[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight a recent Minnesota proposal that would require public schools to teach toxic racialism.]
Parents are spreading “disinformation and hysteria around critical race theory,” a former teacher recently told NPR. “Teachers can barely afford the resources for their own curriculum [so] it’s laughable that they’d shell out money [to teach] a college course,” he said. College, of course, is the place where radical activists claim that critical race theory is found, not in K-12 classrooms.
Proposed licensing requirements in Minnesota scrapped the existing "Standards of Effective Practice," in favor of standards which place an emphasis on racial consciousness.
I don t know that there has ever been a place and time in American history when only racists were permitted to teach in the public schools. Mississippi in, say, 1935? I don t know, maybe. But to my knowledge they had no purity test. Contrast that with Minnesota in 2022, where the Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board is considering a new standard that would only allow people who profess