By Libby Emmons
https://thepostmillennial.com/author/libbyemmons
The NEA, which is the largest teachers union in the country, adopted several actions in favor of critical race theory indoctrination in American schools during their Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly this weekend.
The NEA's Business Item 39 states that the "USA's economy/social order is built on interactions between different cultures/races" and that "To deny opportunities to teach truth about Black, Brown, and other marginalized races minimalizes the necessity for students to build efficacy."
As such, they have decided to implement a plan that will publicize "information" on what critical race theory is and "what it is not." They will bring in staff to education union members who "want to learn more and fight back against anti-CRT rhetoric."
The plan will provide a "study that critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society, and that we oppose attempts to ban critical race theory and/or The 1619 Project."
The union has also approved funding for "increasing the implementation" of CRT in K-12 curricula and for attacking conservative groups who oppose CRT indoctrination.
They say that this will "convey [the NEA's] support for the accurate and honest teaching of social studies topics, including truthful and age-appropriate accountings of unpleasant aspects of American history, such as slavery, and the oppression and discrimination of Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other peoples of color, as well as the continued impact this history has on our current society. The Association will further convey that in teaching these topics, it is reasonable and appropriate for curriculum to be informed by academic frameworks for understanding and interpreting the impact of the past on current society, including critical race theory."
Moreover, the union intends to implement new special days in the school calendar, and to bring in Black Lives Matter to assist the creation of special education materials founded in critical race theory. These include celebrations of George Floyd's birthday on October 14, which will be "a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression."
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-nea-adopts-motion-to-promote-critical-race-theory-in-americas-schools