The article talks about a school in Virginia that was shut down because of a teacher who gave her students a passage called the Shahada which is a religious text for Islam. In the article, it mentions that there are two sides to the story. There are some parents who were very angry. They had threatened to protest on school property or harm the school officials. This represents the oppressive authoritarianism. Instead of acting rational and making sense that the teacher was just educating the students, the parents leaned towards violence as a force of power to stop the teacher from teaching Islam and forcing the school to shut down. People like Eric Bond, the superintendent of the School District represents rational and helpful authority. As the superintendent, Bond has the authority and power to regulate the issue and he does so by issuing a email to parents explaining that the lesson was just informative, not to convert students to Islam.
Wenne Zheng