A professional association of educators–supporting, connecting, and protecting Christians working in our schools, an alternative to politicized teachers unions.
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As you deal with the joys and challenges of costumes and candy at school tomorrow (while being thankful that the day after Halloween this year is not a school day!), take the opportunity to teach your kids about Reformation Day!
It was October 31 over 500 years ago (1517), when Martin Luther nailed the Ninety-five Theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany, launching the Protestant Reformation.
Many of the ideas that formed the basis of Western culture and democracy can be traced to the Reformation, including universal education (so ordinary people could read the Bible for themselves), the equality of all people before God (the “priesthood of all believers”), the rule of law (authority rooted in a fixed text rather than the whims of rulers), and the conviction that no human power is absolute. These seeds helped grow literacy, limited government, and the idea that rulers are accountable to the people.
What a great opportunity to help your students understand that Christian leaders, inspired by the Bible, helped influence our uniquely successful civilization and form of government.
Helpful background: realclearreligion.org/articl…
Hero (massive understatement)
🚨 NEW: Kaylub Giamanco, the HERO father who TOOK OUT the Bend, Oregon elementary school shooter last week, tells the story for the first time
"I started hearing children PLEADING for their lives. And then I started hearing gunfire and I just started army crawling faster and faster. And I told myself, this is probably the last thing that I'm ever going to do."
"I have to go in. People are going to die."
"I crawled through the bottom window that was shot out and continued onto the rug inside where there's a little breezeway with stairs."
"And then the special needs classroom was to my left. At that point, I was on the ground on my hands and knees. I re-racked my weapon to make sure that a live round came so that I knew that I was ready to go."
"And then I peeked through the window. And at this point I found my opportunity. And I'd seen a teacher on the left struggling with the gunman on the right with the rifle."
"And I knew that they were on both sides of me, and I knew that he did not know that I was there. And so at that point I swung the door out and open and I stepped in and I fired."
This man deserves the Presidential Medal of FREEDOM! 🇺🇸
The last piece just fell into place.
On January 9, 2025, we partnered with 6 states, a female athlete, and @ADFLegal to strike down the Biden administration’s attempt to redefine Title IX and erase sex-based protections for women and girls.
Today the Education Department formally rescinded that rule.
dailysignal.com/2026/09/28/e…
“I’m sorry, but I will not lie to a parent. I have never been asked to lie to a parent about anything in my 20 some years as a teacher, and I will not start today.”
Christian educators: it is a time for courage, and the Supreme Court is on your side. Do not lie to parents about their student's gender confusion.
A word from our Executive Director on the 25th anniversary of 9/11…
It’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years.
I vividly remember that morning.
Three time zones away from the tragic events that morning, I received a call from a friend while I was getting ready for my day of teaching high school American history and government.
“Turn on the TV” was all she said.
Like all of us who remember that day, I was glued to the coverage.
I skipped my usual shower and shave…normal routines felt somehow inappropriate as people were violently losing their lives 3,000 miles away.
Time demanded that I finally had to get in the car and drive to school, uncertain about what I would say to my students.
Obviously my lesson plans were non-starters.
I turned on the news coverage in my classroom.
Later in the day the district sent an email directive to turn it off.
I essentially ignored it, realizing it was a wise policy for younger students, but my 16 and 17-year-old students needed to see this.
Despite the shock, they needed to have this common experience as young American citizens.
Of course that first day, we technically didn’t know who was responsible.
But I knew.
I was already well-versed in radical Islamic terror.
I knew about the previous attempt to bomb the World Trade Center, and the embassy bombings in Africa.
So I did my best to explain radical Islamic terrorism to my students.
It was a risk…I could have been wrong about who was responsible.
A lot of questions ran through my mind that day. At 30 years old, was I too old to join the military? What was my obligation? What would this day require of me?
I prayed…a lot.
Ultimately, it seemed better to stay right where I was, providing for my wife and two baby daughters, teaching my public school students to love this country, understand the nature of good and evil, and appreciate that freedom comes at a cost.
Did I take the easy way out? In a sense, yes.
I will forever honor heroes like Pat Tillman, who abandoned a lucrative NFL career, became an Army Ranger, and lost his life in Afghanistan.
Lord, thank you for the many who have sacrificed so much to protect us, and enabled me to raise my children and teach high school students from the relative safety of my classroom.
I am forever in their debt.
After everything that followed that bright September morning—the unity, the resolve, the cost—it is harder still to watch what we have since squandered.
Despite the efforts of so many of us, we have raised a generation that often regards our national experiment with suspicion rather than gratitude.
Is it possible a sizable portion of the country now believes America somehow deserved 9/11?
Sadly, we have lost the metanarrative.
As a culture we no longer understand that all nations, particularly powerful ones, have shameful chapters in their histories.
Nations do ugly things because they are led by fallen people.
People like us.
Our Bibles tell us this is true.
We have failed to pass on the essential truth: American greatness is found in the exceptions—the times a powerful nation restrained itself, corrected itself, or spent blood and treasure for something larger than itself.
Our youngest generations have lost the reality of the pre-1776 world, where natural rights, the rule of law, and freedom of conscience were rare and fragile.
So where do we go from here?
We don’t give up.
We keep praying…fervently.
We keep showing up in our families, churches, schools and neighborhoods.
We trust God with the harvest.
At least twice in our history, God has brought Great Awakenings to revive and unite a divided and distracted nation.
Will He do it again?
I don’t know.
But I do know that His plan—whether or not it includes renewal in our great nation—is better than anything we can build on our own.
On this solemn anniversary, let’s keep our eyes on Him.
Blessings,
David Schmus
Together with @advocates4faith, we filed an amicus brief today in the case of Mirabelli v. Bonta. We forcefully reject the concept that educators should lie to parents!