Anti-CRT Laws Backfiring Spectacularly. Creating Confusion, Teacher Reprimands, and Demands that Books be Removed From Classrooms.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/southlake-texas-holocaust-books-schools-rcna2965

 

So the Texas GOP passed a anti-CRT bill that while not specifically target eliminating books about racism or slavery, because Texas knew that would be considered blatantly racist, that was still the intent of the law they wanted to introduce, so they worked around it by just making a very broad, and unspecific mandating that teachers teach and provide materials that provide "multiple perspectives" when teaching controversial or current topics.

This has naturally created confusion, different interpretations, and fear among Texas school teachers that teaching about any controversial topic or anything that could be considered 'anti-America' by the Republican Police State could get them punished or fired. 

One of the most nationally well known and reported examples of this is the Carroll School district in Texas, one of the States most successful school districts, who is responding to the new State law in contradictory ways and creating fear and confusion all across the school district. 

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Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, made the comment Friday afternoon during a training session on which books teachers can have in classroom libraries. The training came four days after the Carroll school board, responding to a parent’s complaint, voted to reprimand a fourth grade teacher who had kept an anti-racism book in her classroom.

A Carroll staff member secretly recorded the Friday training and shared the audio with NBC News.

“Just try to remember the concepts of [House Bill] 3979,” Peddy said in the recording, referring to a new Texas law that requires teachers to present multiple perspectives when discussing “widely debated and currently controversial” issues. “And make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust,” Peddy continued, “that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.”

“How do you oppose the Holocaust?” one teacher said in response. 

“Believe me,” Peddy said. “That’s come up.”

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Six Carroll teachers — including four who were in the room to hear Peddy’s remarks — spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity, worried that they would be punished for discussing their concerns publicly. They said district leaders have sent mixed messages about which books are appropriate in classrooms and what actions they should be taking.

“Teachers are literally afraid that we’re going to be punished for having books in our classes,” an elementary school teacher said. “There are no children’s books that show the ‘opposing perspective’ of the Holocaust or the ‘opposing perspective’ of slavery. Are we supposed to get rid of all of the books on those subjects?”

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The debate in Southlake over which books should be allowed in schools is part of a broader national movement led by parents opposed to lessons on racism, history and LGBTQ issues that some conservatives have falsely branded as critical race theory. A group of Southlake parents has been fighting for more than a year to block new diversity and inclusion programs at Carroll, one of the top-ranked school districts in Texas.

Late last year, one of those parents complained when her daughter brought home a copy of “This Book Is Anti-Racist” by Tiffany Jewell from her fourth grade teacher’s class library. The mother also complained about how the teacher responded to her concerns. 

Carroll administrators investigated and decided against disciplining the teacher. But last week, on Oct. 4, the Carroll school board voted 3-2 to overturn the district’s decision and formally reprimanded the teacher, setting off unease among Carroll teachers who said they fear the board won’t protect them if a parent complains about a book in their class.

 

The school district has released statements denying that it wants teachers to teach/provide materials in support of the Holocaust and that it does not want teachers to remove books from their classrooms or class libraries, but at the same time it is sending directions and emails to teachers that mandate them to review all books in their classrooms and set aside any books that do not offer multiple perspectives or that have too much bias to one side. 

They are now letting the overly sensitive, racist, conservative parents of these children basically act as the state police force to monitor the books and lesions their children have access to and report anything they deem to contrary to their American Conservative values, which this particular school district is all to willing to encourage and act upon. 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/09/24/pennsylvania-school-book-ban-diversity/

A Pennsylvania school district that had banned a list of anti-racism books and educational resources by or about people of color — including children’s titles about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. — reversed its nearly year-long decision this week after backlash and protests from students, parents and educators in the community.

 

The Central York School District had implemented “a freeze” last fall on a lengthy list of books and educational resources that focused almost entirely on titles related to people of color. The school district claimed the books on race and social justice, which some in the southern Pennsylvania community hoped would help bolster the educational curriculum following George Floyd’s murder and the racial-justice protests of 2020, were frozen, not banned, after some parents raised concerns about the materials.

The school board announced Monday it had voted unanimously to reinstate access to the books, district spokeswoman Julie Randall Romig confirmed to The Washington Post.

Johnson previously noted that some parents in the district “believe that rather than uniting on diversity, certain resources polarize and divide on diversity and are based on disputed theories and facts.”

 

 

Edited October 15, 2021 by CoffeeTiger

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That sounds like too much government, all right.