To hear Policy 102.1 come forward for review last month has transported me back in time. I can still picture my husband and I getting in the car to pull our then ninth grader out of East Ridge High School due to the planned “student” protest over the Chauvin trial and racial equity that afternoon. This was the turning point for my family and our decision to pull the kids out of District 833 for good. I had trusted the public school system my entire life, but upon our return to in-person learning, the emphasis was no longer on academic achievement … and I began to realize it had never been. This year of lies and lawlessness at all levels gave me a new perspective on truth. If it were not for 2020, my kids might still be at ERHS and JAiME for SCHOOLS would not exist today. I would still be the timid, quiet, anxious, and indecisive person I once was prior to 2021. But like the flip of a divine switch deep within my core, black turned to white and white turned to black. It wasn’t the Fist of Man who changed my mind. It was the Cross of Christ who inverted my worldview. In turning away from the news of man and toward the Good News of Jesus Christ in 2021, I suddenly recognized the chaos and disorder of BLM for what it truly was. Good and evil, Right and wrong, Life and death all orbit around two sacred unifying centers – the MEEK CROSS OF CHRIST or the MIGHTY FIST OF MAN.
There are times when I see the veil of chaos and disorder finally beginning to lift, and that time is right now. The false narrative surrounding the death of George Floyd in 2020, and the manipulation of truth that will forever stain that year, is coming full circle at this very moment in time. (Watch EXCLUSIVE: 5 years later: Justice after George Floyd? The perpective of Alex Kueng” HERE. Compare this to SoWashCo News “Statement and Resources Following Chauvin Trial” HERE from four years ago when Policy 102.1 was being crafted, not by MSBA policy, but out of thin air.)
I think to myself, “What’s God up to now? What chess piece is he currently moving into position, and how many pieces did he have to move for this moment in history to look like it does?” As fateful as 2020 was, I fervently believe that God moves people into position for good reason. After all, He moved me.
Racial Equity and Inclusion
in South Washington County Public Schools
There are not many school district policies that reveal so vividly the heart of a system the way that 102.1 Racial Equity and Inclusion Policy gets to the central core of this district’s mission – “… to educate students for success.”
Parents wrongly assume the district means success for the purpose of academic proficiency, but in the rewrite of Policy 102.1, the district clearly states they mean success for the purpose of equity and inclusion. This can be known because no other policy spells out their mission as explicitly as this one does. Nothing is said about the success of meeting grade-level standards. Nothing is mentioned about the success of being reading-literate or math-literate. By contrast, everything is said about race.
NOTE:
South Washington County Schools is just one example among many public schools in the state of Minnesota. I concentrate on the public school model, the local level and District #833 for the following reasons.
- THE PUBLIC SCHOOL MODEL: The state continues to restrict free market learning models while legislating the state-run Socialist model into power, wealth and prestige.
- THE LOCAL LEVEL: It is here the revelatory fringe of MDE’s core is best displayed through speech both visually, verbally and tacitly.
- THE DISTRICT OF 833 SOWASHCO: This is the district I have the most knowledge of, experience with, connections to, and historical data for supporting my research. For example, my two children attended SoWashCo Schools for 10 years (prior to 2021), and I was able to see first hand the extreme shift in my second child’s education compared to my first. In addition to that, my husband graduated from Woodbury High School in 1992, after 13 years of schooling, and he is able to provide me with the stories, yearbooks and literature that make for valuable comparisons, then to now.
Before I go any further though, lets back up just a bit.
Let us start out simple.
Let us begin with what is REAL.
At “The Abstract Fringe” of my last article, I referenced the following two quotes. These are foundational to what I am researching here at “The United Center.”
Perception
“Every aspect of an elementary perception has exactly the same structure, a sacred center that defines the unifying point of the perception that fades out into the fringes along the edges.”
"Peace" is to be whole
“Shalem means to be full or complete … it can’t be divided. Peace can’t be made as a compromise. There has to be at least a fundamental agreement on the principal underlying it or peace is just not going to last.”
