I do not have personal knowledge since I'm not really connected with such institutions at this time in my life. I know only what I read and see.
I do know that teachers' unions are pushing this agenda, and union members are endorsing it in many areas. It is not what parents want, at all. It became nasty after this:
Parents Stand Up To Proposed CRT Curriculum at School Board Meeting - YouTube
Internal Emails Show AZ Principal Calls Anti-CRT Parents ‘Whackos’ | Young America's Foundation (yaf.org)
Clearly, this top-down nonsense in schools is never appropriate and due to unions, parents have lost control of the schools they pay for. And this is why private school popularity is growing amongst those who can afford them.
In effect, the NEA/AFT move to push this idiotic subject on children has resulted in an EVEN GREATER divide because upper-middle class families are now forced to move children to far better, private schools where the object is education, not indoctrination.
They are in some places trying to do it under the guise of "Diversity and Inclusion" curricula, but those are just Newspeak for CRT. IN a properly functioning school system you do not NEED "diversity and inclusion" nonsense. We learned that in 7th grade when white students were in the classroom with black students and the world didn't explode; when later on, we learned we could actually go to lunch in the same car; and later still when we learned they smoked joints just like we did. And learned further than white and black students could attend parties together while parents were out of town. We were, of course, in an extremely diverse location for the day -- where the mill operations paid wages based on standard wage rates that didn't classify people as white or black; where black folks could have brick houses as good or better than ours, and they could fucking well do anything we could do. Even in 1965, every Wednesday, workers queued up at the Paymaster's office to pick up their pay checks and there was no white or black, just people picking up their paychecks.
That is not Everytown, USA; our town was inherently not racist, anywhere. We lived in a "dry county" -- booze outlawed, and an enterprising black man opened, "Jerry's Truck Stop", where you paid a couple bucks for a cup and they kept it full of beer all night for free. Whites kids and black kids alike packed in that place on weekends. No one cared.
But in the north, racism was alive and well and we saw on our B&W TVs in Harlem/NYC, Watts, Chicago, Cincinnati, Newark and New Brunswick, Detroit, St. Louis.
The picture you and others have of racism in the south in the sixties is distorted by the outlier terrible things that happened a few places. We don't want the influence of racism in our schools. And that is what CRT is: Racism indoctrination.
We need honesty. |
