Decline of Academic Excellence in the Public School

To most homeschoolers, the decline of academicsubsidization, is an alternative that many parents have
quality in America’s public school is not news.found to work for them. As public school
However, many parents still remain unaware of thisadministrators spend more and more on ensuring that
far-reaching problem. According to a the Collegetheir students have a state of the art facility in which
Board, the organization responsible for creating andto learn, they forget that homeschool parents are
administering the SAT standardized test, the scores ofdoing it better with only a few hundred dollars a year.
2006 high school students are the lowest they’veHomeschool students are proven to score higher on
seen in 31 years. This decline is surprising consideringstandardized tests than their public school peers.
that schools are spending more taxpayer money thanOn top of all this, Christian parents must recognize that
ever before on providing their students with high-paidregardless of the academic quality of any given school,
teachers, new gymnasiums, computer labs, andthe public school system is required to teach a
cafeterias.humanistic, pro-evolution, anti-morality, anti-Christ
As a National Review article points out, the publicworldview. By sending our children to the public school,
school has no legitimate competition. As such, theywe are submitting them to an endless stream of
have no economic incentive to increase the quality ofworldly lies and encouraging their indoctrination against
their educational program. As long as parents don’tChristian values. Homeschooling requires effort, but
have a choice in their child’s education, the situationmany parents are finding that the endeavor is well
will continue to worsen. Homeschooling, although notworth the moral and intellectual wellbeing of their
truly competition due to public school’s governmentchildren.