‘Different strokes for different folks,’ as they say, but the way some extremist Republicans want to take their beliefs to spite the Democrats is just unacceptable. And what New Hampshire Republican Kristin Noble wants for American schools is very anti-American regarding what the country should stand against: segregation. Yet, that’s exactly what the chair of the House Education Policy and Administration committee has stated in leaked messages, per the Concord Monitor.
According to the leaked messages, the New Hampshire Representative stated that schools segregated between the Republicans and anyone against their political party would be “fun.” She continued, considering how the scores would come out differently with “schools for them and some for us.” Noble believes that public schools have undergone too much “leftist indoctrination,” so if Democrats have their own schools, they “will have terrible test scores because they focus on social justice rather than academics.”
In the past, segregation of schools based on skin color was an obviously massive and very bad issue, and removing that barrier brought America closer to the ideal values it’s supposed to be based on. But to bring back segregation into schools, even for only political standing, would be absolutely outrageous, not to mention extremely damaging for children, as young people aren’t born with a political stance. They learn it over time and choose their own path when they become adults. That said, to forcibly have separate curricula, rules, and standards will tear the country apart, more than it already has under the current administration.
As one Redditor puts it, the whole “free speech” that right-wing extremists harp on about was never about actual free speech. “It was about debasing political discourse with bad-faith bots and troll accounts designed to erase liberals from their social media algorithms and keep their vulnerable population of idiots further from the truth than ever,” the commenter explains. “They sure do love segregation and indoctrination,” remarked another.
“It’s hilarious that they think the Republicans school would have higher scores as red states have the worst schools by far,” criticizes a third commenter. While that opinion is a bit extreme, the fact of the matter is that right-wing politicians like Noble claim they want “politics out of school,” yet want more than ever for politics to be what defines school, such as via segregation. Hopefully, no ridiculous executive order comes about this idea, as American society is divided enough as is.
