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Anonymous wrote:OP, try requesting materials/programs for "Social and Emotional Learning" aka what the school counselors are doing. They seem to have focused almost every session this past year talking about race, and seem to have done away with the usual topics they used to focus on.
Much of what I've seen in my kids' classrooms was not labeled CRT. Instead, I've noticed some of my kids' more motivated teachers (in addition to the counselors) coming up with their own CRT and BLM-inspired lessons during morning meeting. I would argue that the incessant emails talking about "equity," mirror talking points used by prominent Dem politicians. It is very clearly a political agenda.
Think of it this way. We can probably all agree that it's ok to teach kids about the tenets of the major religions, but declaring one to the be "right" one and weaving it into every subject would be objectionable to most everyone.. Clearly CRT and related views are decidedly falling into one political camp. It's simply not okay to choose what is clearly a highly politicized ideology of any kind and foisting it on our kids, whether it's CRT or Right to Life.
From a practical standpoint, the definition of "political" as it's defined in statute needs revision. Right now, VA statute only deems candidates and political parties to be "political" in the context of schools and what can be taught. With the myriad activist groups and 504cs that have developed over the years, this needs to be updated. Parents are savvy enough to detect when something has crossed into the "political" realm, and none of us want our kids to be indoctrinated.
The bottom line is, kids need a good education without a political agenda. Our kids will be competing with the best and brightest across the globe for jobs some day and what they need is a strong grounding in the ability to communicate effectively and handle high level math for fields like AI, finance, etc. Educators need to get back to basics and that will do more to serve underprivileged kids than any of these sessions.
What I’ve never been about to get my head around is that
if you think equity is political and that democrats are for it does that make you against equity? And you’re okay being on that side of history? Baffles me. Fox News manufactured this crazy CRT debate just to stir up the racists and it worked brilliantly.
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