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Banning Critical Race Theory

WFcatamount22 said:
Rosa Parks was a total grifting bitch and not a hero.

Claudette Colvin is histories actual hero in that story.
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So by that logic, Hitler embraced socialism, so we should reject it. Good logic, too.
 
centerdeac said:
Maybe an indepedent approach to the ideas whould be best.
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What would an “independent approach” be? Do you have an opinion about how we teach history and race?
 
Including the why the states were split, slavery, why civil war was fought, chapters on reconcillation and its aftermath, early 20th century authors like Richard Wright, but also the sharp turn of WWII, Jackie Robinson and the civil rights movement - with an honest perspective on its leaders, should be taught. That's not CRT.
 
What kind of departments do they think house these WW2-era Marxists? Philosophy? Biology? Creative Writing? You can literally read faculty members' biographies on the website
 
[h=1]Tennessee parents say some books make students 'feel discomfort' because they're White. They say a new law backs them up[/h]https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/us/tennessee-law-hb-580-book-debate/index.html

Steenman doesn't like a lot of the curriculum at Williamson County Schools. But four books in the second-grade lessons plans are the target of her campaign.
Three of the books, about the civil rights movement, are problematic for the way they're taught, she says. One is a children's book about the March on Washington written for young readers.
Two tell the story of Ruby Bridges, a 6-year-old who integrated an elementary school in New Orleans in 1960. "Ruby Bridges Goes To School," written for elementary school students by Bridges herself, is fine for kids to read, Steenman says. But she says teachers should not be allowed to lead discussions of the pictures in the book -- one of which is the famous Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby, the US Marshals who had to protect her from an angry segregationist White crowd, and the ugly slur hurled at her by adults.
"There's no need to emphasize it," she says of the slur. "Just, you know, if they want to read 'this book has a famous painting,' fine. And then just move on."
There's no safe way to teach "Separate Is Never Equal," a 2014 picture book about a landmark legal case that integrated the southern California schools in the 1940s, Steenman says. The book should be banned, because it features contemporaneous quotes uttered by White segregationists in court.
"They [students] are sitting there listening to this, and all they're hearing is 'Mexicans are dirty, inferior in scholastic ability. They have skin problems and lice' and it just goes on and on and on about it," Steenman said as she flipped through the pages. "And I submit that's what they're going to take from that book, because they're just not ready."
This idea that second-graders can't handle history -- that hearing about it could, in fact, make them racist or hate their own race -- is central to the Moms For Liberty complaint against the Williamson County public schools.
The debate over "Separate Is Never Equal," is a surprise to Duncan Tonatiuh, the award-winning author of the book.
"The villain here is racism and segregation," Tonatiuh told CNN while flipping through the pages. "At the end of the book, what I wanted to show is the Mexican American children and the White children being in school together and playing together and interacting with each other."
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Duncan Tonatiuh




Tonatiuh has won a number of awards for writing engaging stories for a young audience. He said he's read the book to many elementary school students and the response has been nothing like what Steenman fears.
"When I shared the story with kids, I don't see kids saying, 'oh, this makes me feel shame,'" he said. "They say, 'that's not right. That's not fair. That's not how people should treat people.' That's the reaction that I get."
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A spokesperson for the school board in Williamson County told CNN school leaders in the county have launched a "Reconsideration Committee" to review the books Moms For Liberty has complained about. One board member familiar with the process said new Tennessee law is hard to interpret, but this board member said they expect the state will ban at least one of the books Moms For Liberty cited.
"Discomfort" clauses like the one in Tennessee are a fixture in the push to pass legislation aimed at racial history education across the country.
It's a crisis moment in classrooms, according to the NEA's Anderson.
"We're heading toward a pretty scary time," she said. "If we're talking about politicians, banning books, uh, I thought we were long past those days."
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But we were told on this very board that the goal of all this anti-CRT legislation wasn't to ban or restrict teaching about racism or to punish or fire teachers for teaching about racism or pointing out the warts and ugly parts of American history, or intimidate them into avoiding such topics. Go figure.
 
Apparently the Johnston County School Board caved to the County Commissioner's threat to withhold 10% of their budget and approved the "patriotic history" curriculum. Again, I thought the problems Republicans had with CRT didn't include simply teaching racism and teachers couldn't lose their jobs for simply teaching about it. I guess not.

 
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