{"id":1012946,"date":"2021-11-14T23:43:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T04:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1012946"},"modified":"2021-11-14T23:43:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T04:43:38","slug":"whistleblower-teacher-warns-crt-absolutely-everywhere-in-schools-soon-we-wont-recognize-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-teacher-warns-crt-absolutely-everywhere-in-schools-soon-we-wont-recognize-our-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Teacher Warns: CRT \u2018Absolutely Everywhere\u2019 in Schools, Soon \u2018We Won\u2019t Recognize Our Country\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhistleblower-teacher-warns-crt-absolutely-everywhere-in-schools-soon-we-wont-recognize-our-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1012946&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>A whistleblowing middle school teacher says she faces a \u201cculture of intimidation\u201d after being forbidden to teach \u2014 despite a shortage in teachers \u2014 due to her exposing her school district\u2019s \u201cradicalized\u201d critical race theory (CRT) curriculum, which is manifest \u201cabsolutely everywhere\u201d throughout the school\u2019s culture as well as its reading materials. She warned it was causing \u201cgreat harm and racial divide and hostility between children\u201d and that the country will soon be unrecognizable if it is not stopped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ramona Bessinger, a Providence, Rhode Island, veteran English teacher <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/14\/middle-school-teacher-radicalized-curriculum-is-creating-racial-hostility\/\"><span>described<\/span><\/a><span> in July how her school district\u2019s \u201cradicalized curriculum\u201d actually \u201ccreated racial tensions among students and staff where none existed before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Joining Steve Malzberg on his <\/span><i><span>Eat the Press<\/span><\/i><span> weekly commentary show this past week, she said the school\u2019s previous curriculum had \u201clots of diversity [and] lots of multicultural materials\u201d as opposed to the new \u201cradicalized\u201d one, which sees CRT implicit throughout.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brave Teacher Punished for Speaking Out Against CRT\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RJwX0VQ4nBY?start=2&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re not teaching critical race theory. It\u2019s implicit in the culture. It is implicit in all the reading materials. It is implicit in all the projects that the kids are doing,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is causing great harm and racial divide and hostility between children and it really has to stop,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While Bessinger agreed there was no official session dedicated to CRT education \u2014 which allows the school to deny it is being taught \u2014 she noted that the situation is even more dire, with CRT permeating the entire curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s in the plot narratives; it\u2019s in the characterization; it\u2019s in the imagery,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s in the art projects, the history class, the English classes.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is in the language that we are told to use in our professional development,\u201d she added. \u201cIt is absolutely everywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also described the drastic \u201cshift\u201d taking place which sees an entire overhaul of the school\u2019s education materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cJust to speak to the fact that our libraries are being dismantled and books are being moved into archaic basement rooms around the school or flat-out thrown out,\u201d she said. \u201cSo there\u2019s a whole shift taking place and we really need to pay attention to this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bessinger, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RamonaBessinger\"><span>describes<\/span><\/a><span> herself<\/span><span> as \u201cwanted by the Department of Justice for teaching children how to read, write and think for themselves,\u201d denied the notion that opposition to CRT being taught in schools implied one did not wish true history to be taught in the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve been teaching for 23 years now and \u2026 I\u2019ve never ever seen anybody who is a teacher and kind and compassionate, teaching anything other than the entire truth \u2014 our entire diverse multicultural history,\u201d she said, adding that the previous curriculum materials were \u201cfilled with all kinds of diverse materials.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo to suggest that we were not teaching a diverse curriculum is a lie, a flat out lie,\u201d she added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She also described her experience after having protested the new materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cIt was sometime last January I noticed that the books and textbooks and materials were all like, I couldn\u2019t recognize them,\u201d she said. \u201cI noticed also that huge chunks of our curriculum materials were removed, like the Holocaust for example \u2014 we were no longer teaching the Holocaust \u2014 so there was cause for alarm early on.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBy the end of the school year I decided I had to write about this and tell the story because to erase our past, to eliminate our past \u2014 I could see a pattern occurring that somehow our culture and our history and our narrative as Americans was changing and that alarmed me and scared me,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17016386\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ACPS.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17016386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ACPS.jpeg\" alt=\"People hold up signs during a rally against &quot;critical race theory&quot; (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. - &quot;Are you ready to take back our schools?&quot; Republican activist Patti Menders shouted at a rally opposing anti-racism teaching that critics like her say trains white children to see themselves as &quot;oppressors.&quot; &quot;Yes!&quot;, answered in unison the hundreds of demonstrators gathered this weekend near Washington to fight against &quot;critical race theory,&quot; the latest battleground of America&#039;s ongoing culture wars. The term &quot;critical race theory&quot; defines a strand of thought that appeared in American law schools in the late 1970s and which looks at racism as a system, enabled by laws and institutions, rather than at the level of individual prejudices. But critics use it as a catch-all phrase that attacks teachers&#039; efforts to confront dark episodes in American history, including slavery and segregation, as well as to tackle racist stereotypes. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hold up signs during a rally against \u201ccritical race theory\u201d (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia, on June 12, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Following her return to school after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2021\/07\/im-a-middle-school-teacher-and-see-how-critical-race-curriculum-is-creating-racial-hostility-in-school\/\"><span>writing<\/span><\/a><span> about the issue, Bessinger described the \u201cintimidation\u201d and \u201cbullying\u201d she encountered as a result of speaking out:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><span>When I returned back to school in September several of my colleagues were quite hostile towards me, not everyone \u2014 many people reached out to me in private in support \u2014 but you have to understand there\u2019s a culture of intimidation, bullying and harassment if you dare speak out against this regime or against this network of educators coming from the federal government on down.