Very informative; thanks Suzy. And good luck to all the parents fighting to get a good education for their young students.
Most parents in the article were rightly concerned with excessive masking of their children and the lack of in-person instruction. The following is just a list to some examples of the woke corruption of education in…
Very informative; thanks Suzy. And good luck to all the parents fighting to get a good education for their young students.
Most parents in the article were rightly concerned with excessive masking of their children and the lack of in-person instruction. The following is just a list to some examples of the woke corruption of education in the US (with directions on how to find details) that may be of use to some parents speaking publicly to raise awareness of the danger our K-12 education system is in. Other readers may find it less interesting.
One mother recalled being called a Karen, meaning according to Wikipedia “a pejorative term for a white woman perceived as entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal.”
It reminded me of reading through some of the papers at the American Education Research Association presented at the 2019 annual meeting in Toronto. If you find the papers presented there and search for the word whiteness you’ll get 423 results.
First on the list is the heading: “Critical Becky Studies: Critical Explorations of Gender, Race, and the Pedagogies of Whiteness”. Of course, Becky is the name these education researchers use for white woman. Within this category, the following five papers were presented:
1. This Ain't No "Wizard of Oz," Becky: Using Parable to Explore Gender and Whiteness in Higher Education; 2. Two Woke Beckys? A Fan Fiction Conversation Between Derek Bell's White Women; 3. Love in the Time of Beckyism: On Willfulness and Wokeness in Teacher Education; 4. Book Club Becky: White Racial Bonding in the Living Room; 5. Border Becky: Exploring White Women's Emotionality, Ignorance, and Investment in Whiteness.
Another section with four papers is Unveiling White "Post-Truth": Applying Innovative Methods in Critical Whiteness Work: 1. From the Inside Out: Toward a Critical Whiteness Methodology; 2. "If It Talks Like a [Becky]": Operationalizing Discourses of Whiteness; 3. Stalling White Time: Lived Experience, Whiteness, and Temporal Methodology in Educational Inquiry; 4. The Whiteness Experience: Using Portraiture in Critical Whiteness Studies.
And on and on ad nauseum, with paper after paper on the racial identification of behavior, in particular of whiteness. What's studied in education colleges and departments soon gets passed on in teacher training for K-12. If you want to find these papers you should use the following link: "AERA Annual Meeting 2019 (allacademic.com)" and then type in “programs” in the search box at the top, and then on the next page type in “whiteness” in that search box. It's very hard to find the programs if you don't use the above link.
Next you may have heard that the nation's largest teachers' union, the NEA, adopted its support for critical race theory as new business item 39. Here’s paragraph B from New Business Item 39:
“B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project. “
Finally, the California new K through 12 Math Framework has elicited justifiable criticism both from STEM professionals nationally and from its suggested reading for documents such as “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction”, recommended for teachers to study. The recommendation is found in Chapter 9, line 1018. You can just Google the Pathways title to find the document as it is popular across the educational establishment. Then, within the Pathways document, search for “white supremacy”, which will turn up 52 times in an 83 pages document. One example of white supremacy is expecting there to be a correct answer to your math problem.
For criticism from STEM professionals, Google “Open Letter on K-12 Mathematics”. It currently has 1660 signatures including 8 Nobel prize winners, 5 Fields Metal winners (the mathematics Nobel), and 3 Turing Award winners (the computer science Nobel). They criticize the dumbing down of math education to promote equity. They write: “Reducing access to advanced mathematics and elevating trendy but shallow courses over foundational skills would cause lasting damage to STEM education in the country and exacerbate inequality by diminishing access to the skills needed for social mobility.” Of course, to get that many signatures they had keep their distance from anything more sensitive than this.
Very informative; thanks Suzy. And good luck to all the parents fighting to get a good education for their young students.
Most parents in the article were rightly concerned with excessive masking of their children and the lack of in-person instruction. The following is just a list to some examples of the woke corruption of education in the US (with directions on how to find details) that may be of use to some parents speaking publicly to raise awareness of the danger our K-12 education system is in. Other readers may find it less interesting.
One mother recalled being called a Karen, meaning according to Wikipedia “a pejorative term for a white woman perceived as entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal.”
It reminded me of reading through some of the papers at the American Education Research Association presented at the 2019 annual meeting in Toronto. If you find the papers presented there and search for the word whiteness you’ll get 423 results.
First on the list is the heading: “Critical Becky Studies: Critical Explorations of Gender, Race, and the Pedagogies of Whiteness”. Of course, Becky is the name these education researchers use for white woman. Within this category, the following five papers were presented:
1. This Ain't No "Wizard of Oz," Becky: Using Parable to Explore Gender and Whiteness in Higher Education; 2. Two Woke Beckys? A Fan Fiction Conversation Between Derek Bell's White Women; 3. Love in the Time of Beckyism: On Willfulness and Wokeness in Teacher Education; 4. Book Club Becky: White Racial Bonding in the Living Room; 5. Border Becky: Exploring White Women's Emotionality, Ignorance, and Investment in Whiteness.
Another section with four papers is Unveiling White "Post-Truth": Applying Innovative Methods in Critical Whiteness Work: 1. From the Inside Out: Toward a Critical Whiteness Methodology; 2. "If It Talks Like a [Becky]": Operationalizing Discourses of Whiteness; 3. Stalling White Time: Lived Experience, Whiteness, and Temporal Methodology in Educational Inquiry; 4. The Whiteness Experience: Using Portraiture in Critical Whiteness Studies.
And on and on ad nauseum, with paper after paper on the racial identification of behavior, in particular of whiteness. What's studied in education colleges and departments soon gets passed on in teacher training for K-12. If you want to find these papers you should use the following link: "AERA Annual Meeting 2019 (allacademic.com)" and then type in “programs” in the search box at the top, and then on the next page type in “whiteness” in that search box. It's very hard to find the programs if you don't use the above link.
Next you may have heard that the nation's largest teachers' union, the NEA, adopted its support for critical race theory as new business item 39. Here’s paragraph B from New Business Item 39:
“B. Provide an already-created, in-depth, study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project. “
Apparently, the NEA has since deleted it from its website, but you can find it by this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210705090534/https://ra.nea.org/business-item/2021-nbi-039/
Or Google NEA new business item 39 Catholic League web page: https://www.catholicleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/web.archive.org-New-Business-Item-39-ActionAdopted-as-Modified.pdf
Finally, the California new K through 12 Math Framework has elicited justifiable criticism both from STEM professionals nationally and from its suggested reading for documents such as “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction”, recommended for teachers to study. The recommendation is found in Chapter 9, line 1018. You can just Google the Pathways title to find the document as it is popular across the educational establishment. Then, within the Pathways document, search for “white supremacy”, which will turn up 52 times in an 83 pages document. One example of white supremacy is expecting there to be a correct answer to your math problem.
For criticism from STEM professionals, Google “Open Letter on K-12 Mathematics”. It currently has 1660 signatures including 8 Nobel prize winners, 5 Fields Metal winners (the mathematics Nobel), and 3 Turing Award winners (the computer science Nobel). They criticize the dumbing down of math education to promote equity. They write: “Reducing access to advanced mathematics and elevating trendy but shallow courses over foundational skills would cause lasting damage to STEM education in the country and exacerbate inequality by diminishing access to the skills needed for social mobility.” Of course, to get that many signatures they had keep their distance from anything more sensitive than this.