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Upright Christian Parenting - Treehouse Storytelle... - The Building Is Burning: Rescue Kids from School Indoctrination · Christian Mix 106 On Demand

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Hey friends, welcome to season five of Upright Christian Parenting Podcast,
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part of the Treehouse Storyteller family.
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I'm your host, Hannah Pru, author, homeschool mama, and fellow parent.
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This is your place for upright parenting in a sideways culture.
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We'll face the issues around us, grow in God's word, and raise our kids with courage.
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Our children are being discipled by something, so let's make sure it's us.
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Hey everyone welcome back to upright christian parenting today i have a special
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guest with me sherry few is the founder and president of united states parents
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involved in education and we'll dig through that and talk about that more with her
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she's a nationally recognized leader on education policy,
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and you know she has written extensively about critical race theory she's even
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been an executive producer for the documentary and film,
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titled Truth and Lies in American Education.
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Oh my goodness. Welcome to the Treehouse, Sherry.
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Thank you for having me, Hannah. Oh my goodness. Well, can you maybe just give
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us like a brief background of who you are and how you got into all of these
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initiatives that you are a part of and why this is important to you?
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Okay, sure. So it started for me when my children were enrolled in government schools.
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I had three boys in government schools, and I was a stay-at-home mom and real
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involved with their schools.
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You know, and I'm dating myself, but my children are close to 40 years old now.
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So we're talking quite a while ago.
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I noticed in their curriculum that there were things that just simply weren't
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true. And I was very concerned.
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And, you know, and this was even way back then that there were signs of it. And then there was...
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Insidious sex education that was being promoted in our state.
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And I got involved with fighting that.
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And we were actually successful in thwarting the really insidious stuff and
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improving the standards that were adopted for sex education in South Carolina, where I live.
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And so from there, I started an organization called South Carolina Parents Involved in Education.
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And we led the fight in our state against the common core standards.
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I don't know if you remember that.
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And, you know, people like myself all over the country were doing the same thing.
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And, you know, after a couple of years of working really hard to lobby for legislation,
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to repeal the common core standards, we were very disappointed that they simply
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rebranded them, put them back out there.
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It happened all over the country. So I spoke with leaders like myself around
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the country, again, who had led the fight like I did against Common Core.
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And we decided to work together. And that's when we expanded into United States
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Parents Involved in Education.
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And we adopted as our mission to close the U.S. Department of Education and
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end all federal education mandates.
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And the reason we chose that as our mission is we understood that the majority
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of the nefarious pedagogies originate.
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With the federal government and are incentivized with federal dollars.
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So that is our mission here at USPi. We've been a national organization since 2014.
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And, you know, it's kind of interesting that that we adopted that mission back
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then. And of course, the president has recently written executive orders and
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taken steps toward closing the Department of Ed.
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But of course, it's not up to him. It's a congressional act that would be required.
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So we still stand by that mission. But what's also interesting is that about
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the time that we produced our film, you know, COVID had hit.
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And all of a sudden, all of these other really nefarious pedagogies,
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I mean, we thought Common Core was bad. But what's happening today is really
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bad. And I'm sure we're going to get into some of that.
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Um, so we, we, you know, now are really focused, you know, we,
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that we still have the same mission and beyond,
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closing the federal department of education and removing the federal government
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from education, we want to restore parental and local control of education.
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Um, but we'll talk, you know, more about our organization. That's sort of my
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background for you. Yeah. Yeah.
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Um, does Jefferson County, Colorado mean anything to you?
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Well, it should, but why don't you clue me in? I know some stories from Colorado.
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We have a lot of them. Yeah. We have a lot of them. So I'm in Jefferson County,
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Colorado, and the lawsuit where the little girl went to camp and ended up in
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bed with someone with the opposite sex.
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Wow. That is our county. We have, I mean, countless, Countless Columbine is in our county.
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We have so many issues. We're in a federal case right now.
