Indiana Public School Officials Admit Lying to Parents About Critical Race Theory

[AProudLefty]

It's embedded in those links. You just don't want to be proved wrong.

Proved me wrong? I see no curricula.

Take a look at this wonderful gem

As Tammi Benjamin of the California-based non-profit AMCHA Initiative has argued, the curriculum’s entire agenda—rooted in the neo-Marxist framework known as Critical Theory—is less about fostering children’s critical thinking skills and more about pushing children to become social justice activists.

You expect me to take those people seriously?

And Florida "provided examples" that you could barely see?

Honest question... what exactly are you doing? You know you are not going to convince us, so why bother?

BTW, high school math classes, especially AP, use real world examples and samples. That is nothing new.

 

[Grokmaster]

I think that parents who think your way, Grok,
should also perform any necessary operations that their kids need as well.
Do the dental work too.

Fuck the experts. Everything is a DIY project, right?

Why the hell don't I have you on ignore?
Better late than never, I guess.

Teachers are not surgeons, or dentists, and your asinine analogy shows your complete lack of logical deduction and linear thought capabilities.

What an idiot.

And, if needed, I can teach college level Calc better than ANY English/Liberal arts major ever born.

 

[Grokmaster]

Wait a minute, we got an antidote narrative from some guy which he says is based upon an Email that he never produces. Why do MAGA have to post such shit

And no less published in a Heritage Foundation pseudonym

NEXT

Yeah... must be why he NAMES NAMES , AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS, and RECORDED WHAT HE .
HAS. Kinnett is exactly who he says he is; he was the Science Coordinator for Indianapolis Public Schools.



SILLIASS NONSENSE, AS USUAL from you.

"NEXT".

 

[ExpressLane]

As many of us have been saying for awhile now, leftist teachers have been lying through their teeth about teaching their race-based lies to younger students, by "changing the terminology" to lie to parents about it.




Indiana Public School Officials Admit Lying to Parents About Critical Race Theory

When I received an email from Nathalie Henderson, chief schools officer of Indianapolis Public Schools, demanding that I and other administrators lie to our parents and teachers about teaching critical race theory, I was amazed at the boldness in her request that I be dishonest.

At the time, I was the science coordinator for Indianapolis Public Schools.

Henderson instructed us, as fellow school system administrators, to tell parents that we weren’t teaching critical race theory, but just a form of “racial equity.”

By dodging parents’ questions and misleading them with alternative terms deemed not upsetting, we were sheltering our inboxes from the disgust of parents, whose approval we didn’t concern ourselves with.

After a virtual meeting with critical race theory scholar Gloria Ladson-Billings in which I watched my colleagues laugh about teaching critical race theory and how proud they were of it, I decided that I’d had enough.

The next morning, Nov. 4, 2021, I recorded and tweeted a video explaining exactly how Indianapolis Public Schools teaches critical race theory, cited my sources, and warned parents to “keep looking” whenever a public school administrator brushed off their concerns.

I was called a liar by Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project. I was banned from entering any property of Indianapolis Public Schools for fear that I might “psychologically traumatize” fellow staff. And I eventually was fired by the school system.

I was told that I was imagining things, that critical race theory was taught only in graduate schools, and that school system administrators weren’t lying to parents.

Now many of those administrators, who I was assured never would lie to parents about what schools were teaching, have been exposed while admitting that they constantly mislead parents about what’s being taught in the classroom.

A recent hidden-camera investigation by Accuracy in Media, on which the organization reported Wednesday, revealed that principals and superintendents in Indiana knowingly and regularly obstruct curricular and pedagogical transparency by misleading parents with different terms for critical race theory and social and emotional learning so that parents won’t get upset.

Brad Sheppard, an assistant superintendent at Elkhart (Indiana) Community Schools, told the investigators: “We just have to avoid the words, you know? The labels.”

Social and emotional learning, Sheppard said, “has become a bad phrase and we don’t openly use that phrase but we’re still doing it, so… I mean, just to avoid anything, I mean, we have not really been hit with it, but just to even avoid it.”

Critical race theory is a societal view stating that the cause of every historical event, the foundation of every system, and each facet of U.S. life is built upon white supremacy. Social and emotional learning is a style of education that encourages children to analyze and manipulate emotional responses based on a set of fluid values, often reflective of education philosopher John Dewey’s “Humanist Manifesto.”

Due to events such as the Indianapolis Public Schools’ exposure by Accuracy in Media, parents are now aware that school districts rebrand principles of critical race theory as “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” So other school districts also have begun avoiding labeling anything as DEI.

