{"id":683954,"date":"2021-08-25T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=683954"},"modified":"2021-08-25T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T21:06:14","slug":"after-pledging-they-would-violate-law-to-teach-crt-teachers-scramble-to-hide-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-pledging-they-would-violate-law-to-teach-crt-teachers-scramble-to-hide-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"After Pledging They Would Violate Law To Teach CRT, Teachers Scramble To Hide Evidence"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fafter-pledging-they-would-violate-law-to-teach-crt-teachers-scramble-to-hide-evidence%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=683954&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\/08\/GettyImages-108270499-teacherhiding.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Teachers who signed a pledge that they would teach critical race theory ideas even if it was against the law are now desperately trying to hide their involvement, with dozen of names disappearing over the last two months.<\/p>\n<p>The petition, sponsored by the communism-praising Zinn Education Project, said that lawmakers in many states \u201caim to prohibit teachers from teaching the truth about this country: It was founded on the dispossession of Native Americans, slavery, structural racism and oppression; and structural racism is a defining characteristic of our society today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The signatories, including many who teach in conservative areas, projected an aura of boldness. \u201cWe, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events \u2014 regardless of the law,\u201d the petition said.<\/p>\n<p>Some, however, have since apparently decided to conceal those beliefs from their parents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-are-the-thousands-of-teachers-who-say-theyre-willing-to-violate-law-to-keep-pushing-crt\">Here Are The Thousands Of Teachers Who Say They\u2019re Willing To Violate Law To Keep Pushing CRT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In all, over the last two months, Zinn removed the names of 37 signatories who were apparently not as courageous as they first believed, according to a data analysis by The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Seventh-grade teacher Romelo Green signed the pledge from Brookhaven, New York, a perennial conservative stronghold on Long Island in which nine out of ten elected officials are Republican. He <a href=\"https:\/\/southcountry.org\/news\/story.aspx?id=121946\">teaches<\/a> American History for South Country Central School District at Bellport Middle School in nearby Bellport, a town that is 1% black, 2% Hispanic, and 2% Asian, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/censusreporter.org\/profiles\/16000US3605771-bellport-ny\/\">Census<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After realizing that his name was online, Green panicked.<\/p>\n<p>He contacted the Zinn Education Project, which wrote back to him: \u201cWe removed your name. This has been such a tough school year already and then for teachers to face retribution for pledging to teach the truth is too much! Please keep us posted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also repeatedly contacted The Daily Wire, which published a version of Zinn\u2019s list. \u201cI wanted to ask that my name be removed from this list as soon as possible\u2026 Time is of the essence,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>But in a phone call with The Daily Wire to determine on what grounds he was asking his name to be removed from an article, Green was all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>First, he said he only \u201cmay\u201d have signed it, and if he did, it was accidentally. \u201cYou may accidentally put your name on something\u2026 I went on that site to find some content for my class\u2026 I don\u2019t even remember what content I was getting from the site\u2026 I must have seen this pledge and signed it. It was probably my doing, without even realizing it,\u201d he said, adding that he does not always read things carefully.<\/p>\n<p>But the now-deleted data shows that he didn\u2019t just click a button or enter his name \u2013 he typed a paragraph describing why he agreed with its message. \u201cI am committed to teaching the truth about our nations [sic] history. To educate young minds about the traumatic history many minorities have lived and experienced for centuries. My goal is to teach about the past in hopes for the next generation to build a more just society,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Next, Green said that he does not necessarily disagree with the petition \u2013 he just didn\u2019t want people to know. When asked if he was asking for his name to be removed from the petition because his views have changed, he said only, \u201cI just want my name removed is all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I attached my name to it and said I\u2019m going to teach it to your kids, it\u2019s causing me a lot of trouble,\u201d he said, adding that a union rep told him it \u201cdoesn\u2019t look good on me. Especially because it\u2019s only my first year, non-tenured.\u201d He said he was also contacted by two people in his department about it.