Patti Hildago Menders, a mother of six in northern Virginia’s Loudoun County, has written her own story of resilience. Since the summer of 2020, she has been fighting on the frontline against the transmission of critical race theory (CRT) in the region’s public school system, an ongoing battle that has drawn national headlines. Parents from across the country have protested CRT, a quasi-Marxist analytical framework, on the grounds it classifies children as “oppressors” or “oppressed” on the basis of their skin color. Due to the pandemic, Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) students started virtual teaching in March 2020. As a result, parents became more aware of what their children were learning in schools. Patti was one of them. She found out that in the spring of 2019, LCPS hired an equity-focused educational consultancy to conduct a “systemic equity assessment” of the school’s policies. The result was the LCPS comprehensive equity …