Public Schools Are Avoiding CRT Ban With Trojan Horse Of ‘Social Emotional Learning’

A disturbingly racist incident occurred on January 30, when several students from West Springfield High School in Fairfax County (Virginia) told their parents. Video They were made to watch the video at school. Students from all races were outraged that the video featured white people (illustrated as cartoon mosquitos) taking bites out people of color. “microaggressions.” In the end, the video concludes that white people don’t understand microaggressions because they do not often experience them.

Similarly, in December 2022, during an eighth-grade civics class at Irving Middle School, a feeder to WSHS, a substitute teacher randomly announced to the students that black people had to go through things that white people didn’t — and that “white folks just didn’t understand.” When I notified the school’s principal about the incident, she said she would “look into it” I was never contacted again.

Students across the county continue to receive a troubling message from their teachers: White people don’t know what they are doing and/or are perpetrators. People of color are victims. Fairfax County fourth-grade teacher whose classroom is marked “a violation of the law.” “safe space” and decorated with a transgender flag, spent an excessive amount of her instructional time regarding our nation’s founding focused on the races of people in the pictures. A teacher at an elementary school on the opposite side of Fairfax County went so far as to have students role-play slaves, landowners, and other characters in order to show the importance of the founding. “economics of slavery.”

Institutionalizing Inequality at Public Schools

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) Superintendent Michelle Reid and current school board members are working diligently to direct funds from the district’s $3.4 billion budget to integrate these messages into curriculum and institutions. They are proud to be there Claim Their foundational goal should be “equity,” This includes “closing student achievement gaps … expanding perspectives [and] creating the space for courageous conversation.”

FCPS pays speakers like IbramX. Kendi. $20,000 Zoom call for one hour, to pontificate upon his dangerous “anti-racist” ArgumentFCPS recognizes that past discrimination cannot be reversed. FCPS also employs “equity specialists” Each of its five regions has administrators.

You can also find designated staff who are paid an extra $700 Annual stipend to serve as an “equity lead” Each school. Designated “equity lead” To help you with student equity, the Student Equity Ambassador Leaders (SEALS) are available to assist. “inform and support collaborative learning teams” Schools. Within the district’s equity web, lessons like the one on microaggressions are spun. Rogue actors, like the substitute teacher, further seem to have institutional support when they make statements perpetuating the white-equals-oppressor narrative.

Virginians were aware of these problems in public education and carried their grievances to the state’s gubernatorial election in November 2021. Terry McAuliffe, then-Democratic candidate, made the fatal error of Claim, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” Voters disagreed. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican emphasizing parental rights’ importance, won an upset. Gov. Youngkin’s first order of business on day one was to