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Jen Wilkin’s Horrendous Defense of Public Schools

The Gospel Coalition has the second season of their so-called “Good Faith Debates” which have largely been characterized as lacking a clear conservative representation, as a good faith debate would necessitate a real debate. And while the public school debate presents an easy opportunity to voice that position, Jen Wilkin’s defense of public schooling you children goes above and beyond what is normally said. She believes that that Christians have a moral obligation to utilize public schools if at all possible.

Jen Wilkin’s position comes from deep involvement in public schools, with her public schooling her own children, having family who are public school teachers, and being involved in the school board. However, the tendency of public school apologists is to be overly confident in their own public schools, and while she may have an excellent school district that she’s working with, their is only so much a good school board can do.

Wilkin states that she’s well aware of what’s in the curriculum for public schools, but she doesn’t seem to recognize groomer teacher’s propensity to go off-curriculum. Where I live, Critical Race Theory was not in the curriculum, but was still being taught in public schools leading to national headlines about a neutrality policy. Additionally, an issue in public schools here was that teachers were displaying gay flags in the classroom. This isn’t a curriculum issue at all, but an indoctrination one. Jen Wilkin fallaciously argues that everyone in the debate recognizes that worldviews are taught in the home. This is a flat out lie.

The money clip that made the rounds on the internet was Jen Wilkin articulating that sending your kids to public school is not just a family decision, arguing a larger community impact. This fails to recognize the authority and obligations of a parent. A parent is not obliged to do what’s best for other people’s children, at the expense of their own. They are accountable to God for how they raise their own children. Jen Wilkin is stepping on parental authority, guilting them with an obligation to the community at large that is unbiblical.

To her credit, Jen Wilkin dispels the notion of child missionaries and believes that Christian public school teachers are wrongly maligned in the church. However, she also operates under outdated assumptions that fail to recognize the total depravity in the system. 

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One Response

  1. It’s more than an eyeroll, she is adding to Scripture, making a command where none was given, and is actually commanding parents not to protect their children from the indoctrination that has been well documented. Also, she fails to consider that the poorest and most marginalized cannot thrive in public schools, but must have the option of school choice. Having never heard of her before, I now will recommend to all that they also reject anything else she has written, since she lacks basic discernment and critical thinking skills, as well as being theologically deficient.

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