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>When the intimidation didn\u2019t work, Bessinger claimed critics of hers \u201cupped the ante\u201d by involving school children in the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOnce they turn children against you and kids start believing this narrative that you are somehow racist, then it\u2019s over,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd that was probably the moment in time when I wrote to my administration to say there\u2019s a great deal of hostility occurring at my school,\u201d she added, \u201cand rather than mitigate the situation they moved me to another location and basically removed me from all my teaching duties.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bessinger then detailed the repercussions educators who speak out against CRT undergo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m being paid for not teaching while there\u2019s a teaching shortage,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd as an expert being a reading and writing teacher, I think it\u2019s important that the taxpayers need to know that this is happening to anyone who goes against this regime or this whole sort of political agenda,\u201d she added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stating her refusal to resign as a result, she described the importance of doing what\u2019s right and letting the world know the truth of what\u2019s occurring in schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m going to stay and do what I feel is right for my own children, for the students, and ultimately for the country,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause what is happening currently is wrong and it needs to be exposed and the world needs to know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bessinger concluded by warning that the country would be unrecognizable if schools continue to change from within without any resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m going to fight this,\u201d she said. \u201cYes, I\u2019m not going to allow them to win.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBecause if they do win \u2026 I don\u2019t believe we\u2019re going to recognize our country if this is allowed to take place because the culture is changing from within our schools and it\u2019s changing rapidly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The battle over CRT in schools has resulted in nationwide tension in recent months.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18237322\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents-virginia-protest-crt-critical-race-theory-june2021-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18237322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/parents-virginia-protest-crt-critical-race-theory-june2021-getty.jpg\" alt=\"People hold up signs during a rally against &quot;critical race theory&quot; (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. - &quot;Are you ready to take back our schools?&quot; Republican activist Patti Menders shouted at a rally opposing anti-racism teaching that critics like her say trains white children to see themselves as &quot;oppressors.&quot; &quot;Yes!&quot;, answered in unison the hundreds of demonstrators gathered this weekend near Washington to fight against &quot;critical race theory,&quot; the latest battleground of America&#039;s ongoing culture wars. The term &quot;critical race theory&quot; defines a strand of thought that appeared in American law schools in the late 1970s and which looks at racism as a system, enabled by laws and institutions, rather than at the level of individual prejudices. But critics use it as a catch-all phrase that attacks teachers&#039; efforts to confront dark episodes in American history, including slavery and segregation, as well as to tackle racist stereotypes. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People hold up signs during a rally against \u201ccritical race theory\u201d (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia, on June 12, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The theory, which is promoted by many on the left, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/13\/pollak-critical-race-theory-explained\/\"><span>claims<\/span><\/a><span> that American institutions \u2014 the government, economy, and culture \u2014 are based on racial hierarchy and aim at maintaining the dominance of white people, and even that which appears race-neutral is, on closer inspection, rooted in racism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a result, it urges reform in virtually all of the country\u2019s institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The theory\u2019s architects have argued that the U.S. was founded on theft of land and labor, with federal law maintaining the unequal treatment of citizens by their race.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CRT advocates have also expressed the belief that race is culturally invented, not biological.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, Professor Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, a CRT co-founder, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/10\/crt-co-founder-children-should-learn-u-s-ground-is-soaked-in-blood-of-theft\/\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> for youth to \u201cunderstand the ground upon which we stand is ground that\u2019s soaked in blood of theft,\u201d while warning of the outcome if the \u201cother side gets its way,\u201d declaring \u201cthe road to authoritarianism will be paved through white supremacy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Earlier this month, a Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) educator and administrator in the largest school district in Indiana <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/11\/05\/indiana-stem-admin-when-we-tell-you-crt-isnt-taught-in-our-schools-were-lying\/\"><span>addressed<\/span><\/a><span> parents in a video in which he asserted when school officials say they are not teaching CRT, \u201cwe\u2019re lying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In June, a former Democrat congressional candidate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/23\/black-democrat-denounces-crt-says-party-working-overtime-to-keep-race-ideology-alive\/\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> on Americans to listen to black parents who oppose CRT \u201cindoctrination\u201d in schools, while calling on black Americans to reject the Democrat Party\u2019s race narrative and, instead, realize \u201cthat their skin color is not a barrier to their progress,\u201d adding that Democrats use race to galvanize black electorate support though many black Americans actually \u201chave conservative ideals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a>.<\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whistleblowing middle school teacher says she faces a \u201cculture of intimidation\u201d after being forbidden to teach \u2014 despite a shortage in teachers \u2014 due to her exposing her school &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}