{"id":1813,"date":"2021-10-27T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T12:18:20","slug":"no-we-dont-teach-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/27\/no-we-dont-teach-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No, we don&#8217;t teach critical race theory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/critical-lens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/critical-lens-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"Critical lens in Fairfax County\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/critical-lens-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/critical-lens.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 85vw, 284px\" \/><\/a>One increasingly common political tactic is to claim that you&#8217;re not doing what you&#8217;re very clearly doing. Sometimes these rascals also claim that their opponents are doing what they themselves are doing. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently Fairfax County (Virginia) has adopted this technique. Parents complain that their children are being taught critical race theory, and school officials scoff, mock and deny. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What? That&#8217;s master&#8217;s level stuff. It&#8217;s what you might learn in the university. We don&#8217;t teach it in K-12.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>No, they actually do. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/oct\/26\/fairfax-county-schools-critical-race-frame-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Critical race theory is a \u2018frame\u2019 for \u2018our work,\u2019 Fairfax County Public Schools told teachers<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>If you can stomach it, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KmoxhdCHkX8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch the presentation for yourself.<\/a> (The presentation doesn&#8217;t start until about 50 minutes in. And no, I didn&#8217;t watch the whole thing, but I skimmed it.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One increasingly common political tactic is to claim that you&#8217;re not doing what you&#8217;re very clearly doing. Sometimes these rascals also claim that their opponents are doing what they themselves are doing. Apparently Fairfax County (Virginia) has adopted this technique. Parents complain that their children are being taught critical race theory, and school officials scoff, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/27\/no-we-dont-teach-critical-race-theory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;No, we don&#8217;t teach critical race theory&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}