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Banning Critical Race Theory

ChrisL68 said:
Yes, I am sure that CRT is being indoctrinated into the pasty white school children of davie county
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This guy probably heard from somebody that a Social Studies teacher at Davie High told students last year that slavery was the main cause of the Civil War and that the civil rights movement didn't eliminate all vestiges of racism from American society.
 
Highland Deac said:
The guy who did the most to get all this nonsense started over a year ago, Christopher Rufo, is still at it. He's got an article in the right-wing City Journal this past week discussing how leftist public schools and organizations like the Michigan Education Department are teaching "radicalism", "woke education", and encouraging kids to change their gender without parental consent while hiding all of it so that parents won't know what's happening. I guess he's going to keep milking that cow/grift until it runs dry.
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Of course. And why not? When you have a large audience whut’s done determined to prefer the passionate embrace of falsehoods in the alleged pursuit of some illogical, warped, and ultimately indecent ”justice” and you can tap into this for power/money…?

Good job, Republicans.
 
They’ve trained a large portion of the populace to hate government, love politicians, and believe whatever they’re told by political media.
 
Scared snowflakes one and all.

I'm a republican and I don't like change much.
 
Using white privilege to claim they don’t have white privilege. Greatest trick the devil ever pulled and all that.
 
Isn't the whole point of taking "early college" courses that they're supposed to simulate real college courses? Is the CC or the high school the body who is supposed to "approve" the curriculum?

Seems dumb to encourage high schoolers to take college level classes and then complain when they're introducing content someone somewhere deems inappropriate for high school kids
 
I can answer my own rhetorical question after googling:

Early College in Davidson/DavieCC is the same as at Forsyth Tech: a self-contained college program for high school-aged kids. They graduate with a high school degree and an associates.

Many years ago I taught some sections of Early College students at ForsythTech and treated them more or less the same as the fully college sections
 


So they’re just checking out the books they don’t like and not bringing them back. It’s a shame that Lt. Joe Bookman died a few months back.
 
Later tweets on this story: "The former board chair pressed the new board chair why they were firing the superintendent, who'd only been on the job for about a year and recently had a positive annual review...no reason was given." For the GOP this is what "parental rights" means - take over local school boards, fire anyone who might challenge their authority, and begin book bannings and pass laws outlawing any classroom instruction they happen to disagree with.

 
When you state school superintendent is making official announcements in one of those car epiphany videos...
 
The real answer is dumb republican seditionist. (If that's a word)
 
Now that he's safely reelected, DeSantis is continuing his war on public ed in Florida. His next target is the New College of Florida, a small (about 700 students) public liberal arts college that is ranked #5 in the nation among public liberal arts colleges by U.S. News (#76 among national liberal arts colleges). The college has long had the reputation of being a bastion of progressive political and cultural thinking, and very LGBTQ friendly.

"DeSantis press secretary Bryan Griffin said by email that New College of Florida “is a public institution with a statutorily stated mission of ‘provid[ing] a quality education.’ Unfortunately, like so many colleges and universities in America, this institution has been completely captured by a political ideology that puts trendy, truth-relative concepts above learning."

This week DeSantis appointed six conservatives to the college's Board of Trustees, among them Christopher Rufo of "CRT in schools" fame, and "[Matthew] Spalding, a dean at Hillsdale College, and [Charles] Kesler, a professor at Claremont McKenna College, were both part of the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, which produced a widely panned rebuttal to The New York Times’s “1619 Project.” 4 of the trustees don't even live in Florida. "Their self-proclaimed mandate is to transform the small, public institution into a facsimile of the private, Christian university in Michigan [Hillsdale College] that has rejected federal funding, guided the Trump administration and sought a national footprint by launching a chain of charter schools."

Rufo has been particularly outspoken in his plans for the college, tweeting “We are now over the walls and ready to transform higher education from within. Under the leadership of Gov. DeSantis, our all-star board will demonstrate that the public universities, which have been corrupted by woke nihilism, can be recaptured, restructured, and reformed."

While his ability to immediately make massive changes was unclear, Rufo told the New York Times he would be carrying out a “a top-down restructuring” and that the college’s programs would “look very different in the next 120 days.” In the Times article, Rufo said he plans to “design a new core curriculum from scratch” and “encode it in a new academic master plan.” Given that Hillsdale, the template for this reimagined New College, worked closely with the Trump administration to create a “patriotic education” curriculum, this master plan will likely be heavy on American triumphalism....When we spoke, [Rufo] compared his plans to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter."

Speaking of current New College students who chose it precisely for its progressive culture, Rufo said “We’re happy to work with them to make New College a great place to continue their education. Or we’d be happy to work with them to help them find something that suits them better.” So basically the current students can just leave.

Link: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/01/11/desantis-seeks-overhaul-small-liberal-arts-college

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/opinion/chris-rufo-florida-ron-desantis.html

Link: https://newrepublic.com/article/169937/new-college-desantis-rufo-crackdown
 
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