Despite spending huge amounts, public schools provide most students with, at best, a mediocre education, and often nothing you could even call an education. Students get passed along from grade to grade with mounting deficits in basic skills and knowledge.

So, what happens when parents get fed up and complain?

They are cast as the villains, of course. That’s the big point of this article by Wenyuan Wu.

This paragraph nails the truth:

We cannot even begin to address the issue of learning decline without first and foremost acknowledging the causally significant role of thought indoctrination and having a proper reckoning against it. In this sense, the Politico hit piece on Moms for Liberty is shooting the messenger who is doing the public a good service by exposing the grift, sunshining facts and rightfully demanding changes. The American people are not so gullible that they will take this cheap shot at face value.

Read the whole thing.