Teachers reimagine U.S. history lessons with eye on diversity

Teaching revisionist history, or CRT, achieves one thing and one thing only. American children grow up hating their country.

Black children are taught that no matter what, they are victims and will forever have the invisible hand of racism holding the back.

White children are taught that no matter what, they are racists and forever guilty by the sheer pigment of their skin.

I sure hope Brandon Brown's burgeoning rap career is worth the cancerous results.

Teaching revisionist history, or CRT, achieves one thing and one thing only. American children grow up hating their country. 

Black children are taught that no matter what, they are victims and will forever have the invisible hand of racism holding the back. 

White children are taught that no matter what, they are racists and forever guilty by the sheer pigment of their skin.

None of this is correct.

Where is CRT being taught? Which schools? What is the syllabus? What is being taught?

If it is such a problem which results in ‘one thing and one thing only’ there must surely be some concrete evidence of this.

If it is such a problem which results in ‘one thing and one thing only’ there must surely be some concrete evidence of this.

Tell me you haven't read a single newspaper for the past 10 years without telling me you haven't read a single newspaper for the past 10 years.

Tell me you haven't read a single newspaper for the past 10 years without telling me you haven't read a single newspaper for the past 10 years.

So, you got nothing.

Again, tell me where CRT is being taught and to who. Or are you just imagining it?

Teaching revisionist history, or CRT, achieves one thing and one thing only. American children grow up hating their country.

Critical Race Theory is a graduate level concept taught at law schools. Do you think children attend law school?

Tell me you haven't read a single newspaper for the past 10 years without telling me you haven't read a single newspaper for the past 10 years.

You have 10 years’ worth of evidence. Wow, an archivist. Ok then, give us a little sample.

Critical Race Theory is a graduate level concept taught at law schools. Do you think children attend law school?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/yes-critical-race-theory-is-being-taught-in-public-schools

https://spectator.org/yes-crt-is-being-taught-in-public-schools/

https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/website-tracks-where-critical-race-theory-taught-at-us-schools/

https://yournews.com/2022/02/02/2292744/teacher-made-white-elementary-school-children-apologize-to-black-kids/

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/02/02/heres-what-happened-when-a-school-teacher-lined-up-some-fifth-grade-students-bas-n2602730

Boy oh boy, these law school grads are getting younger and younger. Some of them are learning potty training at the same time!

Boy oh boy, these law school grads are getting younger and younger. Some of them are learning potty training at the same time!

Read the links you supplied.

There are over 130,000 K-12 schools in the US. The website you linked was a database to help parents find CRT classes in schools, there are only about 200.

Not quite the ‘American kids are being taught to hate their country’ crisis you’re worried about is it?

Teaching revisionist history, or CRT, achieves one thing and one thing only. American children grow up hating their country.

Corrected for you:

Teaching accurate history achieves one thing and one thing only. American children grow up hating their country.

Best to keep American children away from history altogether if they can't handle the past.

Actually, the children can handle the past; it's the adults that can't.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/yes-critical-race-theory-is-being-taught-in-public-schools

https://spectator.org/yes-crt-is-being-taught-in-public-schools/

https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/website-tracks-where-critical-race-theory-taught-at-us-schools/

https://yournews.com/2022/02/02/2292744/teacher-made-white-elementary-school-children-apologize-to-black-kids/

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/02/02/heres-what-happened-when-a-school-teacher-lined-up-some-fifth-grade-students-bas-n2602730

Boy oh boy, these law school grads are getting younger and younger. Some of them are learning potty training at the same time!

That's a sweet list of stories from right-wing tabloids, but nothing in them describe critical race theory.

Do you know what critical race theory is?

Actually, the children can handle the past; it's the adults that can't.

Thats what they said in Cambodia back in the mid 70's.

Didn't work out too well.

That's a sweet list of stories from right-wing tabloids, but nothing in them describe critical race theory.

Do you know what critical race theory is?

Its a sweet list of things that popped up on Google when I entered "CRT" into the search bar.

And yes, we all know what it is. Its what you are desperately trying to insist doesn't exist "oh, except in law school. Yeah, ok. Got me there. But nowhere else, honest!"

And parents, all over the US both black and white, are definitely NOT turning up at school board meetings insisting their children not be indoctrinated with it.

Its just your imagination.

Another bogus view of U. S.

There are plenty of recent figures who are minority. The U.S. was only White 500 years ago though.

