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

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^^ Fairfax county is paying for anti-racism training. Not something called “critical race theory curricula” which DOES NOT exist, and if it did would necessarily not be a homogeneous set of ideas BY DEFINITION because it is a “critical theory”. Do people outside academia not know what critical means???

I’m going to lose my mind over this and if I can reach at least one person through dcum then my rant will be with it. Ahhhhhh!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:All I can say is vote. I've never voted anything but D in my life and I"m so over all this nonsense. I never thought that I would vote R in my life but I am strongly considering it moving forward. Sadly, we have no good options.

Haha, right. You saw the last four years and THEN decided to go R but never were before.

DP, but you do realize that people can decide to vote differently in local and national elections. Or perhaps you don’t, but that’s really your problem, not PP’s. You are sticking your head in the sand if you have no appreciation for the extent to which this Democratic-controlled School Board has antagonized parents.

Exactly. I think more Ds may change votes precisely because the Trump years are over. The only thing that united Ds and mitigated any infighting was the fact that we all hated Trump so much. Now that he's gone, the gloves are coming off within the left and it is blindingly apparently that there's a massive schism between the far left and the moderates. We may have seen this before, but we had the anti-Trump thing to at least patch things over. I'm no longer willing to blindly vote D at the local level to see public education torn to shreds. I'd rather have a more balanced school board with differing opinions and diversity of thought than what we have now. I'm also more interested in keeping folks like Chap Peterson (who I previously disliked) in the party to ensure that we have all types of progressive voices present. I'm also going to take a really hard look at our gubernatorial elections because I can't stomach falling any further left. We need balance and I have to hold my nose and vote for even moderate Rs, I'm now prepared to do it.

I completely agree with you. This isn't a D or R matter anymore. CRT is child abuse. It’s going to create a generation people who hate each other.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:It really isn’t the place of FCPS to tell kids whether they are privileged or oppressed based on their “race,” or at least it shouldn’t be.

This School Board needs to be voted out in two years. If he is still around at the time the first act of the new Board should be to fire Brabrand.

Absolutely this. How dare they tell white kids that the they’re “privileged oppressors” and POC are “victims”? These people need to focus on educating all our kids and leaving race biases out of it altogether.

Show me evidence this is what they are doing. You have none because it’s made up right wing talking points.

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Anonymous wrote:All I can say is vote. I've never voted anything but D in my life and I"m so over all this nonsense. I never thought that I would vote R in my life but I am strongly considering it moving forward. Sadly, we have no good options.

I am absolutely going to be a one-issue voter this November. CRT is straight out of the socialist playbook. It's insanity.

Yeah!!! I prefer fascism!

Don’t really see how getting rid of this awful all-Democrat School Board that’s shown utter contempt for parents, Asians, higher-achieving kids, and political moderates of all stripes will usher in a dictatorship.

Well, look at all the R candidates for Governor. All support trump, the big lie (you know, the big lie that led to the attack on the Capitol) , and voting restrictions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-republican-candidates-convention-process/2021/05/07/cc92b834-ad0f-11eb-acd3-24b44a57093a_story.html

There are no moderate Republicans left.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ Fairfax county is paying for anti-racism training. Not something called “critical race theory curricula” which DOES NOT exist, and if it did would necessarily not be a homogeneous set of ideas BY DEFINITION because it is a “critical theory”. Do people outside academia not know what critical means???

I’m going to lose my mind over this and if I can reach at least one person through dcum then my rant will be with it. Ahhhhhh!!!!

Teacher here. I’m with you. It is so painful to watch nincompoops consistently struggle to understand what CRT is and is not and choose instead to claim that anything related at all to race is “CRT” which they oppose for murky reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

How does telling a bunch of UMC kids that they’re privileged change society at all? Do you think they don’t realize it?

NP. They might realize it, but I doubt they are their parents care.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ Fairfax county is paying for anti-racism training. Not something called “critical race theory curricula” which DOES NOT exist, and if it did would necessarily not be a homogeneous set of ideas BY DEFINITION because it is a “critical theory”. Do people outside academia not know what critical means???

I’m going to lose my mind over this and if I can reach at least one person through dcum then my rant will be with it. Ahhhhhh!!!!

Teacher here. I’m with you. It is so painful to watch nincompoops consistently struggle to understand what CRT is and is not and choose instead to claim that anything related at all to race is “CRT” which they oppose for murky reasons.

Murky reasons? To be fair, there are various sources describing the criticisms in detail.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of us white people think that it's an important lesson for our children to realize their privilege. I'm glad FCPS is doing it. Better society = better America.

How does telling a bunch of UMC kids that they’re privileged change society at all? Do you think they don’t realize it?

