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Critical Race Theory in U.S. Schools
- Thread starter Chocki
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No sh!t...wood and metal sho always had the teachers that would let you smoke weed outside and turn a blind eye. Having a shiity day..go hang out with one of the shop teachers while cutting history or whatever. They were an important part of keeping kids on the level. Then schools decided that trades were a waste of time and only for losers and minorities. For what I just paid to have some gates made and installed at my house welding pays pretty well.
My drafting teacher was a total stoner. He even got busted smoking weed in the school bathroom.
Some of the guys who took the auto shop classes are probably making a killing now.
This is spot-on. Some states have decent trade/voc schools and I wish more kids would go there.
Shelly Duvall's character in the Shining was justifiably terrified of Jack. This image represents CRT as murderous lunacy.
The best is the conflation between teaching about racism/slavery and CRT. You don't need CRT to learn about history. You don't really need it to learn about anything other than the fact that Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi are totally Looney Tunes & not very smart people.
I wonder why people want CRT taught in schools.
www.nj.com
N.J. board of education member who called VP Kamala Harris a ‘street walker’ apologizes
Linden's Gregory Martucci was responding to a video on Facebook from a pro-Trump comedian.
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Just the facts, ma'am. No Foucault, no Marcuse, no Marx, no "theoretical lens," no collective guilt for sins of the past, no oppression narratives or false choices. You can get plenty radical with just facts, Noam Chomsky comes to mind.
My father was a wood shop teacher in an Alternative High School. The majority of the school skipped his class but every year he had a handful of troubled kids who found themselves in his wood shop all day while skipping every other class and furnished their homes while learning a craft and that made it all worthwhile to him.
Liberals want to focus our children's attention on this nonsense in order to leave them confused and divided. It's almost like they are trying to churn out generations of people reliant on the government because they don't have the skills to subsist on their own.
www.k12albemarle.org
Meanwhile in China kids are learning at levels far beyond what the teachers unions and school boards in the US will allow children to.
Policy - Albemarle County School District
Policy - Albemarle County School District
Meanwhile in China kids are learning at levels far beyond what the teachers unions and school boards in the US will allow children to.
Anti-racism Advisory Lessons - Overview and Resources for Adults working with young people
Unit 1: Who am I? A study in self Unit 2: Who are we? A study in community Unit 3: How are we doing? A study in bias Unit 4: How do we grow? A study in change Unit Objectives Students will understand that identity is personal, complex, and evolves over time. Students will be able...
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Had metal shop not been removed from my HS, I would most likely have become an iron worker or welder. The JHS I went to had an awesome metal shop and a great teacher. Just like Skully's dad, he would let us cut class and work in the shop on whatever project we had going on at the time. On days when he'd keep the shop open after school, he'd have to kick us out of the shop so he could go home. Good times.
My father was a wood shop teacher in an Alternative High School. The majority of the school skipped his class but every year he had a handful of troubled kids who found themselves in his wood shop all day while skipping every other class and furnished their homes while learning a craft and that made it all worthwhile to him.
Antiracism is now routinely framed as a threat to freedom of speech, but the tactic is not new. In 1965, William F. Buckley Jr. argued in a syndicated column titled, “Are You a Racist?” that the word “racism” was being used “indiscriminately.” This risked preventing a focus on real racism, such as that perpetrated by Hitler, he wrote, and also led to innocent people being denounced merely for expressing “controversial” opinions.
Sound familiar? Buckley’s warning about the censoriousness of antiracist politics was issued the same year as the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march. More than 50 years later, the same tactic is being deployed in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Across different contexts, the democratic importance of free speech is being misappropriated to advance reactionary politics.
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It is also designed to put people subject to racism on the defensive. Unless they can definitively prove intentional racism as the cause of a behavior, they are said to be acting undemocratically — and shutting down open debate by indiscriminately accusing others of racism.
Idaho’s new law banning the teaching of “critical race theory” in its public schools is an example of gaslighting politics in action. In a bid to defend “dignity and non-discrimination,” it criminalizes such teaching, arguing that it promotes division. No definition of “critical race theory” is provided, but this is a feature, not a flaw, of the attack on antiracism.
Op-Ed: How 'freedom of speech' is weaponized to fight antiracism
In the digital era, racist ideas are often presented as innocent propositions for debate. It's one way free speech is used against anti-racism.
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So you believe skin color determines how one thinks?
Please share with us other cognitive, behavioral, athletic, or any other attributes you can tell about a person just by looking at what color they are…
I’d love to hear it….
PS: Black Holes are racist….
Are black holes racist now too? Cornell's new race & the cosmos course
The course, Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos, claims it 'will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies'.