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So is much of this countries history. You can not celebrate what we have done well or our progress without acknowledging the starting point. Half of our 'sins' date from before we were a sovereign country; others we perpetuated or entered into with other countries. You can't claim that history is being taught if only the pretty parts are included.
You guys list off slavery and Jim Crow like it was a blip in history. These oppressive laws and the advantages given to people simply based on skin color had damaging effects.
and its not like the day Jim Crow was abolished white America woke up the next day with a brand new view on race and equality.
Most rational people believe that the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s was a game-changer in American history. That people of all races were given equal rights and opportunities from that time onwards.
Critical Race Theory teaches that in spite of all the rights given to Americans of all races, in spite of all the changes in the laws and opening up of opportunities for everyone, there is still systemic racism against black Americans which is hidden or unseen. This is the bogeyman narrative that is claimed, but that no one can actually prove. It is also a form of historical revisionism that tries to downplay the positive changes that happened for blacks and minorities throughout American history.
The Fox news article says "Upon receiving some information, Solas said she "did not see any evidence of gender theory or anti-racism" but knew that it was being taught to students. How does she know the article doesn't elaborate beyond that? All the views are just this ladies statements but there is no collaboration. I'm not saying she's wrong but something is missing including where in RI or is Fox trying to prevent people from searching other news sources....
The second story is coming from an alleged memo from the Daily Wire which is know to spew conspiracy theories and far right fantasies. The published response from the district denies this was an approved memo so who do we believe???
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Lol…it’s never been taught in any school below the college level. SMH.
Why is she just outright lying?
You can say that all you want, but people that WERE taught CRT in college and programs that use it as their foundation are finding their way into the public schools all over this country. The "not taught below the college level" argument is weak and only showed up after you were caught with your hand in the cookie jar. Everyone can see right through it, and the *** is up. People are FINALLY paying attention to their local school boards. I know I am, and I don't even have kids.
Another issue is that this is being taught during classes that have nothing to do with it. Physics class in one school. In another school a teacher (also a parent of a student) complained because one week of each month was dedicated to race in his son's math class. I think he may have been one of the teachers who quit his job due to this nonsense.
We're getting further behind in academics, some students are struggling to keep up, etc. Would their time not be better spent helping students who need the extra help instead of discussions about the dominate race who want all the power, leaving other races powerless?
We have passed laws, yes. However, passing laws does while helping to improve the future does not undo the damage inflicted in the past. And that is what CRT is supposed to examine. How decades and centuries of institutionalized systems are affecting things today within the context of positive changes.
CRT isn't grade school curriculum. It's not secondary school curriculum. And it certainly doesn't belong there. But it darn sure belongs in legal and sociological curriculums at institutions of higher learning.
Yeah....I am not sure about you, but I am 20 and was just recently in high school as of a few years ago. It basically is taught where I went to school.
History is full of white males oppressing others. Due to history all whites are racist whether they realize it or not. Denying your racism means you are especially racist (Notice the Kafka trapping logic, which opposes the scientific method). Other races can't be racist, only prejudiced. It is important to then atone for racism, which is still structural in society with equity that promotes certain groups ahead based on the pigment of their skin.
It exists. It is taught. We need to be honest about this.
I am on the left politically, Trump is horrible and gave me anxiety every day, but this CRT stuff is divisive, discriminatory, and needs to end.
No it wasn’t. Nor does where you claim to be politically mean anything.
Any good teacher would care about the children's feelings. It should be heart breaking to divide children by the color of their skin and antagonize them against each other. Kids are being used as political pawns in issues of race and climate change. They're innocent human beings for crying out loud!
Precisely. We certainly can't allow kids to be friends with each other and not care what race they are now can we? We need victims and oppressors so we can stay in power and be voted back in next term.
What better time to start telling kids they should hate certain people, break up their friendships?
I like the song lyrics-----"hey teacher, leave the kids alone!!!!!"
Maybe this is a matter of semantics, but something is being taught in some grade schools and high schools and parents of all races have been complaining about it because it's teaching kids nothing but resentment and hatred.
I've seen news coverage on this in foreign newspapers. Maybe it's not being covered here.
"CRT" has come to be the new "political correctness." We're all arguing past each other because no one has an agreed upon definition.
The activist who started this whole thing, Rufo, was upset about some corporate diversity training he had to go to. He successfully created a social media movement that became a media movememt that encompassed pretty much any discussion of race in the present under the umbrella pejorative term of "CRT."
Ultimately, discussing race in America will become CRT. You can't segregate race in the past. The moment a student asks "Why does this matter now?" is the moment the conversation dips into at least some of CRT's territory. According to these bans, teaching about the George Floyd incident will be breaking the law. The moment any teacher connects the dots between Floyd's murder and past similar incidents and how racism impacted that, he or she has uttered CRT, and is now a criminal.
That's how ridiculous this all is.
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