Critical race theory panic escalates further

[NewOrleans]

@ because of schools 

They banned it in June.

Now exhibit A: 
The law that already passed lists documents, figures and events that must be included in the social studies curriculum. But SB 3, filed by state Sen. Bryan Hughes on Friday, strips out most mentions of women and people of color in that section — more than two dozen requirements that include Native American history, work by civil rights activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, historical documents related to the Chicano movement and women’s suffrage, and writings by Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. It also removes the requirement to teach “the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong.”

www.texastribune.org/2021/07/09/texas-critical-race-theory-schools-legislation/

More to follow…

[NewOrleans]

Driving out those most committed to diversity, equity, inclusion

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/critical-race-theory-battles-are-driving-frustrated-exhausted-educators-out-n1273595

Some local residents started to complain that the diversity efforts were Harrison’s “agenda,” rather than something students and alumni requested. They labeled Harrison, the district’s first Black superintendent, an “activist” pushing to indoctrinate students with critical race theory.

In Southlake, Texas, at least four administrators who were instrumental in crafting or implementing a plan combat racial and cultural discrimination in the Carroll Independent School District left the district this spring following a community backlash to diversity and inclusion efforts.

In Eureka, Missouri, the only Black woman in the Rockwood School District’s administration resigned from her position as diversity coordinator after threats of violence grew so severe that the district hired private security to patrol her house.

[NewOrleans]

www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/11/nation/tennessee-teacher-taught-ta-nehisi-coates-essay-poem-about-white-privilege-he-was-fired-it/

As the debate over the teaching of critical race theory in the classroom intensifies across the country, the firing of a Tennessee teacher last month emerged as a flashpoint in the discussion over the weekend.

Matthew Hawn, who had been a tenured teacher at the Sullivan County School District since 2008 and baseball coach at Central High School, was dismissed by the local board of education on June 8 in a 6-1 vote for two separate incidents where he taught about race, reported WJHL.com, a news outlet based in Johnson City, Tenn.

At issue was Hawn assigning the essay “The First White President” by Ta-Nehisi Coates to students in his Contemporary Issues class in February, and later in March, playing a video of “White Privilege,” a spoken word poem by Kyla Jenée Lacey to the same students.

(District says he was fired for not providing alternate perspective)

[NewOrleans]

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White “moms for liberty” (puke!) object to Ruby Bridges’s book

The Tennessean reports that Steenman expressed that a “large crowd of angry white people who didn’t want Black children in a white school” was harsh and she also mentioned that the book didn’t offer “redemption” at the end of the story. Additionally, Steenman is reportedly against educators using words like “injustice,” “unequal,” “inequality,” “protest,” “marching” and “segregation” in their grammar lessons.

thegrio.com/2021/07/08/parents-criticize-ruby-bridges-book/

[bronxgirl]

It's all so awful and hard not to feel hopeless. I can't imagine how difficult this must be for educators on the front line of these attacks.

[mouse]

Jul 13, 2021 12:58:27 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

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White “moms for liberty” (puke!) object to Ruby Bridges’s book

The Tennessean reports that Steenman expressed that a “large crowd of angry white people who didn’t want Black children in a white school” was harsh and she also mentioned that the book didn’t offer “redemption” at the end of the story. Additionally, Steenman is reportedly against educators using words like “injustice,” “unequal,” “inequality,” “protest,” “marching” and “segregation” in their grammar lessons.

thegrio.com/2021/07/08/parents-criticize-ruby-bridges-book/

The closest we’ll get to “redemption” is the actions we take right now. Denying the mobs existed or that segregation was a grave injustice is not redemptive.

I thought I was sad about all this, but now I’m just angry.

[karinothing]

Ugh so horrible. This is starting up in VA now it is enraging.

[NewOrleans]

It’s infuriating and racist and ridiculous enough, but the way they have lumped anything about race under CRT is so extremist (#notextremists). Like, conservative orgs have been circulating word lists to “train” people in what to watch for: words like diversity, culturally responsive teaching, equity, multiculturalism, colonialism. It’s fucked up.

