[Bumped to discuss resulting legal actions] Elementary school shooting in Connecticut. (Edit/Update - 26 reported killed, many of them children)

SaintJ said

It's why there are powerful groups in this country acting vigorously to destroy the public school systems.

If you can control what they teach, you can make sure they're not thinking.

If you can get people in the habit of asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

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What I find really concerning is the local harassment of boards and board members. It's becoming more common that people go to the meetings with the objective of raising cane, with no real information. You've got internet provocateurs (e.g. Matt Walsh) traveling to board meetings in places where he doesn't live and his kids don't attend school.

So much of what they are spreading is based on what Carlson, Rufo, Lindsay, et al are proselytizing on TV and social media. I am - and have been - critical of school board decisions. Including the one up here where my kids attend a Catholic K-8 school. But I am actually invested in the students whereas the rest are invested for other reasons, narrowing curriculum being one.

I see so much of the post-Sputnik paranoia (which was preceded by the Tylerian rationale... what is old is new again) and the response only takes education backward.