Thread by @lukerosiak

North Carolina is demanding that teachers help pre-schoolers form their "racial identity" and "deconstruct whiteness."

Now part of a $7 million grant for handicapped preschoolers will go to forcing disabled toddlers to contemplate their privilege

dailywire.com/news/a-red-sta…

They want 3 and 4 year olds to "question social, scientific, and historical facts." Under a section about keeping kids safe, it shrugs that trying to "control" a class is "white supremacist thought"

The real significance of this story is it shows how easily Republican politicians are outmaneuvered by the staff and activists that burrow into the administrative state and do the actual work--especially when they are lazy. North Carolina has a Republican state superintendent.

A Republican board member passively tries to complain about the preschool CRT, but is easily manipulated by staff. The superintendent also defers to staff, and doesn't have have an understanding of the actual facts enough to challenge their vague excuses.

This shows how completely hopeless the situation is if we just have Republican pols that say 'I oppose CRT' but aren't willing to plunge into the details, aggressively ask follow-up questions, and understand the word games CRT types use, as illuminated by @conceptualjames et al

At one point a conservative school board member goes (paraphrasing) well I want to do equity, not critical race theory. She doesn't understand that equity IS the word K-12 uses for CRT.

It's really sad to watch the video of the school board meeting. The staff hems and haws with ridiculous, vague excuses until the Republicans are confused and just accept it ("they're staff, they know more than us part-time pols") or give up.

Staff basically says "well the training where we force 3-year olds to be communists has nothing to do with this, because that training was done under a different grant'

But the grant they're voting on would pay the same people to create more content on the same topic

The saddest part is when the superintendent, who was elected as a Republican and tells political groups she opposes CRT, says this as if it's exculpatory:

"When we talk about equity and culturally responsive training, it is specific to preschool children with disabilities.”

OH! I guess parents are just too stupid to comprehend, then, that's it. They're complaining about a DIFFERENT program where you indoctrinate 3yo, but it's OK because THIS is paying the SAME people to do it to HANDICAPPED ones.