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According to “free-speech advocates,” a dark and sinister conspiracy threatens our country’s public schools: Curriculum transparency.
NBC News has published a lengthy exposé on how parents, citizens and state lawmakers are demanding more transparency and seeking an end to the teaching of critical race theory and extreme gender ideology in public schools.
The nerve of those people.
The piece starts off on the wrong foot, with a distortion of what opposition to CRT in schools is about. Tyler Kingkade, an NBC News national reporter, begins by saying that Republican governors and lawmakers have “fought to limit discussions of race in public schools.”
Opposition to CRT is not about limiting discussions of race or history. It’s about preventing educators from foisting a particular ideology about race — one premised on the idea that some races are inherently oppressors and others oppressed — on students.
Teaching about history and current events is good; preaching a kind of neo-segregationism to students is bad. Most parents understand that.
Obey
Article URL : https://nypost.com/2022/01/23/parents-wise-up-about-critical-race-theory-stepman/