For more than a century, efforts to lure parents with "free" subsidized education, paid for by the government, has been at work in America. The Biblical role of parents, family and church to educate and raise their children in accordance with Biblical teachings has been systematically purged and replaced by the state. Government education has come to be seen as a collective right. The latest efforts to coerce all children into government-controlled education has been marketed as "school choice." School choice has been able to make headway among parents and families who haven't learned the realities of these legislated programs.

These government programs − the most common are called "education savings accounts" (ESAs) or school vouchers − are tax-funded programs that give money to eligible families that can be used towards private schools or homeschools.

As this paper explained, school choice programs all work to normalize the idea that education is the responsibility of the government, rather than parents. They are, in actuality, new welfare programs ; increasing the number of families dependent on the government; increasing state education budgets; increasing the size of state education administrations and the number of state employee; and expanding government control over education, including testing, curricula and data surveillance. Beyond the socialist ideology, the profit incentive of massive vested interests is undeniable.

The School Choice Texas Saga

School choice has been the most contentious education issue in Texas over recent years. Governor Greg Abbott made it his pet project and for years has been pushing ESAs to use public money for private schools. This unpopular legislation went through the state legislature five times without passing, including a special session he called last May trying to get it passed.

The Governor then went on a crusade during upcoming primaries, targeting every Republican who didn't support his ESAs . His $19 million campaign budget went towards helping him cull Republicans who'd failed to fall in line. As Newsweek reported, he also "endorsed all 58 House Republicans running for re-election who'd voted in favor of the school vouchers," but not a single member who voted against the idea. The strategy to win school choice in Texas was based on primarying out legislators, according to a report in The 74. The issue became the litmus test in party politics for those who wanted to be a player, ProPublica reported. The shady politics was widely recognized but worked. Governor Abbott succeeded in unseating 13 recalcitrant opponents in primaries, from mostly rural areas, and got mega-millionaire campaign backers in the process.

This year's latest attempt is SB2 /HB3, titled "Establishment of an educational savings account program." It creates a new special government account of $1 billion to fund ESAs, rather than use existing funding mechanisms for government schools. The ESAs would go to 100,000 students (giving $10,000 towards private schools and $2,000 for home schoolers). Parents would be required to apply through one of the CEAOs chosen by the Comptroller. ["Certified educational assistance organizations" (CEAOs) were explained here.]

Under this legislation, approval of applications would be given by first prioritizing children with a disability and children of low-income families (first below 500% of poverty guidelines and then below 200%), and those from selected groups: siblings of participating children, children who had not previously participated and been enrolled in a public school.

Texas House Research Organization's bill analysis explained the nuances of the legislation, including that public money would also pay for as many as five outside CEAOs up to 5% of the appropriated educational funds, which equates to tens of millions of dollars in profit for these third party companies. It calls for CEAOs to be selected by the Comptroller and also allows the Comptroller up to 3% of total funds for administrative costs.

This year's proposed school choice legislation is just as unpopular as past efforts and opposition has been widespread. A public hearing on HB 3 by the House Public Education Committee on March 11-12 went nearly 24 hours with 308 of the 396 registered speakers testifying against ESAs, along with nearly 3,000 pages of public comments submitted to the Committee (also expressing overwhelming opposition).

The legislation increasedschool spending by $1 billion for 2026-7 school year for "school choice," but it was simultaneously paired with (HB 2)− a $7.7 billion spending increase for public schools − to appease opponents from public school interests. This massive and complicated public school funding bill is the largest one in state history.

The state-controlled education monopoly just became larger than ever.

The realities of the legislation for Texas parents and children, and for taxpayers, have received barely a whisper. Instead, in lockstep, media has recited the lobbying talking points that have become pop myths of school choice in Texas and across the country.

Myth #1 – The universal school choice myth

The most repeated myth is calling these legislated programs "universal school choice," perhaps hoping to give the public a feeling of fairness. This falsehood is repeated by lobbyists working for school choice in states across the country, from Texas to Tennessee. Even Texas Lt. Governor, Dan Patrick, called Texas' the “biggest launch of any universal school choice program in American history.”

Except it obviously is not a universal school choice program, as this School Choice 101 report for Christian parents explained.

"In universal school choiceprograms, all students qualify, regardless of family income, location, demographic, or disability. Its proponents argue that education should be a free market for all families unburdened by excessive state regulations, with all parents having input and a voice. The glaring fallacy, of course, is that there is nothing "free market" about programs involving government money.

Non-universal school choice programs are only open to qualifying students − usually low income, minorities, those with disabilities or special needs, living in certain districts or attending certain schools. These essentially redistribute public funds in attempts towards equity and fairness, and are promoted today by progressives and teacher unions." And globalists.

By prioritizing low-income families and students with disabilities, the "universal eligibility" campaigned by Governor Abbott is negated. The legislation is simple wealth redistribution.

That's known to anyone in the school choice movement.

Texas' ESAs also prioritize student leaving public schools, not those already enrolled in private schools. In other words, few of the current 350,000 students in private schools or the 750,000 homeschooled students in Texas will have access to the program, said Bill Peacock, former Vice President of Research at the TPPF.

More poignantly, ESAs won't be universally accessible. Only a tiny fraction of Texas students will be able to access school choice. The allocated $1 billion is only enough to fund about 2% of the 5 million Texas students projected by the TEA, ensuring that school choice vouchers will be rationed and will move more money towards "equity."

It's just like virtually all of the "universal school choice" programs across the country. They are not actually universal despite their names. Tennessee's Education Freedom Act, for example, isn't universal, either, despite lobbyist reports. It prioritizes low income and kids in public schools, only adding 5,000 additional "scholarships" per year. To placate public school interests, it also promises public schools will continue to be government funded at the current rate and gives an additional bonus of $172 million to pay public school teachers.

It's smoke and mirrors. If all the 900,000 students in public schools and 115,000 in private schools were included in the $7,000 scholarships, it would cost Tennessee taxpayers $7.1 billion. There are only 1.5 million taxpayers in the entire state, equating to $1,375 per taxpayer each year to pay for school choice. And it's especially not about Tennessee parents being able to choose the best education for their children: home schooling is not eligible at all.

Once again, looking to the government to solve a government-created problem is not only without wisdom, it is an abusive overreach of the role of government and turns away from God's teachings. Tweaking ESAs and other government-funded programs − as some suggest in efforts to sell them − or throwing even more money at them, does not remove government from the business of educating our children or remove its interference.

Myth #2 − School choice is education freedom and choice

"School Choice" is an example of naming something in an intentional effort to deceive and mislead people into believing it is everything it is not.

It cannot be excused as innocent word play, or an innocuous misstatement to achieve a political victory and marketing win. The deception is purposeful simply because the truth wouldn't be popular, while the deception helps gain an advantage.

Just as socialism has become so mainstream people don't even recognize it anymore, so has the sin of lying and deceit.

"Watch out that no one deceives you."– Matthew 24:4

Texas' ESA legislation has been collectively described as "educational freedom" and "school choice" by lobbyists, free market think tanks and policy institutes. The passage of Texas' school choice ESAs was heralded by a senior fellow for Heartland Institute as a "Texas-sized victory for educational freedom." Texas becomes the 16 ^th state with "statewide education freedom for families," senior fellow at Discovery Institute celebrated. The passage was "a victory for parental empowerment…a testament to persistence in pursuit of good public policy," wrote a Federalist author.

In supporting school choice, Discovery Institute said that when it comes to educating children, "American parents aren't free unless they have thousands of dollars a year for private school tuition or the feasibility to homeschool."

Few Americans would agree with that definition of freedom. Being "free" does not mean getting more public money and becoming more dependent upon the government. A true free market is without government interference, subsidies, and regulations. The government is not a free market.

Clearly, public-financed bloated, government-controlled schools have led to the deplorable problems in America's education. I would argue that the solution is not to look to more government money as the solution. Every problem in search of a solution does not need the government to be that solution.

Parents are wanting to get government out of the business of schooling their children and returning it to families, churches and local communities, as is Biblical and Constitutional - without government interference.

By calling ESA legislation "school choice," it gives the deceptive impression that parents will have the power to freely make decisions about what's best for their children. That is not the reality with state legislated school choice programs anywhere in the country, including Texas.

Free choice is an illusion … a lie.

By taking state voucher money, per the ESA program signed into law by the Governor, Texas parents must consent to government oversight. The state tells them what choices they can select from. That's not how parents or anyone would define free choice.

* The ESA money can only be spent on preapproved education expenses.

* Parents can also only use the preapproved education service provider or vendor of educational products that the Comptroller deems suitable for their children’s education. Parents must agree that the state has the power to determine what private school or homeschool program, textbooks and instructional materials, tutors, extracurricular activities, etc. they can use.

* The legislation only allows private or alternative schools, homeschool programs, and other education service providers that have been approved by the Comptroller and previously approved by the TEA, have been accredited by Texas Private School Accreditation Commission or TEA and conducts annual testing as required by the state, and has continuously operated in the state for at least the prior two years. Compliance with TEA means children in the program will be subject to the same deplorable curricula that plagues government schools. [See "What TEA considers 'bona fide' curricula."]

* Students must take standardized tests annually and their results are required to be reported to the state.

* Parental spending, accounts and providers are mandated to have annual audits under the Comptroller.

* Detailed demographic and behavioral data on every participating child is also required to be gathered and reported to the state.

Parents' loss of freedom and voice in the education of their children, and their loss of autonomy to make choices best for their children, are obvious by simply reading the actual legislation (SB2/HB3) "Comptroller" appears 106 times in the bill. The Texas Comptroller in reality, becomes the new headmaster of all Texas students in the ESA program. His sweeping powers go far beyond how money is spent.

The Comptroller is empowered to:

* pre-approve all parental education decisions;

* determine what courseware, textbooks and other instructional materials, tutors and extracurricular activities, and what private school or homeschool program are suitable and required to be compliant in the program;

* govern enrollment and daily attendance requirements;

* preapprove all education providers and vendors, all education providers must comply to requirements he establishes for educator credentials and background checks;

* require annual audits and detailed demographic and behavioral data to be reported and collected on every child;

* certify and regulate the CEAOs;

* suspend the account of any child who fails to remain in good standing by complying with applicable law or a requirement of the program;

* turn over to the District Attorney for prosecution any violation by a CEAO, education provider or program participant.

It is widely known that ESAs and "school choice" legislation are intentionally used as tools to build larger governments, increase state budgets, and expand government control and regulations over K-12 education. As explained in this paper, international and U.S. education policies universally acknowledge that by accepting public money, private schools and homeschools become public schools and will be required to comply with centrally defined curricula, learning standards, student admission criteria, reporting and database monitoring and surveillance, among other public regulations.

Even when school choice legislation appears to offer universal freedoms, the government quickly steps in. Taxpayers and citizen holds their elected leaders accountable for how public money is spent. As soon as public money gets involved, the state becomes an interested party with a compelling state interest; and private, charter, church and even home schooling become de-facto public schools under the government. Private schools and homeschooling parents become service providers for the state, not free agents.

Across the country, government issued school vouchers bringincreasedgovernment regulations, reporting and oversight in the name of "accountability and equity" … ending universal free choice and essentially becoming, as in Arizona and West Virginia, "School Choice Killers." Arizona has been beset with problems, including fraud and lawsuits, after it opened its ESA program to all students in 2022. Even proponents now admit that support of the program has plummeted, as parents face a growing mess of red tape and government regulations and oversight.

This is what is meant by the statement that the final result of school choice is less choice and less freedom for parents in their children's education.

What's the evidence for school choice?

You may be surprised to learn that there remains little or no credible body of evidence in support of school choice private school voucher programs anywhere in the world for improving academic outcomes for students.

Reportedly the first study of all available evidence from randomized controlled trials was led by Patrick J. Wolf at University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform and visiting scholar at the Brookings Institute. This meta-analysis and systematic review examined 21 studies of eleven different programs and found large heterogeneity (meaning the results and programs were so diverse and findings were all over the place that even lumping them together, no solid and consistent results could be determined). Using "a random effects and robust variance estimation framework," the best the authors could conclude was that "suggestive'" evidence found the vouchers may save money, even while having no benefits in academic achievement.

Wolf directs the School Choice Demonstration Project and his work has received over 42 research grants and contracts totaling over $23 million. As its website shows, the SCDP faculty is focused on advancing equity. The socialist motivations behind school choice were highlighted by Wolf when he told Harvard education graduates that 68 empirical findings of school choice "on the democratic values of students, including tolerance, political activity and voluntarism" had found mixed results on civic outcomes but that state legislatures have enacted it for individual and societal benefits, especially for disadvantaged students.

While there's little systematic evidence for school choice yet, according to a policy analysis published last year by WestEd, the inevitability of government control is clear.

Under federal law, states are required to have accountability systems in place for all public-funded schools, including reporting student outcomes. As state policymakers focus attention on accountability of ESAs and how public money is spent, states will address academic, financial and data/reporting accountability , the analysts said.

That inevitability is more than speculative, but a matter of multiple national and international policies for any private or homeschooling that receives public funding, as reviewed here .

As UNESCO stated: autonomous public-funded private and home schools "are not exempt from complying with centrally defined curriculums, learning standards or student admission criteria, among other public regulations. Accountability frameworks play a strategic role in promoting that all publicly-funded schools, independently of their ownership, are correctly aligned with quality standards and also with the equity goals and objectives set by the government."Its proposed regulatory strategies included everything from authorization of providers, fees and caps, admission criteria, evaluations and testing, teacher qualification requirements, and monitoring and surveillance. (Remember, the U.S. government had agreed in 2006 to UNESCO's leadership over school curricula and education at all levels of education, and that every America child be taught UN's sustainable development goals. Over the past two decades, that has since been embedded in every school curriculum in the country.)

School choice programs will be called upon to ensure that taxpayer funds are spent on items that offer "educational benefit," WestEd said. [Those are often called "quality measures."] Already, multiple ESA statutes require parents to agree to only use funds on state-approved core academic subjects; 14 require state or national assessments to monitor learning; and nearly all require audits and data collection and reporting of interest to stakeholders and the public.

WEF goals have been embraced by the UN and UNESCO globalists. A 2016 working policy paper from OECD, the UN's enforcement arm, examined school choice and the growth of private schools receiving public funds. Ten percent of students in 13 OECD countries attend publically-funded private schools. Private schools around the world – from Canada, Sweden, Germany, etc.-- are now extensively regulated by the government. OECD called for increased regulations to improve equity; saying that regulations limiting eligibility and benefits for school choice vouchers to lower income families will contribute to greater "equity."

That's a euphemism for redistribution of wealth.

Despite common assertions of benefits of school choice, OECD also stated that reviews of the empirical evidence across countries have found school choice, even universal enrollment, has small or insignificant effects on improving student achievements in private or public schools; nor does school choicebring competition to improve public school performance. Its research also found that tax credits, as in Minnesota's school choice, disproportionately benefited wealthier and more educated parents.

Research across America has also found little evidence that school vouchers improve test scores and academic achievement, even among disadvantaged students attending private schools. The research simply fails to support the popular claims of school choice proponents.

So, even globalists recognize that students benefit little from school choice. It's not about helping children. It never really was. Its benefits come as a means for greater government regulation and control over education, moving more money to schools it controls, and a means of social engineering to achieve global equity. It's politics, power and money. School choice is just a marketing tactic.

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Texas has shown its true colors

The school choice and state budget debates in Texas are examples of how far Texas has fallen into the socialist mindset. I didn't hear a single Texas politician make the Biblical case against ESAs or against the exorbitant state spending. School choice legislation was especially hard fought because powerful interests knew that whatever program passed, it would almost certainly be a forever program, like Social Security. Ditto goes for state budgets.

