{"id":300479,"date":"2021-07-16T05:12:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T02:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/foolish-us-schools-going-for-woke\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T05:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T02:12:20","slug":"foolish-us-schools-going-for-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/foolish-us-schools-going-for-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"#Foolish US schools going for woke"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Foolish US schools going for woke<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A majority of American fourth- and eighth-graders can\u2019t read or do math at grade level, according to the Education Department. And that assessment is from 2019, before the learning losses from pandemic school closures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whenever someone asks me about critical race theory, that statistic comes to mind. What\u2019s the priority, teaching math and reading, or turning elementary schools into social<\/a>-justice boot camps?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Given that black and Hispanic students are more likely to be lagging academically, it\u2019s a question that anyone professing to care deeply about social inequality might consider. Learning gaps manifest themselves in all kinds of ways later in life, from unemployment rates and income levels to the likelihood of teenage pregnancy, substance abuse and involvement with the criminal-justice system. Our jails and prisons already have too many woke illiterates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wealthier parents will make sure their kids receive a decent education, even if it means using private schools or hiring tutors. But the majority of children are relegated to the traditional public-school system, where progressives now want to prioritize the teaching of critical race theory. In addition to being a horrible idea, the timing couldn\u2019t be worse. As the country rapidly diversifies \u2014 for more than a decade, US population growth has been driven primarily by Asians and Hispanics \u2014 liberals want to teach children to obsess over racial and ethnic differences.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ibram X. Kendi wrote the book \u201cHow To Be An Antiracist.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What could go wrong?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recently, the nation\u2019s two largest teachers\u2019 unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, announced that they had jumped on the bandwagon. At its annual meeting earlier this month, the NEA adopted a proposal stating that it is \u201creasonable and app<\/a>ropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory.\u201d More, the organization pledged to \u201cfight back against anti-CRT rhetoric\u201d and issue a study that \u201ccritiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was no proposal vowing to improve math and reading test scores, alas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story,\u201d expands upon the New York Times Magazine publication from 2019.<\/figcaption>
One World via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, the NEA\u2019s sister outfit, the American Federation of Teachers, has joined forces with Ibram X. Kendi, an activist-scholar who openly embraces racial discrimination against whites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination,\u201d Kendi asserted in \u201cHow to Be an Anti-Racist.\u201d Sadly, that sort of circular drivel is what passes for deep thinking on race today. Kendi spoke at an AFT conference last week, and the union announced that it will donate copies of his writings to schools, AFT members, educators and youth mentors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Critical-race ideology is also entering the classroom via the New York Times \u201c1619 Project,\u201d which claims that the Revolutionary War was fought to preserve slavery and earned its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize. In a forthcoming book, \u201cWoke Racism,\u201d<\/a> the humanities professor John McWhorter argues that proponents like Kendi and Hannah-Jones have mostly been given a pass because they\u2019re racial minorities, they\u2019re on the left, and criticizing them is politically incorrect.<\/p>\n

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Nikole Hannah-Jones is now a Pulitzer Prize winner.<\/figcaption>
John Minchillo, File\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cOn the issue of the Revolutionary War, Hannah-Jones\u2019s claim is simply false, but our current cultural etiquette requires pretending that isn\u2019t true\u2014because she\u2019s black,\u201d McWhorter writes. \u201cSomeone has received a Pulitzer Prize for a mistaken interpretation of historical documents about which legions of actual scholars are expert. Meanwhile, the claim is being broadcast, unquestioned, in educational materials being distributed across the nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

McWhorter is right to point out the racial double standards at work in elevating shoddy pseudoscholarship. He\u2019s also correct in noting the general<\/a> cowardice of his colleagues in the academy. There is no shortage of books about slavery or America\u2019s founding, and none of them have been written by Hannah-Jones. To what, other than her race and politics, does she owe all this deference?\u00a0<\/p>\n

And while Kendi is using trendier language \u2014 \u201cantiracism,\u201d \u201cimplicit bias,\u201d etc. \u2014 critical race theory amounts to little more than a fancy argument for affirmative action, and always has. The theory comes out of the legal academy, and early proponents argued that race, ethnicity and gender should be used as academic credentials in hiring and promoting professors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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John McWhorter has said Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones have not faced enough criticism.<\/figcaption>
Holly McWhorter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s less a serious academic discipline than a hustle. It posits that racial inequality today is the sole fault of whites and the sole responsibility of whites to solve \u2014 through racial preferences for blacks. It\u2019s employed by elites primarily for the benefit of elites, though in the name of helping the underprivileged. Ultimately, it\u2019s about blaming your problems on other people \u2014 based on their race \u2014 which might be the last thing we should be teaching our children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From The Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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