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

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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)

Is there a place to find the approved FCPS book list? (And the approved movie list, while I'm asking?) Or is that only available for teachers and staff?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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)

Is there a place to find the approved FCPS book list? (And the approved movie list, while I'm asking?) Or is that only available for teachers and staff?

Oh, I would like to know this too!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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)

Is there a place to find the approved FCPS book list? (And the approved movie list, while I'm asking?) Or is that only available for teachers and staff?

Oh, I would like to know this too!

So you can waste teachers’ time even more with BS? Do you know how extensive the red rape is for getting a book approved?
Let it go. Your kid has already seen and read much much worse on the web.

[Anonymous]

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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)

HS teacher, here. Maybe you don’t teach critical thinking skills in ES which is a shame. In my classes, students question any text they read, weigh the claims and evidence, as well as their validity and credibility. So, please stop generating unnecessary concerns or problems for those teaching higher-order level thinking skills.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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)

HS teacher, here. Maybe you don’t teach critical thinking skills in ES which is a shame. In my classes, students question any text they read, weigh the claims and evidence, as well as their validity and credibility. So, please stop generating unnecessary concerns or problems for those teaching higher-order level thinking skills.

Your post shows a complete disregard for child development.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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)

Is there a place to find the approved FCPS book list? (And the approved movie list, while I'm asking?) Or is that only available for teachers and staff?

Oh, I would like to know this too!

So you can waste teachers’ time even more with BS? Do you know how extensive the red rape is for getting a book approved?
Let it go. Your kid has already seen and read much much worse on the web.

Shut up peasants and stop asking questions! Those children you birthed/adopted and cuddled, fed, loved and invested your emotions time and other resources in aren't your responsibility.

The government schools have divine mandate to teach them what they want. You don't have any right to know.

Now render unto them your children and your blind trust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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)

HS teacher, here. Maybe you don’t teach critical thinking skills in ES which is a shame. In my classes, students question any text they read, weigh the claims and evidence, as well as their validity and credibility. So, please stop generating unnecessary concerns or problems for those teaching higher-order level thinking skills.

Your post shows a complete disregard for child development.

Clap, clap, clap, clap.

There's a reason the trivium was developed waaaaay back in the dark ages (literally). It describes how humans develop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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)

HS teacher, here. Maybe you don’t teach critical thinking skills in ES which is a shame. In my classes, students question any text they read, weigh the claims and evidence, as well as their validity and credibility. So, please stop generating unnecessary concerns or problems for those teaching higher-order level thinking skills.

Your post shows a complete disregard for child development.

Whose theory of child development? You think kids don’t question what adults tell them at age 8? Most of them figure out they are being told stories once they have figured out Santa Claus isn’t real. I would wholeheartedly endorse an ES curriculum which focused on grammar, writing skills, and exploration. I am completely anti-indoctrination. That is why if you can’t avoid teaching Kendi, the Bible, or the Hari Krishna, you find a way to do it so you aren’t brainwashing the kids and so that you are giving them usable reading skills for the future. Personally, I resist mandates to teach specific books or films like they are unquestionable doctrine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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)

Is there a place to find the approved FCPS book list? (And the approved movie list, while I'm asking?) Or is that only available for teachers and staff?

Oh, I would like to know this too!

So you can waste teachers’ time even more with BS? Do you know how extensive the red rape is for getting a book approved?
Let it go. Your kid has already seen and read much much worse on the web.

Shut up peasants and stop asking questions! Those children you birthed/adopted and cuddled, fed, loved and invested your emotions time and other resources in aren't your responsibility.

The government schools have divine mandate to teach them what they want. You don't have any right to know.

Now render unto them your children and your blind trust.

You have to give some trust to the teachers; otherwise, you are a backseat driver mucking things up. The problem is not letting teachers teach reading material they know and love and “enforcing” selections that they could care less about. I had an English teacher who loved reading W.H. Auden aloud. I was awestruck by her passion and enjoyment of those poems. Those are memories that I cherish, and if I share Auden with my students it is not to share Auden, per se, but a shadow of that passion that so inspired me to read.

[Anonymous]

I just saw the post about the NEA meeting in another thread (with the mandatory mask item highlighted). Did anyone else notice that CRT is worked into many of the business items? I cut and paste one that was adopted and one that is awaiting discussion. I'm curious what those who are saying about CRT isn't a thing in schools and how it is not being taught. Maybe it is not being taught now, but sure seems like it is setting up schools to be teaching it soon....

