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The Harsh Truth About Public Schools.(Book Review)
The Harsh Truth About Public Schools, by Bruce N. Shortt (Vallecito, California: Chalcedon Foundation, 2004), 466 pages, trade paperback, $22.00. Available from American Opinion Book Services, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54912 (plus shipping and handling); by phone at 920-749-3783; or online at www.aobs-store.com.
Bruce N. Shortt, a Harvard-educated, Baptist home-school parent, offers an infuriating but indispensable look at "the many ways in which government schools are hazardous to children, and especially Christian children." Not one to deal in euphemisms, Shortt describes the typical public school as a "pagan seminary" devoted to undermining biblical values and cultivating collectivism. As a result, he warns, "government schools are killing our children spiritually, morally, and intellectually."
In his 400-plus page indictment, Shortt does recognize that "government schools, like all institutions, involve a complex interaction between people, institutional culture, and legal rules ... [with] a sizeable remnant of wonderful teachers and administrators ... who struggle daily with the strange and toxic places government schools have become." These countless decent and conscientious people, who often work on sacrificial terms, could be "the subject of several books," but they are not in this book. Nor does this book cover other factors contributing to our cultural decline, such as the absence of many parents in the lives of their children (see the review on page 31).
What this book does do is expose "the harsh ...
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