Propaganda articles from Education Week. SAD

If you were one of my students, I'd ask you to support your thesis. So I'm asking.

The question really is, have we come to a place were am I allowed to voice my opinion?. Can I really expand on my opinion.?

I'm not challenging your right to your opinion just as you haven't challenged mine. I'm just asking what I feel is a legitimate question. If "propaganda" is defined as "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view", I'm just asking which information here is propaganda? Because as a former journalist, I thought the reporter did a good job of trying to present both the language of the proposed laws with reactions from those affected.

I would say the term "propaganda" in this context is subjective, and in fact is subjective in almost any article (outside of a weather report).

Critical Race Theory is a Racist Ideology that denies our "individuality" and clumps us into "group identities" that are classified collectively into "guilty from birth oppressors" or "victims from birth" based on physical or cultural traits. When I read White Fragility & How to be Anti-Racist I learned that as a white man I was born an oppressor and nothing I have done or will ever do can make up for sins attached to my ancestors. The same is true for my children and by CRT we must repent but can never actually be forgiven. My wife, who is 50% Hispanic, is forever a victim who is incapable of overcoming the sins acted upon her ancestors no matter how strong an intelligent she may be. CRT says as a woman and a person of color she is justified in hating and seeking vengeance on people like me. CRT says that as a white straight male I am the root of all the problems in modern society. People like me are a disease and CRT is the only cure.

If you can't see that this ideology is the same garbage preached by racists and the real NAZIs you are blind. My wife and I and everyone in the world are "individuals." Each of us should be held responsible for what each of us has done (right or wrong) as "individuals." All of us are human beings who are capable of good and evil and we should all be afforded equal opportunity to improve ourselves and our quality of life. Ideas like "Collective Guilt" and "Collective Identity" are the roots of every genocide in history. Have we really forgotten? Have we learned nothing? As educators we should know better! Please protect our students and unite against the evil bigotry of Critical Race Theory.

Here are the foundational tenets of what we know as Critical Race Theory:

Racism, race, and its intersections (with gender, class, etc.) are an endemic part of society.

CRT challenges dominant frameworks and ideologies that are White centered or White supremacist in origin.

Scholarship works toward social justice, including the empowerment of oppressed groups and elimination of racism and poverty.

The experiential knowledge of people of color is a legitimate way of understanding the world, such as through storytelling.

CRT is inter- or transdisciplinary.

Perhaps you could share how your objections derive from these tenets? There are many "definitions" of CRT flying around--many being offered by people who have no knowledge of the literature of CRT. As a result many "discussions" devolve into little more than shouting matches resting on falsehoods and misinterpretations.

Two of the articles paragraphs read:

'Many of the bills, including Texas’ and Oklahoma’s, use the same language to explain what teachers can’t teach, including that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex,” and that someone by virtue of their race or sex, is “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously” and “bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex.”

“America is not a fundamentally racist country,” Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said in a statement. “And encouraging more racism and discrimination is not the solution to racism.”'

Am I missing something? Is this a bad thing?

Also, the article states: "Students of color, for a variety of historical and contemporary reasons, have lower test scores, lower graduation rates, and lower participation in gifted education compared to their white peers." In this context, does "Students of color" include Asian students (both the East and South Asian variety)? Because these demographics perform BETTER, year in and year out, in the metrics mentioned in the paragraph, compared to their White counterparts.

As I read through this article I discovered so many questionable assertions to comment on, but there are just so many. The article is written in a highly biased and dogmatic style. In truth, this is true of virtually all articles dealing with race, ethnicity, and sex that one finds in Education Week.

To take one example of many: "Administrators overseeing rapidly diversifying schools say they can no longer ignore overall lagging academic outcomes and a growing pile of evidence that shows that students of color are systemically denied the same privileges offered to white students." Systematically denied? Again, are Asian students considered "People of Color"? The experiences of Asian students would seem to disprove much of what is asserted here. Also, no one is being "systematically denied" anything. For example, I have seen a "pile of evidence" that indicates that the primary reason Black and Hispanic students are found in Advanced Placement studies at lower percentages, per their percentage of the overall population, is that they disproportionately lack the skills needed for those classes. Again, that is but one example...

Although some research reveals infants demonstrate a preference for caregivers of their own race, any future racial biases and bigotries generally are environmentally acquired. (Adult racist sentiments are often cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also acquired from one's environment.) One means of proactively preventing this social/societal problem may be by allowing very young children to become accustomed to other races in a harmoniously positive manner.

At a very young and therefore impressionable age, I was emphatically told by my mother (who's of Eastern European heritage) about the exceptionally kind and caring nature of our Black family doctor. She never had anything disdainful to say about people of color; in fact she loves to watch/listen to the Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinental dancers and musicians on the multicultural channels. I believe that her doing so had a very positive and lasting effect on me. Human infancy is the prime (if not the only) time to instill and even solidify positive social-interaction characteristics into a very young mind. Learning selflessness is one good aspect, while another could be interracial harmonization.

Are you living under a rock? CRT is the very definition of pushing racism and prejudice on our kids.

Critical Race Theory is a Racist Ideology that denies our "individuality" and clumps us into "group identities" that are classified collectively into "guilty from birth oppressors" or "victims from birth" based on physical or cultural traits. As a white man I was born an oppressor and nothing I have done or will ever do can make up for sins attached to my ancestors. The same is true for my children and by CRT we must repent but can never actually be forgiven. My wife, who is 50% Hispanic, is forever a victim who is incapable of overcoming the sins acted upon her ancestors no matter how strong an intelligent she may be. CRT says as a woman and a person of color she is justified in hating and seeking vengeance on people like me. CRT says that as a white straight male I am the root of all the problems in modern society. People like me are a disease and CRT is the only cure.

If you can't see that this ideology is the same garbage preached by racists and the real NAZIs you are blind. My wife and I and everyone in the world are "individuals." Each of us should be held responsible for what each of us has done (right or wrong) as "individuals." All of us are human beings who are capable of good and evil and we should all be afforded equal opportunity to improve ourselves and our quality of life. Ideas like "Collective Guilt" and "Collective Identity" are the roots of every genocide in history. Have we really forgotten? Have we learned nothing? As educators we should know better! Please protect our students and unite against the evil bigotry of Critical Race Theory.

When i was in school I was taught from from white peoples history and hardly nothing about African Americans and slavery. we were also taught we were happy. No truths were taught. And as an adult and enjoyed my college education. And my courses in critical thinking I support CRT in education. And since I learned the truth past and present I am no longer angry about my earlier education and all the lies that went with it.