The same folks who brought us Critical Race Theory (CRT) are now poised to bring our public education system to its knees and then put it out of its misery. Conservatives have similarly weaponized the phrase “government schools” as an emotional trigger intended to disingenuously characterize public schools as institutional agents of a sinister plot to indoctrinate children into a socialist, anti-religion agenda that violates parental rights, freedom of choice and traditional values. The pandemic has turbocharged the school choice movement by also mobilizing anti-mask and anti-vaccine sentiments. These falsehoods run in tandem with local and state elections for school boards and state legislatures. The evidence is rapidly mounting that this mandate for parental “rights” will spawn new voucher legislation and other school choice measures in unprecedented numbers.
At dianeravitch.net