Nothing about school choice legislation or the state budget is conservative. Christ's teachings have been abandoned by political leaders, leaving Texas families, children, seniors, and taxpayers abandoned, as well.

I was inspired to write this piece, hoping to help warn people, especially Christian families, of the dangers of school choice legislation and the continued expansion and unlimited spending of the state. In the process, I came to understand why this information is not being openly discussed in media and not widely known. Truth has been silenced with incredible effectiveness. I am not the only researcher and writer, trying to report solid science and Biblical truths, who's found publishing outlets closed.

The largest and most committed opposition to school choice comes from parents themselves: the grassroots homeschool parents who do understand what's happening and have taken their children out of government schools. But they don't have mega-billionaire funding or lobbyists or publicity departments, and their voices have been especially silenced in media.

Discernment, going to original sources and testing all things in an effort to learn what is true and right, is not only more important than ever for all of us, it's harder than ever. Just as "school choice" was deceptively titled, so are many of the organizations, publications and sources for information that we might once have trusted. Every one has an agenda and few are transparent about their conflicted interests. [See "A tangled web."]

When hearts and minds are looking to do what is right and good, it will also be what's best for our children and as Christ teaches. And, as He taught, it will not be what's popular among today's fallen world.

I hope this information is of help.

Call to Action

Christian parents, families and churches do the right thing as followers of Christ's teachings. They don't wait for the government to do it for them or pay them to do it.

Parents choosing to homeschool or send their children to alternative private schools have many vital reasons for their choices. Most want to hold to Biblical teachings, preserve Constitutional freedoms, and give every child the opportunity for a quality education. This tumultuous period in school education has become an opportunity to return education back to the folds of families and churches.

People wanting to preserve our country and raise children as Christ instructed are coming forward and putting faith in action. Not because the government gives them money to do it, but because it's the right thing to do.

Churches and religious schools have tremendous opportunities to help save more children from failing, woke, government indoctrination schools. They are quietly sponsoring students and homeschoolers in their communities. Nonprofits like HSDLA and Herzog Foundation are offering grants for homeschool families.

The possibilities are endless for Christians and Texans to purge government from the business of raising our children.

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Addendum

A tangled web

The greatest opposition to "school choice" legislation in Texas, and across the country, comes from grassroots, actual homeschool families. Discovering these grassroots homeschoolers and that they really are the silenced majority, led to the discovery of a tangled web of interests and big money among those promoting school choice legislation.

Grassroots homeschoolers, like the Christian-led Homeschool Freedom Coalition or Home School Legal Defense Association, believe parents have been given the right and responsibility by God to determine the best education for their children, not the state. They universally oppose school choice legislation. Homeschool parents believe their children are not property and the responsibility of the state, said Christian Home Educators of Colorado (CHEC).

Homeschool parents have legitimate concerns about ESAs subjecting them to increased government control. These concerns have proven to be well founded. "Do not be fooled," CHEC warned. "The government will implement accountability measures, including long-term personal data collection and restriction."

"Free money" is never really free. It always comes with strings attached. Grassroots homeschool organizations see homeschooling, independent from public education and government oversight, as the only defense against the state and its overreach.

Given how strongly homeschool parents feel about preserving their rights to educate their children free from government dictates, and the sound reasons they have for taking their children out of the public school system, red flags go up when one hears organizations promoting government ESAs.

Examining advocacy groups purportedly speaking for homeschool parents, and media purportedly doing real news reporting and investigative journalism, revealed that not all are fully what they profess to be.

Texas Homeschool Coalition (THSC) is one of the most active promoters of ESA legislation in Texas. Yet, it has consistently voiced views that are diametrically opposed to grassroots homeschool organizations like HFC and Texans for Homeschool Freedom (THF).

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THSC is regularly featured in Texas Scorecard. Texas Scorecard has also relentlessly promoted school choice and ESA legislation for years while never once publishing opposing views or concernsfrom grassroots homeschoolers such as with HFC or HSLDA.

Given the truth of school vouchers, these positions of support are puzzling, especially from sources claiming to be advocates of freedoms for homeschooling parents and for free market conservatives. Digging deeper found a troubling lack of openness and transparency, and conflicted interests.

THSC is made up of two 501(c)(3) nonprofit private organizations out of Lubbock, according to the IRS (THSC, Inc.– EIN 75-2110659, and THSC Association – EIN 75-2907407) and its THSC PAC.

* The 990 filing from THSC, Inc,.for 2023 (the latest posted), shows registration fees brought in $329,210 on top of $1.139 million from undisclosed grants and gifts, and $28,149 from fundraising events. Total revenues for THSC, Inc. in 2022 were $1.159 million, with $903,382 in undisclosed grants and contributions and $243,310 in registration fees.

Without knowing who these unidentified generous grantors are, the public has no idea who THSC might be really answering to.

* The 990 filing for THSC Association from 2022 (Part VIII) reported revenues from its homeschool membership dues of $884,415, undisclosed grants and gifts of $351,773, and $82,905 from advertising.

Between their two nonprofits, THSC had $2,483,896 in revenue in 2022. Homeschool membership dues were only 34% of their total revenue.

A portion of its revenue was from fundraising events and convention sponsorships, that range from $10,000 to $20,000 apiece for vendors this year. Part of THSC revenue is from its marketing brand, selling access to its network to companies and interests selling to homeschoolers, according to KidsEducationFranchise. It says that for an initial fee of $10,000 to $25,000, these interests can gain access to its brand and marketing support. This is followed with paying an ongoing royalty fee of between 5% to 8% of the franchisee's monthly revenue. Franchisees are also expected to pay 1-2% of monthly revenue to THSC for marketing and advertising, along with a list of other potential costs (equipment, office, training, legal and administrative fees), it reports. The agreements come with a long list of conditions including supporting THSC's positions, but describe the multiple revenue streams available to its franchisees, for example, membership fees, events and seminars, educational products, books, curricula, and tutoring services.

THSC partners all sell various homeschool products and services, and offer promotions and discounts to members.

THSC "offers the potential for significant long-term returns, especially with the growth of homeschooling across the state and the country," it reportedly tells prospective franchisees. "Many franchisees find that their businesses are profitable within the first few years of operation." By signing up, KidsEducationFranchise reported, "franchisees can benefit from THSC’s established brand, extensive support, and a proven business model." [Repeated efforts to reach KidsEducationFranchise and THSC for more information went unreplied.]

From the revenue numbers, THSC would appear to significantly represent special interests profiting off homeschoolers − a business model, a money making strategy. The potential for increased business for their partners benefiting from government school choice funds presents a potential conflict. Do these interests help explain the disconnect between THSC's position and those of homeschool parents?

THSC is also a political action committee, THSC PAC. In addition to campaigning, it publishes endorsements of political candidates for upcoming elections. Homeschool parents would likely welcome the voices and support of advocates in the political arena. But do the conflicted interests also come into play in its politics?

Capital Research Center and Texas Ethics Commission data found the same mega-donors funded the PACs for THSC and Empower Texans – Farris and JoAnn Wilks. Tim Dunn funded over 40% of Empower Texans, between 2015-October 2018. A Public Accountability Initiative investigation reported a small handful of wealthy donors finance Empower Texans, as well as THSC and Governor Abbott. (That brought the real power behind the National Governors Association to mind and made me wonder if all this is bigger than Texas.) Tim Dunn gave $7.7 million to Empower Texas just between 2008-2018.

Both Dunn and Farris Wilks are pastors. Wilks is at the Assembly of Yahweh in Rising Star, Texas. Dunn founded Midland Bible church 25 years ago, as well as the private Christian school, Midland Classical Academy, in 1998, and began Yellow Balloons devotionals in 2015. Dunn is a devoted Christian and pluralist.

Dunn is also Board Chairman of the nonprofit Empower Texas and Texas Scorecard, (also known as Citizens News Guild) which Dunn founded.

Suddenly, the connection to Texas Scorecard surfaced. Empower Texans Foundation, Citizens News Guild, Inc., and Texas Scorecard are essentially the same entity, according to Open Corporations, Guidestar, and the IRS.

The 990 forms filed with the IRS list Empower Texans Foundation under Dunn, with Michael Sullivan the Director, and grant funding going back to 2011. Its latest filed 990 form filed in 2022 shows over $11.5 million in grants and gifts from unidentified sources just between 2018-2022, with Michael Sullivan President and Nathan Ofe CEO.

The website for Texas Scorecard doesn't mention its political advocacy role, or its funding. Similarly, THSC's website makes no mention of its lobbying or marketing interests, or its funding. Noticeably absent from these and other groups promoting ESAs are disclosures, openness and transparency.

This example showed how undisclosed interests may cloud objectivity and are not always evident to all of us in the public. It serves as a reminder of the importance of fact checking everything we read and hear.

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© Szwarc 2025

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Texas, like much of America, has so fallen from the principles upon which our country was founded, that tyranny and socialism aren't even recognized anymore.

Those following Christ's teachings are conservatives and, by definition, value limited government and preserving the Constitutional freedoms established by America's fourth Founding document.

The Bible.

The limited-government republic established by our Founders delegated very few powers to the government in order to preserve the freedoms of individuals, free from government tyranny. Lots has been written since Tacitus, the Roman historian, detailed how state power corrupts and that a bigger government with more state control, means more corruption.

Economist, Martin Armstrong wrote that the problem with all governments is their endless thirst for endless power and they all inevitably become more authoritarian when they feel their power slipping away. Bigger centralized government is tyranny and always about money and power, he wrote. Founding Father, Thomas Paine wrote in 1776 of the tyranny and corrupted values resulting from big government: "Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them… Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness."

Texas' state Constitution reflects an even greater call for fiscal restraint and limited government, with provisions restricting state debt and taxes, and strong protections for individual freedom and property rights.

Christian parents − trying to faithfully follow Biblical instructions to raise up their children in the way they should go and embrace the incredible gift and responsibility they've been given to teach their children – are finding less and less support from politicians and a public school system that's concertedly against them. Texas families and seniors have also found their property taxes and home prices unsustainable, as rampant government spending reaches the highest levels in history.

If Texas were a country, it would have the 8th largest economy in the world, according to Texas Comptroller. Everything is big in the state of Texas, including fraud, waste, spending … and government.

Government leaders have undeniably gone beyond their God-ordained authority and the limited role of civil government commanded in the Bible. They answer to political power and financial gain. Those calling themselves "conservative Christians" are, as evidenced by their actions, all too often, neither. Increasingly, Texans are coming to understand this as they are buried in "school choice" and state budgetdebates.

Especially troubling is that once trusted conservative, limited government, free market, and Christian sources - that used to advocate for people and Biblical teachings - have become voices for power brokers. No longer sources of sound information, in lockstep they are actively promoting bigger government and socialism. How many even recognize how they've compromised their missions?

Christian values are still held by nearly 80% of Texans . These citizens are now the silent and forgotten majority. For them, the disinformation surrounding both of these issues makes learning the truth and practicing discernment harder - and more important - than ever. Young parents to senior citizens all deserve good information. This 2-part paper will attempt to offer some facts that are not being widely reported on statism and school choice in Texas.

Texas spending spree

Texas is no longer a conservative state. This fact is not news to Texans, but outside the state, Texas is still widely believed to be the red state it once was.

Texas politicians have been on a runaway spending spree for decades, intent on increasing the size and scope of government, and advancing socialism. While there are multiple variations of socialism, their commonality is a centralized state of planning, control and power; and all forms are theft and go against Scripture.

This rise of socialism in Texas, as evidenced in a state budget with ever more of our resources owned and controlled by the government, was explained from a Biblical perspective by Bill Peacock with Texans for Fiscal Responsibility (TFR). "[M]any well-meaning Texans do not recognize socialism when they see it or understand that the rapidly expanding Texas budget stands in opposition to God’s design," he wrote. "Private property is both the most ethical and efficient way to create, sustain, and increase wealth for the simple reason that it is the means that God gave us for doing so."

"However, an even more fundamental problem with socialism," he said, "is that it seeks to enthrone the State, rather than God, as the Ultimate Authority in this world. As the state becomes all things to all people—providing for education, housing, healthcare, jobs, and retirement, God is no longer needed. This is exactly the effort we see being made in the biblical account of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)."

Increased spending by the state has far outpaced population growth and inflation. In just the past three years, noted Peacock: "Increasing spending by 60% above population growth plus inflation, spending all the money you can get your hands on, and building up a taxpayer-funded slush fund are not conservative." Nor is it Constitutional, especially in Texas.

Property taxes are the most palpable example of state wantonness. Texas homeowners face property tax rates that are the third highest in the country. These taxes increased $32.3 billion between 2018 to 2023-24 alone. That's 7.1% per year – unsustainable for young families and seniors on fixed incomes who have struggled to keep their homes.

Untenable property taxes are coupled with an affordability crisis. Housing prices in Texas are among the highest in the country. Last year they were nearly double from just ten years ago, according to Huffines Liberty Foundation. HLF put the blame on "bureaucracy of the deep state local governments," over-regulation, over-taxation, and over spending.

Runaway growth of property taxes over the past six years shows that "most local governments have abandoned any semblance of fiscal sanity," said Peacock. Local governments even use taxpayer's own money to hire lobbyists to make sure property tax relief efforts always fail in the legislature, he reported.

Back in 2023, the Texas state budget surplus of $78.4 billion made news because, instead of promised property tax relief, Senators spent it on state agencies, big businesses and education. Texans had voted for and were told they would receive an $18 billion property tax cut that year. The Governor made headlines as signing "the biggest property tax cut in history and a massive win" for the state's 5.7 million homeowners. Budget "reconfigurations" changed that to an anticipated $6.1 billion cut … however in the end, property taxes increased by $165 million.

What happened? Huffines Liberty Foundation reported that for one thing, school districts raised property taxes enough to take away the $1.9 billion in proposed cuts on school property taxes. City and county governments and special districts blew through another $4.3 billion.

The state currently has record revenue and a historic $80 billion budget surplus from over-collected taxes from taxpayers. Again, they could have used it to reduce tax burdens for Texas citizens and reduce state budgets. Instead, they added $45 billion in new spending in the upcoming budget, for everything from $1.5 billion for the film industry, $11 billion more for government schools and $2.3 more for state employees.

TFR is running a 10-part series on why the Texas legislature should have voted against the new state budget, and describing the shenanigans politicians used to exceed the Texas Constitutional tax spending limits. The new spending for 2026-2027 has been allocated in such a way as to make it less apparent to scrutiny and to "sneak around the Texas Constitution's tax spending limit," its analysis found. State-controlled spending in the budget appropriation bills came to $607,739,313.676.00 for 2026-2027. Most of the public can't put these massive numbers into perspective to realize how it personally affects them.

But this state spending matters.

It means the state is seizing the equivalent of $13,074 each year from every Texas taxpayer.* That's a lot! It equates to 21.61% of the median household income in Lubbock, for example. It's money that taxpayers can't spend on things that matter most to their families and communities. Instead, their earnings are going towards government programs that line the pockets of special interests, while serving Texans poorly. ( * IRS reported 23,242,098 taxpayers in Texas in 2023, the latest available figures.)

Last week, the Texas legislature voted for school choice and simultaneously approved (SB1) the state's largest budget in its history at $337.4 billion. Only $6 billion was earmarked for property tax relief, while the other $47 billion went to new and bigger government programs and special interest "constituents whom legislators value more than taxpayers," said TFR.

Property taxes for Texas homeowners are now expected to increase $2.5 billion this year, TFR reported.

Spending on government schools is at the core of the worst state excesses … and the source of even greater disinformation in public media.

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The public school lobby in Texas is massive. According to Texas Ethics Commission, there are twelve public education lobby associations with 86 registered lobbyists. In addition to this army of hired public school lobbyists working the Texas Capitol, 27 school districts also hired their own lobbyists in 2024, according to Texas Conservative Research Institute (TCCRI).

