If you're reading this guide, perhaps something similar is happening in your child school. Perhaps your children have come home talking about how their whiteness or blackness, or asian ness or hespanic ness really defines who they are. The four radical c r t activists take it over, and you have a real mess on your hands. They know that it's a winning issue that they can kind of demagogue without needing to have the facts, potentially on their side.
It's Election Day in the USA. This time around, the nasty political fights and insurrections are going local. NPR's Anya Kamenetz explains.
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