Pittsburgh School District unanimously passes resolution against bill barring Critical Race Theory

If passed and signed into law, the legislation would bar teaching "racist and sexist concepts" in Pennsylvania school districts.

one would think teaching racist and sexist concepts should be illegal out of common sense.  But then again, those pushing this aren't the smartest people.

Next up, recall of every member in that district that passed this nonsense.

Educate not indoctrinate.

The white grievance crowd is afraid of the truth about American history.  Instead of just saying we will get past this, they pretend it never happened. 

Instead of just saying we will get past this, they pretend it never happened. 

Looks like they are getting past it.  And doing it by keeping that racist and sexist shit out of their schools.

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Instead of just saying we will get past this,

We'll never get past it, will we John?

"All four bills are inconsistent with the needs of our students and threaten the ability of the School District of Pittsburgh to build a culture of belonging that embraces differences, reflects our local community and allows all students and educators to be their authentic selves," read the resolution.

According to state test scores, 31% of Pittsburgh public school students are at least proficient in math and 49% in reading.

They may need to work on building a culture that embraces the ability to do math and to read.

I want to laugh and call this a waste of time, but it’s not that simple.

On the surface, it’s all a pointless exercise in solving a non-existent problem. Here’s the first example:

Critical Race Theory or any other concepts that regard one race as superior to another

OK, well CRT doesn’t regard one race as superior to another. This statement seems to lump CRT in with textbook racism. They aren’t the same thing. In any event, among the many thousands of K-12 classrooms in this country, you will be hard pressed to find any teacher setting out to teach CRT specifically to their students.

It’s a little too esoteric for your average 3rd-grader. It’s hard enough to teach them basic math and reading, while just trying to shut them up. Does anybody really think they are up to analyzing racism’s impact on modern public policy?

Will you find an individual teacher here or there who is excessively woke and wants 8 year olds to publicly acknowledge their white privilege - or some similar stupid exercise? Yeah, they’re out there. But that’s not CRT. That’s a self-righteous/self-hating leftist who wants to virtue-signal themselves all over a roomful of people too young to tell the teacher to fuck off.

Unfortunately, CRT has become the kind of boogeyman that defies specific definition (making any law related to it too vague to enforce). Anyone can label anything they like as CRT and we never even get to a discussion of whether or not that label is appropriate.

Next example:

"would require schools to allow parents to opt-out of curriculum containing sexually explicit content."

Two things. First of all, every school or district I have ever encountered or heard about already allows parents to opt out of sexual content, and this practice has generally existed for decades pretty much everywhere.

Second, other than your standard sex education - again something we have had for decades - there’s typically no “sexually explicit content” in the schools. The same problem applies here, though, that we saw with CRT. i.e., what does “sexually explicit content” mean? The answer is probably whatever someone says is “sexually explicit,” which isn’t very useful.

Last example:

"prohibit classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation up to fifth grade."

Again, this is already the case almost anywhere you go. However, if there are students in the class who are getting teased or harassed because they or their parents are a little different, then the healthy thing - the just thing - is to enlighten minds so there is some level of understanding.

I doubt that in most cases, the conversation would be very explicit, but the fact is there are many different people in the world, and kids - even below the fifth grade - need to learn about them. Some are black. Some are Jews. And some kids - or their parents will be gay or trans. Kids in the class don’t need to learn everything there is to know, but they need to learn something or there may be problems. These people exist and regressive parents shouldn’t get to force everyone to pretend they don’t.

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So I want to laugh at the pointlessness of it all, but the truth is that it’s not pointless. All the hysteria isn’t actually about any of these alleged “problems.” It’s about getting an electorate so agitated about the Devil attacking their children, that they will run - not walk - to their nearest polling station and vote the Republican ticket.

It’s the politics of fear and it’s entirely irrational. It survives on the absurd notion that teachers and administrators have some kind of agenda to secretly indoctrinate their children into acceptance of sexual abuse and probably satanism, too. It presumes that your average 2nd-grade teacher isn’t just trying to get through the day trying to corral rambunctious 8 year-olds or procure enough supplies for them all, and then go home to their own family. No! They’re secretly part of a global cabal whose prime directive is to secure as many juvenile sex slaves as possible.

All the while, none of these political pot-stirrers think about the families and careers they are destroying. Good people who teach or administer schools, and genuinely care about kids, are being publicly trashed. Pliable minds who hear these absurd accusations may stop short of shooting up a Walmart, but they are all too happy to send threat messages or smear reputations on social media.

It’s the same cynical political strategy that got America in a panic about Communism 70 years ago. It’s long past time these people woke up from this nightmare and looked at the world with more courageous and compassionate eyes.

It's like record arrests at the Southern border proves how open the border is. /s

Or a hand full of arrests in Florida proves voter fraud, when all it really proves is that the state

can tell you to vote, issue you voter ID and then years later, in an apparent act of political

incompetence arrest you in front of a curiously convenient film crew in some cases,

years after the fact.

It seems as if conservatives like to pass laws preventing the most marginal things on the basis of

"what if" but can't possibly curtail gun restrictions despite decades of mass shooting

events which continue weekly, sometimes daily by seemingly normal people.

SMH

PA House Bill 1532 is a draconian attack on the First Amendment.

The Lunacy of Pennsylvania HB 1532 | ACADEME BLOG

TAUP Statement in Opposition to Pennsylvania House Bill 1532

The hypocrisy of House Bill 1532 | PennLive letters - pennlive.com

Under PA HB 1532 "Gone with the Wind" would be gone for good....

PA HB 1213 is a Parent's Bill of Rights restricting certain subject in K-th grades.

PA Senate bill 1277 seeks to amend the Public School Code of 1949 by outlawing

"sexually explicit passages" from books and curriculum.

SB 1277 | Censoring educational and library resources | ACLU Pennsylvania (aclupa.org)

PA Senate Bill 1278 is another attack on the First Amendment

• SB 1278 falsely equates discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity with sex education.
• SB 1278 falsely asserts that sexual orientation and gender identity are tantamount to ideas, and erroneously requires “neutrality” on the “idea” of certain people merely existing.
• SB 1278 then applies that standard of “neutrality” to undefined “classroom instruction,” prohibiting any acknowledgement of gay or trans people in grades K-5 and with vague caveats in grades 6-12, which actually makes the bill more restrictive than Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill, which was limited to K-3 instruction.

SB 1278 | Don't say 'gay' in PA | ACLU Pennsylvania (aclupa.org)

With the defeat of Doug Mastriano these Bills have no chance of being signed by outgoing Governor Wolf or incoming Governor Elect Shapiro.

With a near split in the House and only a 28-22 margin in the Senate, the chances of over riding a Governor's veto are slim to none.

These 4 Bills were just fodder and high hopes to get the (R) vote out and failed.

I live in VA and potential PA laws are irrelevant to me.

lol sounds like your looking at it like i do, when IN rome , do as the romans , dont like the way they do it , dont go to rome, and if they come outside of rome tell them to piss off and remind they they are not in rome . .

I still own property in PA so it's still relevant to me and some relatives.

I have no idea why it would be relevant to someone who lives in NC

other than to make some sort of political statement about something that may or may not happen.