Forked tongues. . .

Part of the growth of the educational system in America has been fueled by the desire among some to move the primary means to role model and influence values from the home to the school.  Though it is often framed as a matter of need, it is a need fueled by an unhealthy desire.  While flipping through stations on the radio, I heard an interview with an advocate of the takeover of preschool education lauding how this is a civil rights issue for minorities, an economic issue for those in poverty, and an equality issue for everyone from feminists to rural populations.  I am sure it is from one point of view.  There is no doubt that preschool helps bring disadvantaged and those with fewer educational choices to the table on a more equal basis with those who enjoy the benefits of stable/supportive family, good income, school choice, and suburbia.  But that is neither the sole nor the primary purpose in this endeavor.  For with the money, comes purse strings to tie that money to an agenda that is formed not by the local school board but by hidden experts in Washington, DC, who are the products of and whose thinking reflects the progressive and liberal agenda of the university.

The assaults on local control of curriculum are many.  You recognize them: CRT, GLBTQ+/Rainbow Pride, Intersectionality, Climate Change, Gender Identity, Common Core, and Social Emotional Learning, among them.  Add to that the fruits of the pandemic and its push to make the classroom also a counseling center in which the depression, fears, anxiety, and such are treated by teachers (untrained for this role and task).  All of this has been aided by the influence and funds of global benefactors the likes of the Gates Foundation that distributes the Microsoft largess to peddle a point of view.  Only a fool would suggest there were no bits and pieces of truth in this puzzle but the truth is in service to a worldview and a cause.  What the government gives with one hand, it takes away with another.  That is the cost to this.  It is not free money at all but money redistributed for the sake of a purpose -- social change.  

Those concerned about a short labor market are also on board -- free childcare makes more people available for the jobs that are now going begging.  Business, industry, educational elite, the thinkers and movers of a liberal and progressive worldview, and the desire on both sides of the governmental fence to live in a nanny state have all combined to push for this step in a series of long steps designed to fence in our liberty and surrender some of our freedoms for the sake of what is promised to be a greater good.  Through counselors, educators, physicians, bureaucrats, elected officials, and business we are being spoken to with a forked tongue and being fooled by the illusion of something in the best interests of a better world.  By the time we have tried the koolaid it will be too late to stop the speeding locomotive of this social change.  Let us admit that we have already lost a generation or two to this because it was planting the seeds of a new social order a long time ago.  

The movement to rewrite history and the shift away from the 3 Rs are but two aspects of the program of social engineering that will leave little room for God, for Scripture, and for the Gospel of redemption through the cross.  The serpent's whispers are filling many ears.  Everyone whose voice is raised against this will be labeled an insurgent and the words hate speech.  When you cannot win in an open debate of ideas, you are left only with forced compliance and obedience to promote your cause.  Even when we are not forced by law, we are constrained by mandate and by the flow of easy money.  If this is not what you want for you, your grandchildren, and your church, maybe you ought to pay more attention.  Our leaders who advocate for these are speaking with forked tongues, giving us what they tell us we need while taking from us what many died to preserve.