Today is Good Friday, the day on which Christians commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This is a solemn commemoration and it’s also a legal holiday around much of the world. According to the gospels, Jesus was betrayed by Judas on the night of the Last Supper, commemorated on Holy Thursday. The morning following Christ’s arrest, he was brought before Annas, a powerful Jewish cleric. Annas condemned Jesus for blasphemy for refusing to repudiate Annas’ words that He was the Son of God. From there, Jesus was sent to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of the province, who put Jesus to death.
When the Romans killed Jesus, they must have felt pretty good about themselves. “Well, that’s that, problem solved,” Pontius must have said to himself after Jesus was crucified. “That’s the end of Christianity. Paganism will triumph for all of time.” What he and the other protectors of the status quo didn’t realize at the time is that history was not on their side. Jesus had a core following who not only believed strongly they were on the right side of history, but that they had the moral high ground based on a belief in justice. Jesus and his followers were advocates for the downtrodden and the voiceless of his time. And they won because the indefensible can’t be defended for eternity.
What does Good Friday have to do with charter schools and school choice, you might ask? History is littered with examples where defenders of the status quo fight to prevent the inevitable.
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