![Let’s Talk About “The Talk” Let’s Talk About “The Talk”](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Dad_Teen_1-516x260.png)
There’s a battle raging right now over sex education, and our kids are in the line of fire.“Your teacher told you what?” These are the first words of too many parents when they discover what their teens and pre-teens are learning in health class.
![How The ‘Revolution’ Is Eating Its Own How The ‘Revolution’ Is Eating Its Own](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/BloodONHands-516x260.png)
By Robert Knight
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10.13.17
At a forum at the College of William & Mary on Sept. 27, the ACLU got a sample of what conservatives have been experiencing on campuses for years.
As Claire Gastanaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia, began speaking...
![School Board Member’s Offensive Statement About American Flag School Board Member’s Offensive Statement About American Flag](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ToiletPaper-4-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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09.28.17
If Illinoisans want to know what’s wrong with public education, look no further than School District U-46, more specifically to the arrogant, self-righteous school board member Traci O’Neal Ellis who never misses an opportunity to insult conservative values through bigoted,...
![Only 36% of Americans Express Confidence in Government Schools Only 36% of Americans Express Confidence in Government Schools](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Failing-5-516x260.png)
A new Gallup survey shows that the majority of Americans are not confident in the public schooling system. Only thirty-six percent of Americans expressed a 'great deal' or 'quite a lot' of confidence in public schools. This is however, the largest number who are fairly confident in public schools since 2009.
![The Creepy Tale of a D.C. Law Firm, the APA, and IFI The Creepy Tale of a D.C. Law Firm, the APA, and IFI](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/APA_Lawsuit-3-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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09.15.17
IFI received a return-request letter via priority mail this week from Dunner Law, a law firm based in Washington D.C. that specializes in intellectual property law. The letter came from Adam Sikich, senior counsel with Dunner Law (and according to his bio, a “Star Wars aficionado”) on behalf of Dunner's “Client,” the American Psychological Association (APA). In this letter, Sikich kinda, sorta implied Dunner might slap IFI with a $150,000 lawsuit ...
![Most Americans Want Abstinence Taught in Sex-Ed Most Americans Want Abstinence Taught in Sex-Ed](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/SexEdBooks-2-516x260.png)
With the younger generation of Americans growing up in a day and age when they are exposed to much more sexually explicit materials and experiences than ever before, a recent study shows that most Americans believe sex education should include abstinence – not just safe sex, as former President Barack Obama’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention program instructs.
![Downers Grove Village Council Ousts Only Conservative Library Board Member in Service of Inclusion Downers Grove Village Council Ousts Only Conservative Library Board Member in Service of Inclusion](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/DG-Library-board-516x260.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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09.07.17
Can you hear the harmonious choir of diverse voices echoing from the Downers Grove Public Library Board of Trustees? You can’t? Oh, that’s right, Tuesday night in the service of diversity and inclusion, the Downers Grove Village Council expelled the one conservative member from the library board.
![Parents Putting Leftist Indoctrination in Detention Parents Putting Leftist Indoctrination in Detention](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/12310021_1673620939584211_4211034466778903752_o-copya-516x260.jpg)
By Monte Larrick
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09.01.17
It is the beginning of a new academic year and for many students who attend taxpayer funded schools in Illinois that means about 10 months of left-leaning indoctrination along with co-ed restrooms and locker rooms. A grassroots activist says schools do not have to be that way.
![West Chicago Library Votes to Retain Age Inappropriate Picture Book West Chicago Library Votes to Retain Age Inappropriate Picture Book](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/WCL1-516x260.png)
08.30.17
On August 28th, the West Chicago Public Library Board voted 6-1 to retain the homosexuality-celebrating picture book This Day in June. IFI thanks you for your support in emailing the library director Benjamin Weseloh to share your concerns about this book.
![Totalitarian Librarians Rage About Pitman Picture Book Controversy Totalitarian Librarians Rage About Pitman Picture Book Controversy](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Book-4-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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08.29.17
Never poke a sleeping bear or the ideology of “tolerant” librarians. IFI’s recent article by John Biver about a controversy brewing in West Chicago over a picture book for young children that positively portrays the homosexuality-celebrating “pride” parades that pollute city streets throughout the country every June has unleashed the fury of freedom-lovin’ librarians across the nation.
![Children’s Book ‘This Day in June’: Propaganda for Children Available at Your Local Library Children’s Book ‘This Day in June’: Propaganda for Children Available at Your Local Library](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ThisDayInJune-1-516x260.png)
By John Biver
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08.25.17
Picture this: You’re at the library with your three-and-a-half-year-old daughter whose attention is grabbed by a colorfully illustrated children’s book. She takes it off the shelf and asks you what the book is about.
You are happy to oblige until...
![Christians Must Exit Government Schools Christians Must Exit Government Schools](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/school-hallway-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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08.05.17
For years conservatives have asserted that homosexuals are pursuing children, and for years homo-activists have mocked that claim. Due to either their profound ignorance or their commitment to deception as a tactic for advancing their pernicious goal of normalizing homoeroticism, homo-activists misrepresented what conservatives were claiming.
![PragerU Video: School Choice Saved My Life PragerU Video: School Choice Saved My Life](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/schoolchoice1-e1335459163252.jpg)
07.19.17
Giving parents the ability to choose which schools their children attend can turn lives around. Just ask Denisha Merriweather, whose life was transformed thanks to the opportunity to attend private school through a voucher program.
![Trump Admin Pressures Schools to Reinforce Transgenderism Trump Admin Pressures Schools to Reinforce Transgenderism](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FedEducation-516x260.jpg)
The Trump administration's Department for Civil Rights at the Department of Education has issued a memo to schools stating that civil rights investigations will be launched against individuals at schools who refuse to address transgender students by their preferred gender pronouns.