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

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Anonymous wrote:What is Stamped?

A book: https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Kids-Racism-Antiracism-You/dp/0316167584/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=stamped+for+kids&qid=1624985755&sr=8-3

I guess I’m confused why this would be controversial??

Well, based on the Amazon sample, it's simply anti-American garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:What is Stamped?

A book: https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Kids-Racism-Antiracism-You/dp/0316167584/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=stamped+for+kids&qid=1624985755&sr=8-3

I guess I’m confused why this would be controversial??

I haven't read it but I'm guessing the top one-star review on Amazon is the main reason. Cutting and pasting below:

Stamped for Kids is a Critical Historiography designed to rewrite our nation's history through the lens of Critical Race Theory. It does not provide an objective account, it presents a 'counter narrative' that shares historical facts laced with Critical and postmodern ideas. I do not recommend that you use this book at all with young children. Perhaps older children (middle school and above) could learn from it, however, even then it must be balanced with an objective, liberal account of the nation's history.

I have read this book three times straight through, and I have also read Kendi & Reynolds' iterations.

The prelude talks about how we must always and ever talk about race, that one of the most important things children can do is put social significance back into racial categories, which is straight out of Critical Race Theory (CRT) founder Kimberlé Crenshaw. This was a mistake 400 years ago, and it's a mistake today. Two wrongs do not make a right.

Chapter 1 positions slavery as especially European, and completely ignores not only the Arabian slave trade in Africa that happened concurrently with the European slave trade, but it also ignores the fact that slavery has been in every single society since humans started planting crops. It neglects to mention that it was Western, liberal/ Enlightement-valued countries that first banned slavery. Instead, it blames European countries for it.

Chapter 2 introduces a common concept and the first tenet of CRT as developed by founder Derrick Bell: that racism is ordinary, permanent and hidden. This idea is laced throughout the book.

Chapter 3 introduces children to Peggy McIntosh's idea of 'white privilege'. Children aren't taught that the so-called privileges some people have are actually rights everyone deserves, and that lack of these rights isn't lack of privilege but presence of bias and discrimination. Instead, white privilege is presents basic rights as something somehow unfair and unjust for people to have. This chapter also introduces the idea of 'equity', that outcomes must be equal among 'groups'.

Chapter 4 continually indoctrinates with more of the ubiquitous racism that is in the air and in the water and everywhere. It also teaches children to be skeptical of math because racists used math in history. This is a classic CRT move, to denigrate Enlightenment ideas like reason, objectivity and empiricism.

Chapter 5 promotes race essentialism and teaches children that there is such a thing as being 'Black' and being 'White' as if all people who shared the same immutable characteristics think the same way. Really bad stuff for kids.

Chapter 6 teaches kids that racist ideas in the past are 'tied' to racist ideas today, teaching kids racial scapegoating.

Chapter 7 promotes the idea that words matter, grooming kids to be ready to censor themselves for any words that CRT activists disapprove of.

Chapter 8 presents Abraham Lincoln, the country's best president in the most cynical light possible, suggesting that he was actually FOR slavery. This chapter also alludes to the namesake of the book (and the series), which is a quote from treasonous Confederate president and traitor to the United States, Jefferson Davis. It's pretty disgusting that CRT activists want to use Jefferson Davis' words to describe the nature of America.

Chapter 9 complains how Booker T. Washington and WEB Du Bois (at first) weren't strong enough CRT activists. It's pretty astonishing how people in history are judged by today's standards. This is just not the kind of 'history' book you want in front of your kids, unless to teach them how NOT to do it.

Chapter 10 introduces some Marxian Conflict Theory with oppressed/oppressors as well as the idea of 'liberation' which is essentially doing activism until the communist utopia is achieved.

Chapter 11 will introduce your child into Antonio Gramsci's Marxist ideas, to subvert culture and cancel it to work forward in the revolution. It lists and 'analyzes' a bunch of popular culture that is, of course, 'racist' and 'problematic'.

Chapter 12 introduces children to the CRT idea of 'false consciousness', that is, if people aren't 'politically black' (a lá Nikole Hannah-Jones), then such people who happen to be black are 'pushing' 'racist ideas'.

