The Forbidden Sacred: Mother's Day, Family, and the Incongruity in Our Classrooms

The Silencing of the Maternal Bond

Across some local schools in Canada, a quiet but potent policy has taken hold: the silencing of Mother’s Day.

Administrators, invoking a rationale of inclusivity and family variance, now deem it too complex, too sensitive, too potentially exclusionary to allow children to speak openly of their mothers, draw crayon tributes to them, or acknowledge the maternal bond in classroom celebration. The child who once brought home a handprint card with a heart that said "Mom" now finds silence where reverence once lived.

This is not policy neutrality. It is cultural erasure by omission, driven by ideological drift and an obsessive, often performative, overcorrection toward perceived harm.

A Double Standard in the Curriculum

In the very same classrooms — often with the same teachers — a diametrically opposite standard is applied to the teaching of human sexuality and identity. Children in early elementary grades are now introduced to the full spectrum of human sexual orientation, gender expression, and lifestyle identification, sometimes by invited institutional experts from local non-profits and public health authorities.

The children I know — and who know me — call it "Rainbow Week." Many of them, especially the perceptive ones, see what’s happening. They ask to stay home or prefer to opt out. They’re told, with moral urgency, to affirm all expressions without hesitation or question.

Let’s be crystal clear: the issue is not complexity. Family structures are indeed diverse. Sexual identity and human expression are layered and evolving. But this must be asked:

Why is the ancient, biological, universally human role of motherhood considered too controversial to honor, while deeply contested identity doctrines are pushed forward as unassailable truths for young children?

This is not inclusion. This is not equity. It is an inversion of rational public pedagogy.

Biological Reality Is Not Ideology

The biological family — and especially the role of the mother — is not an ideology. It is a pre-political, cross-cultural constant. The child is born from woman. This is not dogma. This is biology. And to celebrate that primal bond is not exclusionary — it is human.

Yet within the current policy framework, schools discourage any recognition of the maternal sacred while encouraging the immediate and unquestioning affirmation of every modern identity permutation. The message to children is unmistakable:

• Your mother may be too controversial to mention.

• But a state-sanctioned narrative of identity must be accepted without critical thought.

This is not neutrality. This is indoctrination.

The Deeper Undercurrent: Disassembling the West

This is not accidental. The Western family structure — mother, father, child — is being disassembled not as collateral damage, but by ideological design. The inherited Judeo-Christian vision of the family remains the last metaphysical anchor between the individual and total institutional dependency. Remove it, and the child is no longer grounded in organic human relationship — the child belongs to the system.

So while schools erase "Mother’s Day" from the calendar, they simultaneously usher in external cultural experts to instruct children to affirm everything but the very woman who gave them life.

This isn’t education. This is reprogramming.

A Call for Coherence and Courage

It is our moral obligation — as parents, citizens, and stewards of truth — to say: Enough.

Let children celebrate their mothers. Let the sacred remain sacred. Let family not be a source of embarrassment, but a foundation of belonging.

We are not ideologues. We are builders of clarity. And clarity demands we name the incongruity, expose the poor logic, and restore coherence to what we call education.

To celebrate a mother is not to shame another.
It is to honor something real, something elemental, something that deserves a place in the heart of every child.

Let us build schools that recognize this — where reverence is not feared, but embraced with courage.

To those who carry the immeasurable pain of not knowing a parent, or of having lost the mother or father who gave them life — this critique is not aimed at you. It is aimed at a system that cannot hold space for truth and grief in the same breath.

I send you strength. I send you healing. And I say, with reverence: Godspeed to you my Brothers and Sisters.