Tracey Noe, assistant superintendent of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for Indiana’s Goshen Community Schools, told Accuracy in Media’s investigators that administrators had renamed their “Equity and Inclusion Committee” a “work group,” explaining that “we just didn’t want to make a target of it.”

It’s not hard to imagine why school district administrators who adhere to critical race theory and certain social and emotional learning styles are trying to hide these curricula and practices from parents: The content is very unpopular with parents.

Since Accuracy in Media published its video, Elkhart Community Schools’ Sheppard and Goshen Community Schools’ Noe have been placed on leave, pending an investigation.

The Goshen school district claims that Noe “misrepresented the district” with her statements. The Elkhart district hasn’t stated why it placed Sheppard on leave, but called on Accuracy in Media to release the entire video, sans editing, “in order for the full context to be understood.”

Penn High School, near South Bend, Indiana, was caught giving teachers a social and emotional learning lesson on “Racism and Anti-Racism” in early 2021, according to documents unearthed by Parents Defending Education. The lesson equated supporting former President Donald Trump, saying “MAGA,” and calling for detention of illegal immigrants with “Calls for Violence” and “Genocide.”





https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/17/indiana-school-officials-lie-to-parents-about-crt/

They should fire them all.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Proved me wrong? I see no curricula.

Take a look at this wonderful gem

As Tammi Benjamin of the California-based non-profit AMCHA Initiative has argued, the curriculum’s entire agenda—rooted in the neo-Marxist framework known as Critical Theory—is less about fostering children’s critical thinking skills and more about pushing children to become social justice activists.

You expect me to take those people seriously?

And Florida "provided examples" that you could barely see?

Honest question... what exactly are you doing? You know you are not going to convince us, so why bother?

BTW, high school math classes, especially AP, use real world examples and samples. That is nothing new.

You just keep asking for it...

This is California's official Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Guidelines

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/ethnicguidelines.asp

Here's some irrefutable examples:

The board of trustees of the Hayward Unified School District in the Bay Area voted unanimously late last month to approve the program for all grades, starting in preschool — making it a “graduation requirement” by next year.

It will is “informed by and will include Critical Race Theory and the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum,” the district said.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/14/calif...-mandates-ethnic-studies-course-based-on-crt/

Leaked emails show that Poway Unified School District is using critical race theory.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/l...rict-is-using-critical-race-theory/ar-AAWukkV

Yes, Children Are Being Taught Critical Race Theory in K–12 Schools in the US
https://areomagazine.com/2022/01/18... Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education.”

Is Critical Race Theory Taught in K-12 Schools? The NEA Says Yes, and That It Should Be.
https://reason.com/2021/07/06/critical-race-theory-nea-taught-in-schools/

 

[AProudLefty]

They should fire them all.

And replace with Q-Quacks?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

This is my theory.

Parents without PhDs in Education should mind their own fucking business and let the properly trained people make up the school curriculum.

in other words, people should shut up and do what government tells them to do. you don't belong in this country

 

[Earl]

Indeed.

The far left Democratic Socialist loons lied about teaching CRT until they could no longer lie about it.

 

[Earl]

This is my theory.

Parents without PhDs in Education should mind their own fucking business and let the properly trained people make up the school curriculum.
If you have ideas of your own, share them at home and let the kid decide who knows what.

I am reminded of my boxing days in the 1960s. Some 5'5" 300 lb. guy with a cheap cigar in his mouth would always be at a ringside seat shouting tips and advice to the boxers.
He'd break a bigger sweat doing that than we did boxing.

The uneducated who want to determine how their kids are educated are just a little more laughable than that.

Um...Niffy, "Parents without PhDs in Education should mind their own fucking business and let the properly trained people make up the school curriculum."

Really, Nifty?

Who do you think pays for their children's education trough the property taxes which are, for the most part, school taxes?

Public schools are now teaching moral issues which are the purview of the parents. Many of us paid private school costs and public school taxes to avoid the failure of government to teach only reading, writing, math and history...CRT was the final straw.

You far left loons are losing on the issue of getting between parents and their children's education.

Your posts help the parents.

 

[signalmankenneth]

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
This is my theory.

Parents without PhDs in Education should mind their own fucking business and let the properly trained people make up the school curriculum.

Virginia should have taught you how incredibly stupid THAT philosophy is......

 

[Earl]

When the school curriculum included separating six year olds by "oppressed" and "oppressors" and CRT, and teaching perversion as being "normal," it was time for concerned parents who don't want their tax money to be spent for this garbage, to speak...and they did, in Virginia and all across America.