Posted on 06/13/2021 7:11:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
... Laws setting guiderails for classroom instruction on race passed this year in Republican-controlled states have left some teachers worried about how they will be enforced. Particularly in districts with large numbers of people of color, educators say they worry everyday discussions about students’ experiences could land teachers in hot water.
In response to a push for culturally responsive teaching that gained steam following last year’s police killing of George Floyd, Republican lawmakers and governors have championed legislation to limit the teaching of material that explores how race and racism influence American politics, culture and law. The measures have become law in Tennessee, Idaho and Oklahoma and bills have been introduced in over a dozen other states.
Professional teachers associations and some school boards have blasted the laws as disrespecting teachers’ judgment and opening the door to censorship.
“This is an assault on the craft of teaching,” said Paschall, who is Black. “It’s asking me to show up and ignore parts of my own identity.”
Bianca Martinez, a sixth-grade English teacher in Memphis, points to the difficult conversations her students brought up last year when the class read “Brown Girl Dreaming,” a young adult novel on growing up Black in the 1960s in South Carolina and New York.
“In my lesson plans, I didn’t have language that said ‘critical race theory,’ ‘systematic racism,’ or ‘privilege’,” she said. “But those conversations came up and they’re going to continue to happen.”
“My question is, how are you going to police that?” Martinez said. “And what does violating the measure mean?”
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Then the teachers can leave the profession and teach their racism and hate elsewhere.
This is NOT an accredited theory and has no rational or logical basis.
Just stop talking about race. Seems pretty simple to me. More accurate to talk about tribal or culture differences, which don’t have anything to do with skin tone.
Teachers who demand “academic freedom” but deny free speech to their students.
And the ones who aren’t wary are afraid to speak up.
If they can’t teach kids to hate white people or that blacks are perpetual victims how can they teach at all?
Are teachers free NOT to teach CRT?
This experience has informed my thinking a great deal and the last thing I ever want is public school teachers being responsible for instructing children on how they should think about corrosive issues like race.
Hire new teachers
Great to have laws banning CRT, but only we EXPEL the monsters that we’re subjecting our kids too, nothing will change, they’ll just impose CRT by other names, or under the radar, which is EXACTLY what they’ve done with Whole Language Reading, which was been fully discredited and extensively prohibit, but continues in force in most districts, under other names (such as Sight Words).
Bottom line - these ‘victories’ for our side are pyrrhic only, at least for now and the near future.
“Discussions about race” have replace reading, writing and rithmatic, which no longer matter in today’s schools.
Get your kids out. Get them out now. And don’t look back.
Don’t feed the beast.
This is what we did.
“This is an assault on the craft of teaching,” said Paschall, who is Black. “It’s asking me to show up and ignore parts of my own identity.”
So quit. I’m sure with the wide range of corporations jumping on the CRT bandwagon jobs aplenty are out there for you.
How about Math, Science, English, History, and some computer/tech classes?
Prosecute CRT under Civil Rights Act 1964
I’m ok with the conversation IF it’s in the proper context.
From the AP. Communist Propaganda!
Since when do teachers teach anything at all about race? Do these leftists teachers think they belong to an advanced priesthood that compels them to pontificate to the underlings? These fools confuse evangelizing their leftist ideology for actually doing their job as expected by the taxpayers, which is preparing students by teaching prescribed courses.
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