As enormous vested interests battle over the unfathomably massive amounts of taxpayer education money, the stakes couldn't be higher.

The new state budget (SB1) increased K-12 education spending by $11,137,900,000.00 over the previous biennium. That increase, to $101.3 billion, is a 13.6% increase from the last biennium budget. The base amount per student was also increased by $395 to $6,555. Yet TEA projected another decline in public school daily attendance this biennium, with 19,158 fewer students for the 2025-2026 school year. By every logic, spending should have dropped by $125.6 million, not increased by nearly $11.14 billion!

Rather than prioritizing the things known to help children learn – like rewarding excellent teachers, quality curriculum, and engaging parents – Texas school districts "spend recklessly, misallocating vast resources meant for public education," according to Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) which has tracked education spending.

The top ten lobbyists for Texas' government education industry were paid nearly $59 million during the 2020 election alone, reported Transparency USA. This doesn't even count big name donors in Texas like Charles Butt (Public Education PAC, HEB PAC and HillCo PAC) or Michael Bloomberg. This wealthy network, along with political organizations and radical activists, work together to squander taxpayer money, says TPPF.

Most of that education money, and all of the debt, is paid for by property taxes.

"The most dishonest talking point used by opponents of school choice is that public schools are underfunded, wrote a TPPF commentary. "According to TEA (Texas Education Agency), total operating expenditures for the 2022-2023 school year were over $92.4 billion, which is $16,792 per student, not $6000 [as is typically claimed]."

Texas' spending on public education is more than the entire state budgets of 45 states.TPPF added:

"So, while spending grows, the numbers that matter most – the number of students who can read and do math at grade level – never seem to improve. Add that to the spread of radical race and gender theory permeating classrooms, inappropriate material found in school libraries, and rogue administrators pushing election-year politics, it’s no wonder parents are demanding the right to access more and better educational options."

Public schools in Texas are not underfunded, TCCRI also concluded. "Schools in Texas are fully funded and funding increases every year," said TCCRI. Public education has long been the state's top spending priority, accounting for $38.2% of the 2024-25 state general revenue budget.

Public school proponents falsely claim schools are underfunded and don't have the resources they need, in order to excuse poor student performance and to oppose school choice or anything that detracts from more government money to public schools. Over the past 12 years, state and local school districts have increased per-pupil spending by over 50% to approximately $17,000, TEA data acknowledges. However, there are legitimate questions about how that money is spent, said TCCRI.

Spending on public education has no relationship to student learning

Government regulations and control, a compulsory collectivist funding model, bureaucratic policies, massive spending and lack of accountability, have led to the failing public education system. Despite exorbitant public school spending, Texas K-12 public school students' academic performances on STAAR tests continue to worsen.

TEA recently released its 2023-2024 Texas Academic Performance Reports on every school district in the state. By 8 ^th grade, only 29% of students had mastered reading. ("Mastered" is defined as those students whose performance indicates they are expected to succeed in the next grade with little or no remedial academic intervention. In previous generations, that simple requirement would have been necessary to pass to the next grade level.)

Worse, only 16%, 17% and 17% had mastered 8 ^th grade mathematics, science, and social studies , respectively.

Growing numbers of parents unhappy with the woke, low quality, and unbiblical curricula in public schools, have been taking their children out of public schools. The mass exodus from government schools, and the reasons for it, are well known and widely reported. Parents are choosing educations they believe are best for their children, where they have the authority and responsibility, and are free from government interference and bad influences .

Homeschooling is big in Texas

Currently, homeschooling in Texas comes with broad parental freedoms and minimal state regulations. However, that is only by the good graces of the state educational bureaucracy.

Texas Education Agency’s (TEA), headed by a Commissionerappointed by the Governor, is the state agency that oversees all K-12 public education, funding, testing and assessment and accountability programs, accreditation of statewide curriculums and programs, data collection, administering the State Board for Educator Certification, and monitoring compliance with federal and state regulations. The entire public school system operates under laws created by the state legislature, along with rules adopted by the Commissioner, the State Board of Education and the State Board for Educator Certification.

Prior to 1981, Texas parents really were free to homeschool their children without the state getting involved. That's when the TEA tried to push parents out of the way and force all kids to attend public schools that it controlled. After it began prosecuting about 150 parents for not complying, a class action lawsuit by homeschoolers finally succeeded in granting a permanent injunction against prosecuting homeschoolers and against compulsory attendance laws. It resulted in the current state homeschooling law, known as the Leeper law. It states that parents:

"need only home school 'in a bona fide manner' (not a sham or subterfuge), have a curriculum 'consisting of books, workbooks, other written materials, including that which appears on a computer screen or video tape monitor, . . . developed or obtained from any source,' and the curriculum must be 'designed to meet basic education goals of reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics and a study of good citizenship.'

That’s it."

However, Leeper still left homeschooling parents vulnerable to TEA overreach, said Albert Hollan, an attorney who wrote a history for Texas Home Educators, a homeschooling support organization.

"Who determines whether a parent is operating a home school in a bona fide manner?"

The TEA.

That means "school district attendance officers can make an inquiry about curricula and the results of standardized tests" to decide if parents are teaching in a “bona fide manner,” he said. [See "What TEA considers 'bona fide' curricula" for a disturbing look at how globalism has infected Texas education and can compromise homeschoolers.]

Worse, because authority over homeschooling in Texas is case law, Hollan cautioned, that can be changed at any time. Homeschooling parents across the country, from Connecticut to Illinois, are learning that the hard way as they fight their state legislators and education agencies working to impose new government regulations over how they homeschool their children.

Hollan urged Texas parents to stay alert to what the legislature (and Governor and his Commissioner) are up to in case they try to change homeschool freedoms.

And the government and stakeholder interests have been working on doing exactly that.

There's been nonstop marketing and lobbying the past few years, trying to convince parents that state politicians are working to protect parents' rights to homeschool their K-12 children without government interference. But it is all smoke and mirrors when you actually look at the legislation.

In fact, homeschooling parents are not being given the legislative protections that are being portrayed by lobbyists. Let's look at just two examples.

SJR12/HJR155, nicknamed the "Homeschool Constitutional Amendment," has been promoted by Texas Home School Coalition (THSC) as a critical bill "making significant strides in expanding opportunities for Texas homeschool families."

In actuality, however, the bill focuses on parental rights for children in public schools, allowing parents to "make 'reasonable choices' within the public school system," to view teaching materials and books, and access their children's school records. The only mention of homeschooling states that parents have the right to "choose an alternative to public education," such as a private school, parochial school or home school (which they already have), but makes no mention of how that right will be regulated or of any protections from government interference concerning curriculum, testing, reporting and other restrictions.

HB 2674/SB2414, nicknamed "Protection for Homeschoolers from State Regulation," is especially disingenuous in inflating perceptions of protections for home school parents. Proponents say it's "homeschool freedom protection" and "protects homeschool families from state regulation", but the legislation does no such thing.

The legislation text states only that the Texas Education Agency, State Board of Education and other education institutes are prohibited from " increasing regulation of an education program described by Sec29.916(a)(1)." That Section refers to merit scholarships and advance placement testing and allows home school children to take the PSAT/NMSQT, although they will be subject to any new rules adopted by the commissioner.

Misleadingly, school choice proponents have intentionally linked this legislation in media to parental concerns about the impact of school choice legislation on their homeschool freedoms. But the legislation has nothing to do with school choice . In fact, any protections do not apply to homeschool parents who sign up for school choice and accept government school choice money. The moment homeschool parents accept public money, their homes become publically-funded schools, with all the government rules and regulations that entails.

Complying with Texas Homeschool Law is currently not complicated, as Home School Legal Defense League (HSLDL), a Christian homeschool support nonprofit, explains. But school choice is about to make homeschooling, free of government, a lot more complicated.

Part 2 will explore that.

What TEA considers "bona fide" curricula

Under Texas law, TEA determines if homeschool parents are operating a home school in a bona fide manner, which leaves them vulnerable to state bureaucratic overreach.

Currently, though, Texas homeschooling parents are free to select any curricula they feel is best for their children and the state does not accredit homeschool curricula. However, TEA tells homeschool parents that should they ever want to transfer their students from home schooling or want a state-issued diploma (not required for homeschoolers), the student would be required to be assessed by national tests or STAAR assessments to determine mastery of courses required of public school students. To get a state issued diploma, homeschoolers are required to take the STAAR tests administered to all public school students.

TEA gives the curriculum standards for public school students and provides an extensive list of certified instructional materials that meet state requirements for each grade level: Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) from the State Board of Education.

Homeschoolers are advised to refer to TEKS when creating their homeschool materials to understand what the state considers "bona fide" curricula. Most parents probably want to do better than the public school curricula they are trying to avoid! The state curricula demonstrates how entrenched into globalism and woke the state education system has become.

TEA's materials come from sources such as:

* Amplify – Its mission is to transform education and thereby the world to make it more equitable. It provides digital analytics and curriculum based on Common Core State Standards and it's funded by globalists Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cox Enterprises, the U.S. government Department of the Interior, and venture capitalists, including lead investor, Powell Jobs.

* Carnegie Learning − Global Silicon Valley's world transformative digital learning provider is partnered with AI for Education, a globalist movement to transform education, with public education and globalist partners. Carnegie Learning is funded in over $90 million from globalists including Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation (the wealthiest family foundation in the world and staunch advocate for environmentalism and DEI).

* Edgenuity – This online learning platform adopted by over 500 public school districts proved a failure for homeschool learning.

* Core Knowledge Foundation (CKF) − Partnered with Amplify, it was founded by Don Hirsch, Jr to ensure the successful attainment of Common Core State Standards.

CKF, for example, aligns science materials to Next Generation Science Standards and National Research Council science education; and its math materials are in collaboration with Open Up Resources ( funded by Bill & Melinda Gates, Hewlett Foundation, Helmsley Charitable Trust and others).

TEA refers parents to TEA-accredited online schools for public school students. Texas Virtual Academy has extremely low academic rankings and student proficiency scores per U.S. News & World Report, and ranked at the bottom of all schools in Texas per Public School Review.

TEA refers homeschooling parents to THSC, which offers homeschool curricula to its paid members. Its curricula are filled with the same globalist ideologies, UN population and climate "science," sustainability goals, and multitudes of bad information as taught public school students. Top on THSC's list of recommended homeschool curricula is Oak Meadow. Oak Meadow is also one of the top homeschooling curricula companies in the country, as reviewed here in a troubling exposé for Christians.

With school choice, homeschool parents who sign up for the vouchers will be under increased government scrutiny to ensure their teachings are aligned with TEA curricula.

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Texas campuses have long promoted progressive ideologies and experimental learning theories. Few understand the larger agenda behind progressive education or the origins of critical theory and its evolution into the entire spectrum of what is now called "DEI": feminism, gender and LGBTQ+, "critical race theory" (CRT), privilege-oppression and victimhood, equity and social justice. These secular and socialist ideologies are far removed from Biblical teachings and go against conservative Christian values still held by nearly 80% of Texans. Yet, they've had a devastating impact on education.

In an effort to stem this harmful movement in academia, a statewide ban against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices at Texas colleges and universities went into effect on January 1, 2024 with SB17 (sponsored by Senator Brandon Creighton). But that didn't end DEI indoctrination of college students throughout Texas.

Texas Tech University (TTU) is located in the conservative city of Lubbock. It's an example of campuses that have continued a profusion of DEI practices. Despite media reports that TTU had disbanded DEI after the state ban, everyone knew it was simply "rebranding."

The ten-member Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), appointed by the Governor, stated in its November 2024 compliance audits, that all Texas universities, including TTU, had no violations of Governor Abbott's DEI ban or federal DEI laws. Texas Tech System Board of Regents even made local news affirming its compliance, saying the university had followed both the letter and spirit of the law.

Evidence points to a very different reality about compliance with the spirit of the law.

DEI is alive and well at TTU. It's been rebranded and is now called by equity-sounding pseudonyms, like the new department of Campus Access & Engagement. Most of the faculty is continuing the same work, with some shuffled around departments and given new titles.

DEI infiltrates virtually every department at TTU − such as Human Development and Family Sciences ( formerly "Women's & Gender Studies"), English, History, U.S. History, Human Resources, Agriculture, and Cinema. Even research on "Gender and Identity Affirmation" (GAIA) to social and environmental justice continues. TTU is not the conservative university widely perceived.

Texas Tech Student Counseling Center is one of the most flagrant examples on campus of supporters and promoters of DEI. Its diversity statement remains unchanged, and LGBTQ+ and CRT ideologies are evident in "racial stress" and discrimination counseling, black emotional mental health services, civil rights support, trans hotline, and gender resources.

Student and activist groups, and even sororities, promote DEI on campus, illustrating how widespread and effective the thinking has become among students, as even Best Colleges noted. This past February, TTU sorority sisters made news for winning a national DEI award. Campus Pride's Ultimate Queer College Guide listed over 80 colleges in Texas as best for trans and non-binary students and said that TTU and UT-Dallas would still be on its Best of the Best list if it weren't for the state ban.

If DEI has been banned at Texas campuses, how is it that DEI is still rampant?

The answer is found in the actual text of the legislation. Its sponsors stated: "SB 17 prohibits universities from establishing or maintaining DEI offices, officers, employees, or contractors that perform the duties of a DEI office. It also prohibits requiring certain training and ideological oaths."

But, SB17 has nothing to do with academic courses, applying for grants, research, guest speakers, activities of student organizations, student recruitment or admissions, or data collection. In other words, as KRTH-AM in Houston reported, even if TTU is following the letter of the law, it doesn't cover course curricula.

They are free to teach all the DEI they want.

And they are. This defiance in the spirit of the state ban was even noted by The Federalist last year. Defending Education's latest report "University DEI: Status Quo and Rebrands," found that a total of 403 colleges and universities across the country still had active DEI offices and programs. Its report neglected to include most Texas universities, perhaps because of the widespread belief that DEI had been banned.

But, DEI programs have continued without skipping a beat…at taxpayer expense, not to mention the detrimental costs to the quality of students' education. Recognizing this, Rep Brian Harrison recently introduced the DIE bill (HB2339) to ban all DEI and LGBTQ courses in public universities and defund them. It remains stalled in the Higher Education Committee.

SB37 sponsored by Senator Creighton recently passed and broadly increases state oversight of public universities and colleges, including core curricula to ensure they "equip students for participation in the workforce and in the betterment of society;" govern staff and faculty hiring; and any other subject as determined by the governor's THECB while adding an additional bureaucratic layer. The first version called for curricula reviews to ensure "specific public policies, ideologies or legislation" are not endorsed; the first revision ensured curricula "do not distort significant historical events;" and the final amendment says courses cannot “require or attempt to require a student to adopt a belief that any race, sex, or ethnicity or social, political or religious belief is inherently superior to any other,” as Texas Tribune reported The vague provisions in the bill have been widely criticized in media and it remains to be seen if this latest Creighton bill will have any real effect on DEI.

Just as DEI was intentionally " woven into the fabric of the American Psychological Association," dissecting out Marxist and anti-Christian ideologies from public education is exceedingly complex and another example of trying to purge yeast from bread. And you know what the Bible instructs us to do about that.

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The Biblical role of parents and the family to educate and raise their children, as heeded during America's early history, was obliterated. Biblical teachings were purged from schools. Over the years, education was calculatedly turned over to the government as a collective "right." This move was not only unconstitutional, it was another failure of Americans to uphold the U.S. Constitution and, more importantly, Biblical teachings. Working through the United Nations, globalists and their political allies took control of public education, curriculums, and textbooks to completely transform education in order to indoctrinate generations of children into humanism, unsound science, and eugenics-laced globalism. Christian values have been turned upside down. Over a century of concerted efforts by globalists to destroy the family and churches fully intended to leave children without Biblical guidance and without strong families (fathers, mothers and grandparents and extended family members). Only then, could globalists convince a secular public that the fair "solution" for the education and care of children is by the State.

