Legislators See The Public School Problem–But will their efforts help?

Someone recently sent me an article from The New American magazine about legislative efforts to give parents the right to have some control over their kids’ education that have been passed in several states. Naturally, the mainstream media did not see fit to pass this along to people. The article was recently published at FreedomProject.com

The article noted: “Responding to out-of-control indoctrination and rampant sexualization of children in government schools, lawmakers across the nation are considering and even passing legislation enshrining a ‘Parent Bill of Rights’ into state law. Georgia and Kansas both passed such laws just this month. And most states this year had bills introduced dealing with the subject. But how much good these laws might do remains to be seen. Many advocates say these will give parents more control over what their children are exposed to. Forces anxious to promote homosexuality, transgenderism, promiscuity and sexual revolution, however, are up in arms. Teachers’ unions are also fighting tooth and nail.”

You can bet the farm the teachers’ unions ain’t fighting tooth and nail for parental rights, but rather for the ability to keep indoctrinating your kids in their leftist agenda. The article observed: “Bewildered parents, meanwhile, are frantically seeking to rein in the madness in ‘public’ education. Sending our children to public school is not a delegation of power to the district,…our kids are our own.”

But the article noted that: “Unfortunately, though, sending children to public school is a delegation of power to the government–and an enormous one at that. In fact, the government will spend more than four times as many hours as the average parent imparting its worldview into the hearts and minds of the parents’ children. While clearly well intentioned, these ‘parental bill of rights’ bills may do more harm than good. By giving parents false hope that they can hand their children over to a godless, out-of-control government and still maintain their ‘rights,’ these bills will help government schools maintain their stranglehold over families for even longer. Only an exodus can truly keep them safe.”

I have totally agreed with this–particularly the closing statement. A government school system that has as its goal the indoctrination of your children into their left-wing theology is not about to be reformed or restrained. All it will do is to look for ways to get around any restrictions put on it. The material being farmed into government schools nowadays is worse than it ever was. Some of the stuff I have seen only recently from government schoolbooks was so bad I would get this blog shut down if I reproduced it–but it’s just fine for your kids’ schoolbooks. What does that say about the textbook publishers? It says to me that they are part and parcel of this leftist agenda that is being pushed on the kids.

Truly, a mass exodus from the government school system is the only solution. Get your kids out of it before it does them irreparable damage. Those Christians who think an hour of Sunday School on the Lord’s Day will combat all this government school indoctrination are in for a rude awakening.