Posted on 01/31/2022 7:29:26 AM PST by karpov
During the 2020 fall semester, Kali Fontanilla—a high school English language teacher working in the Salinas, California, school district—noticed that many of her students were failing one of their other classes: ethnic studies. This was at the height of the pandemic, and instruction was entirely online, leaving many students in the lurch. Still, Fontanilla thought it was odd to see so many Fs.
Salinas has a majority Mexican population; all of Fontanilla's students were Hispanic and were learning English as a second language. Education officials who propose adding ethnic studies to various curriculums—and making it mandatory, as the Salinas school district did—typically intend for privileged white students to learn about other cultures. There's a certain irony in requiring members of an ethnic minority to study this, and an even greater irony in the fact that such students were struggling intensely with the course.
"My students are failing ethnic studies," says Fontanilla, who is of Jamaican ancestry. "I would say half of them are failing this ethnic studies class."
This made Fontanilla curious about what the course was teaching. All of the high school's teachers used the same online platform to post lesson plans and course materials, so Fontanilla decided to take a look. She was shocked by what she saw.
"This was like extreme left brainwashing of these kids," says Fontanilla. "Critical race theory all throughout the lessons, from start to finish. The whole thing."
Critical race theory, or CRT, has become a flashpoint in the debate about what kids ought to be learning in public schools. Originally an obscure, left-wing body of thought that mostly appeared in graduate schools, critics charge it with influencing diversity workshops for major corporations, training seminars for teachers, and even K-12 curricula.
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Ethnic kids fail Ethnic Studies. LOLOL.
I can imagine how Asians, who have no reason to be falsely made to feel guilty, would deal with Communist race-baiting theories.
I would make the argument....a Hispanic kid isn’t a victim or a perpetrator. So ‘Juan’ is sitting there...motivated and happy to be in America, and just wants a piece of the action (a job). The teacher is sitting there and trying to make Juan for so-sorry, when he hasn’t done anything. Then the teacher might try to make Juan feel ‘black’ so he’s worse-off than everyone.
Juan just isn’t going to buy off on this garbage.
Here’s a challenge: name the race that isn’t guilty. There is no pure race. That is what the nazis believed.
It is one thing to learn *about* CRT, and another to put it into practice. In either case, the concept is corrupt and ought to be treated as such.
What about that kid ‘Fez’ from The Seventies Show...from the unnamed country and never guilty of anything except sloppy English.
I do agree...this whole guilt trip has drifted off into a four-star joke.
The very first ones to flee the public schools - if they even attended at all - for private or homeschooling.
And, CRT and "ethnic studies" wasn't intended for "privileged White students to learn about other cultures" it was to humiliate White students and make them responsible for all the ills in the world.
Hispanics aren’t a different race. They are a language group. Hello. Spain. European.
However they can recognize that lefties are the ones saying pocs are inferior and need special help from white liberals. Hispanics couldn’t possibly succeed on their own. Oh no. They need Pelosi and Hitlery to help them. Disgusting.
Here’s a challenge: name the race that
isn’t guilty. There is no pure race.
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Yep too many wood piles scattered
around in which to have fun. Just
be careful of the splinters.
“Mexican Americans love education so they go to night school
And they take Spanish and get a B.”
-Cheech Marin
And they take Spanish and get a B
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Heck I took English and was lucky to get a C.
Shouldn’t even be ethnic studies courses in K-12.
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On a more positive note, I'm very happy with the Duolingo Spanish course. It is orders of magnitude better than what was crammed down my throat in junior high school. California schools have a legal requirement to teach Spanish under an old treaty. They do it poorly. I don't know how CA public schools rate on English as a Second Language. Duolingo has a great program for that too.
Kali Fontanilla ....of direct Jamaican ancestry and somewhat comely ....is pretty brave as a teacher in Kali fighting this crap.
She has since left kalifornia for Florida a a result..
No habla engles. Been hearing that since jr high.
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