Wokeness in Public Education a Systemic Problem

While I applaud the journalistic efforts of Chris Rufo and the social-media account Libs of TikTok — both of whom have uncovered countless examples of individual teachers and districts pushing a progressive agenda in American classrooms — I nonetheless worry that their reporting undersells the true ubiquity of progressivism in public schools.

Watching the videos or reading the reports that they share, one gets the impression that there are indeed a handful of individual activist teachers but that the problem ends there: isolated lesson plans and teachers. Perhaps Rufo et al. are nutpicking, choosing the craziest examples of a group to slander the reasonable majority. If only it were so.

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Daniel Buck

Daniel Buck is a research fellow and the director of the Conservative Education Reform Network at the American Enterprise Institute.

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While I applaud the journalistic efforts of Chris Rufo and the social-media account Libs of TikTok — both of whom have uncovered countless examples of individual teachers and districts pushing a progressive agenda in American classrooms — I nonetheless worry that their reporting undersells the true ubiquity of progressivism in public schools.

Watching the videos or reading the reports that they share, one gets the impression that there are indeed a handful of individual activist teachers but that the problem ends there: isolated lesson plans and teachers. Perhaps Rufo et al. are nutpicking, choosing the craziest examples of a group to slander the reasonable majority. If only it were so.