Post by addisona on Feb 23, 2022 10:26:56 GMT
Kentucky's anti-'critical race theory' bills draw ire of students, educators
FRANKFORT — A week into the 2022 legislation session, neither of Kentucky's anti-"critical race theory" bills have advanced.
That didn't stop close to 100 students, educators and activists from protesting the measures in Frankfort Wednesday, arguing the proposed legislation limits educators' ability to teach the nation's full history lest it make some students uncomfortable.
Tyler Terrell, an eighth-grader at Leestown Middle School, is Black and Korean-American. He hated learning about Black history in elementary school, he told a crowd gathered in the Capitol Rotunda.
It gave him nightmares.
"I thought that my history was ugly," he said.
His school curriculum's failure to accurately, fully reflect history made him think his history was "irrelevant," he said.
"It made me think that my history was somehow less than that of others'," Tyler said. "It made me think that white history was the superior one."
Two bills facing Kentucky lawmakers, House Bills 14 and 18, are part of a national, conservative-led push to eradicate "critical race theory" from schools.
critical race theory, or CRT, is an academic framework used to examine how systems and institutions perpetuate racial inequities. It is not taught in K-12 schools, largely being taught at the collegiate level.
Conservatives have co-opted the term to broadly, inaccurately apply to any diversity or equity effort undertaken by schools to correct longstanding racial disparities in achievement, discipline and curriculum.
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2022/01/12/criticial-race-theory-kentucky-students-educators-protest-bills/9185652002/
FRANKFORT — A week into the 2022 legislation session, neither of Kentucky's anti-"critical race theory" bills have advanced.
That didn't stop close to 100 students, educators and activists from protesting the measures in Frankfort Wednesday, arguing the proposed legislation limits educators' ability to teach the nation's full history lest it make some students uncomfortable.
Tyler Terrell, an eighth-grader at Leestown Middle School, is Black and Korean-American. He hated learning about Black history in elementary school, he told a crowd gathered in the Capitol Rotunda.
It gave him nightmares.
"I thought that my history was ugly," he said.
His school curriculum's failure to accurately, fully reflect history made him think his history was "irrelevant," he said.
"It made me think that my history was somehow less than that of others'," Tyler said. "It made me think that white history was the superior one."
Two bills facing Kentucky lawmakers, House Bills 14 and 18, are part of a national, conservative-led push to eradicate "critical race theory" from schools.
critical race theory, or CRT, is an academic framework used to examine how systems and institutions perpetuate racial inequities. It is not taught in K-12 schools, largely being taught at the collegiate level.
Conservatives have co-opted the term to broadly, inaccurately apply to any diversity or equity effort undertaken by schools to correct longstanding racial disparities in achievement, discipline and curriculum.
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2022/01/12/criticial-race-theory-kentucky-students-educators-protest-bills/9185652002/