From FAIR. A few topics:
The Declaration of Independence and the Problem of Slavery
Native Americans and the American Revolution
“Indians” vs. Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
Chief John Ross and the Cherokee
American Jews During Early Independence
E Pluribus Unum: 4th of July Celebrations Across American Cultures
Learning From The Amistad
Sarah and Angelina Grimke: First American Women Advocates for Abolition and Women’s Rights
National Anthems and American Ideals
Immigration and Hyphenated Americanism
John L. O’Sullivan, The Democratic Review, and “Manifest Destiny”
Abraham Lincoln’s Life and Legacy
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Human Rights, Civil Rights, Group Rights
More may be found at the link. The point is that the curriculum for such a course does not have to be set by Critical Race Theory. The question is whether school boards can be persuaded to adopt the FAIR approach instead of the CRT approach.
I suppose one could say that this curriculum is a positive outcome of the woke agenda. (T. Cowen’s take, I would think.)
One could say that we very likely would never have arrived at such a robust scheme of study had the woke not imposed its pedagogical intolerance to the degree that it has.
Stupidity in search of power empowers the non-stupid to get cracking, as it were.
I was taught a lot of this stuff growing up and you didn’t need Woke to get it.
Woke is specifically a replacement for this type of curriculum as the norm.
Woke is about wanting MORE. More affirmative action. More reparations. More social and cultural power over ones perceived enemies or competitors. The only way to get MORE is to dial the emotional blackmail up to 11.
Woke twists the ideals of the civil rights movement in order to turn it into a cynical hustle. It adds nothing.
I expect you will see the CRT folks fighting this tooth and nail, not accepting it as a great victory of mutually acceptable responses. I’d be happy to be wrong, but I remember learning most of this when I was a tot and seeing it get shifted towards the modern woke/oppression narrative before becoming the current incarnation. I think most CRT proponents would see FAIR’s proposals as a step or two backwards from the status quo.
I couldn’t agree more. Woke zealots have in their hearts the same abiding desire as all revolutionaries: the total destruction of everything they deem in their way.
The true woke don’t simply seek power, they seek the authoritarian power to destroy opposing institutions and individuals who fail to conform.
CRT is not about education, it is a political theory intended to normalize theft from one group of people for the benefit of another group that has consistently failed in every way and where every other group has managed to succeed.
It is about that one group’s normalization of taking, which incidentally is what they do more of than give. And that group has always taken from this society more than it has given.
Great idea. If the did the reading, the students would learn a lot.
Remember “regulatory capture” from back in the day?
As soon as the FAIR curriculum gets adopted, there will a ceaseless and never ending drive to introduce leftist texts into the the mix.
I oppose all “ethnic studies” programs. Completely meaningless and unnecessary.
Rats! I missed the unit on Western European settlers and their desire to pursue personal freedom and opportunity in the New World. I had COVID.
Can I test out?
The history of the victors is always what we end up teaching.
I’d love to see a curriculum which actually gave time to truly unheard, disadvantaged, and despised voices.
The loyalist perspective on the Revolutionary War, the perspective of those who were opposed to expanding the franchise, those who were part of the temperance movement, those who passionately critiqued the New Deal, the sexual revolution, and things of that sort.
My sense is that if you generally align with the pieties of your time and place, you are likely more of a conformist than someone who is enlightened. You may be a woke progressive Democrat, but had you been raised in the antebellum South, you might have had the same fiery enthusiasm for the Confederacy that you currently have for Black Lives Matter.
In Virginia we have a governors election coming up. What would people hope to achieve in that election?
Well, my friend lives in one of the two Maryland counties to reject mask mandates for children in schools. This was overturned. The RINO governor protested in much the way officials protested the occupation of the Rhineland…and let the children be muzzled.
What, exactly, could come of electing a Republican? The Dem governor has ordered private schools to mask. The place we send our daughters has refused. At the end of the day, only private refusal seems to work.
Our 2nd grade daughter has been mask free here in TX from the get go this year. So yeah, it makes a difference on red vs. blue.
The Biden administration is currently suing our state under the ADA. Good luck on that, particularly when virtual learning options are readily available.
BTW – the South Asians are having conniption fits over here regarding the lack of mask mandates in schools.
For the trolling factor alone, it’s totally worth it to send our daughter to school without one.
I’m not even anti-mask, but seriously, please show us the data. The kiddos are just fine without them.
Hahaha “Wokeness” and “CRT.” Indoctrinated rightists are constantly in a rage about one chimera or another.
These chimeras are doing real damage. I certainly have had losses personally and professionally. Supposedly, this is for a greater good to come in the future, but it is a road to nothing better.
[no personal attacks–ed.]
Egg rolls > eye rolls.
You just took my spot as the worst commenter on this blog. Please give it back to me already.