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And I think it's over like a bathroom issue. I'm trying to remember exactly
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what that one is. I mean, there's so many, it's really hard to keep track because
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every full weeks it's like, oh, here's another one.
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But yes, I mean, the thing that.
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You know, we started out where, talked about common core and it was like the curriculum,
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or at least ideas of the curriculum like that was what we were fighting for
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that was what we were mad or up in arms over,
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and there's so much more distracting from just what should just be education uh now is just like,
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there's just so much more that we're having to battle and focus on and it's
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like man isn't that just how the enemy works when there's just so many distractions that keep us from,
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keeping us from what is actually the goal of the school is the education piece
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and and how that just gets so,
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so skewed so anyways I want to dig into this you have a a big story that happened
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in Penfield New York could you explain to us a little bit of what happened.
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Sure. So there was a storybook in,
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kindergarten through fifth grade, so in an elementary school,
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and it had illustrations that parents believed were wildly inappropriate.
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Parents were outraged. They went to their school board. They had a standing
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room only presence at the school board meeting, and they were outraged by the
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content of this elementary school book.
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And the school board's reaction is just astounding.
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So rather than, you know, quietly, which is what a school board normally does
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when you speak to them, you just speak and they don't even, you know,
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have a conversation with you. They just listen to you and then move on with their agenda.
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But rather than even just politely listening, the entire school board got up
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and walked out just walked out.
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And the school board president has defended the book saying that,
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you know, all families should have, you know, all different kinds of families
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should have resources in the library.
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Some of the content of the book was cartoon drawings of naked people,
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gay men in bondage, people wearing leather harnesses, and a nude man whose genitals
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were scared by balloons.
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So that's just some of the examples, the graphic things, if you can imagine.
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So it's a storybook with pictures.
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And kindergarten, can you imagine? Kindergarten through fifth grade,
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parents were rightly outraged.
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Um, but you know, I'm sure. And, and the reason we published this story this
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week is because next week is what they call banned books week.
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So that's where the American library association and the left,
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um, you know, the unions, they all come together and try to expose the fact that
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conservatives and Christians, um, decent people.
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I mean, you don't even have to be a conservative or Christian to realize that
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this is pornography and it is child abuse.
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I mean, if you or I were to be out in public and take a child and show them
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the pictures in this book, it would be a crime.
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It violates obscenity laws. But schools and libraries are exempt in most states
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from obscenity laws so they can get away with this.
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So during Ban Book Week, the liberals are going to, you know,
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they'll probably use this New York story as an example of, you know,
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parents wanting to ban books.
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Well, you know, it's not that parents want to ban books.
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They just want pornography out of the schools and out of the libraries.
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So the whole idea that we're banning books is just ridiculous.
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You know, book banning happened in communist countries as a way to control the
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people so that they were only fed propaganda that was positive about their government.
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They kept people from having information about other religions.
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So it's just ridiculous to any way compare a parent wanting to protect their
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child from pornography to the communist error of controlling people by limiting
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the information they received.
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Wow. Wow. That's incredible. I was reading about that book more this week and
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it was just, oh my goodness.
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I've got teenagers and a seven-year-old and kind of discussing and I like kind
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of talking through and processing some of the interviews and kind of getting
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my bigger kids perspective on the topic.
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We're talking about the First Amendment and banning books and all of these different concepts.
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And it was a really fun conversation. But I'm like, I can't tell you what is
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actually in this book out loud. I don't want to say these things to you and
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tell you what is actually in this book. That's how bad it is.
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So why in the world would we want this in our elementary library?
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It is crazy. But I got to thinking, I'm like, man, flip it around.
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And let's say now this is Christian content. Let's say this is some of the books
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that I've written, for instance.
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I can't get them in the libraries. I literally, in Jefferson County,
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cannot. They will not accept it as a donation.
