Posts by Emily Jones

The debate is no longer about whether we should legalize gambling. It’s about whether a deep red state like Alabama will be complicit in building a system that begins with children’s data and ultimately benefits industries that profit from human weakness.

Critics of school choice are always quick to point out the “dismantling” of public education that comes with newer educational models. Often lost in this outcry is the fact that thousands of Alabama students feel trapped in a system that may not serve them best. 

We already know what gambling does to families. Now we’re being told to rely on it to fund our schools. That’s not a solution. That’s a tradeoff – and it’s one Alabama shouldn’t make. You don’t build strong schools by betting against your own people.

Alabama doesn’t need gambling. We shouldn’t legalize another addiction just because someone found a way to profit from it. And if we do, we won’t just be funding government – we’ll be funding the slow breakdown of the very families we claim to protect.

Sports gambling is a growing threat to our children that too many adults still underestimate.

Companion AI does not encourage repentance, challenge sin, teach self-denial, or model sacrificial love. Instead, it mirrors feelings and reinforces emotional impulses – precisely the opposite of Christian formation.

Alabama has always understood that freedom comes with responsibility. Applying that principle to the digital lives of children is not radical. It’s overdue.

When a teachers’ union compares its relationship with conservatives to Donald Trump’s diplomacy with Kim Jong Un, you know Alabama politics are shifting in strange ways.

Alabama parents need to wake up. We were promised opt-in protections – not workarounds, not footnotes, not policy tricks. And certainly not a counseling model that embeds ideology under the cover of state standards.

Alabama’s future is not just shaped in Montgomery or Washington – it is forged in the pulpits of our churches. If pastors will not lead with courage, the church will become irrelevant at best and a stumbling block at worst

Our kids won’t fully appreciate the magnitude of America's 250th birthday celebration unless we start preparing them now. And Alabama has the chance to lead the way.

With school starting in just a few weeks, parents across Alabama are preparing for one of the most noticeable changes this school year: the implementation of the FOCUS Act.

Last Saturday, hundreds of Alabama parents, grandparents, and freedom-loving citizens packed into a standing-room-only event for one clear purpose: to speak truth and defend our children.

If we increase the superintendent’s salary, are we, the taxpayers, then going to be forced to increase the salaries of the governor and lieutenant governor?

Allowing the current counseling guidance for Alabama public schools to remain in place and maintaining connectivity to the ASCA puts all Alabama schools in jeopardy of losing federal funding.

Peeping behind the curtain reveals that SEL is nothing more than unlicensed therapy shoved down your child’s throat on a daily basis in public school.

You can love your school and love your teachers, but love your children more. Know with certainty what is being discussed within those four walls.

Make no mistake, every single complaint the AEA has against school choice is because it’s taking power away from them and putting it in the rightful hands of parents. 

Why does it matter that our children are encountering so many emotion-based lessons and activities in their classrooms? It matters because these lessons are all part of Social Emotional Learning (SEL), the latest trend in woke ideologies infiltrating our public schools and children’s minds.

Deeply embedded within every school across the state, the American School Counselor’s Association is pushing radical ideas directly conflicting with Alabama laws.

If the battles we are facing today aren’t enough to help people find their strength and overcome their weaknesses, where does that leave our children? What kind of society does that leave for them? 

If we’re witnessing our schools push a strongly worded memo calling for corrective actions without a deadline, why should we believe anyone is taking this issue seriously? We shouldn’t.