Critical race theory and elections

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AshG said:
It's getting harder and harder to recruit teachers, and the ones who graduate have less than 50% survival rate past the first five years.

Poorly planned and half-ass implemented policy changes every five or six years, increasingly busy or disconnected parents unwilling to support the teacher, increasingly politicized school boards, and constant broadcasted berating by Newsertainment are just a few of the issues that are making America's school systems have trouble keeping quality teachers.

And we don't need to reinvent the wheel. Why don't we look at the countries that are kicking our backsides at international testing and implement the best of what they do?
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Probably because most parents in the US are lazy as hell and do nothing to foster their children’s education ….
 
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I’m not going to pretend I know what critical race theory is. Refusing to do so, however, apparently puts me ahead of a lot of Nevadans.

Don’t get me wrong, I have some ideas of what it might be. I’m not alone in that — the Washoe County school board recently sat through an 11 hour lecture on critical race theory delivered via a near-endless parade of public comment. According to some of the comments, when a vehicle with California plates parks in the school district parking lot, that’s critical race theory. When God isn’t mentioned in public schools, that’s also critical race theory even though white people are consistently less religious than most minority groups. Birth rates plummeting below replacement levels? That’s critical race theory. Loveless sex, suicidal despair, drug abuse, pornography, sexual chaos, and the district’s sexual education program behind it all? All critical race theory.

What about “females” getting elected to school boards? What about treason, Marxism, 19 million (wholly imaginary) dead Black babies, and (wholly imaginary) instructions on how to safely lick an anus in our school curriculum? Yes, Nevada — it’s all critical race theory, at least according to one especially colorful public commenter improvising during open mic night at the Washoe County school district administration building.

If it seems to you like complaining about critical race theory is just a way for certain people to gripe about social changes they disapprove of, you’re not alone. In certain corners of conservative punditry, in fact, this behavior is explicitly encouraged. The goal, as the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo describes it, “is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’”

Thinking critically about critical race theory
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Other countries spend a fraction of what we do on education and do better in some key categories because they have better family structures and because they don’t delve into this kind of nonsense sanctioned from a federal level
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Or because the United States includes special education students in its PISA data whereas other countries do not. ALL of those top education systems completely segregate their special education students instead of incorporating them into the classroom as much as possible like the USA. American is the only top 20 public educational system that does this. These facts don't fit your narrative though.
 
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mrorange211 said:
Or because the United States includes special education students in its PISA data whereas other countries do not. ALL of those top education systems completely segregate their special education students instead of incorporating them into the classroom as much as possible like the USA. American is the only top 20 public educational system that does this. These facts don't fit your narrative though.
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In Germany, vocational track students are not included in testing data. Same with several other nations "above" us on the list.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
Yes, we should only teach our children about how great america is and was. Ignoring issues is always best.
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You realize you can teach slavery without acting like America is the only country that ever had it, and that you can point out America's mistakes and STILL proudly point out why it's the best country in the world
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
You realize you can teach slavery without acting like America is the only country that ever had it, and that you can point out America's mistakes and STILL proudly point out why it's the best country in the world
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You realize slavery wasn't the end of racism, right? And why do you think America is the greatest country in the world?
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
You realize slavery wasn't the end of racism, right? And why do you think America is the greatest country in the world?
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I realize that ALL countries have had slavery in their history and racism and prejudice while it DOES exist and will never go away, it is not "systemic" and is not the reason that certain people fail in their lives. It is their parents' decision making and their own decision making abilities that affects their lives and it is up to the individual to fix those issues.

And America is the greatest country in the world, because it enables those though free will, decision making, and hard work to succeed. There isn't a country who means as much to the world, and has done more to advance freedom and liberty, despite the mistakes and flaws it has had. There are many reasons why people from literally every country in the world want to immigrate here.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
You realize you can teach slavery without acting like America is the only country that ever had it, and that you can point out America's mistakes and STILL proudly point out why it's the best country in the world
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What are you talking about?
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
I realize that ALL countries have had slavery in their history and racism and prejudice while it DOES exist and will never go away, it is not "systemic" and is not the reason that certain people fail in their lives. It is their parents' decision making and their own decision making abilities that affects their lives and it is up to the individual to fix those issues.
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So everybody is only a victim of their own choices. Nobody is ever a victim of circumstance? Victimized by another person? A {gasps} system?

