Teachers Say Laws Banning Critical Race Theory Are Putting A Chill On Their Lessons

Liberal indoctrination is a danger to a child's health.

 

While the rest of the world is teaching math, science and technology the US is trying to foist this BS on our children. I hope you're teaching them how to cope in the third world, they'll need it.

 

You wide awake rightwing radicals weren't talking about it. Der Leader Orange Oaf never said anything. His genius team...



... were silent. How could this stuff fly under the radar? Sneaky leftwingers, you say, were quietly brainwashing the kids?

The Texas law against CRT includes...

"No private funding shall be accepted by state agencies, school district, campuses, open-enrollment charter schools, or school administrations for the purposes of curriculum development, purchase or choice of curricular materials, teacher training, or professional development pertaining to courses on Texas, United States, and world history, government, civics, social studies, or similar subject areas."​

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3979/id/2339637

Under the circumstances, I couldn't bring my online materials to teach U.S. history to a teacher training session--links to U.S. government documents online that include the Constitution, important legislation, U.S. government websites, and so on.

See above. The law is an ass and so are legislators who passed it.

Go ahead and rally around this moronic demagoguery.

 

I did respond.

http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/teachers-say-laws-banning-critical-race-theory-are-putting-a-chill-on-their-lessons.588560/page-16#post-1072735078

Read the Texas law...

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3979/id/2339637

It's red meat for morons.

 

CRT didn't exist in the schools a few years ago. The 1619 project is only a few years old. I actually did hear that it was being pushed into schools a while ago but now it has become more widespread.

I will rally around this demagoguery. It will be an effective tool in defeating the evil agenda of the progressives.

We morons vote, especially after a delicious mean of red meat. It thrills me that you are so upset.

 

Would teaching mathematics and computer science to high school students and adults get me a seat at the table? How about first-year college accounting and how to start a business?

The average starting pay for U.S. public school teachers is around $40k/year. How many STEM grads will add a couple of years of teacher training to their four-year degree, tuition coming out of their pockets, to land a teaching job?

 

CRT isn't being taught in schools and the 1619 Project is a collection of unimpressive learning materials that don't teach CRT.

Of that I have little doubt.

You think so, do you?

How about y'all raising teacher pay so we can attract STEM grads into teaching? The only reason I taught computer science to high school students and adults for two decades is I had enough money I didn't need my teacher salary.

You should be upset when I tell you teacher pay is too low to attract many conservatives into teaching. You and your rightwing pals have all but handed over schools to the people you so dislike.

 

Au contraire. It's mostly done right and that's why younger people are less racist than their parents and grandparents.

 

In reality, the bills many Republicans have proposed do not directly address critical race theory. Instead, many ban the teaching of concepts that educators say they don't teach anyway.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/28/1000...al-race-thto-self-censorshipeory-are-leading-

What we are seeing is Repubs using their cancel culture to censor and stifle anyone's opinion but their own, they feel empowered since discrimination and bias is legal for those with a religion to force the issue.

 

My experience with STEM types is that they are not "people persons." I became a programmer because I am much more comfortable around machines than people.

Anyway, you can rail and fulminate all you want. Calling us stupid morons just helps us polarize the debate.

 

Young people are always less racist than their parents. They have no experienced the reality of racial difference yet.

 

The sad thing about nutballs getting control of a school board is that good teachers move on or don't take an available job.

 

Probably true about computer programmers generally. That truth makes the pool of potential computer teachers smaller than otherwise.

I would never have taught school if I had needed to go back to industry in computers. Taking out ten years to teach beginning computer skills to school kids would be a lifetime in computers.

I'm trying to reach people smart enough to spot a con. Only those people who won't stop to reflect on matters they don't know about qualify as clueless.

The rightwinger extremists running this CRT con are counting on people not stopping to think. Most history teachers I know already focus on issues around discrimination and do not, indeed would never advance theories the country is irredeemably racist. Who in their right mind would try to help improve a situation they believe cannot be improved?

 

It's an obvious and revealed political strategy. It's all the GOP does. Not that there's anything wrong with political strategies; it's all they do.

 

In three decades teaching, I taught more than one generation. Kids today are less racist, sexist and homophobic.

 

Well those clueless morons are not limited to the working class deplorables but also include upper middle class housewives in Loudon county and 1%'er investment banker types on the Upper East Side. Get ready for a tsunami of us morons from every walk of life.

 

Only if you are paying any related state agency with private funds. And that does nothing to hinder current teachers jobs. So again, how is it cramping their style?

 

"Was on" as in past tense? When where you the union executive? And you were on it in that kids school district? And do you think that all teachers go to their union executive with all of their fears?

You don't know what she taught. She never mentions it. Furthermore you don't know how she taught what she did. You're making an assumption based on that video alone.

It portrays the American Revolution as being about slavery. A false assertion. It portrays slavery as being unique to America. A false assertion. Its so bad that 21 prominent historical scholars wrote a letter to get the author of the projects Pulitzer prize rescinded. And I said it was a foundation. I didn't say that it was the end all be all of teaching CRT agenda. Indoctrination takes far more than a single lesson plan and is far more insidious.

 

I'm just not sure that Democrats should be lecturing anyone racism: Sheldon Whitehouse Was Too Busy ‘Ralphing’ and ‘Boofing’ To Notice His Beach Club Was All White.

Democrat Senator
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Wow! Talk about aggressive stupidity that was a great example. CRT is an outgrowth of CLT, and you can read about that on the American Bar Association's web site, which is something you probably should have done before posting that which so richly deserves any and all of the ridicule which may come its way. CRT is a product of the American legal community, hence all of the info on the AMA web site, the best place for information on just what CRT is and why it had to be an outgrowth of CLT. Read up on that and then come back and try to post something not quite so offensively stupid.

 

Thought we had seen the last of this kind of nonsense with the Scopes trial.

 

I don't think the American Bar association should have a factor in US Civics, but that's just me. Interestingly however, if the bar itself is going to claim that the system is systematically 'racist', what has this system done about it? It would appear to me that the complaints ring as hollow as their inaction.

Of course, what has been done after 1954 has been well documented, and in spite of it, it's still "systematically racist". What a laugh, with this we can safely predict that in 2054, it will still be "systematically racist".

 

Obviously, you have not visited the AMA web site. You should do that. Read up on CLT, and CRT. Gain an understanding of the processes described therein and then come back and post something which doesn't look quite so stupid.

 

Oh, c'mon--teachers went to the kid and told them they were afraid they'd be fired? The problem is school districts don't fire teachers.

I'm assessing her by what comes out of her mouth.

If you're right--and I didn't see it when I looked at some of the materials--you should be able to point to where they make the claim. What you've done is highlight reasons history teachers won't use much of the material. Historians don't explain the American Revolution as motivated by slaveholders' agendas. Even more preposterous would be a claim America was the only slave society.

Read the Texas legislation. It creates far more problems than it purports to solve.

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3979/id/2339637

 

What does this have to do with anything? Do you issue decoder rings?