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Voted 7-0 not to renew his contract. Really could have just saved time and called him uppity.
Oh, this BS. Completely mask off.What was this about exactly? I clicked on the timeline, but couldn't find it.
School books about Martin Luther King Jr. are too “divisive,” claims a conservative group at the center of a Tennessee book ban battle. A story about the astronomer Galileo Galilei is “anti-church.” A picture book about seahorses is too sexy.
As the school year resumes, simmering fights over school books have returned to a boil. In some schools, like in Pennsylvania’s Central York School District this week, students have beaten back bans on books about racism. But elsewhere, like in Tennessee’s Williamson County School District, the battle is ongoing, bolstered by new state laws that ban the teaching of certain race-related topics. At the heart of that fight is a conservative group, led by a private-school parent, that has a sprawling list of complaints against common classroom books. Many of the books are about race, but other targets include dragons, sad little owls, and hurricanes.
Registering its website in late 2020, the group “Moms For Liberty” is one of a series of conservative education groups to spring up in the wake of 2020’s racial justice protests. The group is currently involved in battles against in-school mask mandates, as well as a particularly heated fight over school books in Tennessee’s Williamson County.
In June, the group’s leader, who does not have children in the district, authored a letter to the Tennessee Department of Education, complaining that the district’s curriculum violated a new state law against the teaching of some race-related subjects in public schools. (That law, one of multiple enacted over the past year on state and local levels, faced strong criticism, with opponents warning that it would impede teaching about racism in American history.) The MFL letter specifically took issue with curriculum items about Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Bridges, protests during the Civil Rights Movement, and school segregation.
In addition, there is now no majority racial or ethnic group for people younger than 18, as the share of non-Hispanic whites in the age group dropped from 53.5% to 47.3% over the decade.
This was always the plan all along. Nothing to do with the 1619 Project or Critical Race Theory. The masterminds behind this always knew CRT wasn't being taught in grade school and their idiot foot soldiers never bothered to attempt a middling understanding of what it even is.
Yep.This was always the plan all along. Nothing to do with the 1619 Project or Critical Race Theory. The masterminds behind this always knew CRT wasn't being taught in grade school and their idiot foot soldiers never bothered to attempt a middling understanding of what it even is.
It's always been just another moral panic, but not JUST another one. This is more effective than the fights against rock or "satanism." This time, they chose a vague concept unknown to the average citizen (CRT), that they could make any claim about that they wanted. The only people knowing the difference are historians, and no one ever listens to them to begin with.
So they roll out the new boogieman, their Fox-addicted followers clutch at their pearls and rush to the school boards while their useful idiots in the state government pass reactionary bills. And we're only just beginning to see the results of the true intent - To silence any educator who engages with the issues of race in America, or sexuality, or gender for that matter. Education has always been the greatest threat to the status quo. This is their Hail Mary attempt to end that.
And the feds do nothing.