The attack on school officials is very much a partisan effort by the Republican Party to energeize their base nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/…
The WI GOP candidate for Governor is directing money to school board recall elections to help her chances, and recall candidates are getting coaching from a familiar set of GOP-aligned organizations 
Two other recurring patterns:
*person really mad about public school has her kid in private schools
*was drawn into school politics by COVID politics
*person really mad about public school has her kid in private schools
*was drawn into school politics by COVID politics
Another theme is that the GOP candidates are saying they are running against CRT in the classroom. But the origin story for this candidate is a video sent to parents by the school, not the classroom curriculum. The actual evidence of "CRT" is incredibly thin.
CRT serves the same purpose of other culture war totems like "cancel culture" or the "caravans of immigrants" - induce a moral panic to mobilize the base. Something else will replace it but the effects on the quality of schools could be long-lasting. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-publi…
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