This is little more than an attempt to integrate progressive points of view and Democratic Party pet causes directly into the classroom through already biased news sources and present it as fact — the definition of fake news. Much like how CRT or gender ideology just somehow found its way into elementary schools, this is another attempt to subvert public notice, and parents, once again, will find themselves on the discovery end of this after it’s too late.

Similar movements by Democratic governors in other states are charging ahead, including in New York, where Governor Kathy Hochul announced “media literacy tools” for public school students. Democratic state governors are instituting curricula under what ABC News has called “a worrying rise in distrust in the media.”

Distrust in media outlets, remember, doesn’t stem from online memes or posts as much as it does from the lack of reliability inherent in most media outlets combined with more Americans exposed to more information and narratives outside of progressively biased news organizations. These government acts are not in service of raising media literacy; they are in service of attempting to reign in young impressionistic minds. That in and of itself is the very definition of anti-literacy with media.