democracy which is usually the province of the local school district bureaucracy and the unions who, of course, have intense interest in school policy. here you re seeing parents suddenly get involved. that sounds like grass roots democracy going ahead. it s kind of what we want, isn t it? well, i would definitely agree. i mean, i think that for the past few months you saw a lot of republican legislatures in various states passing laws prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory in classrooms. and i think a lot of skeptics pointed out that, you know, these schools are very institutionally run. it s going to be very hard to alter the curricula of the schools or the teaching practices of specific teachers. but now we re seeing kind of a new phase which parents are taking it into their own hands, going to these school board meetings and raising case by case objections to certain things that their children being taught in the schools. and i think that is what has