Teachers Plan to Meet in Over 115 Cities Across the US to Protest Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation
Thousands of teachers are planning to gather in over 115 cities across the U.S. this weekend to protest legislation reining in critical race theory.
The “Teach Truth Days of Action” event, hosted by the Zinn Education Project, will take place from Aug. 27 to Aug. 29.
The events across the country are advertised as raising “public awareness about the danger” of anti-CRT bills.
In at least 27 states, legislators have introduced or enacted legislation that prohibits curricula discussing racism, sexism and oppression in American history, ABC News reported.
Many of the bills would prohibit teaching that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex,” or that “an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, is inherently privileged, racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously,” according to ABC News.
Other bills would ban teaching that “meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist or were created by members of a particular race to oppress members of another race,” as Texas’ anti-CRT bill puts it, and that “the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist,” as seen in Tennessee’s bill.
??August 27-29 are #TeachTruth Pledge Days of Action! Join an event or plan your own. ⬇https://t.co/6ID41727iw
— Rethinking Schools (@RethinkSchools) August 25, 2021
“It’s really important as educators that we don’t allow these bills to put us on the defensive, and instead we use the opportunity to take these actions to highlight the racist path of our country, of our states, of our cities, that needs to be reckoned with,” Adam Sanchez, a history teacher in Philadelphia, told ABC News.
The “Pledge to Teach the Truth,” which has nearly 7,000 signatures, argues that anti-CRT legislation would “require teachers to lie to students” about the history of the U.S. and aim “to prohibit teachers from teaching the truth about this country” being “founded on dispossession of Native Americans, slavery, structural racism and oppression.”
Local organizers were told to host the event in a “place that symbolizes or reflects stories that would be prohibited under the proposed legislation,” according to an event sign-up form.
“For example, any site in Black, Latinx, Native American, Asian American history. Also, any site that addresses labor, climate justice, or LGBTQ history — or contemporary organizing — for any race/ethnicity.”
CRT holds that America is fundamentally racist and teaches people to view every social interaction and person in terms of race.
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