BTW, Linda, my daughter began her primary education at a Christian school, being taught by teachers with very similar backgrounds to Ken Hovind's.

And her first year and then some were stellar. The teachers were absolutely excellent. They had these kids writing beautifully, in cursive, in kindergarten. They had them learning to read and write primary spanish, in kindergarten, on top of everything else. Her classmates were smart and considerate. She dressed in a smart uniform, and looked topnotch, they also taught the kids manners and basic etiquette. She was quite a young lady.

At a certain point however I was forced because of a temporary financial situation to enroll her in the public school down the street. What a horror. She was told that she was not allowed to write in cursive, and the curriculum was a year behind where she already was for her level, a lot if the kids in her new class could barely read. Aside from a few, her classmates were not very nice to her. They mocked her for wearing pretty dresses, they would hit her, one of her classmates enjoyed stepping on her hands during lessons where they would sit on the floor. She was unhappy but there wasn't much we could do at the time. Within a few months her hand writing was atrocious, she began refusing to wear dresses, and she would come home burping and farting as her new jokes.

To this very day, she has never regained the stunning cursive writing skills she learned way back in kindergarten, which were forced out her in public school. She reads very well, but I taught her that beginning at age 2-3. She could index the encyclopedia and look up words at age 4-5, before even starting school, so those are skills she began life with, not credited to her schooling at all. I made sure she had the basics. But her handwriting, another basic skill she once had has been lost. She has never regained the beautiful handwriting she had in kindergarten. she has never been made an offer of spanish class in public school thus far. these things Linda, she learned in kindergarten at a Christian school.. Kindergarten. She refuses to wear dresses to this day. Her manners stink. That Linda, is what public schiol has done to my child, and there's more but i won't get into it.

So, if you want to continue to deride Christian education, that's your choice. But as a parent who has experienced both sides of the coin first hand, I will also tell you first hand that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, and it is rather apparent from your presence here exactly why students in public schools are failing to meet the grades of previous generations.

You are a stellar example of why public education is failing. It's not the kids Linda, kids haven't changed all that much over the years. it's the teachers. With the rare exception, they stink.