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Topic: Board - Bored (01/12/23)
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TITLE: Awareness Strategies. | Previous Challenge Entry
By Gloria Pierre Dean
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The announced meeting of the School Board management of the City’s public schools will be held today in the usual ground floor location.
Sally was a teacher in the middle school and loved her job. She was also on the board, which she found rather boring at times.
The classroom was her domain, her passion. Sitting around a table discussing policy was not. However since her opinion and experience mattered, she saw it as her duty as a citizen, a parent, a wife and a Christian. She found it easy to speak up on moral issues that had recently begun to be discussed.
On today’s agenda was the determination of the content of the elementary curriculum.
Outside the main gates of the school, Christian parents were quietly demonstrating against the State Governer’s edict that ‘teaching of sexually explicit content and inviting immorally graphic role models’ to talk to the children was to be commenced. Large placards were being held up with their messages.
This Board meeting was called urgently to discuss, determine and publish their stand on the Governor’s edict.
Locally and nationally, homeschooling was rocketing.
Because of the rulings, parents were removing their children...
Harriet, her best friend, and middle school teacher was thinking seriously about applying for a job at a Christian school. Not only was it heartbreaking to see the changes that were being planned, but it was also ‘scary’.
Sally wondered if her voice would be listened to at the meeting today. She was frustrated and bored with the fighting and vocal battles. Imagine!
As they were saying; Bibles and God were not to be allowed in the school. Instead, they were planning to teach the children critical race theory and gender transition theories.
‘Sally, no one’s listening to you and your God talk!!
It's boring!’ smeared one vocally aggressive Board member to her.
Last night, in distress, she called Harriet. They chatted for a long time.
As they spoke, she said
“Being bored is over. I am going to get involved and, I’m going public!”
Sally intended to do Awareness Strategies. First, she would talk to her husband and her pastor. Her plan was to then arrange and give interviews to the local media, make strategic calls to Christain leaders, call the local Christian stations and ask for prayer from the local prayer groups. She knew that there would be opposition, but there would also be allies. By choosing to do the right thing; she was seeking to give God glory.
The Church must be strong... ‘’Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” {Deut 31:6}; was a comforting verse.
Sally was no longer bored.
In her mind was this verse; “Do what is right and fair; that pleases the Lord more than bringing him sacrifices. Wicked people are controlled by their conceit and arrogance, and this is sinful”.
{Deut 21:3}.
Despite the Board’s liberal and misguided leanings, she had to take a stand and pursue what was right in God’s eyes.
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