We now have a massive government bureaucracy controlling every facet of public life and education − including debauched school curriculum and corrosive social mandates − costing taxpayers trillions of dollars in widespread corruption, fraud and waste. Government programs have ballooned and governmental school spending has soared. It has failed our children, whose academic performance, by every measure, has been failing and a socialist mindset has successfully infiltrated our worldly culture.

If you've missed this series, here are the links:

America's Fourth Founding Document: Returning the Bible to Schools

The American Immigrant One Century Ago

American Patriotism Time Travel

Evolution of America's School Classrooms

**The Transformation of America's Schools Begins

Removing the Bible and Science from America's Schools - Part 1

Removing the Bible and Science from America's Schools - Part 2

A Brief Retrospective on Efforts to Transform America

Contemporary History, Power and Money in Global Citizenship Education - Part 1

Contemporary History, Power and Money in Global Citizenship Education - Part 2

What are Our Children Being Taught? - UN's New Age Spirituality

What are Our Children Being Taught? -- Robert Muller's Influence

What are Our Children Being Taught? - UNESCO Globalism Indoctrination

What are Our Children Being Taught? - Training Environmental Activists

What are Our Children Being Taught? - An inside look at what really happens at a Robert Muller School

State's Control of Schools Globalists' Charter School Movement

The Battle to Control Private and Home Schools

School Choice for Christian Parents - Part 1

School Choice for Christian Parents - Part 2

A Word About Homeschool Curriculum

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One of homeschooling parents' greatest challenges is assembling the best instructional materials for their children.

Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV) is a member-supported, non-profit that has supported homeschooling since 1983. It has a biblical worldview and offers a wide variety of reputable curriculum resources for parents.

Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) also offers resources on selecting homeschool curriculum that follows a Christian mission. Parents will also find sound science and Biblical homeschool curriculum from sources that aren't strictly homeschooling providers, such as Answers in Genesis .

Homeschool curriculum requires discernment. While there are some excellent resources for Christian homeschooling parents, they all require discernment, even those offered by some homeschool advocacy groups and Christian sources. Globalism ideologies, UN sustainability goals, and unsound information can sneak into the best courseware resources.

I see that especially among science topics that are popularly aligned with Next Generation Science Standards, STEM and NASA. False scientific teachings have had the most profound influences in education.

Texas Home Educators, an online network of homeschoolers, offers some of the same materials as that from the state's TEA. It mirrors public school curriculum − like NASA and its Climate Kids; NOAA's environmental literacy with classes like "Our planet is changing as we can all help!"; and lessons by Edgenuity (an online learning platform adopted by over 500 public school districts that proved a failure for homeschool learning), such as its Environmental Science Curriculum.

Progressive activism and lobbyists for greater government oversight over homeschooling also show up in all sorts of groups that appear to be homeschool advocacy groups, as HSLDA has cautioned.

The worst homeschool curriculum I've found is recommended by Texas Homeschool Coalition, which is also one of the most vocal promoters of ESA legislation in Texas and laden with unsound information. THSC's top recommendation of homeschooling curriculum, for example, is from Oak Meadow.

Oak Meadow is also one of the top homeschooling companies in the U.S., according to Business Research Insights.

Oak Meadow's mission of "experiential education" and "holistic learning" with a "global perspective and local action" focuses on eco-education, social responsibility, sustainability, "self reflection" and empathy, and achieving connections and "genuine understanding." Its curriculum is beyond troubling. Not only is it filled with pseudoscience and poor scientific information, and unbiblical ideologies, it is aligned with Robert Muller's World Core Curriculum. It examples everything this series has exposed of the globalists' efforts to transform education. See Appendix A below.

The homeschool market in 2023 was valued at $3.59 billion and is growing rapidly and expected to reach $8.95 billion by 2032. There's a lot of money in homeschooling. Countless retailers are selling homeschool curriculum for core education subjects (beyond faith-based teachings from specific religious denominations). Homeschool parents will need to do their homework, practice discernment, and seek the recommendations of reputable pastors and Christian homeschooling organizations like HSLDA and HEAV that make it easier.

Appendix A

Sample homeschool curriculum from Oak Meadow includes:

* The chapter, Food Ethics And Politics, is filled with false information and fears of modern agriculture and food production, based on activist's books and movies.

* The chapter, Sexuality, Relationships and Sex, teaches various gender identities and sexual orientations and rights; what to look for in a partner; that 73% of kids 13-17 watch porn; and the spiritual practices of Yoga rooted in Hindu tradition.

* Book assignments include books on 33 voices about mental health; gut and brain connection in wellness; unlocking the power of dreams and sleep; lost art of breathing to improve your immunity and rejuvenate your internal organs; ultra-processed people and why they should eat only organic natural alternatives; fears of chemistry and food additives and how the food industry "exploits addictions;" the new science of mind-body connection in preventing mood disorders, ADHD, addiction, aging and autism; religious rituals and personal rituals to counter chaos; and how to handle natural disasters and global pandemics.

"Anatomy and Physiology" launches right into the unproven "emerging field of personalized medicine;" and that “male” and “female” do not capture the full range of human bodies and experiences when it comes to sex and gender.

"Global Climate Change in the 21st Century"teaches the complete myths of climate change from human activities, "particularly fossil fuel burning," green house gases from meat food production, fears of droughts and rising oceans, wetlands and land use, and the global impacts on marginalized and indigenous peoples, racism, poverty and political instability. The course uses NASA's definitions and "consensus of climate scientists." It includes a chapter on other "ways of knowing" and indigenous groups, and readings on "this environmental catastrophe is global!" Lesson 14 ends in Activism and taking action.

"Environmental Science for a Changing World"includes 36 lessons on "the earth: our home, responsibility." It commends environmental activist, Rachel Carson, and teaches fears of chemicals, carbon monoxide, radon, cancer clusters, toxins, overpopulation, and extinction of species. Recommended reading sources are environmental activist publications.

"U.S. History: Conflict and Compromise" is obvious from the title and portrays a negative view of American history.

"Psychology: Journey Toward Self-Knowledge"looks at questions surrounding the "mystery of our existence, our place within the universe and why we think and behave the way we do." It teaches that human evolution gave birth to psychology and women pioneered the field to become culturally and gender diverse. It teaches diversity as adopted by the American Psychological Association, "implicit association," tests on gender and sexuality, and the unconscious mind.

"Race and Ethnic Studies: Power and Perspective"includes chapters on race, power and privilege, whiteness, colonialism and slavery, migration, Islamophobia, inequity, Orientalism, "Red Power" and sovereign rights, Black Lives Matter, and art and protest.

"Foodways: Sustainable Food Systems" is an entire 18-week course of UN sustainable agriculture mythology, indigenous stories, anti-modern agricultural ideologies, and an extensive reading list of activist books.

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Homeschooling itself is the least government-regulated education option and has been proven better overall for children compared to public schools.

Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is the nonprofit founded in 1983 by members seeking to protect the freedom to homeschool. HSLDA is a Christian organization that believes God has given all parents the right and responsibility over the upbringing and education of their children. It offers complete information and resources for parents looking to homeschool – from support groups, understanding teaching and educational approaches, state homeschool laws, selecting curriculum and what to teach, testing, record keeping, and special needs.

The main reasons parents look to homeschool are well known and have been reported by Public School Exit and were covered in this series. They include: academic quality, moral and religious concerns, greater safety, political ideologies, personalized and flexible instruction, and freedom of caring parental involvement.

As in all states, exorbitant public school spending has had no relationship to student learning, which has only continued to worsen. TEA, for example, recently released the 2023-2024 Texas Academic Performance Reports on every school district in the state. It found only 16%, 17% and 17% of 8 ^th graders had mastered 8 ^th grade mathematics, science, and social studies , respectively. And only 29% had mastered reading. ("Mastered" is defined as those students whose performance indicates they are expected to succeed in the next grade with little or no remedial academic intervention. In previous generations, that simple requirement would have been necessary to pass a grade and move on to the next.)

Not surprisingly, the dismal state of public education has left growing numbers of parents unhappy with the woke, low quality, and unbiblical curricula and wanting the freedom to choose alternatives they believe best for their children, without government interference.

Homeschooling has been the fastest growing form of education across the nation, according to the National Home Education Research Institute. Virginia is among the states with the highest number of homeschoolers, at 4.8% of students by 2021.

Homeschooling in Texas increased 55% between 2020-2021, alone, according to Texas Public Policy Foundation. By the 2020 school year, there were nearly 480,000 homeschooled children in Texas – nearly double that of students even enrolled in private schools.

Research to date on homeschooling has overwhelmingly shown positive results for homeschooled students compared to public schooled students.

* Despite popular myths that homeschooling parents are primarily wealthier, U.S. Census Bureau survey data found homeschooling households are in all income ranges, averaging about 12.5% at incomes under $25,000 to up to $99,999; the lowest percentages are actually among the highest income households.

* Credible and objective data has shown homeschoolers are safer and at a lower risk for child abuse.

* Homeschooled children turn out happier, well-adjusted and more engaged than those in public schools, according to Harvard University research.

* Homeschooled children develop closer family bonds, are shielded from peer pressure and bullying, have lower stress levels, have higher levels of self-esteem and self-confidence, have more diverse and more meaningful socialization connections, and develop greater independence and self-motivation, according to GerosHealth. [Image: GerosHealth]

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Realities for homeschoolers

Informed homeschool parents recognize the political realities and the long-standing evidence. They know that accepting government ESA money means being subject to government regulation.

Illinois homeschool parents learned that last month when they were hit with a new state House Bill that would require them to register with the state every year, like sex-offenders, if they want to educate their children at home; with jail time and fines for noncompliance, along with leaving them open to investigations by child and family services. The new legislation (HB2827), known as “the Homeschool Act” , also authorizes an education or public school official to demand, without notice or reason and as many times as he/she wishes, the family to produce evidence of courseware instruction that satisfies the state school code standards. Educational criteria and reporting requirement for parents were also imposed. Homeschool children are also required to comply with all public school health, medical, and immunization reporting requirements to participate in any public school activity. But, the legislation is written so that it can be expanded to all homeschoolers through the State Board of Election, according to Home School Legal Defense Association. Illinois Christian Home Educators (ICHE) and allied organizations are fighting back .

In Texas, homeschooling parents are also vulnerable to state overreach, explained attorney, Albert Hollan. TEA determines whether a parent is operating a home school in a bona fide manner, he explained. While currently, it recognizes homeschooling and parents have broad freedoms, authority over homeschooling is based only on case law (known as the Leeper law) and can be changed at any time by the legislature (and Governor and his Commissioner).

During school choice debates, public disinformation runs rampant. Proponents even tried to claim this past year that school choice programs in 32 states hadn't increased regulations for homeschooling. Texas Homeschool Coalition (THSC), which had endorsed Governor Abbott's campaign and has long campaigned for school choice, made this claim using a survey out of Johns Hopkins School of Education. Texas Home Educators applied careful discernment in completely debunking the spurious study.

The most genuinely sincere opposition to school choice does not come from those who stand to profit or have alternative interests. It doesn't come from those with big financial backers or loud politically connected voices. It doesn't come from groups masquerading as home school advocacy organizations. The greatest opposition to school choice legislation across the country comes from Christian homeschoolers themselves.

Like ICHE in Illinois and THE in Texas, HSLDA has been a leading voice for homeschool parents across the country and in opposition of school choice legislation. HSLDA has followed legislation closely for years and warned homeschooling parents of the dangers in school choice and ESAs. HSLDA realizes it is a silent footprint – they do what they do for the sake of the children:

"My experience with my 7-year-old son taught me that my role as father is not that of dictator; rather, I came to see my job as that of a shepherd. My children are not products. Like the still-small voice that first drew me and has since guided and sustained me, I have striven to nurture, challenge, and keep my children safe so they can hear God’s still-small voice guiding them. It is my job to prepare them for their life to come—both temporal and eternal….

I believe God has placed to-die-for love in my heart for my children. For me, parenting is a truly awesome responsibility in the old sense of the word: inspiring an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear. I sometimes fail. I often fall short. But I nevertheless aspire to be a great dad. And homeschooling has been one vehicle for my wife Debbie and I to love our children as God would have us do…

We honor God by nurturing them in their uniqueness and by faithfully curating their education…. For the sake of your children. That’s always been our heart, even if it has sometimes been buried in a silent footnote." – James R. Mason, President, HSLDA

Christian home schoolers stand alone in many states as the only real voice for educating children as the Bible instructed.

Globalism is like yeast

The undeniable conclusion about government schools is that it has become virtually impossible for parents to obey Jesus and ensure that their children are educated with a Biblical worldview. Turning their children over to the state or subjecting their education to government control, guarantees their children will be encircled in globalism, as well as a falling quality of education.

Globalism has infected every professional teacher and education association; every government educational department and agency – state and local; and every secular organization in education, science and medicine.

It's much as yeast infects the bread of life with corruption and evil , as Scripture warned. Just as DEI was intentionally " woven into the fabric of the American Psychological Association," dissecting out Marxist and anti-Christian ideologies from public education will be impossible.

Christ instructed us to purge yeast from among us. For Christian parents, returning the education of their children back to the folds of homes, families and churches is the only way to save their children and raise them in a Biblical worldview. Homeschooling and Christian schools are the only real options left for Christian parents – but only if parents remain in control to choose the curriculum and providers for their children's education with no interference from the government.

That is only possible by parents not going along with school choice or accepting government money…money that comes with strings attached. Just as education was used as a means to fundamentally transform America to a socialist-technocratic vision of utopia … education can also be a way to fundamentally restore America to the exceptional God-blessed vision of our country's founders.

Addendum:Homeschooling parents, may find "A word about homeschool curriculum" of help when selecting instructional materials for core education subjects.

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Where do you stand on the school choice issue? If you are a Christian parent trying to faithfully follow Biblical teachings, your position will be very different from those with secular worldviews. The school choice debate currently raging across America is a profound test of Christian parents' faith.

Today is the final exam.

Biblical teachings, commanding fathers with the responsibility of teaching their children, and training them in the way they should go, were nearly abandoned in America a century ago. The lure of "free" government subsidized education led parents to turn the education of their children over to the state. The state, in control of the purse strings, then controlled what all children in public schools were taught, what they would be permitted to think and believe, and what they must do…with the goal to transform America to socialism.

"School choice" is the last round to coerce the parents who have resisted government schooling to get on board. Once again, the lure is "free" subsidized education.

What does "School Choice" really mean?

School Choice is a lobbying term. It refers to various programs that are marketed as giving parents a "choice" in how their children are educated. In reality, however, all of these programs as legislated across the country are actually about how government (taxpayer) money is spent for education .

School choice programs all work to normalize the idea that education is a responsibility of the government rather than parents.

They are essentially new welfare programs, increasing the number of families dependent on the government, increasing state education budgets, increasing the size of state education administrations and the number of state employees, and expanding government control over education. Worse, those expanded state education budgets primarily benefit vested interests − those powerful, politically-connected, private-public partnerships of stakeholders and teacher unions.

Of the various school choice programs currently run by states: 20 are "Education Savings Accounts" (ESAs), 20 are voucher programs (sometimes nicknamed opportunity scholarships), 25 offer tax credit programs that allow corporations or families to write off approved educational expenses; and 17 have no private school choice programs.

The concept of school choice first entered public policy debates in the 1950s as a concept of "public good." – "goods and services that produce benefits to the collective and individuals," according to the Manhattan Institute. Milton Friedman referred to the common need for an educated citizenry in a democracy and believed that if left to the private market alone, people might not avail enough education to fulfill this common need. As a result, said the Manhattan white paper, he supported universal public financing of education to "deliver some common set of values and a minimum degree of literacy and knowledge on the part of most citizens." By the 1970s, calls for equity, equalizing family power, and social justice moved most school choice programs to non-universal financing.

