The public school system is not a "free marketplace of ideas"; it's a state-run monopoly with compulsory power over children.
Voters and state legislators should be the ultimate authority over public schools—not the teachers unions and permanent bureaucracy.
Voters and state legislators should be the ultimate authority over public schools—not the teachers unions and permanent bureaucracy.
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Even under the most stringent libertarian philosophy, monopoly conditions justify, even demand, intervention.
If public schools are promoting race essentialism, collective guilt, and state-sanctioned racism, voters are absolutely right to restrict it.
If public schools are promoting race essentialism, collective guilt, and state-sanctioned racism, voters are absolutely right to restrict it.
Libertarians support school choice, which is a noble long-term goal.
In the meantime, however, we must make decisions within the current paradigm, in which public schools control 90 percent of K-12 education.
Prohibiting state-sanctioned racism is the bare minimum.
In the meantime, however, we must make decisions within the current paradigm, in which public schools control 90 percent of K-12 education.
Prohibiting state-sanctioned racism is the bare minimum.
Critical race theory is a totalizing ideology that explicitly seeks to subvert the liberal values of individual rights, private property, and equality under the law.
Promoting it in public institutions—especially under the guise of "free speech"—is naive, dangerous, and unwise.
Promoting it in public institutions—especially under the guise of "free speech"—is naive, dangerous, and unwise.
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