PHYSIOLOGICAL CORE
First, think of the center and fringe in terms of one singular BODY.
the planet
the fruit tree
the fish of the sea
the birds of the sky
the beasts of the earth
the human made in the image of God
At the core is the body’s brain, heart, soul and seed. This is where the capital or control center is located, uniting our action around a sacred central purpose that is then expressed outwardly through the skin. At the fringe is space for things to be left vague, blurry, distorted, and surreal and yet there is truth to be found here as all five sensors speak publicly the language of core values.
The Nucleus
The nucleus is the central and most important part of an object, movement, or group, forming the basis for its activity and growth. According to Merriam-Webster.com the nucleus, as in center, “is a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest.” The nucleus, as in core, “is the central part or aspect of something under consideration.”
“But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and defiles a person."
The “nucleus” is used to define the center in many fields of study including astronomy, geology, biology, palaeontology, physiology, anatomy, neurology, genetics, chemistry. The nucleus is even applied to phonetics whereby it is the central, most prominent segment in a syllable.
Within each of these fields of study, the center/fringe physiological phenomena of one thing can be seen in multiplicity. As one joins a group of many, a unifying social structure is agreed upon for the good of the whole system. Societal laws and expectations are established so that all members remain in orbit around the central core.
SOCIOLOGICAL CORE
Second, think of the center and fringe in terms of the grouping of PEOPLE.
the nation
the city state
the clan or tribe
the religious congregation
the nuclear family
There is a social nucleus in the political structure of every system, community, species and family. The nuclear family is a family with a nucleus. A nucleus is the “head” and “heart”, but it also carries the seed of the family’s future – the life-giving reproductive system of that being. Like the sun gives light that sustains life here on Earth, the womb of a woman holds the future of mankind. Some day we all will die, and the only part of us to live on will be our child – our fruit, our seed, and our future. Like the fruit of a tree, human family lines live on through their child’s child’s child’s child’s child.
The seed is in the woman. It is not weak or suppressive to be a woman. It is a powerful gift to carry a baby in the womb of one’s own body. This notion that women must be equal to men is secondary when considering that the treasure within her womb surpasses that of any monetary wealth made by man. The woman has been given the highest place of honor and protection in the nuclear family – the center – if she chooses to accept nurturing the seed that grows inside of her.
102.1 Racial Equity and Inclusion Policy
The Visually speech of SoWashCo
As we take a closer look at Policy 102.1, we come to realize that this push for Racial Equity and Inclusion isn’t really about race after all, and I don’t think it ever was. Watch how the visual speech (illustration) of District #833 shifts focus from race to gender inclusion without even changing the spoken word.
THE MIGHTY FIST
targets the Structure of
nuclear family
The above comparison speaks volumes about the MIGHTY FIST of this districts nucleus and simultaneously paints another picture in my mind of the dual inverse reality between REAL and FAKE.
Meek Cross of Christ
The Person of Truth and Love (Jesus and His followers) orbits the seed of life by limiting access to the woman’s body. She is protected in marriage from harm by those outside her nuclear family, and when the man provides for her physical needs (safety, belonging, etc) the woman has more time to nurture the family’s most important treasure – their children and the future that lives beyond.
Mighty Fist of Man
The counterfeit masquerading as the person of truth and love (Satan and his followers) targets the seed of life for destruction by opening up the woman’s body to multiple sexual partners. She is vulnerable to harm outside the protection of marriage, and so when her seed produces fruit, she chooses to kill it in the name of sexual freedom, women’s rights, and reproductive health.
The Four Governing Bodies
- Nucleus of the Individual
- Nucleus of the Family
- Nucleus of the Church
- Nucleus of the State
Only you can define the core within the first three bodies on this list. Jordan B. Peterson says that the core itself is sacred. If this is true then we are each left to choose between two possible options – the MIGHTY FIST OF MAN, or the MEEK CROSS OF CHRIST. Every sacred core is filled with either one or the other, but not both at the same time for long. This is because the two are an inverse of one another.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."
President Lincoln said in his House Divided speech, “A house divided will not stand.” This comes from the Bible.
"Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, 'Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.' "
Ben Shapiro said something similar while in Jerusalem with Jordan B. Peterson, that peace is wholeness at its core and cannot be divided.
