It's Time Americans Faced the Facts: The Kids Are Not All Right

At schools across the country, our children’s futures are jeopardized by woke bureaucrats and unhinged ideologues waging war on everything we hold dear. Kids now spend their precious formative years being taught that America is evil and that they should be judged by the color of their skin instead of the content of their character. If they act in a way that piques the curiosity of teachers and administrators, they are told that they were born in the wrong bodies and set down a path to ruin. 

Female athletes are losing their trophies and the privacy of their locker rooms to biological males, as their safety and hard-won achievements are sacrificed on the altar of “inclusion.” From kindergarten through high school, our children are told their deeply held religious and civic values are anachronistic, racist, sexist, and homophobic.

Throughout it all, teachers, administrators, and politicians insist that they’re entitled to direct every aspect of our children’s lives because they’re uniquely qualified to do so. Our children are not our own, they say, but instead are subjects of communal formation by those who know them far less than their parents do.

They speak with such unearned authority, and perhaps we’d take them seriously if their meddling amounted to better outcomes for kids. But so far, there’s no proof of that. In fact, the educational performance of kids has worsened in recent years to the great detriment of our country’s future.