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.
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5,00 out of over 3 million Teachers!!!! And this is plastered all over the news!!!!! Liberals hard at work Brainwashing Liberals watching the Liberal news.
5,00 out of over 3 million Teachers!!!! And this is plastered all over the news!!!!! Liberals hard at work Brainwashing Liberals watching the Liberal news.
5,00 out of over 3 million Teachers!!!! And this is plastered all over the news!!!!! Liberals hard at work Brainwashing Liberals watching the Liberal news.
Groups in every state should create a “CRT Teachers” list/chart by state/city/school with their names and photos if possible (school yearbooks are a good place to find them).
Keep it updated as names appear in the media, meetings, on the media, etc.
Let them know that we are watching them closely and know who they are.
Possible names for the project, to be used nationwide could include:
“CRT Teacher Watch”
“CRT Marxist Teachers Watch”
“CRT Marxist teachers/Zinn Project Watch”
You can have a website/project known as “The CRT Marxist School/Teachers of **** School, state/city/county”.
Make sure that the names are those put out publicly or are found on CRT/AFT/NFT materials, not those you think are CRT teachers.
For example, Caneisha Mills, a self-identified DC teacher should turn out to be a Marxist/Stalinist based on earlier references to her and being associated with the Stalinist “Workers World Party”.
A couple good places to search for names and data are:
* www.DiscoverTheNetworks.org
* www.keywiki.org
* WWP website and fronts site (IAC - International Action Center); ANSWER - Act Now to Stop War and End Racism; split-off faction - “Party of Socialism and Liberation” (PSL); and something like the “Peoples Popular Voice”, esp. out of Baltimore which is largely run by old Stalinist/Trot “Sharon Black” of Charles Village area off of the Charles Street area.
Tar and feather their sorry asses first.
Every single one of them should be fired, and banned from being around children, including their own.
This declaration demonstrates that if parents send their children to public schools they are deciding to have them indoctrinated in Marxism.
Ironically it puts another nail in the coffin of public schooling and thus gives the country a ray of hope.
Example: Chaneisha Mills (ANSWER coordinator) was identified at the www.DiscoverTheNetwork (or Networks).org site as of 4/25/2006 as a key activist in the “Party for Socialism and Liberation” - URL: http://socialismandliberation.org/PSLsite/
Fire each and every refusnik.
And keep doing it until morale improves.
Well ...if they signed the pledge then it shouldn’t be all that difficult to identify them and the schools they teach in.
Agreed - I still think vouchers are worth an issuing going after hard more than most others in the long run
Am I the only one that sees a good thing that they will show themselves?
Yes, they will show themselves...but will continue the brainwashing & indoctrination.
Leftists have no shame.
they’re spending their way out of their jobs as more and more parents will say, I’ll homeschool, thank you.
Nice of them to create a black list for us. Expel them from the classrooms!
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A camera should be placed in every classroom and content streamed over the local cable access channels. There’s plenty of bandwidth. Teachers can’t be trusted.
Precisely.
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