CRT teaches hate and blame for failures. For some reason Asians are the scapegoats in California and New York.

For some reason Asians are the scapegoats in California and New York.

Didn't you hear? Asians have been doing too well. They are now categorized as "white adjacent"

Better off overhauling the whole system. If more effort was made in improving the standards for deprived kids, many of color, rather than tinkering with this stuff, they might have better prospects in life.

Better off overhauling the whole system. If more effort was made in improving the standards for deprived kids, many of color, rather than tinkering with this stuff, they might have better prospects in life.

School choice.

Its what black American parents want but teachers unions have been fighting tooth and nail.

The last things the teachers unions want is to be held to a certain standard of professionalism and even worse, lose their young, impressionable, and captive audience.

Its a sweet list of things that popped up on Google when I entered "CRT" into the search bar.

Maybe you should use DuckDuckGo /s

Anyway, it’s good you’re interested in learning about something but googling will only get you so far, you’ll have to do some reading too.

Anyway, it’s good you’re interested in learning about something but googling will only get you so far, you’ll have to do some reading too.

No one has read more than me on the subject. But as always, ask and ye shall receive.

Thats what they said in Cambodia back in the mid 70's.

Didn't work out too well.

I presume you are referring to test zero. The problem is when people demand a sanitised version of history that doesn't discuss the unpleasant parts of history, but also offers few clues as to why society is as it is today. To understand the present you need to understand the past.

The risk is that without that clarity of the past, you get insidious ideas like the evangelical "prosperity doctrine" worming its way into explanations as to how society looks. By no coincidence, this is most common in Bible Belt states - those which have the greatest issues historically on racial issues and which are doing their best to remove discussion on racial issues from the curriculum.

No one has read more than me on the subject.

The bigliest. Why, just yesterday a man shook my hand an asked “Sir, could you teach me about CRT?”

Ah_so - I keep hearing this claim that there are whole swaths of US history missing from the history books.

Which history has been deleted, please?

Expert on WW2 too. masterclass

A weird flex out of left field, but as it happens, yes. I've read most every book possible on the conflict. At least the most important ones.

The bigliest. Why, just yesterday a man shook my hand an asked “Sir, could you teach me about CRT?”

If I had a nickel for every time...

Expert on WW2 too. masterclass

That was the finest example of ‘uneducated’ I’ve ever come across. If anyone has a better example of the following, I’d love to hear it:

Someone stating they’ve read half of the books written about WW2.

Unforgettable.

I think that poster had an absolutely disgraceful hysterical meltdown after the 2020 election and got banned.

That’s sad. The poster may have given us an even better example of uneducated. That is a loss.

Education is very important. The most important thing is to teach how much there is to know.

Although reality is unlikely to be as bad as the media portray it, there is presumably an option for home learning using a pile of text books if you want to pull your kid out of the weird, bullet-ridden, politicised mess that is the American school system.

Parents need to pull their weight, teaching their kids to distrust politically-biased teachers/course materials and game the education system as best they can. All good preparation for distrusting politicians and coping with society.

A thorough education into the slave-owning classes is important if you want to be a success in corporate management. It will teach you how to treat your staff like dogs and work them until they burn out, enriching yourself from their suffering. I'm surprised it doesn't feature more on MBAs.

Teaching revisionist history, or CRT, achieves one thing and one thing only. American children grow up hating their country.

No. Done well it should make students think about their own biases and how they view others who are not of the same race, religion or ethnic origin as they are. You cannot tell me the racism isn't there because I see it every day. Understanding the mistakes your nation make does not imply hating it. You cannot do better in the future if you do not understand your mistakes.

Ah_so - I keep hearing this claim that there are whole swaths of US history missing from the history books.

Which history has been deleted, please?

I don't begin to know every missing piece of US history but two I do remember asking a well regarded history teacher in my high school about two subjects were not taught in our world history lessons that I read about separately, These were the US involvement in the Bolshevik Revolutionds (yes, the US Navy was involved on the side of the White Russians) and the US involvement in the Boxer Rebellion in China and the conditions that led to the Boxers taking up arms (opposition to Christian missionaries many of whom were Americans). Most US kids don't know that US soldiers fought in China against the Chinese Boxers in a coalition with some European powers, but every kid in China is taught how awful we are for having done so. Our history lessons on the Spanish settlement of the western US didn't tell us much about how the Spanish treated the Native Americans they encountered. We were in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement at the time so no history on that subject yet.

