Here is our understanding of tonight's meeting and where we stand with the CRT Ban
A few changes were made. Most notably, removal of the six bullet points that were replaced with another definition. We can not confirm the text of that new definition.
The lawyer suggested that instead of the ban they put board policy 6144, which is to do with teaching controversial topics.
(Multiple versions across the state are easily searchable)
Please continue to educate your friends, neighbors, and classmates on this dangerous ban and share our petition
For those who argue that what pro-ethnic studies advocate for is a "twisting" of history, we offer you the United Daughters of the Confederacy...
The UDC was instrumental in ensuring that the characterization of the war in textbooks conformed to the Lost Cause narrative, and it was a prime contributor to the creation of the Confederate memorial landscape of statues and monuments... britannica.com/topic/United-D…
At its annual reunion in Atlanta in 1919, the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) set up a committee to promulgate the Lost Cause version of history through textbooks. facingsouth.org/2019/04/twiste…
How is @pylusd supposed to implement the State mandated Ethnic Studies course if the board bans the @CADeptEd's framework for that curriculum?
Last night, during the study session the board's draft to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory used the definition of CRT from the State's model curriculum for Ethnic Studies.
Let's review what CRT is, in light of the fact that proponents of these bans think ANYTHING that mentions race or equity is CRT americanbar.org/groups/crsj/pu…
Recognition that race is not biologically real but is socially constructed and socially significant.