North Dakota Bans Critical Race Theory in Public Schools, Requires ‘Factual, Objective’ Curriculum

Epoch Times ^ | 11/14/2021 | GQ Pan

[SeekAndFind]

North Dakota has become the latest state to ban critical race theory (CRT) from being taught in its public schools.

On Nov. 12, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, signed House Bill 1508 into law a day after the one-page measure was overwhelmingly approved by both chambers of the Republican-majority state legislature. Proponents of the ban said the legislative effort was based on the demands of concerned parents.

“Our parents are seeing these types of ideas, these types of concepts in critical race theory being brought home by their children,” said Republican state Rep. Jim Kasper, one of the legislation’s sponsors, according to The Bismarck Tribune.

Unlike anti-CRT laws enacted in some other states, such as the Texas law targeting individual concepts derived from CRT, the new North Dakota law specifically mentions the ideology—which is rooted in Marxism—by its name and prohibits its incorporation into the K–12 curriculum.

Under the new law, school districts in North Dakota must ensure “factual, objective” instruction for students and “may not include instruction relating to critical race theory in any portion” of the curriculum that they require or offer. The law defines CRT as “the theory that racism is not merely the product of learned individual bias or prejudice, but that racism is systemically embedded in American society and the American legal system to facilitate racial inequality.”

In a statement to Fox News, Burgum said the law addresses parental concerns, while also maintaining school board autonomy.

“This bill addresses the concerns of parents while preserving the decision-making authority of local school boards to approve curriculum that is factual, objective, and aligned with state content standards,” he said.

[budj]

From the bill: "Each school district and public school shall ensure instruction of its curriculum is factual , objective, and aligned to the kindergarten through grade twelve state content standards."

Grief's sake, who would've ever thought you'd need a law for factual and objective standards for education.

[Jonty30]

They should be allowed parental monitors to keep an eye on the teachers that might sneak it in.

[GOPJ]

Florida was first to ban CRT...and our population’s much larger...

[Rembrandt]

Another sad day for Arne Duncan (Education Czar) and Bill Ayers (Obama’s gay boy).

[Hootowl99]

A one page law impresses me. A lot….

I learned a long time ago to beware of stacks of paper in the form of a law or contract. It’s way to easy to bury bombs and deliberately ambiguous items that can be interpreted in multiple ways. Lawyers and slimy business people love these things.

[Irish Eyes]

A one page law impresses me. A lot…

That jumped out at me as well.

[Its All Over Except ...]

In Robin DiAngelo’s (along with Sensoy, Kendi, etc are movers and shakers in CRT) book “Is Everyone Really Equal?”, DiAngelo posited:

1.) *”All knowledge* is taught from a particular perspective; the power of *dominant knowledge* depends in large part on its presentation as neutral and universal (Kincheloe, 2008)...*all knowledge* understood by humans is framed by the ideologies, language, beliefs, and and customs of human societies. *Even the field of science is subjective”* (p. 15).

2.) “Our analysis of social justice is based on a school of thought know as Critical Theory. Critical Theory refers to a body of scholarship that examines how society works, and is a tradition that emerged in the early part of the 20th century from a group of scholars at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany [taught there by Marxists]” (p. 25)

3.) “One of the key contributions of critical theorists concerns the production of knowledge…. These scholars argue that a key element of social injustice involves the claim that particular knowledge is objective, neutral, and universal. An approach based on critical theory calls into question the idea that objectivity is desirable or even possible.* The term used to describe this way of thinking about knowledge is that knowledge is socially constructed.” (p. 29).

The foundation for Critical Race Theory is Critical Theory, the proponents of it possess the hubris to think they can possibly say “All knowledge” this or that when only divine beings possess that, and they also possess the hubris to think math and chemistry are subjective. They behave as if they are the masters and shapers of reality and look at you with a straight face and then say the following:

“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” - Ibrahim X Kendi, anither famous Critical Race Theorist.

This is rejection of laws being applied neutrally to all people, regardless of race.

But in the end, given they reject objectivity, why should I believe anything they say? “My truth” is equal to their truth and anecdotal evidence and stories provided by them, in a world awash in subjectivity, is less than nothing as everything is in the eye of the beholder to them and can be explained away.

[Its All Over Except ...]

Continued... CRT, summarized:

White man is innately racist and only he enslaves. When they came to the New World they found Native Americans holding hands and singing, not cannibalizing, enslaving, and committing genocide, not enslaving other tribes, etc, but the lands instead were full of unicorns and rainbows. There was no mass enslaving of blacks and whites and no invasions of Christian lands by Muslims from the 8th century on - counteracted by the crusades - this is white man’s lies, numerous African tribes did not mass enslave, weren’t involved heavily in the Trans Atlantic Slave trade, everything since then is the white man trying to hold everyone else down, if there are differences in outcome it’s always others fault, and it’s wayyycist to say otherwise.

[Its All Over Except ...]

That post of mine to you was also meant to go to SeekandFind. Sorry.

[Jim Noble]

OK. So they will change the name.

[SmokingJoe]

Excellent!

[BobL]

“Grief’s sake, who would’ve ever thought you’d need a law for factual and objective standards for education.”

Actually anyone who took the time to realize just who is running these hell-holes that are destroying our children and now destroying the country.

But why would they bother checking, when the government schools are ‘free’

[Socon-Econ]

The new law is too vague, enabling CRT proponents argue that CRT is factual and objective. And this is a situation where we do NOT want to preserve school board autonomy.

[SunkenCiv]

[BenLurkin]

Schools should restrict themselves to thinks like mathematics, AI, science, manual arts, graphic arts, and physical fitness.

It is the job or parents to teach their children about sex, values, politics, and society.

Better ye — just close the public schools completely.

[SunkenCiv]

Virtual schooling is more feasible now that the COVID stooges have acquiesced on the police state's suspension of civil liberties and the Bill of Rights.

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