Race Matching and Other Crazy Theories Destroying Our Schools

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Real Clear Politics

Gov. Ron DeSantis nails it when he demands that teachers "educate children, not indoctrinate."

As schools reopen, a war is raging to control the minds of students.

On one side, the nation's largest teachers unions are pushing race consciousness, demonization of American history and graphic sex education, even in elementary school.

On the other side, irate parents are battling the indoctrinators. They're insisting teachers stick to math, science, reading skills and what everyone can agree are the facts about history.

 

Teachers and left-wing allies are demanding that kids have safe spaces reserved for each minority group or gender. All kids deserve respect and safety from bullying. But what's missing right now is safety from propaganda. Schools should be made into safe spaces for learning, shielded from political brainwashing.

As the school year begins, teachers should be told to scrub their classrooms of Black Lives Matter logos, rainbow flags, "Believe Women" signs and other slogans. Reserve the blackboards for ABCs, multiplication tables and historical timelines.

The Carroll County Board of Education in Maryland voted in June to ban political slogans and symbols in the classrooms, other than the Stars and Stripes and state and county flags. "Our students are a captive audience," explained one board member, "and as such need to be protected from all political agendas, both from the right and the left."

 

Last week, the Kettle Moraine School Board in Wisconsin did the same. It should be the approach everywhere.