Videos Expose Educators Ignoring State Laws Banning CRT In Schools: ‘We Don’t Really Let Anybody Tell Us What To Do’
4/1/22
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from The Federalist,
3/31/22:
Schools in Republican-led states are skirting laws banning CRT in public education, according to new investigative footage.
While speaking with Mark Jones of the Boise School District, for instance, AIM President Adam Guillette asked whether educators could teach “tenets … associated with [CRT], but under the guise of equity or something else,” to which Jones affirmed and further explained that “part of [the district’s] strategic plan deals with equity.”
“And I bet the idiot MAGA crowd just ignores it because it doesn’t have the ‘critical race theory’ name on it, right?” Guilette continued.
“I hope so. I hope so,” Jones replied with a laugh.
- While unknowingly speaking with AIM, Cindy Dion, a district instructional coach for the Nampa School District, admitted that although schools can’t teach material directly from the “1619 Project” itself, they can utilize concepts associated with it through an online educational database called Newsela.
“There are some really great free history resources out there,” Dion said. “There’s just a lot of pushback on [the ‘1619 Project’]. So we’ve had to say, right now we can’t.”
As detailed by Guillette, Newsela has become “another Trojan horse that gets used to advance critical race theory,” with the AIM president pointing to the company’s statements on anti-racism and promotion of Black Lives Matter content.
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