[NewOrleans]

Jul 13, 2021 13:05:59 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

It's all so awful and hard not to feel hopeless. I can't imagine how difficult this must be for educators on the front line of these attacks.

Oh, and calls for teachers to wear body cameras to be monitored for CRT.

www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-cameras-school-stop-critical-race-theory-2021-7

@ perfect for students with disabilities and anxiety.  And wouldn’t it be awesome for everyone to get to watch a student struggle while teacher walks them through something?

[aprilsails]

I can’t wait until Critical Race Theory teaches about how these laws are Racist AF.

[carmenere]

Jul 13, 2021 13:13:12 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Ugh so horrible. This is starting up in VA now it is enraging.

Expect to see it everywhere (yes even blue states) ahead of the 2022 election. This is Tea Party 2.0. 

[Jalapeñomel]

I have a lot of of words or no words about this.

Really.

[Velar Fricative]

Jul 13, 2021 14:16:44 GMT -5 carmenere said:

Jul 13, 2021 13:13:12 GMT -5 karinothing said:

Ugh so horrible. This is starting up in VA now it is enraging.

Expect to see it everywhere (yes even blue states) ahead of the 2022 election. This is Tea Party 2.0. 

Definitely blue states. In some DOE town halls for our local schools, instead of parents caring about what the next school year will look like because of covid, they ask questions about CRT and whether that will be taught. The GOP has created a pretty effective boogeyman. It's the latest Satanic Panic, but racist. 

[erbear]

Jul 13, 2021 13:24:11 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Jul 13, 2021 13:05:59 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

It's all so awful and hard not to feel hopeless. I can't imagine how difficult this must be for educators on the front line of these attacks.

Oh, and calls for teachers to wear body cameras to be monitored for CRT.

www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-cameras-school-stop-critical-race-theory-2021-7

@ perfect for students with disabilities and anxiety.  And wouldn’t it be awesome for everyone to get to watch a student struggle while teacher walks them through something?

This, at least, won’t happen. It’s illegal because of FERPA

[cville]

I want to smash something and scream.

[outnumbered]

Jul 13, 2021 12:58:27 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

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White “moms for liberty” (puke!) object to Ruby Bridges’s book

The Tennessean reports that Steenman expressed that a “large crowd of angry white people who didn’t want Black children in a white school” was harsh and she also mentioned that the book didn’t offer “redemption” at the end of the story. Additionally, Steenman is reportedly against educators using words like “injustice,” “unequal,” “inequality,” “protest,” “marching” and “segregation” in their grammar lessons.

thegrio.com/2021/07/08/parents-criticize-ruby-bridges-book/

People suck.

@@@@@

I read the Ruby Bridges picture book to my preschool class this year.  They had so many questions. This is my first year running my own class and I was able to add a lot of books about the civil rights movement, diversity,  etc to the curriculum
I have to admit I was a bit nervous that I would get push back from the parents, but nobody said a peep.

[Bernadine]

So, our school board is meeting tomorrow, red county,, and I’d like to attend and make remarks. Can anyone help me with what to say? I think speakers have up to 3 minutes.

[NewOrleans]

Jul 13, 2021 17:19:53 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

So, our school board is meeting tomorrow, red county,, and I’d like to attend and make remarks. Can anyone help me with what to say? I think speakers have up to 3 minutes.

there’s so much to say. I guess insisting on accurate history and literature representative of a multicultural society and how those don’t constitute CRT, nor do discussions of race and racism, and censorship is not supposed to be an American value but interfering with curriculum because you think it represents something it doesn’t is censorship. And also you all are racists so keep fucking off until you can’t, and then push yourself to fuck off a little further. 

