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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Technically no, but it’s what people are referring to when they talk about CRT in k-12 education.

A lot of parents don’t think public schools should teach students to be “agents of social change”.   They expect their kids to be taught skills like math and reading, and facts like science and social studies.  Creating social change agents seems outside of that mission.  [/quote]

Curious,  how does one teach Social Studies without discussing social change? The terms are identical.  [/quote]

DP.  There's a difference between teaching [i]about[/i] social change and teaching students [i]to do[/i] (be agents of) social change.  [/quote]

How did social  change happen then if there were no agents of social change?
Do you know what 3rd graders ask when learning about  the South?  Every single child, and I've been teaching for 35 years.

Why did people do that?

Do you know what 7th graders ask when learning about the Holocaust or South Africa?

Why did people go along with it? Who stopped it?

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That’s because you teach things out of context and it in chrono order.  You do it thematically and through a modern day Revisionalist lens and cherry pick what to focus on - evil white people, XYZ victims.

South Africa and Haiti are now failed states. I’m sure you blame that on some historic external factor too instead of the crime and corruption the last few decades. I’ll add Iran to that too in case you cleverly cover the Iranian revolution as a success story. [/quote]

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