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They don't want my Bible perspective on love and marriage and the idea of the
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rainbow being God's covenant. They don't want it. They will not touch it.
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They will not let me in the library. No, no, ma'am. Sorry, we cannot accept this.
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And so it's so crazy this whole like flip the script on the whole banning idea
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and you know you say it's just like everything else.
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Let's dig on that note. Let's dig into the critical race theory for a second because,
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you know in the name of diversity and inclusion but the second that that comes
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against their agenda all of a sudden that is a completely closed door right?
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Right, right. Yeah, what a contradiction. It's...
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You know, first you talked about how you can't read the content of this book
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to your children because it's that bad.
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And that reminded me of all of the videos we've seen on social media where parents,
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you know, over the last several years, I've seen several videos where parents
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are speaking out at school board meetings.
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And to make their point, they were reading from these very graphic pornographic books.
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And so they're reading it and then their mics get cut,
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and they won't let them read anymore because the the content is so offensive
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these adults on the school board can't listen to it and yet um it's okay for
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kids right so so that's the irony in it,
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and so so yes they they do always flip,
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the narrative on us and you know they they want inclusion as you said they you
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know but but when it comes to Christianity.
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They don't want any of that in the schools.
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And it's only the Christian religion because other religions are explained in detail and glorified.
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Islam, for example. And so what's happening in government schools is propaganda.
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So that's kind of ironic too, that they're accusing us of banning books when
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the real book bans were about propaganda.
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Books, you know, books about capitalism and the West were prohibited and they
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were fed propaganda about what's so good about their form of government.
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Well, the same is true now with the government schools. Their propaganda that
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they're feeding the minds of young children is anti-American.
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So they're teaching them to hate their country.
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It is anti-Christian.
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And then, of course, it's pro all of these liberal agendas, the LGBTQ agenda,
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which, of course, the T, you know, we didn't pay much attention to the T 10 years ago.
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We knew the acronym, but but we always thought the T, the transgender,
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was just kind of a quirky thing, you know, where some men like to dress up like women.
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You know, we we knew about RuPaul and, you know, we just kind of shirked that off.
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And now all of a sudden, we have an epidemic in this country of young people,
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who think they're not who they're born.
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And that is a direct result of what they're teaching in government schools.
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They are putting these thoughts in the minds of children, just like the book we just discussed.
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You know, the book is a story about a young girl who is going to a pride parade
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with her two lesbian moms.
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Okay, so we've got very young children soaking up all the information they can
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get, and you're putting this in their heads so that,
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they think it's normal, they think it could be them, because children try to
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relate to the characters in a book. Right, right. And so...
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They're putting this mental dysphoria in the minds of children,
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and then they go so far as to work on transitioning.
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And I say that in quotes because you can't transition, you know.
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Medically, biologically.
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You can't go from a boy to a girl. It doesn't happen.
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But that's the term that they use for what they do to children.
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And often the government schools are doing it behind the backs of their parents.
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I cannot tell you how many stories I've covered of parents who find out years later.
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There's a story in Rhode Island where a mother found that her young teenage
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daughters, you know, she was in her early teens, had been transitioning for two years.
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And she didn't know about it until her daughter tried to commit suicide right in front of her.
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And that's how she learned that this had been happening behind her back.
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So this stuff is crazy. I mean, it's gotten, you know, you talked about Common
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Core and then COVID and what I believe happened during COVID, you know.
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I, I've always said that, and a lot of people say this, that during COVID,
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you know, people, parents were made aware because kids were home with their
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Chromebooks and they could see what they're learning. And, and I'm sure that's still part of it.
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But I think another part of it was this agenda that the left has had,
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and they're so good about patiently,
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going through their stages, but they witnessed what they were able to do to
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the American people as far as controlling us with masks and,
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and everybody had to stay home.
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They closed the churches, they closed businesses and they saw how they could control us.
