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Public schools are being
transformed rapidly into
laboratories for ideologi-
cal experimentation and
indoctrination. If these
developments have not
come to your school, they
almost surely will soon.
This is not just the fault of the schools and educators.
Politicians demand that the schools fix society’s problems.
But no school can replace a broken or dysfunctional family;
no teacher can replace a missing father.
Many fine teachers and administrators serve in the public
schools, and many Christians serve among them. In some
parts of the country, the public schools still operate in some
sense as community schools under local control. And yet,
this is not the case for the vast majority of schools and
communities, and the handwriting is on the wall for the rest.
Is public school an option? For Christians who take the
Christian worldview seriously and who understand the
issues at stake, the answer is increasingly no. The number of
Christian parents coming to this conclusion increases each
year. We can understand the nostalgia that many Christians
hold about the public schools. I spent every minute of my
school life from the first grade to high school graduation in
a public school. And yet, I saw the ideological transforma-
tion of the schools before my own eyes. Long ago, the public
schools entered a Brave New World from which no retreat
now seems possible.
Reprinted from Answers magazine, October–December 2013, pp. 64–67.
Copyright © 2013 Answers magazine. Used with permission.
Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of The Southern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary, has been recognized by Time and Christianity
Today as a leader among American evangelicals. He hosts a
daily podcast entitled The Briefing and writes a popular blog at
albertmohler.com about moral, cultural, and theological issues.
In Their Own Words
Here are sample resolutions from the 2012–2013 convention
of the National Education Association. If your school has not yet
implemented these resolutions, it seems the NEA would like to
change that.
The NEA pushes educational programs that increase
acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, regardless of
the parents’ views.
“Plans, activities, and programs must . . . increase
respect, understanding, acceptance, and sensitivity
toward individuals and groups in a diverse society
composed of such groups as . . . gays, lesbians,
bisexuals, transgender persons . . . . Such plans,
activities and programs must . . . encourage all
members of the educational community to exam-
ine assumptions and prejudices, including, but not
limited to, racism, sexism, and homophobia.”
—B-14. Racism, Sexism, Sexual Orientation, and
Gender Identification Discrimination.
The NEA believes government schools should supply
family planning instruction and resources directly to
children.
“The National Education Association believes that
every child should have direct and confidential
access to comprehensive health, social, and
psychological programs and services. . . . The
Association also believes that schools should
provide . . . family-planning counseling and access
to birth control methods.”
—C-25. Comprehensive School Health, Social, and
Psychological Programs and Services.
The NEA opposes parental efforts to restrict obscene
and offensive books in school libraries and classrooms.
“The Association deplores prepublishing censorship,
book-burning crusades, and attempts to ban books
from school library media centers and school
curricula.”
—E-3. Selection and Challenges of Materials and
Teaching Techniques.
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