{"id":3586,"date":"2021-06-09T22:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T22:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2024-10-15T22:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:01:47","slug":"the-radical-reshaping-of-k-12-public-education-part-3-critical-race-theory-woke-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/education\/2021\/06\/09\/the-radical-reshaping-of-k-12-public-education-part-3-critical-race-theory-woke-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radical Reshaping of K-12 Public Education (Part 3): Critical Race Theory & Woke Academics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Editor\u2019s Note: This is Part Three of a three-part article. Click to read <\/em>Part One: Gender Redefinition & Self-Selection<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Part Two: Civics & History<\/em><\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A form of reverse racism is not only dominating the national conversation but also quickly becoming a bedrock of teacher training and student academics. Critical Race Theory and woke education are sweeping schools. White teachers and students are labeled as racist and required to denounce their alleged white supremacy. Even basic mathematics is under attack for its perceived racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those championing Critical Race Theory and woke education are reversing the heroic and historic work of King and many others who fought for equality in America.<\/p>Keri D. Ingraham<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Critical Race Theory Teacher Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What is Critical Race Theory? It is defined<\/a> as an: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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intellectual<\/a> movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise<\/a> that race<\/a> is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Critical Race Theorists assert that \u201cthe law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist<\/a> insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Frankfurt School<\/a>, comprised of researchers in Germany connected with the Institute for Social Research and dating back to 1923, used Marxist concepts to \u201canalyze the social relations within capitalist economic systems.\u201d This approach was termed Critical Theory. Critical Theory<\/a> produced Critical Legal Theory, which brought about Critical Race Theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More specifically, Critical Race Theory<\/a> \u201cteaches people that their individuality is not based on their intrinsic worth as human persons, but as members of a group based on their perceived outward appearance.\u201d The theory<\/a> intentionally \u201cseeks to divide American society into two classes, the oppressors and the oppressed. It labels people based on the color of their skin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an effort to ensure<\/a> \u201cfair and equal treatment of all individuals in the United States,\u201d President Trump signed an executive order on September 22, 2020, that prohibited federal workplace training on \u201cdiverse concepts\u201d which included \u201crace or sex stereotyping\u201d as well as \u201crace or sex scapegoating.\u201d The executive order expanded on a September 4, 2020, letter by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget within the White House, banning federal spending on any training involving Critical Race Theory, white privilege, and un-American propaganda. This came as the result of these toxic ideologies sweeping through federal agencies, including the FBI. Sadly, President Biden rescinded the order on his first day in office, allowing Critical Race Theory to reign supreme, spurring further division within our nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical Race Theory entered into our schools in the form of Critical Race Theory-based teacher training even as classrooms were closed during the fall of 2020. The emotional backdrop was a nation in disarray following a dark summer of violent protests, the defacing and destruction of historic statues, looting, and the burning of police vehicles and buildings following the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One example of many comes from Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia, the tenth largest school district in the U.S. In August 2020, when the district should have been intently focused on equipping teachers with skills and best practices for online classroom learning, teacher training time was instead devoted to Critical Race Theory indoctrination<\/a>. The district paid activist Ibram Kendi $20,000 for a one-hour training session ($333.33 per minute). The one-hour training was only the beginning of the indoctrination. The district doled out another $24,000 to purchase his books for K-12 student required reading. Kendi\u2019s books<\/a> promote a vast array of radical ideas in support of \u201canti-racism\u201d \u2014 such as the assertion that \u201cracial discrimination is not inherently racist\u201d (only discrimination by whites against blacks is), the proposal of a constitutional amendment against any \u201cracial inequity,\u201d and the establishment of an authoritarian \u201cDepartment of Anti-racism\u201d with the power to reject any local, state, or federal policy it deemed would further racial inequities in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fairfax County is not alone in its Critical Race Theory teacher professional development. In December, during teacher training in San Diego<\/a>, white employees were told, \u201cyou are racist\u2026upholding racist ideas, structures, and policies.\u201d They were warned that they would experience \u201cguilt, anger, apathy [and] closed-mindedness\u201d due to their \u201cwhite fragility.