BOOK REVIEW: How Parents Are Freeing Their Kids From the Public School Monopoly, by John M. Grondelski

As I write this review, The New York Post reports that City Schools Chancellor David Banks cashiered an elected mother on a Manhattan Community Education Council (a parents’ advisory board). She got the boot ostensibly for criticizing a pro-Hamas editorial but really because—as she (and most observers) believe—she refused to pledge allegiance to gender ideology (on the Upper East Side, no less). It doesn’t matter that she was democratically elected: the self-anointed “guardians of democracy” will eliminate anybody whose notion of democracy is not theirs. Da, da tovarich! Happily, she’s suing Banks.

Meanwhile, a federal court just told parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, who wanted to opt their kids out of the district’s “comprehensive” gender ideology program that they cannot, affirming the school board’s refusal. …