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A woke framing of the Classical Christian School Movement, Wednesday, January 25, 2023.

Preamble instead of an introduction.

Last week saw something of a commotion in the Classical Christian world of education.

Jessica Houton Wilson published an article and her revised version can be found here.

David Goodwin of ACCS responded with an article in the Federalist, which is here.

I was planning to respond to her article last Monday, and I had a first draft largely

done, which was truth be told kind of zippy.

But a Zoom meeting was arranged between Jessica and David and me, and with some others

helping out.

I'd be happy to give credit where it is due, but I don't have permission yet to share

their names.

This is kind of important these days because it really is possible to get into trouble

for even talking to me.

The center of David Goodwin's published rejoinder had to do with Jessica's argument

that the canon of work studied in the Classical Christian movement needs to be a lot more

inclusive than it is.

My response was going to focus on our first two paragraphs, which intimated that I was

if not a white supremacist entirely too friendly to them.

That issue was successfully addressed, I thought, and Jessica offered to correct that section

of her piece, along with the retraction which she did.

Unfortunately, something got lost in the communication between her and current magazine,

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