Liberate America From Public Schools

By Terence P. Jeffrey | May 2, 2018

Eighth-grade students all across America took the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in reading and mathematics in 2017 and the results demonstrate two facts.

1. First: Public schools are doing a bad job teaching their students these two basic subjects.
2. Second: Catholic schools are doing a better job.

But that is just one win the Catholic schools scored over the public schools. In fact, the current standings in this rivalry are: Catholic schools 2; public schools 0.  The initial contest was academic. Let's review the scoring in that one.  The NAEP tests are scored on a scale of 0 to 500 and students are assigned an achievement level based on their score. These include basic, proficient and advanced............In the Detroit public schools, for example, 93 percent of the eighth-graders were less than proficient in reading. In Cleveland, it was 90 percent; and in Baltimore, 87 percent..............

Then there is the second contest in which the Catholic schools beat the public schools: Teaching values.  Public schools generally teach secular left-wing values — that, in some instances, cannot be reconciled with the laws of nature and nature's God, whom the Founders invoked when they created this republic............To Read More......