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abstract：When American's think of Education, they almost automatically think of public education. Through the years it is slowly changing. Many parents' today are deciding to h ...

When American's think of education, they almost automatically think of public
education. Through the years it is slowly changing. Many parents' today are
deciding to home school their children. Although most people think that a
public education is better, most statistics and facts tend to show that home
schooling is beneficial in more ways. It is estimated that parents are now
teaching over two million children at home, rather than in public or even
private schools.

Education in our public schools has been on the down slope for over twenty
years now. Public schools have lost all values and biblical morality. This
was what our country was founded on and it has been replaced with humanism.

One example of humanism in our schools is that they teach evolution, not
creationism. Some people believe that this problem is happening because of
the removal of God and prayer in public schools; the U.S. Supreme Court did
this in 1962. Beginning in 1962, SAT scores plummeted. Teen pregnancies,
teen sexual diseases, teen suicides, teen alcohol, drug abuse, pornography,
and illiteracy rates abruptly increased 200 to 300 percent (Klicka 48).

Violence is one of the main factors effecting are schools today. Rape is a
growing problem among juveniles. A juvenile commits one out of every five
rapes that occur in the United States. There is also a higher use of drugs
and alcohol among kids in public schools. Over 80 percent of public high
school students drink alcohol and 45.7 percent have used marijuana. Drugs
and alcohol make most people extremely violent. That is also why our violence
and crime rates are so high.

Over hundreds of millions of dollars are spend on the security of our
nation's public schools. In The Right Choice Home Schooling, Christopher
Klicka says, "In Washington, D.C., drugs and violence were such a problem in
one Elementary school, that the principal banned regular recess, and the children
are only allowed to play outside in a pit enclosed by eight-foot concrete
walls, or on a small section of playground monitored by the police (Klicka
51)." The disciplinary problems of children usually start even before they
reach public school. In the last ten years, research shows that infants
raised in daycare "are more prone to behavioral problems as young children
than their home-reared cousins (Klicka 124)." If you keep your child at home
from the start, you will be able to discipline and raise your children with
the right morals.

Because so much time is spend trying to clean up and keep our schools safe, we
are more or less falling behind in our education. American's are farther
behind in educational status than countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and China.

The teachers spend too much time on the little things and forget the real
reason why the children are there. Not only that, but the textbooks hold
inaccurate information and do not contain the whole story. Some textbooks
stated that the atomic bomb ended the Korean War (instead of World War II) and
that only 53,000, rather than 126,000 Americans, were killed in World War I
(Klicka 24 25). One book summarizes Abraham Lincoln's