Videos Expose Educators Ignoring State Laws Banning CRT In Schools: ‘We Don’t Really Let Anybody Tell Us What To Do’Schools in Republican-led states are skirting laws banning CRT in public education, according to new investigative footage.BY SHAWN FLEETWOOD
MARCH 31, 2022
Schools in Republican-led states are skirting laws banning critical race theory (CRT) in public education, according to new investigative footage.
Released by Accuracy in Media (AIM), the videos show multiple school officials in Idaho discussing how the principles associated with the neo-Marxist ideology can be taught to students without officially being labeled as critical race theory, despite state law outlawing the teaching of ideas aligned with CRT by public educators.
While speaking with Mark Jones of the Boise School District, for instance, AIM President Adam Guillette asked whether educators could teach “tenets … associated with [CRT], but under the guise of equity or something else,” to which Jones affirmed and further explained that “part of [the district’s] strategic plan deals with equity.”
“And I bet the idiot MAGA crowd just ignores it because it doesn’t have the ‘critical race theory’ name on it, right?” Guilette continued.
“I hope so. I hope so,” Jones replied with a laugh.
In addition to finding administrators skirting existing CRT laws, AIM’s investigation also found that some schools are providing access to The New York Times’ historically inaccurate “1619 Project,” which attempts to falsify American history. While unknowingly speaking with AIM, Cindy Dion, a district instructional coach for the Nampa School District, admitted that although schools can’t teach material directly from the “1619 Project” itself, they can utilize concepts associated with it through an online educational database called Newsela.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/31/videos-expose-educators-ignoring-state-laws-banning-crt-in-schools-we-dont-really-let-anybody-tell-us-what-to-do/
