The kids are not all right

Originally published at Broad + Liberty

Our children’s test scores are down. They haven’t even reached pre-Covid levels, which wasn’t anything to brag about then. And the students are more anxious than ever.

Pick your benchmark. Pick your trend line. Pick your anecdote. Our kids are in trouble, and so our nation’s future is in trouble. In our public schools, politics, political agendas, DEI, and virtue-signaling are now front and center — and those cultural battles are masking even greater academic and emotional development problems.

Maybe the emphasis on politics, gender, race, virtue-signaling — and the “everybody gets a trophy” philosophy — has actually caused the academic problems. At a minimum, school boards and teachers unions putting those culture battles at the forefront have taken money and attention away from falling grades — and, perhaps, have caused rising student anxiety.

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