Commentary It’s fair to say the rise of Critical Race Theory—the idea that one’s race, rather than one’s character, is the most important thing in one’s life—as the governing principle in many, if not most, U.S. schools at all levels has both astonished and alerted parents across the country to what has happened to our educational system, literally behind their backs. Many citizens, who have never considered running for anything in their lives, are suddenly interested in running for local school boards to stop this and other related leftist infiltrations of our schools that are turning the American system into something resembling communist training camps. After all, it’s about the kids. This is true in Tennessee where I live and apparently in Minnesota where my wife Sheryl Longin and I attended a day-long seminar on how to run for school board and, most importantly and what made this event unique, …