Defund Public Schools

The largest teachers union, the National Education Association, has discovered in the current racial crisis another opportunity to propagandize students. They are calling it Black Lives Matter at School. Look for more curriculum development, more high-paid consultants, more meetings and continued insistence for more funding.

All of this dovetails nicely with many public schools' adoption of The New York Times' 1619 Project. This initiative undertaken by the far-left newspaper "challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation's foundational date." From this point forward, many American schools will be "reframing" our history around slavery.

When students return to school this fall — online or in person — they likely will get a steady diet of BLM and 1619 Project propaganda across the curriculum.

Church Militant recently reported on a poll that revealed voters are strongly opposed not necessarily to BLM, but to the organization's agenda. Americans also don't like the idea of boys being able to compete as girls in sports, they oppose minors being subjected to sex change drugs and surgery — all of these ideas are promoted by the nation's public schools and the teachers unions.

More and more black parents are realizing the public school system is not their friend. Writing for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Ben DeGrow describes the growing trend.

"The loudest and most outspoken response to left-leaning presidential candidates attacking charters ... have come from low-income members of the African-American community," he said. Those are black lives that don't matter to the education establishment.

These families know from firsthand experience the tragic truth that in communities where public education is most needed, it is least effective.

So there is a convergence of opposition to public education — dissatisfied black parents aligning and overlapping with faithful Americans who do not want the nation's children propagandized. And this convergence of dissatisfaction comes at a time when alternatives to public education are increasingly seen as viable and public schools are refusing to open.

Rise of Education Alternatives

Church Militant has reported extensively on the rise of homeschooling during the Wuhan virus pandemic. Parents who have from time to time considered homeschooling but found the idea too daunting, ironically, have been forced by the education establishment and the Wuhan virus into trying it; and to the surprise of many, both they and their children prefer it.

In North Carolina earlier this month, so many families were registering to homeschool in the fall that they crashed the state's system.

But don't make the mistake of believing families will be allowed to leave quietly. The education establishment is already preparing roadblocks.

Noted Harvard Law School professor and homeschool opponent Elizabeth Bartholet is recommending that homeschool students be required to attend public school for one or two classes.

Despite longstanding opposition, the tide may at last be turning for school choice. Access to school choice may in fact be the silver lining to all of the current chaos.

American families, rejoice! Your freedom is at hand. To quote the frequent chant of BLM founders, "You have nothing to lose but your chains."