This is a time of unexpected conversations. A decade or so ago I never thought that I would have to defend the idea that humans are binary, male or female. Nor did I anticipate needing to argue that a male cannot become a female. It seems that all bets are off. We’re not in Kansas anymore!
Contentious school board meetings are now normal. Teachers, once respected, are viewed with suspicion. America has a new problem. It is no longer clear who has the ultimate responsibility to educate America’s children. Who do these children “belong to”? While totalitarian regimes have long attempted to train and indoctrinate their children, this is something new for America. Schools have become centers for indoctrination.
School systems are typically more progressive than those they serve. I know of teachers who have taken children to Planned Parenthood for abortions without their parents ever knowing. The school system usurped control of the child and overrode any parental concerns. It is no longer clear that children belong to their parents. School systems and individual teachers withhold information and take actions that affect children without involving parents. Teachers believe they have a moral obligation to instill their ideologies in children under their control. The school knows best.
The Bible portrays the primary family unit as parents and children. The parents have the primary responsibility to train their children. They send their children to school in order to learn age-appropriate basic life skills such as reading writing and math. Parents do not send their children to school to have them learn gender ideology, human sexuality, or critical race theory.
This raises two questions. First, “Who is responsible for the raising of a child?” and second, “What are appropriate goals for educators?” It appears that the school system is usurping parental authority and intruding into areas where they do not belong.
Parents need to unite and reevaluate our entire educational system. It may be that an entirely different model is needed. It may be that charter schools or large scale home schooling would be a better approach. The public educational system has not proven that it can successfully or appropriately educate children.
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