FCPS paying for Critical Race Theory curriculum. To be implemented in a year

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a even a crazy liberal. I guess you could call me a center left if that? Anyway, CRT doesn't scare me. what scares me is the obvious right wing trolling that has permeated DCUM recently and now even the school forums.

Yes, this scares me too. I continue to believe this forum is targeted by "conservative" groups as a place to engage is misinformation.

No doubt. I have lots of issues with FCPS. But the we need to vote the Democrats out/it’s all the liberals fault/demonizing teachers and public
Schools while pushing for “choice” and “school vouchers.” I rather take “wokeness” over people who would cut the public school system.

*gut not cut

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Anonymous wrote:Same people in this thread losing their mind over “CRT” and their precious white kids being exposed to discussions of race and inequity are the same ones who used “poor” and “Black and brown kids” as leverage to try to open school buildings back in peak pandemic because “they” were suffering the most from not being there. We see right through you.

There are a handful of posters in this thread. It's amazing how you're able to match them up with the posters that made that particular open school argument. In any event, if they want to do their silly ineffectual anti-bias trainings, let them. It'll just cause more problems than it solves, but that's not surprising for a district and educational system that keeps reinventing math education for the worse, doesn't teach writing skills any more, etc. Frankly, the CRT fans should be more concerned about the effects of the latter.

Looks like we have a match here.

Anti CRT = open schools now = they are lowering the bar for math.

Uninformed rubes.

The CRT curriculum just adds to the nonsense that current students have to work through. Students will simply learn the answer the teacher is looking for, provide it, and move on.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same people in this thread losing their mind over “CRT” and their precious white kids being exposed to discussions of race and inequity are the same ones who used “poor” and “Black and brown kids” as leverage to try to open school buildings back in peak pandemic because “they” were suffering the most from not being there. We see right through you.

There are a handful of posters in this thread. It's amazing how you're able to match them up with the posters that made that particular open school argument. In any event, if they want to do their silly ineffectual anti-bias trainings, let them. It'll just cause more problems than it solves, but that's not surprising for a district and educational system that keeps reinventing math education for the worse, doesn't teach writing skills any more, etc. Frankly, the CRT fans should be more concerned about the effects of the latter.

Looks like we have a match here.

Anti CRT = open schools now = they are lowering the bar for math.

Uninformed rubes.

The CRT curriculum just adds to the nonsense that current students have to work through. Students will simply learn the answer the teacher is looking for, provide it, and move on.

Yes, I suppose that’s the hope of normie, privileged parents. Kids smirk about it, give the right answer, and move on to the “real” world.

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Gee what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvDmhgZVNc

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Do folks think Fairfax is as racist as it was 10 years ago? Any progress?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/gops-critical-race-theory-fixation-explained/618828/
Please read.

Well, the devil's in the details because it all depends on what is actually taught. Is the "Chinese Cultural Revolution"-styled reeducation program described below okay with you?


" The book teaches that the truth about “your own people, your own family” can be painful....

The book instructs a young white reader that she doesn’t need to “defend” racism, and it presents her with a stark decision. An illustration depicts a devil holding a “contract binding you to whiteness.” It reads:

You get:

✓stolen land

✓stolen riches

✓special favors†

WHITENESS gets:

✓to mess endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones, and all fellow humans of COLOR

✓your soul

Sign below:

_____________"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/should-black-lives-matter-agenda-be-taught-school/618277/

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I think Evanston is leading the way with reparations — yes, they are coming marginally — so good for it.

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What a rambling article this was.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same people in this thread losing their mind over “CRT” and their precious white kids being exposed to discussions of race and inequity are the same ones who used “poor” and “Black and brown kids” as leverage to try to open school buildings back in peak pandemic because “they” were suffering the most from not being there. We see right through you.

There are a handful of posters in this thread. It's amazing how you're able to match them up with the posters that made that particular open school argument. In any event, if they want to do their silly ineffectual anti-bias trainings, let them. It'll just cause more problems than it solves, but that's not surprising for a district and educational system that keeps reinventing math education for the worse, doesn't teach writing skills any more, etc. Frankly, the CRT fans should be more concerned about the effects of the latter.

Looks like we have a match here.

Anti CRT = open schools now = they are lowering the bar for math.

Uninformed rubes.

The CRT curriculum just adds to the nonsense that current students have to work through. Students will simply learn the answer the teacher is looking for, provide it, and move on.

Yes, I suppose that’s the hope of normie, privileged parents. Kids smirk about it, give the right answer, and move on to the “real” world.

