Federal Lawsuits Say Antiracism and Critical Race Theory in Schools Violate Constitution Students, parents and teachers challenge whether schools can compel participation in exercises, separate students by race to teach about equality https://www.wsj.com/articles/federa...y-in-schools-violate-constitution-11625151879 A middle school drama teacher in a suburb of Chicago has filed a discrimination lawsuit against her school district alleging that mandated antiracist training has created a hostile environment for white students and educators. The complaint, filed in federal court Tuesday by a conservative-leaning public interest law firm, is the latest in a growing number of federal lawsuits that allege teachings related to race and racial identity in public schools are discriminatory and have suppressed free expression. In the past year, school boards around the country have faced protests and lawsuits over classroom curriculum and school policies—sometimes referred to as “critical race theory”—that litigants say put forward racial stereotyping and political activism. The latest complaint comes from Stacy Deemar, a white teacher in a K-8 school district in Evanston and Skokie, IIl., just north of Chicago. She alleges that teachers and students are required to participate in racially segregated antiracist exercises and that teachers are required to teach material depicting white people as inherently racist oppressors. The suit alleges the district’s policies violate the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination by race, color or national origin in public schools. (More at above url with WSJ subscription)
Schools Use ‘Equity’ as Trojan Horse for Toxic Critical Race Theory https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07...-trojan-horse-for-toxic-critical-race-theory/ In a clever move to utilize the existing modicum of “cultural competency” training, educators bent on revising American history and pushing equal outcomes have found a place to embed the elements of critical race theory. States are running it up the flagpole and out to local school boards in cleverly packaged messaging that demands equity. The definition of cultural competency to date is hard to argue with. The term—used in practice for roughly 50 years—means “the ability to understand, appreciate and interact with people from cultures or belief systems different from one’s own,” according to the American Psychological Association. Self-reflecting on one’s attitudes and beliefs about varying cultures goes a long way toward approaching one another with understanding and respect. This is a far cry from revising a nation’s legitimate history for the purposes of appropriating a cultural bias leading to division and anti-American sentiments. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, signed into law a bill that will take effect on July 1 that requires teachers seeking licensure or renewal to pass a cultural competency test. This occurred after a commission was tasked with researching the concept. What is cultural competency according to this law? Democrat proponents who supported the amendments adding the cultural competency requirement to existing legislation said the state’s Board of Education will determine its definition. Right now, it is absent from the bill. Dig a little deeper and we find that the devil is in the details on the connection between cultural competency and critical race theory. Virginia adapted its concept of “equity” from the National Equity Project and developed a road map to equity plan. Virginia’s African American Superintendent’s Advisory Council put together a slide deck presentation included in the plan. The Africa American Superintendent’s Advisory Council told the state Board of Education that racial equity is the goal. The council defined equity as, “The systematic fair treatment of people of all races, resulting in equitable opportunities and outcomes for all. It is not just the absence of discrimination and inequities, but also the presence of deliberate systems and supports to achieve and sustain racial equity.” When school board members argue at local meetings with protesting parents present that they are not teaching critical race theory per se, or that they are merely seeking to ensure that all races represented in the classroom are treated fairly and respectfully, don’t be fooled. Their rhetoric veils the plan to require not only equal opportunities but guaranteed equal outcomes for all students. This aim disregards the liberties protected in the Constitution. It is a textbook Marxist concept that has been proven not to work repeatedly throughout history. Other states, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Oregon, are also co-opting cultural competency to fulfill a new agenda. The Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board cites a 2018 administrative rule requiring cultural competency training for teacher licensure or renewal. This program “promotes self-reflection” and explicitly references “systemic racism, gender identity, transgender students, sexual orientation.” It also says, “Training programs that must be designed to deepen teachers’ understanding of their own frames of reference, [and] the potential bias of these frames.” It is one thing to treat students and others with respect to their racial heritage and sexual identity. It is another to stifle teachers’ freedom of speech regarding their personal views, and to use curricula based on the arguably false assumption of systemic racism. Tying this updated definition of cultural competency to licensure could result in licensing only teachers who agree with the activist curricula of equal outcomes versus equal opportunity, and the revisionist American history that is, at times, buried in the plans. The John K. Maclver Institute for Public Policy’s staff wrote a piece June 7 in The Daily Signal warning Wisconsinites to look out for curriculum that is not called critical race theory, but is just the same. The writers urge parents to be aware of “one of the many other names for critical race theory, like culturally responsive teaching, equity, anti-racism, woke, implicit bias, white privilege—[all of which are] being taught in many school districts all across the state and [are] quickly on [the] way to fundamentally changing K-12 education in Wisconsin.” Recently the Oregon Department of Education dramatically modified math curriculum in the name of equity. It seems that math—the grounds for which judging its propositions is objective—would be untouchable by those hell-bent on leveling the playing field. Yet the Oregon Department of Education has determined that a “pathway to math equity micro-course” is necessary in schools. Teachers will be required to “learn key tools for engagement, develop strategies to improve equitable outcomes for Black, Latinx, and multilingual students.” How will they ensure that all students, regardless of race or background, attain equal proficiency in math? The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution clearly communicate the American idea that we are all “created equal.” America is the first nation to support every person’s right to pursue his own happiness, which surely includes his own opportunities. This is not enough for the activist agenda, which attempts to disguise and force itself on our kids in schools. Equal opportunity is not enough for those who hold the utopian ideal of guaranteed equal outcomes. Since forced equality in outcome is ultimately unattainable, students and schools alike are destined to fail in this effort, and society will be the worse for it.
