Still waiting for the evidence that public schools are demaning and belittling children rather than idtios at a meeting claiming is happening and not even to their own child. Remember the You tube star who got up at the Board meeting making a wonderful speech about his life and against CRT... yeah.. his kid was never taught CRT so... Sounds like a FEAUX News soundbyte Fucker Carlson would say...
Don't get it twisted, only one side is passing bills to remove history of racism in our public education. It strikes me as sabotage of public education in order to push private education: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/07/09/texas-critical-race-theory-schools-legislation/ Texas Senate bill seeks to strip required lessons on people of color and women from “critical race theory” law The bill would also remove a requirement to teach that white supremacy is "morally wrong." One Democratic lawmaker said the bill’s attempts could lead to a “frightening dystopian future.” Texas lawmakers have filed at least three bills targeting how racism, current events and the country’s founding principles are taught in K-12 schools — including a senate bill that would strip out upcoming requirements that students learn white supremacy is “morally wrong” and study particular writings by women and people of color. Senate Bill 3 features more changes than two House bills that have been filed for the special legislative session that began Thursday. The legislation comes after Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill from this year’s regular legislative session that restricts how current events and America’s history of racism can be taught in Texas schools. It’s been commonly referred to as the “critical race theory” bill, though the term “critical race theory” never appears in it. In signing it, Abbott said “more must be done” to “abolish critical race theory in Texas” and later put the issue on the special session agenda. Teachers and experts say that critical race theory, an academic framework used to examine structural causes of racial inequity, is not being taught in K-12 schools — and that the phrase is being used as a catch-all for any mention of racism, which is an integral part of teaching history truthfully. Critical race theory itself critiques the focus on individual blame in contemporary discussions of racism, and shifts the focus to legal and social systems that perpetuate inequity. 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.” Hughes, a Mineola Republican, did not respond to a request for comment this week. Many of the items his bill would strip were added by House Democrats during the regular legislative session — but were not part of the bill when the Senate originally passed the legislation earlier this year. In his agenda for the special session, Abbott said he wanted legislation that resembled that earlier Senate version. Keven Ellis, the chair of the State Board of Education, wrote in an email to The Texas Tribune that most of the items in this section of the new law are already included in the state education standards, which are referred to as Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. But Ellis said some of the items the new law would require — and that SB 3 seeks to walk back — aren’t currently required in schools. “Some of the items that are not currently included in our TEKS are the writings of Ona Judge and Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptists, as well as the Ninth Circuit decision in Mendez v. Westminster,” he wrote. State Rep. James Talarico, who was a major opponent of the bill already signed into law and had successfully blocked the Senate’s original version of the earlier bill from passing, expressed “dismay” over that version now being revived. “The amendments the House added were essential to ensure that we were teaching students all of American history — the good, the bad and the ugly,” the Round Rock Democrat said. “They were put in place to ensure that teachers wouldn't be punished for telling their students the truth. And if we were to strip them, I could see teachers across the state of Texas being silenced.” “It's a frightening dystopian future that starts to come into focus,” he added. State Rep. Steve Toth, who authored the regular session’s “critical race theory” bill, said lawmakers wanted to strip those provisions because they “wanted the list to be smaller and a little bit more truncated.” “The mission was to get back to the original list, which was more along the lines of America’s founding documents, and to make it a manageable list,” he said. He said that the bill presents a “minimum list of things that have to be read,” and it’s not an “exhaustive list.” “If it's not in the list, it's not like a teacher can't bring it up,” he said. State Rep. Carl Sherman, another House Democrat who added amendments, said that the removal of people of color amounted to them being “whitewashed from our history.” “If I had put in an amendment that Sam Houston should be included, I'm sure there would be no opposition to that,” said the DeSoto Democrat. Hector Bojorquez is the director of operations and educational practice for the Intercultural Development Research Association and a member of the Texas Legislative Education Equity Coalition. He said the materials SB 3 seeks to cut could give teachers some protection, and “a sigh of relief that they could address” things like white supremacy explicitly. He said the rest of the bill creates an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty, making it harder for teachers to teach about racism truthfully. “If it’s not explicitly stated that we can talk about [white supremacy] with our students, then we're bound to repeat it, especially when you have too many people out there saying that there is no such thing as white supremacy,” he said. Even though the bill wouldn’t ban any teachings, specifically omitting writings from and lessons on women and people of color “plainly sends a message” to students, Bojorquez said. “It basically says, we don't care about you or your histories,” he said. “It tells our students that they're not important, and it sends our teachers even further into uncertainty.” Meanwhile, the special session’s House Bill 178 walks back a