We are still in the woods of Maine (returning home shortly), but even here we've got enough bandwidth to hear that Harris picked former teacher Tim Walz as her VP, which seems like good news.
Picking up on your inclusion of the upcooming Roberts book and his views on education. Apart from how he may see what he calls woke indoctrination or whatever, just what's wrong with this goal, quoted in the Media Matters piece? Seems like one most of us would embrace, no? Even "piety toward our nation" isn't religious but sounds a lot like patriotism to me. See
"We don’t merely seek an exit from the system; we are coming for the curriculums and classrooms of the remaining public schools, too. We seek to return American education to a tradition that encourages the love of beauty, awakens wonder, teaches gratitude for our republic, and instills piety toward our nation, even as it teaches a prudent and circumspect history of its flaws. We fight for this regardless of whether your kids are in a public school, a charter school, or a private school or homeschooled."
Picking up on your inclusion of the upcooming Roberts book and his views on education. Apart from how he may see what he calls woke indoctrination or whatever, just what's wrong with this goal, quoted in the Media Matters piece? Seems like one most of us would embrace, no? Even "piety toward our nation" isn't religious but sounds a lot like patriotism to me. See
"We don’t merely seek an exit from the system; we are coming for the curriculums and classrooms of the remaining public schools, too. We seek to return American education to a tradition that encourages the love of beauty, awakens wonder, teaches gratitude for our republic, and instills piety toward our nation, even as it teaches a prudent and circumspect history of its flaws. We fight for this regardless of whether your kids are in a public school, a charter school, or a private school or homeschooled."