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A coalition representing parochial schools and public school parents has begun an advertising campaign that calls upon Governor Kathy Hochul to open New York to the Trump administration’s freedom scholarship tax-credit program.
The governor’s hesitation reveals the deeper determination of the managerial priesthood to retain every child within the state’s ideological formation system.
Scripture places the duty of instruction upon fathers and mothers, not upon distant bureaucracies; the patristic witness and the Reformation recovery of household authority both confirm that education belongs first to the covenant family under God.
When the state seizes that authority, as it has done through compulsory attendance and curriculum control since the nineteenth-century Prussian model, it repeats the ancient error of the City of Man seeking to supplant the City of God.
The proposed federal tax credit returns resources to parents without creating a new federal apparatus, thereby restoring a measure of stewardship consistent with the ordered household economy of historic Christendom.
Hochul’s continued refusal would place her among those rulers who treat children as raw material for social engineering rather than souls entrusted to their natural guardians.
The faithful remnant must therefore press the opt-in with every lawful instrument while simultaneously building parallel academies, guilds, and home instruction networks that owe nothing to the captured system.
Only when parents again exercise direct rule over the formation of their children will the long retreat from Christian order in education begin to reverse.
