The Blue States really need to jump on this bandwagon.
You’ve been responded to by many, but I want to emphasize how much this is treated as a feature instead of a bug. This tweet is literally the playbook they’ve been using:
Important to note is the tweet’s author has been at the forefront of the anti-CRT movement and was a speaker at the act’s announcement. It’s been turned into a sniff test. If it’s got any tinge of CRT - race- and equity-related - then it was obviously influenced by CRT and must be removed. If teachers received even the suggestion of antiracism and antibias training, then what they teach may still be influenced by it. At the very least it’s an indication of where that school leans.
What’s interesting is that there are many who know exactly what CRT is, but they take advantage of the ignorance to focus on clearly made-up outcomes. They misinform that teaching about CRT-related issues leads to hurt feelings in white students who will inevitably identify with historical racists as well as teaching children of color that racial disparities are inherent. They’re absurdly well read on the texts so they can make sure to cherry pick quotes and use them out of context to convince people they’re right.
It’s assumed that their end goal is to purge public schools of funding as well as staff (by making it increasingly difficult for them to work) and drive up private school attendance. Not far removed from these discussions are vouchers that follow kids from school to school, instead of the money per student going to the public schools. Not only because there are parties involved who would profit from this but also because there’s more control over what sorts of people can teach and attend. There are private schools that aren’t so insidious, but people love their religious private schools with morality clauses such as those that make incoming teachers agree that homosexuality is an abomination.
Not surprising, groups pushing for all of this have ties not only to the rightwing (with some fairly direct connections to DeSantis himself), extremist groups, and to J6. Attempts at obscurity fall short, which makes it all the more distressing when they’re successful in turning the system against people. Of course, one could argue all they’re doing is perpetuating what already exists in the system…
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They have always been political. Read the facts of the case of Marbury v Madison. It was all about politics, and John Marshall had been directly involved in the events that led to the lawsuit. People need to disabuse themselves of the notion that SCOTUS has ever been some august body above politics. The only difference now is that the Court has a significant ideological imbalance. We need to expand the Court.
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Not at all. I’m Skeptic enough to consider this an opening salvo in a renewal of the Civil War by Texas.
And all of that seems to be with a shortsighted goal of enriching themselves while using kids as pawns instead of trying to improve their future. Assholes.
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The people at the tops of these groups already have their children in private schools. Even if they weren’t lying about what is happening in schools, they wouldn’t be witness to it. It’s not about the kids at all. It’s a grift that is allowed to continue thanks to how easy it is to fan the flames of a culture war with a strong focus on race.
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That’s my point. What kind of a future do the kids have after their experiment succeeds?
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I’m afraid the only thing this action will accomplish is reveal the hypocrisy of the conservatives on the Supreme Court - which we already know.
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Why just K-12? Surely someone wants to go after the colleges too…
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Yep.
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Oh no. If really really allowed to stand, as SCOTUS seems to be signaling, the consequences will be far reaching. It’ll take a while, but it will be devastating.
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Where have you been, they’ve been doing that for literally decades… some asshole right winger tried to go after me while I was a grad student for using Howard Zinn as a textbook back about 7 or 8 years ago. Didn’t work out for her ass, because she was an idiot, but they’ve been harping on the “problem” with “radical” professors for decades now. It’s all cooked up bullshit, because most college professors are at most New Deal democrats.
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Random thoughts:
Have the people of FL figured out yet that their tax dollars are paying for all this crap?
They discovered 3 republicans from “The Villages” voted multiple times for TFG. Will they get a similar sentence to that of the Black woman who voted, but wasn’t supposed to (can’t remember why, but it was petty)? I believe her sentence is 5 years. Ridiculously awful.
Gov. Newsom hasn’t announced his end game with his TX abortion like law regarding guns, but we’ve figured it is ultimately going to be a case to SCOTUS, to get them to reverse the terrible TX abortion ruling. If it does anything for gun control, I’m happy.
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If they didn’t have shortsightedness they would be devoid of vision entirely.
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Even the financial incentive isn’t new:
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Here’s hoping that good sensible F state teachers will send the students to CRT YouTube links, until the state can elect a governor with some intelligence.
They seem to have a tendency to vote red down there, so I fear the only way out of another DeSantis term would be for him to not run.
The groups in support of this action really want him to run for a higher office, though…
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Perhaps karma could infect him sufficiently harshly.
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