Posted on 07/21/2021 3:44:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
“George Washington was an evil man! He’s not a hero. You need to take that picture down,” my 13-year-old daughter admonished my brother, while standing in his home. “He slaughtered Native Americans and owned slaves. My social studies teacher taught me all about him.”
“And you are sending your kids to that school?” my brother asked. I shook my head and vowed to investigate while gazing at his copy of “The Prayer at Valley Forge” by Arnold Friberg. It has always been one of my favorite works of art, and in our family, the portrait is symbolic of the power of prayer and what it means to be an American.
I would not condemn my daughter’s instructor until I knew the whole story. However, I could not get over her dismissal of Washington’s role as a Revolutionary War hero and his place in history as the first president of the United States.
In our family, this was the opening of the Critical Race Theory can of worms in the Olentangy Local School District, a system that began as a one-room schoolhouse in the early 1900s and grew to be Ohio’s sixth largest public school system.
As it turns out, my daughter’s teacher, a self-proclaimed lover of “hard history,” is a disciple of anti-racist teaching. Parents in our community have testified that they do not object to lesson plans presenting multiple perspectives of history and they support diversity training; they disagree when instructors present revisionist history as fact and disavow the United States Constitution. Unfortunately, this seems to be lost on educators like my daughter’s teacher, who tweets praise for activists such as Hasan Kwami Jeffries, an Ohio State University professor who was contracted by OLSD to provide professional development.
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Your 13 year old daughter is an ignorant brat!
I would have told her that, Colleen. And pulled her out of that school, post haste!
A very good read. I, too, have ‘They Prayer at Valley Forge” Now, more than ever...
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My daughter and her friends are comrades in arms with the Olentangy parents; they are now circulating recall petitions in Loudon County VA.
Keep showing up at YOUR local school board meetings and keep fighting the cancer that is CRT.
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