Teachers are no longer to put up with toxic Critical Race Theory in the classroom either... School employee slams bosses over critical race theory in resignation letter https://news.yahoo.com/school-employee-slams-bosses-over-110000459.html A New Hampshire elementary school coordinator trashed his bosses this week in a viral resignation letter, accusing them of endorsing “dehumanization and hatred of white people” in critical race theory training for staff. “I won’t be pathologized for being White. I won’t be pathologized for being normal. Neither should you,” wrote Daniel Concannon in a June 28 tweet containing his resignation letter. The post has received 1,600 retweets and 4,000 likes. Concannon, 40, worked in the after-school program at Northwest Elementary School, located in Manchester. The city is a middle-class Democrat stronghold with a population of 77% white. In his letter that signed off with a "F*** you" flourish, Concannon said one of the CRT sponsors had his office “decorated with celebratory charts of the declining percentage of white people in the United States and Europe.” Concannon sarcastically questioned the validity of critical race theory and listed dozens of nonsensical pronouns — such as fae, virself, what, whatever, xemself, each other, everything, and something — below his signature. Manchester School District Superintendent John Goldhardt responded with a statement to employees that Concannon also posted on his Twitter. “The resignation came in the form of an extremely inappropriate letter,” Goldhardt wrote. “The complaint derived from a training session for staff designed to foster critical thinking about race … this district values all members of our community regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.” Despite this, Concannon said the support he has received from school employees and complete strangers on Twitter has been overwhelming and heartening. "I heard from teachers that I thought would never in a million years reach out, expressing support, love, and thanks," he said. "I'm getting messages from moms that didn't have Twitter, and don't want Twitter, but they saw my resignation and created an account just to message me. They're utterly sick of the sickness that's being pushed on their children and they long to see people take it on." Critical race theory has taken hold in New Hampshire schools, prompting the Republican Legislature to pass an anti-critical race theory bill watered down by Gov. Chris Sununu. The new law prohibits “freedom from discrimination” in schools and government agencies without calling out critical race theory by name. It is unclear if the Manchester School District will continue its training in light of this law. A call to the district office by the Washington Examiner was not returned. Retired Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, who is running for a New Hampshire Senate seat in 2022, initiated a program he says empowers parents and grandparents to remove school board members who participate in critical race theory. "It’s unfortunate that people have to lose their jobs to make a statement,” Bolduc said. “You can’t have an intelligent discussion about your disagreements with the school district or our elected officials without having negative consequences like being attached, losing your job, or feeling intimidated.” Social and Emotional Learning.” ChooSELove training was placed in the schools and “did the exact same thing," Bolduc said.
Across the entire nation -- parents are rising up and are no longer willing to put up with CRT in any form under any name being fostered on their children... Critical race theory dominates Oldham County school board meeting as discord continues https://www.courier-journal.com/sto...tinues-oldham-county-school-board/5348381001/ A week after protesters derailed a school board meeting in Kentucky's largest district, discord around "critical race theory" dominated another school board meeting Monday. Most of the 25 people who spoke during the public comment portion of an Oldham County school board meeting Monday evening opposed the majority-white, affluent district's diversity efforts, falsely believing them to be "critical race theory." "What is equity?" one woman asked. "It is to take something where someone earned it and go on and give it to someone else." She, along a handful of other parents, said she will keep her son home and teach him herself. "And I will encourage other parents to do it," she said. "Because this does not need to happen in our great county and our great schools." (More at above url)
We are now reaching the point where school systems, agencies, and authorities are being forced to apologize and withdraw documents & sessions forcing Critical Race Theory on staff & students. Eastern Iowa Area Education Agency Issues Apology For “Critical Race Theory” Document https://kiwaradio.com/local-news/ea...es-apology-for-critical-race-theory-document/
Did you even read what you posted? SO in other words, this was much ado about nothing from ignorant parents. Also the woman who asked about equity is a fucktard because that is not what equity is... Equity - being fair and impartial. Does not involve taking anything from one group and giving it to another. Love all these parents getting up in arms and then being embarassed because Fox new lied to them.
Something else for you to read.... "Equity" is just a softer word for trying to insert CRT into the classroom. Schools Use ‘Equity’ as Trojan Horse for Toxic Critical Race Theory https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07...-trojan-horse-for-toxic-critical-race-theory/
So you quoted an opinion piece on what they think people mean when they say that rather than actually see the real definition. Got it.