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skyzyks's avatar

“Other red states will likely follow...”. Well, perhaps. They’ve been very slow to act so far. Missouri has been redder than Florida for longer and has done very little by comparison with Florida despite the GOP having a large majority at the state level for a number of years. Democrats have been reduced to KC and St. Louis. It took a national embarrasment for them to act on the clearly incompetent St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner. GOP leadership at the state and national levels nominally represent the base of the party: They want and need its support but they are neither comfortable with nor vested in the cuture war dynamics that fire up the base. The GOP may be changing, but that change is still resisted strongly by a “Paul Ryan - Mitch McConnell” contingent more than a generation in the making that remains significant and strong within the party at all levels. Don’t get your hopes up.

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The problem is that leftist activists through teachers unions and allied interest groups have had decades to embed their ideological preferences in school curricula. They have permanent lobbyists in state capitols to make sure that their agenda makes it into state standards. State standards determine curricula - what is taught in the classroom. Reformers have a hard time combatting this and are charged with censorship or worse when they try to make changes often in frustration picking at specific offensive parts when the entire thing should be thrown out. Standards remain in effect for years and there are set times for revising them. That is no accident. It’s why in despair many abandon support for public schools and turn to school choice to get their kids exposed to standard disciplines.

CRT, gender identity, criticism of parental authority, capitalism and religion are integrated into every course. It’s not surprising then that younger people support socialism plus all the woke aims.

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