Posted on 07/05/2021 4:35:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber
To the surprise of no one who’s been paying attention, the National Education Association (“NEA”) has formally embraced Critical Race Theory as the goal for public schools across America. This is the culmination of a decades’ long march towards communism on the part of the men and women who are responsible for educating America’s children. Education has been thrown on the dust heap of history, with Marxist indoctrination front and center on the curricula.
I must admit to being prejudiced because I’ve been watching this leftward march amongst teachers for decades. My father was a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He invariably returned home from union meetings absolutely livid.
Dad’s complaint was that, while the unions ought to have been concerned with improving working conditions in his very rundown school district, they were instead focused on ensuring that Black and Hispanic students were incapable of becoming successful in American society. The two most pernicious ideas – and, mind you, this was in the 1970s -- were that Black and Hispanic students shouldn’t be punished because it was racist and that Blacks should be taught in their native tongues: Ebonics for Black students and Spanish for Hispanic students.
My German Jewish father, a refugee from the Nazis, was routinely shouted down as a Nazi for standing up in meetings and saying that these ideas were lunacy. The first destroyed the classroom experience for those who wished to learn, while the second, if implemented, meant that Blacks and Hispanics would never speak the language of money and achievement. Fortunately, ordinary Californians – including most Blacks – put the kybosh on Ebonics and Spanish-language education. The decision not to discipline disruptive minority students, however, took hold and indeed made it impossible for dedicated students to learn.
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These teachers that embrace CRT must be filled with such hate that they do not care about how they are damaging their students.
These would mainly be white teachers I assume.
Get your kids away from these unionized teachers.
public school enrollment is down - tip of the iceberg.
They are not teachers. They are far left extremists and propagandists on a jihad to destroy America, even as they fill their pockets with vast amounts of tax payers money, while leaving most of their students uneducated, ignorant and dangerous to society.
Nope. The black teachers are equally bad if not worse on CRT.
Abolishing the department of Education would be a good first start.
Yup. Followed by smashing the teachers unions.
It is time to show the POSs who’s the boss. That would be us taxpayers. They can demand CRT. We can demand the end of all public service unions, particularly the NEA. We can demand that teachers who embrace CRT are fired and never teach again. We can demand that education degrees disqualifies anyone from teaching. I’m serious about this last one. It gets at the heart of the issue. Teachers are indoctrinated when they go to college. The indoctrination continues when taxpayers subsidize advanced degrees in education and on-going training. Ask any homeschooling family if an education degree is required to teach. The answer will be no. Homeschoolers achieve academically far more than their government school counter parts. It is time to destroy the education establishment. We start with everything they hold dear.
Well parents should demand all teacher get monthly criminal and mental check ups. And wear ankle monitoring devices 24/7
No cultural Marxism, no race hustling, no socialism and no indoctrination in schools.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 obligates schools to address conduct that is:
• Severe, pervasive, or persistent.
• Creates a hostile environment at school. That is, it is sufficiently serious that it interferes with or limits a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by a school.
• Based on a student’s race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or religion (covered under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964).
Anyone can report harassing behavior to a school. When a school receives a complaint, administration must take immediate and appropriate action to investigate or otherwise determine what happened, including:
• Conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial inquiry
• Interview targeted students, offending students, and witnesses; maintain written documentation of the investigation
• Take steps reasonably calculated to end harassment, if investigation shows it has occurred, including eliminating any aspects of a hostile environment, preventing harassment from recurring, and preventing retaliation against the targeted student(s) or complainant(s)
• Communicate with targeted students and/or complainants regarding steps taken to end harassment
• Check in with targeted students to ensure that harassment has ceased
Protecting each student’s right to a safe learning environment requires everyone—educators, students, and parents—to respect each other’s differences and work together to stop harassment.
I retired from teaching in May. I had self contained special needs kids. Our only dilemma was whether to sing “baby shark” or roll down to the cafeteria and say hi to the kitchen staff & get a treat.
****************************It is time to show the POSs who’s the boss. That would be us taxpayers. They can demand CRT. We can demand the end of all public service unions, particularly the NEA. We can demand that teachers who embrace CRT are fired and never teach again. We can demand that education degrees disqualifies anyone from teaching. I’m serious about this last one. It gets at the heart of the issue. Teachers are indoctrinated when they go to college. The indoctrination continues when taxpayers subsidize advanced degrees in education and on-going training. Ask any homeschooling family if an education degree is required to teach. The answer will be no. Homeschoolers achieve academically far more than their government school counter parts. It is time to destroy the education establishment. We start with everything they hold dear.
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In a most cogent way, you have described the situation. Thank you!
I think the division began even before I went to high school...some 70 years ago. Thank god we had moved to Mill Valley, CA by then and my first two years of high school were bliss...all races of us kids who didn’t know the difference and exalted in what we did well. By then I was reading broadly, loving math, playing a clarinet (the first of 11 I eventually learned to play) and was enthusiastically involved in “sports”.
But it was not all that way in school. I had had a difficult scholastic childhood from grade 1 to 5. My PTSD was severe from our experiences in a concentration camp in the Philippine Islands. I could NOT calm my brain and visions and learn to read. Then I had a Catholic nun who “fixed” me by watching me “read”. She did not comment on my very odd way of “reading” but had me tell her what I thought I had read. I did and after that schooling was duck soup.
After loving Mill Valley, my dad moved us to Fairfax, also within Marin County. What a shock to me...huge amounts of money spent on clothes and shoes and “belonging”. No concerns about my femaleness being interested in physics...just ways to avoid it. I was so disgusted and joined the Navy within two weeks of HS graduation.
ON a later note: My own kids were scholastically destroyed, literally, by their terrible public schooling in the 1960s and 70s. My husband and I, busy with our own educational process, didn’t recognize the symptoms until it was much too late.
I will never be able to apologize enough to them.
The NEA and all Teachers Unions need to be abolished. That’ll eliminate a majority of problems and then the institutions that brainwash the teachers who indoctrinate the kids need to be dismantled.
Sounds like it’s time to take out the trash.
They want to inflict incredible damage, although they being like this tells me that they already are.
Thank you for calling it like it is.
I run into people up here and they’ll say they’re a school teacher as if it’s some thing to be proud of. I’ve met the very odd one who is decent, but for the most part they are as you described.
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