Tired of Sexual Indoctrination, Evil

Everett Piper | September 7, 2025

(The Washington Times) — If you’ve ever wondered why America’s public schools receive so much criticism today and why so many hardworking families are making considerable financial sacrifices to enroll their children in private education instead, consider three recent headline stories.

First is the case in Michigan, where a public school teacher with 31 years of seniority decided to quit her job rather than succumb to a test that required her to “rate her level of Whiteness” as a means of improving her teaching skills. This is how the Independent Women’s Forum describes it.

After teaching in Michigan’s Plymouth Canton Community School District for approximately three decades, Michelle Mangiapane decided she had no option but to resign rather than comply with the district’s forced political and racial indoctrination.

“It just got to be too much,” said Ms. Mangiapane, adding that the diversity, equity and inclusion practices “became very divisive.”

“At one point Mangiapane was called into an all-staff meeting to take a test rating her ‘level of Whiteness’ and then was asked to stand in a circle in order of privilege,” according to the Independent Women’s Forum.

Ms. Mangiapane went on to say she “felt sickened” by this propaganda, but perhaps the straw that broke the camel’s back was when her eldest son who was attending the local high school came to her within the first two weeks of his freshman year to say, “Three of his six classes had huge gay pride flags and [Black Lives Matter] flags, and there’s many classrooms … that didn’t have the American flag even shown.” Her son added that he was leery of even bringing up “potentially triggering issues in his debate class.”

The Independent Women’s Forum concludes: “The degradation of academic integrity [and] the politicization of the classroom … eventually made Mangiapane crack. In March of 2024, [she] walked away.” Said Neeraja Deshpande, a policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum: “Michelle’s story reveals just how demoralizing the teaching profession has become for anyone with integrity. Toxic ideology … has all but forced talented teachers like Michelle to leave, and has impeded would-be talented teachers from entering the profession to begin with.”

The second story hails from Colorado, where state law now prohibits counselors from sharing their Christian values concerning gender and sexual identity, even if their clients want them to. This is how the Alliance Defending Freedom summarizes the case.

“Kaley Chiles is a licensed counselor and committed Christian. Many of Kaley’s clients come to her because they share her … worldview and faith-based values. But Colorado law bans counselors from having private conversations with young clients that could help them regain comfort with their God-given sex, instead pushing them one step closer to dangerous gender-transition drugs and surgeries.”

In other words, if Ms. Chiles were a school counselor in Colorado and your child came to her for advice, she would be in violation of state law if she affirmed your son’s or daughter’s given biology and counseled them to askew the inalterable butchery of “transitioning.”

On Oct. 7, the Alliance Defending Freedom will represent Ms. Chiles before the Supreme Court, where she is suing Colorado for violating her constitutional right to discuss shared religious values with her clients.

The third story comes from the state of Kentucky, where a group of churchgoers recently went into a local library and checked out — and are now refusing to return — several books they describe as “sexually perverse.” Among the titles in the library were “My Two Dads” by Claudia Harrington, “Julian Is a Mermaid” by Jessica Love, “Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out” by Susan Kuklin and “Worm Loves Worm” by J.J. Austrian.

Speaking to CBN News, pastor John Amanchukwu offered the following: “Respectfully, I don’t think that any school should have books that seek to indoctrinate children into heterosexuality or into homosexuality, into transgenderism. … I don’t think that should be the focus of education.” He added that exposing children to sexualized content at increasingly younger ages is akin to “mental rape” that “assaults the soul, stains the brain and robs kids of their innocence.”

So there you have it. With students across the nation being taught the racism of DEI, the moral nihilism of “My Two Dads” and the science-denying nonsense of transgenderism, it is no wonder parents everywhere are simply saying, “Enough is enough. Stop the propaganda. We just want our kids to learn how to read, write, do arithmetic and understand the basics of biology. We just want them taught that America, on balance, is exceptional rather than evil. If you won’t teach them this, we’ll send them somewhere else that will.”

Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery).