Rolling Back Safetyism Requires Parents and Policymakers

Former Senator Ben Sasse’s recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal exposes the damage that parents do by keeping their children indoors with nothing useful to do. In our work launching St. Dunstan’s Academy — a farm, trades, and classics boarding school for young men that we are building on a 176-acre farm in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains — we have encountered countless parents who recognize the seriousness of the problem.

But parents alone cannot transform the underlying cultural conditions that leave children passive and immobilized in front of screens. They need help from legislators.

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Thomas Fickley

Thomas Fickley is Founder and Headmaster of St. Dunstan’s Academy and a licensed commercial contractor in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Fr. Mark Perkins

Father Mark Perkins is Chaplain and Assistant Headmaster of St. Dunstan’s Academy and a priest in the Anglican Province of America.

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Former Senator Ben Sasse’s recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal exposes the damage that parents do by keeping their children indoors with nothing useful to do. In our work launching St. Dunstan’s Academy — a farm, trades, and classics boarding school for young men that we are building on a 176-acre farm in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains — we have encountered countless parents who recognize the seriousness of the problem.

But parents alone cannot transform the underlying cultural conditions that leave children passive and immobilized in front of screens. They need help from legislators.