When Adults Abandon Their Calling: The Moral Failure of Our Education System and Parenting
In recent weeks, I’ve watched something unfold in our schools that has shaken me deeply. Teachers—adults entrusted with the care of someone else’s child—have allowed minors to skip class, wander into political protests, and even step into busy streets. One child was struck by a car. Thank God the child survived. But the fact that this happened at all reveals a deeper spiritual problem:
We are letting children make adult decisions, and we are calling it empowerment.
Scripture calls it abandonment.
This is not about politics.
This is about responsibility, morality, and the Christian understanding of childhood.
And it is time to say it plainly:
Allowing children to bear adult burdens is not Christian. It is a betrayal of the innocence Jesus defended.
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Children Are Not Meant to Navigate Life Alone
From the beginning of Scripture, God makes it clear that children require guidance, formation, and protection.
Proverbs 22:6
“Train up a child in the way he should go…”
Training assumes the child does not know the way on their own.
Autonomy is not the biblical model—formation is.
Deuteronomy 6:7
“Teach them diligently… when you sit, when you walk, when you lie down, when you rise.”
Children are shaped through constant instruction, not self‑direction.
Ephesians 6:4
“Bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
God places responsibility on adults, not children, to set the path.
Proverbs 29:15
“A child left to himself brings shame…”
Scripture warns that a child without guidance is a child headed toward harm.
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Jesus Didn’t Just Welcome Children — He Protected Them
When the disciples tried to push children aside, Jesus didn’t simply correct them. He elevated them.
Matthew 19:14
“Let the little children come to me… for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
Jesus honors their innocence.
He does not burden them with adult responsibilities.
But His strongest words come in the very next chapter.
Matthew 18:6
“If anyone causes one of these little ones to stumble,
it would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck
and be drowned in the depths of the sea.”
Jesus reserves His most severe warning for those who endanger or mislead children—physically, morally, or spiritually.
Letting minors skip class to join political protests in traffic is not “activism.”
It is exactly the kind of stumbling block Jesus condemned.
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Childhood Is Sacred — Not a Social Experiment
A child’s mind is still forming.
A child’s judgment is still developing.
A child’s identity is still fragile.
A child’s worldview is still unshaped.
When adults step back and say,
“Let them decide for themselves,”
they are not empowering the child—they are abandoning them.
And abandonment is not compassion.
It is not progress.
It is not freedom.
It is failure.
A failure of responsibility.
A failure of morality.
A failure of spiritual duty.
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When Schools Encourage Adult Decisions, They Steal Childhood
Childhood is a brief, irreplaceable season designed by God Himself.
It is meant to be protected, not politicized.
When educators allow children to:
• skip class
• enter dangerous environments
• participate in adult political movements
• make decisions they cannot possibly understand
they are not “supporting student voice.”
They are robbing a child of the innocence Jesus said belongs to the Kingdom of Heaven.
They are setting that child up for confusion, instability, and failure as a future adult.
They are violating the trust parents place in them.
And they are violating the biblical mandate to protect the young.
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A Christian Society Cannot Shrug at This
If we claim to value children…
If we claim to honor Scripture…
If we claim to follow Christ…
then we cannot accept an education system that treats minors like political instruments or free agents.
Children are not tools.
Children are not props.
Children are not activists.
Children are not adults.
They are souls entrusted to us by God, and we will answer for how we treat them.
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My Conviction
I’m sharing this because it matters to me, and because it matters to God.
This will not happen to my nieces and nephews while I’m alive.
Not because I’m controlling — but because I’m responsible.
Childhood is sacred.
And Scripture is unambiguous:
Children are not supposed to carry adult burdens. When adults step back and call it empowerment, Scripture calls it abandonment.
