Here’s a great piece from Robby Soave over at Reason, and huge thanks to English teacher Kali Fontanilla, who blew the whistle on the whole thing. She noticed that a lot of her students were failing the same class: ethnic studies. So she decided to look up the lesson plans online (which is why “curriculum transparency” is becoming controversial among some educators and the ACLU). What she found was a lot of mentions of critical race theory.
My latest: An original investigation into a California school's ethnic studies curriculum. Yes, I found CRT, being taught, in the school. But beyond that, the students hated (and were failing) the class.
They were all Hispanic.https://t.co/BhqPBJFFSm
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) January 31, 2022
A teacher at the school, Kali Fontanilla, publicized the course's curriculum after realizing her students, who were learning English as a second language, were struggling with it. "The teacher had the kids all learn about the four I's of oppression," she says.
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) January 31, 2022
Slides from lesson plans provided by Fontanilla confirm that the ethnic studies course references critical race theory by name. pic.twitter.com/6tsGRrp6dc
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) January 31, 2022
CRT is referenced in the district's ethnic course syllabus, which is available online. Scholarly articles about critical race theory are included in the suggested curriculum, including "Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth."
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) January 31, 2022
"It's hyper-race-focused," says Fontanilla. "And whenever there's hyper race focus, racism will follow."
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) January 31, 2022
Soave reports:
“The teacher had the kids all learn about the four I’s of oppression,” says Fontanilla. The four I’s were institutional, internalized, ideological, and interpersonal oppression. “And then there was a whole presentation on critical race theory and they actually had the students analyze the school through critical race theory.”
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One of the suggested activities for students is an “intersectional rainbow.”
“Students will rank their various identities with corresponding colored strings to create intersectional rainbows. Gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, beliefs, nationality, ability, age, etc.,” reads the syllabus. “Students will compare and contrast their intersectional rainbows with their peers, while framing their discourse within the intersectionality paradigm as laid out by Kimberlé Crenshaw.”
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Other possible classroom activities include hosting a mock trial where they accuse various historical persons of being complicit in the genocide of Native Californians and “creating a social justice oriented counter-narrative.”
Reportedly, the class replaced a much more popular health class. Worse, it was given during lockdown, so it was virtual … not to mention that for many of the students, English was a second language.
This was @mcmoynihan's take with how his daughter was dealing with the CRT-like stuff being taught. She wasn't having it because it was SO important to these adults. The push back will be lead by the students rejection of this stuff, specifically through targeted "eyerolls."
— Jeremy Taylor (@drumsauce) January 31, 2022
Seems like completely normal stuff, just teaching history. pic.twitter.com/TALasY6zkS
— Oliver Traldi (@olivertraldi) January 31, 2022
"intergenerational trauma"
Unbelievable.— Marsoon Trempley (@MTrempley) January 31, 2022
excuse me but i was told by people on tv with credentials and stuff that crt was not being taught in public schools
— Tsukkomi (@ljenkins314) January 31, 2022
No surprises here – trying to teach hispanic families about oppression instead of providing a sound educational foundation is tone deaf.
— Perspicuous (@chaos_sonata) January 31, 2022
imagine being ESL and having someone tell you “hxrstory” is perfectly fine
— Perspicuous (@chaos_sonata) January 31, 2022
They were probably white Hispanics then. Damn racists.
— MakeStonksZimbabweAgain (@MakeStonks) January 31, 2022
There's no good reason to teach politicized nonsense as fact in our schools. We waste their time, and it mostly doesn't work to fulfil its goals.
— Paul Roundy (@PaulRoundy1) January 31, 2022
“Dan Burns, superintendent of Salinas Union High School district, denied that the course was based on CRT.”
It’s not critical race theory! Even if it says critical race theory in big letters on the lesson plan. 😆
— Walter Sobchak (@WalterSobchakSr) January 31, 2022
Banning CRT without addressing leftists political corruption of the educational system is an exercise in futility.
Nobody should expect an apolitical education from institutions where leftists have overwhelming majority.
No political diversity -> political corruption.
— JustThinking (@JustThi30117912) January 31, 2022
So proud of my wife @KaliFontanilla
— Joshua Fontanilla (@joshfontanilla) January 31, 2022
So proud of Joshua for following @TwitchyTeam!
Btw, Kali and I are opening our own school to counter these leftist narratives. https://t.co/dm1kzSy11p
— Joshua Fontanilla (@joshfontanilla) January 31, 2022
The common thread we see in all of these exposés is breaking down students into identity groups and then ranking them on a scale from privileged to oppressed. How does that help anything?
Related:
Superintendent of Detroit schools says their curriculum is ‘deeply using critical race theory’ https://t.co/g3Gzdc2EjM
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 1, 2021
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