Stangel-Plowe: Trying to keep politics out of classrooms

Stangel-Plowe: Trying to keep politics out of classrooms

If Americans want to reduce the political influence their kids are exposed to in classrooms, they are focusing on the wrong place. In my home state of New Hampshire, parents and educators are once again debating a proposed “divisive concepts” law aimed at preventing teachers from advancing “personal identity” ideologies that frame contested political interpretations as settled truths. A previous version was struck down as unconstitutionally vagu…