“I’m so glad to be back in the classroom!” a young high school student told me the other day. Her enthusiasm is understandable. As one of the first students to get back to some form of normalcy in public schooling, she’s probably the envy of many others who want to be in person with their friends and teachers, even if their faces are obscured by masks. Yet as students begin to head back to in-person school, a narrative is quickly emerging that goes something like this: Kids are behind. We need drastic measures to catch them up. That first part is certainly true, and was so even prior to the pandemic based on the proficiency scores reported by the Nation’s Report Card. The second part also has some truth to it, but the proposed solutions are, in essence, more time spent in woke or politically correct classrooms. At least if a recent …