Given the amount of bellyaching about basic civics issues, no, I don't think they do. They think they are victims, and that people who have less are in that situation because they lack merit.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ Fairfax county is paying for anti-racism training. Not something called “critical race theory curricula” which DOES NOT exist, and if it did would necessarily not be a homogeneous set of ideas BY DEFINITION because it is a “critical theory”. Do people outside academia not know what critical means???

I’m going to lose my mind over this and if I can reach at least one person through dcum then my rant will be with it. Ahhhhhh!!!!

No, they do not!

And, not blaming you specifically, but academia is part of the problem. When you create very finicky definitions that are only known to people in that field, you create barriers to understanding that can be exploited. The right has exploited this one. If anybody in academia is trying to correct the misunderstanding (instead of capitalizing on the attention) I haven't seen them.

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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.

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I still remember after George Floyd was killed, teenagers were putting “BLM” on their social media, or just putting a black square in place of their picture. Those who didn’t were called racists. It’s really incredible - and frightening - how this mob mentality has escalated on the left.

Yes.

A neighbor kid had a birthday during that time and put up a birthday picture instead of the socially acceptable square post.

Their friend sent the kid an awful message calling them a racist for posting birthday pics instead of a square and then dumped the kid and trashed them to all the other kids. Horrible, Mao cultural revolution type stuff.

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It really is Mao-like. And scary. The kinds of people who do this are fanatics.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ Fairfax county is paying for anti-racism training. Not something called “critical race theory curricula” which DOES NOT exist, and if it did would necessarily not be a homogeneous set of ideas BY DEFINITION because it is a “critical theory”. Do people outside academia not know what critical means???

I’m going to lose my mind over this and if I can reach at least one person through dcum then my rant will be with it. Ahhhhhh!!!!

Teacher here. I’m with you. It is so painful to watch nincompoops consistently struggle to understand what CRT is and is not and choose instead to claim that anything related at all to race is “CRT” which they oppose for murky reasons.

Murky reasons? To be fair, there are various sources describing the criticisms in detail.

I’m not talking about “sources” and their criticisms of a critical theory. I am talking about average Facebook parents who have no clue what it is and never heard of it before Trump “banned” it who use it as shorthand for “schools teaching my kids stuff I don’t like.” FWIW, I find most criticisms of it largely invalid. There is simply no way to deny that the social construct that is race profoundly affects human experience because it is engineered to do so. Ignoring that doesn’t mean it isn’t so.

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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 ?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my god critical race theory is a boogeyman invented by Fox News.

Seriously, I’m an academic with expertise in critical race theory, and it’s not like it’s ONE theory or set of beliefs, the term encompasses any critical discussion of race, and within “critical race theory” there are many disputes, including how to perceive whiteness or how to define privilege etc.

There’s literally no way to “ban” critical race theory, and attempting to do so is obviously unconstitutional and violates free speech.

I’m so dismayed that I literally studied this for years and took qualifying exams under several scholars in order to be halfway qualified to comment on critical race theory, and now everybody with cable news has an opinion on it.

It really doesn’t make any difference whether you’re an “academic” or a janitor. CRT does not belong in our schools, period. It is pitting children against one another. It is creating the divisiveness it purports to be eradicating.

Not only does this not belong in schools, it doesn’t belong in boardrooms or training sessions. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:All I can say is vote. I've never voted anything but D in my life and I"m so over all this nonsense. I never thought that I would vote R in my life but I am strongly considering it moving forward. Sadly, we have no good options.

Haha, right. You saw the last four years and THEN decided to go R but never were before.

DP, but you do realize that people can decide to vote differently in local and national elections. Or perhaps you don’t, but that’s really your problem, not PP’s. You are sticking your head in the sand if you have no appreciation for the extent to which this Democratic-controlled School Board has antagonized parents.

Exactly. I think more Ds may change votes precisely because the Trump years are over. The only thing that united Ds and mitigated any infighting was the fact that we all hated Trump so much. Now that he's gone, the gloves are coming off within the left and it is blindingly apparently that there's a massive schism between the far left and the moderates. We may have seen this before, but we had the anti-Trump thing to at least patch things over. I'm no longer willing to blindly vote D at the local level to see public education torn to shreds. I'd rather have a more balanced school board with differing opinions and diversity of thought than what we have now. I'm also more interested in keeping folks like Chap Peterson (who I previously disliked) in the party to ensure that we have all types of progressive voices present. I'm also going to take a really hard look at our gubernatorial elections because I can't stomach falling any further left. We need balance and I have to hold my nose and vote for even moderate Rs, I'm now prepared to do it.

I completely agree with you. This isn't a D or R matter anymore. CRT is child abuse. It’s going to create a generation people who hate each other.

This.

+100
It’s already well on its way.