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Last month, we learned that in preparation for Donald Trump’s second presidency, the Pentagon’s school system attempted to conceal its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts under a different name.
According to a Jan. 6 meeting recording, the Department of Defense Education Activity agency renamed social-emotional learning “resilience."
Now, they are using the popular game Minecraft to subordinate the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States.
Be informed, not misled.
During his first two weeks in office, Trump issued executive orders prohibiting radical gender ideology, critical race theory, and diversity, equity, and inclusion instruction from federally funded American education.
At the signing, he said, "Parents trust America’s schools to provide their children with a rigorous education and to instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible Nation and the values for which we stand.”
He continued, "In recent years, however, parents have witnessed schools indoctrinate their children in radical, anti-American ideologies while deliberately blocking parental oversight."
The Pentagon has been caught indoctrinating children with radical anti-American ideologies.
Now, they are using Minecraft as a Trojan Horse.
A Department of Defense Education Activity middle-school teacher emailed staff to encourage them to use Minecraft to teach kids to “develop important [social-emotional learning] skills like collaboration, communication, empathy, mindfulness, social management, coping skills, self-awareness, and problem-solving.”
While claiming to equip children with the ability to manage emotions, feel empathy for others, and maintain positive relationships, social-emotional learning integrates critical race theory throughout the education system.
In this case, it is to the schools on military bases run by the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity, which operates 161 schools across 11 foreign countries, seven U.S. states, and two territories and serves more than 67,000 military-connected students.
While parents fight and serve our country to protect our freedoms, people within the Pentagon system are indoctrinating their children to accept the ideologies of those who hate our country and the values and principles upon which it was founded.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made it clear that he would enforce the president’s ban on DEI at the Department of Defense.
“The Pentagon will comply, immediately,” Hegseth said. “No exceptions, name changes, or delays.”
The Department of Defense Education Activity agency has renamed social-emotional learning programs as “resilience,”
The Daily Signal says, "Prior to Trump’s executive orders banning gender ideology and critical race theory, Pentagon schools were under fire for pornographic LGBTQ+ library books and age-inappropriate Pride Month celebrations."
Fox News reports, "School libraries in the Department of Defense Education Activity offered widely banned books with sexually graphic content such as All Boys Aren’t Blue, Sex: A Book for Teens, and This Book is Gay.”
These activities in the Pentagon school system reflect a broader issue prevalent in our public school systems across the country.
Just as critical race theory and other leftist propaganda were injected into classrooms disguised as harmless curriculum, it is becoming clear that “social and emotional learning”—which claims to equip children with the ability to manage emotions, feel empathy for others, and maintain positive relationships—is being used to push a collectivist and social justice-laden agenda.
But what if there were no nefarious agenda propelling the social and emotional learning movement? Is school-based social and emotional instruction the best way to nurture social and emotional wellness in children? Some programs have reported helpful outcomes. But is there an even better, more effective way to foster social and emotional wellness in children, and therefore in society at large?
Yes. It is this: Let children be raised and taught principally by their mothers and fathers while they are very young.
Takeaway: Do parents have a constitutional right to direct their children’s education? Or does their authority really “end at the schoolhouse door.”
According to Melissa Moschella, a professor of the practice in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, the answer the United States Supreme Court gave to that second question nearly 100 years ago was a resounding “no.”
“Pierce v. Society of Sisters, following Meyer v. Nebraska, unequivocally affirmed that parents have the right to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control,” Moschella said.
Yet, despite the Supreme Court’s decisions in those cases, subsequent judges have applied them too narrowly and weakly, denying parents their rightful power to set their children’s educational path, she argued.
“Given the proliferation of current disputes between parents and school districts, I think the time is ripe to correct these misinterpretations of Pierce,” she said. “Correcting these misinterpretations will help make it possible for all parents, including parents of limited financial means, to fully exercise their natural and constitutional right to direct the education of their children.”
In Pierce, decided in 1925, the Court struck down an Oregon law requiring all children to attend public schools as unconstitutional. But the case is about much more than parents’ ability to send their kids to private institutions, Moschella said.
Indeed it is.
The discussion at Harvard was all over the place. If you're interested, here's a link to it.
Here's the bottom line.
"Family" is an institution created by God Himself.
In Deuteronomy 6: 5-9, God says this:
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Verse 12 says, "Then beware lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."
And if you forget, Scripture says in Deut. 28:32, "Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long and there shall be no strength in your hand."
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful. Be Faithful.