[smock]

Jul 13, 2021 12:58:27 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

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White “moms for liberty” (puke!) object to Ruby Bridges’s book

The Tennessean reports that Steenman expressed that a “large crowd of angry white people who didn’t want Black children in a white school” was harsh and she also mentioned that the book didn’t offer “redemption” at the end of the story. Additionally, Steenman is reportedly against educators using words like “injustice,” “unequal,” “inequality,” “protest,” “marching” and “segregation” in their grammar lessons.

thegrio.com/2021/07/08/parents-criticize-ruby-bridges-book/

This one really gets me. Because Ruby Bridges is 66 years old. And a large crowd of angry while people DID scream in her 5-year-old face so much that US marshals had to escort her to school, where she sat in a classroom by herself because white parents wouldn't let her even sit in the same class as their white children. The redemption in the story belongs to Ruby, who endured attacks that no child or adult should ever face.

These "Karens for liberty" can go fuck themselves.

[redheadbaker]

I shared these links with my local diversity advocacy group. We need to know what we will be facing soon.

[NewOrleans]

Jul 13, 2021 17:51:30 GMT -5 smock said:

Jul 13, 2021 12:58:27 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

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White “moms for liberty” (puke!) object to Ruby Bridges’s book

The Tennessean reports that Steenman expressed that a “large crowd of angry white people who didn’t want Black children in a white school” was harsh and she also mentioned that the book didn’t offer “redemption” at the end of the story. Additionally, Steenman is reportedly against educators using words like “injustice,” “unequal,” “inequality,” “protest,” “marching” and “segregation” in their grammar lessons.

thegrio.com/2021/07/08/parents-criticize-ruby-bridges-book/

This one really gets me. Because Ruby Bridges is 66 years old. And a large crowd of angry while people DID scream in her 5-year-old face so much that US marshals had to escort her to school, where she sat in a classroom by herself because white parents wouldn't let her even sit in the same class as their white children. The redemption in the story belongs to Ruby, who endured attacks that no child or adult should ever face.

These "Karens for liberty" can go fuck themselves.

Well, and the white redemption could be these people by simply shutting the fuck up with all this but here we are!

[tessalb]

A similar ban was passed in NH as part of the state budget, along with a bunch of other fuckery.

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.seacoastonline.com/amp/7915398002

My history teacher friends are worried. My ELA teacher friends are worried.

Chris Sununu can fuck all the way off.

[mouse]

Jul 13, 2021 17:19:53 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

So, our school board is meeting tomorrow, red county,, and I’d like to attend and make remarks. Can anyone help me with what to say? I think speakers have up to 3 minutes.

For whatever reason (other than racism) people seem very concerned about judging history, knowing that we’ll be judged by future generations in ways that we’re blind to now. I’d lean into that - what we do now to address our racism - both past and present - will be judged, but that’s an opportunity to change the narrative now, to look at the past and present and make the future a better one. You don’t get there by pretending to be unaware, and opponents know that or they wouldn’t be so threatened by it.

[basilosaurus]

Jul 13, 2021 13:24:11 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Jul 13, 2021 13:05:59 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

It's all so awful and hard not to feel hopeless. I can't imagine how difficult this must be for educators on the front line of these attacks.

Oh, and calls for teachers to wear body cameras to be monitored for CRT.

www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-cameras-school-stop-critical-race-theory-2021-7

@ perfect for students with disabilities and anxiety.  And wouldn’t it be awesome for everyone to get to watch a student struggle while teacher walks them through something?

Excellent use of funds! They really haven't thought this through. What happens when people see the appalling conditions of the schools and their overcrowded classrooms?

Student Struggles: Coming soon to your nearest shit reality show.

[tarajane]

It's becoming an issue in Nebraska's gubernatorial race

journalstar.com/news/local/education/pillen-opposes-critical-race-theory-as-gubernatorial-candidate-after-groups-call-on-him-to-denounce/article_35f018f7-48c3-5df9-9ee8-d1caad93aba1.html

[redheadbaker]

Sorta local to me

6abc.com/downingtown-area-school-district-board-meeting-critical-race-theory-petition/10887626/

A petition is calling for the end of the district's diversity programs. The petition has gotten 254 signatures as of late Wednesday afternoon but the issue of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Downingtown Schools has garnered many more comments on the district's Facebook page. Some of it comes from parents praising the program. Other comments come from people who accuse it of being wrong and connected to Critical Race Theory, which opponents like the Pennsylvania Family Institute say is divisive.