Chapter 13 reinforces the ubiquitous hidden nature of permanent racism as put forth by traitor Jefferson Davis.

Chapter 14 falsely equates the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s to CRT activists today. Except for the fact that the Civil Rights movement worked IN and FOR liberal systems, while CRT explicitly rejects liberalism (Stefancic & Delgado).

Chapter 15 makes more references to neo-Marxist Herbert Marcuse's idea of 'liberationism', which is to seek the utopia by any means possible, especially by repressing dissenting views. Sounds really American, right? Good for kids, right? This chapter also introduces CRT founder Crenshaw's idea of intersectionality, which is basically a complex set of binaries that groups people into 'oppressor' & 'oppressed' categories.

Chapter 16 presents Angela Davis as a saint, when in reality she is a much more controversial figure. Some facts about Angela Davis that this beatification leaves out: she was a communist who wanted to abolish US prisons (but not Soviet gulags), wrote lovingly to cult leaders like Jim Jones, supported the communist East German military, and was a student radicalized by the above Herbert Marcuse.

Chapter 17 continues the CRT rejection of reason, objectivity & empiricism by suggesting that because racists used math and science in the past, these things are themselves to blame, not the individuals who used them.

Chapter 18 doesn't make a lot of sense. It's a confused revision of Kendi & Reynolds' iterations with a mishmash of Black Power, MLK and Planet of the Apes.

Chapter 19 continues with this ever-present, hidden racism. It's everywhere, but unseen.

Chapter 20 continues its love-fest of adoring treasonous rebel Jeff Davis' words about what the United States is about. This chapter also quotes MLK saying, 'a riot is the language of the unheard' but neglects to mention that that particular essay puts forth the idea of non-violence, not implicit support of rioting.

Chapter 21 shares again a glossy view of equity, but declines to get specific that equity is about forcing a reallocation of resources so that outcomes among groups are equal. This is also known as communism. This chapter also uses the CRT party line in rejecting colorblindness. Of course, they misrepresent what colorblindness actually is (which is not judging someone by their immutable characteristics but by the merits of their work and ideas). Instead, colorblindness is accused of being racist and that no one can literally 'not see' color. It's ridiculous. No one who is for colorblindness means LITERAL colorblindness.

Chapter 22 shares a cynical idea that celebrating successful people who happen to be black in the US is racist. The book also neglects to share that our country is bar none the best country in the world for a person who happens to be black. Can it be better? Of COURSE. But there is never an acknowledgement of the miraculous progress our country has made. Only cynical Critical analysis.

Chapter 23 gives a shout out to the founders of BLM, who own multi-million dollar properties across the country despite admitting that they are 'trained Marxists' who celebrate texts that are like Mao's Little Red Book.

Chapter 24 is a pure Leftist talking point chapter. It also introduces another core concept in CRT: white supremacy.

The afterword is a call for your child to be a CRT activist.

The school study guide have several lessons about how America and its founding documents are inherently racist.

Laura Jane Cohen's district is heavily military, particularly at the elementary level. Her community is overall very patriotic, with a deep respect for the Constitution.

For her and her schools to go behind these parents backs to indoctrinate their elementary kids with CRT material designed to be anti American, contrary to their parents wishes and values, while repeatedly emailing concerned parents that there is "no antiracism or CRT" being taught in the schools in deceitful and unacceptable. It is happening in at least one elementary school in her district, a few minutes away from her neighborhood.

If it was such a good and positive program, the school board would be proudly and openly publicizing that they are using it in the schools.

But instead they are lying to parents, trying to find ways to describe CRT so it looks like fcps is not teaching it, and working together to find ways to hide that they are teching CRT. There are FOIA requests of their emails that shows this. Laura Jane has lied repeatedly to parents about it, in writing, via email.

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Anonymous wrote:What is Stamped?

A book: https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Kids-Racism-Antiracism-You/dp/0316167584/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=stamped+for+kids&qid=1624985755&sr=8-3

I guess I’m confused why this would be controversial??

Because the book is racist.

It teaches the white kids that regardless of what they think and what their experiences are, they are the beneficiaries of racist privilege and that they will forever be guilty of it, because of the color of their skin.

