How Kirk Cameron Points Kids to Christ Through Education
By Movieguide® Contributor
Kirk Cameron explained why parents need to pay attention to their children’s education and protect them from unbiblical teaching.
Cameron has long been a voice in the education sphere, calling on Christian parents to take their children’s education seriously. He has often called into question the quality of the public education system, warning that it pushes a liberal agenda.
He saw this very clearly in recent years through the books being sold at the Scholastic book fair, which heavily promotes the LGBTQ agenda.
“These benign looking book covers are actually laced with obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic material,” Cameron told Allie Beth Stuckey on her “Relatable” podcast. “I’m not exaggerating. That’s why I bought the books. I’ve read them. I saw it with my own eyes. We’re talking about nudity, sex acts with young minors, showing off, you know, top surgery scars. And in the middle of the act asking to please treat me like a boy not like a girl.”
“These books are in libraries and schools and accessible to children,” he continued. “They’re marketed to children 8 to 12 years old, that’s second to sixth grade.”
To provide schools with another option for a book fair, he helped launch Sky Tree book fairs, through which he promotes books with moral stories and provides them to schools for cheap.
“We want a better alternative that puts good age-appropriate books in the hands of our children,” Cameron told Fox News.
His first book fair is coming to a Virginia public school at the beginning of December.
“ANNOUNCEMENT! The support has been incredible from teachers, parents, and school board members nationwide who desire an alternative to @Scholastic. I am heading to Fredericksburg, VA, on December 2nd for our first Public School Book Fair,” Cameron posted on X.
“This event is about promoting positive content, encouraging parent engagement, and community discussion about what our children are learning in school,” Mark Taylor, the superintendent of Spotsylvania Public Schools, said.
While the content promoted through the Scholastic book fairs and public schools is disheartening, Cameron believes God restores goodness when things seem most hopeless.
“Great awakenings and revivals have always come during times of moral decline, spiritual apathy, economic collapse, and political corruption,” he said. “I think we’re due for another one. They seem to happen about every 50 years. We live in a really exciting time right now, and I think that we could be on the cusp of a turning point.”
“What if instead of having weak knees and lamenting this world that our children have to inherit…What if this national setback is really a divine setup for a spiritual comeback led by the family of faith,” he continued.
Movieguide® previously reported:
Kirk Cameron urged parents to pass their faith to their children, explaining that as the culture becomes more hostile, parents are the greatest source of generational change.
“History tells us the stability of Christian civilization depends on families passing the torch of truth to the next generation. You and I are in a a relay race, and we’re passing the baton of covenantal purpose that touches back over 200 years, back over four centuries to our American ancestors. And in times of the deepest darkness, in trouble, parents who train their children in the ways of God have always transformed the world. Not just their own heart but their entire civilizations,” Cameron explains.
Cameron frequently promotes the influential role of parents.
In his new documentary, THE HOMESCHOOL AWAKENING, Cameron calls on parents to “Take back the leadership role in the education of our children so we can better prepare them for their future,” as Movieguide® previously reported.
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