Nationwide, only 15 states have universal school choice. In universal school choice programs, all students qualify, regardless of family income, location, demographic, or disability. Its proponents argue that education should be a free market for all families unburdened by excessive state regulations, with all parents having input and a voice. The glaring fallacy, of course, is that there is nothing "free market" about programs involving government money.

Non-universal school choice programs are only open to qualifying students − usually low income, minorities, those with disabilities or special needs, living in certain districts or attending certain schools. These essentially redistribute public funds in attempts towards equity and fairness, and are promoted today by progressives and teacher unions.

School vouchers give public education funds to parents that can only be spent at participating private schools. ESA's are a form of vouchers where public funds are put into a government account that may be used by parents for "approved" educational expenses (such as private school tuitions, tutoring, online courses, and home school curricula).

While individual states each have their own set of guidelines, both voucher and ESA programs operate and are funded similarly. They stipulate that public funds pay for third-party private contract managers, called "certified educational assistance organizations" (CEAOs), that hold state money in trust, manage applications, and distribute payments to parents for approved expenses. There's big money and politics behind who gets these state CEAO contracts.

ClassWallet, based in Florida and established in 2014, is the largest CEAO and has focused its business on the school choice market, heavily lobbying state legislators and state public school administrators. Its lobbyists have succeeded in getting contracts with education departments in 32 states managing over $2.7 billion in public funds. The school market enabled the company's business to increase 700% and its transaction revenue to triple between 2020-2021.

With little or no government oversight, ClassWallet has been immersed in fraudulent ESA payments in multiple states. In Arizona, fraudulent ESA payments were made for ski passes and golf equipment, and two Colorado residents had collected $110,000 in fraudulent ESA payments for 50 children, 43 of whom didn't exist.

Oklahoma had contracted with ClassWallet to manage the $17.35 million Governors Emergency Education Relief funds in 2020 but ClassWallet became embroiled in over nearly half a million dollars in questionable spending found during a Federal audit, while also continuing to operate on an expired contract, according to Oklahoma Watch.

ClassWallet currently has three lobbyists working Virginia politicians on education procurement opportunities and four working in Texas, for example. Virginia Department of Education contracted ClassWallet to administer up to $30 million in EANS Funds.

Texas Education Association (TEA) also contracted with ClassWallet to handle Texas' Special Education Services program, charging a 2.5% service fee for its Pay Vendor portal. TEA, headed by a Commissioner appointed by the Texas Governor, is the state agency that oversees all K-12 public education, funding, testing and assessment and accountability programs, accreditation of statewide curriculums and programs, data collection and regulatory compliance.

Last week, the Texas legislature voted for school choice and simultaneously approved the state's largest budget in its history at $337.4 billion (nearly $48 billion in new spending, even though the state has record revenue and a historic $80 billion budget surplus from over-collected taxes from taxpayers). Its K-12 public education budget also increased the base amount per student by 13.6% over the 2025-2026 budget, even though public school enrollment has been declining several years.

If you guessed politics are big in Texas, you don't know the half of it. Even before this latest legislation, Texas' spending on public education was already more than the entire state budgets of 45 states, according to TPPF. Public education has long been the state's top spending priority, accounting for $38.2% of the 2024-25 state's general revenue budget. Schools are not underfunded in Texas. According to TEA, the total operating expenditures for the 2022-2023 school year were over $92.4 billion, which was $16,792 per public school student.

Not a single Texas politician I heard made the Biblical case against school choice. Instead, politicians created a new education account of $1 billion to fund ESAs, along with allocating an additional $7.7 billion towards public school education (to appease the unions). The school choice legislation will also use public funds topay as many as five CEAOs up to 5% of the appropriated educational funds, which equates to tens of millions of dollars in profit for these companies.

The specifics of the legislation translates to the state Comptroller becoming headmaster over all students in the program, controlling all education vendors, admission priorities, testing mandates, and spending. It also means it will not be a universal program and very few of the 350,000 students in private schools or the 750,000 homeschool students will have access to the school choice program, said Bill Peacock, former Vice President of Research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF).

"School Choice" means less choice

The issue of eligibility of religious school education for school choice funds was settled in three Supreme Court rulings, according to the Manhattan Institute. Nonsectarian status for fund eligibility was also ruled an unconstitutional violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, enabling access of school choice funds equally to religious schools. While a state is not required to subsidize private educations, reported the Manhattan white paper, "once a state decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious."

However, all school choice programs because they use state funds are also subject to state regulations and accountability, Manhattan Institute confirmed. "Free money" from government always comes with strings: required compliance to government "quality measures," curriculum and textbooks determined by the government, testing and reporting mandates, and oversight. Whatever the government funds, it controls.

Rallying cries for school choice to enable parents to choose private or homeschool education options for their children are Trojan horses. Certainly, private and Christian schools and homeschooling can offer education more closely aligned with parental values and less inundated by progressive ideologies, while escaping a lot of state regulations, especially concerning textbooks, curriculum, records, and student testing compliance. However, as soon as state public money gets involved, the state becomes an interested party, with a "compelling state interest, according to constitutional lawyer William Bentley Ball.

Under school choice, as soon as government money is accepted, private, charter, church and even home schooling will become de-facto public schools under the government .

That's what is meant by the statement that the final result of school choice is less choice in K-12 education.

"School Choice" lobbyists play both sides of the debate

The school choice lobby is massive. In Texas, for example, there are twelve public education lobby associations with 86 register lobbyists, according to the Texas Ethics Commission. In addition to this army of hired public school lobbyists working the Texas Capitol, 27 school districts also hired their own lobbyists in 2024, according to Texas Conservative Research Institute. Lobbying is marketing, media and polling is marketing, and disinformation abounds.

You can tell who stands to benefit by observing who supports school choice. Private schools and homeschool providers lobbying for school choice see it as a way to gain more students and raise revenue. Most fail, however, to acknowledge the risks of accepting school choice benefits to parents who want freedom from government control over their children's education, or freedom from the woke ideologies infecting today's public-funded education.

Globalist interests are shrouded in both opposition and support for school choice. NEA and teachers groups are the largest vocal opponents of anything that touches their public school gravy train. They are also, however, either poorly informed or intentionally deceptive about their opposition to school choice. That's because it's well recognized – across the country and around the world − that school choice legislation increases government control over education, and that those education departments and government agencies in control promote the very progressive policies and globalism ideologies supported by the unions. They're all on the same team, in actuality.

As we've seen, globalists have also lobbied hard for school choice in order to move more public money and influence to the private and charter schools they support, where their progressive ideologies are imposed.

School associations, with significant influence on curriculums, school policies, and school accreditations, also lobby legislatures and politicians for school choice. School choice legislation will mean more parents will have no choice but to comply with their guidelines. The largest associations for private and even Christian school accreditations, in fact, comply with the United Nation's and UNESCO's globalist ideologies in school curricula. That includes the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI).

Accountability and transparency

ESAs and vouchers are still relatively new and evolving. The year 2023 saw historic growth of school choice programs, as parents rebelled from public school policies such as DEI, racial quotas and gender identities; the government's response to a virus of school closures and digital learning; and failing academics, according to Manhattan Institute. That year, seven states adopted new choice programs and another 12 expanded existing ones. However, along with that growth came arguments for accountability and that "school choice programs should be designed to help parents 'make good choices,'" and make parents "instruments of accountability." All but two states required annual state testing and reporting to the state education department.

The newness of school choice means there is little systematic evidence yet, according to a policy analysis by WestEd. However, the inevitability of government control is clear. Under federal law, states are required to have accountability systems in place for all public-funded schools, including reporting student outcomes. As state policymakers focus attention on accountability of ESAs and how public money is spent, states will address academic, financial and data/reporting accountability , the analysts said.

School choice programs will be called upon to ensure that taxpayer funds are spent on items that offer "educational benefit," WestEd said. [They're often called "quality measures."] Already, several ESA statutes require parents to agree to only use funds on state-approved core academic subjects; 14 require state or national assessments to monitor learning; and nearly all require audits and data collection and reporting of interest to stakeholders and the public.

Public school proponents and NEA teacher unions lobby that anyone receiving public money for education should be under the same regulations as public schools. Last year, for example, Arizona governor increased accountability and transparency in its ESA voucher program to hold private school expenditures to the same standards as public schools.

The most formidable evidence of the enormous political power behind government regulation of any private school, religious school or homeschooling program − as soon as school choice is enacted and public funds are used − was in the policy white paper issued by UNESCO.

According to UNESCO, autonomous public-funded private and home schools are not exempt from complying with centrally defined curriculums, learning standards or student admission criteria, among other public regulations. Accountability frameworks play a strategic role in promoting that all publicly-funded schools, independently of their ownership, are correctly aligned with quality standards and also with the equity goals and objectives set by the government."Its proposed regulatory strategies included everything from authorization of providers, fees and caps, admission criteria, evaluations and testing, teacher qualification requirements, and monitoring and surveillance.

Last September, the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado-Boulder (NEPC), issued its policy recommendations on oversight of ESA funding for private and home schools. NEPC is funded by various governmental organizations, NGOs and foundations, including NEA, AFT, Ford Foundation and others. It not only opposes universal school choice, it lobbies for public education and globalists' UN's sustainable development goals, along with over 380 other members of the Global Campaign for Peace Education.

NEPC's recommendations to policymakers include: eliminating universal eligibility for ESA programs to prioritize low-income and disabilities to promote equity; limit eligible expenses and pursue sanctions for ineligible purchases; collect and publicly report data on all students receiving ESA funds; conduct annual studies; mandate academic testing and require state "norm-referenced assessments of all ESA recipients;" and "extend accountability and quality measures that govern public schools to all participating private schools, virtual schools, and homeschool settings."

It is doubtful that any state legislature or school district or governor will stand up against these political interests.

Parents accepting school choice government money will have little power over government regulations of their child's education. Taxpayers without children, such as elderly, will continue to be forced to pay for secular or poor-performing public schools and school policies. No taxpayer will be able to control how their hard earned money will be used towards educating America's children.

In reality, "school choice" vouchers and ESAs are all sleight of hand, back door, ways to grow government, expand government budgets and taxes, and increase government control over K-12 education.

School Choice for Christian Parents – Part 2, looks at the benefits of home schooling and caveats in school choice.

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In the previous segment, Globalists' Charter School Movement, we learned that billionaire globalists moved to indoctrinate children through charter schools that they could control. Charter schools failed to be a viable option for many Christian parents, though. Globalist stakeholders have recently turned their sights on private schools.

Private schools, even Christian ones, are not immune from globalism influences and errant curriculum.

There are three main paths for globalism − with its anti-Christian, anti-science, anti-patriotic ideologies − to infect alternative, nonpublic schools. Private schools, even faith-based schools, online schools, and homeschools all suffer from these serious vulnerabilities: state regulations, accreditation and school associations.

All states regulate and assume responsibility over the accreditation of public schools, but they currently have far fewer regulations over private and Christian schools.

Without a "compelling state interest," Christian schools can escape a lot of state regulations, especially concerning textbooks, curriculum, teacher certification, school and attendance records, and student performance. However, as soon as state public money gets involved, the state becomes an interested party and private schools are subject to greater scrutiny in their compliance with public state education guidelines .

This is the fundamental principle behind the push for "school choice," as we'll see.

State regulations of private and home schools are available at the Department of Education website . State regulations vary wildly but since the 1990s, about 96% of private schools have been accredited or comply with standards set by various national, regional or state private school organizations and maintain standards that have been recognized by education agencies.

Accreditation Myths

While "accreditation" is heavily marketed by third party vested interests, accreditation of private schools is required in only three states in the country, according to the DOE (with two other states exempting religious private schools, and two others only requiring accreditation for participation in government voucher programs). Twenty-two states have only basic curriculum requirements (reading, writing/grammar, math, science and social studies), with sixteen requiring teaching state history and constitution, and three have required curriculum only for accreditation.

Accreditation of private and Christian schools is essentially a marketing tactic, promoted by accrediting bodies, such as the Association of Christian Schools International, and school associations.

* Accreditation is marketed as a label of excellence, as meeting "quality" standards and a stamp of approval.

* Accreditation is also marketed to schools as a way to build a school's reputation, entice parents, increase enrollment, and secure funding and donations.

* Accrediting bodies have especially convinced state education departments and policy makers to require accreditation to align "state accountability" systems that were set up with the globalism agendas in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), monitor school performance, and compel compliance with government education directives. As an accountability measure, whenever public funds are used for private schools, states can mandate accreditation and compliance with the education requirements issued by a third party accreditor.

In other words, accreditation is not just about making money, but a way for the state and stakeholders to increase control over education in private and Christian schools.

The list of accrediting bodies for U.S. schools is extensive, and states control which accreditations they will accept in order for private schools to operate in their state. In Texas, for example, all private schools must be accredited by one of the 19 agencies approved by the state, under its private school accreditation commission (TPSAC). It is exceedingly difficult for parents and the public to realize, however, that this accreditation is optional for private schools, as it is buried in fine print.

School Associations Infusing Globalism

Most private schools and faith-based schools also belong to school associations that have significant influence on curriculum and school policies. They provide "research and statistics;" lobby legislatures for favorable policies; and work closely with politicians, media and third party accreditation bodies. Most school associations are 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that do not have to reveal their donors or conflicted interests on their IRS 990 tax filings. All can surreptitiously bring globalism to their children's education, and require close discernment by parents.

We'll just look at the a couple of the largest and most used.

The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) claims to be the largest association for independent schools, to provide leadership and collaboration with education leaders, and offer its own accreditation. However, only 1,707 private schools are part of NAIS, most secular. Not only does DEI appear throughout its online publications, its school accreditation standards use the Model Core Standards that require all school programs to adopt social-emotional learning; promote equity and diversity; foster international cultures; and adopt United Nation's goals to "recognize global connectedness, promote a culture of global understanding, and foster a commitment to the values of sustainability in all areas including preservation of the environment."

The National Council for Private School Accreditation includes a multitude of private and faith-based school accreditation organizations and state accreditation commissions.

Eliminating the DOE will simply move all of its initiatives to be carried out by NCPSA member organizations.

NCPSA compliant members include the accreditation organizations used by nearly all Christian and faith-based schools in America.

That bears repeating.

Nearly all Christian and faith-based schools in America are affiliated with NCPSA members, which means they have agreed to comply with its globalist goals for transforming America's education. These influences may be veiled, but are embedded enough into the school curricula to have successfully been awarded NCPSA approval.

COGNIA

COGNIA (formerly known as AdvanceED) is the parent organization of NCA CASI, NWAC, and SACS CASI).

COGNIA's global network for sustainable improvement offers accreditation, STEM and CBE certifications. COGNIA's Global Commission governs accreditation and certification.

Its school guidelines mirror United Nation's sustainable education goals through UNESCO in directing schools to cultivate a sustaining culture with fairness, equity and inclusion; focus on well-being and social relationships; emphasize digital learning and technology infrastructure; collaborate with school associations such as National School Board Association and National Association of Independent Schools; emphasize diverse cultures in their curriculum; and follow American Association of School Librarians' recommended literature and media (parents across the country have opposed the sexualized and Marxist content of school librarian books as inappropriate for children, exampled by the top 10 "challenged" books of 2024 and 2023 ).

It accredits over 40,000 public and private schools in over 90 countries. All public schools in Idaho , for example, are required to be accredited by COGNIA, which also accredits 42.6% of all private schools in the state.

More than 7,000 private, faith-based and independent schools are accredited by COGNIA.