\u201d Masquerading as anti-racism, Critical Race Theory training makes blanket assertions about people based solely on their race \u2014 which is the very definition of racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, for Fairfax Country and San Diego, preparing teachers to indoctrinate their students on radical Critical Race Theory concepts takes priority over getting teachers back in classrooms or training teachers in best practices for remote learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as classrooms began to open (at least partially) in the early months of 2021, the Critical Race Theory training had not let up. Instead, it spread like wildfire nationwide, not only in classrooms but into state legislatures, which sought to pass legislation requiring it. For example, Washington State Senate Bill 5044<\/a>, which has passed both the Senate and the House, would mandate Critical Race Theory training every year in public school as part of required teacher professional development. Claiming to bring equity and justice to non-white school personnel and students, the legislation will hurt the very groups it professes to champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liv Finne, Director of the Center for Education at the Washington Policy Center, describes<\/a> the harmful and divisive impact of this indoctrination in schools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critical Race Theory teaches black children they are not responsible for their own innate abilities, but instead are structural victims of someone else. What proponents are hoping to achieve by this indoctrination is dependency and low-performance, and they seek to encourage political activism over authentic student development.<\/p>\nLiv Finne, Director of the Center for Education at the Washington Policy Center<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In other words, it lowers the standard for black students, which is ultimately discrimination against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some states are pushing back against the training. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned<\/a> its teaching in the public schools in his state. Likewise, the Idaho House of Representatives is also taking a stand<\/a>, refusing to allow Critical Race Theory to permeate the state\u2019s public school classrooms. Idaho Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin announced<\/a> that she would form an indoctrination task force to identify where critical race theory, socialism, communism, and Marxism \u201care lurking and excise them from our education system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the vast majority of states are giving way to Critical Race Theory teacher training and implementing this damaging doctrine within their classrooms. Sometimes this even involves unethical and illegal actions on the part of school district leaders. For example, in Texas, Carroll Independent School District President Michelle Moore and Vice President Todd Carlton worked secretively<\/a> to push their racial training plan ahead despite a judge issuing a restraining order to restrict it. The proposed plan would cost $425,000 in the first year alone with the heavy price tag of $35,000 for speakers. A grand jury indicted Moore and Carlton as a result of their malicious, illegal actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully government leaders in other states will follow the lead of Idaho and Florida, stopping Critical Race Theory from taking root. Currently, seven states<\/a> \u2014 Tennessee, Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, South Dakota, Arizona, and North Carolina<\/a> \u2014 are proposing legislation to ban Critical Race Theory from their public schools. Immediate action is needed by all state and local leaders to protect students and staff of all skin colors, as the invasion of this divisive, racist dogma is fully underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We need your help. An unprecedented campaign is underway to win the hearts and minds of vulnerable children in classrooms across America with extreme ideologies. Public schools are being transformed into radical indoctrination centers pushing gender redefinition and self-selection, rewriting history, and promoting Critical Race Theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not too late to intervene and reverse these new radical policies, practices, and curriculums that go against our country\u2019s best interest and that of our students. The American Center for Transforming Education<\/strong>, a program of Discovery Institute, is defending American ideals and fighting against radical indoctrination in our schools. As a non-profit organization, our work is made possible only by the generosity of our supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking action now is critical because those promoting radical ideologies are becoming ever more aggressive in systematically pushing their agenda in our K-12 schools, with alarming success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will you join in a growing movement to expose and end this damaging indoctrination taking place in our schools?<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Woke Education of Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once teachers have been indoctrinated, they press their views on their students, unbeknownst to parents and often despite the views not aligning with the approved curriculum. For example, in January, Seattle Public Schools emailed<\/a> teachers resources to indoctrinate students into the \u201cabolish the police\u201d movement. The email justified recent violent riots in Seattle, \u201cin the name of social justice\u201d \u2014 riots that in one July 2020<\/a> weekend alone injured 60 Seattle police officers, as rioters set off explosives, and struck police with rocks, bottles, and wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the woke invasion rages<\/a> strong in Philadelphia as well. According to Mia Cathell, fifth-grade students were forced \u201cto celebrate \u2018black communism\u2019 and stimulate a Black Power rally\u201d in honor of political radical Angela Davis. \u201cAs part of the lesson, the teacher asked students to describe Davis\u2019 early life and reflect on her vision of social change.\u201d Students were also instructed to \u201cdefine communist\u201d in favorable terms. The rally was enacted \u201cto release Davis from prison, where she was once held on charges of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy in the early 1970s. The students marched onto the stage, holding signs that read \u2018Black Power,\u2019 \u2018Jail Trump,\u2019 and \u2018Free Angela.\u2019\u201d They chanted about Africa and ancestral power, then shouted, \u201cBlack Power!\u201d and \u201cFree Angela!\u201d as they stood at the front of the stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, students were also taught<\/a> to celebrate Communist Party member Angela Davis. Their classroom learning involved watching the Netflix film titled 13th<\/em>, with the takeaway that \u201cCriminals are constitutionally deprived of freedom.\u201d Next, the students were lectured concerning components of Critical Race Theory, including intersectionality (race, gender, and systems combining to oppress some while giving privilege to others). They were also accused of microaggression behaviors (indirect or subtle actions that discriminate against racial groups), despite no evidence of such occurring by students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic instruction has been exchanged for radical activism training in Buffalo Public Schools as well. According to the New York State Education Department, the district gravely fails to teach its students: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By fifth grade, only<\/a> 18 percent of students are proficient in math and 20 percent of students are proficient in English; one-third of all students fail to graduate from high school. The numbers are even worse for African-Americans, who constitute 45 percent of the student population.<\/p>\nNew York State Education Department<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