From Business Item A (adopted): Result in increasing the implementation of culturally responsive education, critical race theory, and ethnic (Native people, Asian, Black, Latin(o/a/x), Middle Eastern, North African, and Pacific Islander) Studies curriculum in pre- K-12 and higher education;

From Business Item 39 (Awaiting Debate): The NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses:

A. Share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT) -- what it is and what it is not; have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric; and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.

B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project.

C. Publicly (through existing media) convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.

D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression—even in places where it is illegal and requires civil disobedience. Followed by additional days of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.

E. Conduct a listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education including but not limited to tools like CRT.

F. Commit President Becky Pringle to make public statements across all lines of media that support racial honesty in education including but not limited to critical race theory.

Read the full text here: https://ra.nea.org/business-items/?type=nbi&yr=2021&pg=all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the post about the NEA meeting in another thread (with the mandatory mask item highlighted). Did anyone else notice that CRT is worked into many of the business items? I cut and paste one that was adopted and one that is awaiting discussion. I'm curious what those who are saying about CRT isn't a thing in schools and how it is not being taught. Maybe it is not being taught now, but sure seems like it is setting up schools to be teaching it soon....

From Business Item A (adopted): Result in increasing the implementation of culturally responsive education, critical race theory, and ethnic (Native people, Asian, Black, Latin(o/a/x), Middle Eastern, North African, and Pacific Islander) Studies curriculum in pre- K-12 and higher education;

From Business Item 39 (Awaiting Debate): The NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses:

A. Share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT) -- what it is and what it is not; have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric; and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.

B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project.

C. Publicly (through existing media) convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.

D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression—even in places where it is illegal and requires civil disobedience. Followed by additional days of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.

E. Conduct a listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education including but not limited to tools like CRT.

F. Commit President Becky Pringle to make public statements across all lines of media that support racial honesty in education including but not limited to critical race theory.

Read the full text here: https://ra.nea.org/business-items/?type=nbi&yr=2021&pg=all

See, this is what I hate — people telling me what to teach because they think education is about indoctrination. As a teacher, I cannot believe actual teachers backed this BS. It looks like the organization is trying to form some kind of counter response to extreme right wing censorship of topics (like evolution theory or our government’s history of crimes) but this is not the way to go. I am not some mouthpiece for the ideology du jour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the post about the NEA meeting in another thread (with the mandatory mask item highlighted). Did anyone else notice that CRT is worked into many of the business items? I cut and paste one that was adopted and one that is awaiting discussion. I'm curious what those who are saying about CRT isn't a thing in schools and how it is not being taught. Maybe it is not being taught now, but sure seems like it is setting up schools to be teaching it soon....

From Business Item A (adopted): Result in increasing the implementation of culturally responsive education, critical race theory, and ethnic (Native people, Asian, Black, Latin(o/a/x), Middle Eastern, North African, and Pacific Islander) Studies curriculum in pre- K-12 and higher education;

From Business Item 39 (Awaiting Debate): The NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses:

A. Share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT) -- what it is and what it is not; have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric; and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.

B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project.

C. Publicly (through existing media) convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.

D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression—even in places where it is illegal and requires civil disobedience. Followed by additional days of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.

E. Conduct a listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education including but not limited to tools like CRT.

F. Commit President Becky Pringle to make public statements across all lines of media that support racial honesty in education including but not limited to critical race theory.

Read the full text here: https://ra.nea.org/business-items/?type=nbi&yr=2021&pg=all

See, this is what I hate — people telling me what to teach because they think education is about indoctrination. As a teacher, I cannot believe actual teachers backed this BS. It looks like the organization is trying to form some kind of counter response to extreme right wing censorship of topics (like evolution theory or our government’s history of crimes) but this is not the way to go. I am not some mouthpiece for the ideology du jour.

All this does is legitimize the right wing nut jobs to fight efforts to discuss racial justice in schools. The NEA supports CRT and CRT informed curriculum that progressives say is only being "taught" in graduate level courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the post about the NEA meeting in another thread (with the mandatory mask item highlighted). Did anyone else notice that CRT is worked into many of the business items? I cut and paste one that was adopted and one that is awaiting discussion. I'm curious what those who are saying about CRT isn't a thing in schools and how it is not being taught. Maybe it is not being taught now, but sure seems like it is setting up schools to be teaching it soon....

