Schools versus Parents

In Missouri, parent complaints about “diversity and equity” efforts prompted a local school-district literacy coordinator to email teachers and direct them to keep lesson plans dealing with racial profiling, civil disobedience, and police violence off the online classroom-management system where parents could see them. Parents are “looking for specific things to then complain about,” read the email to teachers. “This doesn’t mean throw out the lesson and find a new one. Just pull the resource off so parents cannot see it.”

Read all of the Robert Pondiscio article in Commentary magazine.