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Amber Ruffin schools white America about critical race theory (msn.com)
The Failure of American Schools - The Atlantic
Archived: A Nation At Risk
A student's point of view: Kids don't want to learn – Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs
I grew up in a small town in western Pennsylvania where people "cling tight to their Bibles in one hand and their shotgun in the other" so the saying goes. Not exactly a time or place where one would have discussions about the treatment of African Americans in American society over the past 200 years. So one would think. But believe it or not our high school history teachers did not white wash the tragic history of Americas biggest and worst sin - slavery. We were taught about the disgusting treatments and abuses on African slaves by their Southern owners. We were taught about how even after the Civil War almost all slaves were still victimized by Southern white people AND even some Northern white people. We were taught about how segregation between the races was everywhere. We were taught about how land that the freed slaves acquired was taken away from them. Its been 45 years since I was in high school and I don't recall everything taught in detail but this was being taught in rural Pennsylvania. I would have to say it was taught to more extent in the cities. It wasn't exactly the history being taught through Critical Race Theory but it sure wasn't glossed over to make the US sound great.
I offer another reason why alot of students are not learning about the sickening treatment of our African American brothers and sisters throughout the last two and a half centuries and its probably the same reason why students aren't learning a second language and why they are not learning the sciences and they are not learning how to write their names or tie their shoes or cook and that's because they don't want to learn. My wife is a teacher who puts alot of hours into her classroom prep so the students learn, stay interested and enjoy her course. She along with many of her colleagues say there are usually only a handful of students who really want to learn. All of the other students just memorize the material for the test and then it's forgotten. And then there are some who don't even study at all. They just don't care but then they expect a passing grade so they can be eligible for sports at a college. That's there big ticket to life.
I personally think we as parents have given our children way too much freedom in their decision making and its time to clamp down on them and make them productive citizens again.
The Failure of American Schools - The Atlantic
Archived: A Nation At Risk
A student's point of view: Kids don't want to learn – Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs
I grew up in a small town in western Pennsylvania where people "cling tight to their Bibles in one hand and their shotgun in the other" so the saying goes. Not exactly a time or place where one would have discussions about the treatment of African Americans in American society over the past 200 years. So one would think. But believe it or not our high school history teachers did not white wash the tragic history of Americas biggest and worst sin - slavery. We were taught about the disgusting treatments and abuses on African slaves by their Southern owners. We were taught about how even after the Civil War almost all slaves were still victimized by Southern white people AND even some Northern white people. We were taught about how segregation between the races was everywhere. We were taught about how land that the freed slaves acquired was taken away from them. Its been 45 years since I was in high school and I don't recall everything taught in detail but this was being taught in rural Pennsylvania. I would have to say it was taught to more extent in the cities. It wasn't exactly the history being taught through Critical Race Theory but it sure wasn't glossed over to make the US sound great.
I offer another reason why alot of students are not learning about the sickening treatment of our African American brothers and sisters throughout the last two and a half centuries and its probably the same reason why students aren't learning a second language and why they are not learning the sciences and they are not learning how to write their names or tie their shoes or cook and that's because they don't want to learn. My wife is a teacher who puts alot of hours into her classroom prep so the students learn, stay interested and enjoy her course. She along with many of her colleagues say there are usually only a handful of students who really want to learn. All of the other students just memorize the material for the test and then it's forgotten. And then there are some who don't even study at all. They just don't care but then they expect a passing grade so they can be eligible for sports at a college. That's there big ticket to life.
I personally think we as parents have given our children way too much freedom in their decision making and its time to clamp down on them and make them productive citizens again.