There’s an inconvenient paradox that, at one point or another, every social justice scholar has to wrestle with. And that paradox is this: Even as the entire country forcibly implements every single one of their wish-list items — no matter how extreme or untethered from reality — the result is that people’s lives get objectively worse. And I’m not just talking about a little worse. Pretty much everyone’s life gets measurably worse, by a lot.
If you have a child in a public school system, you know that students have suffered in particular. But you may not realize how stark the decline has been, because no one’s really reported on the specific numbers. A couple of years ago, the Department of Education took a look at serious incidents occurring in public schools in the 2009-2010 school year. Then they compared that data with the number of serious incidents that occurred a…
