DeSantis Strikes Against CRT & Marxist Racism

[Tahuyaman]

Impressionable? Younger? It’s a college level course.

They are introducing this in every level of public education. Why?


You still can’t explain how $#@! Theory is relevant to African American studies / history.

Yes, college students are still impressionable. Many are in their late teens.


If they are not impressionable, why did the left work so hard to gain control of education?


Why then do they ban certain political ideas from being expressed on a college campus?

[Tahuyaman]

Do you believe that there are no gay Black people in this country?

The percentage of homosexual black people is irrelevant. Why are you refusing to address the questions you’ve been asked?

[RMNIXON]

Impressionable? Younger? It’s a college level course.

They were poorly educated in public High Schools to begin with, but no doubt had their heads filled with all kinds of activist notions already:

https://thepoliticalforums.com/threa...9re-Now-Adults

[carolina73]

Why do you think that covering a topic is “pushing” anything on anyone? Is it not possible to expose students to subject matter that challenges them without forcing them to agree with it? Do you think that if an AP economics or AP world history course materials include portions of Das Kapital that it’s pushing communism on students?

Public education needs to focus on the basics for all not the deviations of a few.
Employers want people that can read, write, comprehend. Colleges are looking for more but they also should not be concerned with the nonsense that the left want taught in high schools.

[Carl Young]

Why do you think that covering a topic is “pushing” anything on anyone? Is it not possible to expose students to subject matter that challenges them without forcing them to agree with it? Do you think that if an AP economics or AP world history course materials include portions of Das Kapital that it’s pushing communism on students?

Certainly it's possible to discuss world history from a Marxist POV just as it's possible to teach racism from a slave owners point of view but since students are losing ground in math, reading, and other subjects necessary to reach adulthood, it might be best to teach them more more practical subjects.

Teaching young people how to prepare a salad, open a bank account, or select a worthy spouse would be more more beneficial over the long term than propagandizing about CRT.

[Thfan132]

Yeh, sometimes you have to dig to find the propaganda to support the lies your side is pushing.

Luckily for you the msm is very openly pushing it for your side.

[Thfan132]

No matter how you choose to mischaracterize the material in this course, high schools should teach critical thinking, which requires that students be exposed to a wide range of ideas and taught how to assess the merits of each. The AP curriculum for this course doesn’t say that students must accept the ideas espoused by the feminists and social activists whose works are included (as optional material) on the reading list.

Sorry, but the the younger you get to them, the easier it is to get them.

[Thfan132]

I support exposing high school students to challenging material. DeSantis wants kids to only see one side of every issue. That’s how you produce kids incapable of critical thought.

How about high school gives children an education that will allow them to survive in society if they choose not to go to college. You know the basics, and to call this an AP course is ridiculous. If students want this type of stuff, they can chose to take it in college on their own dime.

[Chris]

What I want to know is how CRT and BLM are even considered history. CRT and BLM are happening now, now is not history. Criticism by the WH about not teaching black history is utter BS.

Why DeSantis Should Be Skeptical Of Promised Revisions To The White House-Backed Racist AP Class

...On Friday and Sunday, respectively, the White House press secretary and U.S. vice president publicly criticized the DeSantis administration for denying the class entry into Florida. The two characterized as “American history” the critical race theory-laden teaching materials that spoke positively of violence and racial strife and presented no opposing nor divergent perspectives.

DeSantis responded on Monday by pointing out that drafts of official materials for the class, which College Board has refused to release publicly, include “$#@! theory” and characterize extremist, Black Panther-style racial ideology as representing black Americans.

...“As Governor DeSantis said, African American History is American History, and we will not allow any organization to use an academic course as a gateway for indoctrination and a political agenda. We look forward to reviewing the College Board’s changes and expect the removal of content on Critical Race Theory, Black $#@! Studies, Intersectionality and other topics that violate our laws,” responded Florida’s education department in a statement.

...A third reason not to give College Board the benefit of the doubt is its use of close ties with the Democrat-controlled White House to push lies about its draft curricula and to politicize American history. As DeSantis said, it’s completely false to describe “$#@! theory” as somehow relevant to African-American history. Yet that is what the White House did when running interference for College Board on this class....