The Racism of Anti-Racist Education – Noah Rothman, Commentary Magazine
Amid an aggressive campaign by teachers unions to prove that the work public-school teachers do is so essential that they cannot be allowed to do it, it would seem an inopportune time for the New York Times to mount an attack on those schools. But that is what it plans to do at least, implicitly, and only in the most socially acceptable of ways: by attacking the white parents of white students, who make up a plurality of public-school enrollees.
[W]hen we look at how our schools are failing, we usually focus on who they re failing: Black and brown kids, the Times noted in announcing a new podcast series contemptuously entitled Nice White Parents. Indeed, we usually ask that question because those are the demographics public schools are failing a condition that has gotten worse in the age of distance learning (an objective assessment rendered by no less a source than the New York Times itself). If you want to understand what s wrong with our public education system, the podcast s pitch continues, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in our schools: White parents.