Despite officials at Riverside Unified School District claiming critical race theory is not taught in the California district, public records, as well as a cursory glance at the district’s website, proves such claims are blatant lies.
According to records of the minutes taken at two local school board meetings, one of which was held on July 15, 2021 and another on August 5, 2021, multiple public employees at Riverside Unified School District claimed that critical race theory was not taught in the school district. Superintendent Renee Hill is one such public employee.
The records note that during the meeting on July 15, Hill addressed various topics “that seemed to be on the minds of some RUSD stakeholders. First, she said, RUSD does not teach Critical Race Theory.” The divisive theory was discussed again during the August 5 meeting, when community members spoke on CRT during the public comments section of the meeting. It was directly after these public comments that Board of Education member Tom Hunt also lied about the presence of CRT in the district.
The Local Control and Accountability Plan revealed the district spent a whopping $942,103 on programs for cultural proficiency training, culturally responsive teaching, and other programs that frequently feature the themes of CRT.
One hired to deliver such trainings was Epoch Education, which, according to the district’s LCAP, was commissioned to train as many as 400 administrators in “cultural proficiency.” On August 15, 2020, Assistant Superintendent Jacqueline Perez gave a presentation to the board that outlined the district’s partnership with Epoch Education, as well as their strategic plan to advance CRT.
The presentation, which can be downloaded and accessed through the meeting’s records, left no room for doubt regarding the presence of CRT in the district. One slide, labeled “Superintendent Call To Action,” demands that the board “reflect on your own mindset on race and privilege.” It also says that an “equity champion” “Explore[s] Whiteness [sic] as Property through Critical Race Theory.”
It’s also evident that these themes are intended to affect the instruction of students. For one thing, the presentation quickly transitions to a conversation on the new ethnic studies curriculum the district will be teaching. The presentation also features an “Equity, Access, and Community Engagement Division” graphic that includes “District Student Equity Leaders,” further evidence that the student body is directly involved in equity initiatives that are explicitly rooted in CRT.
Full story at The Federalist.
If one goes to the school district website, one will find a lot of material pointed toward making teachers and students more aware of equity, racism, etc., but none of it that I saw had anything to do with CRT. CRT is the new mantra for the far-right 2022 election process. This article is written on the website of the Federalist Society that makes far-right-wing conspiracy theories their way of making America less democratic and equitable, read white supremacists for starters. They started at Yale Law School.
Democrats lie. It’s what they do.
Republicans lie in equal measure, but that isn’t the nub of this article. Teaching history today, unlike years ago, includes identifying warts as well as the good stuff. We have one of the best constitutions ever written. Now, all we have to do is live up to its dream. Kids need to know the truth about our history. You can’t teach about freedom for all without teaching about the Klan. You can’t teach that
everyone should be able to vote without teaching about poll taxes and laws that kept black and brown people from voting.
I remember going home in 3rd grade scared to death because they taught us about the Klan. My parents said that they weren’t around where we lived and they would not hurt me.
I have only seen them once in my entire life and they did not hurt me.
I know one person who 55 years ago had a cross burned in their yard.
the TRUTH shall set you free! “Be not afraid”
What?! Teachers and administrators trying to deceive parents and the taxpayers who pay their salaries?! I can’t believe it.
Next someone will claim that this happens in Catholic schools too.
(I’m sure students at LMU, USD and Archbishop Mitty HS attend daily Mass, pray the Rosary and are urged to live chastely.)
There was a police officer who responded to PO’d people telling him that they paid his salary by asking for a raise.
CRT will plunge this country into civil war. When a black who murders a white isn’t convicted of murder because the jury, influenced by CRT, thinks it would be unfair to convict a black, there will be civil war. CRT is completely immoral and evil and will be the undoing of our country.
What are they teaching in the schools about our history that you believe to be our undoing? Forget CRT, it isn’t taught in K-12. Go read the textbooks. What don’t you want the kids to know that is in the textbooks? Do you not want them to know that we had a civil war over the issue of slavery? Do you not want them to know that Blacks were, back a few years ago, not allowed to sit in the front of busses, had to drink out of separate water fountains than whites? Do you not want them to know that Native Americans were forced off their own lands and into reservations? What don’t you want them to know? Be specific. Give us your list.
“The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived on Virginia soil as our nation’s foundational date. “….can a child, let alone an adult, be proud to be a citizen of a state founded for the purpose of slave labor?
https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum
If you stop calling it Critical Race Theory and start talking about what was taught that bothered your kids or that you are afraid is going to negatively effect them, you will be more effective.
They have all their talking points about CRT: it is graduate level, it is legal profession, it is not taught, it was started by a specific person to rile people up.
Stop using that phrase and stop using the term “woke” and you will have more impact and things will happen faster.
And if you do not know what you are talking about, better to let others who do have the floor.
Decades ago, schools taught that black people were intrinsically not as good as white people, and so the races were separated.
Finally, this practice was ended, and segregation as well, and children were joined together in the classroom.
Now, the situation has been reversed, and crt schools are teaching that white people are intrinsically more evil.
Looks as if Jim Crow has returned, with white kids now presented as the evil race.
The moral: Please let children alone, to learn English, math and science.
CRT people, end your racist moralizing, and let children learn the basic skills needed as adults.