Teachers, parents, and even school districts sue PA Ed Dept over Marxist guidelines
Now parents, teachers, and administrators are rejecting this mantra
In April a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Education was filed by the parents, teachers,and three different school districts in western Pennsylvania, challenging the guidelines issued by the state that would force leftist indoctrination down the throats of kids and teachers.
The Mars Area, Penn Crest, and Laurel school districts, as well as two teachers, several board members and parents, filed a lawsuit Monday trying to stop the Shapiro [Democrat] administration from implementing “culturally relevant and sustaining education,” also known as CRSE, in every school district in Pennsylvania.
Leonard Rich, the superintendent of the Laurel School District, explained to KDKA-TV why he and the district joined the lawsuit. “CSRE goes beyond and tells students what to think,” he said. “I’m more driven to tell students and encourage students on how to think.”
“The district’s objection that we are being mandated to not teach our kids how to think but what to think,” he added. “Freedom of expression is a First Amendment right.”
The Thomas More Society is representing the litigants. You can read the filed complaint here [pdf].
The new guidelines are right out of the critical race theory playbook, requiring schools and teachers to:
- “Engage in critical and difficult conversations with others to deepen their awareness of their own conscious/unconscious biases, stereotypes, and prejudices.”
- “Disrupt harmful institutional practices, policies, and norms by advocating and engaging in efforts to rewrite policies, change practices, and raise awareness.”
- “Design learning experiences and spaces for learners to identify and question economic, political, and social power structures in the school, community, nation, and world.”
- “Understand and honor the ways in which culture influences verbal and nonverbal communication.”
- “Believe that all learners have a choice and a right to practice the language(s) of their culture.”
- “Believe and acknowledge that microaggressions are real and take steps to educate themselves about the subtle and obvious ways in which they are used to harm and invalidate the existence of others.”
These kinds of requirements are the stuff that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion administrators continually use to impose their racist Marxist agenda on schools, teachers, and students. The first five items require teachers to advocate the leftist agenda, whether they agree with it or not. The last item is the most important, however, because if enforced as the Education Department intends, it would essentially make all dissent forbidden. To do so would be considered a “microaggression” against anyone who complains, and would then require punishment and blacklisting.
This particular story is hardly unique, and actually reflects the growing number of lawsuits and protests by parents and teachers against this Marxist racist agenda. What makes it significant are the plaintiffs. Not only are parents and teachers suing, so are administrators from three different public school districts. Despite being part part of the public education system that the Pennsylvania Education Department funds, these public schools administrators no longer wish to meekly go along with this agenda.
The nature of the plaintiffs forces me to ask a different question: Why just sue? Why not join together to form independent charter schools? It certainly appears that with teachers, parents, and administrators all agreeing that the state’s guidelines are unacceptable, they could simply secede from the public school system and create their own system.
The suit is of course still necessary, because the state’s education bureaucracy will still attempt to impose these guidelines on private schools. In the end, however, forming new competing schools is really going to be the only final solution, unless there is a complete house-cleaning in the Pennsylvania state government, something no one should expect. As long as the state’s big cities, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, are one-party Democrat strongholds, statewide policies are going to be shaped by them.
Until enough alternatives exist defying the racist and Marxist indoctrination attempts by the Democrats who dominate the state’s education bureaucracy, those Democrats will still run the show.
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Now parents, teachers, and administrators are rejecting this mantra
In April a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Education was filed by the parents, teachers,and three different school districts in western Pennsylvania, challenging the guidelines issued by the state that would force leftist indoctrination down the throats of kids and teachers.
The Mars Area, Penn Crest, and Laurel school districts, as well as two teachers, several board members and parents, filed a lawsuit Monday trying to stop the Shapiro [Democrat] administration from implementing “culturally relevant and sustaining education,” also known as CRSE, in every school district in Pennsylvania.
Leonard Rich, the superintendent of the Laurel School District, explained to KDKA-TV why he and the district joined the lawsuit. “CSRE goes beyond and tells students what to think,” he said. “I’m more driven to tell students and encourage students on how to think.”
