Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Teachers at Rebekah Randall’s Son’s School Are Fixated on Race. She Wants to Know, ‘What Is the Endgame?’

Teachers at Rebekah Randall’s Son’s School Are Fixated on Race. She Wants to Know, ‘What Is the Endgame?’
"A parent of two living in Texas, Rebekah Randall was furious when her son’s teacher implied that the only place her child could learn the answers to cultural questions involving racial identity was at school.
...Yet teachers in her son’s school had twisted valuable lessons about treating people the way you want to be treated, Randall explains. 
They had been “putting race as the most important part of someone’s identity,” one of critical race theory’s main ideas, she says.
“You are racializing children to identify one another,” Randall told her son’s teachers. 
...“They have moved away from the academic rigor that they had,” Randall explains, and are focusing on “political correctness.” 
Her two children, both under 11 years old, “need to be learning academics. They are not to be protesting” in the name of critical race theory, she says.
...And if the ideas are harmless, then why are some teachers and school officials hiding the content from parents? 
In Missouri, a teacher encouraged other teachers to take classroom material that promotes ideas such as “white privilege” off school websites that parents can access...Read all.

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