In June 2021, videos of an incensed middle-aged white man getting dragged out of a Loudoun County Public Schools building in handcuffs played on repeat in the national media
His arrest came to symbolize the angry, parent-led school board revolts about radical race and gender curricula sweeping the nation, though journalists typically told the story from the perspective of teachers and school administrators, not the mothers and fathers opposing them.
In a horrendous inversion of justice, Smith wound up prosecuted as a criminal himself.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed now pervades American education
Examples abound: in California, the Board of Education's proposed Ethnic Studies Curriculum included lesson plans encouraging students to chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice, asking him to grant them the power to be "warriors" for "social justice."
In a school in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, eight- and nine-year-olds were shown videos telling them that they were "racist."
The backlash to CRT and gender ideology in schools took the public education bureaucracy by surprise
As the Black Lives Matter movement marched through American life in 2020, school boards-already dominated by progressives-redoubled their commitments to the most extreme pedagogical concepts involving race and gender, without pausing to consult parents.
In response, parents across the country began emerging as a formidable political force. Moms and dads suddenly were signing petitions, holding protests, and demanding answers from a school system grown accustomed to operating without parental scrutiny.
The Rise of the Parents’ Movement
For decades, American public education had continued to press left, largely without organized opposition. Then, in 2020, something broke.
The pandemic shut down schools and made classrooms virtual, so parents could have a close look at what was being transmitted to their kids
After the death of George Floyd, there was a universal spasm through all institutions trying to adopt left-wing racial ideology
Critical race theory provides us with what I believe is the proof of concept and the political model for how to fight these fights
School board recalls hit an all-time high in 2021
At least 17 states have passed restrictions on the teaching of CRT-based concepts in public schools; others are expected to follow suit this legislative session
https://www.city-journal.org/the-parents-revolt
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