‘Back to Basics’ in Education Is Not Enough https://www.theamericanconservative.com/back-to-basics-in-education-is-not-enough/
The strength of any school, really any community or organization, is limited to the greatest common denominator of its members. The larger or more diverse (in the proper sense of the word) the community, the lower this greatest common denominator can be. In the past, an American community could assume at least rough consensus around the laws of nature, such as “though shalt not steal” or “all men are created equal”. This consensus in America has always been strained, but could largely be managed.
The turmoil of the 1960s (marked by the Lemon decsion) fractured this consensus with it finally collapsing in the last decade. As it fractured Republicans retreated from the laws of nature, which are intrinsically moral, to laws of science as our greatest common denominator. Even if we cannot agree on how the sexes ought to behaive, surely we can agree that 2+2=4 or that that there are two sexes. And, for a while we could, but no longer.
The division is now unbridgeable. There is no common ground between the belief that there is objective truth and the belief that “truth” is defined by the social narrative. A house divided cannot stand. The “public” school system as conceived by John Dewey and other socialists has run its course and neither can nor should be salvaged. It is time to envision education in America for educating self-governing citizens.