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he would abide by laws or rules even if he disagreed with them, he at first said \u201cif my district says not to teach it, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But soon after, he said he would not change his teaching methods, but would simply avoid the phrase \u201ccritical race theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going \u201cto just do what I\u2019ve always been doing, and not call it that, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>College senior Emma Niebaum of Omaha, Nebraska also signed the pledge. Her mother told The Daily Wire that her daughter \u201cdidn\u2019t even know what CRT was until my husband explained it to her a few months ago\u2026 Emma said she retracted her testimony or whatever it is called after she found out about CRT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, when Emma contacted The Daily Wire, she did not express any change of heart, merely stated \u201cplease remove my name from there,\u201d and did not return a request for more information. Zinn still has testimony from her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zinnedproject.org\/testimonials\/emma-niebaum\/\">saying<\/a> \u201cIf we want things to change we need the next generation to know what\u2019s happening now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One name removed was a prank that seemed to hit a little too close to home for organizers: \u201cKarl Marx\u201d signed it from Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>But in a lesson for policymakers who are considering whether a ban on teaching divisive topics like systemic racism or critical race theory would be effective, it seems unlikely that most of the removed names actually changed their positions, rather than simply decided to be more covert.<\/p>\n<p>Some teachers had a sense of entitlement about their right to push opinions on children while being paid as government employees in a community\u2019s public schools. Monico DaRugna of Gilbert, Arizona, wrote: \u201cIt is not up to the Government to run our schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anna Jablonski of Portland, Oregon was far from shy when she signed the petition, saying: \u201cWE MUST TEACH THE TRUTH TO HEAL AND GROW HEALTHY AS A SOCIETY. It f***ing pisses me off that I wasn\u2019t taught as a kid or young adult and that the truth is still concealed.\u201d But her name is now gone.<\/p>\n<p>For many, the focus on political opinions in school seemed to come at the expense of basics like grammar. \u201cStudents deserve to know unedited history and it\u2019s [sic] effects today,\u201d Amanda Redmond of Bend, Oregon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Zinn Education Project is named after Howard Zinn, whose FBI file says he taught a class in Marxism at Communist Party Headquarters in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>A list of teachers who pledged to defy potential laws as of June 23, by location, is here. Below are the 37 names which disappeared by two months later.<\/p>\n<h2>Arizona<\/h2>\n<h3>Gilbert, Az<\/h3>\n<p>Stefanie Campanella<\/p>\n<h2>California<\/h2>\n<h3>Capitola, Ca<\/h3>\n<p>Amanda Lindell<\/p>\n<h3>Santa Rosa, Ca<\/h3>\n<p>Warren Smith<\/p>\n<h3>Union City, Ca<\/h3>\n<p>Tina Bobadilla<\/p>\n<h2>Colorado<\/h2>\n<h3>Denver, Co<\/h3>\n<p>Victoria Tubbs<\/p>\n<h2>Georgia<\/h2>\n<h3>Summerville, Ga<\/h3>\n<p>Karen Appelbaum<\/p>\n<h2>Indiana<\/h2>\n<h3>Greenfield, In<\/h3>\n<p>Amanda Brown, Maranda Anderson<\/p>\n<h2>Louisiana<\/h2>\n<h3>Youngsville, La<\/h3>\n<p>Anita Romero<\/p>\n<h2>Michigan<\/h2>\n<h3>Clarkston, Mi<\/h3>\n<p>Amy Kemmer<\/p>\n<h3>Portland, Mi<\/h3>\n<p>Kelli James<\/p>\n<h2>Minnesota<\/h2>\n<h3>Alexandria, Mn<\/h3>\n<p>Jacob Clauson<\/p>\n<h3>Osseo, Mn<\/h3>\n<p>Laura Wagenman<\/p>\n<h2>Missouri<\/h2>\n<h3>Farmington, Mo<\/h3>\n<p>Michael Bowles<\/p>\n<h3>Saint Charles, Mo<\/h3>\n<p>Brittany Janis<\/p>\n<h2>Montana<\/h2>\n<h3>Hamilton, Mt<\/h3>\n<p>Kate Naughter<\/p>\n<h2>North Carolina<\/h2>\n<h3>Raleigh, Nc<\/h3>\n<p>Michael Robbins<\/p>\n<h2>Nebraska<\/h2>\n<h3>Omaha, Ne<\/h3>\n<p>Emma Niebaum<\/p>\n<h2>New Hampshire<\/h2>\n<h3>Dover, Nh<\/h3>\n<p>Nicole Haahr<\/p>\n<h2>New York<\/h2>\n<h3>Brookhaven, Ny<\/h3>\n<p>Romelo Green<\/p>\n<h3>New York, Ny<\/h3>\n<p>Lindy Gillette<\/p>\n<h3>Rochester, Ny<\/h3>\n<p>Andy Graysy, Nancy Ares<\/p>\n<h2>Oregon<\/h2>\n<h3>Corvallis, Or<\/h3>\n<p>Diane Elliott<\/p>\n<h3>Eugene, Or<\/h3>\n<p>Lisa Iacovetta<\/p>\n<h3>Portland, Or<\/h3>\n<p>Anna Jablonski, April LaCombe<\/p>\n<h2>Tennessee<\/h2>\n<h3>Cleveland, Tn<\/h3>\n<p>Shara Troutner<\/p>\n<h3>Spring Hill, Tn<\/h3>\n<p>Louise Braswell<\/p>\n<h2>Texas<\/h2>\n<h3>Coppell, Tx<\/h3>\n<p>Ann Carlsson<\/p>\n<h3>Dallas, Tx<\/h3>\n<p>Jamie Gravell<\/p>\n<h2>Washington<\/h2>\n<h3>Seattle, Wa<\/h3>\n<p>Ames Zocchi, John Benner<\/p>\n<h2>Wisconsin<\/h2>\n<h3>Ashland, Wi<\/h3>\n<p>Dani O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<h3>Milwaukee, Wi<\/h3>\n<p>Katie Wilhelm<\/p>\n<h3>Pewaukee, Wi<\/h3>\n<p>Katie Herrmann<\/p>\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. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers who signed a pledge that they would teach critical race theory ideas even if it was against the law are now desperately trying to hide their involvement, with dozen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683954","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\/683954","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683954\/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=683954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}