Woke militants blunder into a parental buzz saw

The answer, surely, is that when ideological clashes are about more remote matters, such as taxes or welfare programs, it is easier to pretend that they are harmless. Sure, they are costly and misguided, but paying for them without making a fuss can be regarded as the price of a quiet life. It’s not that way with children, though. Parents do not see their sons’ and daughters’ flourishing as in any way theoretical or at arm’s length. Indeed, no subject is closer to them. Most people can live with busybodies messing up policy. But mess with their children, and you’ve woken the kraken. At that point, parents abandon their desire for a quiet life, set aside their usual practice of leaving politics to others. It’s for their children, after all, that they are most conspicuously willing to abandon what they think of as their dearest principles. How many people say in good faith that they believe in equality of opportunity? Is it 80%, 90%, or more? But it isn’t true. When it comes to children, we want to give them every advantage we can. All those music and dance lessons, the tedious taekwondo classes, the SAT prep, the networking to land internships? These are not efforts to create equal opportunity but to push our children ahead. So, when schools run by militants and right-on, do-gooding, soft socialist Democrats inject their corrosive falsehoods into the school curriculum, parents know that the revolution has come for their sons and daughters.
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