Individuals have a sacred core they live their life by. Parents too have a sacred core they raise their family by. Churches have a sacred core they teach their congregants by. State governments have a sacred core they set their laws and statutes by.
Man can choose to live by the worldview of man or the worldview of Christ, but man cannot choose to live in peace at the middle of these two universal inverse worldviews.
THE CENTER MUST BE UNITED.
If peace is not possible without a united center, then what is the fundamental principal that governs Compulsory Education in Minnesota and dictates which sacred core all four models of learning must orbit?
SoWashCo Workshop Meeting
May 8th, 2025
James Magee, Director of DEI, had this to say about Policy 102.1 prior to it’s approval by the School Board (5-2) later that month (View clip HERE) :
“I think what I would offer is this policy is intended to address things that are already here. We have inequitable outcomes because of inequitable – or some would say oppressive – systems, laws, structures that have been in our space for decades.” (minute 1:04:49)
Mr. Magee goes on to say there were laws that segregated schools by offering opportunity, such as higher education and financial success for those with means/resources while limiting opportunity for others without mean/resources, and he calls these things “structures”.
“We are looking at these structures that, even if the law or system has been addressed, we’re still feeling the impact of many of those structures that have been put in place at some point.” (minute 1:05:38)
When Ryan asks “What are the root causes of those things?” James answers, “Look, I don’t know that we can do the entire history of these structures.” … But I wonder, why not? It shouldn’t be that difficult for the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to summarize what everyone who orbits the FIST OF MAN already knows. The district does not appear willing to reveal to the general public, the same lessons they teach children in private every day at school. The district does not appear willing to say, on record, that what they truly mean to break down is the wall of protection around your Christian family unit.
The classwork above was shared with me by a student at Park High School in Cottage Grove MN. The unit of study was Microaggressions. Students were introduced to this unit by defining the dominant class and then watching a series of classroom videos deemed reliable and trustworthy news sources such as MTV and The Guardian. The students were then given a list of 25 graphic novels to choose from in class. This list did not go home for parents to see, nor did any of the classwork. Note: Not every class will receive the same assignment. This teacher just so happened to be the UTSWC teachers’ union building representative at Park. Note also that Policy 102.1 falls under the district’s “Achievement and Integration” plan. Removal of the plan will help, but removal will not eliminate unit studies like this one unless we also address the state-level DEI influence.
The irony is that Mr. James Magee was unable to answer simple questions asked by School Board Member Ryan Clarke, and yet most SoWashCo students could have told Mr. Clarke exactly what systems Mr. Magee’s department teaches them are oppressive structures. These structures can be summed up in a matter of seconds. According to Mr. MIGHTY FIST OF MAN, the greatest oppressor to be dismantled is the straight white upper class Christian male of European descent … or in other words people who look exactly like School Board Member Ryan Clarke. Students began learning about the Dominate/Subordinate cycle of Critical Race Theory within the Marxist sacred core shorty after the death of George Floyd when returning back to in-person leaning in early 2021.
Most SoWashCo teachers could have also told Mr. Clarke exactly what structures need dismantling, because the Racial Equity Vision and Professional Development sessions, created after the death of George Floyd, have taught them how to incorporate Black Supremacist Culture into their lesson plans and disciplinary routines. This is not a secret to anyone in the system. Why hide it from the voters and taxpayers who make up our community?
Why so much secrecy?
Nucleus of The State
Like I said, only you can define the core within the first three bodies on this list (Individual, Family, Church). Hopefully you have an idea which core you have chosen to orbit. But what happens when we get to the Socialist state of MDE? What happens if the sacred core of this fourth governing body (which requires your children be schooled under) is the inverse of your family’s chosen sacred core?
- Is it right for the Socialist state of MDE to label your family an oppressive system?
- Is it right for the FIST OF MAN to call you privileged because of the sacred core you have chosen to orbit around?
- Is it right for the enslaved FIST OF MAN to cry out “injustice” against your family structure, success and salvation when the MEEK CROSS OF CHRIST has been made just as available to him as to you?
