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Article: Public schools take heat
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 5, 2006
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NEW YORK -- Public schools take a lot of criticism, but a growing,
loosely organized movement is now moving from harsh words to action -
- with parents taking their own children out of public schools and
exhorting other families to do the same.
Led mainly by evangelical Christians, the movement depicts public
education as hostile to religious faith and claims to be behind a
surge in the number of students being schooled at home.
"The courts say no creationism, no prayer in public schools," said
Roger Moran, a Winfield, Mo., businessman and member of the Southern
Baptist Convention executive committee. "Humanism and evolution can
be taught, but everything I believe is disallowed."
The father ...