These students may not be able to read or understand basic math, but thanks to the activism training, they will be skilled in protesting against the rule of law and demanding that violent criminals be set free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At an elite prep school in New York, Fieldston School<\/a>, students are frequently being told, \u201cif you are white and male, you are second in line to speak.\u201d The school believes this is \u201ca normal and necessary redistribution of power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woke invasion involves not only injecting radical indoctrination but also removing the great classics from school curricula \u2014 for example, works by William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Charles Dickens \u2014 because they supposedly further white privilege. Replacements include<\/a> \u201cLatinx books, black books, [and] LGBTQ+ books,\u201d as well as a Black Lives Matter-inspired text titled, The Hate U Give<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the core of this new curriculum is the teaching that America is inherently racist (more commonly described as systemic racism). Students are taught as indisputable fact that their skin color defines them as either advantaged, privileged, and oppressors or disadvantaged, victims, and oppressed. Sadly, the philosophy flies in the face of the racial unity espoused by Martin Luther King Jr. and immortalized in his most famous speech<\/a>: \u201cI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.\u201d These words were a driving force of the civil rights movement in America. Yet today, those championing Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, and woke education are reversing the heroic and historic work of King and many others who fought for equality in America \u2014 including the idea that all people, of all skin colors, be treated with dignity and respect, and judged by their own actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some are pushing back. A group of parents is speaking out at the prestigious Dalton School in Upper East Side New York. The parents expect that the $55,000 they pay in annual tuition will buy education rather than radical indoctrination. Fearing retribution, they sent<\/a> an anonymous letter to school families that reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every class this year has had an obsessive focus on race and identity, \u2018racist cop\u2019 reenactments in science, \u2018de-centering whiteness\u2019 in art class, learning about white supremacy and sexuality in health class. Wildly inappropriate, many of these classes feel more akin to a Zoom corporate sensitivity-training than to Dalton\u2019s intellectually engaging curriculum. <\/p>\nAnonymous letter from Dalton School parents to school families<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Dalton\u2019s anti-racism manifesto<\/a>, issued in December, called for hiring 12 diversity officers, reworking the school\u2019s curriculum to address social injustice, and eliminating high-level academic courses by 2023 unless black student performance is on par with non-blacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, a parent is withdrawing his sixth-grade daughter from the Brearley School in New York due to the school\u2019s \u201cobsession with race\u201d after investing nearly $378,000 in her K-6 education over the past seven years. Communicating his outrage, Andrew Gutmann wrote<\/a>: \u201cI cannot tolerate a school that not only judges my daughter by the color of her skin, but encourages and instructs her to prejudge others by theirs.\u201d He continued:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin color and race, we are desecrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and utterly violating the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought, and died.<\/p>\nAndrew Gutmann, Parent at the Brearley School in New York<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Parents like Gutmann aren\u2019t shelling out astronomical tuition dollars for their students to be taught what<\/em> to think, especially related to social indoctrination, rather than how<\/em> to think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Chicago area teacher, using a pseudonym to protect her identity, has spoken out<\/a> about the experience for today\u2019s teachers, who are \u201cbeing forced to ultimately support the liberal narrative in public education.\u201d She is witnessing public schools serving as \u201cindoctrination centers.\u201d It\u2019s not a stretch to say that public schools are becoming increasingly hostile to non-liberal ideas and people who hold conservative viewpoints. As a black teacher in a largely white school, she believes she\u2019d lose her job if someone learned she\u2019s conservative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicole Neily, President of Parents Defending Education<\/a>, is leading the charge against the radical indoctrination pouring into K-12 classrooms across the country. The organization provides parents with information to inform and help them navigate the curriculum promoting racial and social justice ideology. Neily recognizes<\/a> that \u201cthousands of parents are unaware of what\u2019s going on or are deeply disturbed by it but unsure how to fight back, leaving them feeling alone and helpless.\u201d The mission of Parents Defending Education is to empower, expose, and engage parents. Their website provides a network for parents to share anecdotes, obtain resources, and seek political and legal solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Redefining Mathematics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When one thinks this radical miseducation can\u2019t get any more extreme, one finds that even basic mathematical truths are being attacked as racist concepts. For example, a Brooklyn College professor of math education, Laurie Rubel<\/a>, recently declared that 2+2=4 \u201creeks of white supremacist patriarchy.