Conservatives have been angry over government interference in schools ever since the Federal Government integrated them. Partly because of thinly veiled anger over non-whites getting the same educational standards as white children. Now they've seen Glenn Youngkin emerge victorious by running the same playbook Southern Conservatives have always run; demonization of black skin. Sure he called it CRT but, it's the one and only Eternal Crime in America; Unforgivable Blackness."I love the poorly educated," Donald John Trump, Traitor and Criminal Feb 2016.
Conservatives have always known Won't Someone think of the Children?!?!? is a winning strategy to get white moderates to vote for Republicans. So, when CRT was brought up as though this was some major conspiracy; white women ran to the arms of their Republican daddies yet again.
One of the worst things about the disingenuous moral panic conservatives have about children and Covid mitigation is how right-wingers take it as an axiom they Own their Children. Parents' Rights is shorthand for conservatives standing athwart Education yelling 'STOP!'
It's odd how in many states children can get married while still legally juveniles yet, when it comes to vaccination and education southern conservatives are acting as though children are smooth-brained imbeciles unable to comprehend anything.
Here is Darren Bailey, a southern Illinois Conservative (i.e. a Bigot) running for Governor and running the same school panic playbook in Illinois.
There's a reason Hillary Rodham Clinton titled her book, It takes a Village, it's adopted from the proverb It takes a village to raise a child, this is a fundamental truth which infuriates right-wingers and another reason they've loathed HRC for 30 years. Education has always been an obstacle to continuation of the conservative agenda of intolerance and oppression which is why conservatives are so hell bent on controlling everything and keeping their children uneducated and unexposed to "dangerous" ideas and counter-culture.
Conservatives have been furious with local, State, and the Federal Government for educating their children and thus turning them against conservative bigotry for years. Notice how the conservative freakout didn't end with Masks, but then transitioned to CRT, and moved to LGBTQ issues, stories of the Holocaust. Look at the number of states, (Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, Utah) proposing laws allowing Parents to sue teachers for teaching their children. Conservatives won't stop undermining and censoring education because education opens minds and closed minds are what Conservatives desire.
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"Conservatives have been angry over government interference in schools ever since the Federal Government integrated them. Partly because of thinly veiled anger over non-whites getting the same educational standards as white children."
As far as I am concerned, "charter schools" are little more than an attempt to resegregate schools, with the addition of a few tokens to cloud the issue.
But I'm just a cynical Southern boy who knows a bigot when he sees one.
That's true Frank and a good point. The push to funnel taxpayer money to evangelical churches is another component of the Republican War on Education.
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