Are we supposed to subject children to ridicule and abuse from staff in school due to their race as part of an official lesson plan?
Because this is what is happening in the classroom. It is unacceptable.
Critical Race Theory - Parents fight back
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Are we supposed to subject children to ridicule and abuse from staff in school due to their race as part of an official lesson plan?
Because this is what is happening in the classroom. It is unacceptable.
I don’t know that is what is happening. I think a lot of this stuff is too complicated to be at the local school level and that is compounded by right wingers looking for a fight.
Students need to learn the whole history and teachers need to have the skills to appropriately navigate tough issues.
Like I said before, critical race theory is more of a post secondary education subject and I highly doubt it is actually being taught at the local level because of the complex subject matter.
One of the real issues is the Republican legislators calling anything that teaches about racism and the negative aspects of American history as "Critical Race Theory". In their legislatures, after hours of ranting, they pass bills which basically say you can only teach a "white-washed", "traditional-version" of American history where everyone is a patriot and any of the negative experiences are scrubbed. This is just an example of the right-wing misusing "Critical Race Theory" agitation to drive their political & social agenda.
The right -- as well as progressives on the left -- are using "Critical Race Theory" as part of "culture wars" to drive the teaching of their version of history in K-12 public schools. At this point -- it has reached the point where the intent is no longer to teach history but to indoctrinate the students (with agenda's from either extreme).
The classrooms in the U.S. have been able to successfully teach for decades a well-rounded social and factual version of American history in the classroom. The commonly-used history syllabus in most states does not ignore slavery, the civil rights movement, systemic racism, and many other negative points in American history -- in fact these type of items are very front & center in most history lesson including having students do lessons focused on understanding the perspectives and issues with minorities at various points in U.S. history. "Critical Thinking" used by students when creating contextual history papers is very different than "Critical Race Theory".
I will note that educators who generally have a liberal slant have been driving lesson plans in school systems for decades. Due to this the history syllabus in K-12 schools generally already covers a comprehensive version of U.S. history including addressing issues of systemic racism, poverty, political abuse, and segregation. It is hard to make an argument that today's U.S. K-12 school lesson plans slant "conservative".
Yet teaching "Critical Race Theory" is a step too far for many teachers -- they see its destructive effect in the classroom, how it further divides students, and its intentional application of emotional distress. Yet many don't speak up (as noted in articles) because they will lose their jobs when school boards and administrators are demanding CRT be taught.
If you want to understand what Critical Race Theory is -- and is not -- then one of the best sources is the "An A to Z Guide On How To Stop Critical Race Theory And Reclaim Your Local School Board". There is nothing better than a document which explains to parents what Critical Race Theory actually is -- and is not -- so they can fight it with facts as a source for definition. After all this is what local parents are going to your school board to raise a ruckus about.
https://roar-assets-auto.rbl.ms/documents/10371/Stop-Critical-Race-Theory-CRA-5.pdf
Promoting "Inclusion & Diversity" is very different than teaching "Critical Race Theory". The primary basis of Critical Race Theory is that white children are privileged and guilty of all the sins committed by their ancestors. They are the oppressors and everyone else is the oppressed. And this is what is being pushed in the classroom. Similarly, school "equity programs" built on CRT principles are no different than pushing "Critical Race Theory" lessons in the classroom. CRT-based education is fundamentally racist itself by definition.
Classrooms should be a positive, happy environment where children can learn. Lessons built around "Critical Race Theory" which demean, abuse, and ridicule children are not an appropriate part of an educational agenda.
We should take steps to fully eliminate Critical Race Theory in the classroom but ensure that ALL of U.S. History is still being taught including all the "negative" points in regards to our "social history". It is important that students have a well-rounded view of history but are not belittled when learning it.
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In documents obtained exclusively by Fox News, Citizens for Renewing America (the advocacy arm of Vought’s conservative think tank) has created an "A to Z guide" for stopping critical race theory.
Vought said the 33-page handbook is a crash course in CRT, a "one-stop shopping" for parents trying to hold their school board members accountable.
After Joe Biden was elected President, Biden and his transition team accused Vought of hindering the incoming administration's transition by refusing to allow incoming Biden officials to meet with OMB staff. Vought pushed back against these accusations.[1][2]
In 2021, Vought founded a think tank called the Center for American Restoration, which seeks to carry forward Donald Trump's political agenda.
Center for American Restoration[edit]
In January 2021, Vought started a think called the Center for American Restoration and an affiliated issue advocacy group called American Restoration Action. According to Axios, the groups "will provide the ideological ammunition to sustain Trump's political movement after his departure from the White House."[20]
In 2021, The Washington Post fact-checker rated Vought's statement that only 5 to 7 percent of the Biden administration's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan would go to "actual roads and bridges and ports and things that you and I would say is real infrastructure" as "Three Pinocchios" out of four.[21]
During the confirmation hearings for Vought's nomination to the OMB, Senator Bernie Sanders questioned Vought about a statement that "Muslims do not simply have a deficient theology. They do not know God because they have rejected Jesus Christ his Son, and they stand condemned.""[8][9] The Atlantic magazine and various Christian organizations denounced Sanders's questioning as a violation of the No Religious Test Clause.[9][10]
In 2019, Vought was one of nine government officials who defied a subpoena to testify before Congress in relation to the Trump-Ukraine scandal and the administration's decision to freeze military aid to Ukraine. The decision to freeze aid to Ukraine had led Democrats to launch the first impeachment of Donald Trump.[11][12]
In May 2020, Vought broke the OMB's long-standing practice of publishing updated economic forecasts,[12] citing disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.[12]
After Joe Biden won the 2020 election, Vought was accused by Biden and his transition team of hindering the Biden administration transition by refusing to allow incoming Biden officials to meet with OMB staff. Typically, career OMB staff would provide an incoming administration with cost estimates and details on existing programs.[2] Vought defended his action stating that OMB had provided funding for the transition and that there had been more than 45 meetings with Biden officials but that "OMB staff are working on this Administration's policies and will do so until this Administration's final day in office."[18] Some experts said that Vought's refusal to cooperate was unprecedented while other OMB staffers said it was common practice.[19]
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If you are opposed to the movement to stop Critical Race Theory being taught in our K-12 schools --- then there is no better starting point then the playbook being used widely across the country by parents to stop Critical Race Theory being used in our schools. Their definition of Critical Race Theory is what you will have to address and fight against.
