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This change is unacceptable for many liberal women’s rights groups. They find themselves agreeing with unlikely allies in pro-family groups to oppose this bill and the push to remove distinction between biological genders.
If you want to understand how American education got to where it is today — and what to do about it — there is a new book that belongs on your shelf.
Woke and Weaponized: How Karl Marx Won the Battle for American Education, and How We Can Win It Back is written by Robert Bortins, CEO of Classical Conversations, and Alex Newman, senior editor of The New American magazine. Together they trace the long, deliberate march of Marxist and humanist ideology through the American school system — from the utopian socialists of the nineteenth century through John Dewey, the Frankfurt School, and the woke curriculum dominating classrooms today.
The story they tell is not accidental. Education in America began as a family and church responsibility, grounded in a Christian worldview. Over time it was replaced by a tax-supported system with humanist values. The big foundations — Rockefeller, Ford, and later Bill Gates — pushed it further in the wrong direction. Anti-Christian Marxists who fled Germany in 1933 landed in prominent positions at American universities and spent decades transforming them into centers of progressive thought. The government schools that resulted have been declining in quality ever since.
The book’s most urgent warning, however, is aimed not at public schools, but at Christian schools and homeschoolers who may believe they have already escaped the problem. The authors are blunt — he who pays the piper calls the tune. When a school accepts government money, government becomes the real customer. The parent becomes secondary. The agenda follows the funding. Every voucher, every subsidy, every grant comes with strings. And those strings, over time, become chains.
Homeschooling has been one of the great success stories of the past four decades, growing from near zero families in 1980 to over three and a half million children today. But Bortins and Newman warn that government is now shifting tactics — from intimidating homeschoolers to bribing them with taxpayer handouts designed to draw them back into the system’s orbit.
This book is packed with practical strategies for parents and activists who want to protect educational freedom, maintain academic excellence, and preserve Christian integrity in the raising of their children.
Find Woke and Weaponized on Amazon. Read it. And then act on it.
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