Actually I must correct my self. I went ahead and googled Diversity Equity and Inclusion and culturally responsive teaching. The latter is an established thing that appears significantly distinct from critical race theory and searching for DEI didn’t present any results that discussed the current political controversy over it.
So, therefore, she could very well have known nothing about CRT or that DEI was controversial if she had not followed politics. On the other hand... I came across an interview of her discussing CRT and saying:
“I don’t know why we continue to give life to it; cuz it’s not a part of k-12 education; it’s not”
Which is peculiar given the fact that last year the largest labor union in the US, the national education association, promoted a resolution that
“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.”
And
“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.”
Or maybe it isn’t peculiar because shortly after that showed up it got scrubbed. Now you can still find references to the 1619 project and Black Lives Matter, but not critical race theory. Instead they have pivoted to the route it doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, the web saves everything. Even stuff rich labor unions try to gaslight the
country about.
So it’s quite possibly she is just ignorant and confused. And who knows what she actually thinks about the topics the term “CRT” refers to by the people upset at the position she was hired for. Either way, given her unwillingness to actually face the political controversy that does indeed exist, I don’t think the school lost anyone valuable when she left.
It’s extraordinarily disheartening that the biggest labor union in the United States is gaslighting the country about the racial ideology it supports public schools teaching. And so many supposed education experts are either complicit or oblivious.
Actually I must correct my self. I went ahead and googled Diversity Equity and Inclusion and culturally responsive teaching. The latter is an established thing that appears significantly distinct from critical race theory and searching for DEI didn’t present any results that discussed the current political controversy over it.
So, therefore, she could very well have known nothing about CRT or that DEI was controversial if she had not followed politics. On the other hand... I came across an interview of her discussing CRT and saying:
“I don’t know why we continue to give life to it; cuz it’s not a part of k-12 education; it’s not”
Which is peculiar given the fact that last year the largest labor union in the US, the national education association, promoted a resolution that
“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.”
And
“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.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20210705090534/https://ra.nea.org/business-item/2021-nbi-039/
Or maybe it isn’t peculiar because shortly after that showed up it got scrubbed. Now you can still find references to the 1619 project and Black Lives Matter, but not critical race theory. Instead they have pivoted to the route it doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, the web saves everything. Even stuff rich labor unions try to gaslight the
country about.
So it’s quite possibly she is just ignorant and confused. And who knows what she actually thinks about the topics the term “CRT” refers to by the people upset at the position she was hired for. Either way, given her unwillingness to actually face the political controversy that does indeed exist, I don’t think the school lost anyone valuable when she left.
It’s extraordinarily disheartening that the biggest labor union in the United States is gaslighting the country about the racial ideology it supports public schools teaching. And so many supposed education experts are either complicit or oblivious.