Teachers' Union Commits to Shoving Critical Theories Down the
Throats of Students and Parents Nationwide
The largest teachers’ union in the nation, the National Education Association (NEA), committed to funding an investigation into groups that oppose the use of critical theories in K-12 education at their recent annual conference. This move was bad enough. However, the teachers’ union’s acceptance of agenda items did not end there. Indeed, it is setting up a showdown that the government system of education may not survive. At this point, it is legitimate to contemplate if perhaps it should not.
The NEA will, with guidance on implementation from the NEA president and chairs of the Ethnic Minority Affairs Caucuses:
A. Share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT) — what it is and what it is not; have a team of staffers for members who want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric; and share information with other NEA members as well as their community members.
B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project.
C. Publicly (through existing media) convey its support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.
D. Join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14—George Floyd’s birthday—as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression. Followed by one day of action that recognize and honor lives taken such as Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, and others. The National Education Association shall publicize these National Days of Action to all its members, including in NEA Today.
E. Conduct a virtual listening tour that will educate members on the tools and resources needed to defend honesty in education including but not limited to tools like CRT.
F. Commit President Becky Pringle to make public statements across all lines of media that support racial honesty in education including but not limited to critical race theory.
If you want govt-funded / provided education for your kids that education will include CRT...period. REALLY?
Time to crush the Marxist Teacher's Unions...except the problem is Democrats and the Biden administration support CRT...and love Union money.
What's a parent to do?!
The largest teachers’ union in the nation, the National Education Association (NEA), committed
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Critical race theory has become the new Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi! CRT is the new hobbyhorse the Republicans intends to ride into the midterms, and like all Republican Culture Wars, it’s based on a lie.
Not one single school board in the land is teaching critical race theory in public schools. Furthermore, no school board in the land has proposed the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.
Once again Republicans are providing a solution to a nonexistent problem, while completely ignoring the First Amendment issues with all of these laws that they’re passing against teaching American children the history of the nation.
Laws which for bid teachers to discuss issues of race or slavery in American history classes are unconstitutional and violate the teachers right to freedom of speech.
The state of Texas has already tried to have textbooks used in history classes in that state call “slavery” another form of “immigration”.
When you understand the true history of America, of how the promise of “40 acres and a mule” for each freed slave family never came to pass.
Critical race theory neither blames nor shames white people. Conservatives never read the source materials that they are decrying. None of the people posting against critical race theory have read either the 1619 project or critical race theory. What they have read is right wing media telling them what CRT and the 1619 Project say.
I have read both and felt neither blamed or shame from either. What I did get from reading these texts, was an understanding how the elites have used racism to divide poor whites and poor blacks, to maintain their hold on power.
Each time black people have started to vote in large numbers or to achieve wealth, power or influence, they are viciously attacked by police, the oligarchs and government structures.
Each time poor blacks and poor whites unite, their combined votes drive the white elites and billionaires from power and working people get a fair break.
That’s why Donald Trump and the rest of the Republican party are so busy telling you that Democrats are communists who will destroy the country. Democrats won’t destroy the country, Democrats will ensure that working people of all colours will get a decent shake and that frightens Donald Trump and his billionaire donors more than anything else.
They’ll have to PAY TAXES. Instead of $3 billion in profits, they’ll only have $1 billion. It’s awful. How will they get by?
Republicans demonize Democrats because they’re terrified of them. If they lose the poor white vote, they’re screwed.
