Welcome back to High on Christ! Quick question: what is the worst trouble you ever got into at school? Whatever it was, a homeschooling mom and dad in Brazil just landed something a lot worse than detention.

The highlights you missed over the weekend:

The Bullets

  • Iran Deal Already Wobbling: Days after the Versailles ceasefire, U.S. and Iranian teams met in Switzerland as the truce began to fray. Israel refuses to leave Lebanon, Iran is again moving to close the Strait of Hormuz, and Trump is threatening to "hit Iran very hard again."

  • An AI Cracked the NSA: Anthropic's powerful "Mythos" AI reportedly breached almost all NSA classified systems in hours during an authorized test, prompting the first-ever U.S. export controls on an AI model.

  • 106 Logins, 113 Felonies: A fired probation officer, Crystal Lawson, allegedly kept her police-database access and logged in 106 times to warn a drug ring about active warrants, helping members dump evidence and flee.

  • UN Sounds Alarm on Nigeria: UN experts warned of "deeply troubling" attacks on Christian women and girls in Nigeria, including killings, abductions, and forced marriages.

Class Dismissed

Did you hear a couple in Brazil got sent to jail for homeschooling their kids?
Jail? For real?
50 days. The official charge was "intellectual neglect."
Neglect? Were the kids not okay?
More than okay. Both girls play piano and speak several languages.
Then what was the problem?
The court said their lessons skipped "gender and sex education" and "tolerance and diversity."
Wait, that is the neglect?
Pretty much. They even pointed to the girls not liking certain music as "proof."
Did anyone defend them?
Yeah. The prosecutor asked the court to acquit, and a psychologist found no neglect at all.
And the judge convicted them anyway??
First parents in Brazil ever criminally convicted for homeschooling. They are appealing.
Makes you think about who really gets the final say over a kid.
Right. Scripture hands that to parents first, not the state.
"Train up a child in the way he should go."
Exactly. The home was never meant to answer to the courtroom.

Read more here.

Spiritual Perspective

When a thriving home can be branded "neglect," it is a quiet reminder that no court and no curriculum is our real guardian. We teach, we shepherd, we point them to Christ, and we trust the One who builds the house (Psalm 127:1).

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Inspiring Quote

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I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth.

- Martin Luther

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