This month, we continue exploring the education theme, focusing on a critical question: Who bears the ultimate responsibility for educating our children? It's no secret that our education system faces relentless challenges. Last month's 22 Words film highlighted a key concern—that a socialist/globalist agenda seeks to dominate our society’s youth, pushing a secular, sexualized, and amoral framework. Proponents of this view claim it Takes a Village to raise a child, asserting that their professional expertise outweighs parental judgment in determining what’s best for kids.

In May 2016, "The Obama administration issued guidance to schools, saying they must allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.

The administration acknowledges this is "new terrain" for some people and says it wants to help school districts avoid running afoul of civil rights laws." May 16, 2016 NPR

Soon after that presidential edict was issued, Gordon Shupe, one of the Truth Fest organizers, attended a faculty meeting. In his over 40 years working in public education, it was the first time his principal instructed the teaching staff to withhold information about gender confusion from parents. Shupe had already noticed other changes: a social worker assigned to every school, a prominent LGBTQ section in the middle school library, and a growing pride movement among seventh and eighth graders, evidenced by an afterschool club and a large mural with that theme at the school’s entrance.

Over the past five years, conditions in Brevard have generally improved. However, this experience highlights a key lesson: we, as a community, must actively participate in our local school system. We need to emphasize the authority of parents over their children’s upbringing. God established families to guide and disciple children, and after decades of decline, we must work to restore their strength.

Thus our March theme: Affirming Parental Rights

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