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Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s education tip line gripes: ‘Beowulf,’ masks and ‘grooming’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/03/youngkin-education-tip-line-emails/

aka "The Greatest Hits of Fox News"

though, I doubt many of their viewers remember Beowulf lol

What’s wrong with Beowulf??

The tip sent in was this, apparently:

“All my teacher wants to talk about is how the book is sexist because it portrays the warriors as men and not women,” the student wrote Jan. 30 to the teacher tip line that Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) had just set up to banish “divisive concepts” from public education. “I believe my teacher is in violation of Governor Youngkin’s Executive Order, which prohibits the teaching of ‘divisive topics.’

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I'm not with PP.

DCPS parent here and for the past two years, I don't think my kids have brought home a history lesson that isn't fully focused on the oppressed populations impacted. It is absolutely important to teach all sides, but that also means teaching about the founding fathers (not just that they were slave owners) the colonization of the Americas (not just its impact on indigenous populations).. There is a baseline of knowledge that I expect my children to have about the world when they graduate (states and state capitals, how to tell time, how to write a date, what the 13 colonies were, the presidents, etc. etc. etc.) and right now, they aren't getting that. And you can't complain to the school about the curriculum, or you are a racist. So I can absolutely see the value of an anonymous tip line.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I'm not with PP.

DCPS parent here and for the past two years, I don't think my kids have brought home a history lesson that isn't fully focused on the oppressed populations impacted. It is absolutely important to teach all sides, but that also means teaching about the founding fathers (not just that they were slave owners) the colonization of the Americas (not just its impact on indigenous populations).. There is a baseline of knowledge that I expect my children to have about the world when they graduate (states and state capitals, how to tell time, how to write a date, what the 13 colonies were, the presidents, etc. etc. etc.) and right now, they aren't getting that. And you can't complain to the school about the curriculum, or you are a racist. So I can absolutely see the value of an anonymous tip line.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s education tip line gripes: ‘Beowulf,’ masks and ‘grooming’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/03/youngkin-education-tip-line-emails/

aka "The Greatest Hits of Fox News"

though, I doubt many of their viewers remember Beowulf lol

What’s wrong with Beowulf??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s education tip line gripes: ‘Beowulf,’ masks and ‘grooming’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/03/youngkin-education-tip-line-emails/

aka "The Greatest Hits of Fox News"

though, I doubt many of their viewers remember Beowulf lol

What’s wrong with Beowulf??

A high school senior in rural Riner, Va., reported his English teacher to state authorities for the way she was teaching “Beowulf.”

“All my teacher wants to talk about is how the book is sexist because it portrays the warriors as men and not women,” the student wrote Jan. 30 to the teacher tip line that Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) had just set up to banish “divisive concepts” from public education. “I believe my teacher is in violation of Governor Youngkin’s Executive Order, which prohibits the teaching of ‘divisive topics.’ ”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s education tip line gripes: ‘Beowulf,’ masks and ‘grooming’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/03/youngkin-education-tip-line-emails/

aka "The Greatest Hits of Fox News"

though, I doubt many of their viewers remember Beowulf lol

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin’s education tip line gripes: ‘Beowulf,’ masks and ‘grooming’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/03/youngkin-education-tip-line-emails/

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I'm not with PP.

DCPS parent here and for the past two years, I don't think my kids have brought home a history lesson that isn't fully focused on the oppressed populations impacted. It is absolutely important to teach all sides, but that also means teaching about the founding fathers (not just that they were slave owners) the colonization of the Americas (not just its impact on indigenous populations).. There is a baseline of knowledge that I expect my children to have about the world when they graduate (states and state capitals, how to tell time, how to write a date, what the 13 colonies were, the presidents, etc. etc. etc.) and right now, they aren't getting that. And you can't complain to the school about the curriculum, or you are a racist. So I can absolutely see the value of an anonymous tip line.

Uh, they are getting what the 13 colonies are and who the presidents were while also getting that there was oppression.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I'm not with PP.

DCPS parent here and for the past two years, I don't think my kids have brought home a history lesson that isn't fully focused on the oppressed populations impacted. It is absolutely important to teach all sides, but that also means teaching about the founding fathers (not just that they were slave owners) the colonization of the Americas (not just its impact on indigenous populations).. There is a baseline of knowledge that I expect my children to have about the world when they graduate (states and state capitals, how to tell time, how to write a date, what the 13 colonies were, the presidents, etc. etc. etc.) and right now, they aren't getting that. And you can't complain to the school about the curriculum, or you are a racist. So I can absolutely see the value of an anonymous tip line.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

DP. BS. No one - NO ONE - is advocating not teaching the history of slavery and civil rights. It's been taught all along and that's NOT the problem, as much as you dunces want to insist it is. The issue is framing everything through the lens of race. This is what teachers are being trained to do, and THAT is the problem. Educate yourself before spouting off so ignorantly.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BTFRCZ6CA62E/$file/Final%20Anti-Racism%20Anti-Bias%20Curriculum%20Work%20Session%20Sept%2014%202020.pdf

It's only "everything" to you because you want it to be nothing.

Stating facts about the racism (and sexism, etc.) of this country is not "crt."

Just because you don't recognize the inherent racist bias in this country doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We need only look at the George Floyd (and many other) cases to know that it is. Red lining was still prominent not all that long ago. You want to sweep it under the rug as "CRT" and pretend it didn't and does not exist. But it is in the very foundation and fabric of this country. And people should be taught the facts about it. It's the same with how history white washes lots of things, from Christopher Columbus and up through Civil rights.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

DP. BS. No one - NO ONE - is advocating not teaching the history of slavery and civil rights. It's been taught all along and that's NOT the problem, as much as you dunces want to insist it is. The issue is framing everything through the lens of race. This is what teachers are being trained to do, and THAT is the problem. Educate yourself before spouting off so ignorantly.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BTFRCZ6CA62E/$file/Final%20Anti-Racism%20Anti-Bias%20Curriculum%20Work%20Session%20Sept%2014%202020.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Not BS...google it. Many links have already been provided in this thread. You are just choosing to ignore them.

Nope. Are you new here? You make a claim, you provide the links. But you can’t because you’re a liar.

There have been many links provided in this thread. You have chosen to ignore them.

Zero links about John Lewis and Ruby Bridges being "banned." But you know that. Keep up the good fight (aka narrative)!

NP but here is the complaint from the Williamson County, TN “Moms for Liberty” wanting to dump books about Martin Luther King, Ruby Bridges and segregation, calling them CRT.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16W9grkwSFsIPRQOSpQfnAHNJzvDH5Bkk/view

Some of this would be more appropriate for fifth or sixth grade than for second. I am of an age to remember some of the events, and it is not wrong to teach about them. But, I do think that some of this is a little strong for 7 year olds. It does encourage "all white people are bad" with some of the books. Seven year olds are not old enough to understand. That does not mean they cannot be taught about MLK--but teaching about Bull Connor at second grade is a little too much. It should be taught, but not at second grade.

You’ve read these books and can tell us that every one of them “encourages all white people are bad”?