Kansas Progressives Decry School Board Anti-Trump Book Ban

A glimpse at the political struggle over education/indoctrination access to future voters whilst other nations continue to outpace American students in math, science and even the fun stuff like literature and history . . . To be fair . . . Prog blog prose blames conservatives for the hot mess at public schools . . .  

The politicization of school boards began by 2020, when some parents became activists against pandemic-era remote classes and mask mandates. The summer protests over the death of George Floyd deepened divisions, especially in rural America, and there was an epidemic of challenges to books in school libraries.

“School board meetings in Kansas, as elsewhere in the country, have become the arena for newly elected, hyper-partisan members fueled by misinformation and narrow agendas,” I wrote in 2022. “These barefaced culture warriors claim vaccines are hoaxes, masks are ineffective, and a secret leftist plot to make white kids feel bad about themselves by teaching unpleasant facts about American history.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Oh, the hypocrisy! What this Kansas school board's rejection of a history textbook really means. * Kansas Reflector

Partisanship has been leaching into local elections from the open-air market of national divided party politics.