Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging

truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Like me, many parents have opted to protect their children from false and dangerous ideologies

that are rampant in our public schools.

More and more parents have elected to homeschool their kids or enroll them in private Christian

schools.

Opting for alternatives to public education is a trend and went up during the lockdown

and still is not dropped to pre-pandemic levels.

However, neither homeschooling nor private Christian school guarantees that our kids will

be protected from secular indoctrination.

In fact, according to a recent research study of 57,000 undergraduates from 159 of the

nation's most elite post-secondary institutions, homeschooled and parochial schooled undergraduates,

are asked or more likely to identify as LGBT or non-binary as those from public or private

school backgrounds.

Now one outcome of that study is that we rethink where our kids go to college.

But even more than that, wherever our kids are schooled, the best plan for parents is

to inoculate their kids against bad ideas, not just insulate them.

Rather than hide our kids from the flawed ideas of the world, we need to carefully expose

them to bad ideas while they're still at home and can seek out counsel and information.

An inoculation approach better equips them to handle the bad ideas, the bad practices,

and the bad behaviors don't encounter an increasingly secular culture.

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