But does the TN SSS pdf really tell us what is being taught? Firmly, 'No'. Parents must be aware of the actual curricula & how it is presented in classrooms
by the teachers assigned to their children in order to evaluate; even the curricula itself is not enough to inform whether your child is being educated objectively, or abused ideologically.
‘I Plan To Ignore It’: Tennessee Teachers Criticize Critical Race Theory Ban At Public Schools, Say It Will Harm Students
Critical theory - a Marxian theory that society is composed of a dominant group which victimizes and subjugates another/others to remain in a dominant position is the basis; oppressors and oppressed. It begat Critical Legal Theory (or Studies), which begat Critical Race (or Racial) Theory in the latter third of the last century. Critical Theory was brought to the U.S. by German and Italian dissidents of fascist regimes earlier in the century, 'intellectuals' from the University of Frankfurt’s Institute for Social Research in the 1930s with intellectual technocrats Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, and Teodor Adorno, and others. To not be discovered as Marxists, they adapted the dogma by relabeling it Critical Theory, but it's simply new paint on the same old Marxian jalopy, just as 'Democratic Socialism' attempts to rebrand today.
The broad prosperity experienced by Western societies in the 20th century - and it's horrific implementation in the USSR, China, etc. - cut the legs from under Marxism as a 'worker's movement' in the West. With the steam taken out of broad Marxian appeal, Horkheimer wondered how to advance the cause. Marcuse pondered that a victim coalition of blacks, women and homosexuals could be molded into a new vanguard. These ideas found fodder in feminism and the civil rights era, and took root in college campuses across the nation. The vast majority of teachers come from and are accredited by that collegiate arena, which has devolved from a place of 'logos' - the ability to think; reason - to authoritarian group-think in which the technocrat and intellectual propose a different society, and opposing view is 'hate speech' to be forcibly suppressed. And it is that tool of vilification and coercion which blesses the 'educated' disciple and excoriates the nonsubscriber as misogynist, racist, bigot - and those are the
good things said about dissenters - that has matured into the social chaos of today, and is the express goal.
Marxism MUST separate parent from child, groups from co-existence, equity from equality, and reason from base, identity balkanization. It is incompatible, in entirety, with a constitutional republic, and is oil to the water of individual liberty. This is an American variant of Marxism, and the leaders of this movement see this as their moment in time, a culminating opportunity to use "the most progressive president (and administration) ever" and make deep changes that when set in motion will be difficult or impossible to root out. These are the Great Resetters, an American president who needs his face wiped after ice cream encounters, proposing to fundamentally change the economy and world. A global, collaborative tax scheme to actually disadvantage this nation and corrode competitive ingenuity is just the "aw, shucks...'fairness" neutering of what they term a white supremacist society.
The tip of the spear is using smattering partial truth to inflict wounds which become septic from the pathogenic lies coating it. Yes, I doubt there are many, if any, K-12 courses titled 'Critical Race Theory', but just as the American Marxist immigrants veiled their doctrine under CRT, CRT is veiled under K-12 terms such as social justice, equity, various 'whiteness' dogma, racism, trans/queer tolerance and is presented in both part and parcel with the 1619 Project, BLM At School, and literature under the guise of sex and health education.
I don't blame anyone necessarily, for being ignorant of the graduating efforts to indoctrinate children with anti-American, anti-Western, anti-capitalist propaganda because of the partial truths it has been cloaked in. But it is inexcusable to remain ignorant of the existential threat by enemies, primarily domestic, at this juncture and not reassert control over the educational indoctrination complex and our governments facilitating it. OTOH, why listen to a schmuck like me instead of this guy:
"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." V. Lenin
Start digging, folks.
