{"id":587386,"date":"2021-07-09T16:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T20:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=587386"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T20:35:52","slug":"thousands-of-teachers-vow-to-defy-state-bans-on-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-of-teachers-vow-to-defy-state-bans-on-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Teachers Vow To Defy State Bans on 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%2Fthousands-of-teachers-vow-to-defy-state-bans-on-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=587386&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 readability=\"29.252525252525\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Leftist groups and teachers&#8217; unions support the radical curriculum<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"485\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/teacher-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"teacher classroom\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/teacher.jpg 485w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/teacher-300x210.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alex-nester\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Nester\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alex Nester<\/a> \u2022 July 9, 2021 4:22 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"119.26428190069\">\n<p>Thousands of teachers are pledging to teach critical race theory in the face of state laws seeking to ban it from classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,000 educators have signed the Zinn Education Project\u2019s &#8220;Pledge to Teach the Truth&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zinnedproject.org\/news\/pledge-to-teach-truth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since<\/a> June 21. In the letter, the leftist education group claims the United States was founded on &#8220;structural racism and oppression&#8221;\u2014tenets of the Marxist-based ideology called critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events\u2014regardless of the law,&#8221; the pledge reads.<\/p>\n<p>Legislatures in several states have passed bills to restrict educators from teaching critical race theory to students. Florida\u2019s education board outright banned teachers from using material from the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019s 1619 Project. Teachers in Idaho are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/27\/us\/critical-race-theory-idaho-bill-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned<\/a> from teaching that any race or sex is inherently inferior or superior to another. And Rep. Glenn Grothman (R., Wis.) introduced a bill in the House that would prohibit teachers and students in the District of Columbia from making confessions about inherent racism based on skin color.<\/p>\n<p>Racism is integral to the founding of the United States, the pledge states, and failing to educate students on &#8220;the roots of U.S. racism&#8221; is deceptive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From police violence, to the prison system to the wealth gap, to maternal mortality rates, to housing, to education and beyond, the major institutions and systems of our country are deeply infected with anti-Blackness and its intersection with other forms of oppression,&#8221; the pledge states. &#8220;To not acknowledge this and help students understand the roots of U.S. racism is to deceive them\u2014not educate them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to listing the names, cities, and states of the pledge\u2019s signatories, the Zinn Education Project posted personalized statements from the teachers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I refuse to teach my students an alternate history rewritten by the suppressors in power,&#8221; Jessica Williams, from Tucson, Ariz., said. &#8220;They have the right to learn about the contributions and impact that Black Americans, women, LGBTQ+, Latin\/a\/ex, Native Tribes, Asian and Pacific Islander, all religions other than Christianity, and all other non-white Europeans have had to America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Zinn Education Project did not respond to the <em>Washington Free Beacon\u2019s<\/em> request for comment in time for publication. The group, which is named after socialist academic Howard Zinn, hopes to receive 6,400 signatures to the pledge. It has so far reached 80 percent of its goal.<\/p>\n<p>Zinn\u2019s website offers lesson plans to the organization\u2019s 130,000 registered educators. The <em>Free Beacon <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/dc-public-school-lesson-capitalism-caused-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Caneisha Mills, a D.C.-area public school teacher, posted a lesson to the site called the &#8220;People\u2019s Tribunal on the Coronavirus Pandemic.&#8221; The lesson taught students that the U.S. government, racism, and capitalism caused the COVID pandemic. The Zinn Education Project also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/liberal-education-group-uses-capitol-riots-to-push-reparations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">capitalized<\/a> on the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol to push for reparations.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Varner, vice president of communications at the Freedom Foundation, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that &#8220;the Zinn Education Project is basically an organization that provides left-leaning propaganda to teachers to use in their classrooms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Zinn Education Project is not alone in its crusade. Two of the nation\u2019s top teachers\u2019 unions have pledged millions of dollars to advance critical race theory in the K-12 classroom. The National Education Association, the country&#8217;s largest teachers&#8217; union, voted to spend $127,600 advancing critical race theory at its annual conference last week. 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