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And it's like they opened the floodgates with all of this other nonsense that
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I think they've been doing it covertly for some time, but they all of a sudden
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just became bold and just put it out there.
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And it's, it's, it's so bad that it's in your face now, and they're not even ashamed of it.
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They support and think they're right. They think what they're doing is right. Yeah, yeah.
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From our very first days, America has been driven by the idea that hard work
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could lead us to the life we always envisioned.
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And today, on.
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Eyes to the opportunities that were out there for me. Our model of providing
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a Christian liberal arts education to those facing economic hardship hasn't wavered since 1906.
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Our students graduate debt-free through our work education program.
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They learn how to live a life guided by their faith.
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And as they begin their careers, they've learned how to take their seat at the
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table of influence and open the door of opportunity for others.
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Being an assistant principal is a lot of.
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Yeah, the evil will be called good and good will be called evil.
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Let's talk about some solutions. I try really hard to equip parents as best as I can.
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And I think you are probably one of the best people to talk to on this issue
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about solutions. So what all are you guys doing to push back and what can we do as parents?
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Okay, so our hands are tied somewhat as parents. So the best advice I can give
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to parents, and I'm sure you agree with this, is if your children are enrolled
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in government schools, you really need to get them out.
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I agree 100%. Yeah, you have to do whatever it takes.
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And I know your audience is probably Christian audience. And so you have to
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think about the fact that you might have to make some sacrifices in order to do it.
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But sacrifice isn't always bad. I mean, after all, the biggest sacrifice ever
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made was Jesus dying for us.
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And that turned into good. So sacrifice often turns into good.
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You sacrifice now for something good later.
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And so sacrifice may be involved, but you can also trust that God is going to provide for your needs.
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If you put this in God's hands, he will absolutely provide for your needs.
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He will honor your decisions.
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Because you are charged as a Christian to direct the upbringing of your child,
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to disciple your child. And education is nothing more than discipleship.
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And parents are charged with that responsibility. So we encourage Christian
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parents to take on their biblical responsibility and protect their children from the evil.
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And you described it as evil. It is clearly evil.
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We have to recognize that it is a spiritual battle that we are fighting it is
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a battle for the minds of our children we know that our enemy.
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Satan preys on our minds it is in our minds i i love joyce meyer's book the
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battlefield of mine i think it's one of the best books ever written and,
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you know she makes the point uh that that's where the devil plays is in our minds so um,
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that's what's happening to children it is a spiritual battle for parents uh
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you need to get your kids out that's your first line of defense but then i don't
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know if you know alex newman but every time i say this i have to give him credit because,
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it's his quote he says that you have to get your children out like the building
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is on fire yeah because it is,
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Yes, yes. And once you do, you have to go back and get the other children out.
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You don't leave them there to burn in the building.
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So we can't just protect our own children and forget about all the other children.
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And so that's why our organization, and there's others like ours. Thank you, Jesus.
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You know, Alex's Liberty Sentinel. There's a wonderful website that your viewers
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can go to. It's publicschoolexit.com.
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And it's a coalition of groups around the country who are providing alternatives.
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They're providing solutions for parents who want to get their kids out.
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There are a lot of emerging alternative models. I mean, home education really is the best.
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It's a very rewarding experience, as you well know.
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It's really the best mode. But there are other modes, other alternatives,
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like I said, new models that are emerging.
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You know, there's the one-room schoolhouse model that, you know,
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parents come together and they hire a teacher. They pool their resources,
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hire a teacher, and they teach, the teacher teaches several families.
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Of course, there's the homeschool co-ops where home education parents come together
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and share the responsibility of educating their children.
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And, you know, it gives them the social interaction that, you know,
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home education is always criticized about unsocialized children,
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which is just so ridiculous.
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But I think everybody understands that now. Wow. So, so, you know,
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there's still some that don't.
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Oh, yeah. They don't. They still say that, don't they? Yeah.
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So outside of that, as far as saving the other children, we would encourage
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parents and even taxpayers, think about it.
