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Posted on 07/05/2021 5:06:08 PM PDT by blam
Several King County, Washington, activist teachers revealed to Crosscut how they inject race and “equity” lessons into their elementary classrooms.
Kent teacher Joanne Barber took advantage of violent Black Lives Matter protests last year “to teach more about race” in her second grade class.
“I am willing to be that teacher that has those hard conversations,” she said. “I would be doing a huge disservice to my students if I didn’t give them information that they could see themselves in.”
She told Crosscut learning that “racial history” is “just as important as reading or math.”
Barber teaches children 7- and 8-year-olds that slavery “led to institutional racism and implicit bias.” She also “weaves race and equity into every subject” and “every day in her class is filled with race education.”
Patricia Shelton, a curriculum developer in the Bellevue School District, told Crosscut, “In Bellevue, we have been working very hard in grades 5, 8 and 11 to de-center the traditional ‘white’ perspective and to center the voices of people of color.”
Shelton’s colleague, equity specialist Shomari Jones, said he successfully removed works such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird because they contained the N-word.
“There were so many instances of students feeling further oppressed by being in a classroom space where these books were being read aloud,” he said. “[These] have continued the racial trauma and racial stamina necessary for a negatively impacted student to endure when attending school.”
Activist teachers and administrators have begun meeting resistance from parents who argue such “equity” education is leftist indoctrination.
Ground zero for that fight has been Loudoun County, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. Angry parents attended a recent school board meeting to demand answers, only to have board members flee and order police to remove attendees.
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“Shomari Jones”
Remember when Key and Peele’s East West Game skits were comedy?
Fire the lot of them at once.
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White people are being marginalized
So why do I hear all of this is necessary because of marginalized people who feel like second class citizens because of their skin color?
All of this furthers such feelings, it doesn’t “end racism”.
Stop making people ashamed of their skin color,
Teaching “equity” is teaching communism. There is no place in schools for this.
I'd wager $1,000 he has read neither of those books.
He obviously doesn't have a clue about Atticus Finch or how he supported social outcasts and victims of prejudice.
Huckleberry Finn was first and foremost about the evils of racism. Twain was passionate about the racial equality debate, feeling that it was a moral right for America to allow African-Americans the same freedoms as whites. Twain’s statement that “Lincoln’s Proclamation … not only set the black slaves free, but set the white man free also” clearly reflected his approval of the Reconstruction’s progressive ideals. It is unsurprising that Twain’s viewpoint was structured within a narrative dealing with race relations, as he felt American society must change. It gives credence to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn aiming to critique American society and make readers understand its ills. (source: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Analysing its Racial Context and Reception")
By removing two outstanding, exemplary American novels about the evils of racism, Jones is revealing himself to be an uneducated freaking idiot -- the very LAST person you would want teaching your children about race.
I am willing to be that teacher that has those hard conversations,” she said. \\
Oh bullsh!t.
She’s a bully who likes abusing little kids with her hateful screeds.
She up for a ‘ hard’ conversation ?
Then she should try spewing that crap to their parents.
I’d rather take it up the butt wouldn’t chu?
...than what?
Huh?
Are they building the reeducation camps yet?
They’re built. They’re called public schools and colleges.
Some NEA members are cruzin’ for a lethal injection.
Outrageous, but all too typical of the education system these days.
Kent, eh...went 12 years in Kent schools and graduated...but that was when we got an education. ..wouldn’t recommend them now. 7 & 8 year olds deserve better.
I’d rather take it up the butt wouldn’t chu?
...than what?
Huh?
I jus’ dunno these days. At least it wood be over with soon.
They are Satan’s messengers
Children are not stupid they know when their teachers are idiots
He may have read them but he's too stupid to understand what they are really about. He probably only had eyes for the forbidden "N-word." Stupidity, phrased politely as "lack of intellectual depth," seems to be a recurrent aspect of the current racist anti-White movement.
That’s a distinct possibility, too. He is so mono-focused on that word he can find no other redeeming value in the books. They are the true classic American anti-racist books — and he bans them.
That is weapons-grade stupidity.
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