Woke Education Loses Big in Texas Election Getty Images Alex Nester • May 3, 2021 4:30 pm
Voters in a Texas suburb this weekend elected five candidates who oppose antiracism, bucking a local school board s attempt to create radical curriculum standards for K-12 education.
Conservatives picked up two school board seats, two city council seats, and the mayor s office in Southlake, a suburb north of Dallas. The victorious candidates all opposed the Carroll Independent School District s equity and inclusion plan, a pricey proposal to overhaul the district s curriculum standards and hire an equity consultant.
The Southlake election is the latest demonstration of parents thwarting leftists efforts to radicalize education. A group of Indiana parents in April criticized their school district for pushing radical standards that divide students based on race. Last month, parents and alumni at New York City s Regis High School penned an open letter condemning the Catholic school s
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Is Wokery Starting to Wane?
More and more the woke pandemic afflicting our elites and causing them to mask their racism is reminding me of forced busing back in the late 1960s and early 1970s a project to which liberals (and compliant federal judges) were fiercely dedicated (even as rich liberals sent their own kids to private schools), and which was hugely unpopular.
Then, as now, many Republicans spoke in subdued tones about their opposition to busing for fear of being called “racist,” and the most vocal and direct critics of busing were Democrats like Washington Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson. That kind of Democrat is long gone, of course, though you hear faint echoes from time to time, such as James Carville’s recent comments reported here that “wokeness is a problem, and everybody knows it.”