Education

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson stormed out of the legislature when people questioned why his task force on “critical race theory” ended up attacking trans-inclusive books and CNN articles.

Thomas Jefferson wrote that he envisioned America’s white-only education system being for “raking a few geniuses from the rubbish.” How ironic is it that today, several state legislatures want to continue that line of thinking?

Some parents complained, but one student said they “already feel comfortable with who I am.”

The proposal seeks to carbon copy a Trump-era executive order that similarly sought to ban any form of anti-bias training or implementation of “critical race theory” before a court blocked it.

“It’s time for us to elect people with political courage, and who will center our most vulnerable and our low-income communities of color and reverse the policies that have hurt people who have the least access to capital.”

One of her finals acts was telling the Department of Education that it shouldn’t protect LGBTQ students.

“Who is going to stand in front of these students if we don’t? History has its eyes on us.”

The daunting question as we approach 2021 is, invoking the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “where do we go from here?”

Dwayne Bensing, an out lawyer & former staffer at the Department of Education under DeVos, reflects on her anti-LGBTQ crusade and looks forward to her eventual exit.

“We’re at an inflection point. We can’t take democracy for granted. Everyone has to pitch in.”