Critical Race Theory has the parents of school kids in Loudoun County, Virginia, in a full-blown revolt. They have more than 1,000 signatures on a petition to recall six of their nine school board members and are certain they will get the required 17,390 to get the job done. This is the kind of action I’ve been recommending in my book Who’s Got Dibs on Your Kids?. They went so far as to check expenditures and confirmed that, contrary to the Board’s claim that they were not teaching Critical Race Theory, they had records of spending money to implement it. (See my recent post on this subject.)
Do any of you remember APUSH? It stands for Advanced Placement U.S. History Framework. As I did in my last post, let me repeat a small portion about APUSH in my book.
Carol toyed with her mocha frappe and said, “I hope Amy doesn’t bring a pie to our year-end potluck. Last time you could have
retreaded tires with the crust.”
“And the biscuits she brought to the breakfast—I had one and thought it must have been the stone rolled away from the tomb,” said Grace. “She’s a disaster waiting to happen in the kitchen.”
Sara, the newest member of the Friday-at-the-coffee-shop group, who knew nothing about Amy, must have concluded that Amy was a failure as a cook.
What the women didn’t say, so Sara couldn’t possibly know, was though Amy lacked baking skills, she pulled the most beautiful Thanksgiving turkey out of the oven every year, and her fragrant stuffing had everyone hoping there was more in the kitchen. Sara didn’t know that friends almost enjoyed getting sick because they knew Amy would be at their door with some of her delicious homemade soup.
Sara didn’t know Amy was a success in the kitchen, not a failure, because she had been told only part of the story. The part she heard was true, nonetheless unkind, but without full information Sara could only come to the wrong conclusion about Amy.
That fictional story demonstrates a similar situation occurring over and over in your kids’ textbooks. They’re being taught only a part of the whole; the part today’s educators want them to learn. They don’t have any idea that their beliefs, opinions, and principles are being shaped and determined by incomplete and possibly flawed information. . . .
Four of the nine members of the committee that developed APUSH were history professors—experts in the historical aspects of race, class, and gender. APUSH classes teach high school students—the brightest, the ones taking advanced placement courses—that America is a place of oppression and persecution.
Bruce Thornton is a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a Professor of Classics and Humanities at the California State University. He described what is being taught in grades K–12 in an article titled “Is Leftist School Indoctrination Unstoppable?”
Questionable leftist ideas I had to sit through in graduate seminars turned up regularly in my kids’ English and history courses and textbooks. . . . The founding of the United States, then, was not about things like freedom and inalienable rights, but instead reflected the economic interests and power of wealthy white property-owners. The civil war wasn’t about freeing the slaves or preserving the union, but about economic competition between the industrial north and the plantation south. The settling of the West was not an epic saga of hardships endured to create a civilization in a wilderness, but genocide of the Indians whose lands and resources were stolen to serve capitalist exploitation.
APUSH makes the Pilgrims, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln, along with many other important figures in the history of the United States, disappear like the morning mist. Instead, it focuses on how the settlers brought diseases that wiped out the Indians, exploited many peoples, and, of course, owned slaves. It says that “belief in white superiority” led them “to justify their subjugation of Africans and American Indians.”
George who? George Washington, the father of our country, is given a quick passing reference, and the Declaration of Independence is only briefly mentioned twice.
If you were a kid who knew almost nothing about the history of our country, what would be your thoughts and beliefs based on such instruction?
Does that sound familiar? It has reappeared under the new names 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory.
But it’s not only CRT and 1619 that haVE those parents fighting for the minds of their kids. One mother stood up at the school board meeting to read excerpts from mandatory or approved reading lists. She couldn’t even read all of it aloud in the meeting because of the filthy sexual content.
Have you read, or even skimmed, the books on your kids’ reading lists?
Parents, it’s up to you. Follow the lead of those in Loudoun County. Take action.