Is Your Grade Schooler in Antifa?

In this episode of Wake Up, Look Up, Pastor Zach unpacks a recent story involving students being taken to political rallies and what it reveals about worldview, education, and cultural influence. He challenges the idea of neutrality in the classroom and encourages parents to stay engaged in how their children are being shaped. Pastor Zach reminds listeners that the responsibility of spiritual and moral formation begins at home.

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Hello, everyone, and thanks for listening to Wake Up, Look Up, a podcast where we connect events happening in real time to the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm Zach Weihrauch, and today we're asking the question, is your grade schooler in antifa? This is prompted by an article I read in the Washington Post, actually an opinion piece about something that happened in Chicago recently. you're not gonna believe this. recently, Chicago Public Schools funded and organized Trips sending about 2,000 students to May Day political rallies, including protests tied to the opposition to President Trump. In other words, kids were taken on a field trip to participate in political rallies of a particular political persuasion. I'll let you guess which persuasion that was. The events were framed as a day of, quote, unquote, civic action, linking kind of the 1886 Haymarket Affair, you can Google that. To modern progressive political causes, saying, it's good for students to get involved in politics, but not just in any kind of politics. It's good for. For students to participate in liberal, progressive politics. The opinion piece was written by an educator who makes the point, and I think rightly so, that this crosses the line, out of education into political advocacy, teaching students that the right way, quote, unquote, is to promote or get behind a particular political persuasion. In other words, schools aren't educating, they're indoctrinating. And he warned that. That this will erode parental trust and create a double standard. Because, what will happen is other schools will go in the opposite direction and show up for conservative causes, and then students will be indoctrinated one way or the other. He's probably right, but that's not really the point I want to make here. I just want to make the point that isn't it interesting that the very same people who routinely show up and scream at Christians for trying to bring biblical morality into the classroom, things like putting up the Ten Commandments or teaching the very historical fact that the Bible helped shape Western civilization, like they've done in Oklahoma or Texas. liberals will scream foul at that. You can't do that. That's not the role of the school. Separation of church and state. And yet they do that very thing when they load up 2000 students and take them to a rally with opposing conservative politics. the point is, and I've said this for a long time, religion is just another word for worldview, a perspective, a lens through which you see the world. Atheism, for example, is every bit the religion that Christianity is. It tells you what's right. It tells you what's wrong. It tells you what's good, what's bad, how society should. Should function. Everyone has a worldview. And what we're being told repeatedly is the Christian worldview has no place in the classroom. The classroom should be worldview neutral. Okay, I'm, here for that argument, but that means. Then you can't do this. I've said this before, but to me, it always feels like what the secular world is saying is that all worldviews are welcome in the classroom. And except for the biblical world, except for the Christian world, that's the one that we must separate from. And really, the point to be made here is that if your child, if you have a child whose school age, any school, private school, public school, charter school, any school other than maybe homeschool, because I guess you could be on top of that, you need to pay attention to what's going on. Your child's education is your responsibility. Awareness of what they're being taught is your responsibility. Deuteronomy 6. 7. God says to his people, you shall teach these things diligently to your children. When you sit in your house, when you walk, by the way. The moral instruction of children is the responsibility of parents. And that means maybe choosing a school that will do it well, but at the minimum, it means paying attention to the way your school is doing that, the way your child's education is being shaped. Because neutrality is a myth. It is a lie. It is a phrase that the secular world uses against Christianity, but they don't mean it. One minute they're telling you you can't put the Ten Commandments up. The next minute they're telling you, get on the bus, grab your sign, we're going to protest. Pay attention, parents. You never know who's in the ear of your child. You never know what they're being taught or how they're being formed. And it is your job and your job alone. Hey, thanks for watching this episode of Wake Up, Look Up. If you enjoyed it, please help us get the word out by sharing it with someone you think might benefit from it. And while you're here, make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to get further content or even download the CCC app, where you'll find even more resources to help you grow in your faith and relationship with Jesus Christ.

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