{"id":969756,"date":"2021-11-04T22:58:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T02:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969756"},"modified":"2021-11-04T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T02:58:59","slug":"rep-burgess-owens-warns-against-equity-in-schools-its-always-lower-expectation-for-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-burgess-owens-warns-against-equity-in-schools-its-always-lower-expectation-for-black-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Burgess Owens Warns Against \u2018Equity\u2019 in Schools: \u2018It\u2019s Always Lower Expectation for Black People\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\">30<\/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%2Frep-burgess-owens-warns-against-equity-in-schools-its-always-lower-expectation-for-black-people%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=969756&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\/11\/GettyImages-1232419046-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) cautioned educators against infusing the concept of \u201cequity\u201d into teaching while he spoke during an education-related roundtable hosted by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Owens, the lead Republican on the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, said equity, which is often contrasted with equality, is \u201cas racist as you can get\u201d as it ultimately requires treating students who are racial minorities differently than white students.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis whole thing with equity. I want you guys to just keep in mind, it\u2019s always lower expectation for black people. It\u2019s as racist as you can get. It\u2019s what I grew up in when I was in the \u201960s,\u201d said Owens, who attended school in Florida during the civil rights era before going on to play college and professional football.<\/p>\n<p>Owens described the idea of equity in the classroom as \u201cinsidious\u201d because it results in lowering academic standards on the basis of race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most insidious thing we can do is to start lowering expectations for anybody, any kid, based on their race, based on their color, and that\u2019s what we see on the left,\u201d Owens observed. \u201cEquity is always, in their mind, lowering expectations and bringing everybody else down to that lower expectation. So education should be one in which we see the best in every individual, every child.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Leader&#039;s Roundtable: Exposing the Democrats&#039; Plan to Nationalize Early Education\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XnZnxvNE2pQ?start=2026&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Republican\u2019s comments were pertinent as they came on the heels of the Virginia gubernatorial election, in which Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) in an upset victory. Youngkin had centered his campaign largely around education, promoting parents\u2019 say in school policies and curriculums, school choice, and an expanded education budget. Youngkin also campaigned on the promise that he would ban Critical Race Theory from schools, an issue that has outraged parents nationwide and driven many to speak out in defiance at local school board meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank Virginia for standing strong for parents, for bringing this topic [of education] to the forefront that\u2019s needed to be for a long time, and I want to congratulate America because we\u2019re now waking up,\u201d Owens said.<\/p>\n<p>The roundtable also included McCarthy, House Republican Conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), a Loudoun County parent and his child, and other education advocates.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The event came as part of a series of roundtables McCarthy is hosting primarily to expose the various provisions packed into Democrats\u2019 multitrillion-dollar spending plans, covering topics like increased&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/28\/republican-leaders-rip-biden-for-rising-gas-prices-treat-america-like-youre-treating-other-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gas prices<\/a>, IRS&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/28\/republican-leaders-biden-wants-to-weaponize-irs-against-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveillance<\/a>, and small business regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The topic of Wednesday\u2019s was \u201cnationalized education,\u201d and Stefanik, who led the discussion, noted Democrats\u2019 reconciliation proposal would \u201cdrastically increase the cost of sending children to preschool and take away parental power when it comes to education and put it in the hands of the federal government. We know that that is not a message that resonates with America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik, like Owens, applauded Virginia for reinforcing that notion. \u201cVirginia spoke loud and clear last night that parental rights is an issue that we can run on and we can win on when it comes to education, and Republicans are committed to always standing up for our parents and students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Virginia, approximately 75 percent of the 58 school board candidates&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1776ProjectPac\/status\/1455874602807271428?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">backed<\/a>&nbsp;by Ryan Girdusky\u2019s 1776 Project PAC won their races across seven states. The PAC backed candidates who oppose Critical Race Theory, the&nbsp;<em>New York Times\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2020\/10\/14\/new-york-times-1619-project-named-to-top-ten-works-of-journalism-of-the-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a>&nbsp;1619 Project, and other ideas built into education practices that assume America is inherently racist.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to Ashley Oliver at <a href=\"mailto:aoliver@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aoliver@breitbart.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) cautioned educators against infusing the concept of \u201cequity\u201d into teaching while he spoke during an education-related roundtable hosted by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"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-969756","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\/969756","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969756\/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=969756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}