couple of the more controversial aspects of the new law. The original bill said that social studies teachers can’t “be compelled” to discuss “current events or widely debated and currently controversial issues of public policy or social affairs.” It says if they do, they need to “explore the topic from diverse and contending perspectives without giving deference to any one perspective.” HB 178 would let districts require teachers to discuss current events. But it would leave in place the requirement that no one perspective be given “deference.” It also expands that requirement from social studies teachers to all instructors. And HB 178 would also extend to all K-12 teachers prohibitions on requiring or incentivizing students’ political activism and teaching that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.” HB 178 also removes a provision that teachers can’t require an understanding of the 1619 Project, a series by the New York Times that examines how racism has shaped U.S. history. Toth said that he removed that explicit ban because the new law already prohibits certain aspects he attributes to that work, such as the idea that “the advent of slavery in the territory that is now the United States constituted the true founding of the United States.” One provision in the new law prohibits teaching that “slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to, the authentic founding principles of the United States, which include liberty and equality.” Toth said that should counter accusations that “we're whitewashing history, or that we're not talking about history, or we're not addressing history and the wrongs of history, the evils of our past,” since the bill actually “encourages us to look at history.” The bill also would require teachers to disclose all of their teaching materials and activities online every month. “If you’re gonna teach something, just let parents know about it,” Toth said. State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Dallas Democrat, filed House Bill 216, which would remove the ban on requiring or incentivizing students’ political activism and policy advocacy. But Toth said he expects the legislation that ends up passing during the special session will look more like his bill.
The problem with state legislatures is that they are going completely overboard and attempting to use "CRT" to eliminate any educational lesson that involves the history of racism, slavery and other social historical material in K-12 material. They are trying to have "traditional" history taught only. The problem is that Critical Race Theory (CRT) definition should be limited to not abusing and demeaning children on the basis of race as part of an "educational" process. Teaching about racism is not CRT. Teaching the 1619 Project is not CRT (but the 1619 project has many other problems such as claiming the Revolutionary War was solely about slavery). Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an "educational" approach which demeans the students on the basis of race in an attempt to "teach" them about racism (You are an "oppressor" or the "oppressed"). Sadly this approach at the K-12 level only serves to further divide the students on the basis of race -- and sets the table for a life-long perspective that all failures are due to victimization.
the problem is cons are conning other cons of their dollars with non-issue that sells them on private education. Public service sabotage for privatization is a story as old as time. For reference look at DeJoy & USPS
Since these legislators are eliminating the use of CRT and lessons about racism in public schools --- and private schools can still teach whatever they want (including CRT and lessons about racism) --- your narrative here that this is all about pushing public school students to private schools (usually associated with conservative whites) is not making any sense.
sure it is. If I'm a parent that wants proper education for his child, including history, now I've gotta look elsewhere.
But mah Statues!! The bill is even worse than the original reporting. TX Senate bill 3 is repeal of another anti-CRT bill, TX House bill 3979. The Senate version guts existing social studies standards. They didn’t want you to see the strikethroughs. Let’s compare and see what they removed. What is being dropped from Texas social studies curriculum in the Senate bill? the history of Native Americans Sally Hemmings (enslaved by Thomas Jefferson) Oney Judge (enslaved by George Washington) Frederick Douglas’s North Star The Book of Negroes The Fugitive Slave Acts The Indian Removal Act Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists William Still’s Underground Railroad Records “Historical documents related to the civic accomplishments of marginalized populations, including documents related to:” The Chicano Movement Women’s Suffrage and Equal Rights The Civil Rights Movement The Snyder Act of 1924 The Texas Senate bill also dropped documents related to: The American Labor Movement The newly passed Texas Senate anti-CRT bill drops requirements for students to learn the “history of white supremacy.” Topics cut: Institution of Slavery Eugenics Movement Ku Klux Klan The Ways in Which White Supremacy is Morally Wrong The Texas Senate anti-CRT bill dropped select documents of the civil rights movement: MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Brown v. Board of Education The Emancipation Proclamation The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 15th Amendment More civil rights movement documents dropped from the social studies curriculum in the Texas Senate’s anti-CRT bill: Mendez v. Westminster Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Life and Work of Cesar Chavez Life and Work of Dolores Huerta The Texas Senate bill also drops mandated women’s suffrage topics: Voting Right Act of 1965 15th & 26th Amendments “Remember the Ladies” Susan B. Anthony Declaration of Sentiments Dr. Hector P. Garcia American GI Forum LULAC Hernandez v. Texas
Virginia school site links to radical Abolitionist Teaching Network after Biden admin 'error' Fairfax County Public Schools said the link was 'posted in error' https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-school-abolitionist-teaching-network-biden-admin-error