I was first engaged in education as an issue after an incident at my godson’s school. His teacher read the books Race Cars and Something Happened In Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice to his fourth-grade class, followed by a lecture about how police were racist.
Multiple parents who heard the lesson first hand because their child learned remotely contacted me to learn what to do. While that single teacher was confronted by the principal, PTA, and an elected official, I quickly learned how pervasive the gravity of the situation was. Progressive activists within our public education system were using their positions to indoctrinate children. Even conservative communities in red states were not immune from this growing epidemic.
At the time, the only way I felt like I could make a difference was through elections. Over the last three years, I’ve worked to elect school board members across the country who want to improve their public education.
Because of this, I’ve listened to thousands of concerned parents, community activists, and educators, and the more I’ve heard, the more I’ve realized that a lot more needs to be done.
The truth is that public education in its current state is failing millions of American children. Even if there wasn’t a single culture war issue in our public schools, millions of children are behind in reading and math proficiency, parents and teachers fear for their safety inside schools, and school districts across the country have begun moving away from ideas like colorblindness and merit and instead embracing soft segregation and telling children their identity matters more than their ability.
I truly believe every child in this country deserves a quality public education, and we’re working to ensure that happens, one district at a time.
