L.A. Unified School District Teachers Learn That 'Merit' Is Racist, and Other Forms of Doubling Down on StupidBy Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
Jul 07, 2022
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) must be taking cues from Governor “Hair Gel” Newsom’s playbook. They already received a slap back after a judge ruled that they exceeded their authority with the vaccine mandates, and are probably looking at shelling out some serious dollars on the lawsuits being mounted as I write.
But instead of taking the “L” and refocusing on teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, they decided their teachers needed more CRT and antiracist training.
Doubling down on stupid; it’s the California way.
From the U.K. Daily Mail:
Los Angeles teachers are being taught that they must challenge the concepts of ‘merit’ and ‘individualism’ because they are rooted in ‘whiteness’ as part of their training into unconscious bias.
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has required all teachers and staff to complete ‘implicit/unconscious bias training’ provided by Tyrone Howard, a critical race theory (CRT) advocate and a professor of education at the University of California.
The training materials, obtained by Fox News, teaches staff that they must be ‘antiracist’ – and they achieve this by challenging ‘whiteness’ in schools.
Howard argued during the training that ‘whiteness’ exists in the concepts of ‘merit’ and ‘individualism’.
‘This idea that white is the standard, white is the norm, white is our default has to be challenged,’ Howard said in the training video obtained by Fox News.
A February article in Capitol Weekly delivered the sad news that California ranked lowest in literacy rates. Only 77 percent of adults in the state are considered mid- to highly-literate, and one in four people over 15 years old lack proper English reading and writing skills. This was compared to New Hampshire, which has a 95 percent literacy rate. Being a product of Sacramento, the publication blames underfunding, inequity, all the usual fallacies that disregard the fact that in 2020, California spent $20,000 per child, yet that child still graduates, barely able to read and write.
But what really matters to LAUSD is that they rid children of these white standards. They are embedded in everything, and teachers need to be trained and laser-focused on standards that do not accommodate those poor, colored children’s cultural environments. Roll back the clock 126 years, and they may have well been arguing the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
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Source:
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2022/07/07/l-a-unified-school-district-teachers-learn-that-merit-is-racist-and-other-forms-of-doubling-down-on-stupid-n590741
