Education

Article Link: https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-british-member-of-parliament-blisters-schools-teaching-critical-race-theory-supporting-blm-movement

Responding to Labour MP Dawn Butler’s calls to “decolonize” history in the British Parliament’s House of Commons, Woman and Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch absolutely blistered schools for teaching critical race theory and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, asserting, “This government stands unequivocally against critical race theory,” and condemning people “pretending” that Black Lives Matter is a “completely wholesome anti-racist organization.” Badenoch, a member of the ruling Tory party who was born in Wimbledon and spent much of her childhood in the United States and Nigeria, stated: “Our curriculum does not need decolonizing for the simple reason that it is not colonized.”

Article Link: https://thepostmillennial.com/public-schools-are-doing-away-with-grading-to-combat-racism

The San Diego school district has done away with grading because apparently it is racist. California’s second largest school district has decided that since minority students cannot make the grade, grades should be dispensed with altogether. “This is part of our honest reckoning as a school district,” San Diego’s schools VP Richard Barerra said. “If we’re actually going to be an anti-racist school district, we have to confront practices like this that have gone on for years and years.” Those practices, apparently, include expectations and assessments as to how well students are meeting those expectations. Using an outcome based assessment approach, it was determined that teachers are failing minority students by grading them not based on their academic achievement, but on their skin colour.

Article Link: https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-minnesota-offers-lecture-teaching-12-step-aa-type-program-to-recover-from-being-white

The University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series recently hosted what they called a Special Webinar Series that was titled, “Deconstructing & Decentralizing White-ness in Practice: A Three-Part Series,” in which a lecture titled “Recovery from White Conditioning” taught white people how to use a “12-step” program similar to Alcoholics Anonymous to “recover and reclaim our full humanity.” Therapist Cristina Combs, who created the program, spent “years of struggling to navigate the role and presence of whiteness in her personal, academic, and professional journeys,” the website for the series claims.