Understanding the mistakes your nation make does not imply hating it. You cannot do better in the future if you do not understand your mistakes.

I remember reading once: a patriot loves their country like one loves a lover. They love them, despite their flaws, and want them to do better.

A nationalist loves their country like a child loves their mother. They think that they are perfect, can do no wrong, and will get mad at anyone who suggests otherwise.

Teaching students (young Black kids) about white slave owners, but it wasn't connecting? I don't get it. He didn't mention to his students that the slaves were black?

The anger comes from the communists who want the cancerous lies and race baiting taught in schools.

You'd think that 100 million dead in the name of their ideology in the 20th century would cause them enormous shame.

But the answer is always "it just wasn't done right..."

To quote the great Thomas Sowell;

"Propagandists in the classroom are a luxury that the poor can afford least of all. While a mastery of mathematics and English can be a ticket out of poverty, a highly cultivated sense of grievance and resentment is not"

@master

Talking about the classroom, I think the key to good education is what I posted earlier - try to teach how much there is to know. I mentioned earlier the poster who got banned but it’s such a pure example it is worth repeating. He confidently proclaimed he’d read half of the books written on WW2. I know you and I can laugh at that, but these are the types who spout off on Covid after watching Joe Rogan and reading pulp novelists like Alex Berenson. You can imagine them thinking they are astrophysicists after watching Cosmos.

These types just recite from hymn sheets on a variety of topics and don’t think critically about topics on their own merits. You know what they think before bothering to read it.

This is the bigger failure of education and it needs addressing.

The anger comes from the communists who want the cancerous lies and race baiting taught in schools.

Is "slavery was bad" a cancerous lie?

Is "slavery was bad" a cancerous lie?

Such an odd statement.

Looking forward to your example of anyone who said slavery was great.

@Jimizo - I agree, education has been a great failure in the past 20 years or so. I have a dear friend who I know took a lot of the socialist propaganda to heart way back when he was in school. Became a hardcore communist. And I mean communist. He is now in his 40's,.... has no possessions. No house, no car, no children.

Nothing.

His wife is a mess. Despondent at what he promised her and what he became.

Its the once young impressionable minds like this that have been destroyed by the likes of revisionist history and I don't want to see it happen to the next generation.

I have a dear friend who I know took a lot of the socialist propaganda to heart way back when he was in school. Became a hardcore communist. And I mean communist. He is now in his 40's,.... has no possessions. No house, no car, no children. 

Nothing. 

His wife is a mess. Despondent at what he promised her and what he became. 

Its the once young impressionable minds like this that have been destroyed by the likes of revisionist history and I don't want to see it happen to the next generation.

Cool story. Do you imagine it’s a widespread problem or just a one off anecdote about some guy?

Well @Master a public education made me a very capitalist business owner with degrees in economics and military veteran. From experience I am not an aberration. But if you ask me there is great value in showing kids at an early age the many ways, overt and subtle, that racial biases affect how we treat others. There is absolutely nothing to recommend about racism and rooting it out should be something everyone supports.

@Bob Fosse - Oh I imagine it is a universal story, however this poor sod is an extreme example that I know of personally.

Mid 40's. Lives in a tiny dungy apartment with his long-suffering wife. She's despondent because he never gave her the kids she always wanted (he had been fooled into thinking the world couldn't afford another human)

He refuses to buy a house, a car etc. But more than that, it robbed him of his potential. He gave up trying to improve himself, always thinking a socialist utopia would one day take care of him. Now, years later, he sits in that tiny apartment with no viable skills for anything.

@Desert Tortoise- Thats wonderful, but I don't believe it is representative of the current education children are receiving in North America and Europe.

Now, it is rarely anything more than the Grievance Studies Thomas Sowell refers to.

Oh I imagine it is a universal story, however this poor sod is an extreme example that I know of personally.

’Socialist propaganda’ taught in schools destroyed a generation and it’s going to happen again? You’d think we’d have heard more about it, not including the one guy you know.

’Socialist propaganda’ taught in schools destroyed a generation and it’s going to happen again? You’d think we’d have heard more about it, not including the one guy you know.

Not happen "again". I didn't say that. It hasn't stopped and is only gathering steam.

You haven't heard anything about the radical leftist takeover of western universities? Really?

Of course you have.