Carroll schools should rethink unworkable politics ban | COMMENTARY

In short, the school board has scurried down the rabbit hole of political “neutrality” after receiving multiple complaints from county residents that critical race theory was being taught in schools when, of course, it was not — not by any reasonable definition anyway. But given the frenzy conservative media, most notably Fox News, has whipped up over teachers daring, for example, to have their students once in a while consider U.S. history with a critical, less white European-focused eye, it’s hardly surprising that some people living in one of Maryland’s most politically conservative counties (which voted for Donald Trump by a 24,000-vote margin in 2020) might have gotten that message.