TLDR: Do any of you have good resources, articles, legal precedents, etc to help ensure that White Privilege and Critical Theory get removed from the curriculum?
I talk to my kids everyday after school and we review what they are learning. I recently discovered one teacher began teaching about white privilege to 6th graders. I have spoken with the principle and have a conference scheduled tomorrow to meet in person with the teacher and principle. The teacher has sent me her slides from class and they are racist garbage. I have no challenge arguing against the logic (or lack thereof) of this racist doctrine. However, I need weapons to help make sure this crap gets pulled from the curriculum schoolwide.
My plan is to ask when was this curriculum introduced, who approved it and what alternative points of view were considered. Ultimately, I plan to bring this to the school board and launch an informational campaign in the local community (ie..stand in front of the school driveway with signs and information to protest and educate parents about what the school is teaching their kids). It is a small town and I don;t think it will be very hard to stir up a controversy and get their attention.
Has anyone else faced this and how did you go about winning?
Thanks!
https://www.eeoc.gov/racecolor-discrimination
Use their own criteria against them.
Good luck pede. They are voting it all over the state of Illinois right now. It’s coming. They teach them all that racism and add a big splash of ccp communism. Eating bugs is ok etc etc
apparently. I just don't understand why everyone, including the republicans seems to be rolling over and just taking it.
I don't know what state you live in, but you should pull your kids out and start homeschooling; the public school curriculum is only going to get worse.
Here's the laws by state BTW: https://hslda.org/legal
We were in a hybrid homeschool program for 8 years, but when the programs shut down and went all virtual last spring, we decided to move to a place where we could get in persons time with classmates. I am very involved in their education, but socialization of children is incredibly important and I don't feel I have the ability to provide that at the moment. We are new to the area, we don't have a lot of support and have struggled to meet people because most are afraid of the 'rona.
Ultimately, I will pull them from the school if I fail, but I want to teach them to fight for what is right first. Thanks for the encouragement.
Church, karate class, great place for socialization.
I am sure you are right, but because of my choice to relocate I have struggled to find these opportunities. We have gotten into some local sports but the coronavirus restrictions are so overhanded it has been nearly impossible to make friendships, or hell even just talk to people. I am even considering relocating again if I can find a place that hasn't given into the mask and lockdown madness.
I've never seen anybody in my neighborhood wearing a mask, ever.
Any chance you'd be willing to share where in a private message. I moved out to the country in the upper midwest to try to get away from it, but around mid summer it showed up and now I get verbally and sometimes physically attacked anytime I go to the store for not wearing one.
I'm in NC. I'm in a blue district, but nobody here is even paying attention to what's going on outside the world.
Ive thought about different parts of the south. But I have never been there so I haven't really known where to consider. Once things warm up a bit I'm pretty determined to do some road tripping to see if I can find a place that would welcome an American loving family (even if we come from a commie shit hole).
Keep a journal of every little thing, why you moved, how you used to be in a hybrid home schooling program, what your concerns about socialization were, and, what is going on now.
This journal is going to be a book. You can self-publish.
You need a lawyer. You have to show harm. Tort. Somebody has to have injured you in a specific, tangible way. That probably means self-loathing of a minor, which might be called abuse.
These ideas are about a half century old, if even that old.
The school is supposed to teach material that is older than the latest fad.
Gender theory is a few decades old if that old.
Racial intersectionalism is even younger.
Schools are not supposed to teach advocacy, just informational material, and an ability to do further inquiry.
Gates's Common Core is part of this. Other big donors, also.
STAY in the home schooling universe, do not let your membership or dues or contact lapse there. Be very nice to them, you are going to need them again.
Write your book.