No real dog in this fight but as a HS teacher, I can tell you that 90% of the kids I have in my study hall/SEL lessons class completely tune out those lessons, and we've spent quite some time on BLM and equity this year already. I believe that the couple of kids who actually humor me and answer a question once in a while do it because they like me and feel sorry about the fact that NO ONE WANTS TO DISCUSS ANYTHING when I prompt. Oh and half of my students are URM and none of them participate at all.

The broader issue is that except for the students in Leadership who help create the materials because that's part of a credit class, HS students for the most part HATE SEL lessons.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/gops-critical-race-theory-fixation-explained/618828/
Please read.

Some interesting background (had already read) but totally glosses over how CRT is now being packaged to cram down the throats of students. It’s ultimately a reductive and harmful approach to a complex subject that ends up shaming white and Asian kids and “empowers” others to go around yelling “check your privilege” and “colonizer” at other kids whenever they have a difference of opinion.

Exactly. It is used to shut down discussion. I will be re educating my child at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/gops-critical-race-theory-fixation-explained/618828/
Please read.

Well, the devil's in the details because it all depends on what is actually taught. Is the "Chinese Cultural Revolution"-styled reeducation program described below okay with you?


" The book teaches that the truth about “your own people, your own family” can be painful....

The book instructs a young white reader that she doesn’t need to “defend” racism, and it presents her with a stark decision. An illustration depicts a devil holding a “contract binding you to whiteness.” It reads:

You get:

✓stolen land

✓stolen riches

✓special favors†

WHITENESS gets:

✓to mess endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones, and all fellow humans of COLOR

✓your soul

Sign below:

_____________"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/should-black-lives-matter-agenda-be-taught-school/618277/

CRT is ultimately a legal theory that prior laws were structured to harm Blacks and, therefore, that Blacks as a "class" - just like any other plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit - are therefore entitled to various "remedies" that should be structrured creatively to compensate them for past "wrongs." And, of course, remedies can also be fashioned creatively. They can involve monetary payments that include forfeitures by those deemed to have been "unjustly enriched" by past wrongdoing, as well as requirements that others receive additional training designed to prevent the recurrence of wrongdoing.

At the same time, there are many challenges. It's one thing to say people who got ripped off by, say, a car manufacturer that installed faulty airbags are part of a class for purposes of a class action lawsuit and that the manufacturer should be ordered to pay damages and remediate in other ways. It's quite another to conclude that Blacks are a class who should be similarly compensated, much less determine who is the car manufacturer. But that's the ultimate goal of CRT theorists - fashion a broad array of remedies designed to "compensate" Blacks for historical wrongs.

Seen in that light, the curricular programs being introduced into schools are primarily intended to lay the foundation for the broader forms of compensation to which the Kimberle Crenshaws of the world believe Blacks are entitled. It is all intended to install a sense of shame and guilt in the minds of white and "white-adjacent" communities so that they will voluntarily cede political power and financial resources to the Black community as a remedy for past discrimination. Of course, people will fight it, because it's a surreptitious way to advance a political agenda that, in the first instance, should be settled among adults at the national level, not seeded in elementary and middle schools.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter had a session on privilege in her Civics class and an optional session on equity this past Monday. I encourage her to go. We also had a discussion over diner about it. I told her it is her job to increase the amount privilege that she has and also increase the amount of inequity she has with her peers in an ethical/honorable manner.

OMG. Your poor daughter. I can only imagine that dinner conversation.

I don’t even know what this poster is trying to say. How does one increase their privilege? Why did her daughter even go to the optional session ?

Win at life by acquiring education wealth and status

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/gops-critical-race-theory-fixation-explained/618828/
Please read.

Some interesting background (had already read) but totally glosses over how CRT is now being packaged to cram down the throats of students. It’s ultimately a reductive and harmful approach to a complex subject that ends up shaming white and Asian kids and “empowers” others to go around yelling “check your privilege” and “colonizer” at other kids whenever they have a difference of opinion.

Exactly. It is used to shut down discussion. I will be re educating my child at home.

I am the PP above. I am a latina and tend to vote republican, but very much a centrist and new to this county. I am appalled at all of this. I recall CRT from my Ivy League education. It is a complicated subject and a “theory” that should not be taught until college in the right context, by college-level professors who are there to expand and educate minds, not indoctrinate. Our public school system is not good enough to properly teach and discuss this subject. I hate that I have to re-educate my kid at home and monitor materials. I will be pushing back against this in her classroom and her schools. If my kid is punished, I will elevate and take the school to court if I have to.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading most of the posts here reminds me of this quote:

"When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"

100%

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What is reported in the linked article is a theory that seems, well, racist.