Parents prefer schools that don’t teach “the expansion of gender ideology, race essentialism, and other woke projects into K–12 education,” according to a recent report by researchers with The Heritage Foundation.
And the trend of public schools moving in that direction “is occurring against the wishes of most parents,” the 17-page report states.
To dig into the topic, researchers closely examined parent-student handbooks of the 20 largest charter schools in each state. They created a “wokeness measure” for schools, tallying words or phrases from policy handbooks that reflect “contemporary progressive education orthodoxy.” Those red-flag words were: diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, restorative, social-emotional learning, gender identity, and culturally affirming….