Here's a fun exercise...when did systemic racism stop being a problem in America? When was it where you were like "OK, there it is....American institutions no longer hold any prejudice and all the laws are fairly carried out"?
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
I realize that ALL countries have had slavery in their history and racism and prejudice while it DOES exist and will never go away, it is not "systemic" and is not the reason that certain people fail in their lives. It is their parents' decision making and their own decision making abilities that affects their lives and it is up to the individual to fix those issues.

And America is the greatest country in the world, because it enables those though free will, decision making, and hard work to succeed. There isn't a country who means as much to the world, and has done more to advance freedom and liberty, despite the mistakes and flaws it has had. There are many reasons why people from literally every country in the world want to immigrate here.
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There are still the effects felt of systemic racism in this country. Some examples include how the military treated black soldiers with regard to the GI Bill. Also, take a look at why certain drugs were made illegal in the first place. Look at sentencing guidelines for crack that were in place. Look at sentencing disparities between minorities and whites. It cannot be overstated what impact the destruction of the black family unit had on future generations.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
You realize you can teach slavery without acting like America is the only country that ever had it, and that you can point out America's mistakes and STILL proudly point out why it's the best country in the world
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We learned about slavery growing up in school without making America out to be the axis of evil. The opposite of what these people are attempting to do. The fringe element of hatred is now mainstream. They hide behind the cloak of racism by calling others racists hoping to shut down ideological arguments because they typically lose those battles.
 
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n_huffhines said:
So everybody is only a victim of their own choices. Nobody is ever a victim of circumstance? Victimized by another person? A {gasps} system?

Here's a fun exercise...when did systemic racism stop being a problem in America? When was it where you were like "OK, there it is....American institutions no longer hold any prejudice and all the laws are fairly carried out"?
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LOL..... weak sauce
 
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n_huffhines said:
So everybody is only a victim of their own choices. Nobody is ever a victim of circumstance? Victimized by another person? A {gasps} system?

Here's a fun exercise...when did systemic racism stop being a problem in America? When was it where you were like "OK, there it is....American institutions no longer hold any prejudice and all the laws are fairly carried out"?
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No where is 100% free of prejudice with laws 100% of the time being "fairly carried out". And no place on earth ever will be.

But there is no grand conspiracy of laws that are just to "keep one race down" or to cause them suffering. And the enforcement of laws are not systemic unjust, despite what some would have you believe.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
There are still the effects felt of systemic racism in this country. Some examples include how the military treated black soldiers with regard to the GI Bill. Also, take a look at why certain drugs were made illegal in the first place. Look at sentencing guidelines for crack that were in place. Look at sentencing disparities between minorities and whites. It cannot be overstated what impact the destruction of the black family unit had on future generations.
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You are talking about stuff from the 40s-80s... this isn't today....a black kid being born at random today doesnt suffer because his great uncle was denied a GI bill or because his grandfather was arrested for dealing crack. And even then, those people had the choice to make themselves better
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
You are talking about stuff from the 40s-80s... this isn't today....a black kid being born at random today doesnt suffer because his great uncle was denied a GI bill or because his grandfather was arrested for dealing crack. And even then, those people had the choice to make themselves better
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They do have choices and often times they make poor choices, BUT the manner in which generations of black kids were raised without two parents or even seeing families with two parents is still having a dramatic effect on the black community. The sentencing disparities haven't ended yet. Nor have the drug offenses that were designed to affect minorities. This is why CRT is gaining traction because the people like to gloss over the past and ignore its impacts.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
They do have choices and often times they make poor choices, BUT the manner in which generations of black kids were raised without two parents or even seeing families with two parents is still having a dramatic effect on the black community. The sentencing disparities haven't ended yet. Nor have the drug offenses that were designed to affect minorities. This is why CRT is gaining traction because the people like to gloss over the past and ignore its impacts.
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CRT is only gaining traction in fringe progressive areas and the more the light of day shines on it the more it dies a well deserved swift death. It’s pure ****.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
They do have choices and often times they make poor choices, BUT the manner in which generations of black kids were raised without two parents or even seeing families with two parents is still having a dramatic effect on the black community. The sentencing disparities haven't ended yet. Nor have the drug offenses that were designed to affect minorities. This is why CRT is gaining traction because the people like to gloss over the past and ignore its impacts.
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Oh so close.....
 
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