“The district’s objection that we are being mandated to not teach our kids how to think but what to think,” he added. “Freedom of expression is a First Amendment right.”
The Thomas More Society is representing the litigants. You can read the filed complaint here [pdf].
The new guidelines are right out of the critical race theory playbook, requiring schools and teachers to:
- “Engage in critical and difficult conversations with others to deepen their awareness of their own conscious/unconscious biases, stereotypes, and prejudices.”
- “Disrupt harmful institutional practices, policies, and norms by advocating and engaging in efforts to rewrite policies, change practices, and raise awareness.”
- “Design learning experiences and spaces for learners to identify and question economic, political, and social power structures in the school, community, nation, and world.”
- “Understand and honor the ways in which culture influences verbal and nonverbal communication.”
- “Believe that all learners have a choice and a right to practice the language(s) of their culture.”
- “Believe and acknowledge that microaggressions are real and take steps to educate themselves about the subtle and obvious ways in which they are used to harm and invalidate the existence of others.”
These kinds of requirements are the stuff that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion administrators continually use to impose their racist Marxist agenda on schools, teachers, and students. The first five items require teachers to advocate the leftist agenda, whether they agree with it or not. The last item is the most important, however, because if enforced as the Education Department intends, it would essentially make all dissent forbidden. To do so would be considered a “microaggression” against anyone who complains, and would then require punishment and blacklisting.
This particular story is hardly unique, and actually reflects the growing number of lawsuits and protests by parents and teachers against this Marxist racist agenda. What makes it significant are the plaintiffs. Not only are parents and teachers suing, so are administrators from three different public school districts. Despite being part part of the public education system that the Pennsylvania Education Department funds, these public schools administrators no longer wish to meekly go along with this agenda.
The nature of the plaintiffs forces me to ask a different question: Why just sue? Why not join together to form independent charter schools? It certainly appears that with teachers, parents, and administrators all agreeing that the state’s guidelines are unacceptable, they could simply secede from the public school system and create their own system.
The suit is of course still necessary, because the state’s education bureaucracy will still attempt to impose these guidelines on private schools. In the end, however, forming new competing schools is really going to be the only final solution, unless there is a complete house-cleaning in the Pennsylvania state government, something no one should expect. As long as the state’s big cities, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, are one-party Democrat strongholds, statewide policies are going to be shaped by them.
Until enough alternatives exist defying the racist and Marxist indoctrination attempts by the Democrats who dominate the state’s education bureaucracy, those Democrats will still run the show.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
“Engage in critical and difficult conversations with others to deepen their awareness of their own conscious/unconscious biases, stereotypes, and prejudices.” Like the Left’s belief that anyone who disagrees with them isa crypto-Nazi cretin
Zimmerman finished the article stating this;
“Until enough alternatives exist defying the racist and Marxist indoctrination attempts by the Democrats who dominate the state’s education bureaucracy, those Democrats will still run the show.”
This is exactly what that KGB defector was talking about 30 years ago. He even mentions equality and social justice… (start about one hour and eight minutes into interview)
How could he known that phrase unless the schools are teaching the KGB Marxism? He defines what a useful idiot is and how to use them before killing them… how to demoralize and subjugate a population in only 20 years.
It took them 30 years to orchestrate America’s downfall, but the long term operation is nearly complete and irreversible. He is describing everything in detail what is happening to us now. It all started with the education system.
Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov -Interviewed By G. Edward Griffin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BtE0A1QAic
The first hour and seven minutes is his own history, and then how and why he defected.
There is a saying that goes like this:
When you are explaining, you’re losing.
Beat them on memes…..here is my entrant:
“Pulling a John Kerry”
The act of rich white northeastern liberals going to Third-World nations to tell them they can’t have electricity.
FDR Progressives wanted the Third World to live as we do.
Biden Progressives want us to live like the Third World.