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Someone has to explain to me: How does teaching our public school students about race, racism and discrimination indoctrinate them into a \u201chate America\u201d thought process?<\/p>\n

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he intends to prevent teachers from educating students in his state about such things as slavery, racial discrimination and how that played a part in the development of our nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

They call it \u201ccritical race theory.\u201d Perhaps it\u2019s the name of the concept that has so many politicians up in arms. The terms \u201ccritical race\u201d somehow are interpreted to mean that students who learn about racism in this country will grow up hating themselves as Americans, that they will be so darn ashamed of their country that will grow up to seek to create a vastly different country.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t get it. I do not understand why public educators must be told they cannot teach such things to our students.<\/p>\n

It is a fact that this country enslaved Black people. It is a fact that those people were denied the rights of citizenship in the country of their residence. It also is a fact that society didn\u2019t value Black people as full-fledged human beings; they were deemed the \u201cproperty\u201d of their \u201cowners.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shouldn\u2019t teachers be allowed to educate students on what all of that means to citizens today? And shouldn\u2019t teachers also be allowed to tell students what the country has done over many years to repair the damage that was done to those who were enslaved? Yes and yes \u2026 in my view.<\/p>\n

I see nothing wrong with teaching children about the racial history of this country. It is a major part of our national story, the one that is still being written.<\/p>\n

Someone has to explain why that is such a bad thing. Let\u2019s discuss. OK? I\u2019m all ears.<\/p>\n

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Someone has to explain to me: How does teaching our public school students about race, racism and discrimination indoctrinate them into a \u201chate America\u201d thought process? Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he intends to prevent teachers from educating students in his state about such things as slavery, racial discrimination and how that played a part … Continue reading CRT: not about ‘hating’ America<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251],"tags":[9868,1394,3808,4286],"class_list":["post-50450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","tag-crt","tag-discrimination","tag-racism","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50451,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50450\/revisions\/50451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}