(REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS) – The notices to parents began arriving fast and furious in the weeks after the death of George Floyd in late May.
In dramatic, urgent language, K-12 schools across the country – both public and private – professed solidarity with Black Lives Matter and vowed to dismantle white supremacy, as they scrambled to introduce anti-racist courses and remake themselves into racism-free zones.
The president of the Lower Merion School Board on Philadelphia's affluent Main Line declared to families: "We need to eradicate white supremacy and heteropatriarchy in all of our institutions."
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