For those of you who were so scared of the CRT bogeyman

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure why this surprises you OP. Hillsdale is a very conservative college and of course their perspectives on education are quite different than what the progressives advocate for. If you really want to make a difference in public education, I suggest running for school board or becoming a teacher instead of ranting on anonymous forums.

[Anonymous]

NP. Posting here is valuable if it informs people what Youngkin plans to do with public schools. He has pushed through lab schools with private and religious entities that would get state money. State republicans pulled a Mitch McConnell and blocked Northam’s BoE appointees so Youngkin got to name 5 instead of two and they will have the power to instill this type of inane Hillsdale curriculum in our schools or ban books and concepts like TX and FL or survey political beliefs of educators like FL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure why this surprises you OP. Hillsdale is a very conservative college and of course their perspectives on education are quite different than what the progressives advocate for. If you really want to make a difference in public education, I suggest running for school board or becoming a teacher instead of ranting on anonymous forums.

Better aim higher. The whole point of the charter movement is an end run around local school boards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. Posting here is valuable if it informs people what Youngkin plans to do with public schools. He has pushed through lab schools with private and religious entities that would get state money. State republicans pulled a Mitch McConnell and blocked Northam’s BoE appointees so Youngkin got to name 5 instead of two and they will have the power to instill this type of inane Hillsdale curriculum in our schools or ban books and concepts like TX and FL or survey political beliefs of educators like FL.

Fortunately state democrats responded by doing what democrats do best- whining that the other side cheated while not doing the same

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Posting here is valuable if it informs people what Youngkin plans to do with public schools. He has pushed through lab schools with private and religious entities that would get state money. State republicans pulled a Mitch McConnell and blocked Northam’s BoE appointees so Youngkin got to name 5 instead of two and they will have the power to instill this type of inane Hillsdale curriculum in our schools or ban books and concepts like TX and FL or survey political beliefs of educators like FL.

Fortunately state democrats responded by doing what democrats do best- whining that the other side cheated while not doing the same

Is that what it takes to bring back sanity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure why this surprises you OP. Hillsdale is a very conservative college and of course their perspectives on education are quite different than what the progressives advocate for. If you really want to make a difference in public education, I suggest running for school board or becoming a teacher instead of ranting on anonymous forums.

Fwiw I am op and a teacher. Thank you for the unsolicited career advice. The point was that this is going to be the norm if people don’t start to vote/show better respect to educators.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Posting here is valuable if it informs people what Youngkin plans to do with public schools. He has pushed through lab schools with private and religious entities that would get state money. State republicans pulled a Mitch McConnell and blocked Northam’s BoE appointees so Youngkin got to name 5 instead of two and they will have the power to instill this type of inane Hillsdale curriculum in our schools or ban books and concepts like TX and FL or survey political beliefs of educators like FL.

Fortunately state democrats responded by doing what democrats do best- whining that the other side cheated while not doing the same

Is that what it takes to bring back sanity?

They could have blocked Youngkin's appointments, but they choose to just complain.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/09/controversy-teachers-dumbest-colleges/

“Hillsdale College — which Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called “a shining city on a hill” and which hired his activist wife, Ginni Thomas, to help establish a full-time presence in the nation’s capital — has became an important force in that movement under the leadership of Arnn, who has allied himself with former president Donald Trump. The college has helped launch dozens of “classical” charter schools across the country (Hillsdale doesn’t own or operate the schools but trains faculty and staff and shares curriculum) — and, now, at Lee’s invitation, Hillsdale is helping to open at least 50 charter schools in Tennessee. Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated.”

“The charter schools use a Hillsdale K-12 curriculum that is centered on Western civilization and designed to help “students acquire a mature love for America.” A Hillsdale K-12 civics and U.S. history curriculum released last year extols conservative values, attacks progressive ones and distorts civil rights history, saying, for example: “The civil rights movement was almost immediately turned into programs that ran counter to the lofty ideals of the Founders.” Hillsdale College itself offers a “classical liberal arts core” to its students; the website lists more than 30 authors and thinkers that students will encounter — nearly all of them White men”

While there is still not a single K-12 school that teaches CRT, conservatives are openly attacking education and rewriting history. On one hand, I’m impressed they were able to make Dems out as CRT monsters while they were the ones doing the actual manipulating of history. On the other, I’m so embarrassed for my friends and fellow voters in VA that fell for it.

Ummmm... thanks but... my kids don't go to charter schools

But if you live in Virginia, this is what Glenn Youngkin is trying to do to schools. He preyed on white moms who were scared about their kids' education during the pandemic and now he's taking advantage of them and using them to set his own agenda. You'll see the changes this year.

This is all part of the GOP master plan which includes curtailing women's civil rights and providing indoctrination for the Christian Theocracy.

Yup.

Good bye, good public schools. Property values. Tax revenue from businesses.

Hope it was all worth it over a non-existent issue.

