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Teachers from a Missouri school district discussed how to sneak teaching about “the concept of White Privilege” past conservative parents during a seminar with a critical race theory advocate, who suggested avoiding that kind of “terminology.”
“I don’t advertise to my students when I’m teaching U.S. history that sometimes I would consider myself the anti-U.S. history teacher,” one teacher said during the question-and-answer period of the presentation by Dr. LaGarrett King, an associate professor at the University of Missouri.
“One of the challenges we run into is we’re in a highly conservative county. We are in the middle of Trump country here and any time in my career when we’ve attempted with staff, attempted with kids, attempted with families to even touch on the concept of white privilege, we get incredible amounts of pushback,” another teacher complained.
Barbara Guthrie and Jim Henry May 17, 2021
In the recent school board election, one candidate voiced opposition to HB 198, which would require integrating Black history throughout the school year rather than relegating it to just one month. Improving proficiency in math and reading were offered as a more pressing issue.
Experienced teachers recognize this false dichotomy, as if teaching Black history necessarily compromises teaching reading and math. For years now, educational research has demonstrated that the old “skills and drills” and rote memorization approaches to learning - frequently associated with developing proficiency because of the standardized tests so often used to measure progress - are far less effective in student learning than devising activities that teach skills in context. Black history can provide that context in tandem with other contexts.
Union Marxists Are Teaching Social Justice in Chicago Public School Math Classes
Karen Lewis
Bolshevik unionist Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Public Schools teachers’ union, recently told teachers how to inculcate math instruction with social ideology. It’s not the first time. She wants to politicize everything as long as it’s far-left politicization.
In the video below, she explained how a Progressive named Bob Peterson puts social justice propaganda into his math lessons in lieu of consumerism.
“People always talk about how that there’s no politics and values in math. That you can teach math and there’s no place for social justice. So let me tell you how Bob deals with that,” Lewis said.