Culture Wars 101: Schools

Culture Wars 101

Schools

Public Schools

Private Schools (Vouchers)

Homeschooling

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Public Schools

The public schools are the "ground zero" of the culture war. Due to economic constraints, attendance is essentially compulsory and religious conservatives feel that the schools are an increasingly inhospitable environment. Religious conservatives feel that the schools restrict their childrens' rights of religious observance while pushing a 'secular humanist' agenda of sex education, religion-free classrooms, and 'situation ethics'. The offenses of the public schools in the eyes of religious conservatives, then, are of both omission and commission.

On a historical note, conservative Protestants had seen the public schools as an ally in the first part of the century, where they served as a tool of assimilation for the children of Catholics. Of course, the King James Bible was read in the classrooms in those days, and things were *quite* different. The changing environment of the public schools has changed a feeling of alliance between conservative Christians and their public schools to one of betrayal.

Students' Rights and the Public Schools

Public Schools: Battleground or Common Ground?

Attacks on the Freedom to Learn

Case Studies of Religious Right School Board Campaigns in Pennsylvania and Texas

Sex Education

The Religious Right's Campaign against Sexuality Education

Sex Education: What Works?

Prayer in Schools

Prayer in the Public Schools

School Reform

Misconceptions About Goals 2000: The Educate America Act

Organizations that deal with Schools

Citizens for Excellence in Education

Private Schools

Vouchers

School Choice and Voucher Report

With Liberty and Justice for all: Redefining the Educational Choice Debate

The Case Against Vouchers

Home schoolers against vouchers

Why the Need for Private Schools?

The Separation of School and State Alliance

Homeschooling

Homeschooling is by no means exclusively a phenomenon among religious conservatives. Indeed, many parents homeschool their children for what could be considered "liberal" reasons. Regardless, the homeschooling movement has grown tremendously in the last ten years, and many see it as an "escape valve" for parents fed up with the public schools.

Why Homeschool?

Homeschoolers: Pioneers of Freedom

Biblical Foundations for Homeschooling

Christian Homeschool Forum: Homeschool FAQs

Unschooling Undefined

Homeschooling Organizations

Christian Homeschool Forum

Homeschool World

News Archive

Public Schools Teach Bible as History

Immersion Vs. Bilingual Education

Early American Samplers: You Go, Schoolgirl!