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About Us:
Voice from the Pews is a web site ministry dedicated to helping Bible-Believing Christian parents learn about what's really going on in the public schools they think are educating their children.
RC Murray, author of Golden Knights: History of the U.S. Army Parachute Team, was medically retired by the Army in 1992 after repeated neck injuries and a bout with meningitis. This disabled veteran went on to earn an associate's in industrial engineering from Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, NC, which he used to supplement his bachelor's in language, writing & editing [English] from NCSU, which he had completed in 1982 during a break in service. With this training and three certifications from the American Society for Quality, Murray was able to succeed in a new career as a quality technician and technical writer. But in 2001, he left all that just so he could teach high school English. During the next four years, he fought The System that harrassed him about his high failure rates and low class averages. Despite a stroke and a mini-stroke, he could not be intimidated to read to/for his students, allow so-called diverse learners to leach off motivated AG students in so-called group learning activities or let his students draw pictures or cut out paper dolls [thematic visualization] in place of actual reading and writing [learning]. He returned to being a technical writer for nearly three years then recently accepted a public affairs position as an Army civilian. But he kept a promise to his students and himself to reveal everything he learned in government school classrooms and about government school classrooms. His new book is a fulfillment of that promise.
Legally STUPiD: Why Johnny doesn't have to read is now available and can be purchased online at this website or ordered directly from Peach-Pine Publishing. It can also be purchased at www.newswithviews.com, http://plainpath.org/store/ and www.amazon.com. Murray's new book documents what's going on in all public schools and his efforts to take on the Goliath education monoply. Although some public schools may not be practicing all the dumbed down teaching strategies he discusses, all public schools are practicing some of these dumbed down teaching strategies. His book also takes a close look at who has been trying to control knowledge, all knowledge, academic and biblical.
Assisting him in constructing and maintaining this website is his wife, Gloria, a real teacher, and their youngest daughter, Sara, who for some odd reason loves to read and write and learn. Gloria completed her bachelor's in secondary education from UNC-Wilmington in 1978 then went on to teach Junior High social studies and geography for one year. After that year, she became a fulltime homemaker and mother. Although they were Bible-believing Christians, the Murray's allowed their oldest daughter, Shelly, to attend public school from kindergarten through second grade, but by the time their son, Patrick was ready to begin school, they had begun to question a lot more than the social and moral dysfunctions of public schools. Thereafter, Shelly and Patrick attended Christian schools or were home schooled by their mother. In fact, Gloria taught in those same Christian schools for nearly 10 years before finally returing to teach in a public elementary school. It wasn't an easy decision to return.
By this time, Shelly and Patrick were grown and graduated. In fact, Shelly had graduated from Bob Jones University and Patrick was an engineering student at NCSU and member of the Army Reserves. Despite her love for all children and an overwhelming desire to teach them to read and write, Gloria was and still is a mother first. Because Sara was still quite young, she was allowed to attend the same public school when Gloria returned to teaching in The System. But it didn't go well at all. In fact, it took three years back in a Christian school for Sara to catch up academically. She now scores two grades above her grade level in math and science and post high school in all other subjects. In the public school system, the tax payers were spending about $9,000 a year for Sara's "free" education, which caused her to get behind academically [which really wasn't behind her public school peers]. Like millions of Bible-believing Christian parents around the country, the Murray's now invest about $1,900 a year for Sara to go to a church-operated Christian school. But as the song says, "Christian education doesn't cost; it pays -- through eternal dividends in so many ways." Think about it.
Please read through this web site, and if your curiosity is aroused, purchase a copy of Legally STUPiD then read it carefully and prayerfully. Most of all, please set aside your personal opinions about what you think you know about your local public school and especially Christian schools or home schooling. Listen to that still, small voice inside you. Please, mom & dad. Your child's academic and spiritual future are in your hands. Train him or her up in the way he/she should go. Do it God's way, not Big Brother's way.
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