Don't teach uncomfortable things
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‘Children deserve to be taught’: Teachers plan protests over laws restricting racism lessons in schools
Recognizing that schools have long ignored the history of people of color, many teachers have endeavored to incorporate lessons on topics ranging from the Tulsa race massacre to the Chinese Exclusion Act. But conservatives across the country are alarmed by how, exactly, teachers are adding nuance to discussions of race and racism in U.S. history classes. In Arkansas and more than a dozen other states, lawmakers have introduced or passed new laws to curtail or re-direct the tone of those lessons.
Now teachers are pushing back. On Saturday, groups in more than 22 cities are organizing rallies and other events to protest legislative efforts to restrict the scope of such conversations.
Becky Pringle, president of the National Teachers Association, the country's largest teachers' union, said the organization is weighing legal action against laws restricting how racism and history are taught.
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On Saturday, thousands of educators and others gathered virtually and in person at historic locations in more than 20 cities to make clear that they would resist efforts in at least 15 Republican-led states to restrict what teachers can say in class about racism, sexism and oppression in America.
Organized by local educators across the country in association with several social justice organizations, the National Day of Action is meant to raise public awareness about the legislation and to send a message that they will not lie to students about the country’s racist past and present.
The teachers’ pledge: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/pledge-to-teach-truth
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The teachers work for the school districts, who are run by school boards elected by the citizens of the district. The impetus for the push-back against the teaching of Critical Racist Theory, is coming from parents who do not believe that their children should be taught racism in the public schools.
The schools are a big enough mess as it is. There is no need to make them worse.
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@axtremus said in Don't teach uncomfortable things:
On Saturday, thousands of educators and others gathered virtually and in person at historic locations in more than 20 cities to make clear that they would resist efforts in at least 15 Republican-led states to restrict what teachers can say in class about racism, sexism and oppression in America.
Organized by local educators across the country in association with several social justice organizations, the National Day of Action is meant to raise public awareness about the legislation and to send a message that they will not lie to students about the country’s racist past and present.
The teachers’ pledge: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/pledge-to-teach-truth
CRT isn’t facts. Calling it junk science would be an insult to junk science.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/15/abbott-critical-race-theory-law/
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed the controversial bill that prescribes how Texas teachers can talk about current events and America’s history of racism in the classroom, according to Texas Legislature Online. His signature makes Texas one of a handful of states across the country that have passed such legislation, which aims to ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in K-12 public school classrooms.
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@axtremus said in Don't teach uncomfortable things:
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed the controversial bill that prescribes how Texas teachers can talk about current events and America’s history of racism in the classroom, according to Texas Legislature Online.
This is where news "reporting" morphs into opinion. By the use of the word "controversial" the site lets its opinion be known.
Read the rest of the article, and there's a lot more.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/06/tennessee-teacher-fired-critical-race-theory/
“A White teacher (in Tennessee) taught White students about White privilege. It cost him his job.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/19/colleges-critical-race-theory-bills/
On Monday, the Faculty Council of the University of Texas at Austin approved, on a 41-to-5 vote with three abstentions, a resolution rejecting “any attempts by bodies external to the faculty to restrict or dictate the content of university curriculum on any matter, including matters related to racial and social justice.” The resolution said the council will “stand firm against any and all encroachment” on faculty authority, including by the legislature.
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@Axtremus said in Don't teach uncomfortable things:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/19/colleges-critical-race-theory-bills/
On Monday, the Faculty Council of the University of Texas at Austin approved, on a 41-to-5 vote with three abstentions, a resolution rejecting “any attempts by bodies external to the faculty to restrict or dictate the content of university curriculum on any matter, including matters related to racial and social justice.” The resolution said the council will “stand firm against any and all encroachment” on faculty authority, including by the legislature.
It would be better if leftists weren't so racist.
