Minnesota's changes to teacher licensing requirements includes
"Consistent with the local curriculum and state and local academic standards, the teacher creates demonstrates the ability to create opportunities for students to learn about power, privilege, intersectionality, and systemic oppression in the context of various communities and empowers learners to be agents of social change to promote equity." |
It's terrible writing. |
Yes. |
Lol no |
Technically no, but it’s what people are referring to when they talk about CRT in k-12 education.
A lot of parents don’t think public schools should teach students to be “agents of social change”. They expect their kids to be taught skills like math and reading, and facts like science and social studies. Creating social change agents seems outside of that mission. |
Maybe not CRT but the term “intersectionality” is a buzzword for woke pablum. |
I’m pretty liberal, but my eyes automatically roll when I hear that word. |
It’s not CRT based on the definition the politicians and administrators saying CRT doesn’t exist outside of graduate school use. It is CRT based on the definition that everyone else uses |
This is where it gets hairy. A lot of what's being taught in social studies is not facts but someone's interpretation of facts, especially in k-12. |
No. And sounds good to me. |
It's always been that way. Just go through any social studies lesson in your head and pull out all everything other than verifiable facts and you aren't left with much. |
It’s jargon but it just means everyone has their own experiences with discrimination and consideration should be given to things that affect marginalized people. It rubs some white people the wrong way because they have never experienced discrimination and can’t relate. They also probably consider themselves to be good people and can’t separate that from acknowledging the system is set up to benefit them, which is why they can’t relate to the discrimination marginalized people experience. |
They can do both. If we don’t start dismantling the patriarchy and white supremacy baked into our society in elementary school, we won’t make progress as a country. |
Contradict much? |
No it is not CRT
Stop trying to make an issue when there is none VA on the other hand taking MLK and Obama out of history WTF? |