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People that love their freedom, because what's happening in government schools
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is an intentional agenda.
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We believe it is an agenda to change our form of government through the inside.
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And Mao did it. Hitler did it.
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They knew that if they captured the minds of children with their propaganda,
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that they could overthrow the current form of government.
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And they were successful in doing that. And so that's the agenda in our country.
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People need to understand that.
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If you love your freedom, whether you've got kids or grandkids in government
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schools or not, you need to understand that if you want to remain free,
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and that includes freedom of religion, you should get involved in this fight.
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We have got to stop the indoctrination of children in government schools or our freedom is at risk.
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So if people want to get involved, which I hope they will, I hope they'll understand
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the urgency of what's going on, They can go to our website, uspie.org. That's uspie.org.
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And there are a lot of good resources there. They can sign up to join the movement, we call it.
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When they do, we will send a couple of emails a week.
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I have a weekly podcast where I interview some amazing guests,
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experts on these topics.
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They can also get involved with a chapter in their state. We have about 15 chapters right now.
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We would definitely like to set up some more chapters.
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So if we don't currently have a chapter in their state, we can help them to set up a chapter.
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And this is what has to happen. And it needs to happen everywhere.
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It needs to happen in your community, in Colorado, in every community.
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We need to have people that are standing up to protect children and protect our country's freedom.
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Oh, that's so good. So, okay, so what would you tell, because I talk to parents
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all the time, I mean, that's what I do.
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Um, it's obviously what you do as well. Um, what do you tell the parent that's
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like, well, but my school's fine. Like it's small. It's not a big deal.
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Like it's not happening here.
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Right. I get that a lot. Um, everybody thinks that way. I think in,
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in the very, uh, left leaning States, you know, it's, it's probably pretty blatant and obvious.
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Um, but yeah, like in the state where I live in South Carolina,
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uh, in my own community, they don't think it's happening here either.
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And so, you know, about eight or 10 years ago, I researched 14 school districts
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in South Carolina and found critical race theory in every single school district.
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It's in the school district where I live. I went to an open forum with our school
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district superintendent, and he actually came to this event to assure people
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we didn't have critical race theory.
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And so during the Q&A period, he had mentioned that while they didn't have critical
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race theory, they had trained their teachers in culturally relevant pedagogy.
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Well, because I'd done research, I understood that that is critical race theory.
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So during Q&A, I confronted him and I said, with all due respect,
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that is critical race theory.
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He denied it, of course. And I said, well, then I'd love to see the training materials.
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And he said, just email me and I'll send it to you.
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So I emailed him and I got a response that said, you'll need to FOIA that information.
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So I like to tell parents, anytime you hear you'll have to FOIA it,
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they have something to hide.
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So I did FOIA the information, and some of it they refused to give me.
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I ended up suing them, which was a waste of money. But I was just adamant that, you know,
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they said that the slides that the professor from a local college,
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which I knew was the one, you know, teaching the critical race theory,
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she was training our teachers in it.
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Her slides, they wouldn't give me, they said they were proprietary,
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that because she owned them, they couldn't release them.
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And so I knew that was a violation of the law.
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But unfortunately, I learned from my lawyer that most judges rule with the government.
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So, you know, it was an uphill battle.
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But that's just an example for parents who think it's not in their schools.
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I live in a very red state and it's everywhere in our state.
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And it has been fairly covert, but we are starting to see more and more.
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Exposition of what's happening. Yeah. Yeah.
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Oh my goodness. Wow. That's amazing. All right. So what is our call to action here?
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Well, again, you know, parents have to get their kids out.
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You need to get involved. Educate yourself. I mean, your podcast,
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my podcast, then they, and by the way, they can find my podcast on our website
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as well. Again, that's USPIE.org.
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And so, you know, educate yourself so that you can have conversations with people
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in your community because you don't need to get involved by yourself.
