Critical Race Theory - Parents fight back

[UsualName]

First of all --- we need to use the proper terminology -- the subject is "Social Studies" now. "History" is a term of the past.

The best explanation I have found in a short search is in Ed Week. See the section with the bolded - "Rather than memorizing names and dates".

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The Common Core Standards in social studies include a focus on social studies skills rather than focusing on the Jeopardy-like social studies classrooms of the past where students memorized dates and names. The new standards place a special emphasis on students understanding a variety of perspectives when studying various time periods throughout history. In addition, the Common Core Standards require students to gather evidence to support claims throughout history, and in doing so create their own understanding of the world. This approach is very much in line with the ELA Common Core Standards and even the Next Generation Science Standards. The Common Core Standards in social studies mean that students investigate people, places and historical events, gather evidence from primary source documents, and construct their own knowledge about the past, based on their findings. In doing this, students learn to source documents - becoming detectives searching for history, rather than students who simply consume one version or story about history.

Under the Common Core Standards, a social studies classroom will look more like a collaborative space, where students might be debating about what they see in a historical image, or evaluating the words in a letter written by a WWI soldier. Rather than memorizing names and dates, students are now searching for reputable sources of information online to gather evidence about what actually happened during specific time periods and understanding the various sides to our world’s ongoing story. In short, students are interacting with information rather than simply consuming it. When students have a question about history, under the Common Core Standards, they should no longer feel that the teacher is the only person who holds the answer--they are now encouraged to search for the information, locate reputable sources, understand the information in context, and share their findings with their peers. The Common Core Standards in the history classroom also mean that students are writing and reading differently than in the past. Rather than writing a research paper about a historical topic, students might be asked to investigate the perspective of various people and write about those perspectives, supporting their writing with evidence from primary source documents. When students read about history, they read with a purpose (to answer a question, or locate evidence).

Finally, students in Common Core social studies classrooms are now being asked to investigate a topic within a time period and create something that shows what they have learned - whether it is a piece of writing, a video clip, or an interactive image using various technologies.

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...ies-looks-like-the-work-of-historians/2016/10

As a parent with kids in school the way it works here is in middle school they have social studies which is sort of a broader survey of history, culture, religion, current events. In high school is when they begin History class proper. Three years History 1 & 2 (something like world history and US history) then a choice of 2 half year electives.

Education is a state to state thing. I live in a left-left state and it’s still regular history here.

 

[userque]

Education is a state to state thing.

That ther's da probl'm

 

[CaptainObvious]

No such thing as a public school education in the 21st century, only indoctrination.

 

[Cuddles]

I live in liberal paradise and I don’t know what you’re talking about. I tried googling common core history and dates and nothing came up besides a right wing nonsense article in real clear opinion. If anyone would be doing this stuff it’s where I live and I don’t see it. I know my oldest is learning dates in history.

As a parent with kids in school the way it works here is in middle school they have social studies which is sort of a broader survey of history, culture, religion, current events. In high school is when they begin History class proper. Three years History 1 & 2 (something like world history and US history) then a choice of 2 half year electives.

Education is a state to state thing. I live in a left-left state and it’s still regular history here.

The latest "critical race theory" whitey outrage is telling him that they're changing "history" to "social studies". I grew up in the south and social studies is exactly as you describe down there as well. This was 20 yrs ago.

 

[Arnie]

AOC syndrome going on here - ie. if their tits were brains they would be geniuses. Unfortunately they are not.

And people wonder why we keep electing idiots to lead us.

 

[UsualName]

No such thing as a public school education in the 21st century, only indoctrination.

Indoctrination to what, a classical education?

Oh no, the kids are learning new math!

 

[El OchoCinco]

No such thing as a public school education in the 21st century, only indoctrination.

That is just a knee jerk hypberolic reaction. Teachers in public schools are not indoctrinating kids on anything...

If teaching kids what slavery is means they are being indoctrinated that is pretty narrow ignorant thinking. The fact that most Americans know nothing about Jim Crow, lynchings or Loving v. Virginia shows how bad the education system is in indoctrinating them against learning all history, not just the shiny white parts.

Teachers are not indoctrinating but I had a funny incident happen at my son's school in the lower grades. A parent (white) lost his shit to the kindergarten teacher when he found out the class was learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his famous speech. School had to forbid him from school grounds because of how threatening he got.

yeah this shit still happens in 2020.

 

[Cuddles]

yeah this shit still happens in 2020.

Not just happening Ocho, it's accelerating. Tell me it's not worse than pre-9/11 times?

 

[El OchoCinco]

Not just happening Ocho, it's accelerating. Tell me it's not worse than pre-9/11 times?

i was floored when I heard about this incident, I think it was 2019 or 2020, not sure because it was in kindergarten but I knew the teacher so the story got back to me as my son was in the upper school attached. First he wrote an email about teaching anything from that man and then he approached the teacher in the hallway on pickup and while not yelling was very angry and upset. I heard the daughter is an angel in class so this fucktard is going to ruin this child sadly. he was told to leave the school property and then was banned. He pulled his kid out a month later after getting a lawyer letter haha...

It is scary what happens nowadays out in the open.

As usual a pendullum swings back as far the other way and CRT is trying to fix things by being extreme. In my country a parent got up at a school board meeting and claimed CRT was marxist socialist indoctrination (was on the news).... I was like.....do you even know what marxist socialist indoctrination is or do you pick words FOX news tells you to say.

CRT is making the issue worse by allowing the far right to scare parents that white history is being erased or some shit like that and the far left is pushing it as some sort of reparation. It will not end well. Problem is most schools do a good job of history but it changes state to state.

Like Morgan Freeman said (and I paraphrase) " I don't like Black History Month.... when is White History Month? Why is my history relegated to one month? Black history is part of American History and should simply be included, not segregated out into a month"

 

[Cuddles]

i was floored when I heard about this incident, I think it was 2019 or 2020, not sure because it was in kindergarten but I knew the teacher so the story got back to me as my son was in the upper school attached. First he wrote an email about teaching anything from that man and then he approached the teacher in the hallway on pickup and while not yelling was very angry and upset. I heard the daughter is an angel in class so this fucktard is going to ruin this child sadly. he was told to leave the school property and then was banned. He pulled his kid out a month later after getting a lawyer letter haha...

It is scary what happens nowadays out in the open.

As usual a pendullum swings back as far the other way and CRT is trying to fix things by being extreme. In my country a parent got up at a school board meeting and claimed CRT was marxist socialist indoctrination (was on the news).... I was like.....do you even know what marxist socialist indoctrination is or do you pick words FOX news tells you to say.

CRT is making the issue worse by allowing the far right to scare parents that white history is being erased or some shit like that and the far left is pushing it as some sort of reparation. It will not end well. Problem is most schools do a good job of history but it changes state to state.

Like Morgan Freeman said (and I paraphrase) " I don't like Black History Month.... when is White History Month? Why is my history relegated to one month? Black history is part of American History and should simply be included, not segregated out into a month"

I really don't buy into the CRT outrage yet. All these stories are generally some wokester trying to push his shit and it just gets slapped w/CRT on fox so am afraid that's what the casual reader may be reacting to. When you care to dig deep is just a bunch of misconstrued BS. I'd say if you care (I stopped after half a dozen crying wolf stories) just read into it a bit more.