When parents finally understand the indoctrination that is happening at the public school level, I often hear one of 3 things in some variation:
- My youngest child is almost out of high school, I’m so glad I’m done!
- I’m home schooling, I feel kind of guilty for “running”.
- I’ve put them in private school, I’m grateful I’m able to protect them.
If you find yourself in one or more of those above situations, you should absolutely be proud, happy, and relieved. Protecting your children is your primary responsibility and to that end you’ve done your job. But allow me to offer these questions:
- Who is your daughter going to marry?
- Who will be your son’s network of friends?
- Who will be your daughter’s business partners?
- Who will live in your children’s future neighborhoods?
- What type of schools will be waiting for your grandchildren?
- Who will be your child’s employees?
- What type of companies will your child work for?
If you run away from this fight at the schools, then one day your neighbor’s son may throw a brick through the window of your child’s business because “no justice no peace”. Do you understand? We are all connected. Your child will still need to live in this these communities. If we lose the schools to these SEL, DIE, CRT extremist, then Indiana will become California in a blink of an eye.
So I implore you, please stay in the fight. If you run from this challenge because it’s “too hard”, then you’ll simply be kicking this down the road to your children and future grandchildren. If you think the schools are bad now, imagine what will be awaiting them in 10 years.
As a business man who relocated my existing business from the San Francisco Bay Area to central Indiana and then started two new enterprises in Carmel, I can say I was guilty of thinking I was “done”, with both my daughters having graduated UC San Diego and UC Berkeley and thriving in the next stage of their life.
I now know that is wrong.
Many of the business unfriendly laws, lax law enforcement standards, and social ills I left behind are a direct offshoot of this kind of thinking introduced in K-12 schools 15-20 years ago that have permeated how the entire state is run. For the sake of my future grand kids, the growth of my businesses, and the community of Carmel I love to call home – I am back in the fight.
Thank you for bringing these issues to the forefront.
Thank you Dave for sharing your unique perspective as a business owner having ran businesses in both states. Often for us parents with young children we forget the terribly negative downstream impacts to a community and a city when the local school is infected with this DIE ideology. Thank you for still stay in the fight!
If not me, then who?
Our family is in a similar place- we are close to the finish line with our children out of the house, but what kind of America would we be sending them into? My grandparents escaped a worn torn country for their family and future grandchildren and I will also fight for my future grandchildren and their freedom.
Because if not me, then who?
Agreed! My father nearly lost his life escaping the Communist takeover of China. Fled first to Hong Kong, then Taiwan, then finally made it to the US. Raised all of my siblings and I to be thankful every day for the freedoms offered in America. We all need to do our part.