{"id":1394597,"date":"2022-03-22T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394597"},"modified":"2022-03-22T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:29:59","slug":"ketanji-brown-jackson-has-leadership-role-at-school-promoting-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ketanji-brown-jackson-has-leadership-role-at-school-promoting-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Leadership Role at School Promoting Critical Race Theory"},"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\">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%2Fketanji-brown-jackson-has-leadership-role-at-school-promoting-critical-race-theory%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=1394597&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson serves on the board of trustees of an elite, private Washington, D.C., high school that promotes critical race theory and other progressive ideals.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ketanji-brown-jackson-board-school-critical-race-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Tuesday that Jackson since 2019 has been a board member at Georgetown Day School, which is pursuing an &#8220;antiracism action plan&#8221; and recommends to families literature on critical race theory and racial intersectionality.<\/p>\n<p>The school is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gds.org\/academics\/diversity-equity-and-inclusion\/anti-racism-action-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">undertaking<\/a> an &#8220;antiracism journey&#8221; with objectives including mandated antiracism training and education for staff members, and reform of curriculum from a social justice perspective. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gds.org\/academics\/diversity-equity-and-inclusion\/resources-for-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promotes<\/a> controversial &#8220;antiracist resources,&#8221; such as Richard Delgado&#8217;s <em>Critical Race Theory <\/em>and\u00a0Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s <em>How to Be an Antiracist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In comments obtained through Jackson&#8217;s disclosures in the Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, Jackson in 2020 praised Georgetown Day School&#8217;s progressive values.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have witnessed the transformative power of a rigorous progressive education that is dedicated to fostering critical thinking, independence, and social justice.&#8221; Jackson said. &#8220;As a result, I truly value the \u2018GDS way.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In past writings, Jackson has endorsed critical race theory as a lens to analyze criminal sentencing and remarked on &#8220;environmental justice and the impacts of the climate crisis on communities of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News also reported that in 2020, Georgetown Day School <a href=\"https:\/\/hoppereffect.gds.org\/a-more-just-equitable-world-civil-rights-curriculum-at-gds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conducted<\/a> a &#8220;segregation simulation,&#8221; in which children were separated into groups throughout the day, with some given treats while others were excluded, in order to give them an experience of &#8220;privilege&#8221; and &#8220;discrimination.&#8221; After the simulation, teachers had the children march outside carrying signs and signing freedom songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson serves on the board of trustees of an elite, private Washington, D.C., high school that promotes critical race theory and other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"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-1394597","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\/1394597","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394597\/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=1394597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}