An Impactful School

Some years ago I wrote about this mega liberal family I know that put their kid in an Evangelical school during COVID. The mother was an executive at some huge agricultural concern, and COVID lockdowns were preventing her from traveling for work. These are very wealthy people who live in a veritable mansion. The executive mother was filling my Facebook thread with the most BLMish posts imaginable. Her attitude to the Evangelical school was that it was an arrangement of convenience, and the silly religious stuff had to be tolerated until public schools reopened.  “Ha ha, it’s hilarious that I, of all people, should have a kid who prays every evening and insists we say grace at meals,” she would post regularly.

But her little girl is the most headstrong child I know besides my own. If there was going to be an ideological battle between her and the mom, my bets were on the kid.

By the time the girl went to second grade, the mother found Jesus. I can’t begin to describe how unexpected it was to see her suddenly start posting updates from her Bible Study group and pictures of the family on their way to church. This used to be the most liberal person you could imagine. She went on to have two more kids, left her big agricultural concern, and started her own business that fights Big Ag and provides support to small agricultural producers. She’s still as effective as ever, and from what I can gather, now makes even more money.