This sad poem explains why home-schooling is booming.

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"The Student's New Public School Prayer" (by Anonymous)

Now I sit me down in school where praying is against the rule.
For this great nation under God finds mention of Him very odd.

If scripture now the class recites, it violates the Bill of Rights.
And any time my head I bow becomes a federal matter now.

Our hair is purple or orange or green. That's no offense, but "the freedom scene."
The law is specific, the law is precise. Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate. God's name is prohibited by the State.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks, and pierce our noses, tongues, and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns; but first the Bible. To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen, and the unwed daddy, our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong. We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth control, study witchcraft, vampires, and a totem pole.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed. No Word of God must reach my crowd.

It's scary here I must confess. Since chaos reigns, the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make: Should I be shot, my soul please take.



-- J. F. Gecik (jgecik@desc.dla.mil), March 09, 2000

Answers

Things are almost as bad up here in the North. It is heart-breaking. Kyle

-- Kyle Scanlon (kyle@atmos.net.ca), March 15, 2000.

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