you never go full redhat
I strongly disagree with CRT. It's far too binary in its thinking. Everyone isn't either a racist or a victim of racism. Everyone isn't either privileged or oppressed. Everything in society isn't bound by systemic racism. Obviously I agree with some aspects like making sure that our complete history is taught, but categorizing people by skin color is divisive and ignorant.
Maybe I just don't understand CRT. It seems like somewhat of a fluid concept that means different things to different people.
Maybe I just don't understand CRT. It seems like somewhat of a fluid concept that means different things to different people.
Teacher confronts Loudoun County school board's apparent progressive agenda in fiery speech: 'This isn't over'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/teacher-confronts-loudoun-county-school-board-progressive-agenda
Lilit Vanetsyan, a teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia, confronted school board officials in neighboring Loudoun County on Tuesday to push back against what she described as radical lesson plans that will teach kids to "root for socialism by the time they get to middle school."
"Parents, the longer that you wait and don't have your child's schools accountable, gives these guys more time to dictate what's best for your child's physical, mental, and emotional health," she said, pointing to the board as she spoke from the podium at Tuesday's school board meeting.
She joins a growing number of parents and educators who are speaking out against the controversial critical race theory, which opponents argue is a divisive curriculum that teaches adolescents to judge one another by the color of their skin.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/teacher-confronts-loudoun-county-school-board-progressive-agenda
Lilit Vanetsyan, a teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia, confronted school board officials in neighboring Loudoun County on Tuesday to push back against what she described as radical lesson plans that will teach kids to "root for socialism by the time they get to middle school."
"Parents, the longer that you wait and don't have your child's schools accountable, gives these guys more time to dictate what's best for your child's physical, mental, and emotional health," she said, pointing to the board as she spoke from the podium at Tuesday's school board meeting.
She joins a growing number of parents and educators who are speaking out against the controversial critical race theory, which opponents argue is a divisive curriculum that teaches adolescents to judge one another by the color of their skin.
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Virginia mom who survived Maoist China eviscerates school board's critical race theory push
Xi Van Fleet said Cultural Revolution began when she was 6, pitted students against one another and their teachers
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia...race-theory-china-cultural-revolution-loudoun
A Virginia mom who endured Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution before immigrating to the U.S. ripped a Virginia school board at a public meeting Tuesday over its stubborn support of the controversial critical race theory.
"I’ve been very alarmed by what’s going on in our schools," Xi Van Fleet told the Loudoun County School Board members. "You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history."
She likened CRT, which critics deride as a form of "neo-racism," to China’s Cultural Revolution, a Mao-led purge that left between 500,000 and 20 million people dead from 1966 to 1976. The estimates vary greatly and many details have been shrouded in secrecy for decades.
Van Fleet, whose son graduated from Loudoun High School in 2015, shared some of her experience growing up in China’s Sichuan province with Fox News exclusively Wednesday evening.
The Cultural Revolution began when she was 6 years old, she said, and immediately pitted students and teachers and against one another by hanging "Big Posters" in hallways and the cafeteria where students could write criticisms against anyone deemed ideologically impure.
"One of the teachers was considered bourgeoisie because she liked to wear pretty clothes," Van Fleet said. "So the students attacked her and spit on her. She was covered with spit… and pretty soon it became violence."
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Xi Van Fleet said Cultural Revolution began when she was 6, pitted students against one another and their teachers
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia...race-theory-china-cultural-revolution-loudoun
A Virginia mom who endured Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution before immigrating to the U.S. ripped a Virginia school board at a public meeting Tuesday over its stubborn support of the controversial critical race theory.
"I’ve been very alarmed by what’s going on in our schools," Xi Van Fleet told the Loudoun County School Board members. "You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history."
She likened CRT, which critics deride as a form of "neo-racism," to China’s Cultural Revolution, a Mao-led purge that left between 500,000 and 20 million people dead from 1966 to 1976. The estimates vary greatly and many details have been shrouded in secrecy for decades.
Van Fleet, whose son graduated from Loudoun High School in 2015, shared some of her experience growing up in China’s Sichuan province with Fox News exclusively Wednesday evening.
The Cultural Revolution began when she was 6 years old, she said, and immediately pitted students and teachers and against one another by hanging "Big Posters" in hallways and the cafeteria where students could write criticisms against anyone deemed ideologically impure.
"One of the teachers was considered bourgeoisie because she liked to wear pretty clothes," Van Fleet said. "So the students attacked her and spit on her. She was covered with spit… and pretty soon it became violence."
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