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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No way it magically went away, right...RIGHT??? :) [/quote]

Of course not. In some cases school systems are doubling down on their commitment to “equity,” which is effectively CRT is practice.

This battle over the future of our schools and nation will play out for years to come - namely, is the goal to provide equal opportunity or to radically redistribute private wealth and societal resources to certain groups (principally ADOS) with the illusory goal of promoting equal outcomes.[/quote]

[b]No school system is doing that[/b] or else you'd hear about it, sweetie. Fox would cover it like a fly on shit. OP meant that there was never any CRT to begin with. You got played, its okay. [/quote]

DP.  Wrong.  Of course you are correct that most are not reporting it.  Can’t imagine why!  Educate yourself.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-teach-crt-critical-race-theory-deny-propaganda-politics-history-11662997649?st=yhgxcp0x873ixxi&reflink=article_copyURL_share

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-students-dont-learn-critical-race-theory-why-do-teachers-pacific-educational-group-school-board-administrators-students-class-11662150413[/quote]

You are citing personal [b]opinion[/b] pieces from people who are objecting to a high school literature unit using books addressing cultural identity and changing the planned lesson in history class [b]one day[/b] to cover important current events. Most people would call that good teaching, but either way, it doesn't support your premise about "equity."[/quote]

Since you (predictably) are misrepresenting what was actually in the pieces linked above (blatant examples of CRT), and probably counting on no one actually reading the links, here are some excerpts.  Not sure where you got "one day" - this was ongoing for two months in the first example.  "Good teaching"??  Maybe on whatever planet you're living on.  I'd much prefer my child to read Macbeth in English class than this drivel, but YMMV:

"My daughter’s sophomore English class replaced its unit on Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” with [b]a two-monthlong unit on cultural identity[/b] in which students read articles about “whiteness,” “queerness” and “cultural assimilation.” The same year, she experienced cultural- or racial-identity units in three other subjects: world history, health and even band.

Since middle school, her core subjects have routinely been interrupted for discussions of microaggressions, and she has been asked to create her ethnic and racial family tree five times. My younger daughter’s[b] middle-school history teacher scrapped the required curriculum (the events leading to World War II)[/b] in favor of reading newspaper articles pushing for open borders and illegal immigration.

In my daughters’ history classes, essay prompts are no longer thought-provoking questions but slogans such as “No Human is Illegal” and “Decolonize Your Curriculum.” The slogan “Black Lives Matter” currently appears on the facades of our school buildings and on clothing worn by teachers.

Yet when parents express concern about CRT in the classroom, educators in our district deny its use or inundate us with psychobabble."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-teach-crt-critical-race-theory-deny-propaganda-politics-history-11662997649?st=yhgxcp0x873ixxi&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Documents emailed from 2019 to 2021 by Pacific Educational Group to district administrators in advance of various training seminars cite critical race theory explicitly. A rubric dated Feb. 4, 2020, encourages participants to “Deconstruct the Presence and role of Whiteness” in their lives. A March 17, 2020, presentation lists “aspects and assumptions of white culture” in the U.S. Some are negative, such as “win at all costs,” “wealth = worth,” “don’t show emotion,” and in reference to food, “bland is best.” Others are seemingly universal principles such as “cause-and-effect relationships,” “objective, rational, linear thinking,” and “plan for future.”

That presentation also spells out the “5 tenets of critical race theory” to “better understand the critical intersection of race and schooling.” One tenet is the “permanence of racism,” or the idea that “racism is endemic to all our institutions, systems and structures” in the U.S. Another is “whiteness as property.” The “critique of liberalism” tenet argues that “colorblindness,” “neutrality of the law” and the “myth of meritocracy” must be “deconstructed.”

These tenets aren’t presented as abstract notions for faculty to consider, but ideas they’re meant to apply. School staff’s ability to use “critical race theory . . . to inform racial equity leadership and analysis of school policies, practices and procedures” is considered a sign of the successful “internalization and application” of Pacific Educational Group’s framework. And a chart includes “Critical Race Theory” as a step toward “Equity/Anti-Racism School Transformation Action Planning.” A Feb. 3, 2021, seminar is even titled “Using Critical Race Theory to Transform Leadership and District.”

Perhaps districts like Tredyffrin-Easttown think they can shoo parents away by making a distinction between teacher training and curriculum. But what is the point of teacher training if not to inform teachers on how they should teach?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-students-dont-learn-critical-race-theory-why-do-teachers-pacific-educational-group-school-board-administrators-students-class-11662150413[/quote]

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