Stay the Course, Christians in Education

Stay the Course, Christians in Education

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Stay the Course, Christians in Education episodes

  • Episode 9—Knowledge, Education and the Christian

    It is an assumption that if you go to school or college you will be educated, and if educated you will know things. The same is true of the Christian. In this episode we discuss what knowledge really means and what—and who—you know if you proclaim a faith in Jesus Christ. After this episode, we’ll be taking a summer break. But let us know what topics you would like us to discuss by emailing us at [email protected]

    28 min
  • Episode 8—School, Career, and the Christian

    It’s graduation season for high school and college students. Naturally, students are thinking about what’s next—going into a career or the next level of education. Either way, a young person’s Christian faith should be seen as central to school and career. In this episode, we talk about career as an extension of faith and a Christian perspective on work. If you have suggestions for future episodes, email [email protected]


    23 min
  • Episode 7 (Current Events) Alternatives to Public Education—Why Are Parents Making the Move?

    Music "Pomp & Circumstance" courtesy 3_16Music

    School choice is a hot topic around the country, as more parents want to get their children away from the influences of public schools that contradict their Christian values. Some states have passed legislation that allows parents to use their tax money for a school of their choosing. In this episode we discuss this trend, the reasons for it, and the proactive steps parents can take toward achieving the best educational experience for their child, no matter their choices.


    Links and Resources

    Teachers Unions Are Why More Parents Want School Choice-

    Https://www.thedailybeast.com/teachers-unions-are-why-more-parents-want-school-choice

    Parents Favor School Choice:

    https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2024/02/08/the_results_are_in_parents_favor_school_choice_1010534.html

    Droves of Americans Ditching Public Schools:

    https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/08/back-to-school-blues-droves-of-americans-ditching-public-school/

    Secular Humanism in Our Schools:

    https://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/secular-humanism.htm

    Covid-19 and Achievement Scores:

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zX9ba4mXmWPCS0TU4tRpW-MEcXunGYpOXHH_WqyUnHk/edit?usp=sharing

    Support for School Choice Has Soared:

    https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/support-for-school-choice-has-soared-crossed-demographics-since-pandemic-poll-shows-real-clear-politics-opinion-research-angela-morabito-randi-weingarten-american-federation-of-teachers-aft#

    How Socialists Used the Unions to Destroy Public Education:

    https://illinoisfamily.org/education/how-socialists-used-teachers-unions-such-as-the-nea-to-destroy-education/

    Homeschooling Numbers Explode:

    https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/us-homeschooling-rates-explode-since-2017-outpace-public-and-private-schools-school-choice-funding-curriculum-voucher-program-new-york-south-dakota-rhode-island-washington-dc-crisis-in-the-classroom

    Courts Find Secular Humanism a Religion:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m9flvMHudaKM8kbhHQlsEwaEFoYMS97J/view?usp=sharing

    Droves of Americans Ditching Public Schools:

    https://washingtonstand.com/news/back-to-school-blues-droves-of-americans-ditching-public-school

    Discipline Problems Threatening Student Achievement: Tuesday, May 11, 2004

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/12iyqfWhbk3iHpaxKTr7-m70sRTKsbsXE/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111294340318610931978&rtpof=true&sd=true

    Abandonment of Judeo-Christian values is destroying US culture: school choice is the answer:

    https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/2021/08/27/pandelidis-secular-public-schools-destroying-america-choice/5617109001/

    41 min
  • Episode 6:(Current Events) Faith, Fathers and Family: Keys to Education Success

    The U.S. Department of Education, teachers’ unions, and local school administrators seem to share a singular theory that systemic racism is the reason that many students struggle in school. In this episode, Tom and Tim discuss (from a Christian perspective) that national research indicates that faith, fathers, and family are keys to educational success and contentment in life. Sadly, organizations that drive the policies in the public schools have attempted to diminish all three.

    Let us know what you think of this episode and please offer suggestions for additional episode topics. If you are interested in being interviewed, please reach out, as well. Our Email: [email protected]


    Helpful Links and Resources—

    Obama's Father's Day Speech 2008

    The Immigration Paradox

    Immigrant Families More Stable

    Korean Family Structure Study

    MTSS Equitable Outcomes

    Religious Service Attendance, Marriage, and Health

    Religious Americans Less Likely to Divorce

    The Consequences of Fatherlessness

    The Founders on the Family

    Why Nigerian Immigrants are Among the Most Successful


    40 min
  • Episode 5—A Christian response to DEI: It's not about being for or against diversity. It's about defining the scale and nature of the problem, and an approach that stresses unity over a false binary.

    In this episode, the final episode in our three-part series on DEI, we

    discuss how to respond to the false ideology of DEI with Christian
    principle. We share a document from Harvard’s DEI department about how officials ask questions of people who exercise their free speech that is not consistent with DEI orthodoxy. We show how Christianity exemplifies true diversity but does so in a spirit of unity vs the division that DEI foments.


    *Introduction "Pomp & Circumstance" by 316Music.