COGNIA accreditation is common among private and religious schools across the country (156 private schools in Texas and Christian schools from Dallas to Lubbock; and 63 private schools in Virginia ). About 49% and 44% of COGNIA-accredited private schools in Texas and Virginia, respectively, are religious schools.

By far, the largest accreditor of Christian schools is ACSI. COGNIA is partnered with ACSI and 90% of private schools accredited by ACSI also have COGNIA accreditation.

ACSI

The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) is a 501(c)(3) organization of over 26,000 international evangelical Christian schools in 108 countries, headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO. Its members say they contribute to the public good through biblically sound, socially engaged and culturally relevant content and teachers that engage in transformational teaching and discipling.

ACSI accreditation standards, called Inspire , mandate equipping students with a global perspective and connecting students with global communities; having instructional materials with biblical and global perspectives; and submitting regular reports to the global office on school demographics, faculty qualifications, and other metrics specified by the global office or divisional accreditation commission.

The courses, Cultivating Biblical Unity, were by Tia Gaines – who sits on ASCI's Board of Trustees, is a faculty member of ACSI's Flourishing School Institute, and Executive Director of UnifiED – along with her husband, Joel, ACSI's director of leadership development. The other course developers were Jerry Nelsen, ACSI's Chief Ministry Officer; and Walter Strickland with UnifiED's racial and diversity curriculum. Strickland is a well known Black Christianity professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary who writes and speaks on critical race theory and systemic injustice.

Investigative series on the Biblical false doctrines in ACSI's curriculum by Strickland and its James Cone's black theology influences, were published at Thirty Pieces of Silver and Capstone Report, which explained the dangers of racial identity politics and multiculturalism. ACSI's inclusion teacher training for LGBTQ+ was also called out by Rev. Thomas Littleton.

ACSI has also been an affiliate member of the World Evangelical Alliance, the largest interdenominational group of evangelical Christian churches in the world, established at Freemason's Hall in London in 1846. It is partnered with the United Nations and has offices at the United Nations (in New York City, Geneva and Bonn). With the World Council of Churches, it participates in global interfaith events to move the world "towards greater oneness in Christ." As Christians know, calls for Biblical unity is the false teaching of global ecumenism that God warned against 2,000 years ago.

ACSI is the largest and most influential association of Christian schools in the world. It alone shows how far the world has fallen from Jesus' teachings.

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As revealed in States' Control of Schools, globalists and their political allies succeeded in establishing a powerful power structure to control education at state and local levels, virtually untouchable from parental influences.

Globalists have been accelerating their move to take control of education using another angle that gives the appearance of parent advocacy.

Billionaire venture capitalist globalists backed by aligned government officials are behind a movement to transform ("disrupt") public education. The end objective is to increase control of education to these superrich oligarchs themselves.

They work through "school choice" legislation and school board elections, moving money and influence to private and charter schools they support. Their school curriculums then indoctrinate children to their globalist social vision. A few of these world billionaire globalists include:

* John Doerr – He's a board member of New Schools Venture Fund which funds charter schools that are said to be innovative and promote racial and social equity, advance left progressive and CRT aligned curriculum, and use schools for social protest while de-emphasizing academics, according to Influence Watch; he donated $1.1 billion to establish a School of Sustainability under his name at Stanford; and the past decade has focused his investments on climate change, sustainability, education, AI and public health.

* Bill Gates – His globalist education initiatives, all far-left ideas, have been extensively covered in this series.

* Reed Hastings − Netflix co-founder and former board member of Microsoft and Facebook, Hastings has spent over $200 million to support charter schools and school choice, spent millions on school board elections for school choice candidates, as well as progressive social change and racial justice and equity causes, and UN global health initiatives; and served as President on the California State Board of Education.

* Powell Jobs − She co-founded XQ Institute which partners with Carnegie ; its core mission is to disrupt, rethink and radically transform high school; its curriculum is pure globalist Marxism; she also pours millions to influence school board elections; and is president of Emerson Collective for social justice reform in education, which also funds influential school board candidates and digital curriculum providers such as Amplify.

* Mark Zuckerberg – He poured over $100 million in an effort to revolutionize American education with an online personalized learning platform he said could lead to "transformational improvements in student learning" − but which failed; $100 million to New Jersey charter schools were also failures ; he continues funding similar initiatives other states, such as Hawaii, including a group of charter schools with Summit Public Schools that have adopted his platform − but have yet to produce any evidence that they improve learning; he also spent $65 billion in 2025 alone for experimental AI projects in schools, which he anticipates will yield massive profits for him and Meta.

* Michael Bloomberg – He founded Bloomberg Philanthropies (with Bloomberg Family Foundation) one of the largest philanthropies in the world, operating in over 700 world cities. He deserves a special note.

Bloomberg works alongside globalist partners with the World Economic Forum, including Bill & Melinda Gates, David Rockefeller Jr., and George Soros. He hosts events such as Bloomberg Global Business Forum at the UN General Assembly, and Bloomberg New Economy Forum. He is a UN special envoy on climate change and gives massive amounts to green energy, net zero initiatives, sustainable development, population growth, abortion, and environmental causes. He contributed $4.5 million to the UN's climate change body (UNFCCC) last year alone and recently announced he would cover the Paris climate accord budget for the U.S.

All of the over 100 programs Bloomberg funds involve building larger governments, increasing regulations and control, and enacting UN sustainable goals. He coordinates public policies through Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, for example, to direct governors, mayors, city and municipal leaders and city innovators, distributing $3 billion last year alone.

After supporting Common Core in 2016, Bloomberg committed $750 million in 2021 to create 150,000 new charter schools in the U.S. He also supports Global Cities and Global Scholars in 46 cities with a global digital curriculum for students 10-13 years old, designed for an interconnected world.

Bloomberg Philanthropies, along with Carnegie Corporation, Bill & Melinda Gates, Zuckerberg Initiative, XQ, Walton Family Foundation and other globalist nonprofits also launched "The 74," a news site promoting "school-choice."

Charter schools have not proven to be the answer for many Christian parents

Public charter schools educate an estimated 3 millions students in America today. Charter school enrollments have grown, while traditional public school attendance is dropping. But charter schools have become the source of one of the most controversial debates in education.

The charter school movement began with well intentioned efforts to break the monopoly of government public schools. During the 1960s, both progressives and conservatives thought that privatizing education would enable market forces and competition, rather than the government, improve public education as failing schools closed. During the 1980s, the idea grew of charters that would move public funding to independently managed schools that could experiment with better ways to educate the nearly 80% of students who weren't being served well.

Charter schools were intensely marketed beginning in the 1990s, mostly by those billionaire globalists, adding another powerful means to bring globalism ideologies to education while appearing to offer a nonpublic school option.

Charter schools have more flexibility to be innovative and try different things or specialize in certain academics, arts or athletics, and may receive grants from vested interests. Their variability was a school choice selling point to parents looking for options beyond public schools.

What was missed, however, was that these were not really free market school programs or free from government control and oversight. State-sanctioned schools, that operate under a government approved charter, can quickly became indistinguishable from public schools.

The Institute of Education Sciences (a government organization) explains charter schools in more detail. Charter schools are publicly-funded and privately administered under a legislative contract (a charter), but held under the same academic and accountability standards as traditional public schools .

School districts themselves authorize nearly 40% of charter schools, state education agencies authorize another 28% of charter schools, with the rest under nonprofit or for-profit organizations, according to an article published by Harvard Graduate School of Education.

NEA and teacher unions have universally opposed any competition to public schools, even though progressives supported the idea of vouchers that redistributed public funds to prioritize low-income minority children for alternative schools. The pro-public school state Associations of School Boards, as in Texas , also oppose non-public school options and their power gives them the ability to block or limit new charter schools or funding allotments.

Some charter schools do well and better than traditional public schools. However, they are still part of the public school system. After 25 years and about 6,000 charter schools, overall, the charter school experiment has failed to be proven better, according to public school advocacy and lobbying groups such as the Network for Public Education. It reported that more than a quarter of charter schools close within the first five years of operation, which grew to 55% during Covid in 2020. The main reasons cited included declining enrollment, mismanagement, financial failure, and low academic performance. They reported that this instability and disruption can have long-term harmful impacts on student learning.

And, this research didn't even consider the detrimental Marxist indoctrination in the curriculums!

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America's public schools have been on the front lines in the battle to remake our nation for a new world order, as we've seen in this series. The globalists' efforts to break down everything that has made America exceptional specifically targeted and sacrificed our children and their education.

The Biblical role of parents and the family to educate and raise their children, as heeded during America's early history, was obliterated. Biblical teachings were purged from schools. Over the years, education was calculatedly turned over to the government as a collective "right." This move was not only unconstitutional, it was another failure of Americans to uphold the U.S. Constitution and, more importantly, Biblical teachings. Working through the United Nations, globalists and their political allies took control of public education, curriculums, and textbooks to completely transform education in order to indoctrinate generations of children into humanism and eugenics-laced globalism.

Centuries of concerted efforts by globalists to destroy the family and churches, were fully intended to leave children without Biblical guidance and without strong families (fathers, mothers and grandparents and extended family members). Only then, could globalists convince a secular public that the fair "solution" for the education and care of children is by the State.

Some Americans are finally waking up to what has happened, as we face a massive government bureaucracy controlling every facet of public education − including a debauched curriculum and corrosive social mandates − costing taxpayers trillions of dollars in widespread corruption, fraud and waste. As government programs have ballooned and governmental school spending has soared, it has failed our children, whose academic performance, by every measure, hasn't improved for half a century and has deteriorated most notably over the past decade, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. [Image: Cato Institute]

As planned, globalist education has succeeded in creating a socialist mindset throughout our culture, as America's independent spirit has nearly been fully crushed.

For instance, it would have been unthinkable for proud, hard working early Americans to take from their neighbors, or those in need, and not repay a loan. We saw that among America's colonists and early immigrants. Able-bodied young people in America's early history, including our Founding Fathers and early immigrants, saw their duty t o contribute to building up the Country and to care for others. That ethos is almost extinct.

Absent regular Bible study and reflections on the Seventh Commandment, even the work ethic has faded. A growing socialist mindset among young people has trained them to expect unearned government handouts. That may partly explain why 40% of $1.8 trillion in student loans are delinquent. Meanwhile, Medicare and Social Security − a lifeline for millions of seniors and disabled − are being threatened by a $1.6 trillion federal deficit, as CNN reported . Christian values have been turned upside down.

States are not the solution

While academic performance among America's students has only worsened over the past 50 years since the federal Department of Education was established, it's a myth that shuttering it and "returning education to the states and local school districts" will be the solution.

Why? Because states and local communities have held the power and control over public education all along .

In fact, globalists and their political allies have been most influential on the state and local levels . They long ago put their power structure in place – through governors and state legislators, statewide school and curriculum accreditation, mandated student testing, school administrators, and local school boards.

That will not change simply by cutting one layer of bureaucracy in Washington, DC.

"Returning education control to the states" won't remedy the evils in our schools or give parents and local school districts more input or control over their children's education, either. To understand why, we first need to remember the special interests who've brought (and bought) education to this point.

The major powers (covered in this series) behind establishing the Department of Education, Common Core and STEM, No Child Left Behind Act, social-emotional learning (SEL), DEI, social programs through education, and the UN's World Core Curriculum will remain as powerful as ever:

* NEA – National Education Association and the teacher organizations active on global, federal, state, and local levels

* CCSSO − Council of Chief State School Officers and the school administrators in every state

* NGA – National Governors Association and every governor member

* UNESCO, globalist corporations, and nonprofit foundations

NEA and every one of its state branches and professional teacher organizations have resolutely stood behind public education and remain active lobbyists for NEA's agendas. NEA states that not only are they "the world's largest professional association of educators, we are the strongest force for public education in the country."

“We must reclaim public education as a common good, and transform it into something it was never designed to be: racially and socially just, and equitable system.” – Becky Pringle at NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly ,July 2024

CCSSO was a primary driving force behind the enactment of Common Core and STEM, No Child Left Behind legislation, DEI in education, and co-founded the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.

Under CCSSO oversight, states continue to administer the largest federal grant programs (including the Every Student Succeeds Act). CCSSO has substantial control over school districts and local education agencies in ensuring they are compliant with requirements for implementing and spending all federally-funded programs. "State authority is not absolute," its guide to state educational agencies states.

CCSSO's peer organizations include the other education vested interests in public education, such as American Association of School Administrators, National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), National Congress of Parents and Teachers, NEA, and National School Boards Association (NSBA).

NSBA, founded in 1940 and funded by the now familiar foundation partners, claims to represent school boards across the country, including 90,000 school board members overseeing 51 million students. It reportedly also has a network of over 3,000 lawyers to support its progressive activist agenda, according to Influence Watch.

Many parents have found little to no support from their school boards and school districts. Who can forget all the incidences over recent years of school boards fighting against parents and their local communities, intimidating, arresting, suing , and investigating parents attempting to voice concerns about inappropriate materials being taught in schools? The June, 22, 2021 Loudoun County school board meeting has become legendary, when 200 Virginia parents attempted to voice concerns over transgender students in bathrooms and locker rooms, resulting in arrests and a closed meeting.

Parents, from California to New Hampshire, have had to file lawsuits against their school boards, school officials, and governors to retain parental rights. Texas parents have found the deck stacked against them when they raise concerns and no voice at their school districts or state education agency. A New Hampshire school district attempted to retaliate against parents and grandparents wearing pink bracelets at a soccer game to silently support protections for girl athletes. Even parents presenting petitions against trans athletes were cut off at a school board meeting last week.

In most states, the state school board has authority to determine required learning standards for all students, graduation requirements, testing, and accreditation of schools and curriculums. NSBA's current president previously worked for the Texas Association of School Boards.

The majority of State Boards of Education in the U.S. are appointed by governors, according to NASBE. Across the country, State Boards of Education have state-wide authority over education and curriculum standards.

Governors and the Globalists

The power of governors over education in states, down to local levels, is seldom recognized. Remember, NGA had collaborated with NEA and CCSSO in establishing Common Core, STEM, and the other globalist educational agendas. NGA develops best practicesfor nearly every policy issue touching states, including K-12 Education.Virtually every governor follows the NGA's calls to action.

Since founded in 1908, NGA has played a key role in expanding government programs, legislation, spending, and regulations – on state, national and international levels – and advancing the globalist agenda.

NGA's Governors Education Policy Advisors Institute establishes the best practices for schools, as well as educational goals. They justify their control, stating about 86% of national education spending is at the state and local level, with education also one of the largest parts of state budgets. Under NGA's current chair, Colorado Governor Jared Polis, its current education initiative is called "Let's Get Ready" and calls for more spending, AI and technology, data collection systems, and untested curriculum ideas.

NGA is an influential force on the globalist stage. While NGA's education initiatives are indistinguishable from those of UNESCO and the globalists at the UN, how many people realize the connection is bigger than that?

Since 2018, NGA has partnered with the World Economic Forum and its Fourth Industrial Revolution. The socialist motives in NGA's education goals are unmistakable. At the National Governor’s Conference on Education in 1989, for example, key note speaker, Shirley McCune , talked of education's role in the total transformation of society, work for social welfare and in sustainable development. "We no longer see the teaching of facts and information as the primary outcome of education."

Governors are not independent of globalist influence. They're in the thick of it. Governors, even in conservative states like Texas, have shown that when it matters most, they will follow NGA guidelines, "best practices" and "value" based initiatives, rather than their constituents, independent experts, or sound science. That's been shown even when states and people were being harmed, and conflicts of interest were obvious.

We saw that during Covid-19, for example. Governors across the country acted in lockstep, issuing declarations and spending, NGA-recommended Covid-19 policies and lockdowns. NGA is moving on, following the globalists' playbook, to accelerate the transformation of healthcare to their long-term vision.

