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What does it really mean to educate a child—and have parents handed too much of that responsibility over to schools?

In this bold conversation, Hannah sits down with Sam Sorbo, bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker, international speaker, host of The Sam Sorbo Show, and longtime advocate for educational freedom. Together, they take an unfiltered look at the state of education, the rise of homeschooling, parental rights, and why Sam believes families need to rethink the difference between schooling and truly educating a child.

Sam challenges parents to consider what education is actually supposed to produce—not simply good grades, test scores, or academic achievement, but capable, responsible adults who know how to think, build relationships, forgive, love, work, and navigate real life.

Hannah and Sam also discuss the growing concerns surrounding the public school system, protecting childhood innocence, government involvement in education, the myth that homeschoolers lack socialization, and why keeping our children close gives parents more opportunities for discipleship and real-world learning.

And the conversation doesn’t stop at school. Sam brings that same challenge into the church, asking Christian parents to consider whether we’ve outsourced too much of our children’s spiritual formation as well.

This episode is a powerful reminder that parents are their children’s primary teachers and disciplers. Whether you homeschool, send your children to public or private school, or are simply questioning what education should look like for your family, this conversation will challenge you to think differently about who—and what—is shaping your kids.

In this episode:

• Sam Sorbo’s case for educational freedom and homeschooling

• The difference between schooling and true education

• Public schools, parental rights, and protecting childhood innocence

• Why parents shouldn’t assume they aren’t qualified to teach their children

• Homeschool socialization and real-world learning

• Raising responsible, capable adults instead of prolonging adolescence

• Why discipleship requires proximity

• Sunday school, family worship, and parents’ role in spiritual formation

• Taking back responsibility for the education and discipleship of our children

Upright Christian Parenting equips parents to raise children with a bold biblical worldview in today’s sideways culture.

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