Here is a quick background.
My children are in elementary school. When the district sent out a notice saying that instead of requesting a higher levy, they would accept $2.5 million in Federal funds, I wrote a letter to the Superintendent asking what strings came attached to those Federal funds. I was assured that there were none. About three months later, I got an email from the school district that talked about “the gender assigned at birth.” No strings? I don’t think so. They immediately started spewing unscientific and corrupt talking points, showing that they were beholden to the corruptocrats of the pseudo-Catholic and Apostate Joe Biden. So I pulled my two beautiful children out of that school and put them into a Catholic school. I wanted a refuge. I had faith that in a Catholic school, I would find virtue.
What I found was pretense.
To this point in their lives, my children have not attended the same school two years in a row. That is the nature of our lives. Part of that is moving with the Army’s whims. Part of that is what I described above. But we were in a place where we hoped that our children would be able to stabilize for at least a couple years through elementary school. At a cost of $500 per kid per month.
The school had all of the pretenses of being an upright school. It required our kids to wear a uniform. On Thursdays, my son had to wear a tie because they would go to Mass those days. In terms of the three R’s, it was a fairly decent school. Reading, wRiting, and aRithmatic. Decent.
My first clue that something was wrong was when my daughter was assigned to do a project on whoever she wanted to win the Super Bowl. I forbade her from answering that or doing a project on that. I told her that she would not fall into the trap of lionizing sports teams or athletes who serve nothing. I told her teacher that she would do her project on things that actually matter. So she did a project on Pat Tillman and Roy Benevidez and Clara Barton. For that, I was turned into the Principal’s Office. Though I didn’t know it yet.
Yet, the real crux of it all came at the end of the year. The school was trying to make things “fun,” so they had the kids dancing to popular songs. Fair? Depends on the songs. They had my kids dancing to “Timber.” In case you don’t know it, it has the lyrics of “I have them like Miley Cyrus, clothes off, twerking in their bras and thongs, head down booty up, Timber.” If that weren’t enough, it encourages date-rape: “She says she won’t, but I think she will. Timber.”
That was played for my second grader. When I sent an email to the principle in protest, she said that I could home-school if I did not approve of her program. She said that I needed to understand that she wouldn’t control her teachers, but needed to trust them. She didn’t care if one of her teachers violated that trust. The greater good was for her to trust her teachers. Now, any of you who have ever led anything know how much bologna that is. Yes, you trust. But when someone violates that trust, you hold them accountable.
So I took the issue to the priest who was charged with oversight. He kicked my kids out of the school. The school required that I sign a document legally indemnifying them from any public exposure to wrong-doing. I was required to sign a statement that I wouldn’t write this in order for my kids to continue there.
They were dead-set on secrecy, ensuring that their administrators were unaccountable for pushing evil to children. That is St. Ignatius Catholic School in Meridian, Idaho. Snakes. A brood of vipers. I use the Scriptural reference intentionally. They are all smiles to paying parents who do not know the evils that they allow. But they try to silence anyone who sees the evils, and then kick them out. And then still keep the tuition fees.
That is St. Ignatius Catholic School in Meridian, Idaho. They tolerate absolute evil in front of children, and then excise parents who dare to speak up. And their “priestly” spiritual overseer is inept. I truly believe that he has the moral compass to know what is right from wrong, but he lacks the spine to stand for it. That is how entire societies crumble.
And there it is.
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Sir, you are spot on with this article. I taught in Christian schools for 19 years (mostly high school). I have a slew of stories with a similar lack of moral backbone to do the right thing from those in charge.
In one school, a senior was failing my government class. She said she didn’t need it to graduate. I told her that she did, but she obviously knew something I didn’t. The principal came to me to demand I change her grade, which was so bad I couldn’t even subjectively fudge it. I told her I wouldn’t change it. Then she said they already did it for me. Why ask me, then? Apparently, they wanted somebody else to blame for their moral failure.
In another school, the son of the board president cheated on his final exam. By the handbook, he should get a zero, would fail the class and not graduate. The principal AND headmaster both visited my classroom on different occasions (they never visited my classroom before), saying “what should we do?” I said, “follow our handbook.” They didn’t. He got to keep his exam grade and graduated. As an aside, he was a “triple dipper”… a sports dude who played football, baseball and basketball.
In a third school, I was negotiating my contract for the next year. I had just finished my masters degree… the thesis (which was later peer reviewed and published) and the oral comp exam completed, and I was graduating with top honors. The masters would give me a boast in pay, and all that was missing was a piece of paper. The headmaster refused, saying “when you get your diploma, we’ll change the current contract and give you the raise.” September came, and with diploma in hand I went to his office. He flatly refused to give me the raise. At that point, I said “enough is enough.” I took my degree and transformed it into a job as an Army historian, leaving the school in November with barely a notice. I knew I would deal with garbage people with the Army as well, but at least I would get paid a lot better! Anyhow, the headmaster was so miffed at me, that he went to the yearbook staff and ensured that that year’s edition would not include a single photo of me… not even as one of the teachers on staff for nearly half the year.
In 19 years, I can think of only one instance in which I was backed by the administration in a serious conflict with a student and the parents.
It is very hard to get Christians to do the right thing, especially to keep their word when the pressure is on. However, I do not let the bad behavior of other believers turn me from my own faith and loyalty to my Lord and Savior. It is a key reason why my wife and I homeschool our children.
Indeed, if I had to put my children in a brick and mortar school, I would put them in a government school before putting them in a Christian school. I would daily instruct my children to keep their guard up, for they are in the lion’s den. In contrast, as you pointed out, if one sends their children to a Christian school, they think they are in a safe place… only to learn later, at great cost, that they are in a devil’s den.
Well said, sir. Thank you.