{"id":426704,"date":"2021-04-15T11:05:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=426704"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:05:53","slug":"virginia-public-school-teacher-describes-critical-race-theory-training-trickle-down-indoctrination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-public-school-teacher-describes-critical-race-theory-training-trickle-down-indoctrination\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Public School Teacher Describes Critical Race Theory Training: \u2018Trickle-Down Indoctrination\u2019"},"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\">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%2Fvirginia-public-school-teacher-describes-critical-race-theory-training-trickle-down-indoctrination%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=426704&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2018.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Virginia public school teacher forced to take training based on critical race theory has written about her experience, describing it as a form of \u201ctrickle-down indoctrination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monica Gill, an American history, government, and comparative politics teacher with 25 years\u2019 experience, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/15\/a-loudon-county-teacher-explains-how-leftist-institutional-racism-is-devastating-public-schools\/\">wrote<\/a> at The Federalist that the training she was forced to take recently accepts as fact systemic racism and universal \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d and any suggestion to the contrary is dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Gill described one specific training exercise where a Vogue cover photo was shown featuring NBA star LeBron James and model Gisele Bundchen. They have their arms around each other, with Bundchen smiling and James looking like he\u2019s yelling while dribbling a basketball. Gill said that she and her colleagues were asked \u201cWhat do you see?\u201d and were told by their \u201ctrainers\u201d that seeing the two people was \u201can example of a subconscious implicit bias,\u201d because what they <em>should have<\/em> seen, was a modern-day depiction of King Kong and his female victim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey claimed I was really seeing a black man portrayed as an aggressive ape. The purpose of this training was not just to reveal implicit bias, but also to accuse our community of systemic racism that needed to be disrupted and dismantled to root out this type of white supremacist thinking,\u201d Gill wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She said that parents became concerned about the training and curricula in the schools, prompting Interim Superintendent Scott Ziegler to insist that Loudoun County Public Schools \u201chas not adopted Critical Race Theory as a framework for staff to adhere to\u201d and that the school district\u2019s attempt to train students and staff on \u201cequity\u201d was \u201cnot an effort to indoctrinate students and staff into a particular philosophy or theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gill, however, says that while the training they receive may not say its CRT, it uses the same buzzwords and assumes that systemic racism, white supremacy, white privilege, and implicit bias are not only real, but prevalent.<\/p>\n<p>Gill wrote that she tried to bring her concerns to her superior, the school board, and then-Superintendent Eric Williams, as well as others, but received no response. She questioned why students and faculty were only hearing from critical race theorists and not Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, or even Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought our job was to be life-long learners and examine different perspectives. But our \u2018conversations\u2019 are based on the assumption that the \u2018equity\u2019 narrative is true and unimpeachable. We are specifically told at our meetings&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;to direct the conversation to other factors that may inhibit student achievement like \u2018economics\u2019 or \u2018family structure,\u2019\u201d Gill wrote. \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t we, particularly if those are the roots of challenges faced by minority students, as presented by thinkers like Sowell? Sowell gives empirical data rather than made up esoteric terms that only the \u2018experts\u2019 can reveal to us. None of this appears to matter to many district officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, Gill wrote, those who question the dogma of the CRT teachings are punished:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21.410309278351\">\n<p><em>It all began with a one-sided conversation and continued with the school board\u2019s attempt to silence teachers\u2019 free speech in opposition to the \u201cequity\u201d initiative. The tensions heightened with the LCPS Minority Student Achievement Advisory Committee\u2019s social media posting to silence the opposition, and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking\">Anti-Racist Facebook group<\/a>&nbsp;creating \u201clists\u201d of parents to be doxed, hacked, and bullied for questioning the \u201cEquity\u201d initiative.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My colleagues call parents who disagree with them \u201cracist,\u201d full of \u201cevil rhetoric,\u201d \u201cBeetle douche,\u201d and \u201cpeople who Harriet Tubman would have shot.\u201d I bet these same people have \u201cHate does not live here\u201d signs in their front yards.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The willingness of teachers with different views to speak up is further suppressed by those in leadership hurling the very powerful false narrative that if we disagree then somehow we do not have the right heart to be teaching children and ought be dismissed.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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