Oklahoma Public Schools Face Consequences for Teaching CRT

[Kamaji]

Oklahoma Public Schools Face Consequences for Teaching CRT

In their zeal to teach the ideology, activist educators are initiating their own demise.

by KATHLEEN BUSTAMANTE
August 16, 2022

Two public school districts in Oklahoma, the Tulsa and Mustang public schools, received a downgrade in their accreditation status for allegedly violating House Bill 1775 — a bill signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt in 2021 that prohibits teaching certain concepts associated with critical race theory.

On July 28, as a result of the violation, which was self-reported by the Mustang School Board, the State Board of Education voted 4–2 to downgrade Mustang’s accreditation with a warning — two levels away from losing accreditation altogether. (There are five levels of accreditation in Oklahoma’s public school system.)

According to an email sent to Mustang parents by the school district, the incident was a “Cross the Line activity” conducted in a middle school class. During the activity, the teacher asked students questions based on race. The email explained, “Specifically, 7 of 29 questions pertained in some way to one’s race and were intermixed with questions such as ‘If one or both of your parents graduated from college, take one step forward.’”

The school board said that at least one question violated “the spirit of the law” and explained that the activity was meant to help students “empathize with each other and bring students in the class together as a team.” According to the district, the illegal question was the following: “If you have ever been called names regarding your race, socioeconomic class, gender, sexual orientation, or physical/learning disability and felt uncomfortable, take one step back.”

According to a segment by local news channel Fox 25, however, the school district is not revealing all the details of the situation to the public. In fact, the parent who says he or she filed a complaint to Mustang Public Schools explained to Fox 25 that what the district called a “Cross the Line activity” was actually a “Privilege Walk.” Organizers explicitly said that the activity “[ s]temmed from Peggy McIntosh’s concept of White Privilege” and that the event “didn’t really have anything to do with bullying.”

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Source:  https://spectator.org/oklahoma-public-schools-face-consequences-for-teaching-crt/

[Kamaji]

That is a privilege walk, and it doesn't bring kids together, it stereotypes, stigmatizes, and bullies them.  It is also intensely racist.  It should also never been done to grade school children, even in the opinion of the left-wing maggot who thought the whole thing up.

[Free Vulcan]

They need some firings and put some butts in jail too for flagrant violations.

And cameras with sound everywhere. Keep the recordings for 90 days.

[PeteS in CA]

Blah, blah, blah, ... are they still in office? Still residing in their homes? Still collecting their salaries? If yes to all these then the board members and educrats have learned nothing and don't give a @#$% about the students they're defrauding.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Someone is making money selling this CRT crap ... books, seminars, conventions, etc.