Eagle Ridge Academy and the Culture of Death

Why do you send your children to Eagle Ridge Academy? Are you escaping the large cities know as middle and high schools? Would any small school do? Or did you come to Eagle Ridge Academy because there was something that spoke to your heart and mind about classical education? Maybe you were attracted to the notion that a classical education supports the belief in absolute truth, beauty and goodness and that it is possible to know these absolutes. Maybe Eagle Ridge Academy held the promise of a public school refuge safe from the moral relativism and secular humanism so prevalent and celebrated in other public schools. If so, what do you do when the activities of Eagle Ridge Academy no longer support that notion and promise?

On Tuesday, January 26, Eagle Ridge Academy was visited by Minnesota Viking, Kenechi Udeze, to kick start the Academy's Pennies for Patients campaign, a fundraiser for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

This morning the Pennies for Patients Kick Off was held, with special guest Kenechi Udeze of the Minnesota Vikings. Students are asked to donate spare change to this important cause. Donations will be gathered in advisory classes. The money will be placed in buckets, and buckets will be weighed to determine which advisory class wins a Domino’s pizza party! The funds, collected during a three week period, benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The goal this year is at least $600.00

On the surface, fundraising for patients with blood cancer seems an innocuous and noble undertaking, however, the money raised through this effort funds all facets of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, including its championing of embryonic stem cell research through the support of California Proposition 71 and the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act.

Now what do you do?