"I recently learned of a rightwing website collecting complaints about school boards, presumably to encourage dissension and hostility at school board meetings. This group wants vigilantes to report their school board if students learn about sexism, racism, and other realities of our past and present. This is McCarthyism revisited.On the “About Us” page, the group identifies itself as a project of the radical rightwing Turning Points USA. SourceWatch reports on the funders and ideology of Turning Points USA. Evidently, these people don’t understand that state standards authorize the teaching that they find reprehensible."
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