Christian parents at their wits’ end with schools’ sexual and racial indoctrination of their children should be waking up to a mournful reality:

It’s a fool’s errand to rely on public schools to hand down morality.

For one thing, God – the source of all morality – is no longer welcome in public schools. They are perhaps the only place in the endless stretches of His creation where He’s not allowed to tread.

Indeed, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, recognized as one of the most conservative appellate courts in the nation, agreed with a lower-court judge last week that Louisiana’s new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools is “plainly unconstitutional.”

Should the U.S. Supreme Court agree – despite displaying the Ten Commandments and their messenger Moses in its own building – the case will extinguish any pointless hope of teaching God-inspired morality in public schools.

It’s clear we won’t even begin to repair the moral rot, growing like black mold in the nation’s dank soul, through the public schools.

We’ll just have to look elsewhere.

To God, of course. In church, naturally, but also in every aspect and avenue of our lives.

We must also look to parents, who are children’s first teachers anyway. Parents must simply double down, triple down, quadruple down, on their teaching about God and morality.

And new parents, be forewarned by a medium that has covered this extensively: Many schools and librarians have entirely abdicated any responsibility to protect your children from the growing depravity and sexual grooming in children’s books.

Just one example: a talking book, obviously for those toddlers not even yet able to read, called The GayBCs – which teaches the alphabet using sexually identifying words such as trans, intersex, bi(sexual), pan(sexual) and non-binary.

Young readers will therefore grow up remembering, for instance, that “D” is for “drag.”

You can’t make this up. Nor can you count on public schools and libraries to keep such depravity from your children.

What can parents do?

Consider Christian schooling. If you need financial help, fight for school choice laws – which provide funds for education freedom to those who can’t afford it. Or move to a state that already offers it.

Is the protection of your children not worth such extravagance?

Moreover, people of faith must also rise up in the public square and take the culture’s degeneracy and Godlessness on like one would a Goliath. Don’t support the entertainment media’s moral incontinence with your eyes or dollars – and make it known that you don’t.

Join the growing horde of citizens fighting against vileness and for virtue at school board and city and county meetings.

If some should suggest you’re being puritanical or prudish, ask them what their rudderless approach to navigating life’s waters has wrought, if not lost souls, shattered lives and fractured families.

They’ll also likely accuse you of imposing your morality on them – richly, after decades of having meaninglessness, secular self-indulgence and naked narcissism imposed on you.

Without meaning in our lives there’s a vast void – which legendary Holocaust survivor and philosopher Viktor Frankl called the “existential vacuum.” Nature, as we know, abhors a vacuum – and the existential vacuum is quickly filled with three things, Frankl said: aggression, depression and addiction.

Isn’t that what you see today on America’s streets and in its culture and in the eyes of the real-life zombies drugging themselves to death on sidewalks?

Isn’t it meaningless aggression you see at anti-Israel, anti-government protests and riots, and on the terrifying doorbell camera videos of armed thugs lashing out at any homeowner who seems to be likely prey?

Turning to public education to fix the country’s morality crisis seems all the more absurd when you contemplate the possibility that it’s actually the source of much of the problem.

“The unrest we see,” Dr. Kent Ingle, president of the Christian Southeastern University, writes in an op-ed, “is the natural consequence of moral and spiritual decay. And that decay didn’t come from nowhere. It was cultivated deliberately, over decades, in our nation’s classrooms.”

How far has education fallen? Consider: Harvard University, today more a fount of antisemitism than morality, was founded as a way to educate would-be ministers.

“For generations,” Ingle opines, “education in America had a noble purpose. It wasn’t just about imparting knowledge – it was about forming character. Schools worked hand in hand with families and communities to instill timeless values: respect for authority, love of country, personal responsibility, faith, and virtue.

“These were the qualities that prepared young men and women to become productive citizens and moral leaders. But somewhere along the way, we abandoned that mission.”

Indeed. And the courts appear poised to make sure that mission continues to be forsaken.

You think a mere politician can fix this? Or a teacher who isn’t allowed to offer students the only sure off-ramp to immorality?

Lawmakers can, and probably should, continue to fight to get morality back in public schools. But we have to assume it won’t work. It can’t even be considered Plan B. Or C. Or D, E, F or G.

Plan A for reclaiming righteousness has to be us – a groundswell of the God-fearing, divinely unafraid and resolved to restoring morality in America.