> Students would no longer get worse grades for misbehaving or handing in work late.

Is it any surprise that if kids don't have to turn in work on time, their performance drops? Yet this "innovation" is pitched as "mastery based learning" and embraced by schools across the country.

I blame schools of education, who seem to have no problem pushing one bad idea after another (as long as the new idea aligns with progressive goals).

> In a 2019 blog post, I expressed concern that training teachers to recognize “worship of the written word” as “white supremacy culture,” as many equity trainers urged, could alienate students of color from school.

2019... By then some people had already noticed the problem since years and years. Here's Neel Kolhatkar 's take on it in 2016, in this wonderful 7-minutes short satirical movie aptly named "Modern Educayshun" (the realisator plays the main character):

https://youtu.be/iKcWu0tsiZM

I don't know if there's much else to do than laugh about this entire madness of a movement.

What disgust me really the most is that those very same who've been trying to portrait heterosexual white men in the west as "patriarchal" and responsible for all evils (vs women, vs men of colors, etc.) are the very same who are turning a complete blind eye on the actual patriarchal societies that do the most horrible things one can imagine. For a reality check, for example: there are 230 million woman that have undergone forced female genital mutilation. And if rounded about 0% of those have been done by white men from the west.

And because people have nothing to answer to that, they'll downvote.

So yeah: my advice would be... Do like me: pick your fights.