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This Wednesday the Governor will touch upon the troubling performance of Oklahoma’s Attorney General (AG).
Two weeks ago, I featured Dr. Everett Piper’s observations which are equally critical. Find his article here.
Responding to Dr. Piper's comments, one of our readers texted me with a query regarding the substance of the AG’s reasons for filing a lawsuit against Saint Isadore’s Charter School. Dr. Piper pointed out that St. Isadore’s academic track record is light years above the schools that the Government operates, by the way.
The reader asked:
I haven't read everything yet Bob but what about the question Dr. Piper posed as far as if this passes then Satanist and Islamists, etc. could be allowed to do the same thing. This is something we wouldn't want.
MY RESPONSE
"First, whether you agree with your next-door neighbor or not, his children are his own family’s business and not your business and not the business of the political class. Society revolves around family sovereignty. The government simply has no business in family business. Education is family business.
Second, there is no such thing as public funds. The cash on hand in every department of government is private money allocated to specific and defined projects. They are fiduciary funds which belong to the people to be used for specified purposes. The education fund is for the purpose of covering the private educational expenses of families. It is not the private property of government to fund their private system of government schools. It is your money to be used to raise your children precisely how you want your children to be raised.
As a member of the political class, if I don’t like the Pentecostal church, I don’t get to tell you that you cannot access those fiduciary funds on hand for your children simply because I don’t like Pentecostals. I don’t have the right to tell you that you can’t use your education funds. These are funds you sent to the government to save for your children’s education, for a Pentecostal school. It simply is none of government’s business to dictate the religious values and practices of my family.
Third, until an ideology is outlawed, I cannot withhold your education dollars from you because I think your ideology is a cancer to the culture. That issue is solved only by the will of the people who endorse legislation to make those cancerous ideologies illegal in all sectors of society. At that point, these outlawed ideologies cannot publish books & materials, sell books & materials, produce movies, or establish schools that promote the illegal ideology etc.
However, until a religion or ideology is made illegal through legislation, society cannot tell a family embracing an unfavored but legal ideology that they cannot pass those personal convictions to their children.
Government education funds are my funds for my family’s offspring and that is true for the most favored class as well as the most unfavored class. If a class can be proven to be a threat to national security, then that class needs to be banned from promoting its cause not just in education, but in all other venues as well."
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It is troubling to see trajectory which Oklahoma’s AG seeks for Oklahoma. Much of the trajectory of the Oklahoma legislature is equally troubling.
As we near the end of the 2025 legislative session, I plan to spend the summer reflecting on the ways in which Oklahoma’s political class thinks about family, education, and politics.
With a few exceptions, the political class of the nation suffers from the way in which American’s raise the family. Family business in America has become inordinately a government affair. In 2022, 84% of American children attended the government’s school system. It is estimated that in 2025, that number has dropped to 75%, so things are looking much better!
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