“Patriotic Teachers”

In his early campaigning leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Trump calls for certifying ‘patriotic’ teachers, and cutting funds to schools teaching CRT.

Obviously, this has legs among today’s extreme right-wing, as it speaks to a stark differentiation from the “radical left.”

Having come from a Quaker school, I have to laugh when I think of how any of my teachers would have reacted to being restricted as to how or what they taught.  Approaching education with political blinders on was the very last thing that our school (Penn Charter in Philadelphia) would consider.

In fact, though my parents were distinctly conservative, they somehow knew that trusting a 300-year-old academic institution to do the right thing was a solid idea.