Parents fed up with the public school indoctrination machine are building their own alternatives — and they're breaking ground to prove it. College View Academy, a Christian school in Lincoln, Nebraska, just held a groundbreaking ceremony for a brand-new school building, a tangible testament to families who want their children educated in faith, not critical theory.
This is what reclaiming the culture looks like: brick by brick, building by building. While public districts across the country pour time and tax dollars into DEI administrators and gender ideology, parents are voting with their feet and their wallets. carve out spaces where their values aren't treated as the problem.
The Lincoln Journal Star covered College View Academy's groundbreaking, noting the school's investment in new facilities to serve its growing community. The school, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has served the Lincoln area for decades — but expansion signals something enrollment pressure and demand that the old model couldn't contain.
Meanwhile, in Roanoke, Virginia, a similar story is unfolding. The Roanoke Times covered a ribbon-cutting for RAM House, another faith-rooted initiative staking out physical space in the community. These aren't just spiritual ventures — brick-and-mortar commitments — the kind that outlast trending pedagogies and political appointees.
What the establishment press consistently misses — or buries — is the why behind this movement. The Lincoln Journal Star reported the groundbreaking as a local interest story, straightforward enough, but stripped of context: WhyChristian schools are expanding now, at this moment, when public school enrollment is declining nationwide. The Roanoke Times covered RAM House's ribbon-cutting with similar neutrality, as if these openings happen in a vacuum.
They don't. Parents aren't leaving public schools because they woke up one morning and preferred longer commute. They're leaving because school boards treated their objections to explicit content, gender ideology, and revisionist history as bigotry. They're leaving because asking questions at a school board meeting got them labeled domestic terrorists by the federal government. They're leaving because the state made it clear: your children belong to the village, and classroom is the village square, and you're not welcome there.
The founders understood that education was the province of families and communities, not the state. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 declared that
