The Epoch Times By
‘That’s not the point of education.’
In an effort to protect children from critical race theory, early sexualization, and transgender ideology, a parent-advocacy group has joined forces with a like-minded children’s publisher to inform other parents of how “children are being brainwashed by woke books in our own homes.”
No Left Turn in Education (NLT) was started by Elana Fishbein, a Philadelphia mother who wants to “revive in American public education the fundamental discipline of critical and active thinking which is based on facts, investigation, logic, and sound reasoning.” NLT has thousands of members and nearly 75 state and local chapters.
Fishbein launched NLT at the end of August 2020 after she realized Philadelphia’s Lower Merion School District had instituted a curriculum change that focused on “cultural proficiency.” As she reviewed an email sent to parents from the principal of Gladwyne Elementary School, Fishbein said she was disturbed by what she described as the overtly racist content of the books.
