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0 pointstastyfreeze5y ago0 comments

I am sorry that your kids are being indoctrinated with CRT. I will pull my kids from public school before they are "taught" CRT. The goal of a school should be to teach how to think for yourself and provide tools to solve problems. Telling children what they are supposed to think has no place in school.

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Gunax5y ago

There's always a degree of indictrination, it's just about where one draws the line.

I was taught racism is bad, and in the literal sense that is an opinion, its just one that our society takes for granted now.

sfblah5y ago

Please read the rest of my comments on this thread. I don't think you should pull your kids out of school. Simply sit with them and help modulate the information. Learning to operate in the context of CRT is simply part of how their lives will be, assuming they live in / remain in the US.

tastyfreezeOP5y ago

I did read your comments. And we do provide a wide array of view points. We are currently home schooling because of COVID. However, I will not reward a school district with government funding attached to my children if they are going to be a mouthpiece for political indoctrination. There is danger in allowing CRT to persist in schools. You are able to modulate the ideas for your children. But, the concern, as you have expressed, is that not all parents can do the same or have already drank the kool-aid. The majority of children being taught CRT are not going to be offered modulating ideas. I fear that 20 years down the road as these kids come into power we are in for a new flavor of racist policies driven by the divisive ideas of CRT.

I do agree that the best counter for bad ideas is talking about better ideas and comparing them. Which, to the point of the article, is the crux of critical thinking skills.

I'm not saying that my trek through public school was free of political indoctrination. DARE drug education was pervasive. There is a big difference between "drugs are bad mkay..." and "you're white so you are inherently racist".

sfblah5y ago

I hear you. I just think it's important for my kids to be in contact with the culture, such as it is. I don't envy them having to grapple with the concerns you mentioned. I agree that DARE (which had its share of issues) was a lot less questionable than the current social agenda.

Schools are always mouthpieces. Where I grew up in the 90s in Southern California, the public high school I went to was proud of the fact that they'd figured out a way to have a school-funded evangelical christian club that met weekly on campus (and had hundreds of members). My English teacher taught a class called "Bible as Literature" which was overtly religious even thought it wasn't supposed to be, and she was well-known to be a born-again christian. The P.E. teacher at my public middle school used to make us all stand on our numbers while he told us stories about how Jesus got him through his time in the Marines.

None of this is great, but it's just the way life is, and I believe it's important for my kids to understand, in context provided by my wife and I, how society all fits together. School is an important part of that, in my opinion.

andrepd5y ago

> Telling children what they are supposed to think has no place in school.

Funny I thought that was all that school was supposed to do.

black65y ago

Schools should teach children how to learn, then all else will fall in line.

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Gunax5y ago

There's always a degree of indictrination, it's just about where one draws the line.

I was taught racism is bad, and in the literal sense that is an opinion, its just one that our society takes for granted now.

sfblah5y ago

tastyfreezeOP5y ago

I do agree that the best counter for bad ideas is talking about better ideas and comparing them. Which, to the point of the article, is the crux of critical thinking skills.

sfblah5y ago

andrepd5y ago

> Telling children what they are supposed to think has no place in school.

Funny I thought that was all that school was supposed to do.

black65y ago

Schools should teach children how to learn, then all else will fall in line.

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