CRT Endored by NEA

For John, BLUF:  No, not the National Endownment for the Art.  The National Education Association, a powerful Teachers Union, although not here in Lowell.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Teachers’ union backs critical race theory

From Linking and Thinking on Education, by Joanne Jacobs, 5 July 2021.

Here is the lede plus five:

The National Education Association voted to teach social studies curriculum “informed” by critical race theory, promote its ideas and investigate its opponents, reports Michael Ruiz on Fox.

The nation’s largest teachers’ union passed New Business Item 39 at its annual meeting.

(It calls for) the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society.

(The union will publicize) an 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.

The NEA will “join with Black Lives Matter at School and the Zinn Education Project to call for a rally this year on October 14 — George Floyd’s birthday — as a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression.”

Until now, CRT supporters had argued that the theory is not being taught in schools, writes Ruiz.

This is shifting terrain.  First the schools are not teaching it and then to oppose teaching it is to mess with the integrity of the teaching profession.  Television personality Joy Reid suggested, this last Wednesday, that those who are against teaching CRT are like QAnon people.

I am sad that my questioning the 1619 Project or CRT is seen as an indication, to my Progressive and Democratic Party fellow Citizens that I am somehow off the rails.  This is not a good look for Democracy in America.

Hat tip to Law Professor Gail Heriot, at the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff