Anti-woke activists are losing many of their school-board battles but they are winning the war

Two years ago it seemed that a conservative movement against “wokeness” was taking over America’s schools. Seen by many on the right as an insidious liberal outlook emphasising race, gender and sexuality, wokeness has many guises: among them critical race theory (crt), gender theory and queer theory. According to its opponents, it all amounts to the same thing, it is thriving in schools and it has to go.