Exactly, they are volunteer groups that support the school and teachers with events and information distribution. The fucktard Karen who spoke out was asked to step down because she has no power
I don't know where you live but in the U.S. South -- PTAs are fairly powerful organizations holding sway over school systems. The leadership positions in many PTA organizations are significant. A PTA Vice President of Training is a significant PTA position for a large school system. Seeing that schools systems can remove PTA officers from the organization by not allowing them on school grounds or not allowing them involvement in school functions (which has happened many times in the past) --- it is clearly in the purview of the administrators of the school system to act. Expressing her opinion of "killing the parents" is the school system's problem & and they can not just wash their hands of it by not taking action.
Again... you are making arguments that favor what I have been saying.... just because some nutcases rant about CRT does not make FOX news assertions true that it is being taught and demaning children. IN FACT... when someone made such crazy statements... SHE WAS KICKED OUT. A member of the PTA has ZERO... ZILCH...... NADA power despite what you say in the South. PTA cannot set curriculuum, fire teachers, hire teachers, etc.. they are a volunteer comittee and have no control over a State run agency. Just because a cunt Karen thinks being President of the PTA is real power means nothing haha.... The Pinrcipal is the boss and can kick out the PTA if they get all kareny.
Even the Biden administration now recognizes that school policies and educational material which demeans and belittles students on the basis of their race --- will not be supported by parents. Calling "Whiteness" bad -- and calling to "disrupt Whiteness" is pretty much intolerable. Biden admin walks back ties to group pushing critical race theory in schools 'It was an error' to promote the critical race theory handbook said Biden's Department of Education https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-walks-back-critical-race-theory The Biden administration blamed an "error" Wednesday after promoting a radical activist group’s handbook that pushes critical race theory in schools and calls on educators to "disrupt Whiteness." "The Department does not endorse the recommendations of this group, nor do they reflect our policy positions," the Department of Education (DOE) said in a statement. "It was an error in a lengthy document to include this citation." DOE linked to the Abolitionist Teaching Network’s "Guide for Racial Justice & Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning" in its handbook intended as a "roadmap" for schools to reopen safely during the coronavirus pandemic. "Abolitionist Teaching promotes justice, healing, joy, and liberation for all Black, Brown, and Indigenous folx, inclusive of all intersecting identities," the group’s guide states. It calls on educators to "[r]emove all punitive or disciplinary practices that spirit murder Black, Brown, and Indigenous children" and to "uild a school culture that engages in healing and advocacy." "This requires a commitment to learning from students, families, and educators who disrupt Whiteness and other forms of oppression," it states. The guide also claims that social and emotional learning (SEL) "can be a covert form of policing used to punish, criminalize, and control Black, Brown, and Indigenous children and communities to adhere to White norms," and that "[m]ost SEL standards are rooted in Eurocentric norms, not to empower, love, affirm, or free Black, Brown, or Indigenous children." DOE's handbook currently links to the group’s guide in a section about meeting the social, emotional, and mental health needs of students. "It is important for educators to recognize that social and emotional competencies can be expressed differently across cultures, especially considering that young students of color are living through, witnessing, and making sense of historic moments in American history and their place in it," the department’s handbook states. "Schools are microcosms of society; therefore, culturally responsive practices, intentional conversations related to race and social emotional learning, and helping students understand the skills they are building in school are the foundation for participating in a democracy and should be anchor tenets in building a schoolwide system of educational opportunity." While the Abolitionist Teaching Network, co-founded last year by author and professor Bettina Love, does not explicitly mention critical race theory in its guide promoted by the Biden administration, the idea that racism is not aberrational and that America’s institutions are inherently racist are commonly held tenets of the theory. The network "is dedicated to not creating new schools or reimagining schools, but destroying schools that do nothing but harm Black and brown children," Love said during a welcome webinar in October. "If you don’t recognize that White supremacy is in everything we do, then we got a problem."
Not the first time dems are bullied over optics of non-existent threats. Reader may refer to immigration, super predators, and the drug war.
This time however it is the parents in an uproar -- including parents of all races. Parents will not stand-by and watch their children demeaned & belittled in school on the basis of race. This CRT issue started at the local level -- unlike the issues of illegal immigration, etc. that many parents don't care deeply about since these other issues do no impact their families on a daily basis in terms of what their children endure.
Dems are the perpetual losers, what can I say? Instead of gaining support from the GQP for backtracking on this non-issue and having "heard their concerns", it'll be used against them for "acknowledging the existence" of a non-issue. They're basically making the scary monster real by entertaining delusions.
Biden admin has eyebrow-raising ties to CRT group they pulled support from as $11K payment emerges CRT group promoted by Biden admin has ties to top Education Department officials https://www.foxnews.com/us/critical-race-theory-activist-education-department-connections