The Post has a vague undercurrent of bafflement, a wide-eyed, "What could it possibly be?" and really only bothers to speculate toward the end. I was on Facebo

The Post has a vague undercurrent of bafflement, a wide-eyed, "What could it possibly be?" and really only bothers to speculate toward the end. I was on Facebook, idly scrolling, and I received an ad for a nearby Montessori school. The ad was a simple lavender square, with the name of the school on it (no photo), and simply the text "Championing LGBTQIAA+ Lives." Of all of the letters, the "three Rs" weren't in evidence. Nothing about how the school will teach the child how to learn, prepare them for high school, or provide a rounded education. Just "Championing LGBTQIAA+ Lives." Upon some mental reflection, I recalled some recent radio ads for local universities, and the first sentence was about how they were diverse, and then there was something about inclusion and equality. No mention was made of "we will prepare you to be an adult" or "we will get you a good job." Unfortunately, I cannot have children, but if I were in a position to, I would like to think I would be interested in their education to the extent that I would make serious choices. And right now, that educational institutions consider their highest advertising priority is to display a relentless laser focus on DIE to the exclusion of, well, education does give a little pause to their selection. As I recall just how ill-served I was by the many schools I attended (we moved quite a lot), both for education and socialization, I can only imagine that diverting the already-anemic school efforts away from the core mission it even-then was not doing a great job at would only make these institutions even less-suited to their supposed task.