His essay on what is taught in schools was featured recently in the New York Times Opinion pages. It has generated more than 2000 comments to date.
He explains how many public school educators wrongly differentiate between “fact” and “opinion.” After seeing what his grade school son was taught, McBrayer states:
“In summary, our public schools teach students that all claims are either facts or opinions and that all value and moral claims fall into the latter camp. The punchline: there are no moral facts. And if there are no moral facts, then there are no moral truths.
“Our schools do amazing things with our children. And they are, in a way, teaching moral standards when they ask students to treat one another humanely and to do their schoolwork with academic integrity. But at the same time, the curriculum sets our children up for doublethink. They are told that there are no moral facts in one breath even as the next tells them how they ought to behave.”