Even those who aren’t surprised by the simple fact of Donald Trump’s assault on America’s universities must be shocked by the full frontal magnitude of it all, belated attempts to walk back parts of it, notwithstanding. (Harvard is putting up a courageous, clever, and effective defense.)

  • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    My impression at the time was the superintendent acted on his own. Not even the board of education was involved, and they weren’t happy to be blindsided.

    My guess is the

    1. superintendent had a student in that grade,
    2. student came home with new textbook,
    3. superintendent saw the ‘blasphemy’ in the new-that-year textbooks,
    4. superintendent was his own Karen.