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1: "At-Risk" Students
America’s public school system is one system, and federal money is the glue that binds them together. Somes schools are better than others, but there really all bad. That's because someone doesn’t want Americans to be well-educated --independent. One-third of all public school students currently in the 9th grade will not graduate high school on time, if at all. America’s high school dropouts and many of her high school graduates are facing a pretty bleak future, thanks to their lack of reading, writing and math skills. Really though, we’re all affected by illiteracy, for we’ve become a nation of unthinking, government-dependent proles.

2: The Age of the Human Race
How old is the human race? Millions of years or – as the Bible claims – much, much younger than that? The advance of genetics allows new techniques to estimate the age of mankind. The results might surprise you!

3: Thousands are functionally illiterate
This article summarizes RC Murray's assessment of public schools based on his four years experience as a high school English teacher. He wrote the article and sent it to the local paper then resigned from teaching and returned to being a technical writer. But he promised himself and his readers in the article that he'd eventually document everything he learned "in" public school classrooms and "about" public school classrooms. Nearly two years later, he published that documentation: Legally STUPiD: Why Johnny doesn't have to read.

4: Just Where is that Wall of Separation between Church and State?
There is no language in the First Amendment to the US Constitution requiring a "wall of separation" between church and state. As explained by US Supreme Court Justice Reed in a 1948 dissent, there is no historical support for that idea either.


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