Daily Verse | Isaiah 66:2
“This is the one I esteem:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit,
and trembles at my word.”
Another week, another Friday, my friends. I’d like to see a sitcom about police dogs called “Barney Fifi.”
As I think about what can be done to counteract the insanity of our culture, it seems obvious to me that parents who care about the welfare of their children should pull them from public schools. Public schools are now government indoctrination centers where, instead of teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, they teach that America is racist, whites are the source of all problems, you can be a girl even if you are a biological boy, it’s okay to have two mommies, and it’s not enough to have equal opportunity for all, but equal outcomes for all.
Basically, they’re training our children to hate our country, our freedoms and our Constitution.
As if to certify this nonsense, Oregon’s Democrat governor, Kate Brown, quietly signed Senate Bill 744 on July 14. The bill drops the requirement for high school students to be proficient in reading, writing and math before graduation.
Charles Boyle, the deputy communications director from Brown’s office, told the paper in an email that staff from the governor’s office informed legislative staffers about the bill’s signing on the day it was passed. He also said that the new standards for graduation will help benefit the state’s “Black, Latino, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”
Ignoring the insult to people of color (you aren’t smart enough to make it!), here’s what they’re doing: instead of maintaining high standards and giving children the same opportunity to excel — knowing that not everyone will excel or even achieve basic requirements — we lower the standard or eliminate it entirely so that the lowest performing students won’t feel excluded.
This is the same mentality that lowered the standards for military recruits so that women can pass the physical fitness tests.
This is the same mentality that gives all kids in sports participation trophies instead of just those who win the championship.
This is the same mentality that led banks to lower their lending standards, which led to the subprime mortgage loan crisis and eventually to the Great Recession in 2007-2009.
There’s probably more examples, but you get the idea. Instead of holding high standards because that’s where safety, innovation and progress reside, we dumb everything down because some Karen doesn’t like being “left behind.” As a result, we end up being a nation of withered intellects:
Ironically, despite the United States having the second-best education system globally, it consistently scores lower than many other countries in benchmarks such as math and science. According to the Business Insider report in 2018, its education ranking was 38th in math scores and 24th in science. The United States’ education rankings have been falling by international standards over the past three decades, as the government has decreased education funding by 3%. Still, other countries have increased their education funding.
The other thing that is happening as a result of our woke institutions is that people are taking education into their own hands.
The number of students being homeschooled has nearly doubled since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Home Education Research Institutes estimates about 5 million students were homeschooling in March 2021. In 2020, that number sat at 2.6 million.
“Interest has exploded,” said Christopher Chin, the president of Homeschool Louisiana, a faith-based support group for homeschooling families.
Chin said he’d expect this trend to continue even after the pandemic.
If the schools aren’t going to hold up standards in writing, reading and math, then pull your kids out. That way you can teach them what they need to know and keep the government’s grubby mitts off them, too.
“We don’t have to worry about the politics or circumstances of the virus,” Josh Miller said. “We can do what’s best for our kids’ education, and then you add in the curriculum that we’re not even in agreeance with and this is an obvious alternative.”
If you’re wondering what you can do to combat the cultural Marxism that has taken over school boards across the country and the idiocy they’re trying to ram down your children’s throats, seriously consider homeschooling or putting your kids in a private, Christian school.
The only warning I’ll offer is that homeschooling challenges the government’s power over your kids, so be prepared to see the junior commies try to regulate or outlaw homeschooling altogether. You won’t be allowed to contradict the official doctrine.
Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
— Proverbs 22:6
Have a good weekend.