School Choice Is The Antidote For Compulsory Radical Indoctrination

In recent years, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the government school system, especially in the wake of the radical gender ideology being exposed in classrooms across the nation. Many concerned parents are turning to alternatives like homeschooling for their children’s education in response.

Parents rightfully want their children to learn vital concepts like math, reading, and writing without fear of their kids being indoctrinated into a worldview that denies the most basic facts of reality concerning race and gender.

Montana was recently exposed to this fact with the eyewitness testimony and recordings provided by activist Finley Warden from an annual educators conference in October of this year. In light of this, it is now more important than ever that parents be given the ability to place their child in a learning environment that best suits their individual needs.

However, a division on the pro-freedom front for education threatens to halt what progress has been made.

There is a segment of the homeschooling community that distrusts school choice advocacy because they worry that there will be strings attached to school choice programs. This concern is understandable; it is also important to note that their contention is not against school choice itself, but how it is implemented.

In response to this concern, Cheryl Tusken from the Frontier Institute outlines what practical implementation of school choice can look like, pointing to the Montana Academic Prosperity Program for Scholars Act (MAPPS) as an example. This legislation would have given homeschool families an option; should a family choose not to participate in the program, they would not be punished for that choice.

This division between school choice advocates and the homeschool community is exactly what the teachers’ unions want. They know that if they can split their opposition, they will face no substantial resistance against their push for government overreach into how families raise and educate their children.

School choice advocates and homeschoolers are natural allies, not enemies.

Both agree that it is not the role of the government to educate a child, but the duty of the parents. Both understand that in order for such an idea to be fully realized, families must have the ability to educate their children apart from government schools.

School choice enables more families to choose homeschooling by giving parents the financial ability to opt out of the radical indoctrination that was exposed in this year’s annual educators conference.

If both groups want true education freedom, they must work with and depend on one another to successfully fight back against woke ideology being taught in our government schools.