Loudoun County mother: "My six year old somberly came to me and asked if she was born evil because she was a white person, something she learned in a history lesson at school."pic.twitter.com/0NJL5YCoHG
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 29, 2021
It doesn’t get much lower than teaching a child to hate the color of her skin.
This stuff pops up in “normal” educational stuff, too– my then-nine year old elaborated “because they’re white and racist, like us” at some detail or other when we were explaining a fictional war.
She didn’t even know what white WAS, just that it was BAD and she was it.
We got that smashed down pretty flat, but the lady is right: this is evil.
Also stupid, but mostly evil.
Close the teacher’s colleges down. Every last one.
Retain a small corps of psychometricians and subject specialists to write state regents examinations, appended to which would be a modest support staff. Fire everyone else who works for the state education department. Rinse, repeat, in all the states and territories. As for the federal education department, assign the NAEP to the Labor Department, assign any authority regulating vendor-to-vendor or patron-client relations to the Federal Trade Commisssion, assign the student grant and loan programs to a resolution authority which will wind them down, and fire everyone else and terminate every program for which they are responsible.
One other thing: tar, feathers.
Art:
Speaking as a 41-year veteran teacher, you can’t just throw unmentored BA grads into a classroom and expect good things to happen. There would have to be some sort of structured apprenticeship with master teachers and principals.
As for the six-year-old: an American teacher who spent time in Berlin in the 1930s wrote “Education for Death”, condemning Nazi school policies that included a good deal of “critical race theory” from the Aryan perspective. Disney made a propaganda cartoon using portions of the book. Might be good viewing for some parents to see what CRT can look like – and (from the last scene) what it’s really for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XNLnbvqsxo
You have to be carefully taught.
Don’t require a BA to teach at all.
Teach “classroom management” and then let individual schools set the standards for what they want a teacher in a position to be able to do– including “has X years experience in Y or related fields.”
Probably be best to go ask the Navy technical schools what their classroom management lessons are, because the ones taught with the Education degrees stink on ice. The most basic lesson of establishing teacher’s authority by knowledge, rather than “I said,” is thrown to the side. The simple answer of either “I don’t have that at hand right now” or “that is not relevant, we need to focus on this right now” rather than saying whatever (usually inaccurate) thing pops into the teacher’s head is flat out not taught, and wasn’t being taught when my mom got her degree back in the 70s. Mom happened to know that from growing up around an actually diverse group of people, where one would have a subject down flat and it was a closed book in a different language to another. Was renowned for her classroom management skills because of it.
Bonus, the “Let’s go look it up” answer keeps god complexes under control, and teaches the students how to FIND information.
Speaking as a 41-year veteran teacher, you can’t just throw unmentored BA grads into a classroom and expect good things to happen. There would have to be some sort of structured apprenticeship with master teachers and principals.
I’ve discussed this in other threads on this very site. You want practical training and structured apprenticeships, that’s fine. You and I both know that schools of education devote very little manpower to any of that. The education faculty at one of my more recent employers had one tests-and-measurements psychologist on the faculty ca. 2006. She was denied tenure. They have one course devoted to methods of reading instruction, one course devoted to child development, and four other courses that touch on teaching methods in other areas. There is not a single course on methods mathematics instruction and not a single course devoted to educational testing. These are on the course list (interspersed with filler courses):
Race, White Supremacy, and Education
Ecojustice and Education
Queering Education
Globalization’s Children: The Education of the “New” Immigrants in the United States
Forced Migration and Education
Decolonizing Development: Gender, Power & Education in International Development
Global Anthropologies of Education
Racial Capitalism and Education Policy
Women and Education
Pedagogies and Publics
Democracy and Education
High-Needs Schools
Disability, Difference, and Inclusion
Feminist Disability Studies
They have eleven faculty members. Nine of the eleven faculty members have posted their professional publications and some have posted their dissertation topics as well. None of them have ever published an observational study on how the young learn to read, write, or sum and none have ever published a study on how instructors might impart information more efficiently. The sticker price for a year at this institution (without the discounts applied) is $69,000 a year.
It’s just a racket. A racket which needs to be destroyed.
you can’t just throw unmentored BA grads into a classroom and expect good things to happen
All aspirant teachers are properly screened with examinations which test their reading comprehension and their mastery of English grammar, arithmetic, and elementary algebra.
Baccalaureate degrees (or at least a quota of 42 credits in a discrete subject) are appropriate for academic secondary teachers and some middle school teachers. VoTech teachers should have the apposite certificates for their particular trades, perhaps an associate’s degree. Activities instructors (music, studio art, theatre, sports, shop) should have BAs or a credit quota in those specific areas or the equivalent vocational certificate. You add the teaching certificate atop the subject preparation. For the elementary grades (K-4), you just add the certificate atop proficiency examinations. And teachers should stick to their subjects.
No one should be surprised that Mcauliffe says “No one is teaching CRT in Virginia public schools” and then you find out that he’s lying. He is, after all, a Clinton devotee!