Our children are confronted throughout their school day with situations and ideology that is an affront to our Christian worldview. This article explains the long-term strategy of CRT proponents and education unions, and how to counteract it with solutions that break up the monopoly public schools currently enjoy.

It’s looking to be a miserable fall for school children, at least in the nation’s blue states.

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Sure, they’ll finally be back for in-person classes, but thanks to the heroic stupidity of our Centers for Disease Control and local health departments, millions of kids will be forced to wear masks — all day and every day — to protect themselves from coronavirus. That’s a disease we all knew children are at virtually zero risk from…That’s still the case, as a study from John Hopkins proved just last month…

[T]here’s another big danger in schools that we’ve heard all about by now: critical race theory. Technically, that’s a theory that our laws need to be re-examined because, since we’re all equal, any difference of outcome…means racism, regardless of any other context.

Once that examination is completed, we must design the laws to work for black people (and some hastily added allies) at the expense of everyone else…

Therein lies a problem, because they might actually get away with this. Not in real life, of course — they’re lying right to our faces — but in a court of law…Because, technically speaking, critical race theory is a legal framework…

Right now in elementary schools, they’re lining children up…teaching them that equality of opportunity is racist. The thing is, that’s not a legal philosophy, it’s just downstream of the legal philosophy.

The founders of critical race theory know this….But now, they’re aware of how incredibly toxic the CRT brand is, how noxious it is to parents of all races…throughout all of America.

They’ve been beset by a parental revolution spurred on by Zoom cameras in classrooms and children doing their ridiculous and racist homework assignments at the kitchen table. So now, its proponents backtracking and claiming that critical race theory is just a right-wing myth that isn’t really being taught.

That’s nonsense, of course…

The proponents of critical race theory know that its decidedly un-Christian values and virtues are being taught in schools. You don’t need to teach the legal framework to instill the central philosophy, and they understand this…

All of this is irrelevant…Is the problem with our schools really just masks and critical race theory? No…

Our schools — from preschool all the way to graduate programs — have gone seriously astray in a way that no single law can ever hope to fix…

The truth is, it doesn’t matter if your children are attending a Christian school, a non-denominational one, or a public school. All of them are attending a religious school…and our public schools are teaching an evil one.

It’s a religion that tells them that “male” and “female” are just chosen identities, like a costume…It’s a religion that tells them their country is wicked…That the country’s heritage can be broken down into a handful of discrete identity groups, and some races or religions are good and others are bad.

You can’t fix something like this by just banning critical race theory and calling it a day…

[Y]our children are still spending all day with a mentally ill person. And that’s our public schools right now. Every year this country spends $640 billion on public K-12 education, and a huge share of that money is going to people with evil ideas…

So what’s the solution? The answer is to think bigger.

Conservatives spent most of the 2010s promoting school choice…All this was done in the name of helping children escape failing schools…and, through the magic of competition, encourage all schools to be better.

While homeschooling is up, school choice isn’t quite the hip new fad it used to be. It’s time to revive it…and this time to shatter the power of the public education monsters…

Stop letting them win by default. Here’s what we should do: Defund the schools for real. Take the amount of money that every public school is spending, per pupil, and put it under the direct control of parents. Parents can use their slice of education dollars to pay for private school tuition. If instead they’d like to support a homeschooling co-op or buy tutoring, let them. Also allow them the choice to forgo that money and send their kids to the…public schools…

Public school teachers hate this possibility, and that’s one of the best arguments for doing it…

Try to think about education from first principles. Suppose we didn’t have a school system…and had to set one up. Would you…create a system where your children spent eight hours a day in the mostly unsupervised hands of ideologues who will preach against your country, your values, your religion, your race, and in many cases, you personally?…

Of course you wouldn’t. Yet that choice is the decision we make every single year when we choose to maintain the public school system as is. It’s time to make a new decision. It’s time to smash the system.

What do you think about this author’s propositions? Can you think of additional solutions? Share in the comments below. And share a prayer for our children and schools.

(Excerpt from The Federalist. Article by Christopher Bedford. Photo Credit: Element5 Digital/Unsplash).