It’s time for another episode of go woke go broke; this time, broke means bankrupt. Out of business. Closed for good. Why? Christain donors stop donating after the
And no, I’m not happy about it. “Urban Christian Academy is a private, K-8 school with an enrollment of 100 that describes itself as providing “a tuition-free, high-quality, Christ-centered education for low-income students.”
One-hundred low-income kids in urban Kansas City just lost an opportunity to get a decent education because the so-called Christians running it couldn’t just teach whatever kids they had without diving into the shallow end of the culture gene pool. Jump they did, and the bottom found them quickly. Yes, they expected pushback, but not anything like where they ended up.
So, what happened exactly? They modified the mission statement.
The school’s mission statement has always stressed inclusivity in general terms, noting that following Jesus “opens up doors and makes room at the table.” But last year it added a paragraph to its website, which read in part, “We are an affirming school. We stand with the LGBTQIA+ community and believe in their holiness. We celebrate the diversity of God’s creation in all its varied and beautiful forms.”
Their donors, mostly devout Christians, and churches, have issues with the new language.
A lengthy letter from one church, which characterized the LGBQIA+ community as a “diverse collection of behaviors,” explained: “Our greatest concern about the Accepting and Affirming stance is that it denies the Biblical definitions of sin and identity and thereby renders the grace of God meaningless.”
Feel free to take sides. While the agenda can be toxic and hostile to Christianity and faith, individuals generally are not. Forgiveness and salvation in the face of true repentance is an obligation. Faith provides a degree of order that many people need or find can stabilize their lives and make them more productive and caring individuals. Christain schools can balance those needs alongside a quality education. In other words, if Urban Christian Academy wrote this instead, they’d still be teaching poor kids how to learn and thrive.
“We are an affirming school that celebrates the diversity of God’s creation in all its varied and beautiful forms.”
And then you teach kids math, history, reading, writing, learning and debate skills, and the foundations of the Christain faith that lead to many of the first hospitals, universities, and other public services. Encourage the benefits of families with fathers and mothers with mountains of secular evidence that supports the positive outcomes alongside the foundational benefits of faith and family.
Did they have or were they considering #woke curricula? I have no idea, and now we’ll never know, but there is no reason to inject any of that into a classroom. You can celebrate the diversity of God’s creation without it.
There is nothing tolerant about the public school #woke curriculum. It teaches dependency instead of personal sacrifice—anger instead of peace, division instead of unity.
It didn’t have to be like this; now it’s too late. You literally went woke, and then broke.
It will close at the end of this school year.