Late summer 2022 is already proving to be unlike any back-to-school season in history. America’s schoolchildren may still be prowling the stationery aisles at Walmart and Target, hunting for the same old glue sticks, notebooks, and pencils. But their parents have an altogether new item on their school supply list this fall: the right to choose where their children go to school.

When COVID-era remote learning began in 2020, parents gained an unprecedented view inside their students’ classrooms and their counties’ school board meetings. What they saw — fraudulent, woke propaganda disguised as curricula; union-driven closures; punitive mask and vaccine mandates; and the Democratic Party’s crackdown on objections to any of the above — has changed the moral and political foundations on which our education system rests.