Remember that #RhodeIsland BOE meeting where the Council on Elem & Sec Ed directed @AInfanteGreen and @RIDeptEd to reject any school reopening plan that did not include a mask mandate? Here is the infamous letter generating the OMA violating letter. A 🧵. 2/ Notice this letter is to the GOV, and lists not one, but TWO teacher unions as signatories. Guess what else? Two of the signatories are actually on the the BOE: Colleen Callahan (RITFHP) and Larry Purtill (NEARI). That's not all...
Tell us again how RIDE "doesn't have a #CRT policy."
@LGillheeney2/ Here is a link to @RIDeptEd official position on #CriticalRaceTheory in #RhodeIsland - straight from the RI Legislature website. Hint: They sure were against banning #CRT, but that's not all the gems I found...
1/ #exposing more connections between #criticalracetheory and the @RIDeptEd LEAP task force member Jeremy Chiapetta from BVP. Remember this page from the LEAP report? In researching a parent concern about BVP's summer reading list, I found... 2/ I found startlingly similar language on the Teach for America (TFA) website and the #RhodeIsland LEAP report. That wasn't all. The TFA website is littered with #CriticalRaceTheory tenets, filled with praise for their own work on racial equity initiatives, and more...
Jul 22, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
1/OK #RhodeIsland, let me introduce some background on one of the members chosen for the LEAP Task Force, Juanita Montes de Oca. Remember this task force appears devoted to bringing #CriticalRaceTheory to all RI schools, by hook or by crook. Guess what Generation Citizen... 2/ stands for? Culture change and System Change, to the tune of educating our students about their oppression and privilege. As @repmorgan can attest, this is how we wind up with students being bribed with test credit to become social justice warriors. But wait! There's more!