Nelson A. Pryor: Guest Columnist
A woman from Sarasota is shaking up the education establishment in Florida. Perhaps you’ve heard of her? She is Mrs. Bridget Ziegler. After observing what her first daughter had to undergo, she ran for and won her precinct’s seat on the Sarasota County School Board, in 2014, and since. Bridget Ziegler had been one of the first to inveigh against “critical race theory,” in September 2020, with a catchy, viral tagline: “Our job is to educate, not indoctrinate.” Later that year, she co-founded Moms for Liberty, which took the concerns parents had about masks and race and gender and channeled them into action. She also helped write Florida’s “Parents Bill of Rights,” insuring a curriculum that would be “developmentally appropriate.”