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A review by yrock007
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh
5.0
EXCELLENT retelling of the devastating right wing attack on public education, teachers and our children. Substantive, but not dense. I love it when journalists write nonfiction books, because they are largely an objective, fact-based, and evidence supported accounting of a story. They Came for the Schools takes that one step further and was also relateable with personal stories of students and teachers harmed by extremist operatives leveraging neighbors against each other for political gain.
Welcome to the politics of division, because as long as they keep us divided, we can't come together to make meaningful change. The Rufo quote sums it up beautifully, "To get universal school choice, you really need to operate from a premise of universal public school distrust." Break it then privatize it. What a huge win for the wealthy elites seeking to erode our democracy, as Jefferson said "A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny" We are well on our way to a mis and disinformed electorate.
Yet there is hope, because the kids are watching, they will go on to run for school boards or at least engage in those elections. And that's the last thing the radical right should want to have happen. And to the teachers out there, my daughter is one of them, please know that the majority of americans are grateful for your work and commitment. We will get through this awful time together and on to the other side. There are way more past teachers, past students, past school board members, and grateful parents out there then the public education haters. We got you.
p.s school board elections need to stay nonpartisan.
Welcome to the politics of division, because as long as they keep us divided, we can't come together to make meaningful change. The Rufo quote sums it up beautifully, "To get universal school choice, you really need to operate from a premise of universal public school distrust." Break it then privatize it. What a huge win for the wealthy elites seeking to erode our democracy, as Jefferson said "A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny" We are well on our way to a mis and disinformed electorate.
Yet there is hope, because the kids are watching, they will go on to run for school boards or at least engage in those elections. And that's the last thing the radical right should want to have happen. And to the teachers out there, my daughter is one of them, please know that the majority of americans are grateful for your work and commitment. We will get through this awful time together and on to the other side. There are way more past teachers, past students, past school board members, and grateful parents out there then the public education haters. We got you.
p.s school board elections need to stay nonpartisan.