Follow up to racially charged LCPS instruction incident in 2019
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Anonymous
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There's been an interesting follow up to this thread, about some racially charged instruction in 2019 Madison's Trust ES in Brambleton:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/786911.page Here is a typical article, from the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/slavery-is-not-a-game-virginia-school-apologizes-over-black-history-month-exercise/2019/02/21/2a9b753c-3630-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html 'An elementary school in Northern Virginia is apologizing for trivializing slavery after students played a game in a physical education class that required them to simulate moving through the Underground Railroad. As part of recognizing Black History Month, students in the third, fourth and fifth grades at Madison’s Trust Elementary in Brambleton, Va., were given a lecture this month about the Underground Railroad. The students were then divided into groups of six and were responsible for overcoming a physical obstacle, such as moving through plastic hoops without knocking them over, said Wayde Byard, a spokesman for Loudoun County Public Schools. “It trivializes something that is important,” Byard said. “There was an error made here. . . . Slavery is not a game.”' From the DCUM thread:
The Daily Wire -- which broke a previous story about student in LCPS charged with multiple rapes -- is reporting that this was the idea that came out of the equity industry: 'The Daily Wire has learned that Equity Collaborative’s owner, Jamie Almanzan, previously worked as Director of Learning and Teaching at Pacific Education Group (PEG), a race consultant that helped push an Underground Railroad role-play lesson. Almazan’s old boss at PEG was Glenn Singleton, author of the 2012 book “More Courageous Conversations About Race” and a leader in “anti-racist” school curricula. Singleton’s book includes a section by Anthony Galloway, who writes that he worked for a school district where “the PEG Beyond Diversity seminar was offered free to all staff… I put together a list of suggestions for districts to partner around including the Underground Railroad experience.”' Further, a local NAACP official had looked at it prior ' In newly obtained records, an LCPS curriculum manager wrote a month prior to the February 2019 incident that Thomas, the local NAACP official and a pastor, had actually vetted a lesson involving slavery role-playing that upset some parents. Thomas, who also ran the Loudoun Freedom Center, was asked to weigh in to help ensure the curriculum was “inclusive and equitable.” “We specifically discussed the activity in question, and Pastor Thomas recommended having the WHOLE class take on one perspective at a time,” Patty Coggins, LCPS’ social science supervisor wrote at the time. “Pastor Michelle also volunteered to speak to any African American parents who had questions about our approach to tackling these sensitive, yet vital conversations and activities.' The teacher and principal were hung out to dry, Thomas joined the protestors, apparently without mentioning her previous role, and LCPS ponied up for a few hundred thousand in diversity training, which is arguably what got them into this mess in the first place. Daily Wire article here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/racist-incident-that-triggered-virginia-schools-woke-revolution-linked-to-anti-racist-consultants HotAir summary, for the short on time: https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/05/04/the-true-story-behind-a-racist-incident-at-a-virginia-elementary-school-is-really-remarkable-n467042 |
Anonymous
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I am so sick and tired of our schools constantly pushing the CRT / 1619 agenda on our kids. Enough already!
Schools need to return to focusing on academics, and leave politics out of public education. |
Anonymous
Do tell. |
Anonymous
Already answered: CRT/1619 Project. |
Anonymous
| Thank you for posting this. I am so sad that there are people in the world who are using the tragedy of racism for their own personal gain. |
Anonymous
The lesson WAS focusing on academics. Teaching about the reasons for an operation of the Underground Railroad is part of Virginia Studies SOL 4.9c: "The demonstrate an understanding of the issues that divided our nation and led to the Civil War by describing the roles of American Indians, whites, enslaved Africans, and free African Americans." The controversy was in the "gamifying" of the topic and having students role-play as enslaved people. |
Anonymous
Grow up. Enjoy religious school or homeschool. |
Anonymous
| I like how the NAACP played both sides of the issue, both recommending the school give the lesson then demanding a settlement when the school actually goes through with it. |
Anonymous
Yeah, no. I will work with other parents to return sanity to NOVA schools, and scrap political indoctrination like the 1619 Project / CRT. Schools should focus on academic topics, not politics. |