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"The Missing Ingredient in Education....so the Recipe is a Flop"

Religion and the Bible are missing from schools. We all know that Thomas Jefferson referred at the time, that if our country was to take Christianity out of the classroom, then the educational society, of the century in which we live, would suffer. If you have doubt, then just to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. See his words engraved in the ceiling and feel his thoughts. The man has insight, and we should have paid attention to our founding fathers! It seems as if he was a prophet, for he knew that when times would change, people might change.

This country was founded on Christian principles and have catered too much to everyone and diversification. There is such as famous quote as "when in Rome do as the Romans"; well, we are the Romans, so to speak, and we have given up our rights and freedom while we have allowed the newcomers to toy with what have believed for centuries! Because of the lack of Christian values in education, we have instituted bullying courses and have tried to figure out what is wrong. You see, without these values, we have nothing. Without them, we have controlled chaos in schools, lack of respect, and do not appreciate education. They should learn what it was like during the Industrial Revolution when the children longed to get out of the fields; they longed to learn, and longed to become readers rather than work 15 hours a day, even in these poorly ventilated warehouses.

Lack of discipline is an end product of religion missing in our schools. While discipline is a big factor in how children behave, lack of it is certainly a missing ingredient. Without these two ingredients, the cake will flop! It might even appear to some that it looks pretty on the outside, despite the fact that is is lopsided, but on the inside, it is raw, unbaked, and missing something to the taste! Well, children out of control with no consequences is a terrible situation for several districts. In fact, we are doing them an injustice; we are not doing them a favor. Perhaps many of them should go to boot camp for a day or see what the jails are like; they might look at their behavior differently.

Many of the young today are a different breed. All they want to to is touch, and push, and kick, and even 8th graders will tell you that someone started it. The maturity level has diminished for some, and many are not guided at home. They must learn the consequences for their

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