They Came for the Schools
One Town's Fight over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
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Mike Hixenbaugh
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake podcast.
Award-winning journalist Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the immersive and eye-opening story of Southlake, Texas, a district that seemed to offer everything parents would want for their children—small classes, dedicated teachers, financial resources, a track record of academic success, and school spirit in abundance. All this, until a series of racist incidents became public, a plan to promote inclusiveness was proposed in response—and a coordinated, well-funded conservative backlash erupted, lighting the fire of a national movement on the verge of changing the face of public schools across the country.
They Came for the Schools pulls back the curtain on the powerful forces driving this crusade to ban books, rewrite curricula, limit rights for minority and LGBTQ students—and, most importantly, to win what Hixenbaugh’s deeply informed reporting convinces is the holy grail among those seeking to impose biblical values on American society: school privatization, one school board and one legal battle at a time.
They Came for the Schools delivers an essential take on Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, as they demean public schools and teachers and boost the Christian right’s vision. Hixenbaugh brings to light fascinating connections between this political and cultural moment and past fundamentalist campaigns to censor classroom lessons. Finally, They Came for the Schools traces the rise of a new resistance movement led by a diverse coalition of student activists, fed-up educators, and parents who are beginning to win select battles of their own: a blueprint, they hope, for gaining inclusive and civil schools for all.
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I have discovered a group of women who refuse to be exploited, are immune to manipulation, and who never settle in the name of love. These ladies know what they want and take what they want by beating men at their own game. Utilizing the secrets exposed in this book, these women gain power, money, and status. Men call them gold diggers, women call them hos, but they call themselves winners. This is the book that society doesn't want you to listen to….
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Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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Do you know how many wives Zeus had? Or how the famous Trojan War was caused by one beautiful lady? Or how Thor got his hammer? Give your imagination a real treat. This Mega Mythology Collection of eight audiobooks is for you....
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The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room
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Taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.
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My Big TOE: Awakening, written by a nuclear physicist in the language of contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal. The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds is brought together under one seamless scientific understanding.
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What a Trip (but to where?)
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- Sue
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The treatment of students by the teachers and administration.
It should be read by everybody who plans to become a teacher. My advice is stay away from Texas and Florida. It is very well written and the Audible version was excellent
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I loved the story. I am happy it is brought out about how racism has never really gone away but, proud people are strong and stood strong.
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- MamaMouse
- 05-16-24
Loved it
A concisely told bird’s eye view of the recent right-wing attacks on public schools.
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- JoAnne Gatti-Petito
- 06-13-24
It’s a warning.
The details and the organization regarding Christian Nationalism and the threat to democracy are frightening. Everyone who has common sense should read this book and take heed.
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- debra
- 05-19-24
Informative,..scary as hell…a wake up call for ALL Americans
When my son first told me he and his young wife and my grandson were moving to Texas to pursue teaching jobs for better pay I was afraid…and that was twenty years ago! Each year they are down there I get a little more scared. My son is a math teacher & coach and his wife is a librarian. I worry about them daily and look anxiously forward until the day they are able to leave there forever. I don’t understand how a man so morally bankrupt has become the guiding star for so many folks on the right. They are not able able to see and acknowledge their own hypocrisy. I want to ask these folks just one question. Would any of you be supporting Barack Obama the way you are supporting the former president if he were the one on trial in New York? I’m thinking no. The divisiveness of how that “man” has turned neighbor against neighbor, family members against family members is an Adolf Hitler move! The existential threat to our country and our lives is present everywhere but none so apparent as in our schools. Another Hitler tactic. Just ask Steve Bannon who prophesied that school board elections would be a path to “save the nation”. Seriously??? These two immoral, racist, misogynist infidels are who you want as your guiding lights in our schools? Hear this… WE WON’T LET YOU! I believe in our democracy and the separation of church and state. It may not feel like it right now but…THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN YOU!!
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- Texas James
- 05-20-24
A MUST LISTEN for parents of public school student
Outstanding expository writing by Hixenbaugh. He lays out the ugly truth about the Southlake Carroll ISD and its board of trustees' attack on diversity inclusion and accessability in Southlake, Texas public schools in stark detail. An attack that resulted in four Dept of Education civil rights violations against ther district the same week of the book's publishing – validating the author's multi-year effort. Even though Southlake, TX is home to taxpaying households that are Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Atheist, led by men and women or same-sex couples and with members that may have physical or mental disabilities...Southlake Carroll ISD demonstrated an unwavering allegiance to Christian Nationalists located outside of the district.
Read or listen to this book and then join others who are working for diversion, equity and inclusion in your local schools.
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- Nonsequiteuse
- 06-07-24
Amazing context for a complex story
I listened well past midnight - a compelling exposé of the relentless determination of well-funded Christian nationalists to thwart the tigress our country has made to date. Particularly chilling to read as a Texan bracing for the next legislative session, determined to do more to oppose the governor’s plan to strip the public schools and sell them for parts.
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- C. Shanafelt
- 08-05-24
Good read, author has room to grow
Overall, I felt this book was a worthwhile and timely read. It presents some good insights into what is going on in America's classrooms and school districts, but I wish the author had maintained a single cohesive timeline throughout, as it feels as if it would have made for an even more compelling story. Being a journalist, he also presented a set of unadorned facts, without a distinct call to action or sense of hope at the end of the book. The book may have benefited from an afterword written by someone who is more activist in nature, or perhaps even by one or more of the individuals mentioned in the book, to center their stories as well.
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- Cliff Jones
- 06-16-24
What we need to know about schools
Hixenbaugh's outstanding story of the right wing playbook as evidenced in our public schools is a must read.
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- Sarah E. Donahue
- 05-26-24
Must Read
Thank you for all of your work on this book and the podcasts, Mike. I’ve been a resident of Dallas for 20 years and watching what is happening, especially in the north suburbs, is truly terrifying. Hopefully this continue to shine a brighter on what Christian nationalist extremism does to negatively affect our children, teachers and families.
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