By Christopher F. Rufo, CNSNews, April 12, 2022
Christopher F. Rufo is a contributing editor at City Journal and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he directs the critical race theory initiative.
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on City Journal.
In the wake of the controversy surrounding Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation, which prohibits public schools from teaching gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade, the national media has sought to paint conservative opposition as hysterical, anti-LGBTQ, and conspiracy-minded. The New York Times, for example, accused conservatives of having a “freakout” about imaginary “grooming” in public schools, and the Washington Post dismissed concerns about sexual abuse by teachers as a “QAnon conspiracy.”
But whatever the editorialists at the Times and the Post might say, the facts reveal that too many American public schools have been hunting grounds for sexual predators. …