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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Advocates believed universal education was best achieved through a unitary system of publicly funded, state-operated schools.
60% : Shared cultural identity, trust between peers and faith in individual effort crumble when students are taught America is evil, white people are inherently privileged and racist and disparate outcomes are caused by systemic racism.
57% : By contrast, studies show America's private and religious schools more effectively instill political tolerance, encourage civic participation, teach civic skills and foster patriotism in students.
56% : How are public schools doing in achieving these original goals?
53% : Finally, how are public schools doing in fostering moral values?Early public-education advocates believed moral instruction is central to education -- and they were right.
51% : Increasingly, schools are adopting curricula and espousing ideologies, like critical race theory, designed to teach students they are divided by unbridgeable differences.
50% : Today, public schools indoctrinate students in radical ideologies -- like CRT and transgenderism -- that are, at bottom, ersatz religions contrary to traditional religious beliefs.
45% : But in recent decades, despite the infusion of ever-increasing resources, the quality of public education has clearly fallen.
43% : In New York, charter-school students are achieving substantially higher proficiency rates than their counterparts in traditional public schools.
40% : That spurred aggressive efforts to secularize public schools by purging all vestiges of traditional religion.
37% : Up until the 1960s, public schools finessed this problem by explicitly embracing America's Judeo-Christian heritage: Curricula incorporated a general form of Christianity into the classroom; the Bible was read; Christian prayers were said at school.

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