If you needed another reason to pull your children from public schools, look no further than this latest near-tragedy. The shadow falling across our nation is not an accidental byproduct of a few “troubled” individuals—it is the inevitable destination of a decade-long, state-funded crusade to dismantle the moral foundations of our children.

When you hear the name Cole Tomas Allen, do not just see a man with a shotgun and a manifesto against a sitting president. See the logical conclusion of the rhetoric that is poured into the ears of our youth from the moment they cross the threshold of a government classroom.

We have allowed our children to be discipled by a spirit of inverse reality. Our schools have become nurseries for a specific, virulent strain of anti-Christian, anti-conservative resentment. Even if the “teacher” at the front of your child’s classroom never reaches for a gun to carry out a violent act, the language they carry is the ammunition that creates the shooter.

They are teaching these children that the nation is inherently evil, that traditional values are tools of oppression, and that “success” is defined not by virtue, but by the intensity of one’s resistance against the existing order—and that Christian conservatism is perpetuating this “injustice.”

To add insult to irony, Cole Allen was the “Teacher of the Month.” He was the success story of this meritocracy. He was the product of our most elite institutions, polished to a mirror finish by the very system that now claims to be shocked by his actions.

And this is the horror. He wasn’t broken by the system, he was forged by it. He internalized the curriculum. He took the “social justice” lessons to their absolute, logical, and lethal limit. If you are taught that the people in power are “traitors” and “rapists” and “oppressors” whose actions justify violence as a moral duty, then the only “moral” choice—given the right level of intellectual arrogance—is to pull the trigger.

The rhetoric is the poison in the well. Day after day, our children are bathed in a culture that treats biblical Christianity as a relic of stupidity and the conservative mind as a threat to human survival.

They are taught that it is a moral failure to “turn the other cheek” when someone else is perceived as oppressed.

They are taught that their identity is defined by their political standing.

And when you strip a child of the anchoring truth of the Creator and fill that void with the constantly moving sands of identity politics, you do not create a free thinker. You create a vessel of rage that is looking for a target.

The end result is an entire generation whose baseline is not gratitude or tradition, but grievance. They are sympathetic to the madness because they have been taught that the madness is actually enlightenment. How many more students, sitting in rooms painted in blue and gold, are hearing the same subtext?

How many are being groomed to view their own parents, their own church, and their own country as the primary obstacles to a “just” world?

We are sowing the wind, and we are finally reaping the whirlwind. As a general principle, Scripture warns that a house divided against itself cannot stand. But our schools are doing more than dividing us. They are actively encouraging our children to tear the house down from the inside. They are cultivating a generation that views their national inheritance not as a gift to be stewarded, but as a crime to be punished.

This isn’t about failing grades or poor test scores. It is about the theft of the human mind and spirit. It is the tactical corruption of the formative years. Every day you keep your child in that environment, you are betting that they will be the exception to an rule that is actively working to convert them into a militant.

Sadly, that is a losing bet—and no person of faith, no parent who truly loves their posterity, should ever be willing to take it.

The public school is no longer a place of neutral instruction. It is an altar. And the cult that presides over that altar is hungry. They do not want your children to reason, they want them to echo.

They do not want them to search for truth, they want them to parrot the latest slogans of the grievance-peddlers.

And if that rhetoric leads to a hotel lobby in Washington with a shotgun in hand, the system will simply sanitize the narrative and move on to the next class, completely unbothered by the fact that they are the architects of the catastrophe.

The removal of our children from these institutions is the only act of resistance left that still holds any real power. We must build the sanctuary of the mind and the heart within the walls of our own homes. We must teach the generations to come that the truth was not invented yesterday, and that the order of things—family, faith, and nation—is not to be ignored.

If we do not lead them, the world will. And the world is currently led by people who teach that murder is an act of “justice” if it serves the right political end.