My property values aren't good because of my school. I'd love these charter schools that you're threatening. How can I send my kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure why this surprises you OP. Hillsdale is a very conservative college and of course their perspectives on education are quite different than what the progressives advocate for. If you really want to make a difference in public education, I suggest running for school board or becoming a teacher instead of ranting on anonymous forums.

Better aim higher. The whole point of the charter movement is an end run around local school boards.

Of course. OP should vote for or donate money to anti-charter politicians if they are against charter schools. Does this really need to be said.

Either way I’m not sure what emotional rants about Hillsdale on an anonymous moms board is going to solve. Oh right, OP will feel better about themselves by public venting that changes nothing and influences no one.

[Anonymous]

the people that are worried about a future with all charters should maybe look at DC for a split second, where half the kids go to charters. And many of those charters have what could be called significantly left-leaning ideologies. I don't think that's bad, and I think it provides people who want that to send their kids to that type of environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/09/controversy-teachers-dumbest-colleges/

“Hillsdale College — which Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called “a shining city on a hill” and which hired his activist wife, Ginni Thomas, to help establish a full-time presence in the nation’s capital — has became an important force in that movement under the leadership of Arnn, who has allied himself with former president Donald Trump. The college has helped launch dozens of “classical” charter schools across the country (Hillsdale doesn’t own or operate the schools but trains faculty and staff and shares curriculum) — and, now, at Lee’s invitation, Hillsdale is helping to open at least 50 charter schools in Tennessee. Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated.”

“The charter schools use a Hillsdale K-12 curriculum that is centered on Western civilization and designed to help “students acquire a mature love for America.” A Hillsdale K-12 civics and U.S. history curriculum released last year extols conservative values, attacks progressive ones and distorts civil rights history, saying, for example: “The civil rights movement was almost immediately turned into programs that ran counter to the lofty ideals of the Founders.” Hillsdale College itself offers a “classical liberal arts core” to its students; the website lists more than 30 authors and thinkers that students will encounter — nearly all of them White men”

While there is still not a single K-12 school that teaches CRT, conservatives are openly attacking education and rewriting history. On one hand, I’m impressed they were able to make Dems out as CRT monsters while they were the ones doing the actual manipulating of history. On the other, I’m so embarrassed for my friends and fellow voters in VA that fell for it.

These charter schools sound great, wish I could get my high schooler into one.

Public schools cater to the least common denominator and are more concerned with imposing liberal social values than actually educating their students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well, yes. Nothing today’s conservatives do is in good faith and every accusation they make is projection.

It was all just a way to make a profit and brainwash children with alternative facts. This is their real agenda.

So grounding students in a curriculum based on the classics and Western Civ is brainwashing?

OK, then.

[Anonymous]

FUN FACT

CRT IS NOT TAUGHT IN ONE CLASSROOM IN THE US FULL STOP

GOP LIARS
REPUBLICAN LIARS
REPUBLICANS CAN NOT READ FOR THEMSELVES.

EVERY CURRICULUM IN THE US IS ONLINE

Americans are lazy and stupid. Who doesn't look this up? It is not hard people. If you are on this website you were capable of looking this up.

Don't you know what your kids are taught?

Idiots VA is full of idiots who are lazy.

CRT not taught in one classroom in the US. Fact.

[Anonymous]

Here is the NYT article from back in April about Hillsdale's charter schools:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/hillsdale-college-charter-schools.html

Personally, I would love an option like Atlanta Classical Academy for my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/09/controversy-teachers-dumbest-colleges/

“Hillsdale College — which Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called “a shining city on a hill” and which hired his activist wife, Ginni Thomas, to help establish a full-time presence in the nation’s capital — has became an important force in that movement under the leadership of Arnn, who has allied himself with former president Donald Trump. The college has helped launch dozens of “classical” charter schools across the country (Hillsdale doesn’t own or operate the schools but trains faculty and staff and shares curriculum) — and, now, at Lee’s invitation, Hillsdale is helping to open at least 50 charter schools in Tennessee. Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated.”

“The charter schools use a Hillsdale K-12 curriculum that is centered on Western civilization and designed to help “students acquire a mature love for America.” A Hillsdale K-12 civics and U.S. history curriculum released last year extols conservative values, attacks progressive ones and distorts civil rights history, saying, for example: “The civil rights movement was almost immediately turned into programs that ran counter to the lofty ideals of the Founders.” Hillsdale College itself offers a “classical liberal arts core” to its students; the website lists more than 30 authors and thinkers that students will encounter — nearly all of them White men”

While there is still not a single K-12 school that teaches CRT, conservatives are openly attacking education and rewriting history. On one hand, I’m impressed they were able to make Dems out as CRT monsters while they were the ones doing the actual manipulating of history. On the other, I’m so embarrassed for my friends and fellow voters in VA that fell for it.

These charter schools sound great, wish I could get my high schooler into one.

Public schools cater to the least common denominator and are more concerned with imposing liberal social values than actually educating their students.

You think a school that would summarize the civil rights movement like that is a good school for your child? If so, shame on you.