In 1930, C.F. Potter wrote: ”Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American school is a school of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school meeting, for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?” The gradual, systematic, deliberate elimination from public schools of what once were commonly accepted Biblical values, morals and modes of behavior is a historical fact.
This should not be surprising since one tenet of the ”Humanist Manifesto I” states: ”Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values.”
So, many of the kids at Goudy don`t respect their principal and teachers. Who says they should? So, some of the teachers don`t give a hoot about the intellectual welfare of their students. Why should they? So, many of the students will never receive a high school diploma and secure gainful employment. Who says that should even be a goal in the first place?
I wonder what the worst public school in Chicago was like in 1930? We have, it seems, reaped a bountiful harvest of what was sown over the last 50 years.
