Lydia Booth was in fifth grade when she tried to spread hope with a Covid mask with a message of unconditional love.
Shea Encinas was in the fifth grade when his religious beliefs were worried about reading a book about sexual ideology at his kindergarten.
Justin Aguilar was a secondary school senior when he wanted to record the story of how he found strength through faith in his Valedictorian speech.
A group of children in Massachusetts were in primary school and Junior High when they were repeatedly subjected to bullying based on their Jewish faith, including obscene such as “Go to the gas chambers.”
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These modest and courageous young people, and others like them, who, despite persecution, hold in their beliefs, represent the best that our country can offer. They deserve recognition and honor for their steadfastness, selflessness and dedication to principle.
President Donald Trump during a religious Liberty Commission meeting in the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, on Monday, September 8, 2025. (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty images)
Instead, they were the target, harassed, threatened and bullied, not only by classmates, but also by adults in leadership – adults trusted, guiding and guiding.
Lydia’s school managers gave her the feeling that she had done something wrong.
An employee at the school of Shea called his best friend and encouraged him to denounce Shea and to use the friendship to put pressure on Sea in compliance with the ideology of the school.
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School leaders stood out both cases of the name of “Jesus Christ” in the speech of Justin, together with two of the four mentions of God, and inquired that the changes were required constitutionally.
Administrations at the Jewish student school have rejected and traced the experiences of the students.
We learned this week with our Religious Liberty Commission Hearing that these examples of religious targeting of students are not insulated authorities, due to a local or regional misunderstanding. Religious targeting is not limited to states in certain locations or with certain political tendencies. It happens from Massachusetts to California and everywhere in between.
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We are confronted with an epidemic of religious discrimination, aimed at our students and our parents. As President Trump said in his speech to the committee: “In many schools, students of today are that [hit] With anti-religious propaganda and some are even punished for their religious beliefs and very, very strongly punished. “
What is the cause? Most people have to think that our legal system is the culprit, but this is not the full story. Part of the tragedy in these stories is that the students actually had the law on their side. The problems occurred because their leaders, consciously or unconsciously, misled the students and their families about the scope of their rights.
As Americans, religious freedom is our most fundamental law, and we have to do better. We must protect our students and support the parents who love them and have the constitutional right to focus their religious upbringing.
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We must follow the leadership of the Ministry of Education of President Donald Trump, who has promised to offer clarifying guidelines about prayer in schools.
We have to revise school policy and implement training to protect everyday Americans and to inform about their religious freedom rights, in the same way in which we inform them about other protection in the workplace.
We also have to reconsider the school curricula to ensure that it celebrates the truth and facilitates age before the age that is respectful for various religious beliefs. School managers who help and encourage students to switch and change their gender without the knowledge and permission of their parents, criminal and civilly must be held responsible.
Above all, we must start teaching Americans – and not just children – about their rights under the first amendment. This is the core of the work of the religious Liberty Commission.
We have to revise school policy and implement training to protect everyday Americans and to inform about their religious freedom rights, in the same way in which we inform them about other protection in the workplace. (Istock)
We have to remind Americans of the protection they have and the wrong structure of the Wilde, from the progressive era of the first amendment to keep in the country that still sniff through the country, making victims of children like these students.
Our work as a committee has only just begun. During our next hearing on September 29, we will continue to explore the deep -rooted religious Vrijheidswasies in our education system.
President Trump noted: “When faith becomes weaker, our country seems to be weaker, [and] If faith becomes stronger … good things happen for our country. ”
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The same can be said for our schools. It is time for education to strengthen our parents, children and families instead of undermining.
Change starts with each of us – as Junior High Student Lydia Booth remembered us, “[If] I had remained silent, nothing would have changed …[But] God can even use something as little as my mask to ensure that our great land remains free. ”
