Critics question Garland's school board crackdown after son-in-law revealed as social justice education kingpin - Yahoo News

Attorney General Merrick Garland, who earlier this week injected the FBI into the nationwide debate over far-left local school curriculum, has a son-in-law whose company has gotten rich peddling K-12 educational materials obsessed with “systemic racism,” "intersectionality," and white supremacy.

Alexander “Xan” Tanner, who married Garland's daughter Rebecca in 2018, is the co-founder and president of Panorama Education, a major player in the teacher training and curriculum industry. Panorama pushes race-focused surveys and conducts trainings on systemic oppression, white supremacy, unconscious bias, and intersectionality — all under the rubric of "Social-Emotional Learning."

Critics who viewed Garland's recent order as an effort to chill parental outrage over controversial theories finding their way into mainstream classrooms say the family connection is a bad look.

"At the very least, it certainly creates an appearance of a conflict of interest,” Ian Prior, a former DOJ spokesman and the executive director of Fight For Schools, told the Washington Examiner.

Rep. Jim Banks, an Indiana Republican, was blunter in a Wednesday tweet.

“The AG's war on parents is not only helping the teachers unions, but his own family!” Banks wrote.

Prior's group and others have rallied parents to protest at local school board meetings over the teaching of "critical race theory" and other leftist perspectives on race, as well as controversial topics such as gender fluidity, in school classrooms.

Garland’s memo this week warned of a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” against schools and said the DOJ will "discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate.”

While the memo did not reference any specific threats or acts of violence against school officials, it came just days after the National School Board Association likened such attacks to “a form of domestic terrorism."

source: https://news.yahoo.com/critics-garlands-school-board-crackdown-180100364.html

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