The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools

This is one of those insta-books, rushed out quickly to update and influence people in the midst of rapid change. It's useful, tracing the last few years of legislation passed by the newly powerful school choice movement in the wake of the pandemic-related school shutdowns and the curriculum revelations of the parent-observed remote schooling. It goes into considerable detail about the different legislative efforts to introduce school choice of one sort or another in various states. It gives some hints on strategy. It addresses the misconception of school as a "public good", a technical term of economics which does not describes schools at all well. It introduces and emphasizes the term "government schools" as a much better description show more of what are usually called "public schools". I applaud this change. It addresses very directly the problem of the powerful teachers unions; that is its most useful general insight. Useful in a lot of ways, including as a historical record of certain things that some groups would really like to memory-hole. show less