An American Pastoral

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• 2024
• 1 hr 58 mins
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At board meetings in the run-up to the election, Democrats voice their fears that LifeGate is targeting the school board with a vision of white supremacist theocracy. (Their opponents focus less on denying this than on denigrating the left.) There's a notable disconnect between the politics infiltrating the board and what seems to be the generally progressive mindset of school employees: Teachers joke with their students that their curriculum-approved copies of "A Streetcar Named Desire" may be deemed dangerous, and attempt to hold open discussions in class about gun violence.