While several states have outlawed teaching divisive concepts like, you are a racist becasue you are white, and there’s nothing you can do about it, Minnesota is taking it the other way. Educators in any school (public, charter, or private) in Minnesota will be expected to preach cultural Marxism.
Minnesota’s teaching licensure board will soon require all teachers to be card-carrying Marxists. The card will literally say “licensed teacher,” but recently approved revisions redefine state licensure in expressly Marxist terms: Academic knowledge is out, and power struggle among the classes is in. To be licensed in Minnesota starting in 2025, every teacher must not merely teach about, but personally advocate, the core tenets of critical race theory and transgender ideology.
The Child Protection League has published a list of what is expected with their thoughts, and it’s, well – read it yourself.
Below are some of the new licensing standards.
(Our commentary on the meaning and significance of the standards follows in parenthesis).
Teachers must:
- Help students develop social identities based upon their social grouping.
(Group identities will usurp individual identities.) - Comply with the construct of “multiple identity formation.”
(This means they must identify which identity groups a student belongs to, the scale of power assigned to each identity group and how their ‘identities’ intersect. This is called “intersectionality.”) - Incorporate “Social and Emotional Learning” (SEL) into all classes
(SEL seeks to transform the values, attitudes, and beliefs of students and achieve full compliance with equity and gender ideology.) - Understand “systemic trauma,” including racism and micro & macro aggression
(Trauma is presumed to have been inflicted upon victims from the oppressor classes.) - Be “inclusive” to reflect “diversity of cultures”
(Teachers will have to affirm homosexuality, transgenderism, sexual identity (gender as a choice not biology), and the absence of moral standards for sexual practices which will set the stage for the normalization of pedophilia.) - Fully affirm and incorporate identity politics into the school, including race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, economic status, and ethnicity
- Focus on implicit bias and systemic racism, including “white privilege”
- Prioritize materials from “traditionally marginalized voices that offer diverse perspectives on race, culture, language, gender, sexual identity, religion, nationality, migrant/refugee status… and other identities traditionally silenced or omitted from the curriculum.”
(Identity politics will drive curriculum content) - Teach materials that “empower learners to be agents of social change and promote equity.
(“Equity” means required equal outcomes, not equal opportunity. Marx said it this way: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”) - Train students in social activism through service learning; Connect students with local and global political activists
- Understand that Minnesota’s laws were created to oppress by race, class, gender, sexual orientation, language, and nationality.
(This is the Marxist interpretation of history through presumed identity group power.) - Understand white supremacy, and how racism operates institutionally.
(the Marxist assumption that our institutions are fundamentally racist) - Understand “enthnocentrism” and “eurocentrism” as undermining “equity”
(“Eurocentrism” and “ethnocentrism” form the core of America’s cultural, religious, and political heritage and are presented as racist and oppressive. Young people will be stripped of their history and instead be told their heritage is oppressive: racist, “white” and “heteronormative.”)
When formally adopted, the new requirements must be met to become or remain licensed to teach in Minnesota, including teaching in Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) from pre-natal on, and Adult Basic Education.
Yes, the Democrats in your state are drooling. Can you imagine? Complete control of teachers regardless of where they work with a #woke mandate punishable by rescinding their license to teach. Including, as The Federalist Title noted, Child Mutilation.
It reminds me of something… Oh, yeah, doctors who dared to say anything, not in the approved COVID-19 narrative.
Here are the amended licensing rules.
