Buck: Woke school policies now sweeping Middle America
By Daniel Buck | Commentary, Wall Street Journal
Schools in Wauwatosa, Wis., embrace far-left fads from ‘gender identity’ to ‘restorative justice.’
One question persists in American education: How pervasive are the stories of kindergartners learning about transgenderism or high-schoolers waving Hamas flags in hallways? Among the four million teachers in the U.S. there will inevitably be cranks and ideologues who mistake their lectern for a pulpit. Examination of a typical American school district in a typical American town reveals that the progressive mismanagement of school districts extends beyond the dark-blue borders of San Francisco and Portland, Ore.
Recent Census data demonstrate that Wauwatosa, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee, is about as average as it gets. It’s politically s...