{"id":1801575,"date":"2023-01-10T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801575"},"modified":"2023-01-10T18:07:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:07:36","slug":"in-schools-crt-is-the-coverup-the-crime-is-failing-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-schools-crt-is-the-coverup-the-crime-is-failing-academics\/","title":{"rendered":"In Schools, CRT Is The Coverup. The Crime Is Failing Academics."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fin-schools-crt-is-the-coverup-the-crime-is-failing-academics%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=1801575&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-->\n<p>Fairfax County High School Principals, Virginia &#8211; This is the good news! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/virginia-attorney-general-sets-his-sights-on-another-woke-school-district-after-magnet-school-turns-away-from-merit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Not available<\/a> valuable academic awards from top-performing students \u2014 around the time the school system hired a consultant that promised \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairfaxtimes.com\/articles\/fairfax_county\/fcps-withholds-awards-pays-455-000-for-equity-contractor\/article_0bb6c642-86c9-11ed-abbf-cb802353dab6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equal outcomes<\/a> for every student, without exception\u201d \u2014 has shocked the nation. How can schools go from encouraging academic excellence to seeming to suppress them? What about our nation&#8217;s brightest and best?<\/p>\n<p>This latest scandal effectively dispenses with a misconception that has confused the debate over politicized schools for three years: The most important way you\u2019ll see Critical Race Theory (CRT) manifest in your school system isn\u2019t through discussions of race at all. It\u2019s through lowered academic standards and the rejection of the idea that excellence even exists.<\/p>\n<p>Leftist activists present CRT \u2014 or as its proponents in K-12 call it, \u201cequity\u201d \u2014 as being about teaching about slavery (as if every American school doesn\u2019t already do that). However, I spent two years researching the subject. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education\/dp\/0063056720\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book<\/a> on these activists\u2019 takeover of American schools, and it quickly became clear that the real, underlying story was much more important, if less politically flashy: schools\u2019 abject failure to actually help kids learn, and the dishonest tactics they\u2019ll use to keep you from realizing it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most striking charts I ever saw was from 2015. It showed one axis the terrible state of academic achievement in New York City schools. In many schools, most students failed the state math exam known as the Regents. The other axis was determined by the math class grades. Here the story looked much different: Almost everyone got passing grades \u2014 even when they failed the standardized exam covering the same material.<\/p>\n<p>There was no correlation between passing the objective and getting a passing score on the letter grade. The Science School for Exploration and Discovery (Bronx) saw 94% passing their math classes, while only 2% of their math exams passed.<\/p>\n<p>Letter grades were, in other words: meaningless They were also arguably fraud. Parents were being misled by educators. Ninety percent of parents believe that their children are at grade level. Yet, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress exam only 11% of U.S. twelve-year-olds are proficient or advanced in history and 22% are proficient in science.<\/p>\n<p>Those inflated grades aren\u2019t a favor to little Johnny. They\u2019re the desperate lies a suspect tells to the detective when he knows he\u2019s about to be busted.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers lied to parents and taxpayers for decades in order to placate them. FairTest, a teachers union front group, demonized standardized tests. \u201chigh-stakes.\u201d They claimed that teachers stifle creativity and impede creativity. \u201cteach to the test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, state exams have very few repercussions on students and are used only as a way to measure the performance of schools and staff. As such \u201cteaching to the test,\u201d These tests assess students&#8217; abilities to perform math tasks, for instance. So <em>shouldn\u2019t<\/em> At some point, teachers teach students how to do mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Obama years, hiding actual academic performance with lowered standards allowed the president to tout an increase each year in the high school graduation rate, even as SAT scores fell.<\/p>\n<p>After a decade, however, these smokescreens and excuses began to wear thin. Enter CRT. It&#8217;s a new name for the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>CRT claims there is no such thing as objectivity \u2014 and nothing is more objective than standardized exams. CRT goes further and claims that grades are also racist. That\u2019s implemented by a litany of policies, such as a move from letter grades to \u201cstandards-based assessments\u201d \u2014 scored on a scale of one to five, where anyone with the equivalent of 80% or higher gets the top possible mark\u2014or decrees that students who don\u2019t turn in work will get a 50% instead of a zero.<\/p>\n<p>Racial-equity education consultants state that the best attributes are wanting to know the right answer and value the written word. \u201cwhiteness.\u201d Some even say <em>Do you need homework?<\/em> It is also racist. This 36% proficiency in reading seems less like the terrible victimization of children and more social justice.<\/p>\n<p>The justification for CRT is not the horrific reality that many students can barely read or count\u2014it\u2019s that there\u2019s a <em>disparity,<\/em> meaning some can and some can\u2019t. That means you don\u2019t need to teach anyone to read to fix the problem; you just need to suppress the top performers, stop measuring with granularity, then declare victory.<\/p>\n<p>That works for teachers \u2014 if their goal is not to solve the issue of kids not being able to read or count, but simply to avoid being caught.<\/p>\n<p>The award was withheld by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dad-facing-criminal-charges-for-accusing-woke-activist-of-grooming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fairfax County<\/a> \u2014 the National Merit Scholarship commendation \u2014 is given to those who placed in the top 3% of the nation. In a world that is fair for everyone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most important way you\u2019ll see critical race theory manifest in your school system isn\u2019t through discussions of race at all. 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