{"id":1204082,"date":"2022-01-10T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1204082"},"modified":"2022-01-10T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:34:10","slug":"a-red-state-just-spent-money-for-handicapped-pre-schoolers-on-crt-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-red-state-just-spent-money-for-handicapped-pre-schoolers-on-crt-training\/","title":{"rendered":"A Red State Just Spent Money For Handicapped Pre-Schoolers On CRT Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fa-red-state-just-spent-money-for-handicapped-pre-schoolers-on-crt-training%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=1204082&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>North Carolina is on blast from parents\u2019 groups after the state school board approved a $7 million federal grant called the Preschool Handicapped Grant to be used for \u201cEquity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Early Childhood Classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreying on disabled 3 year old children \u2013 getting them to participate in a political movement, and to hate themselves based on skin color in the process, shows our public schools to be more morally corrupt than all others,\u201d Sloan Rachmuth, president of the group Education First Alliance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edfirstnc.org\/\/post\/press-release-groups-oppose-nc-s-teaching-preschoolers-with-disabilies-to-deconstruct-whiteness\">said<\/a> in a press release. \u201cWith this vote, North Carolina\u2019s schools became the most radically divisive system in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deniers of the idea that critical race theory has inspired K-12 initiatives sometimes claim it is only in law schools\u2013far from special-needs preschools.<\/p>\n<p>The money for handicapped preschoolers ultimately came from the federal Department of Education\u2019s Office of Special Education Programs. The grant went to the University of North Carolina Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the current grant approval, pre-school teachers were offered an \u201cEquity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Early Childhood Classroom\u201d training credited to \u201ca joint project of the NC Department of Public Instruction, Office of Early Learning and UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute,\u201d according to screenshots published by Education First Alliance and other groups.<\/p>\n<p>A slide says teachers should help preschoolers with \u201cbuilding racial identity\u201d and \u201cEncourage the children to question social, scientific, and historical facts. We want children to question whether information is true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a section titled \u201cGeneral Supervision of Children,\u201d which governs \u201cchildren\u2019s health and safety,\u201d a page with the same watermark says controlling a preschool class requires \u201cunderstanding that \u2018control\u2019 is based in white norms and is associated with white supremacist thought; it is appropriate to focus on social emotional teaching and learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Training materials also say \u201cwhiteness affects everything we bring to our interactions inside and outside the classroom. When we use Clarifying Conversations we deconstruct whiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina has a Republican-dominated legislature and its State Superintendent, Catherine Truitt, is also a Republican. Yet critical race theory has overtaken the state perhaps even more than most blue regions. That is in no small part because of the school of education at UNC. It is also because politicians are generally involved at the high-level policy stage, whereas the devil often resides in the details, which are often implemented by staff, consultants, and activists.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s Republican lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson \u2014 who is black and strongly opposes critical race theory \u2014 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/north-carolina-county-wants-teachers-fired-disciplined-if-they-undermine-constitution-bash-founders-say-americas-racist\">done<\/a> the unglamorous work of delving into details to root it out, but others have merely given lip service to their opposition, with little follow-up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=51PtHP4f9Kc&amp;amp;t=5350s\">Video<\/a> of a January 5 meeting of the state board of education, where the $7 million contract was approved, shows staff effortlessly taking control of the conversation and swatting away concerns that a school board member attempted to bring to the superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>Board member Amy White raised concerns about the preschool grant, but she was not specific in her objections, and was deferential to staff, saying she received an email about how the program contains \u201ccritical race theory\u201d but \u201cI don\u2019t know whether that was factual or not, but I\u2019m bringing that to the table to ask whether or not that is true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Truitt, who previously told a Republican group she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ednc.org\/2021-06-15-from-her-definition-of-critical-race-theory-to-bellyaching-teachers-superintendent-truitt-gives-her-view\/\">opposes<\/a> critical race theory, had stepped out of the meeting, so a staff member issued a vague response that seemed to say that the training session was not a work product of the grant \u2014 even though the grant would pay the same people to create more content on the same topic.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent rejoined the meeting and a staff member pointed her to White\u2019s question.<\/p>\n<p>White explained concerns that, \u201cSome of the ideologies posted on their website [are] not aligned with the board\u2019s commitment to really focus on equity, as opposed to anything aligned with critical race theory.\u201d The comment suggested a politician confused by the jargon and word games used by entrenched insiders, since equity <em>is<\/em> the education industry\u2019s word for critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent said, \u201cThis is wholly separate from anything that they [UNC\u2019s Institute] are doing\u2026 When we talk about equity and culturally responsive training, it is specific to preschool children with disabilities.\u201d That seemed to miss the point that the objection was why disabled three-year olds were being subject to \u201cculturally responsive training\u201d at all.<\/p>\n<p>After the exchange, the Institute erased the evidence from its website, according to Dr. Nancy Andersen, North Carolina leader of No Left Turn in Education, who had emailed the board with concerns. \u201cHiding this controversial material after questions from the public were raised revealed the corrupt and ideological intentions behind these trainings,\u201d Andersen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>She faulted Truitt for not coming armed with detailed knowledge necessary to poke holes in excuses by staff or the university, despite her having<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina is on blast from parents groups after the state\u2019s Office of Special Education Programs approved a $7 million federal grant called the Preschool Handicapped Grant to be used for \u201cEquity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Early Childhood 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