OPINION: 'Then, like now, it hardly mattered that the threat of domestic subversion (as distinct from the external Soviet threat) was no more real than fears of insidious “groomers” or Satanic pedophiles lurking in shadows behind the shelves of school…
As the midterm elections near, voters are deluged with claims that “woke” educators and their Democratic enablers use public schools as radical laboratories teaching children to loathe themselves for being white and to disrespect their country. Sex education allegedly “grooms” pupils to follow a homosexual or transgender lifestyle.
People are also reading… Arizona, like most states, required teachers and other public employees to sign loyalty oaths, attesting they were not members of the Communist Party or many other groups. Some jurisdictions went further, requiring all state-licensed professionals, including barbers and professional wrestlers, to sign loyalty oaths.
Acknowledging these facts neither “shames” white students nor undermines American ideals. Rather, it calls on us to recognize the complex role of race in so many aspects of our national life. Nevertheless, in Arizona and other states legislators have moved to ban CRT without understanding it and to shift public education funding towards unregulated private and religious schools. Some conservatives counter the left’s appeal of “defund the police” with a cry to “defund the schools.
I learned that policemen are my friends/I learned that justice never ends/I learned that murderers die for their crimes/Even if we make a mistake sometimes/That’s what I learned in school.
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