A key power behind NGA, as well as city and municipal mayors and city councilors, and state and local government administrative organizations (health departments, housing, energy and water infrastructure, correctional officers and school officers) is Michael Bloomberg. Governors consistently follow his global initiatives, as we'll learn.

The globalists' influence hasn't stopped with transforming public education. They’ve also been using their money and power to disrupt public education for their own benefit.

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In the previous article, we saw inside a Robert Muller School and the alternative realities and spiritualities inundating children in globalism education. How has it been possible for New Age spiritualities, planet worship and extreme environmentalism, and globalism to spread throughout American culture, churches, and our public schools?

We've seen how easy it is. Transformational learning in Global Citizenship Education, for example, is nothing more than indoctrination.

As the globalists with UNESCO had recognized, it is simple to manipulate the emotions and beliefs of children. Programming is most effective when started at young ages, as UNESCO had said, "to correct many of the errors of home training."

Children can be led to doubt the God of their Biblical teachings, as globalist teachers suggest new interpretations for world events, undermine the Bible as just another story book, make mocking examples of Jesus' works and teachings, blend pagan and ancient images and stories, and introduce mystical experiences and New Age practices that are confusing and conflict with Biblical beliefs − all to dismantle the Christian teachings of the children's families and churches.

As we read the curriculums and case studies of Global Citizenship Education and even the children's books given to kids, the programming tactics used are obvious:

* Giving exaggerated or false statements about the world and claiming something terribly could happenis nothing more than an attempt to scare a child. It's simple to use fear to create an emotional reaction that leaves children confused, unable to unravel, and vulnerable to alternative explanations. Readers will remember that God warned us to "fear not" about 365 times in the Bible, because it is a common tactic of false teachers and wrongdoers.

* Global citizenship students are given information that is not only intentionally frightening, overwhelming and disturbing; but the complexity of the global issues are beyond their ability to fully understand or critically research and discern.

* Simplifying ideas and presenting only one perspective (the globalists' view) is a technique used to lead children to a "right" answer that seems like the only reasonable or ethical solution.

* Children are also rewarded, recognized and reinforced for complying with popular viewpoints.

* Children can especially be made to feel guilty or embarrassed for believing something unacceptable, outside the group's norm, or unpopular. Children are easily hurt and distressed by being shunned, mocked or ridiculed. Separated from their parents and Biblical teachings leaves them unable to understand or know what to do. Not one is there to tell them that: Jesus warned in Matthew 10:22 that believers will be hated by everyone for his name's sake and Christians were told in John 15:18-19 that they will feel hated and out of place for following Christ.

* Previous beliefs are put down, not unlike gas-lighting, which manipulates information to move children to question their own realities, doubt their own thoughts, and mistrust their own judgment or that of their parents.

* Fantasy and storytelling are also used to question and transform children's thinking about what is real and true. The moral to the stories in the story books and the New Age ideas throughout globalism curriculum often contradict Biblical teachings.

* Meaning of words are changed or played with to bring children to think of things in a new "correct" way. Even Biblical passages and ideas are twisted or falsely interpreted to confuse children. Or, history is simply rewritten to fit new global paradigms. Throughout the Bible, Jesus warns us that many false teachers are gone out into the world.

* Experiences are used to immerse children in new beliefs and practices, such as dance, music, art, meditations, "studying" other cultures, celebrating occult rites and Eastern religious practices, and play acting to lead them to globalism and New Age spiritualities.

* Techniques of altered states of consciousness, centering, interpreting dreams, imagining a vision in their own minds, and guided imagery, are used to lead them to a New Age spirituality.

* Children's endless questions about their world and life are given New Age globalist answers, while purging good science and the Biblical teachings of their churches and parents from instruction.

After being immersed in globalism and such emotional manipulation tactics all day, every school day, few public school children stand a chance to develop Biblical discernment on their own.

Coming up, we'll look at some ideas being considered to help parents and Christians save our children, as well as our country. We'll learn why school choice and returning education to the states will not be the answer.

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If you missed the previous article, we saw how Global Citizenship Education is being used to train children to become environmental activists. As we learned in UNESCO Globalism Indoctrination, in educating children to become global citizens, UNESCO and the NEA supported the World Core Curriculum of Robert Muller.

An insightful (and disturbing) depiction of what really happens inside a Robert Muller School using the World Core Curriculum was written by a McGill University Doctor of Philosophy in Education student. As a "peace educator," anti-nuclear activist and devotee of "holistic education," Barbara Brooks had studied "wisdom teachings of Plato and ancient mystery schools, and their emphasis on education with respect to the Soul and Spirit and link to Oneness, Wholeness and Peace." Spiritually and educationally, she described herself as a seeker on a life journey.

As a strong proponent of Muller's World Core Curriculum, she wrote her dissertation as a case study of the Robert Muller School in Fairview, Texas. Brooks said the aim of her paper was to give a voice to its school administrators, teachers, parents and students, as well as enlighten her own "self-discovery."

Her paper set out to describe the theoretical models of peace and global education, "soul-centered education," and "transformational learning" with an emphasis on planetary/Earth relationships. As she showed, not only are the teaching philosophies experimental, with no evidence for any academic benefit, but worse: The teachings are simply made-up gibberish.

The youngsters had five six-week courses on the Four Harmonies, alone. Virtually no mention is made of traditional academics such as writing, arithmetic, reading, or science.

This candid disclosure exposed not just the wacky curriculum, but the psychological techniques used to manipulate the children's emotions and "planetary consciousness" to lead them to a New Age spirituality. The techniques included things such as story telling and suggestive awareness, morning circle time with songs for peace and the planet, passing the "sacred stone" for speaking, cultural dances and art for global harmony, facilitating "destination imagination," and centering for achieving inner peace.

Holistic education

The mission statement of Robert Muller schools is a holistic vision of education, wrote Brooks. Its 3 R's are Reverence for Life, Responsibility for the Planet, Relationship or Connectiveness of the Parts of the Whole.

A sense of planetary unity (wholeness), and reverence awakened in the child, is claimed to offer the student a vision of him/herself as a contributor to a harmonious universe. Holistic education is about relationships, she said, and, therefore, communication - with self, others, nature and with "The One."

The four tetrahedrons

The World Core Curriculum is designed around the myth of experiential learning and teaches Muller's four tetrahedrons. A tetrahedron is associated with fire and is a symbol in Sacred geometry, and signifies change and transformation, interconnectedness of all things, and a "spiritual ascent." It is used in spiritual practices, such as meditation, crystal healing, and energy works, and dates back to ancient times and the works of Plato.

The four Tetrahedrons of World Core Curriculum:

* Four Harmonies: Our planetary home and place in the universe, human family, our place in time, the miracle of life

* Four Atmospheres: understanding, love, patience, ordered activity

* Four Basic Premises: sense of the whole, sense of fantasy, sense of choice and sense of ordered purpose

* Constitution of the Human Being: spiritual, emotional, physical, mental

Inclusive consciousness

To find each child's place in a universal environment, the teachers use Muller's Hierarchy of Inclusive Consciousness. It is foundational to a spiritual, soul-centered approach to education, said Brooks.

"To Plato, since the soul is eternal and never dies, learning is simply recollecting or remembering the higher states of consciousness that the soul already knows and understands, having experienced these states prior to its descent or incarnation into a human body. Thus, education, for Plato, was really the process of discovering what the soul already knows. It involved the process of "drawing forth" or bringing out the wisdom of the true Self, thus activating spiritual or higher states of consciousness."

The role of teachers is to assist in the birth and nurturing of the students' souls and bring balance and healing to the body. Inner states of harmony, happiness and joy align the soul, she wrote. Peace and Justice are inner states of being attained when all aspects of our human soul are in resonance with our Higher Self or Divine Soul, which is at one with the essential Unity of all Life.

The curriculum includes various courses that are equally fictional. For example:

* Earth Education of our planetary home includes eating organic foods, growing an organic garden to feel a connection and respect for the Earth, caring for animals to feel a connection and respect for animals, and being outside to develop an intimate connection with nature that will ripen into a love for the Earth.

* Peace Education includes centering and balance, balancing both hemispheres of the brain which reportedly develops imagination, memory recall and academic performance.

* Whole Brain Balance is described as a holistic program that includes dance and centering exercise to gain inner peace. Left brain work (logic, critical thinking, mathematics, and facts) are old paradigm to be balanced now with right brain activity (imagination, intuition, art, rhythm, visualization, dreaming).

It's hard to imagine that any child can survive this education intact. It is far removed from any credible educational curriculum and even farther removed from Jesus' teachings.

While not every government approved school follows the World Core Curriculum in full, under UNESCO, all schools are directed to adopt UN's global citizenship education, which embraces a holistic curriculum for "lasting peace and sustainable development." Aspects of the World Core Curriculum can be seen in every public school in the country.

GEMUN – Immersion of children into the UN agenda

One of the most disturbing indoctrination programs coming out of Robert Muller's World Core Curriculum, and sponsored by the School of Ageless Wisdom, is GEMUN (Global Elementary Model UN). Since 1990, hundreds of elementary and middle school children from around the world are chosen as delegates at a mock UN assembly held each year in Dallas-Fort Worth. This year, GEMUN is on May 16-17, 2025.

GEMUN plays a key role in the World Core Curriculum, training kids "as future UN peacemakers," but more accurately as UN activists. During the school year, children learn about the UN and its global sustainable development goals, complete assigned UN readings and projects, and immerse themselves in their assigned countries and creating displays of their countries.

The child delegates then present their "country's" welcoming speech at the Opening Plenary Session of the General Assembly and develop resolutions to global problems of poverty, hunger, human rights, disease, environment, global conflicts, and education.

The 2025 Delegation Handbook is 90 pages of UN propaganda. It opens with a challenge from UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres in his address to the Summit of the Future:

“Today I challenge you to take action. To implement the Compact for the Future – by prioritizing dialogue and negotiation, putting an end to the wars tearing the world apart, and reforming the composition and working methods of the Security Council. To accelerate the reform of the international financial system, particularly on the occasion of the Conference on Financing for Development which will be held next year. To place new technologies at the service of the best interests of humanity,” (sic)

[As we learned in Part 1, Guterres is a socialist who was the secretary-general of the Socialist Party from 1992-2002 and President of Socialist International from 1999-2005.]

The child delegates are presented with a list of world problems to choose from that they must write a "resolution" to address to the UN assembly. GEMUN's sponsor works one-on-one with the delegates to edit their resolutions in accordance to UN guidelines.

This year's topics include nearly 90 world issues – none of which any child that age can possibly understand the inordinate complexity of the problems or have the knowledge base to evaluate if the problems they are being presented even are real problems, let alone grasp and analyze the full range of potential solutions. (See pages 21-22.) The problems are overwhelming and would frighten and worry any young person. (Eliciting a strong emotional response and fear, remember, is a key emotional manipulation technique.) Even the way the issues are presented are slanted towards a globalist perspective and lead the kids to the pre-determined UN agenda solution, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

Economic effects of climate change

Regulation of nuclear energy

Radioactive cleanup

Child marriage

Water security

Disarmament

Ukraine

Human trafficking

Counter terrorism

Combating drugs and crime

Kashmir territorial dispute

Clean energy

Drug and alcohol abuse

Domestic and gender-based violence

Reproductive rights of women

Childhood malnutrition

Childhood immunization

Ending violence against LGBTQ+ children

Wildfires

Wetland degradation

Rights on indigenous people

Race-based discrimination

Violent extremism

Food safety

Developing sustainable agriculture

Factory farming

Livestock emissions

Brooks' report demonstrated how little the children really understood about these global issues. More importantly, she revealed how they'd been indoctrinated and could do little more than recite the disinformation they'd been given.

The children told Brooks, for example, that they'd learned how humans are killing nature and polluting, and that rich countries don't share with poor countries. Sasha, one of the 4 ^th graders at the Muller School and only ten years old, was nominated as Ambassador and lead delegate. She was so small, said Brooks, she could hardly be seen at the podium. Sasha's responsibility was to make sure that all resolutions written by the delegates were in line with UN policies.

In her speech presented to the Assembly on behalf of Guatemala, Sasha said if the UN helped rich countries realize that if they gave money to all countries that need it, then all the world's problems of poverty, education, hunger, human rights, disease and ecological problems could be solved. The UN brings peace, she added, "meaning a peace in which everyone is treated equally, fairly and has everything they need to live a healthy life."

For parents, educators and Christians, reading this and seeing how our children are being manipulated and brainwashed into the globalists new social order and to believe a new spirituality, is beyond distressing.

Next, we'll look at just how easy it's been for the globalists to mind-nap our children.

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We learned in UNESCO Globalism Indoctrination that in order to meet UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, UNESCO concentrated its education initiatives on turning every child into global citizens. Children are not only taught that a good global citizen must care about the planet, but a radicalized environmentalism.

Global Citizenship Education trains radical environmental activism

UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education clearinghouse is a massive database of policies, children's books and comics, and curriculums for global citizenship training for schools and teachers, officials, journalists, and policy makers. Its resources address every aspect of UN's SDGs and involve every UN agency.

The books and lessons especially target the youngest of children. The emotional abuse of children is especially easy to see in the environmental materials. UNESCO made environmental education a mandatory core curriculum by 2025, along with prioritizing "greening the curriculum" for "the unprecedented climate change and environmental degradation crisis."

UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) calls itself the "global authority on the environment" and drives UN's "transformational change" by drilling down on the "planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity." It, and a vast alliance of special interest groups, produce children's books, games, videos, comics, and puzzles.

In the storybook, Tina & the Green City , for example, little Tina is frightened by dirty air that makes her throat raw as she tries to cross the street, running past burned out buildings and filthy vacant lots. After starting an urban garden, her throat feels fine "since plants help clean the air."

She learns that the solution to the climate crisis is green cities and downtown sustainable development that takes away cars and parking spaces so everyone can walk, skate, and bike or ride their scooters; while roofs and community gardens can grow food, and the plants will attract birds and butterflies; and roof solar panels can supply the energy.

Tina starts a club and the kids get the city council to redesign the town and suddenly the neighborhood grew fun, musicians played in the park, jugglers and acrobats appeared, and crime decreased as everyone was enjoying the city at all hours.

The children's book teaches that gasoline causes air pollution and less driving will help save the planet, and make people healthier and thinner and stronger. They learn that "going to school in a green building even improves students’ test scores."

In the story book, Tore and the Town on Thin Ice, for example, young Tore falls through the ice with his dog sled team during a race. That night he has a vision of a women spirit called Sedna, telling him she created the sea creatures and was Mother of the Sea. She tells him she will send guides to him solve the problem. He ventures out on his sled the next day and an owl tells him that the ice had melted because the planet had become hot; that people are starving because the seals and walruses are leaving as they didn't have enough ice to float on; and nearly all the world's glaciers are melting. The polar bear tells him he is hungry because there's not enough ice for him to stand on to hunt seals and that his sister had starved to death. The whale gives him even scarier stories of the oceans swelling and that the rising sea levels might drown cities along the coast and hurt hundreds of millions of people. He also tells Tore that hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters are becoming worse.

That night, spirit Sedna tells him oil and coal are to blame and raise carbon dioxide. Rich countries use an awful amount of energy, have cars, lights, and heaters and air conditioners. The planet warming is caused mostly by humans, she tells him, explaining that rising carbon dioxide acts like a huge blanket and smothers the earth. To reduce the "fever," the story tells kids that renewable energy could produce all of the electricity we need by 2030.

"Bob, we must take action! I show you the future if we don't" The comic book then shows skeletons of people and animal friends. The kids are told that by 2100, climate change has caused suffering around the world and many deaths from diseases, droughts and heat waves, and animal friends are extinct. Join us every day in making good green choices to reduce carbon, they tell their friends, "so we can save the climate!" They even have a bake sale to raise money for carbon offsets so they can be carbon free…

Of course, as we've learned , there is no credible environmental science being taught in this curriculum. Nor are parents given disclosures of the socialist agenda and anti-biblical teachings behind the myth of climate change.

