Arguments between parents and school board members has been getting attention here in Indiana, and across the country. Former Vice President Mike Pence commends parents for “loving their country and their kids.”
“These schools are ours, and public education belongs to the American public,” Pence said in a speech on Thursday.
Pence was at Patrick Henry College in Loudoun County, Virginia, where arguments between parents and school board members have received national attention. His theme for the speech was “educational freedom,” referring to school mask policies and anti-racist curriculum.
“Millions of parents are rightly concerned that in many of our schools, the primary mission of public schools is no longer to educate America’s youth, but, in many cases, to indoctrinate our youth to radical left-wing ideology,” Pence said.
Pence went on to call critical race theory “nothing more than state-sponsored racism,” and says it should be “opposed by every American, of every race and color, in every school in our land.”
Recently, former president Barack Obama said voters should ignore the “fake outrage” by right-wing leaders when it comes to the education system. Pence responded to that in his speech Thursday.
“The outrage isn’t fake. It’s real. And it’s grounded in the love for this country and our kids.”