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You need to organize a group of parents that will work together.
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And so, yeah, there are great resources out there. Again, Alex Newman's Liberty Sentinel.
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Alex has written a couple of fantastic books on this subject.
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He is also involved with Public School Exit, and they did a documentary.
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We have our documentary, Truth and Lies in American Education,
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also found on our website.
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So you could even host something in your home for some of your neighbors or,
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you know, community members and watch one of these films together.
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And then when you conclude the film, strategize and talk about,
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you know, what what can we do in our community to help fight?
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Because we do need a grassroots army across the country locking arms and fighting
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this. And this is the only way we're going to overcome this evil.
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Yeah, no, that's really good. I want to back up for a second.
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I think, you know, there's a couple...
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You know, different circumstances that I have come across over the years.
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And I feel like sometimes there's action that needs to happen,
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but parents are hesitant or their kids are hesitant, like, hey,
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don't make a big deal of what's happening in the school or, you know,
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don't speak out on this mom, like I'm going to be ostracized.
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And what would you kind of say to that parent that's struggling with,
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hey, I know I need to stand up for this truth.
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And they know deep down, like they need to, you know, be the whistleblower on
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something, but, but they're, they're just, you know, they're like,
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gosh, I don't want to be like that parent.
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I don't want to be that one in the news. And what would you say to that?
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Well, that's a good point. And I actually dealt with that with one of my sons.
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So both of my sons, well, I have three sons, two of them were built for football.
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My younger son played golf because he wasn't really built. Oh yeah.
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We love golf in this family. It's a great sport. But on the football team,
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I was irritated because, you know, my son was a freshman
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and I would go to pick him up from away games and the coach would walk off the bus with his dip bottle.
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So he'd been dipping on the bus in front of the students.
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Both of my sons who played football ended up dipping in high school and I was
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furious over it. So I reported it because, you know, it's not just a smoke-free
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campus. It's any kind of tobacco. They're not supposed to be doing that.
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And my son got blackballed.
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He never had any playtime on the football team. He was on the sidelines the whole time.
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So it is something. Yes. Yes.
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So there is retribution to the children, unfortunately. So, you know,
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but I think what parents have to do is obviously pray, pray about it,
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and do whatever it is the Holy Spirit's leading you to do, because it is challenging
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to stand up for what's right,
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in any realm, whether it's in the school with your children or in politics in
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your community if you want to stand up against abortion um.
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You often are ostracized in society, and especially now more than ever.
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I mean, on social media, you can take a bold, conservative Christian stand,
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and all of a sudden the left from out of nowhere is just slamming you.
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And so it is a challenge to be outspoken about what is right and what is good and what is true.
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So I would think that if parents pray about it and they feel the Lord leading
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them, I would think that they would be setting a good example for their children of standing up despite,
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the fallout that may come behind it.
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And we know that Jesus put up with a lot of criticism, a lot of harassment,
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a lot of lies. And what did he do?
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He kept his mouth shut and just kept right on doing what was right.
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Yeah, that's right. That's right. That integrity piece is kind of lost in our culture today.
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And we live in such a public culture where everything is recorded,
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everything is posted, and it just blows up so easily.
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And I think there's good and bad in that because we're accountable to our actions, for one.
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But we also can't do anything really and to expect it to stay,
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you know, private or small if we're really making a stand. But I agree with
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you. I think that, you know, really, we probably need to...
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Expect the repercussion, expect the hits to come and go into it knowing like,
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hey, this is going to be really hard, but I know I'm doing the right thing.
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I know I'm standing up for truth, for what is lovely and beautiful and biblical.
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And we have to stand firm in that. And I think if we can't do that on these
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issues of education, then are we really able to stand up for Christ if the time comes?
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So I think it is, you know, really practicing that boldness in every aspect of our life.
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And it has to, you know, if we really are standing for the Lord,
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we have to see that trickle down in every single corner of our life.
