoming New Age and occultic In-

fluences in the schools. The new

"Science Framework" mandates

teaching evolution as fact. Christians

have avoided public policy and politics

for so long that such people seem well-

entrenched.

There is one ray of hope. Many

Christians all over America have re-

cently been elected to local and state

school boards, and many more are

running for these offices. The legiti-

mate problems facing education are

monumental, and solutions need to be

found within a Christian context. At

the very least, the tide must be

stemmed!

As Christians, we must commit our-

selves to support good school board

officials, to educate ourselves as to

the problems and needs, and, most of

all, to become involved. We are "the

salt of the earth," said the Lord Jesus,

and there is no other.

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