A New Kind of Private School
https://townhall.com/columnists/robjenki...school-n2590896
Rob Jenkins
| Jun 13, 2021


The pandemic lockdowns have created quite a conundrum for conservative parents. On the one hand, we’ve been on the front lines of the (maskless) school reopening movement. On the other hand, as schools do reopen, our children are encountering a level of sexual and political indoctrination never before seen.

Or maybe we just hadn’t noticed. Ironically, it was the closures themselves, championed by the left, that helped bring the abuses to light. Parents peeking in on their children’s Zoom lessons found themselves appalled at what was being taught: critical race theory, BLM-inspired anti-police rhetoric, “LGBTQ” propaganda.

The backlash has been swift and harsh, with parents across the country crowding into school board meetings to demand an end to this nonsense. Meanwhile, conservative pundits like Matt Walsh and Dennis Prager have been arguing that the public schools are irreparably broken and the best thing conservative parents can do is get their kids out as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, for many parents, that’s not as easy as it sounds. For one thing, in many parts of the country, the public schools are still pretty good. Families are invested in their local schools and loathe to just up and leave.

Even for those who agree it’s time to go, where exactly will they go? Home schooling is growing in popularity, especially since many parents (again, ironically) discovered during the closures that they could educate their children just fine on their own. But for other parents, especially in two-career families, home-schooling simply isn’t practical.

Then there are private schools, which present their own set of problems. First, they tend to be prohibitively expensive, far beyond the ability of most families to pay, especially if they have multiple school-age children. Besides that, many private schools these days seem beset with exactly the same problems facing their public counterparts. In many cases, they, too, have become “woke” indoctrination factories. So what do families gain for their money?

I would like to propose a possible solution: that communities, churches, and other charitable organizations band together to create a new kind of private school. I confess that this suggestion is not original. It was inspired by a recent article by Trevor Thomas atAmerican Thinker. I would, however, like to give the idea an even wider airing while also adding a few wrinkles of my own.

In this battle for the heart and soul of America, we conservatives are at a distinct disadvantage, with very few institutions on our side. -- excerpt, rest at link above --

@mimi2020 We need to discuss this one.