Democrats turned our once great public education system into a laughingstock of brainwashed, dumbed down students and pedophile teachers.
Liberalism ultimately results in rot and decay everywhere it goes.
Posted on 07/09/2021 9:39:14 PM PDT by Main Street
Thousands of teachers are pledging to teach critical race theory in the face of state laws seeking to ban it from classrooms.
More than 5,000 educators have signed the Zinn Education Project’s "Pledge to Teach the Truth" since June 21. In the letter, the leftist education group claims the United States was founded on "structural racism and oppression"—tenets of the Marxist-based ideology called critical race theory.
"We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events—regardless of the law," the pledge reads.
Legislatures in several states have passed bills to restrict educators from teaching critical race theory to students. Florida’s education board outright banned teachers from using material from the New York Times’s 1619 Project. Teachers in Idaho are banned from teaching that any race or sex is inherently inferior or superior to another. And Rep. Glenn Grothman (R., Wis.) introduced a bill in the House that would prohibit teachers and students in the District of Columbia from making confessions about inherent racism based on skin color.
Racism is integral to the founding of the United States, the pledge states, and failing to educate students on "the roots of U.S. racism" is deceptive.
"From police violence, to the prison system to the wealth gap, to maternal mortality rates, to housing, to education and beyond, the major institutions and systems of our country are deeply infected with anti-Blackness and its intersection with other forms of oppression," the pledge states. "To not acknowledge this and help students understand the roots of U.S. racism is to deceive them—not educate them."
In addition to listing the names, cities, and states of the pledge’s signatories, the Zinn Education Project posted personalized statements from the teachers.
"I refuse to teach my students an alternate history rewritten by the suppressors in power," Jessica Williams, from Tucson, Ariz., said. "They have the right to learn about the contributions and impact that Black Americans, women, LGBTQ+, Latin/a/ex, Native Tribes, Asian and Pacific Islander, all religions other than Christianity, and all other non-white Europeans have had to America."
The Zinn Education Project did not respond to the Washington Free Beacon’s request for comment in time for publication. The group, which is named after socialist academic Howard Zinn, hopes to receive 6,400 signatures to the pledge. It has so far reached 80 percent of its goal.
Zinn’s website offers lesson plans to the organization’s 130,000 registered educators. The Free Beacon reported that Caneisha Mills, a D.C.-area public school teacher, posted a lesson to the site called the "People’s Tribunal on the Coronavirus Pandemic." The lesson taught students that the U.S. government, racism, and capitalism caused the COVID pandemic. The Zinn Education Project also capitalized on the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol to push for reparations.
Ashley Varner, vice president of communications at the Freedom Foundation, told the Free Beacon that "the Zinn Education Project is basically an organization that provides left-leaning propaganda to teachers to use in their classrooms."
The Zinn Education Project is not alone in its crusade. Two of the nation’s top teachers’ unions have pledged millions of dollars to advance critical race theory in the K-12 classroom. The National Education Association, the country's largest teachers' union, voted to spend $127,600 advancing critical race theory at its annual conference last week. The American Federation of Teachers promised $2.5 million to fund lawsuits against critical race theory bans.
Democrats turned our once great public education system into a laughingstock of brainwashed, dumbed down students and pedophile teachers.
Liberalism ultimately results in rot and decay everywhere it goes.
Schools should stick to teaching the three Rs.
More than 5,000 left-wing indoctrinators who call themselves “teachers” should be in prison.
Race, Radicalism, Redistribution?
They sound like Cult Members or some kind of fanantic.
Not all parents are suited to be Home Schoolers, or can afford pricey private schools. Their choices are limited.
Some feel they have to take the gamble that their local schools won’t be the kind to turn their kids against all these parents value as good.
The three Rs these days are rioting, raping and radicalism.
5000 out of how many teachers in this country? Would be good to know.
fire them.
It is not just ‘democrats’ ... how many ‘republican’ governors and legislators funded ‘common core’... h e l l o ... UNIONS are the death of education....
Does anyone know if these laws provided any penalties for breaking them? Probably not.
This would be a good way to weed out racist teachers.
At least: Summarily fired.
Why do they do it - knowing the possible consequences? Because they think that they are going to win! And will hence be celebrated, one day, as "Heroes of the Revolution."
Regards,
BS. When faced with firing, their sorry behinds will get in line.
I’m old enough to remember Reagan firing the Air Traffic Controllers. Seems to me that these teachers are employed by local school boards who are elected by the parents. So hold them accountable and regularly review what’s being taught.
Looks like an appeal needs to go out to the majority?
One word. Vouchers.
Fire them!!!
The identity politics cultural Marxists of the Left have destroyed it, just like everything they get involved with.
Deconstruction is their stated goal and they have succeeded in deconstructing our educational system and rebuilding it in their image. They have gotten away with this due to parental abdication of responsibility and parental complacency. Parents are going to have to fight t take back their schools
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