How many schoolchildren across this country are being taught to sympathize with terrorists? The question may sound absurd to many. Most people don’t want to hear or think about it. However, as a career educator, I can tell you it’s a problem staring us in the face and one we need to address head-on.

In recent weeks, several acts of violence and terrorism should force us to take a closer look — not just at the actions themselves, but at the troubling responses that followed.

Last week in New Orleans, an Army veteran radicalized by the Islamic State group murdered at least 14 people. On the same day, another U.S. military member detonated a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Not long before that, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated, allegedly by an Ivy League graduate.

Even more disturbing than the murder of Thompson was the reaction: sympathy, justification, and even celebration from some corners of our society. A U.S. senator even telegraphed support for the act of terrorism........

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