Because, in all honesty, it is at the Cross where the most sacred form of INCLUSION known to mankind resides. It is at the Cross where the most DIVERSE social and economic groupings of people come together as sisters and brothers in Christ. It is at the Cross where the most EQUITABLE outcomes are judged by the most sacred and omnipotent Person of Truth and Love this world has ever known.
From the cROSS at home
to the fIST at school
Is it any mystery why we have a mental health crisis among teens in this decade of moral confusion? … especially among girls? We lovingly send our children off to their SoWashCo School with a smile and a wave at the bus, but when we knowingly send them into an inverted sacred core (from that of our family) how do we expect our children to respond?
Our children know that we know the harm we subject them to five days a week for 9 months a year over 13 consecutive years of their childhood.
Our children know that we know we send them into a system that teaches them to question the faith we teach at home, question the authority we have as a parent, question the protection we have for their health, and question the hope we have for their future.
Our children know that we know their school frightens them with climate catastrophe, sexualizes them with gender fluidity, catagorizes them with racial equity, collectivizes them with social emotional learning, and weighs them down with global burdens of saving a dying world from the parasitic inhabitation of man.
We send them away to be babysat by a lie. Of course our children will grow to distrust us. If we as parents cannot defend our own faith for lack of biblical literacy, then how can we expect our child to defend a faith they have yet to make their own? This should not surprise us when our children choose the synthetic mother and father of institutional state leaders over that of their REAL families. The institution is offering them candy-like pleasure and the quick-fix of cheap success on a stick.
There is wholeness in the community of Christ. But in the network of man, there is only fragmentation.
Schooling is an Institutional Network
John Taylor Gatto says, “Networks don’t require the whole person, but only a narrow piece. If you function in a network, it asks you to suppress all the parts of yourself except the network-interest part – a highly unnatural act although one you can get used to. In exchange, the network will deliver efficiency in the pursuit of some limited aim. This is, in fact, a devil’s bargain, since on the promise of some future gain one must surrender the wholeness of one’s present humanity. If you enter into too many of these bargains, you will split yourself into many specialized pieces, none of them completely human … The fragmentation caused by excessive networking creates diminished humanity, a sense that our lives are out of control – because they are.” (pg 47)
Put a Christian adult educator into a system ruled by the MIGHTY FIST, and watch their faith grow, but put a Christian family’s child into the same system, and watch their inexperienced faith shrink into the background.
Entering into this devil’s bargain is not the same for an adult as it is for a child. A child is not able to defend his faith. Without a positive role model, he will become deceived into worshiping the created rather than the Creator without even recognizing the inversion of trickery played on his innocent mind.
An Inversion of Truth and Love
If adults get confused about which sacred core is which, then how do we expect our kids to whether? Mighty man has stolen from God what he needs to lift himself higher. Mighty man markets God’s creation for his own profit and personal gain.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals of UNESCO sound an awful lot like the Beatitudes of Christ, but in reality they are an inverted counterfeit.
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of SoWashCo Schools boasts of empowering the least of these, but in reality they stroke their own pride.
The Welfare system of Minnesota sounds nice, but in reality it weakens the weak by creating dependency.
The rainbow flag of LGBT reminds me of my favorite Television show as a child, “The Care Bears.” In reality though, this rainbow represents an inverted, superficial sort of identity whose effect runs only skin deep.
In these examples, man claims God’s creation as his own.
SoWashCo Schools Policy 102.1 was born out of the MIGHTY FIST OF MAN in 2020. We now know this to be a fabrication of the truth, so why is SoWashCo softening their speech while doubling down on racial equity and inclusion now, four years later?
Could it be this fortified system is rotting at the core? Might this fortress be on the brink of collapse?
Up Next
The Language of War
The Minnesota Department of Education talks about dismantling barriers and nurturing assets by mobilizing all of us. This is THE LANGUAGE OF WAR being waged against the nuclear family, and it is not new, nor did it begin with MDE. The ancient art of warfare is used for both good and for bad bad, and it goes back thousands of years. To occupy the fortress is to destroy the stronghold, claim the treasure, clear the rubble, and build brand new. There is such a powerful dynamic at play here between the unifying center (heart) and the abstract fringe.
