1/ There is a neo-McCarthyist purge happening in our K-12 schools. The teachers being purged are the ones who encourage their students to think critically and independently.
2/ Other teachers feel like they have to choose between indoctrinating the students in their charge or losing their jobs and their ability to support their families.
3/ One such person, who described himself as "one of the many paralyzed teachers," wrote that "I grapple every day with the shame, since I do not stand up firmly to the one-sidedness of my school's program."
4/ When we recognize this new McCarthyism for what it is, these teachers will teach again. But what about the kids who lost the only teachers encouraging them to think for themselves in a time when education has become about teaching kids what to think rather than how to think?
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