LA COMO CÁ: Culture War In The K-12 Classroom

 

 

"“Right now a Derry teacher is training to change our social studies curriculum to teach racial critical theory (Marxist ideology) in our schools without community involvement,” warned campaign postcards sent to voters in this southern New Hampshire mill town were sent. Then a Republican representative from Derry, Katherine Prudhomme O’Brien, Weighed in, complained to school board members that Leaders for Just Schools, a program Crompton participates in, has been linked to Black Lives Matter. “I know a lot of people like Black Lives Matter. They don’t know it’s a Marxist organization, ”warned O’Brien, who also cited the Cambodian genocide.3"

GOP lawmakers who took control of the legislature in 2020 have prioritized controversial – and deeply unpopular – laws, including a major expansion of a program that offers tuition fees Coupons for private schools and a discussion ban “divisive concepts“Like racism or sexism in public schools

Fueled by the GOP’s insatiable appetite for red meat in the Trump era – and the search for fertile soil in a public politically polarized by the pandemic – the culture wars are raging, reshaping school board races, reshaping local politics, and now threatening public education self."

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