My VIP for this week is Rebekah Randall, who is one of many parents who have acted against indoctrination of children in schools. According to Jonathan Butcher, Randall lives in Texas and has two children. She became incensed when her son’s teacher implied that school was the only place where children could be taught correctly about racial identity.
Butcher quotes Randall as saying that
the teachers at the school had “twisted valuable lessons” about the way the
people should be treated. She said that the teachers had been “putting race as
the most important part of someone’s identity.” This concept is one of the main
ideas of critical race theory. She told the teachers, “You are racializing
children to identify one another.”
Randall later explained, “They have moved
away from the academic rigor that they had.” She said that the teachers want to
focus on “political correctness,” but she wants her children “to be learning
academics” and “not to be protesting” for critical race theory. This mother
took her children out of their school and found another one where teachers said
that they did not teach critical race theory.
Supporters of critical race theory declare
that critical race theory is necessary for correct understanding of race. The
theory’s ideas are not as simple and harmless as they say. Butcher asked some
good questions, such as why would parents remove their children from schools
teaching critical race theory? If the ideas are so simple and harmless, why are
teachers trying to hide them from parents? Butcher made some excellent
comments.
Children should not have to spend their
days considering how racial bias can be found in every lesson….
No one should be forced to participate in
such blatant forms of discrimination….
Critical race theory’s “endgame” is
conflict, as Zinn and other theorists describe. The protesters wondering why
lawmakers are looking once more for ways to prevent discrimination need only to
read their own brochures.
Or, sadly and altogether too often, their
child’s homework.
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