Four education fights and one loud wake-up call. UVA's president bailed after a DOJ probe torched his DEI empire. The Supreme Court let parents pull their children from a radical leftist curriculum. Federal officials ripped Lia Thomas's medals off the record. And the federal government slapped Harvard with subpoenas over antisemitism and speech. From kindergarten mats to Ivy Towers, the revolt against liberal education scored numerous victories.

The biggest of these victories was before the Supreme Court. "The ruling, in a case featuring parents who objected to LGBTQ-theme books introduced in elementary classrooms in a Maryland county, says parents can generally opt out of instruction that contradicts a child's religious upbringing."

In short, the case states that parents have a say in what their child is being taught in the classroom. In previous generations, it would be a bizarre concept to even question. But the far-left, led by people like teacher's union head Randi Weingarten, have argued parental rights groups are evil.

Restoring sanity in the school system has requested extensive arguments among lawyers in the legal system.

The stories don't end there, though. Higher education is taking a hit, too. The University of Pennsylvania has settled with the federal government, agreeing that it violated Title IX. "The probe found UPenn violated Title IX by 'allowing a male to compete in female athletic programs and occupy female-only intimate facilities.'"

Not only that, UPenn is stripping trans-woman Lia Thompson of all the records allegedly broken and returning the records to women. In a related story, Georgia implemented its "Riley Gaines Act" to prevent such situations in women's sports from occurring.

Higher administrators are choosing to quit rather than fight these charges. The University of Virginia's president quit rather than deal with the fallout of DEI policies. The federal government was prepared to sue him in court over allegations of discrimination. So he resigned rather than fight the White House.

Virginia is not alone.

This week, the fight against the Ivy League intensified. Harvard is on the verge of losing all federal money. CBS News reports, "Top Trump administration officials at the Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education, as well as the General Services Administration, notified Harvard of the findings of an investigation into alleged antisemitism at the school and concluded that it is in 'violent violation' of a provision of the Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin in programs that receive federal assistance."

Congress is also joining the fray. The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Harvard for financial aid documentation regarding an ongoing antitrust case. In combination with accusations of rampant antisemitism at Harvard, it now has to defend an antitrust case.

The education system, which is filled with monuments to far-left biases, racism, and attacks on the family, is being forced to hold itself accountable. Schools can't pump schoolchildren full of radical leftist propaganda without parental input. Higher education must also follow the law in protecting women and minorities.

That makes the past week seismic in terms of shifting in the opposite direction. It's not just that schools and universities have lost their ways with far-left ridiculousness. The pushback now is powered in part by the abysmal failure of education system to respond to the the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

A lot of things happened in 2020, but leaving schoolchildren behind was near the top of the list. Education came to a halt, and it wasn't just due to the pandemic's impact. Unions sided against parents and children, demanding more control at the same time.

The country has reached a breaking point. If American children and adults were receiving an excellent education at all levels, this conversation would likely look different. But the problem is that we've had leftist propaganda getting pushed into the system while the educational failures of the pandemic have not improved.

A nation which can't educate its citizens on the basics can't function. Our society is built around a basic level of education that enables people to progress further in life. We're not getting that. High schools are graduating students who are illiterate, and universities aren't making things better.

It's not a coincidence the very worst liberal ideas are thriving at a moment when illiteracy is growing, and education is failing. If you cannot think, these moronic concepts seem more appealing.

The pushback on that reached a peak this week. Hopefully, those victories will continue. There's a lot of work to be done. America needs this revolt to be a beginning, not an end.