\u201d As absurd as it sounds, \u201cshe was speaking for surprising numbers of academics and teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foundation of her statement is postmodernism<\/a>, a late 20th-century movement characterized by \u201cbroad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power.\u201d The movement, which dominates the humanities and social sciences at most U.S. universities, dismisses objective truth and reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Ernest<\/a> posits that, applied to mathematics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Postmodernism rejects a single authoritative way of seeing mathematics, teachers and learners, for each can be seen and interpreted in multiple ways. Mathematics can be seen as axiomatic and logical leading to indubitable conclusions, but it can also be seen as intuitive and playful, open-ended, with surprises and humour\u2026Additionally, it can be seen in its applications in science, information and communication technologies, as well as in everyday life and ethnomathematics. All of these dimensions are part of what makes up mathematics and they all co-exist successfully.<\/p>\nPaul Ernest, Author of Postmodern Mathematics<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Co-exist successfully? In other words, unquestionable answers are formed by intuitive thought \u2014 meaning<\/a> \u201cbased on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning\u201d or without proof or evidence. This postmodern view of math is utterly illogical and unintelligent. If it were true that number combinations were open for individual interpretation, our modern, digital world would cease to function. For example, the binary number system, consisting of combinations of zeros and ones to create codes, is used worldwide and is foundational for how computers and other electronics operate. It cannot operate under the rules of postmodern math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oregon Department of Education has begun training teachers in \u201cethnomathematics,\u201d with a workbook<\/a> for \u201cdeconstructing racism in mathematics\u2026and dismantling white supremacy.\u201d According to the training guide, white supremacy is present in math classrooms where the goal is finding the right answer: \u201cThe concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false\u2026. Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict.\u201d Evidently, the authors of the workbook did not pause to think about the implications of their very non-postmodernist statement that mathematical objectivity is \u201cunequivocally false\u201d\u2014 which asserts that there is in fact such a thing as truth and falsity. The charge of racism in math instruction doesn\u2019t stop at whether answers are right or wrong. The workbook also claims that requiring students to show their work<\/a> in math is a sign of white supremacy in the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, Seattle Public Schools has employed a K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework<\/a>. It states that \u201cWestern\u201d mathematics as the only legitimate expression of math is a form of power and oppression \u201cused to disenfranchise people and communities of color.\u201d It questions the very essence of mathematical accuracy: \u201cWho gets to say if an answer is right?\u201d An essential question posed within the curriculum framework asks, \u201cHow is math manipulated to allow inequality and oppression to persist?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalist Denyse O\u2019Leary asks a very important question<\/a> regarding the impact of this redefinition of mathematics: \u201c[W]hat about the disadvantaged children who depend on public schools to provide basic literacy and numeracy skills?\u201d Her answer captures what is at stake in the debate: \u201cWell, there are two ways of looking at that. One would be to emphasize the skills; the other would be to undermine their value across society. Critical Theory is firmly decided on the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Leary continues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Social scientist and mathematician James Lindsay quoted George Orwell (1903\u20131950) in 1984<\/em>, \u2018Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows.\u2019 He then found that many academics, including some mathematicians, are quite comfortable with the idea that 2+2 might = 5.<\/p>\nJournalist Denyse O\u2019Leary<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The practical implication of this philosophy gives pause if one considers what might be the result if airplanes or bridges were designed using math where answers are subjective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concluding Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow\u2019s America will be led by today\u2019s students. The indoctrination of our future electorate is producing young people who will blindly support ideologies they have yet to evaluate based on fact. The tsunami of attacks on our children in classrooms across America will leave an irreversible path of destruction if not soon stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s not too late to intervene and reverse these new radical policies, practices, and curriculum that go against our country\u2019s best interest and that of our students. Be courageous \u2014 stand up, speak out, and spread the word. Get in touch with your local school district leadership, talk with parents, share what you are seeing, find and support organizations exposing and working to end this damaging indoctrination in our schools. Those holding radical ideologies aren\u2019t shying away from their agenda but are rigorously and strategically pushing it with alarming and accelerating success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As American public schools continue to fail to effectively educate the majority of students and instead increasingly serve as radical indoctrination centers, do we need to rethink how we fund education? Should school choice be an option for all families? Is it time taxpayer money funds students rather than schools, thereby empowering parents to select the educational option for their children that produces robust student learning and aligns with their values?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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