New Hampshire’s recently adopted law restricting certain kinds of teaching about racism has yet to yield any charges against teachers. But the state’s top education official says he’s still concerned that teachers are “knowingly dismantling the foundations” of families’ values.
Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut, who has aligned himself with conservative parents and activists over his more than five years in office, warned in an op-ed last week that New Hampshire was “not immune” to efforts by teachers to insert their biases into the classroom and reshape families’ values on gender, race, sexuality, and capitalism.
The op-ed is accompanied by a 74-page document compiled from miscellaneous items: text exchanges with the sender’s and recipient’s names blacked out; grainy photos of post-it notes; and images of classroom materials and a teacher’s desk. Edelblut said some of the materials, which he presented with no identifying information or context, were sent by parents to the Department of Education.
