Your Kids Aren't Getting the Education the Founders Intended
4 Surprising Things the Founders Intended to Include in American Education
4 Surprising Things the Founders Intended to Include in American Education
One of the childhood stories in my father’s arsenal is set at lunchtime in his local public school. Although he went home for lunch, he often heard his teacher leading the classroom in a group rendition of “Come Lord Jesus, be our guest,” as he gathered his things before walking across the street. A few short years later, the winds changed, and he was bawled out in class for disagreeing with a lesson due to his Christian beliefs.
His experience prompts an important question: Should Christian prayers take place in public schools?
American answers to that question all depend upon where one lives, a recent Pew Research report found. Many states – particularly in the South and middle portions of the country – say yes. But more states either oppose or are evenly divided on the issue than those which favor it.
The fact that so many states favor Christian prayers in public schools may come as a surprise to those who have long been told that the American education system is a bastion of secularism, the place where that proverbial “wall of separation” between church and state reigns supreme.
Such surprise may be lessened, however, if we look at what the American founders anticipated being taught in…