From Business Item A (adopted): Result in increasing the implementation of culturally responsive education, critical race theory, and ethnic (Native people, Asian, Black, Latin(o/a/x), Middle Eastern, North African, and Pacific Islander) Studies curriculum in pre- K-12 and higher education;

From Business Item 39 (Awaiting Debate): The NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses:

A. Share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT) -- what it is and what it is not; have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric; and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.

B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project.

C. Publicly (through existing media) convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.

D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression—even in places where it is illegal and requires civil disobedience. Followed by additional days of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.

E. Conduct a listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education including but not limited to tools like CRT.

F. Commit President Becky Pringle to make public statements across all lines of media that support racial honesty in education including but not limited to critical race theory.

Read the full text here: https://ra.nea.org/business-items/?type=nbi&yr=2021&pg=all

See, this is what I hate — people telling me what to teach because they think education is about indoctrination. As a teacher, I cannot believe actual teachers backed this BS. It looks like the organization is trying to form some kind of counter response to extreme right wing censorship of topics (like evolution theory or our government’s history of crimes) but this is not the way to go. I am not some mouthpiece for the ideology du jour.

All this does is legitimize the right wing nut jobs to fight efforts to discuss racial justice in schools. The NEA supports CRT and CRT informed curriculum that progressives say is only being "taught" in graduate level courses.

Right. I have a PhD and I studied different literary theories including post-colonialism (which CRT seems to be a watered-down oversimplified version of). We used it as a framework for reading and interpreting texts, but it was one theory among others. Why do so many people in “Education” think teaching is some kind of prescribed paint by numbers practice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just saw the post about the NEA meeting in another thread (with the mandatory mask item highlighted). Did anyone else notice that CRT is worked into many of the business items? I cut and paste one that was adopted and one that is awaiting discussion. I'm curious what those who are saying about CRT isn't a thing in schools and how it is not being taught. Maybe it is not being taught now, but sure seems like it is setting up schools to be teaching it soon....

From Business Item A (adopted): Result in increasing the implementation of culturally responsive education, critical race theory, and ethnic (Native people, Asian, Black, Latin(o/a/x), Middle Eastern, North African, and Pacific Islander) Studies curriculum in pre- K-12 and higher education;

From Business Item 39 (Awaiting Debate): The NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses:

A. Share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT) -- what it is and what it is not; have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric; and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.

B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project.

C. Publicly (through existing media) convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.

D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression—even in places where it is illegal and requires civil disobedience. Followed by additional days of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.

E. Conduct a listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education including but not limited to tools like CRT.

F. Commit President Becky Pringle to make public statements across all lines of media that support racial honesty in education including but not limited to critical race theory.

Read the full text here: https://ra.nea.org/business-items/?type=nbi&yr=2021&pg=all

Terrifying.

And interesting that capitalism, which has lifted more lives out of poverty than any economic system is listed as a bad thing, whilc socialism, Marxism and communism are not.

How did these foolish, dangerous and uneducated people end up with so much power in our education system?

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw the post about the NEA meeting in another thread (with the mandatory mask item highlighted). Did anyone else notice that CRT is worked into many of the business items? I cut and paste one that was adopted and one that is awaiting discussion. I'm curious what those who are saying about CRT isn't a thing in schools and how it is not being taught. Maybe it is not being taught now, but sure seems like it is setting up schools to be teaching it soon....

From Business Item A (adopted): Result in increasing the implementation of culturally responsive education, critical race theory, and ethnic (Native people, Asian, Black, Latin(o/a/x), Middle Eastern, North African, and Pacific Islander) Studies curriculum in pre- K-12 and higher education;

From Business Item 39 (Awaiting Debate): The NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses:

A. Share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT) -- what it is and what it is not; have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric; and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.

B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project.

C. Publicly (through existing media) convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.

D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression—even in places where it is illegal and requires civil disobedience. Followed by additional days of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.

E. Conduct a listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education including but not limited to tools like CRT.

F. Commit President Becky Pringle to make public statements across all lines of media that support racial honesty in education including but not limited to critical race theory.

Read the full text here: https://ra.nea.org/business-items/?type=nbi&yr=2021&pg=all

If CRT is not being taught (so say the liberal defenders), then why is there so much pushback on attempts to ban it?

I'll also note that this entire agenda is full of anti-American garbage.