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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?[/quote]

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated. [/quote]

So if that is what you believe, stop with the discussion about practical history already being taught.

Start discussing what is actually being newly taught. Defend it. Justify it.
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What is being taught? Show me what's being taught in your child's classroom that is so offensive. The onus is on those screaming "CRT!!! Report the teachers to the police!!!" to show that inappropriate materials are being forced onto their children.

You and your interest groups are railing against something that really isn't happening inside of classrooms. There are no CRT materials in my kids' classes.

To the extent that their are inappropriate teachers saying unhinged things, that's happened since forever. That happened when I was in high school and those teachers were eventually removed from their classes.

But this ideological witchhunt by the Governor and Virginia conservatives is insane. [/quote]

It's not about "CRT materials." This is not some rigid case that involves only teaching kids to be critical theorists. But you know that . The argument is about CRT-related concepts becoming integral to schooling: anti-racist pedagogy, so-called inherent privilege, the "white supremacy" of educational and cultural norms, systemic bias, etc.

If you want to learn more about what these people disagree with, you can look at the EdEquityVA site, although much of that site is now gone so you have to look at its history. There are many institutions that partner with schools that describe how CRT-related ideas should be applied to influence educators and in teaching. I believe SPLC does to some degree. There are others. Many Virginia schools have partnered with these types of people and organizations to alter curriculums and teaching methods. That isn't a secret. You can read the contracts.

From the EdEquityVA site "anti-racism requires acknowledging that racist beliefs and structures are pervasive in education and then actively doing work to tear down those beliefs and structures." If you believe racist beliefs are pervasive in education, and existing educational norms should be torn down, that is fine. But there are people who disagree with that, and they are pushing back. This isn't about making people like slavery. But if you want to reduce it to such laziness, you're perfectly welcome.[/quote]

There are people that disagree with the concepts of systemic bias, inherent privilege, and that racism is both a personal and an institutional problem. These people have a vested interest in continuing the lie that America is a pure meritocracy and people like Trump, Youngkin, and the Koch Bros, sons of immense privilege who have in turn beget more children of immense privilege, deserve to have what they have because they earned it on their merits alone.

They know broke white people are obsessed with their own grievance, and so they have chosen to use them to advance their ultimate cause which is defunding the public school system altogether. They don’t believe in a meritocracy for you, you see. It’s easy to blame teachers and anti-racism advocates for your problems, but they don’t have anything to do with why you’re broke and your kids have no future. [/quote]

Uh huh. Keep pushing your fantasy of choice.[/quote]

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