Teachers Call BS on DeSantis' Bonkers Attempt to Outlaw Critical Race Theory

[babylonsister]

Teachers Call BS on DeSantis’ Bonkers Attempt to Outlaw Critical Race Theory
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The governor’s “Stop W.O.K.E. Act” will also allow parents to sue any schools that dabble in CRT, and will force students to take civics tests.
Brooke Leigh Howard
Reporter
Updated Dec. 15, 2021 4:59PM ET / Published Dec. 15, 2021 4:10PM ET


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Without actually proving that critical race theory is taught in Florida schools, DeSantis said it will be banished from all public schools. In a novel tactic, parents will be able to sue schools suspected of teaching the ideology. He quipped that parents know what’s best for their children and that educators lie about whether they teach critical race theory to students.

“[The Stop W.O.K.E. Act] will do a number of things that are very important. It will put into statute the Department of Education’s prohibition on CRT in K-12 schools. No taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country or to hate each other,” DeSantis said to a room of applause. “We’re going to be including in this legislation, giving parents a private right of action to be able to enforce the prohibition on CRT, and they get to recover attorneys’ fees when they prevail.”

But Florida teacher Dr. Cindy Banyai, who ran as a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives last year, said no K-12 schools in Florida even teach CRT.

“We are lucky if they are given enough funds to teach kids to read,” she tweeted. “We must stop the attacks on education and the continuous GOP efforts to defund our schools. DeSantis’ Stop Woke Act is a dangerous political charade.”

Florida Education Association President Andrew Spar said in a statement that politicians shouldn’t be trying to censor teachers’ ability to teach American history.

“Teachers are trained and experienced in educating children and have a duty to prepare their students to be successful contributors to society. Teachers should have the freedom to teach honest, complete facts about historical events like slavery and civil rights without being censored by politicians,” the statement said. “The governor’s announcement today goes against this fundamental American value. All Florida’s children should receive a fact-based education that doesn’t change depending on their ZIP code.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-teachers-shred-gov-ron-desantis-bonkers-attempt-to-outlaw-critical-race-theory-in-schools?ref=home

[multigraincracker]

1. In the mean time, over at FOX...

Tucker Pushes Racist ‘Great Replacement’ Theory Yet Again, ADL Renews Call for Fox to Fire Him

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-pushes-racist-great-replacement-theory-yet-again-adl-renews-call-for-fox-to-fire-him

The Anti-Defamation League is reiterating its calls for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson after the network’s primetime star went all-in on espousing the racist “Great Replacement” theory this week.

The last time Carlson embraced the conspiracy theory, his boss Lachlan Murdoch dismissed the outrage, claiming the Fox star was merely talking about voting rights. But now, the ADL said, Carlson is “openly embracing white nationalist talking points.”

The Fox News host has repeatedly fear-mongered about Democrats allegedly bringing in dark-skinned immigrants with the express purpose of “replacing” the American (read: white) electorate. On Wednesday night, he declared that the Biden administration is intentionally trying “to change the racial mix of the country” through immigration.

“In political terms, this policy is called ‘the great replacement,’ the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far-away countries,” Carlson exclaimed. “They brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it's happening they will scream at you with maximum hysteria.”

[Divebus]

12. Then we get to sue Fox News..

Time for a law that allows citizens to sue Fox News for teaching the country bullshit. Make them prove every talking point in court with real legal consequences for lying about it. Of course the Banana Republicans will start suing CNN and the like, but they can prove their stories and will be left paying courts costs and legal fees.

[Doodley]

2. Banning discussions about past and present racial disparity in America. It's race-based fascism.

[Rebl2]

17. Absolutely!

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Behold the rise of the era of Sue-A-Palooza!

Offended evangelicals suing women in Texas,

Parents suing schools in Florida,

Residents of Florida suing DeSantis because he's an imbecile,

DeSantis counter-suing every resident of Florida because they hurt his feelings by calling him an imbecile,

EVERYBODY suing tfg, because... well, just because, and

there's still the unsettled litigation by Devin Nunes' cow demanding warmer milking gloves.

Sure wish I'd gone to Law School.

[FloridaBlues]

4. New playbook because it worked in Virginia.

[traitorsgalore]

21. Explain how that worked in VA

Recently in Spotsylvania County they tried banning some books and the entire population of the school refused to attend school until the ban was removed.

I can see Gov. elect "Bumpkin" trying that in VA but it won't work.

[FloridaBlues]

22. He ran on being against CRT voters believed a lot this lie enough to elect him

[BlueJac]

5. De Shithead is a white nationalist...

Can't stand my governor!

[RobinA]

6. If Critical Race Theory

is not taught in schools, way even argue with them on this non-issue. Let them ban it, since it isn't happening. It's turning into a bit of a strawman, why engage?

[teach1st]

8. CRT is not taught in Florida schools, but..

Most MAGAs don't know what CRT is. To them it's teaching anything about racial history that shows white folks in a less-than-flattering light. Whether it's lessons on equality or our civil rights movement, MAGAs see a sinister plot to make their children feel bad and hate whites. The WOKE act gives them a club with which to pound at schools.

We engage and make people aware of the B.S. to hopefully take that club away.

[LastDemocratInSC]

11. It's amazing that "cathode ray tube" can create so much controversy.

[Ohioboy]

13. As a former TV repairman (that's how old I am) I get that joke.

[monkeyman1]

18. ask him to explain it !! that should be good for a giggle ???

[Celerity]

10. They want to outlaw any discussion of racism, any discussion of

white systemic culpability. They damn well know that actual CRT is not taught in any high school, but they have appropriated the name and weaponised it in their march towards a white nationalist, christofascist-dominated form of local, state and national governance.

[Ohioboy]

14. Exactly!

It's to create fear.

They want teachers to be thinking twice before they give lessons on anything concerning slavery, civil rights etc.

[DemUnleashed]

7. So now...

So now, let me guess....when a Florida teacher talks about, let's say, Rosa Parks in class (something that has been discussed for decades in American schools and is not Critical Race Theory), how much do you want to bet that a Florida parent would now feel they would have every right to sue the school??!

[Volaris]

20. You're right and that's EXACTLY the point.

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. Florida democrats should introduce a bill outlawing owning a unicorn.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Even better, a bill banning the hiding of important facts that school children must learn:

* Slavery is and was an evil

* Slavery is a part of American history. It is implicit in the US Constitution. 3/5 and all that. It had to be outlawed by Constitutional Amendment.

* Slavery was the reason for the Civil War. It is mentioned multiple times in official articles of secession and other documents and statements around that time.

* Many ways in all the years between then and now and including now, people of colour have been suppressed and oppressed. Systemically. Especially in the South, but actually also in all parts of the country.


If learning these facts is enough to make people hate, then hiding them won't make it better. Hiding them perpetuates the hate and the division. Learning them and improving society is the only way forward, the only way to put them so far into the past that learning them doesn't make anybody hate anybody.

But that will only happen if learning these facts well starts now.

[panader0]

16. The true history of slavery and of racism can be taught without

using the term CRT. I had a very good Black History class in '69, before I had ever heard
of CRT. Of course, Critical Theory ideas are applied to other areas besides race. Critical Economic
Theory, etc, etc. I think it's the word 'critical' that bothers the repub racists.
So, maybe teachers can artfully dodge the BS just by not using those three words.

[monkeyman1]

19. should be outlaw'd to have mentally challenged Governor's !!!!