Re:My multi-decade quest for rural broadband
by nerdponx on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @06:10PM
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As far as I can tell, it seeps into schools because well-intentioned educators are seeking an alternative to the failed program of "colorblindness" which persisted for decades and raised generations of privileged people who think racism was eradicated in the late 1960s. And young people are themselves actively interested in repudiating and reversing the mistakes of their elders.
Maybe it's an extreme reaction. Critical race theory is certainly an extreme way of looking at the world if you take it literally and not as a thought experiment. But I just see it as a swing of the pendulum. I wish people wouldn't get "canceled" over it, but I don't think it's the slippery slope to Maoism that people seem to think it is.
Re:My multi-decade quest for rural broadband
by Taylor_OD on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @04:49PM
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> This stuff seeps into schools because it is taught in university education departments, which provide required credentials for schoolteachers.
Dont states give certifications for teachers, not colleges/universities?
Re:My multi-decade quest for rural broadband
by thaumasiotes on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:09AM
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See e.g. https://www.ctc.ca.gov/commission/reports/data/approved-inst...
> For educators prepared in California, completing a Commission-approved educator preparation program is required to earn a credential or authorization.
The toeholds would still be there. This stuff seeps into schools because it is taught in university education departments, which provide required credentials for schoolteachers. If people paid attention to what was happening in their backyard, none of that would change.
But if people paid attention to their local schools, they might do a better job preventing educational fads from growing in them.