It teaches the black kids that regardless of what they think, and what their experiences are, they are the victims of racist privilege, and that they will forever suffer and unable to overcome obstacles in their life, because of the color of their skin.

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CRT teaches that people must be divided into categories of loser and mean.

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See the more the anti CRT people try to convince me of its evil, the more I’m like “yeah we need to teach something.” Maybe it’s not CRT. But the rah rah American patriotism stuff isn’t accurate either. Tell me again how the book above is anti American propaganda?

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It doesn't say what a lot of people are saying it says... the vast majority of whom I can assume haven't actually read it.

E.g., re: 14:43, it says nothing about white kids being individually "guilty" of racist privilege... it just acknowledges that such privilege exists.

I personally don't like the term privelege (preferring perhaps "advantage")... although regardless my bigger beef is that it's really not about the so-called "privileges/advantages" that white people have (of being treated properly and fairly by our legal/educational/health/financial/etc. systems and by most people's unconscious biases, etc.)... those privileges/advantages SHOULD be the norm. They aren't the problem.

The issue is that non-whites are UNprivileged/DISadvantaged in these same regards (and to varying degrees, it's not monolithic), even once you account for factors like SES. It's acknowledging that large-scale systems are set up in a way that perpetuates inequities, even if/when they are ostensibly designed (and debateably well-intentioned) in attempts to level the playing field.

These systemic realities shouldn't be controversial or disturbing to discuss, but here we are.

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Anonymous wrote:See the more the anti CRT people try to convince me of its evil, the more I’m like “yeah we need to teach something.” Maybe it’s not CRT. But the rah rah American patriotism stuff isn’t accurate either. Tell me again how the book above is anti American propaganda?

Did you see the part about how the book and it’s authors want to erode the ideals of classical liberalism our government is based on? Unless you want a new government, that seems problematic.

Yes, teach our whole past. But do it in order to keep working towards our ideals. Love wants to help where there is fault - teach love for our country. The hard kind, not the rah-rah kind.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't say what a lot of people are saying it says... the vast majority of whom I can assume haven't actually read it.

E.g., re: 14:43, it says nothing about white kids being individually "guilty" of racist privilege... it just acknowledges that such privilege exists.

I personally don't like the term privelege (preferring perhaps "advantage")... although regardless my bigger beef is that it's really not about the so-called "privileges/advantages" that white people have (of being treated properly and fairly by our legal/educational/health/financial/etc. systems and by most people's unconscious biases, etc.)... those privileges/advantages SHOULD be the norm. They aren't the problem.

The issue is that non-whites are UNprivileged/DISadvantaged in these same regards (and to varying degrees, it's not monolithic), even once you account for factors like SES. It's acknowledging that large-scale systems are set up in a way that perpetuates inequities, even if/when they are ostensibly designed (and debateably well-intentioned) in attempts to level the playing field.

These systemic realities shouldn't be controversial or disturbing to discuss, but here we are.

The systemic realities aren’t taught in isolation, but as part of a whole world view. Teaching those realities as part of a more mainstream American worldview would probably be less controversial. CRT != the only way to teach this stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:PBS piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JbdKWsHeLI

This PBS special has absolutely no data. There is no data about the actual teaching in schools at all and its pluses and minuses. In the entire special. It's just snippets of people talking where they are probably parsing out words. This is embarrassing for PBS. How can they put out something like this with absolutely no data?

Where is the data? What schools is it actually being taught in? It's just another BS idea that the Republicans said is a serious problem by using words such as "left-wing" and "indoctrination of our kids."

It would help if people wanted to define there terms. A few stories like 3rd graders being asked to define their intersectional identities or kids separating themselves by race into groups for class assignments have surfaced. However some people want to define critical race theory as any teaching about race, slavery, and systemic racism. Other people want to define it as viewing the world from Ibrahim Kendi and Robin DiAngelo's perspective and teaching kids to do the same. Until people start talking about the same thing, it's just talk.

Unfortunately I don't think it's to the advantage of the blue checkmark class that people define their terms, so it won't happen.

FCPS is teaching Ibrahim X Kendi in our elementary schools. They started in the spring. FCPS had older elementary kids read his young adult book as a class without parent consent or notification.

