At a recent Pennsbury School Board meeting, parents and taxpayers spent 90 minutes arguing that a new racial equity policy and plan should never have been approved.
The 20 who spoke out against the plan, unanimously adopted by the board on May 20, described it as part of an insidious and subversive implementation of critical race theory.
“You may not be calling it ‘critical race theory,’ and are disguising it as social and emotional learning, but we are not fooled,” said school board candidate Jen Spillane, of Yardley.
Debate over critical race theory has been a divisive, and misunderstood, topic at school board meetings throughout Bucks County and nationwide as calls continue for reforms nationwide, pushed to the forefront by the Black Lives Matter movement. Part of those changes have been a demand for better student equity and inclusion in public school policy and curriculum.
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Botetourt County residents used public hearing sessions to express their feelings on critical race theory and transgender student policies. Tad Dickens / The Roanoke Times
FINCASTLE â Botetourt County s school board agreed unanimously on Thursday that it does not support critical race theory being taught in its schools.
It didn t vote on the matter, because school boards don t get to decide on curriculum. That is a matter for the state. Instead, the board s chairwoman, Anna Weddle, read aloud a statement on behalf of the five-person board, during its regular meeting at the division s central office.
âThe following statement is supported by all five members of the school board, Weddle read to a room of at least 40 people, many of whom had spoken out against the academic concept during public hearing. BCPS has not and will not be teaching critical race theory. The term is not mentioned in standards, nor in curriculum. This includes the current standards and those standar
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Today Andrew Sullivan posted this compressed guide to MSM disinformation on Critical Race Theory. In a matter of a few weeks we’ve gone from the claim that CRT isn’t being taught in schools to the admission by the NEA that everything must henceforth be taught through the lens of CRT.
The last few weeks of MSM disinformation compressed. https://t.co/QvptQLbLRY
Just two weeks ago, Joy Reid was on television quoting Ibram Kendi’s claim that he was definitely not a critical race theorist. Reid also claimed in the same segment that Identity Politics was something distinct from CRT. But Kendi himself had told an interviewer two weeks earlier, “intersectional theory, which is one of the critical components of critical race theory, is foundational to to to being Antiracist.” In other words, if you want to partake in Kendi’s anti-racism, you can’t do that without intersectionality which is a “critical component” of CRT. But, hey, let’s all keep pretending this h
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