Here’s the thing. It has gone beyond “teaching” and is now indoctrination.
When teachers are telling second graders that they are racist because they’re white (as was observed during distance learning this Spring) then it is not teaching about the past, it is indoctrinating them. Telling a young, impressionable child that they and their parents, and their whole family are racists and that only white people can be racists is not education.
You want to teach about slavery and its ills – I support that. You want to teach about lynchings and Jim Crow (which I learned all about in my high school 30+ years ago in a school of 1200 with only 1 black kid (who called himself “Token” and who is now a police officer – imagine that) I support that.
But the sh!t that is being spouted out of the mouths of teachers on the orders of the administrators is disgusting and vile. Who the F@CK does that to children?
I love watching black parents get up at these school council meetings and reading the riot act to the all white school committee about how freaking stupid and wrong this nonsense is.
This whole “critical race theory” is predominantly pushed by privileged white people, the only ones of a minority skin tone I see pushing it are on TV shows or in the media.
Here’s the thing. It has gone beyond “teaching” and is now indoctrination.
When teachers are telling second graders that they are racist because they’re white (as was observed during distance learning this Spring) then it is not teaching about the past, it is indoctrinating them. Telling a young, impressionable child that they and their parents, and their whole family are racists and that only white people can be racists is not education.
You want to teach about slavery and its ills – I support that. You want to teach about lynchings and Jim Crow (which I learned all about in my high school 30+ years ago in a school of 1200 with only 1 black kid (who called himself “Token” and who is now a police officer – imagine that) I support that.
But the sh!t that is being spouted out of the mouths of teachers on the orders of the administrators is disgusting and vile. Who the F@CK does that to children?
I love watching black parents get up at these school council meetings and reading the riot act to the all white school committee about how freaking stupid and wrong this nonsense is.
This whole “critical race theory” is predominantly pushed by privileged white people, the only ones of a minority skin tone I see pushing it are on TV shows or in the media.