(January 14, 2023 at 12:53 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: So, if you’re at all curious about the sort of things that the right considers CRT, well… it’s literally this.
https://www.cbr.com/school-ends-dr-seuss...m-lessons/
Quote: According to an article by The Dispatch, a third-grade classroom within Shale Meadows Elementary School, which is part of Ohio's Olentangy Local School District, was reading Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches while spending a day with NPR reporter Erika Beras. Beras was there to record a new episode of NPR's "Planet Money," a podcast exploring the economic lessons that can be learned from various topics.
At one point, one of the students made a comment about the book's themes and lessons on racism. "It's almost like what happened back then, how people were treated...Like, disrespected...Like, white people disrespected Black people, but then, they might stand up in the book," the student commented.
The district's assistant director of communications, Amanda Beeman, stop up and interrupted the reading shortly after the comment was made. "I don't know if I feel comfortable with the book being one of the ones featured," Beeman said. "I just feel like this isn't teaching anything about economics, and this is a little bit more about differences with race and everything like that." When Beras pointed out The Sneetches is also about topics such as open markets and economic loss, Beeman commented, "I just don't think it might be appropriate for the third-grade class and for them to have a discussion around it."
The Planet Money podcast in question can be listened to heah.
Translation: We can’t have third graders making such astute observation about race.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
