What’s Going On?

This photo provided by Chief of Police of Waycross, Ga., Tony …

“This photo provided by Chief of Police of Waycross, Ga., Tony Tanner, Tuesday, April 1, 2008. A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday. The plot by as many as nine boys and girls at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said.”

(AP Photo/Waycross Georgia Police Department)

In 1962 Prayer was removed from school. The problem with this was, not only was prayer removed, but also The Ten Commandments, Moral and Biblically based lesson plans and creation based science lessons. Some children received their only moral training and prayers at school because of a broken home life. The decision to throw prayer out of school did far more damage and is still doing more damage today. It is jokingly said that prayer is still going on in schools because “as long as there are tests their will be prayer.” That is a cute tongue in cheek quip and nice for a little chuckle but when you are done looking at the following statistics you won’t be laughing. I wasn’t…

VERIFIED STATS

…PRAYER WAS TAKEN OUT OF SCHOOL IN 1962…
Overnight, in 1962, in one single sweeping decision by the Supreme Court (Engel vs. Vitale), the Court removed God from the American classroom…and this was the result.

Suicide
• There are more suicides than homicides in U.S. per year.
• Suicide has become the 9th leading cause of death in the U.S.

• One in seven teens say they have tried to commit suicide.

• Suicides among teen and young adults increased 300%.
• Suicide became the third leading cause of death for teens in U.S. for ages 15-19.
• Suicide has increased for people under 14 and over 65.
• The suicide rate among 15-24 year olds increased by 407% – more than 8 times the population growth.
• Among youths 10-14 years old, suicide rates increased by 100% from 1980-1996.
• 24.1% of students have thought seriously about attempted suicide.
• 17.7% of students have made a specific plan to attempt suicide.
• 8.7% of students have attempted suicide.

PARENTS (FAMILIES):
• Divorce has increased 300% each year for following 15 years after prayer was taken out.
• Unmarried people living together has increased 353%.
• Single parent families have increased 140%.
• Single parent families with children are up 160%.
• Illegitimate births are up 500%.
• Child Abuse is up 400%.

TEACHERS (SCHOOLS):
SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores have consistently been getting lower….SAT scores had been going along rather steady for many years before 1962. Since 1962 they took a rapid decline for 18 consecutive years, even though the same test has been used since 1941. The average SAT today is 62 points lower than it was before prayer was removed.

COUNTRY (NATION):
Crime
• Violent crime has increased 560% or 680%.
• Crime is up 300%.
• Juvenile Violent Crime is up 300%.
• About 43 million citizens have been murdered through legal abortions just since 1973.

• Juvenile Violent Crime Arrest Rates have increased by 314%.

Abortion
• In one year alone, more children are aborted in America than were killed in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean, Vietnam and Gulf Wars combined.
• The annual number of abortions went from 744,600 in 1973, to over 1.6 million in 1990.
• Today, there are approximately 1.3 million abortions per year.
• There are over 3,600 abortions per day in America– 151 per hour, one every 24 seconds.
• In 1994 and 1995, women who had already had 3 or more abortions obtained 7%, or nearly 100,000, abortions each year. • There are more that 140,000 second and third trimester abortions every year.

Disease
• Aids has infected over 1 million Americans.
• Syphilis is at a 40 year high.
• There are 500,000 new cases of herpes per year.
• 43 million Americans have incurable STD’s.
• STD’S have increased by 370%.

Virginity and Sexual Activity
• In 1970, 4.6% of American girls had lost their virginity by age 15.
• By 1975, the number had increased to 9.8%.
• By 1980, 16.7% of girls had their first intercourse by age 15.
• By 1988, the number peaked at just over 25%.
• 20% of all brides are pregnant at the alter.
• Pregnancies in girls from the age of 15-19 years increased by 187%.
• Pregnancies for girls ages 10 to 14 years have increased by 625%.
• 30,000 teens under 13 get pregnant each year.
• 1 million teens get pregnant each year.

BEFORE PRAYER WAS REMOVED….
• Divorce had been declining for 15 years.
• SAT scores had been going along rather steady for many years before 1962.
• In 1974-75 the rate of decline of the SAT scores decreased, even though they continued to decline. That was when there was an explosion of private religious schools. There were only 1000 Christian schools in 1965. Between 1974 to 1984 they increased to 32,000.
• In checking with the SAT Board it was found that indeed the SAT scores for private schools were nearly 100 points higher than public schools.
• The Private School scores were at the point where the public schools had been before their decline started in 1963 when prayer and Bible reading/ instruction was removed from the schools.
• The scores in the public schools are still declining.
• Of the nation’s top academic scholars, three times as many come from private religious schools, which operate on one-third the funds as do the public schools.

All information obtained from the Associated Press ,Verified Stats

photo of weapons the children were trying to use courtesy of: Brown Sugar Pages….Thanks Brown Sugar!