The COVID lockdowns enabled parents nationwide to see inside their children’s public-school classrooms. Many realized their kids were being taught the divisive Critical Race Theory (CRT), a race-essentialist ideology, and have fought back any way they can. Some are homeschooling their kids, while others are enrolling them in parochial schools that do not teach CRT. One of these families is headed by Chuck,* a 43-year-old father in Pittsburgh. A restaurant manager who works 60 to 70-hour weeks, Chuck and his partner Lisa recently enrolled their son Jeremiah in first grade at a Catholic elementary school. The couple decided to re-evaluate their son’s education plan after Jeremiah telecommuted to public school as a kindergartner during the COVID pandemic. “There were two factors to our decision to remove our son from public school,” Chuck said. ”One was the school’s response to COVID, and the other was the influence of CRT-minded school officials.” …