 Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) penned a piece for New York Daily News on the worrying trend of teachers assuming the role of activists rather than educators. “Let’s not forget that there’s a good reason why public school educators are licensed by the states, like doctors, dentists and other practicing professionals; it’s precisely because they’re in a position of public trust with the potential to cause harm to those under their care. The formation of young minds is a sacred task only to be entrusted to responsible, good-faith operators.” Read the full article here.  Frederick M. Hess and J. Grant Addison wrote an illuminating piece for The Dispatch that tackles both the logical fallacies of anti-racist scholars Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X Kendi as well as the ideology's potential for disastrous effects on education. “The truth is that the leaders and practitioners of “anti-racist” education don’t appear interested in anything so small as improving education for black and brown children or in teaching students not to be racists. Rather, Kendi, DiAngelo, and their ilk are seeking cultural revolution in the name of an illiberal doctrine that poses a mortal threat to schooling. Anti-racism’s hostility to reason, rejection of civilizational virtue, and labeling of skepticism is not another culture war dog whistle but an assault on the very soul of liberal education.” Read the full article here.  Pamela Pareksy wrote a piece for Sapir Journal detailing the inherently antisemitic tilt of Critical Race Theory’s perception of Jews. By drawing on the perspective of a Jewish student on campus, Paresky describes how antisemitism has become elemental to the orthodoxy of social justice. “Simply put, the ‘critical social justice’ movement, informed by critical theory, represents an assault not just on core concepts of liberal democracy, but also on the epistemology that undergirds it.” Read the full article here.  Chloe Valdary, the creator of the pro-human diversity training The Theory of Enchantment, wrote an insightful op-ed for Newsweek in which she unravels the ongoing nationwide discussion over Critical Race Theory. Valdary describes how the problem with CRT is much deeper than partisan politics and legislation. “It stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the complexities of our social and political realities, reducing them to a single factor: racism. But when it comes to how race and power intersect, black history is far, far richer than critical race theorists allow.” Read the full article here. |