    40 min
  • Episode 4---DEI In College

    In this episode, Part 2 of our three part series on DEI, Tom interviews Tim about DEI in the college environment. We go further into the specific origins of DEI, what “diversity, equity and inclusion” really means in how it manifests itself on college campuses, and how the DEI ideology has spread significantly in recent years. 


    Here are links to some Black authors we mention in this episode who have argued against the singular perspective of the DEI bureaucracy:

    • Candace Owens, “Blackout”—In this book, Owens, a Black woman who grew up in poverty, argues with evidence how the liberal policies intended to help Black Americans actually works against them, how the left ignores the importance of faith in the Black community, and how fathers in the home is the key to Black Americans rising out of the cycle of poverty.

    • Former President Barak Obama also stressed the importance of fatherhood in the Black community, that racial differences cannot be attributed entirely to flawed notions of ‘white privilege.’ As he noted in a 2008 Father’s Day speech to the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago: “We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children. We know the statistics — that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it.” 

    • Carol Swain, “The Adversity of Diversity” — Swain is a prominent Black political science professor, recently retired (and plagiarized by Harvard President Claudine Gay), who speaks against the billion dollar DEI industry that, in her words, “has become an aggressive force that takes organizations away from their core missions and often transforms them into divisive and disruptive institutions that openly violate the rights of members of disfavored groups.” Swain's recommended solution of Real Unity Training Solutions entails a return to core American principles that embrace nondiscrimination and equal opportunity in a meritocratic system that recognizes individual effort rather than group rights.

    • Thomas Sowell, “Social Justice Fallacies” — The prolific Black Stanford Professor and economist’s most recent book points to the fact that “many things that are thought to be true simply cannot stand up to documented facts, which are often the opposite of what is widely believed. However attractive the social justice vision , the crucial question is whether the social justice agenda will get us to the fulfillment of that vision. History shows that the social justice agenda has often led in the opposite direction, sometimes with catastrophic consequences.” 

    • John McWhorter’s book “Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America” "details how 'claims' to “dismantle racist structures” is actually harming his fellow Black Americans by infantilizing Black people, setting Black students up for failure, and passing policies that disproportionately damage Black communities. What is called antiracism actually features a racial essentialism that’s barely distinguishable from racist arguments of the past.”

    • Shelby Steele, a Black New York Times columnist, argues in his book “The Content of Our Character” (invoking MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech) that our culture has been trapped in putting color before character, or considering only racial categories and not individual attributes.  

    • Robert Woodson, a contemporary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, founded the Woodson Center to help underserved communities fight crime and violence and restore families by applying the principles of market economy, faith, and personal responsibility.

      • *********Pomp & Circumstance, Courtesy 316_Music

      30 min
    • Episode 3---DEI in the K-12 Environment
      Episode #3---DEI in K-12 Education
      In this episode Tim interviews Tom on the origins and impact of DEI in the K-12 setting. Although Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has a virtuous exterior, the ideologies it promotes are oppressive and divisive. Tom will provide an overview and will call parents to action to educate themselves and push back.
      We encourage diversity and believe all students should have equal opportunity. In addition, we believe in an educational environment that is inclusive of a multitude of viewpoints. However, DEI promotes a singular ideology based on ideas such as white supremacy culture, implicit bias, systemic racism, and other related concepts that place all challenges in academia on the premise that schools are racist and oppressive. According to DEI followers, transformative change can only come about by compelling conformity to its tenets---a clear violation to individual autonomy and our First Amendment Freedoms.
      Helpful Links:
      NEA Social Justice on the Web
      NEA-Racial Justice Key Terms
      Claudine Gay’s DEI Empire
      AASA-Racial Equity
      “DEI Is Everywhere in our Schools and it is Hurting Kids”, Newsweek, May 3, 2023
      Ibram X. Kendi and the problem with public intellectuals today | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
      Withdraw the Obama Administration's Dear Colleague Letter on School Discipline
      PBIS---A Commitment to equity https://www.pbis.org/announcements/resources-for-using-pbis-to-increase-racial-equity SEL Promoting Equity
      36 min
    • Episode 2---Navigating College as a Christian

      Getting through college can be a challenge. It is even more so for a Christian.

      Students, parents of students, faculty and staff who are Christian

      know that their faith can be challenged in many ways in the modern college or university. In this episode Tom interviews Tim about a blog post he wrote called Navigating College as a Christian. Analogous to the cardinal directions on a compass, learn the 4 Ws of navigating college.

      You can also read the original blog post here:

      Navigating College as a Christian: Advice for Students and Parents

      Pomp & Circumstance Intro. by 316Music.

      1 hr 4 min
    • Episode 1: Let us introduce you to Stay the Course w/Tim & Tom

      Stay the Course is a podcast created to support Christians and those with traditional values as they chart their course through the world of academia. Tim is a 20 year tenured professor, and Tom is a 31 year middle school teacher. Offering insights and wisdom from a Biblical perspective to K-12 & university faculty, students, parents, and community members is our goal. Those with traditional values should have a voice in the world of education.

      Introduction Music: "Pomp & Circumstance" by 316Music.

      13 min

    About Stay the Course, Christians in Education

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    “Welcome to Stay the Course, a podcast by and for Christians and conservatives in the K-12 to college environment. THE PODCAST IS hosted by