College Board leader quits after criticism of race legislation

Thank you for the opportunity to share my opinion that people wishing to push an extreme-right wing agenda to promote ignorance of racial history have no place of authority in higher education.

This incident highlights the dangers of allowing politicians to micromanage education, whatever their agenda might happen to be. Even when they don't use their position to foist minority ideas, they fall prone to the common fallacy that - merely because they attended school/college themselves - they have expertise in education. We have professionals for that, and they should be the ones writing the curriculum. On contentious issues such as racism, it's vital that students are presented with a range of opinions and supported in develop open and enquiring minds to formulate their own opinions and be able to back them up with supporting evidence. A politician, especially one with their own agenda, is not in a position to be able to support this.