This spring, the Texas Education Agency unveiled its long-anticipated new school curriculum. Ever since, the Left has been raising Cain about it.

If you’re reasonably literate, you get what that means. Literacy requires more than just phonics, it takes familiarity with shared cultural reference points. Even if you haven’t come across the idiom “raising Cain,” you should know from the Bible that Cain means trouble — and you can figure it out from there.

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