CRT is very definitely being taught in these schools. John Castle’s disingenuous efforts to paint this as “mere history” are shallow and dishonest. Bullying parents and others with lies is simply unprofessional and vile.
In a December talk session with three local high school students, Tyeastia Green, Burlington’s director of racial equity, inclusion and belonging, shared her views on reparations, racism and “changing the rules” in Burlington — and what it’s like to live in “the second whitest place in America.”
On Sept. 13, the Burlington City Council will vote on whether to support an anti-Israeli policy known as “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.” A local Jewish temple has made clear that any such action against Israel will be viewed as a rejection of cooperation with the local Jewish community.
“Teachers are being given scripted questions like, ‘I wonder why many white people didn’t want black people to have an education.’ These conversations wouldn’t happen naturally among 7- and 8-year-olds, and they’re harmful.”
Efforts to obfuscate and lie about the extent to which CRT has already been implemented in curricula suggests awareness. After all, if CRT is so ironclad and beneficial, why do they have to hide it and lash out at parents who raise logical concerns?
The “Days of Action” and the “Teach Truth Pledge” event, hosted by the Zinn Education Project, will take place Aug. 27 through Aug. 29. The events across the country are advertised as raising “public awareness about the danger” of anti-CRT bills.
Springfield Public Schools employees claim that while the First Amendment protects public school employees from viewpoint discrimination, the school district “forces teachers and staff to affirm views they do not support, to disclose personal details that they wish to keep private, and to self-censor on matters of public interest.”
Proponents of CRT are fragile when shown that they are racists, groundlessly attacking their own ancestors, neighbors and nation for a fabricated, patently-false narrative that fuels a faddish political ideology.
Kira Posey filed a complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after learning her child and 11 other black students were placed into “black classes” at the Mary Lin Elementary School in Atlanta.
Vermont is not a white supremacist state, and its children should not be taught that their skin color means they must feel guilt for crimes of the past in order to be decent human beings.
At the Whetstone Church Hall earlier this month, Vermonters for Vermont Initiative hosted a town hall forum on critical race theory and equity teaching in schools.
By “flatlander,” what is meant is not that outsiders arrived from flat places afar, but that they are unfamiliar with the creed of frugality, agriculture and individualism that predominates in the hills around them and in the times before their arrival. Vermonters can sniff a flatlander from a glance.