Sometimes things happen, and we take them as they come without connecting the dots or following the bread crumbs. Take the Teachers Unions, for example. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) said CRT’s not real. It’s a right-wing conspiracy.
As Professor William Jacobson notes here, it was just another Koch Brothers financed fraud. And then it wasn’t.
And what we have found is that the teachers are some of the most aggressive proponents of this, and the teacher unions. For months and months and months, the National Education Association said, “Oh, this is a Koch brothers dark money conspiracy. Critical race is not really being taught in the schools.” And then all of a sudden, a month ago, they announced it is being taught in schools, we support it, and we want it in every of the 14,000 school districts in the country. And we’re going to put our $350 million a year budget behind it. So how quickly it went from, “It’s not real. It doesn’t exist. It’s not being taught,” to “Yes, it is. We support it, and we’re pushing it.”
Same with the American Federation of Teachers. For months and months and months, “It’s not being taught. It’s not real.” And then they come out and they say, “Well, we’re going to pay for lawyers to defend the teachers who were teaching it.” So how is it that you have to hire lawyers to defend the teachers who were doing it, but at the same time you say it’s not happening?
Take these crumbs and feast on them.
CRT has been and is being taught. It’s endorsed by Teachers Unions who control contracts and influence curriculum. And there are teachers who do not want to teach it but if they speak out they’ll lose their jobs and the union will see to it they do.
Here in New Hampshire (and in your states) School Boards Associations, Superintendents, School Boards themselves, and others, are digging in and making the teaching of race-shaming a daily feature of taxpayer-funded education.
We have to dig it out, expose it, and shame them not just for the lessons but for the deception.
A lot of parents can put up with a lot from the public schools even if they can afford alternatives. They may work at home to deprogram kids and help them get by without exposing them to bullying or abuse for failing to fall in line. But they don’t like being lied to and deceived.
It pisses them off, gets them to the polls, and changes the school board, exposing everything, and that is how we change public education.
It is not enough to say these classes need to go. We need to show that they knew, did it anyway, and then lied about it.
We know they’re lying. The unions have shown them the way. And now it’s time to show them the door.
