The War for America's Classrooms - From Texas to You

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Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get full access to this episode, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Mike Hixenbaugh is a Pulitzer finalist, Peabody award winner, and the author of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms. In the book, Hixenbaugh delivers an immersive and eye-opening story of Southlake, Texas, a district that seemed to offer everything parents would want for their children—small classes, dedicated teachers, financial resources, a track record of academic success, and school spirit in abundance. All this, until a series of racist incidents became public, a plan to promote inclusiveness was proposed in response—and a coordinated, well-funded conservative backlash erupted, lighting the fire of a national movement on the verge of changing the face of public schools across the country. They Came for the Schools pulls back the curtain on the powerful forces driving this crusade to ban books, rewrite curricula, limit rights for minority and LGBTQ students—and, most importantly, to win what Hixenbaugh’s deeply informed reporting convinces is the holy grail among those seeking to impose biblical values on American society: school privatization, one school board and one legal battle at a time. Buy it here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/they-came-for-the-schools-mike-hixenbaugh?variant=41284682088482 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi
0:07.0	Moundi Oh my God, yes, I can say more.
0:17.0	Recorded in a car with for high school students away from school to Carol I.
0:26.2	C students are in this offensive video.
0:29.4	The South Lake kids are the girls seen here and the driver of the car who is not seen.
0:34.9	The other two teenagers are not students at Carol I.S.D.
0:39.2	Five years ago, high school students in South Lake Texas, part of one of the best public school systems in the country,
0:45.0	were caught on tape, saying the N-word.
0:48.0	The video was posted to social media and seen by millions of people.
0:51.0	In fact, it happened not once but twice. The story that we're going to hear
0:56.7	today is not how that incident led to a racial reckoning, a change in awareness and cultural sensitivity and understanding of the ways that
1:06.1	minority families and students in that district have felt for years. That's not what happened.
1:13.0	Instead, a right-wing Christian nationalist agenda said in the town.
1:18.0	It took over the school board and South Lake Texas became an emblem of the disruption and revolution in our school systems
1:25.8	over the last four years. Today I speak with Mike Hicksenbach,
1:30.8	Senior Investigative Reporter for NBC News, a Pulitzer Prize finalists, and a Peabody Award winner.
1:37.0	Hicksenbach is the author of the new book They Came for The Schools, which focuses South Lake Texas, one of the best public school systems in
1:46.2	the country and a place where everything we've seen surrounding race, microaggressions,
1:52.1	DEI, fights over curriculum, fights over the 1619 project, the history of the nation,
1:59.9	and what we're going to teach our kids about the past as we move into the future.
2:03.9	Erupted into a firestorm of controversy and local civil war,
2:08.0	hitting neighbor against neighbor, parent against parent.
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