In the "How to Prevent Gun Violence? -- Teachers Share Their Ideas" piece, Keisha Rembert's diction is telling as she urges school faculty and students to "be legislatively active" -- instead of to "be politically active." There is a fine distinction between the two phrases -- legislatively active and politically active, I think. "Legislatively active" has a narrower and sharper focus -- the passage of commonsense gun reform legislation in order to save lives -- that has a broader consensus than the "politically active" debates around academic freedom issues. In other words, the idea of "professing" in high school or in earlier educational contexts (teaching Critical Race Theory, for example) is more freighted with controversy and divisiveness.
In the "How to Prevent Gun Violence? -- Teachers Share Their Ideas" piece, Keisha Rembert's diction is telling as she urges school faculty and students to "be legislatively active" -- instead of to "be politically active." There is a fine distinction between the two phrases -- legislatively active and politically active, I think. "Legislatively active" has a narrower and sharper focus -- the passage of commonsense gun reform legislation in order to save lives -- that has a broader consensus than the "politically active" debates around academic freedom issues. In other words, the idea of "professing" in high school or in earlier educational contexts (teaching Critical Race Theory, for example) is more freighted with controversy and divisiveness.