Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "California district loses half of its student teachers after banning critical race theory" video.

  1.  @edwardrhoads7283  Any comment about education, from someone who refers to "2nd hand citizens", is of no import. All people have been slaves and masters, sometime in their history. Most people have been the oppressed or the oppressor, sometime in their history. The black experience, in America, is not unique, but it is being taught as it is. As someone, who was offered a full scholarship to an Ivy League college, in 1975, only to have even acceptance withdrawn, when they realized I was Jewish, I personally know that black people are not the only ones treated as second class citizens in this country.
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  2. ​ @brianholloway6205  Why do you have to "talk about skin color"? Isn't the idea to develop into a color-blind community, where all are treated equally? Dividing up a class, according to skin and eye color, then teaching that those with lighter skin and eyes are oppressors, is racist. You can claim that CRT is not taught in lower grades, but take a look at the curriculum of our local Portland schools, and there certainly an effort to shame children, for the color of their skin. They are also teaching that, prior to Europeans arriving in the New World, all was sweetness in light, living in harmony with nature, in the Americans. This brown washes the fact that native Americans kept slaves, seldom practiced female empowerment, engaged in slash and burn agriculture, warred with neighboring tribes, and sometimes engaged in human sacrifice. Teaching children, that native American culture was completely beneficent is just as wrong, as teaching that native Americans were all murderous savages. Dividing humans up, into oppressors and the oppressed, is wrong. Teach true history, but don't demonize one group, based upon physical characteristics, while you pretend the other was perfect. And, since teachers are often very ignorant, if earnest, perhaps they shouldn't try to impose their simplistic belief system on other people's children.
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  3. So the student teachers quit? No big loss, to the school or students. But, the drama queens won't be able to get their teaching credentials.
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  4. Are you the sole arbiter of truth?
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  5. When I was ten, I asked my teacher "What is the square root of negative one?" His response was, "You'll have to wait until you are older, to learn that." He didn't know the answer, so it was rather a cop out, but that answer would be a good one for a question about CRT. I got the same sort of answer to a lot of questions, like about atomic bonds, and where do the electrons go. I had to wait until college, to get the answer to many of my questions, and these children can wait until college, as well. That's better than getting a simplistic, half-baked answer, from a well meaning ignoramus.
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