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So I think that's good. I really agree with you there. And you know,
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scripture tells us over and over again, in fact, I underline it every time I
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see it in my Bible, to be bold and courageous, you know?
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Like a lion, bold as a lion. Yep. Yeah, we're not living in times where we can
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just kind of hide under a rock and go, la la la, it's not happening, it's fine.
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We're living in times that we've got to pick a side and we've got to stand firm.
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And I think that's always been the case, but we see it even more now.
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And it's, you know, I jokingly say, hey, it's not the 90s anymore,
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but you are fighting in the 90s.
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So I mean, it's just, so I appreciate that.
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And I, you know, appreciate people such as yourself that have gone ahead of
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us. And I think of Michael Ferris, you know, he went ahead of us and just paved
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the way legally for so many rights to homeschoolers.
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And that's just, it's such a beautiful thing that, you know,
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our generation of parents don't have to fight as hard in certain aspects,
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but other aspects is now it's our time to fight.
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It's our time to stand up now for what's going on. And I, Oh,
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I love the, the building is burning.
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Um, and we got our own kids out, but going back and it's.
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It's just this epiphany. As you said that, I'm like, oh, my goodness,
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that's me. That's been my heart in everything I've done because so many people
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are probably like, hey, stay out of it.
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You're homeschooling. Like, why do you care? It's like because it's on fire
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and there's more kids to rescue. That's 100 percent my heart without fully like.
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Adopting that quote. But now I'm like, yeah, that's totally,
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totally me. So I love that so much.
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Well, you use that quote because I use it all the time, and Alex will be glad that we did.
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He's such a great guy. If you haven't interviewed him yet, I know he would be a great interview.
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I wrote it down. I wrote it down. Good, good, good. Wonderful.
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Now, what is the name of your podcast?
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My podcast is titled Unmasking Government Schools with Sherry Few. I love it.
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Yeah, so we're pulling the curtain back and showing what's happening that parents
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aren't aware of. We have experts. We have, you know, organizations like Defending
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Education. They come on quarterly to fill us in on what they're doing.
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They do FOIA requests of schools all over the country and are just digging up
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all kinds of dirt and publishing reports on it.
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So they come on regularly. I have Alex on a couple times a year,
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Sam Sorbo, Carol Swain's coming on. I saw her book. She's coming on in November.
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And a lot of these people are in our film, Truth and Lies in American Education.
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And even though the film is six or seven years old, it's still very relevant today.
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We were kind of on the cutting edge of the critical race theory and all of that
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when it first started being exposed. So that's another good resource for parents
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if they're interested in learning.
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That's awesome. Oh my goodness, Sherry, I have had a blast with you.
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Thank you so much for just really...
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Encouraging us and educating us on what's going on. And I think.
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The building is burning. It's on fire, guys. We have very little time.
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And my kids have only had a couple years of government education, praise Jesus.
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It was kind of like in the middle. We started out on homeschool,
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and then we moved, and we're like, oh, it's fine. It's a little mountain town.
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We kind of had that like, it'll be fine philosophy.
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And it wasn't.
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But even those couple years, we still see kind of the project cleanup of, wait, who told you that?
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Wait, why do you have that belief? Or why do you have that mindset on that topic or whatever it is?
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And it's crazy how much sneaks in when they're so young and just sponges and
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how much they absorb that, man, man, it matters.
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If you guys care at all, and you should, of what your kids are being taught
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and believing and what's imprinting on their heart, then you've got to pull them out.
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So yeah. Amen.
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Well, Sherry, it's been an honor. Guys, go to her website, uspi.org.
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Check out her podcast on masking government schools. And it's so good having
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you on. I'm sure we'll have you back.
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And I really appreciate getting to speak with you today. Thank you, Sherry.
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Absolutely, Hannah. I appreciate you having me on and I thank you for all the
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good work you're doing. Oh, thank you. You as well.
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