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Some school systems pause diversity programs amid pushback
The Associated Press ^ | February 20, 2022 | By CAROLYN THOMPSON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH

Posted on 02/20/2022 10:18:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Conservative takeovers of local school boards have already altered lessons on race and social injustice in many classrooms. Now some districts are finding their broader efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion are also being challenged.

As her Colorado school district’s equity director, Alexis Knox-Miller thought the work she and a volunteer team were doing was on solid ground, especially with an audit in hand that detailed where the district was falling short in making sure all students had the same opportunities.

But in December, Knox-Miller reluctantly disbanded the equity leadership team after more than a year of meetings. New conservative members had won a majority on the school board after voicing doubts about the work, and she worried the efforts might not lead anywhere.

The new board says it will take up the issue in the spring.

“Around the time that the equity audit was being released, I realized that the tide had changed around diversity, equity and inclusion efforts,” Knox-Miller said. “People were conflating the definition of equity with critical race theory, and the absurd accusations that we were teaching critical race theory in classrooms to kindergartners began.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crt; education; equity; race; schools; teachers
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Winning!
1 posted on 02/20/2022 10:18:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

PAUSE!


2 posted on 02/20/2022 10:19:35 AM PST by blam
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“People were(are) conflating the definition of equity with critical race theory...”,

And for very good reasons.


3 posted on 02/20/2022 10:21:24 AM PST by traderrob6 (This is a political)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This will be a major issue in 2022. Go parents!


4 posted on 02/20/2022 10:25:36 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How is “equity” anything to do with anything healthy?

There is no expectation of “equity” in any US foundational documents and there is no way to make up for something having been “unequal” through favored advantage, now, in any fair way, based on perceived wrong of things possibly said or done hundreds of years ago.


5 posted on 02/20/2022 10:25:56 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: traderrob6

My 4 kids have been in CA K-12 and college classrooms every year since 2001. It’s all the same—CRT and “equity” and other left wing crap and it just gets worse every year. (I pulled my last teen from public to private last year but her older brother still goes to Cal State which is the worst of all for that: he has to take global studies, diversity studies, AND ethnic studies. Computer science major.


6 posted on 02/20/2022 10:26:14 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, Winning!


7 posted on 02/20/2022 10:26:33 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The “MOM REVOLUTION” is fighting a battle for America.


8 posted on 02/20/2022 10:28:25 AM PST by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
especially with an audit in hand that detailed where the district was falling short in making sure all students had the same opportunities

In the case of the woke politics of today and in many districts, it's about taking or denying those opportunities to others in order to insure that 'all students had the same opportunities'. IOW, it all works in one direction, and not all students get the same opportunities. A total farce.
9 posted on 02/20/2022 10:29:37 AM PST by adorno
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To: traderrob6

An “equity director”. Really? Well right there’s a way to save a hunert fifty grand a year.


10 posted on 02/20/2022 10:29:39 AM PST by technically right
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To: ConservativeMind

It’s just code for communism.


11 posted on 02/20/2022 10:30:03 AM PST by Sarcazmo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Diversity” = “Anti-White Racism”


12 posted on 02/20/2022 10:34:33 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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...and the absurd accusations that we were teaching critical race theory in classrooms to kindergartners.

Absurd. Uh-huh....

13 posted on 02/20/2022 10:41:22 AM PST by jeffc (Let's Go Brandon!)
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Diversity, equity and inclusion departments have led to a 10-1 liberal to conservative ratio of teachers in colleges.


14 posted on 02/20/2022 10:44:52 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...where the district was falling short in making sure all students had the same opportunities”


I’ve never heard of a public school where all students didn’t have the same opportunities. Unless you mean the opportunity to take calculus when you haven’t learned how to add or subtract. That’s what ‘equity, inclusion and diversity’ is all about. Advanced classes should be open to everyone, regardless of qualification. The calculus class should ‘look like the community’.


15 posted on 02/20/2022 10:46:16 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As a country, WE NEED UNITY, NOT DIVERSITY!


16 posted on 02/20/2022 10:56:37 AM PST by silent majority rising ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A pause means nothing except: “until you turn your back”.

A total refutation is the minimum. A pledge upon taking the oath of office. If that is not required and achieved, YOU have been lied to, again.


17 posted on 02/20/2022 11:02:17 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: hanamizu

Nobody can take advanced classes because that wouldn’t be fair to the slower kids.


18 posted on 02/20/2022 11:11:44 AM PST by Betty Jane
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The new “diversity” is just the old discrimination. You can take that to the bank. Caucasians, Christians, Conservatives and AMERICANS are the targets of the new fascist governments popping up all over the globe, INCLUDING IN THE UNITED STATES.


19 posted on 02/20/2022 11:33:14 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas." - Col. David Crockett to the U.S. Congress.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Equity must be earned by freely exercising your equality.


20 posted on 02/20/2022 12:06:25 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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