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Los Angeles public schools training teachers that 'merit,' 'individualism' rooted in 'whiteness'
Fox News via yahoo.com ^ | July 5, 2022 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 07/06/2022 7:43:48 AM PDT by grundle

The Los Angeles Unified School District is training teachers and staff that "merit" and "individualism" are concepts rooted in "whiteness" that must be challenged in schools.

LAUSD required all employees to undergo "implicit/unconscious bias training" guided by Tyrone Howard, a critical race theory advocate and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, prior to the 2021-2022 school year.

The training materials, which were obtained by Fox News Digital through a California Public Records Act (PRA) request, instructed educators to work toward being "antiracist" by challenging whiteness at school, which Howard argued exists in the concepts of "merit" and "individualism."

"This idea that white is the standard, white is the norm, white is our default has to be challenged," Howard said in the training video.

Merit, or meritocracy, "assumes that each person operates and achieves based on his or her own personal capacity," the training handout reads. "It incorporates the notion that the work put forth, the effort invested, explains why some groups and individuals do well and others do not. It does not consider historical factors or account for opportunities, advantages, and privileges to which some groups have access both historically and in the present."

"The idea of meritocracy," Howard said in the video, "I think we have to challenge that because we have to recognize that some groups have had much more opportunities, some groups have had far more advantages, and some groups have certain types of privileges that other groups have not had."

Meanwhile, individualism, according to the training handout, "proposes that each person is responsible for his or her outcomes. It is very much tied to merit, wherein group responsibility and accountability are not goals. Personal success and achievement are the goals. This belief operates from a survival-of-the-fittest approach that stresses singular pursuit and accomplishment."

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1 posted on 07/06/2022 7:43:48 AM PDT by grundle
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The Los Angeles Unified School District is training teachers and staff that "merit" and "individualism" are concepts rooted in "whiteness"

I want to be more white. They are promoting white supremacy in an obtuse way.

2 posted on 07/06/2022 7:47:45 AM PDT by PGR88 (<i>)
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To: grundle

Everything about race..........
Sh*t going to backfire hard on these Leftist whackos, its building and its coming.


3 posted on 07/06/2022 7:47:54 AM PDT by cranked
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To: grundle

“ The Los Angeles Unified School District is training teachers and staff that “merit” and “individualism” are concepts rooted in “whiteness”

Gee whiz. They say that like it’s a bad thing.


4 posted on 07/06/2022 7:49:35 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: grundle

I wonder when blacks are going to figure out that liberals such as this “professor” are actually claiming that blacks are inferior???????


5 posted on 07/06/2022 7:53:32 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: grundle

Once again. Who put these lunatic psychologists in charge of our civilization?


6 posted on 07/06/2022 7:53:41 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: grundle

George Washington Carver somehow missed that lesson. . . .


7 posted on 07/06/2022 7:56:08 AM PDT by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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To: PGR88

So non whites don’t like merit or to be treated as individuals?

I’ll take this ‘whiteness’ all day long.


8 posted on 07/06/2022 7:56:13 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: grundle
I guess that explains whey Asian students excel and are usually at the top academically. Because you know, Asians have never been oppressed.   /s

9 posted on 07/06/2022 8:03:31 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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White supremacy directly and irrefutably implies inequality of others.


10 posted on 07/06/2022 8:05:14 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro-Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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Must be those white Asians.


11 posted on 07/06/2022 8:05:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: grundle

In the long run, they would, if all goes in their favor, send white people to Auschwitz or the California equivalent in Bakersfield or Victorville.


12 posted on 07/06/2022 8:06:43 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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“This idea that white is the standard, white is the norm, white is our default has to be challenged”

China agrees!

;-)


13 posted on 07/06/2022 8:07:37 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: grundle

Oh, yeah, Gavin; Floridians are going to flock to Kali in response to your ads, just to be sure their kids are properly indoctrinated in woke.


14 posted on 07/06/2022 8:11:33 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("hold my phone; I'm from Alaska")
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To: grundle

LA was


15 posted on 07/06/2022 8:12:53 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: grundle

The more stupid kids graduating, the better. Can be more easily controlled and manipulated.


16 posted on 07/06/2022 8:15:06 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: grundle

What are the concepts of blackness or hispanicness or asianness that must be challenged in schools?


17 posted on 07/06/2022 8:18:14 AM PDT by jughandle
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Teaching the losers that losing is an admirable goal and that ever making anything of yourself is evil.

Yep, that'll make the world a better place....they'll be starving in less than a generation asking me for my 'stuff.'

18 posted on 07/06/2022 8:19:26 AM PDT by blam
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To: grundle

The time has come for separation of school and state.


19 posted on 07/06/2022 8:21:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: grundle

In other words, “All you are and ever will be is your race and sex. You are not unique. You are one of many, and not special, undeserving of being nurtured.”

That’s what I hear when I read things like this.


20 posted on 07/06/2022 8:22:56 AM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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