Home schooling increasing, and not just due to Covid

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Added 10.09.21 02:23AM

An agency of the Census Bureau that has been doing Household Pulse Surveys has found that in thre past year, Home Schooling has tripled in volume. Of course, much of that increase has been due to Covid, but the agency is sensing some indications that, while originally predicting that the rate wold fall again when students in greater volumes return to the classroom, that prediction is revising; not due to a new rise in Covid, but due to curriculum. Parents are, in greater numbers, speaking out over their discontent with curricula such as CRT. The movement, itself, has indicated that it is a theory camped on a theory https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05, which does not bode well for its stability of argument.

What is the education industry’s response? That parents are domestic terrorists. Apparently, advancing the theory of systemic racism, since the education industry is a government agency complex, is self-fulfilling. Sure. So is home schooling. The PTA, after all, which predates CRT, begins with parents.

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Added 10.09.21 04:05AM

CRITICAL RACE THEORY (CRT) is “a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of US civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to critically examine the intersection of race and US law and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice. CRT examines social, cultural, and legal issues primarily as they relate to race and racism in the US. A tenet of CRT is that racism and disparate racial outcomes are the result of complex, changing, and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices of individuals.”

As such, CRT is not taught to K-12 students or even teachable without a significant pre-requisite. Anybody claiming as much is ignorant of even the basic definition of that subject of study and demonstrates susceptibility to the FOX fake news machine.

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Added 10.09.21 12:47PM

–> @oromagi

and often subtle social and institutional dynamics,

So, the educational institution is not part of that?

It’s being discussed, seriouusly

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Added 10.09.21 01:06PM

–> @oromagi

CRT examines social, cultural, and legal issues primarily as they relate to race and racism in the US.

Are schools currently promoting curriculum material that examines social, cultural, and legal issues primarily as they relate to race and racism in the US?

A tenet of CRT is that racism and disparate racial outcomes are the result of complex, changing, and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices of individuals.

Are schools currently promoting curriculum material teaching that racism and disparate racial outcomes are the result of complex, changing, and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices of individuals?

Source: https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/6893-home-schooling-increasing-and-not-just-due-to-covid