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1. NATIONAL REVIEW: Anti-CRT Parents
Sweep Connecticut School Board Primary, Besting GOP Incumbents
"Five parents bent on keeping critical race theory (CRT) out of the
Guilford, Conn. school district swept the Republican school board
primary Tuesday night, advancing to the general election in
November.
Fending off a challenge from three old-guard
Republican incumbents — who the anti-CRT parents accuse of
rubber-stamping the racialized curriculum favored by the board’s
progressives and the district superintendent — the cabal of five
dominated the competition Tuesday, walking away with bids for the
November ballot."
"Nearly half of all registered Republicans in
Guilford voted in Tuesday’s election, according to
Scarpellino.
'The defeat was crushing and sent a very loud
message that our town will not be dominated by the woke cancel culture
and our kids will be shielded from any and all political
indoctrination.' Scarpellino told National Review."
2. BARI WEISS: American
Homeschooling Goes Boom
"She’s hardly alone. Wrobel is one of
hundreds of thousands of moms and dads across the nation who have
decided to become the principals of their very own, very small
elementary schools.
The number of kids going to school at home
nationwide has doubled over the past two years. In 2019, there were
about 2.5 million students learning at home. Today there are nearly 5
million. That means more than 11 percent of American households are
educating their children outside of traditional schools."
3. CAROLINA JOURNAL: Cooper’s
all in on critical race theory
"Even in North Carolina, the rejection of fundamental American
principles thunders ahead. The proof? Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed an
anti-critical race theory bill on Sept. 10. If one reads the text,
it’s hard to imagine political leaders opposing these principles a few
years ago. Simply put, the bill works to reinforce the American tenets
of equality and our E Pluribus Unum motto.
A common refrain,
lawmakers, and advocates for the bill are right to wonder whether
Cooper has even read what he opposed. What’s controversial about
saying one race or sex is not inherently greater than
another?
Certainly, he has read it. Even in a state that Donald
Trump won twice; Cooper continues to fully morph into one of the most
reliable mouthpieces for the national Democratic Party. One can no
longer conjure up a single-issue Cooper disagrees with his party
today.
The Republican-led bill didn’t ban the teaching of
critical race theory outright. That’s an important point. The sole aim
of the bill champions greater transparency in the classroom while
elevating the core principles of a color-blind society."
For
more news related to this story, check out Senator Berger's response
here.
4. THALES COLLEGE: Education
with a Vision: A Curriculum Worth Following
"Here’s how the system works and how Thales College, a new college
in Raleigh, North Carolina, makes it work better for students. Thales
College combines liberal arts and professional undergraduate curricula
so that students develop the intellectual ability, meaningful
knowledge, moral character, and professional excellence needed to
thrive in life and work. The college’s organized course of study
stands in sharp contrast to the mix of courses most colleges offer
today."
5. FOX NEWS: Ohio mayor
warns school board during meeting: Resign or face charges for 'child
pornography'
"A mayor in Ohio told all five local school board
members to resign during a board meeting or face charges over class
material for high schoolers he deemed 'child pornography.'
'It
has come to my attention that your educators are distributing
essentially what is child pornography in the classroom,' Hudson Mayor
Craig Shubert told the Hudson Board of Education during a meeting on
Monday.
'I've spoken to a judge this evening. She's already
confirmed that. So I'm going to give you a simple choice: You either
choose to resign from this board of education or you will be charged,'
Shubert added, which was met with cheers from the audience."
WEEKLY PRAYER: LIBERTY
LORD, you have blessed us with a spiritual liberty that is so
wonderful and beyond description, that it can only be understood
through experiencing a life-giving relationship with Christ. However,
we also recognize that in your grace, you have blessed our country
with a political liberty that enables us to openly proclaim the
experience of a life lived in the freedom of the Gospel.
LORD, as individuals and as a nation, may we never take the
inalienable right of religious freedom for granted. Right now our
country has faced a rapid increase in the number of attacks made
against this cherished right. We have seen groups across our public
arena increase in boldness and frequency their smears against
religious liberty. They claim it is bigotry, when we know it is the
security of the greatest of all possible loves.
Be with your people and our country as it continues to protect
the constitutional right protected by our nation's Founders. Be with
legislators and the Supreme Court, as they determine through their
actions the protection of this particular and fundamental
freedom.
“It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore
keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery."
(Galatians 5:1)
"For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not
turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love
serve one another." (Galatians 5:13)
"Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for
evil, but use it as bondslaves of God." (1 Peter 2:16)
Amen
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