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.
When the black felons who stay in schools just to cause trouble hurt a white kid,sue the school and the teacher..Make your millions.....
Fire and arrest the bastards for breaking the law.
The only thing schools teach now is hatred of America.
Teachers are employees.
If they violate their employers policies and specific instructions FIRE THEM!
Everything democrats touch they destroy.
WE, the undersigned, will take ALL OF OUR CHILDREN out of public school.
That is what should happen and if I had school age children that is EXACTLY what I would do.
WTH are these creatures with such control over our CHILDREN.
Make no mistake, teachers of today are mostly perverts.
Fire them.
Kids cannot do math or language skills anymore.
Teachers in the public system are useless.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have thousands of ex-teachers on the “Bread Line”?
One of the signers is Yuge Trumpfan....hmmm. How did that happen ;)
I know it’s unfashionable to discuss facts, but based on their own 1619 timeframe their beef is with the English, French and Spanish.
And, to be honest, American Indians. And especially Central American Indians.
Exactly. Take a page from PATCO. These idiots should have learned from them. I don’t think there was much love lost between USAF controllers and FAA controllers. They caused a lot of disruptions to USAF and USN lives, through forced deployments. I would have been deployed too, except I was already overseas. These teachers are skanks.
They are useful idiots and will be the first ones lined up against the wall and executed for treason. The communists don’t trust them either.
I think it’s too late to fight these Communists. We have let them take over our country step by step. We thought they were fools we could swat down like flies. Now we have become a carcass.
I agree 100% However, too many parents are apathetic. It may be too late.
they do: Rioting, Rumbling, and Mo Rioting
JUST UPLOADED A 4 MINUTE VIDEO ON THE LEFT’S BLUEPRINT FOR ERECTING A MARXIST TYRANNY ATOP THE WRECKAGE OF THE FOUNDERS’ AMERICA!
https://www.brighteon.com/d4e3ee4a-177c-4a97-81ed-c8f1c4448ea6
Please share it. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re damn near out of time to STOP THEM!
Funny how people who are paid by the taxpayers, work in a public capacity can stand there and say, “Eff you all, we’ll do what we want”.
Industrial strength in your face arrogance.
OMG, that's waycissss! [/lib mode]
#1 children don’t need to be tought to be racist.
#2 Restore history and civics in classrooms.
#4 this country qas founded by the british and they were VERY snooty and holier than though in addition to being deceptive and dis honest. Some are still that way.
During the French and Indian wars, they fought side by side against the British. French are white and British are white but it’s wrong to confuse the two.
Later, the Scotch and Irish came over in the 1840’s because of the potato famine. They weren’t well treated either, yet, they too are white. The problem wasn’t whitness. The problem was British attitudes and traditions.
You don’t get rid of racism of any kind by calling out any race to low man on the totem pole.
But their goal isn’t to eliminate racism, it’s to increase it and to persecute the chosen race of the racists targets.
If it was wrong of the British to mistreat people, what makes it right for anyone to mistreat others, today?
Fire those teachers who have no regard for law. Revoke their state issued licenses. Easy fix.
Well time to re-visit the lessons learned by the air traffic controllers by Reagan. The governors of the states who have banned such lessons should review the petition and fire the insubordinate teachers. If it’s law, then they should also face prosecution. They seem to think they run the schools. Run ‘em out of town on a rail.
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