Failing Schools Are Booming Business Opportunity
By Carole Hornsby Haynes December 14, 2025
Public school enrollment continues to careen downward with no end in sight. Although the long term decline in the U.S. birth rate and changing demographics are drivers for plummeting enrollment, dissatisfaction with public education and school choice are triggering a movement toward alternative forms of education.




American schools began with the Puritans in the 1600s for the purpose of Bible literacy. With the Bible as the core of learning, America’s first reader, the New England Primer, was created to teach children Bible stories, poems, hymns, and prayers. This emphasis on literacy and education promoted strong religious convictions among colonists and led to the creation of the most literate, educated society in the world.
The contemporary celebration of Halloween is controversial. Many view it as a macabre celebration of evil while others view it as Christian. Its complicated past goes back thousands of years with roots in both paganism and Christianity.
If anyone wonders why public schools are hemorraging students as well as teachers, while private and homeschools are soaring, the scandalous hiring and arrest of an illegal alien fugitive from Guyana will end that confusion.
As news of the murder of conservative activist and commentator Charlie Kirk quickly spread across the nation, emotions ranged from satanical celebrations on the left to shock, sorrow, anger, and calls for war and vengeance on the right.
In a recent
On September 10 Charlie Kirk, the charismatic co-founder of the conservative youth group, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was gunned down in cold blood in front of thousands -- on video – while engaging in open dialogue with leftist students at Utah Valley University.