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

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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

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?

For me, I just don’t want to have to teach that one thing is good and another is bad. I am not trying to convert the kids. I am trying to educate them - give them the skills, knowledge, and tools they need to do better than our generations have.

i have no problem with teaching kids about Marxism and socialism. Those ideological frameworks make valid and thought-provoking criticisms of capitalism’s flaws, but they too have their own flaws. I just want to empower the kids to make their own, informed decisions and to make intelligent ones for the communities they lead in the future. I am so sick of less educated folk than me telling me what and how to teach.

[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

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.

As a liberal, I am anti “banning” anything. I am also anti force-feeding anything. To me, the greatest part of being American is that I can loudly question and criticize anything and everything our government has done, is doing, and will do. At the end of the day, I think this freedom of speech produces a happier society and more informed decisions.

NEA needs to start surveying “actual” teachers stat. I find it hard to believe they are representing their constituents with this crap.

[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

The NEA seems to be getting involved in promoting what curriculum should be taught in schools. This is wrong. Very wrong. They do NOT represent all teachers, they do not represent students at all and forget the parents. Curriculum development should be left to experts who know how to do this.... and that is NOT the NEA. And, parents are supposed to be involved in curriculum development and textbook selection.
Parents need to fight this crap.

[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

The NEA seems to be getting involved in promoting what curriculum should be taught in schools. This is wrong. Very wrong. They do NOT represent all teachers, they do not represent students at all and forget the parents. Curriculum development should be left to experts who know how to do this.... and that is NOT the NEA. And, parents are supposed to be involved in curriculum development and textbook selection.
Parents need to fight this crap.

Eh, I am not too fond of the curriculum development “experts,” myself, but my respect for “education” as an academic subject and degree has diminished greatly in the past few years. Input from parents is important, though, as is teacher-parent communication.

And yeah, NEA needs to back the hell out of this CRT “debate.” Plus, their extreme stance on safety measures for vaccinated teachers. What the hell?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, there are many lenses and as we read we should be looking at all of them. The protagonist. The antagonist. Man against man, man against self, man against nature. Man aligned with man, man aligned with self, man aligned with nature. Looking at text from a racial perspective is one lense of many.

Why? And who gets to pick which lenses? What if I want to make all children look at it through the lens of my particular religion, is that OK? Or if any extremist (political, cultural, whatever) wants to provide a lens, is that cool?

You can't do that in public school. I'm sure you know that.

Of course I do. But why do we get to use a racial or class (to pick an older trendier way of history) lens then?

Because there’s no Constitutional separation between social class and state or Race and state? It’s a pretty common aspect of teaching literature to consider issues like social class and gender and race. I went to a Jesuit high school and yes we absolutely did look at literature through a religious lens as well.

DP here. My own issue with CRT is that 1) not all issues are suitable for analysis through the lens of race, and 2) CRT injects a particular set of distorted views of history and facts that make it a particularly poor set of the lense to look through. I agree that viewing aspects of our society through the lense of class and race can be both revealing and rewarding. But CRT in this respect is obfuscating and damaging.

Yeah, I am with you.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS taught Stamped in some of the elementary schools this past spring. 6th grade. No parent notification or opt out given. And the school board members claim they are not teaching CRT in schools.

In what class? I think the class makes a difference. Literature, social studies, home room? Also, was it presented as the "right" way to view the world, or as an option of several? If it was the "right" way, I'm sorry but then FCPS is just helping Jason Reynolds and Ibram Kendi sell a book. I watched that spot posted earlier when they did a promo for the book. School districts need to realize that the equity, diversity, and inclusion space is still new and thus very susceptible to fads and new ideas that haven't had time to play out and show their viability. What bothers me reading about this book (its on hold at the library, so I haven't read it for myself, but plan to) is that it appears to provide new, alternate language for how to talk about racism. And if you don't use those words (anti-racist, etc.) you're really a racist. That's a red flag for me personally and does not align with true critical thinking skills a 6th grader should be learning.

Thank you. I agree wholeheartedly.

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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.

I think its educational value depends on how it is taught. If it is indeed taught as a counter narrative (reacting to another position) that raises questions on how history is written and codified, that seems acceptable to me. I always thought history would have been more interesting to me as a kid if we investigated multiple accounts of the same event, or discussed how history textbooks were written and why they arrived at the conclusions they did. I don’t buy into whatever theory that says older children can’t accept uncertainty or learn what exploration, speculation, experimentation, etc. are.

I would say this - Any ideology is dangerous if it is the only one taught. All ideologies are benign if they are brought into discussion and dialogue with each other. The latter is what it means to be American IMO.

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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.

Ultimately, you are teaching the kids to choose for themselves and their communities in the future. If you educate them, you give them options and alternatives to contemplate, not “truths” or “ideals” - which are meaningless unless they arrive at those truths or ideals through their own thinking and experiences. Personally, I think it is wise to allow older children forum to investigate different value systems and allow for the fact that American ones may change.

[Anonymous]

Based on the review, everything up to chapter 8 seems fine

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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.

I think its educational value depends on how it is taught. If it is indeed taught as a counter narrative (reacting to another position) that raises questions on how history is written and codified, that seems acceptable to me. I always thought history would have been more interesting to me as a kid if we investigated multiple accounts of the same event, or discussed how history textbooks were written and why they arrived at the conclusions they did. I don’t buy into whatever theory that says older children can’t accept uncertainty or learn what exploration, speculation, experimentation, etc. are.

I would say this - Any ideology is dangerous if it is the only one taught. All ideologies are benign if they are brought into discussion and dialogue with each other. The latter is what it means to be American IMO.

I wrote this post so I want to add an addendum. I haven’t read it but based on this review, the book sounds completely ridiculous - an amalgam of oversimplified and distorted postmodern academic theories. I can’t believe it is gaining such influence. If I taught it, it would only be so kids gain some knowledge about this popular new theory everyone seems to want to force on us, and to examine Kendi’s rhetorical strategies and argument.

[Anonymous]

I support the CRT.

[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.

You are the problem and the reason the U.S. is racist. You have no business teaching anything to anyone.

[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

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?

If you got terrified from reading that and you think those trying to explain the bare minimum of what racism is and how to create a more accepting society are uneducated, you are clear than the lizard that just came out of the water and hadn't started any of the evolution yet.
It is hard for such primitive lizards to understand what educated people write and talk about.

[Anonymous]

Where do I petition to change the license plates to "Virginia is for racists?"
As clearly shown on this thread, 90% are racist.

[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.

You are the problem and the reason the U.S. is racist. You have no business teaching anything to anyone.

Whoa. You have no idea who I am or what I teach. You also don’t understand why I object to CRT. More than half of the authors on my curriculum last year were African American or Latino authors. I know the U.S. is racist and misogynist but I believe you aren’t going to truly teach people that through explicit instruction couched in “I am trying to convert you” rhetoric. That method puts the people who need to be reached most on the defensive.