Though it’s an issue many believe only affects liberal cities or states, “woke” curriculum is actually being pushed in schools across the country and may be creeping into a school near you. Many on the left are trying to teach our youth that there is something fundamentally wrong with our country. By controlling what young people are taught in our schools, Marxist ideas are now becoming mainstream.
Former Fairfax Virginia county school board member, Elizabeth Schultz, stated recently, “all local school boards need parental supervision because the education system is being “weaponized” to convert students into political activists. They are using taxpayer money to embed things like critical race theory into the curriculum which teaches that America is inherently racist.”
David Lindsay, founder of New Discourses, warns that Critical Race Theory has already insinuated itself into numerous American school systems. “If it takes hold, it will completely change the very nature of America and the way you live,” says Lindsay.
Schultz’s comments came after a group of mothers recently addressed the Loudoun County School Board in Virginia after learning the district made available to their children books full of pornographic content. The parents read excerpts describing scenarios ranging from violent domestic abuse to underage teens engaging in various sexual acts.
One mother read an excerpt that portrays a girl explicitly describing the genitalia of a “pretty basic” boy with whom she has sex. Another mother stood at the podium to read about sexual acts between a boy and a girl on a teacher’s desk in a classroom. These are just two of many pornographic examples.
After the parents addressed the school board, a man who said he is representing the group of mothers in a harassment lawsuit took the stand. “By a show of hands, does anyone up here want to talk about that stuff now?” he asked, referring to the pornographic content the parents referenced. “Not a single hand, because it’s very uncomfortable and we’re in a room full of adults.”
He went on to say the reason none of the board members wanted to talk about it was because “they’re not acceptable topics” to discuss, calling the books in question trash. “My kids don’t go to your schools,” he said, “but theirs do. … Thank you for not doing your jobs.”
Loudoun County has now become ground zero for national debates on these issues because parents are standing up and making noise.
Nicole Neily, president and founder of Parents Defending Education, said, “It’s really incumbent on people to know what your child is learning. If you are unhappy about it, do something about it. And doing something about it doesn’t have to be filing a federal lawsuit and being that person who is called a racist in your town for the rest of your life.”
“We have guides on how people can send letters to the editor, write an op-ed, create a parent organization, [and] file their own complaint with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights,” Neily notes. “All of these things are really ways we can start to hold our schools accountable. If we care about our children and our children’s education, everybody in our community, parents or not, has to start showing up again.”
Louisiana public school employee Jonathan Koeppel recently confronted his school board about controversial software known as BrainPop being used to teach children. The program promotes “left-wing ideas that aren’t backed up by facts of science,” like the idea that there are more than two genders. He called it “ridiculous” and asked, “Who gave permission to talk about this?”
California-based Pastor John MacArthur declared during a recent Sunday sermon, “That of all the things that disturb me in this culture, of all the horrific, sinful, wretched, wicked, corrupt influences that go on in this culture, I think the thing that distresses me most is the war on children. This culture is weaponized to destroy children.” MacArthur then condemned the public education system, where he argued children are “coming under the influence of those whose agenda is anti-God, anti-Christ, [and] anti-Scripture.”
Schools should be teaching our children to think, not hate. If we want to support and pass on to our children the kind of America we inherited from our parents and grandparents, we have to be aware of what our children are being exposed to in their classrooms and if we find things that we feel are wrong we must take a stand.
MacAuthur declared, “Parents have a duty to raise their children to oppose these cultural shifts, instead teaching them to live according to Scripture, adding God “judges when one generation fails its responsibility to pass on righteousness to the next.”