But after the pandemic began, the schools she once regarded as fantastic changed. Brand said her three sons encountered sexualized reading materials, a racially fraught curriculum, and an approach to education that seemed to prioritize the politics of the district’s adults over the needs of its children.

So this year, Brand, like hundreds of thousands of parents around the country, decided to remove her children from the public school system. Brand’s two oldest sons, both rising ninth graders, will head to a Catholic school in a nearby Virginia town in the fall. Her youngest, a rising seventh grader, will finish middle school in a Loudoun County public school, at which point Brand said she would reevaluate.

“I’m Jewish and I’m sending my kids to Catholic school, because the values at a Catholic school more closely mirror our own family values, whereas the public schools are totally devoid of values,” Brand told the Washington Examiner.

“But not only are they devoid of values, they’ve lowered the standards of education to the point that I feel my children couldn’t be productive members of society if they remained in the school," she said.

Brand’s decision mirrors the choices parents are making all over the nation. A toxic mix of factors, from battles over critical race theory and sexual identity education to the lingering effects of COVID-19 protocols, has driven families from the public school system in droves.

Altogether, more than 1.2 million students have left the public school system since 2020

I remember the good old days when CRT was just a big old clunky monitor.

This is what happens when you tell white boys that they are bad and tell them two men boinking each other in the butt is noble and good.