Originally published at crisis magazine
While I have not yet reached my fifth decade on this earth, I am still old enough to remember when adults were figures of authority. Once upon a time, youthful poor decision-making was met by an adult with a firm, loving correction tinged with a hint of nostalgia for a time when they, too, required such measures.
The young will always require correction. But in a culture that celebrates and perpetuates eternal childhood, who is left to make such corrections?
The lack of true leadership from people who should know better is one of the many reasons that public schools are the place where people lose their children. The leaders of secular education have failed by every measurable standard. The curricula is not only immoral, it is wholly inadequate for producing even a base level of literacy, which is evidenced in the significant decline of literacy in the United States.
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