CRT is definitely being taught in fcps elementary schools of FCPS.

Well, I doubt any of you would be terribly surprised if I told you that this is not on the FCPS approved book list. Thus, if it's not on the list then parents needed to be notified two weeks prior to the teacher starting the book. The above information that I just mentioned is listed on every single FCPS language arts pacing guide, multiple times. With that in mind, these teachers knew 100% what they were doing is wrong and against FCPS policy.

I'm not going to address my opinion on CRT here, but I can tell you what they did (if it is true) does not follow FCPS policy. (ES Teacher)

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Anonymous wrote:What is Stamped?

A book: https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Kids-Racism-Antiracism-You/dp/0316167584/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=stamped+for+kids&qid=1624985755&sr=8-3

I guess I’m confused why this would be controversial??

Because the book is racist.

It teaches the white kids that regardless of what they think and what their experiences are, they are the beneficiaries of racist privilege and that they will forever be guilty of it, because of the color of their skin.

It teaches the black kids that regardless of what they think, and what their experiences are, they are the victims of racist privilege, and that they will forever suffer and unable to overcome obstacles in their life, because of the color of their skin.

Well, it's true.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is Stamped?

A book: https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Kids-Racism-Antiracism-You/dp/0316167584/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=stamped+for+kids&qid=1624985755&sr=8-3

I guess I’m confused why this would be controversial??

Because the book is racist.

It teaches the white kids that regardless of what they think and what their experiences are, they are the beneficiaries of racist privilege and that they will forever be guilty of it, because of the color of their skin.

It teaches the black kids that regardless of what they think, and what their experiences are, they are the victims of racist privilege, and that they will forever suffer and unable to overcome obstacles in their life, because of the color of their skin.

Well, it's true.

Not true. They are able to overcome their obstacles. The sabotage is just unjust and we need to do all we can to eliminate the system of white supremacy and make things more fair.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is Stamped?

A book: https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Kids-Racism-Antiracism-You/dp/0316167584/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=stamped+for+kids&qid=1624985755&sr=8-3

I guess I’m confused why this would be controversial??

Because the book is racist.

It teaches the white kids that regardless of what they think and what their experiences are, they are the beneficiaries of racist privilege and that they will forever be guilty of it, because of the color of their skin.

It teaches the black kids that regardless of what they think, and what their experiences are, they are the victims of racist privilege, and that they will forever suffer and unable to overcome obstacles in their life, because of the color of their skin.

Well, it's true.

Er, none of that is true. And none of that is helpful, either.

We don't need to tolerate or encourage fake and unhelpful facts or perspectives.

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Anonymous wrote:See the more the anti CRT people try to convince me of its evil, the more I’m like “yeah we need to teach something.” Maybe it’s not CRT. But the rah rah American patriotism stuff isn’t accurate either. Tell me again how the book above is anti American propaganda?

Did you see the part about how the book and it’s authors want to erode the ideals of classical liberalism our government is based on? Unless you want a new government, that seems problematic.

Yes, teach our whole past. But do it in order to keep working towards our ideals. Love wants to help where there is fault - teach love for our country. The hard kind, not the rah-rah kind.

No the "rah rah America is uniquely evil burn it all to the ground" mentality is much better and will yield better results for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:See the more the anti CRT people try to convince me of its evil, the more I’m like “yeah we need to teach something.” Maybe it’s not CRT. But the rah rah American patriotism stuff isn’t accurate either. Tell me again how the book above is anti American propaganda?

It's already been posted and explained multiple times. If you need it "again", scroll up and do some reading yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is Stamped?

A book: https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Kids-Racism-Antiracism-You/dp/0316167584/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=stamped+for+kids&qid=1624985755&sr=8-3

I guess I’m confused why this would be controversial??

Because the book is racist.

It teaches the white kids that regardless of what they think and what their experiences are, they are the beneficiaries of racist privilege and that they will forever be guilty of it, because of the color of their skin.

It teaches the black kids that regardless of what they think, and what their experiences are, they are the victims of racist privilege, and that they will forever suffer and unable to overcome obstacles in their life, because of the color of their skin.

Well, it's true.

Well, then at least you are honest about being a racist.