{"id":78652,"date":"2021-07-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78652"},"modified":"2021-07-06T07:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:39:17","slug":"left-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78652","title":{"rendered":"Left on The Table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Education Association &#8211; the organization that actually <em>does <\/em>ruthlessly wield the money and influence Big Left attributes to the NRA &#8211; is <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/columns\/stacey-lennox\/2021\/07\/05\/teachers-union-commits-to-shoving-critical-theories-down-the-throats-of-students-and-parents-nationwide-n1459480\">tripling down on &#8220;social and economic justice&#8221; and Critical Race Theory.<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the article (about the NEA&#8217;s attempts to silence opposition and extend the social justice curricula) at your leisure.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My big question is one that we really need voters to be asking Republican candidates, especially in Minnesota.  School choice, we&#8217;re seeing, is a winning issue; we see this in the &#8220;Tea Party&#8221;-like uprisings of parents all over the country against CRT.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet &#8211; will Minnesota Republican candidates ever come into the city to try to make their cases to charter school parents &#8211; overwhelmingly black, Latino, Asian or immigrant?   The Democrats and the Teachers Union, pardon the redundancy &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2016\/08\/black-lives-matter-naacp-moratorium-charter-schools\/\">even some of their proxy warriors<\/a> want to kill charter schools and all meaningful school choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet you can count on zero fingers the number of GOP gubernatorial, Senate or Consitutitonal Office candidates who&#8217;ve even shown up to try to contest the battlefield.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does the Minnesota GOP need to be, and stay, so stupid? <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Education Association &#8211; the organization that actually does ruthlessly wield the money and influence Big Left attributes to the NRA &#8211; is tripling down on &#8220;social and economic justice&#8221; and Critical Race Theory. You can read the article (about the NEA&#8217;s attempts to silence opposition and extend the social justice curricula) at your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-big-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78653,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78652\/revisions\/78653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}