God led the nation of Israel out of Egyptian captivity through Moses around 1446 BC. Forty years later, God led them into the promised land of Canaan through Joshua. What is the primary armor God uses to fit his people for battle? The nation of Israel succeeded in penetrating the tough outer fringe of Canaan NOT by using man-made weapons of war and NOT by using force. God fought evil with good by fitting his warriors with The Word of God (head, heart, hand), held within the Ark of the Covenant. This means the language of God is able to penetrate the strongholds of man. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 6:12
The Rational Bible by Dennis Prager
I want to take a moment to acknowledge the impact this series (and specifically Genesis) has had on my life (and my family). Four years ago, this Jewish commentary pulled me in to Scripture in a way that no other book ever did. I had been trying for forty years to read the Bible, but I failed in the middle of Genesis every single time. Hours and hours I would spend reading words that my mind refused to absorb. Looking back now I can see that I was reading out of the desire to absorb quick knowledge. I was not allowing the time or space for this book to become a part of me.
View website of C.S. Lewis Institute HERE.
I picked up Dennis Prager’s commentary on Genesis in the aftermath of 2020. Like many others, this was a year that pushed me to my breaking point when no amount of media could satiate my hunger for truth. By the fifth page of “GENESIS – God, Creation, and Destruction” I was hooked. This book forced me to slow down and read each line of Scripture through it’s original lens – Jewish culture, tradition, and heritage.
If you are having trouble fully engaged the text of Scripture, please consider doing these four things.
- Find a comfy location in your house that is quiet and peaceful.
- Carve out time every day to open the Bible, read, and make notes in it’s margins. Some days you may only get through a paragraph and that’s okay.
- When you get in your car, tune in to Faith Radio. I often find these messages speak directly into my life.
- Consider starting with a commentary like The Rational Bible which explains line-by-line how relevant this ancient text is today. Then purchase a Bible with commentary. I spent over $100 on my first Bible with commentary, and it was the best purchase I ever made.
Works Cited (in addition to links in-line):
“The Abstract Fringe” and “The United Center” was inspired by
- Gatto, John Taylor. Dumbing Us Down – The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. New Society Publishers, 2017.
- Peterson, Jordan B. EXODUS – Authority from Above and Within. Episode 16. Dailywire+ podcast, Aired April 26 2023, accessed November 6, 2024. https://images.app.goo.gl/BmRJHzLCgPLeSP667
- Peterson, Jordan B. Foundations of the West -Extra: Dinner in Jerusalem & the Middle East Conflict. Episode 2. Dailywire+, aired August 14, 2024, accessed April 22, 2025. https://www.dailywire.com/episode/dinner-in-jerusalem-the-middle-east-conflict?elementPosition=2&row=0&rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel
- “Nucleus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nucleus. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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This Little SCHOOL+HOUSE
In 2020, the Governor’s Education Roundtable put together A Roadmap for Transformational Change in Minnesota Education that says, “We need to mobilize all of us – not just teachers and students – to nurture assets and DISMANTLE BARRIERS so every student and their family has all Minnesotans supporting their academic and personal growth.”
On the other hand, Kelly Smith, Founder of Prenda, says his micro-schools are “BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS that will make it easier for people to start their own schools.” Meanwhile, One Stone, a school with no teachers, no tests and no grades, says they are “BREAKING DOWN the one-size-fits-all nature of a conventional classroom.”
As you can see, there are a lot of proverbial BARRIERS BEING BROKEN DOWN these days, and they appear to be at war with one another. G.K. Chesterton said, “Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.” Wise advice from a wise man.
My question is, which SCHOOL+HOUSE is able to BUILD UP? Anyone can break down in a world ruled by the laws of gravity. Whether good or evil , real or fake – anyone can destroy – but only REAL things grow while under this sun … only REAL is granted authority to build upward … only REAL has the soft heart needed for love … only REAL is able to truly hear His story (history) spoken … and only REAL is able to truly see the Word written into the fabric of creation.
This Little School+House will pair with the “Borders and Boundaries” series of 2025 in exploring the question, “What is education, actually?”
This Little SCHOOL+HOUSE
February 5, 2025
Pit Of Fake SUCCESS
March 31, 2025
The Abstract Fringe
April 30, 2025