A Denver Public Schools teacher was fired after an administrative law judge found that classroom skits involving “same-gender” kissing scenarios crossed a serious line. According to The Denver Gazette, students felt pressured and uncomfortable, and the judge said the activity forced students to navigate sexual consent and personal boundaries in front of peers while the teacher held authority over the room.
That is not education. That is a lone adult’s ideology with a lesson plan.
Christians should care because children are not props for ideological experimentation. They are image-bearers. They belong first to God, and under Him, parents have the primary responsibility for their formation. Schools serve families. Not the other way around. They do not replace them.
Jesus speaks with frightening seriousness about those who harm children. In Matthew 18:6, He warns that anyone who causes “one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin” faces severe judgment. That passage is not a school-policy manual, but it gives us a clear biblical principle: adults with influence over children are accountable before God for how they use that influence.
Authority is never neutral. A teacher standing in front of a classroom is not just “facilitating dialogue.” A teacher has power. Students know it. Parents know it. Apparently, even this judge knew it, which is refreshing in the way finding a working pay phone would be refreshing.
The issue here is not whether students should learn French. Please, conjugate the verbs. Eat the croissant. Say bonjour with confidence. But when a public-school classroom becomes a place where teenagers are pressured into acting out sexualized scenarios, the adults have lost the plot.
Scripture calls parents to teach their children diligently. Deuteronomy 6 tells God’s people to impress His commands on their children in everyday life. That does not mean every family will make the same schooling decision. Some Christians choose public school, some private school, some homeschool, and faithful believers may use wisdom differently there.
But no Christian parent should be passive.
The state has a legitimate role in education. Teachers deserve respect. Good teachers are a gift. But government schools are not morally blank spaces. They teach some vision of truth, identity, authority, family, and the human person. When Christians pretend public education is spiritually neutral, we are not being humble. We are being asleep.
The DPS board was right to remove this teacher. That does not solve every problem, but accountability matters. Boundaries matter. Protecting students from adult confusion matters.
Christian parents should ask questions, read assignments, attend meetings, know board members, and stop treating “I’m sure it’s fine” as a discipleship strategy. Churches should encourage families, support good teachers, and help parents think clearly without panic.
Prayer matters. So does showing up.
My bottom line: children need formation, not experimentation. Teachers need boundaries, not blank checks. And Christians need enough courage to say that public schools exist to educate children, not recruit them into whatever cultural project happens to be fashionable this semester.
Source: The Denver Gazette
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