Tag Archives: Teachers
What Did You Learn at School Today?
It seems like anything can become a political issue nowadays. Schools are no exception. IFI has frequently sounded the alarm about the indoctrination of students occurring in today's education system and, Lord willing, we'll continue to do so as long as it's happening.
Posted in Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged children, education, families, government school system, Illinois Policy Institute, Parents, Ronald Reagan, Teachers
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You Cannot Homeschool
A homeschool advocate acquainted with an IFI staff member recently answered over 150 Facebook messages about homeschooling. "It's just blowing up!" the advocate said. "Lots and lots of parents from central and southern IL wanting out." Homeschooling has been around for a few decades now, and it has made significant advances in quality and acceptability over the years, but it usually seems to have been relegated to the academic fringes.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged C.S. Lewis, education, families, Homeschool, kids, Parents, public school, sex education, Teachers
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Decoupling Schooling from the State
On July 27 [2023],, I went to a forum hosted by Americans for Prosperity, focused on fixing the deep problems in K-12 schooling. I had been asked to come and present my perspective by the organizer of the event, even though he knew I opposed one of the three proposals his organization was supporting.
Posted in Education, Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged Alex Newman, Americans for Prosperity, children, Christianity, education, Hitler, Homeschool, John Dewey, K-12, Parents, private schools, public schools, School Choice, schools, Teachers, VEOA
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Home Schooling Growth Draws New Attention, Concern From Establishment
According to a series in the Washington Post, parents choosing to teach their children reading, writing, and 'rithmetic at home rather than sending them to the school down the street is a phenomenon that is worthy of in-depth research and front-page coverage.
Posted in Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Media Watch
Tagged Albert Mohler, children, education, Homeschool, Parents, public school, Teachers
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It is Indoctrination, Not Education
Waterloo High School is in the news again. This time, it is about students from the high school Diversity Club raising money to purchase “chest binders” for transgender boys (who are biological girls) who are transitioning without the knowledge or support of their parents.
Posted in Education, Sexuality
Tagged ACORN, AmeriCorps, children, CNCS, Daily Caller, DailyWire, Digital Madness, Diversity Club, Dr. Kardaras, education, Gender, Glow Kids, indoctrination, It is Indoctrination, LGBTQ, not Education, Parents, Parents Defending Education, Partipilo, porn, public school, Teachers, Waterloo High School
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10,000 Hours of Education
In 2008, in his book Outliers, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell introduced a new concept into the American psyche. The “10,000-Hour-Rule” suggests that if you wish to truly excel in any field of endeavor, you need to dedicate 10,000 hours of focused and targeted practice, study and development.
Posted in Education, Faith
Tagged 000 Hours of Education, 10, children, education, government, Parents, Teachers
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Who is Responsible?
There are 1.85 million public school students in grades K to 12 in Illinois. Of those, 1.2 million of them, 65 percent, cannot read at grade level, and 1.4 million, 76 percent, do not have math skills at grade level. Did you know that?
Posted in Child Exploitation, CRT/Racism/BLM, Education, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Pornography, Sexuality
Tagged 1619 Project, AFT, BLM, CTU, education, Emily Drabinski, George Floyd, Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, LGBT, Marxism, NEA, PAC, publics schools, sexual abuse, Teachers, Who is Responsible?
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Decline of the Diversity Industry?
Most schools are actively indoctrinating our children with falsehoods about all kinds of things. These falsehoods range from sexuality to racism to economics to our nation’s founding, even to math and science and medicine and the environment.
Posted in CRT/Racism/BLM, Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality
Tagged American University, antiracist, Antiracist Research and Policy Center, BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Boston University, Center for Antiracist Research, children, Decline of the Diversity Industry?, DEI, education, George Floyd, George Zimmerman, Henry Rogers, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, Jack Dorsey, Kendi, LGBT, Martin Luther King, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Parents, racism, racist, Robin DeAngelo, sophist, Stamped from the Beginning, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Teachers, Trayvon Martin, Twitter, White Fragility
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“Education” in a Pro-Propaganda Culture
On July 10 at Walled Lake Western High School in Michigan, popular teacher Justin Kucera who taught AP World History and coached varsity baseball and basketball and who by all accounts never brought his politics into his teaching or coaching was fired for tweeting, “I’m done being silent. Donald Trump is our president.” Meanwhile...
Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged America, Christ, College, Dartmouth, Deerfield High School, Donald Trump, education, Elliot Hurtig, Harvard, homosexuality, Jeff Berger-White, Jesus Christ, John Ellis, John Stuart Mills, Justin Kucera, Leftists, Mark Levin, Nicole Estes, Paulette Loe, radical sexuality, schools, Scripture, Teachers, the Bible, Yale
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