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Despite Nationwide Condemnation, Illinois Passes Leftist Teacher-Training Mandate
How far gone is Illinois? And by “gone,” I mean arrogantly and divisively leftist.
Well, despite statewide and even nationwide condemnation of the proposed “Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards,” the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) failed to stop the controversial standards.
In a vote delayed by one day, JCAR voted 6-5 along partisan lines to, in effect, approve these standards, which will infuse the assumptions of Critical Race Theory/ identity politics/BLM into 1. all teacher-training programs, 2. all Professional Education Licensing (PEL), and 3. indirectly into all public school classrooms.
Not even yesterday’s plea from the left-leaning Chicago …
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, Chicago Tribune, Critical Race Theory, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards, gender identity, homophobia, Ibram X. Kendi, Illinois State Board of Education, JCAR, racism, Robin DiAngelo, sexism, sexual orientation, Ta-Nehesi Coates, unearned privilege
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Unbelievably, Woke Springfield STILL Isn’t Done Indoctrinating Children
State Representative Mary Flowers (D-Chicago) has filed a jaw-dropping bill , HB 80, that doesn’t propose merely “standards” or “guidelines” or even a type of curricula. Oh no, Flowers is going for the whole enchilada. If passed, her bill would mandate the teaching of specific books on race and feminism: 20 non-fiction books and 9 fiction. Every book is written by a leftist. There is not one book in Flowers’ list by either a person of color or a colorless person who criticizes or dissents from leftist assumptions on race or feminism.
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Tagged Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, and Do, Anne Wortham, Ben Crump, Between the World and Me, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Brown Girl Dreaming, Candace Owens, Carol Swain, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards, feminism, HB 80, Heather MacDonald, Hood Feminism, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, Ijeoma Oluo, Jacquelyn Woodson, Jason Riley, Jennifer Harvey, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, John McWhorter, Larry Elder, Layla F. Saad, Mary Flowers, Me and White Supremacy, Michelle Alexander, Mikki Kendall, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, race, Raising White Kids, REACH Act, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rich Lowry, Robin DiAngelo, Shelby Steele, So You Want to Talk About Race, Ta-Nehesi Coates, The New Jim Crow, They Can’t Kill Us All, Think, Thomas Sowell, Wesley Lowery, White Fragility, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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