![Despicable Behavior of Today’s Academicians Despicable Behavior of Today’s Academicians](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/educationstock_2.jpg)
07.15.20
The Michigan State University administration pressured professor Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research and innovation because he touted research that found police are not more likely to shoot black Americans. The study found: "The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In other words, black officers were just as likely to shoot black citizens as white officers were." For political reasons, the authors of the study sought its retraction.
![Chicago Christian Activist Says “Get ’em Out!” Chicago Christian Activist Says “Get ’em Out!”](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fields-on-morning-answer_516x260.jpg)
By David E. Smith
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07.13.20
A recent broadcast on Chicago’s Morning Answer (AM 560 The Answer) featured Latasha Fields, well-known to IFI and IFA supporters as an ardent proponent of home education and parental rights. At the outset, Ms. Fields responds to Bryant Gumbel’s statement...
![Trump & Limbaugh Blast Public Schools for Destroying US Trump & Limbaugh Blast Public Schools for Destroying US](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/anemptyschool_516x260.jpg)
By Alex Newman
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07.11.20
The President of the United States and America's most popular talk-show host both blasted the public-school system for indoctrinating U.S. children with anti-American propaganda. The mayhem and destruction being seen in the streets right now, they explained, is a direct result of this subversive indoctrination masquerading as education.
![Three Recent SCOTUS Decisions Christians Should Know About Three Recent SCOTUS Decisions Christians Should Know About](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/scotus_516x260.jpg)
By Andrew Willis
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07.09.20
The Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) has once again entered the cultural frays. Here are three recent decisions that will have lasting consequences on people of faith.
![Need Help With Homeschooling? The 2020 ICHE Conference is Virtual and Free! Need Help With Homeschooling? The 2020 ICHE Conference is Virtual and Free!](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ICHE.png)
By Jonathan Lewis
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05.19.20
One of the unfortunate side effects of the coronavirus pandemic has been the cancellation of numerous conferences and other events. With the benefits of technology, many of those events have been able to take place online. The full experience may not be the same, but at least we don’t have to miss out completely!
![Are You a Reluctant Homeschooler? Are You a Reluctant Homeschooler?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Homeschooling.png)
By Jonathan Lewis
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05.13.20
If you were forced into homeschooling by the coronavirus lockdown, you’ve had a steep learning curve. But don’t be too quick to decide you’ll never homeschool voluntarily based on your experience of the past weeks.
![Coronavirus Opens Eyes to Homeschooling Coronavirus Opens Eyes to Homeschooling](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Schooling.png)
By Alex Newman
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05.06.20
Even before the coronavirus shutdown, the Smith parents were concerned about their young teenage son’s experience at the local public school. In fact, the child begged not to go back. From bullying and indoctrination that led to depression, to godlessness and false propaganda passed off as “education,” to handcuffed teachers who must obey the system amid the chaos, the family was already very worried.
![Amid Coronavirus, Movement for Public School Exit Grows Amid Coronavirus, Movement for Public School Exit Grows](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SchoolsClosed.png)
By Alex Newman
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04.23.20
With coronavirus keeping children home from public schools around the world, a growing coalition of Christians and conservatives is working to make sure that once the crisis is over, millions of children never go back. Instead, the coalition, known as Public School Exit (PSE), hopes to facilitate a massive exodus into the safe sanctuary of homeschooling and high-quality private schools.
![Harvard Law Professor Wants to Ban Homeschooling Harvard Law Professor Wants to Ban Homeschooling](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OutlawingHE.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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04.22.20
An article written by freelance writer Erin O’Donnell and published in Harvard Magazine has justifiably gone viral among the diverse homeschooling communities operating in the United States—for the moment the freest nation in the world. The article, titled “The ...
![Ideologically Grooming Kids Through Storytelling Ideologically Grooming Kids Through Storytelling](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Howard_A_Drag.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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04.07.20
Still don’t believe sexual anarchists are coming for the hearts and minds of the nation’s children? Well, check out this just-released book published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin books, and geared toward children 10 and older: Middle School’s a Drag, You Better Werk Harder!, a book the publishers describe as a “hilarious, heartfelt story,” “full of laughs, sass, and hijinks” that “shows that with a little effort and a lot of love, anything is possible.”
![Don’t Enroll Illinois Students Into The Gender Wars Don’t Enroll Illinois Students Into The Gender Wars](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Lawmakers-10.png)
By Oliver Perry
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03.23.20
The Illinois General Assembly is considering SB 2762, commonly called the “REACH Act.” It requires that public schools provide a “medically accurate” sex education, including “health-positive instruction on diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.”
![Female-Impersonating “Teacher” Uses Girls’ Restroom Female-Impersonating “Teacher” Uses Girls’ Restroom](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/VicaSteel3.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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03.18.20
Mark Vincent Busenbark, a middle-aged man with a cross-dressing alter ego he calls Vica Steel, has been creating intellectual and moral havoc in Frank Allis Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin for a year. Last school year, Busenbark, a science teacher,...
![How Modern Education Has Destroyed the Next Generation’s Soul How Modern Education Has Destroyed the Next Generation’s Soul](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Sexualization-of-Public-Education.png)
03.04.20
Hardly a day goes by that you don’t hear the question: How did we get in this mess?
Where did this lunacy come from, and how did it all happen so quickly?
Well, let’s play a game. Let’s play “imagine.”
![Chicago Public Schools Want to Replace Columbus Day Chicago Public Schools Want to Replace Columbus Day](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ColubusDay-1.png)
By Israel Wayne
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03.03.20
The Chicago Board of Education voted 5-2 on Wednesday, February 26, 2020, to stop celebrating Columbus Day and replace it with “Indigenous Peoples Day.” This latest example of political correctness comes on the heels of calls for paintings in Chicago...