Can you imagine a less modern opinion than this: “The one thing that is never taught by any chance in the atmosphere of public schools is this: that there is a whole truth of things, and that in knowing it and speaking it we are happy.”
This was written by G.K. Chesterton over a century ago, long before public schools went woke, and well before there were “your truths” and “my truths” — there was only the Truth. Now, of course, American public schools are more focused on pushing the woke agenda than teaching truth, beauty, and goodness. The school-choice boom we’re currently seeing is a direct reaction to what parents learned during the pandemic about their children’s education.
Many claim that school-choice dollars come with restrictive government strings — with bureaucrats attempting to control educational content, for example, or even to interfere in hiring decisions. In Texas, this seemed to be…
