The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on April 05, 2021, 08:34:22 pm
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Grassroots organization forms to help parents fight critical race theory and politicization in classrooms
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/parents-form-group-to-fight-political-agendas-in-schools (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/parents-form-group-to-fight-political-agendas-in-schools)
This week, a group of parents formed Parents Defending Education, a national grassroots organization that gives parents resources on how to get involved at the local level and allows people to fill out incident reports with regard to classroom activities they find concerning.
The coalition made its public debut on Tuesday, but over the past month, it started filing complaints and Freedom of Information Act requests to a number of U.S. school districts over what is on their curricula and how they're distributing financial assistance to students.
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(President and founder) Neily said there's been significant pushback against critical race theory being taught in schools, especially among younger students who are more impressionable.
Critical race theory is an approach to studying the intersection of law and race, often espousing lessons that white people in society have inherited privileges and the unconscious bias, racism, and oppression implicit in white people have to be remedied by equity and equality programs.
"It's not OK for schools to treat children differently on the basis of race, on the basis of gender, to make them say things they don't agree with," Neily said. "The fact that parents have so little oversight or control over what their children are learning is deeply troubling and something we think needs to be remedied."
This could get interesting. Federal law already requires schools to make curricular materials readily available for parents to examine. Being the educratic elitists they are, school administrators tend to have to be forced to comply. Hopefully Parents Defending Education are working with a group like Alliance Defense Fund, because stonewalling attempts are pretty predictable.
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The only lasting and effective solution is for parents to band together and pull their kids OUT OF the public schools.
Either send them to private or parochial schools that are known NOT to indoctrinate using "the woke curriculum", or perhaps organize into "group/home school" units, either to be taught by one or more of the parents or perhaps by a private instructor or instructors who will teach the kids "right".
The public schools have passed the point at which they can be "restored".
The only thing to do is let them collapse or try to get along without them.