"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease….
Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything." – Genesis 8:22-9:3

Next, we'll get a candid inside look at what really happens at a Robert Muller School. Embracing the World Core Curriculum of Robert Muller, Global Citizenship Education takes an especially dark twisted turn.

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As we saw in Robert Muller's Influence, the United Nations education programs are under the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The UN and UNESCO made a holistic curriculum for lasting peace and sustainable development, and global citizenship it priority initiative for every child. “Global citizenship is marked by an understanding of global interconnectedness and a commitment to the collective good,” according to UNESCO's Global Citizenship Education.

Unbelievably, this UN curriculum became compulsory in every public funded school in America.

Who on earth would impose globalism indoctrination in America's Schools?

Our own federal Department of Education. Behind the transformation of public education into UN agents of social change were the very entities entrusted with our children's education.

The U.S. Department of Education had been created in 1979 after the National Education Association (NEA) had promised to endorse candidate Jimmy Carter if he supported the establishment of this new federal agency.

As we learned, the NEA, powerful nonprofits, and state politicians were also the special interests behind Common Core and STEM. NEA went on to successfully lobby for the establishment of UNESCO and has become a major force behind the promotion of UN's educational agendas and socialist world vision. As the largest and most powerful global trade union in history, NEA has been influential in seeing UNESCO become the lead organization behind accelerating UN’s Agenda 2030 and its SDGs in education.

In June 2006, all of the G8 Education Ministers− United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, the Russian Federation, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom − along with OECD, UNESCO and the World Bank, adopted the “Moscow Declaration.”

In this Declaration, they committed their countries to cooperate in education at all levels and internationalize education; and support the UN Millennium Development Goals at all levels of education.

Worse, every UN member nation also agreed to UNESCO's leadership over coordinating their school curriculums.

Incredibly, our federal Department of Education actually directed that every American child in public school receive UN globalism indoctrination. Worse, it turned over leadership and oversight of American school curriculums and education to UNESCO.

What does it mean to be a UNESCO school?

It means children are given UN's "transformative education," that teaches socialism-globalism ideologies, social justice, "planetary sustainability," and new non-Biblical and non-Western "ways of knowing."

Readers will recognize that this is right out of 1930's 1972 report, Learning to Be: The World of Education Today and Tomorrow "to inspire a new generation of educationalists with the wisdom of past thinking."

All UNESCO is devoted, as its primary initiative, to UN Global Citizenship Education for every child on the planet as a key to achieving UN's SDGs. UNESCO is the lead agency for transforming education to meet UN's 2030 SDGs for education and Global Citizenship Education is inseparable from sustainable education.

SEL is foundational to UNESCO education.

We saw in Part 2 how SEL is psychological brainwashing and been embedded in public education.

In other words, UNESCO openly recognizes that indoctrination is essential in turning children into global citizens.

Global Citizenship Education – emotional exploitation of children

The concept of Global Citizenship Education was created by the UN and is coordinated through UNESCO's Global Education Coalition of over 200 globalist members plus partner networks.

Through UNESCO, the teaching standards and curriculum of Global Citizenship Education were designed to instruct student on two primary UN documents: Millennium Declaration and its Millennium Development Goals, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. UNESCO calls for teachers to incorporate this curriculum into all of their teaching.

* Global Citizenship teaching standards call for compliance with Common Core State Standards. Not surprisingly, the same special interests behind Common Core and STEM in the United States were behind the development of the Global Citizenship standards: the National Governor Association's Center for Best Practices, and CCSSO 2010 Common Core State Standards for English and reading.

* Global Citizenship curriculum standards must also comply with NCSS' national standards for social studies, global connectedness, and environmental sustainability. So, not surprisingly, the Global Citizenship teaching standards came from NEA's activist groups, including National Council for the Social Sciences, National Council of Teachers of English and itsInternational Reading Association; and National Geographic Standards .

A glimpse into Global Citizenship classes show the emotional manipulation in this curriculum. High school students are inundated with urgent and scary claims that there's only six years left to meet the SDGs to save the planet and to save the world's children by 2030:

"Climate change, poverty, deepeninginequalities and intensifying conflict are cutting children off from their chance to thrive. If we don’t act now, we risk losing millions of lives to easily preventable causes like disease, poor nutrition and unsafe environments."

Students are also taught that global citizenship also means rejecting their religious beliefs. Students are falsely told that religions are against human rights, justify violence and discrimination, and violate the "spirituality of LGBT persons" and women's reproductive freedoms. Students are told that being a global citizen requires they understand interconnectedness, value diversity, and challenge injustice.

Students are taught the globalist view of human rights, the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

[As we've previously covered, they're not the same as human rights or right to life, as upheld by Christians or taught by Jesus. There is no mention of God or the Creator. Under universal rights, religious "freedoms" refer to gender rights of LGBTQ and women's "reproductive rights" to abortion. In fact, the UN's idea of universal human rights, as outlined in its global Pact for the Future adopted last fall, are a complete socialist manifesto of entitlements − "rights" to free everything from the government, social justice, racial justice, economic equity, and a planet free from greenhouse gas emissions and use of fossil fuels.]

"Peace and justice" are redefined – just like "human rights" and "religious freedoms" − to malign American patriotic and Biblical values. But the curriculum goes further in specifically disparaging America and its allies.

The course fails to reveal that Al-Quds University is the only Arab-Palestine University in Jerusalem and that it hosts Hamas militants and radical antisemitic campus rallies and has active Hamas-affiliated student organizations, as a U.S. House of Representatives investigative report found last October. It is recognized by the State Department for its antisemitic extremism and Holocaust denials. Allied professors at Columbia and Cornell called the slaughter of over 1,400 Israelis on October 7 ^th "energizing and exhilarating." Al-Quds President, citing the Quran, told the students that theirs was a message of justice and peace against vilification by Jews and to hold firm.

Philosophy professor, Edward C. Halper, at the University of Georgia commented about former Al-Quds University President's philosophical presentations going back nearly thirty years, warning: " The only things shared by Hamas and progressives are anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism."

Al-Quds University hosted the UN Conference "Revolution for Justice, Union for Change" and was a partner in the development of UN's SDGs.

How many parents realize that school classes about the UN and global citizenship are synonymous with teaching not just earth-centered worship, but antisemitism and for our children to reject Jesus of the Bible?

But as we'll learn next, Global Citizenship Education also teaches radical environmentalism using equally manipulative emotional tactics on young children.

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As we introduced in UN's New Age Spirituality, the United Nations seeks to turn every child into a global citizen. To program children to see all people on the earth as one interconnected and global family, the UN embraced the World Core Curriculum of Robert Muller. It preaches a "global consciousness" spirituality that is far removed from the Bible.

Who was Robert Muller?

Upon his retirement from the UN in 1986, where he went from an intern in 1948 to Assistant Secretary General, Muller became the honorary lifelong "Chancellor" of the UN's University of Peace in Costa Rica (with a $1 annual salary). He had co-founded the University of Peace, which was established by the UN in 1979 as the academic wing of the UN. Its guiding framework is the Earth Charter, created by Maurice Strong and former UN Secretary General and co-chair of the World Economic Forum.

The Earth Charter Center for Education for Sustainable Development, an intergovernmental organization accredited under the UN Global Compact , continues today to promote UN SDGs, global citizenship, diversity, and align their efforts "to turn conscience into action in accordance with the Earth Charter."

The University of Peace and Earth Charter head UNESCO's education initiatives for Sustainable Development. Spirituality and sustainable development are inseparable, having evolved from nature-centered beliefs and traditional and sacred wisdoms of ancient and indigenous cultures.

Muller's ideas embody the agenda of the UN and UNESCO, because most originated from him. Muller dreamed of being honored as Elder of the UN and had submitted thousands of his visionary ideas for a global utopia to the UN.

His 2000 Ideas leading to the year 2000 were filled with doomsday predictions of planetary demise from "overpopulation" (a myth that's proven deadly), overconsumption by developed nations producing carbon dioxide-induced global warming (another mythology), causing destruction of forests, acid rains, deserts and droughts; poisoning people by pesticides and plastics; and raising cancers and deaths from thinning of the ozonosphere.

He also called for the creation of a world association of "evolutionary scientists" and UN Conference on Evolution.

He went on to produce 4,000 then 7,500 ideas for the year 3000 for the UN − each one growing more fanatical, delusionary, twisted and removed from Biblical teachings or science. It's hard to portray how disturbed and removed from reality they became. But a glimpse may help:

* He said earthism and humanism should be adopted as the new ideologies for the century; called for the study of the meaning of dreams and prophesies; and that the "UN should become the House of Hopes and Dreams." He said all governments should create Ministries of Happiness with an overseeing UN Department of Happiness.

* His number one priority for humanity was to acquire a "cosmic consciousness of the universe" based on the ancient wisdoms from the "Great Spirit of indigenous peoples" and the "Earth-based wisdoms" of the world's 5,000 religions.

* His global consciousness vision was to teach children to "aggrandize" themselves so they will become creation, the universe, infinity, and a divine miraculous self.

* He said the "salvation of this planet and survival of the human species depend on" creating a "proper Earth government" through the UN.

* He said every student should be required to take courses in planetary, cosmic and evolutionary consciousness, in ecology, and the UN, and no student should be allowed into business or economic schools first.

* He called for every child to be taught that their "human family" is most important, and that the UN and its agencies take the place of their parents, their personal families, communities, nations, and churches.

* Muller warned that modern transportation would bring the end of humanity and life on this planet; called for rich and affluent people to be disciplined, taxed and penalized for over consumption; and for the UN to establish ideal consumption levels for all regions of the world.

* He called for a "World Emergency Conference to Prevent the End of Life on Earth," saying that humans can no longer dream of industrial, scientific or economic progress. Capitalism is obsolete and must be replaced with collectivism.

* His global consciousness preached that the Earth does not belong to us, nor was it given by God, but that we belong to the Earth. " We are creatures, children born from the Earth and from the cosmos," he wrote. Our brothers are the trees, the sky, the land, the air, the rivers, the beasts and animals, every pine needle, every insect, he wrote. Every part of the Earth is holy.

* He said the beliefs of Chief Seattle should be taught in all schools of the world, that the white man takes from the land, plunders and devours it, leaving only a desert. "The Earth is his enemy…[white man] does not care."

* He even called for the erection of special sacred places around the earth, on sacred hills, where "humans are elevated" into planetary mystical, cosmic consciousness and thinking. Christians will immediately recognize the resemblance to " high places " in the Old Testament, representing idolatry, pagan worship, and disobedience to God.

Muller's united interfaith religion goal

This interfaith movement's mission is to bring together the world's religions and spiritual communities under the UN's vision. When religions come together, Muller said, "we will have a peaceful, harmonious, fulfilled planet and humanity, functioning according to the laws of the universe."

Christians understand these laws are not of God's Word.

“For the law was given through Moses;
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ” − John 1:17

The worship symbols, prayers, chants, incantations, and ceremonies for world peace encompass dozens of deities, New Age hymns, and occult practices. URI's charter and Muller's global religion also openly condemn conservative, traditional, Christian Biblical teachings. Global ecumenism is unbiblical, false teaching.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me."– John 14:6

Muller's worship of planet Earth

Preaching world citizenship, he said all humans have "an opportunity to be co-Creators with God and evolution" in our planetary home. In his testament to life, he wrote :

"The entire planet must elevate itself into the spiritual, cosmic throbbing of the universe… We must become one planetary society."

"In the United Nations one is promoted from a national human being to a global, Earth, universal being. It is the greatest school of an expanded consciousness and art of living at this stage of our evolution."

"Earth is our mother and we are her children. We should see the sun, the Earth and all teeming, evolving life forms on our planet as one interdependent whole, as a Sun-Earth reality…."

"[A] beautiful, happy human society will require the search for the laws of harmony of the Earth and of the universe…. we are part of this planet, in flesh, in liquids, in air, in mind, in heart, in life, in death and in rebirth. Being born from the Earth and being an intimate part of her, we must understand Her, listen to Her, cherish Her, blend with Her and not conquer Her."

"O my planet Earth! The yearly UN Earth Day on the spring equinox in March should become the most important day of the year."

Father of Global Education

Despite these troubled ideologies, Muller is called the Father of Global Education. The author of 22 books, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 32 times. He was personally responsible for establishing eleven of the 18 UN agencies and 14 world programs, all aligned with his curriculum.

By 2013, there were 43 Robert Muller Schools using his World Core Curriculum. The current number of schools around the world are hard to pin down as they all have different and ever changing New-Age-y names.

The first Robert Muller School opened in Arlington, Texas in 1979 and was founded by Gloria Crook as a branch of the School of Ageless Wisdom, which she founded in 1977. It's now the international coordinating center for schools implementing Muller's World Core Curriculum. It has also managed GEMUN (Global Elementary Model United Nations) since 1988. [More about this coming up.]

Muller's World Core Curriculum for global education goes further than past holistic curriculums and educators, to experientially teach spiritual inner and outer peace, the "cosmic laws and principles of holism," social mindedness, and bring global awareness and connectedness.

In furthering UNESCO's culture of peace program, started in 1992, his curriculum teaches that a new conscious, spiritual, holistic-centered education is the solution to bringing spiritual transformation and social change.

Education is no longer about preparing students for a known world, Muller tells teachers, but about directing students to imagine a world as it is becoming, sense a new reality of the soul and enlightened higher kingdom, and freely choose their own desires and impulsesin response to this new world vision. Children are tasked with their own learning. Rather than schools and teachers sharing knowledge and facts with students, teachers are simply "facilitators," or "guides" to draw students out of themselves and into the spiritual world.

How many parents realize a new creation religion is being taught to their children under UNESCO guidelines?

But it gets worse.

Occultism is the core teachings of World Core Curriculum

Bailey was a luciferian occultist who established Lucis Trust in the early 1920s, with her husband Foster, to teach universal New Age spirituality and establish a one world religion. Their publishing company, Lucifer Publishing Company, was named after the Prince of Darkness and published multitudes of her "theosophy" occult literature .

Her followers fill the UN's Spiritual Caucus and her prayers have been read at UN events, including by Eleanor Roosevelt at World Invocation Day in 1952. This day has been observed every year since then, on the Gemini full moon, to "summon spiritual energies of light, love and purpose."

As a tax-exempt nonprofit, Lucis Trust is headquartered at the UN Plaza and had an estimated $4.5 million in assets and $1.57 million in revenue in 2023, according to its IRS 990 Filing . Lucis Trust has consulting status with the Economic and Social Council of the UN, and its organization, World Goodwill , is recognized as a UN nongovernmental organization. Lucis Trust supports the UN and its SDGs for Humanity, and built the UN library.

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The School of Ageless Wisdom in Texas, the first Muller school and headquarters of GEMUN, teaches "the truth of oneness." It has classes on astrology ("astrochemistry"); zodiacal energies as the earth, sun and moon sweep through the zodiac; the Tibetan "Masters of Wisdom;" full moon meditation and "truths" realized in the consciousness; and evolutionary reincarnation. Daily meditations pledge discipleship to astrology, Ashram of Sanat Kumara, "the Planetary Antahkarana as a strong cable of Enlightened Consciousness," and "energies of the Monad pouring through the head center to the Ajna center." Its Great Invocation focuses on the knowing as a trained White Magician. The schools textbooks are published by Lucis Trust, Agni Yoga Society and Wisdom Impressions Publications.

Next, as surreal as all of this is, we'll dig into how globalism indoctrination came to be required in America's schools and is subjecting every one of our children to a UN-globalist world view that is far removed from Biblical.

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