Upper Bucks is run by Bethel Baptist Church. While I disagree with some of their interpretation of the Bible, I am glad I have had the privilege of attending the school.
I do not believe Public Schools are good for America. While claiming to support no religion, they do in fact support humanism, where the religion of Evolution stems from. If there is no "God", than man is his own god and he can do as he pleases.
Evolution: Science or Humanism?
If you teach this philosophy to kids, it is no wonder they will go into school and shoot their classmates. If we came from animals (according the Evolution), why not act like them? Why can't we see this? The problem with public education is IT LACKS ANY MORAL FOUNDATION. Morals are based on religion. Most "traditional" morals in America are based on the Bible.
Recently, I attended Penn State Lehigh Valley for 2 semesters (fall '98/spring '99). I was not impressed AT ALL with the education provided here, especially the "self-paced" (aka "self-taught" calculus) class.
Below is an excerpt from an e-mail to a friend I wrote while attending Penn State Lehigh Valley (1st semester):
--begin excerpt--College for me is...well...college.
I'm not real impressed with PSU's professors, but, then again, they're not teaching me anything really relevant to my major, so I guess it doesn't matter.
My "Political Science" teacher (Government) is as liberal as they come, and seems to be to an extreme socialist at best. (for example, the three roles of government are to Protect, Provide, and Promote Equality) Exact opposite of Mr Harris...
When he said that FDR help back socialism in America, I let him have it. Besides getting the whole class to laugh, I believe I won the argument because he cut it off. His last rebuttal was "well if FDR was so bad,
why was he elected for 3 successive terms?". I simply said, "if someone gave you money you didn't earn, wouldn't you re-elect him?".My English teacher thinks he's funny, probably because everyone laughs when he does. But, in actuality, they are laughing at his funny laugh :).
My Chem lecture teacher (male) has long hair and comes to class in his jeans. He knows what he's talking about but doesn't state it very concisely, making getting the point across time-consuming to say the least. He fills the board at least 6 times in the course of his lecture, and his handwriting is not very legible. He encourages us to ask whenever we can't read something he wrote, but no one does since they'd have to stop him every other word!
My Calculus teacher (if you can call him that) doesn't teach. The course is "self-taught", which means you learn from the textbook and take tests in class. You keep re-taking them until you get a B or higher. This sounds good, but you must pass all the tests before the end of the semester, or you fail the course. This gives you a little over 2 tries per test, if you figure how many classes verses how many tests. You do not need to come to class, and you leave as soon as the proctor grades the test. (Note: the proctor is not the professor).
The only thing the Calculus professor does (Dr Call), is he holds an optional problem-solving session before class on Tuesday, for people to ask questions. But, each session has a certain chapter as an agenda, and if you are behind (or ahead), they do not help you because they are not covering the material you are working on.
My Chem Lab teacher is this 80+ year old lady who is into computers and states what she is thinking quite bluntly. I find her amusing. She refers to everything that was awhile ago like this: "100 years ago when
I taught...." "100 years ago when I was...." etc.A lot of our labs are done on the computer using those old 33rpm LP sized video disks that never caught on. She pioneered this idea at PSU. The rest are done miniaturly because the Lehigh Valley campus doesn't
have a full-scale chemistry lab.--end excerpt--