What Has Changed?

It has been suggested that teachers also become armed defenders of the schools in which they serve, in addition to being food providers, psychological counsellors and after-school babysitters in addition to their teaching duties, may be 'a bit too much.'

And that is not to say teachers will not--and have not already-- demonstrated their willingness to put themselves between their students and impending danger; rather that school districts and the tax payers who fund them should be willing to hire trained professionals to stand as watchmen between those in school (students, teachers, and administrators) and anyone who would enter those hallowed institutions of learning with intent to do harm.

And while providing the fire power to defend our schools from mayhem and murder, our legislators must also consider the time when our halls of learning actually were safe places.

How do those simple, often one-room structures differ from our sophisticated, modern, technologically-equipped learning factories?

The one essential difference is the fact that at the inception of public school education its primary function was to teach the BIBLE and to promote faith in JESUS.

This may be an uncomfortable truth for those who today insist that "separation of church and state" is an article of government rather than an off-handed comment by Thomas Jefferson in his personal correspondence, but truth it is!

As recently as the 1950s, the BIBLE was read and the LORD'S PRAYER was recited at the beginning of every school day. Teachers hired by the school districts in that day were required to be people of honorable character whose lives were lived by BIBLICAL principles.

They were not expected to teach morality to the students in their charge, but they were expected to model it to students whose parents were teaching morality and godliness to them at home.

What has changed?

When is the last time YOU heard a teacher open his classroom with a passage of SCRIPTURE and the LORD'S PRAYER?

It didn't take long for evil to replace the good that the CHRISTIAN FAITH established in the nation's classrooms.

When are YOU going to insist that the faith of our fathers be reintroduced into our public schools?