Quote:AMissouri high school English teacher did not have her contract renewed amid accusations that she implemented Critical Race Theory in the classroom.
The school board for the 400-person district in southwest Missouri voted last month to not renew the contract of Greenfield High School teacher Kim Morrison, the Springfield News-Leader reported.
Morrison said she was called into the principals' office in February after she assigned students a 15-question worksheet titled "How Racially Privileged Are You?" for the young adult novel "Dear Martin."
"That first meeting, when she showed me that she had a copy of the handout and she wanted to know the context, she said the people she's hearing from said that this is CRT," Morrison told the News-Leader. "I said 'Well, it's not CRT. I don't know what CRT is because I didn't go to law school and we didn't cover it in grad school. This isn't it."
CRT teaches that racism "pervades society and is fostered and perpetuated by the legal system," as defined by Merriam-Webster. Under Critical Race Theory, students are also taught "whether they will be oppressors or oppressed," Just the News reported.
"I said discussing racism is not CRT and she said she understood but that this is what she is hearing," Morrison said, recalling the meeting with the principal.
She defended the worksheet, which she said she bought from an instructional database.
"It was to prepare students for the conversation that was going to happen between two characters that we were about to read," she said.
The superintendent wrote a letter on behalf of the board explaining to Morrison why her contract was not renewed while she was in her fourth year of teaching at Greenfield.
Superintendent Chris Kell said her contract would not be renewed because of her "decision to incorporate the worksheet associated with the novel 'Dear Martin,' due to the content and subject matter."
Kell told the News-Leader that the school board is not likely to reconsider the decision.
"I would think at this point it is a done deal. It was a board vote," he said. "They are the ones that do the hiring, the non-renewals. It was their vote."
Morrison was up for tenure this year. Her husband, Darren Morrison, resigned from the school board after the vote.
She said she would teach the book again, but not the worksheet that led to her losing her job.
The English teacher also wants to finish the school year strong.
"We're only in the beginning of the fourth quarter," she said. "I am not cheating these kids."
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Sounds like the book was an issue also if the worksheet was prep for the reading assignment.
Edit - it’s the story of a black kid going to an Ivy League school that is profiled and arrested.
Quote:"I said 'Well, it's not CRT. I don't know what CRT is because I didn't go to law school and we didn't cover it in grad school. This isn't it."
This tedious game of “Nothing is CRT unless we all agree on the definition of CRT” is going to be with us for the rest of our lives. People who see “white supremacy” everywhere, suddenly become extremely precious with words and definitions where “CRT” is concerned.
I don’t pretend to know if this one particular teacher in Missouri “deserved” to have her contract renewed, or not. But I am absolutely positive that if sanity and political-neutrality will ever be restored to public education in America, a lot of teachers will, indeed, have their contracts terminated. That is going to require a lot of intense, personal confrontations and conflicts like the one described in the article. I doubt it will happen.
(04-12-2022 01:38 PM)banker Wrote: [ -> ]Sounds like the book was an issue also if the worksheet was prep for the reading assignment.
Edit - it’s the story of a black kid going to an Ivy League school that is profiled and arrested.
Topic of the novel isn't really that bad. Its all the indoctrination around it. That this happens to all Blacks all the time.
Many school districts have a list of books for assigned reading approved as a part of the curriculum. I wonder if this book was approved? Maybe, since it is a very small school district, they don't have this level of control over reading assignments.
I agree with Native Georgian on this.
I also saw her statement that "discussing racism is not CRT" as a whole other can of worms that has now been opened. It depends on how you go about discussing racism. Maybe she does know what CRT is, because.... "I said 'Well, it's not CRT. I don't know what CRT is because I didn't go to law school and we didn't cover it in grad school. This isn't it." For somebody ignorant of CRT, she knows enough to know the usual misdirection talking points that the proponents of CRT use to deny it.
Usually, those pushing or teaching CRT and its toxic ideas try to fly under the radar, as they know if you are open in admitting that is what you are teaching, you'll bring down a shitstorm on yourself.
Based on the info presented in this article, I can't make a finding one way or the other. Either she is innocent (and perhaps a bit naive) or she might be a snake in the grass. Hard to know based on this limited information.
As this story shows, teaching about racism just got more difficult because the far left has pushed the toxic ideas of CRT and has been exposed and now people's radars are up and running.
(04-12-2022 01:51 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:"I said 'Well, it's not CRT. I don't know what CRT is because I didn't go to law school and we didn't cover it in grad school. This isn't it."
This tedious game of “Nothing is CRT unless we all agree on the definition of CRT” is going to be with us for the rest of our lives. People who see “white supremacy” everywhere, suddenly become extremely precious with words and definitions where “CRT” is concerned.
I don’t pretend to know if this one particular teacher in Missouri “deserved” to have her contract renewed, or not. But I am absolutely positive that if sanity and political-neutrality will ever be restored to public education in America, a lot of teachers will, indeed, have their contracts terminated. That is going to require a lot of intense, personal confrontations and conflicts like the one described in the article. I doubt it will happen.
Not when you have pizzed off parents involved.
Finally, a feel good thread here.
she should be moving to Watts to be with her own kind and stop trying to ruin others’ kids
(04-12-2022 03:25 PM)Eldonabe Wrote: [ -> ] (04-12-2022 01:51 PM)Native Georgian Wrote: [ -> ]I don’t pretend to know if this one particular teacher in Missouri “deserved” to have her contract renewed, or not. But I am absolutely positive that if sanity and political-neutrality will ever be restored to public education in America, a lot of teachers will, indeed, have their contracts terminated. That is going to require a lot of intense, personal confrontations and conflicts like the one described in the article. I doubt it will happen.
Not when you have pizzed off parents involved.
We’ll see.
Well, Bye.
1984
Animal Farm
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
The Great Gatsby
The Red Badge of Courage
A Fairwell to Arms
The Razor's Edge
Romeo and Juliet
Of the top of my head ..
FFS ..Dear Martin
Prog filth suck. Maybe I will write that book.
A teacher argues she never took CRT in grad school and that what she was doing "isn't CRT".....YET DID DO THIS:
Morrison said she was called into the principals' office in February after she assigned students a 15-question worksheet titled "How Racially Privileged Are You?" for the young adult novel "Dear Martin."
Yeah, there are different words for feces but at the end of the day it is solid human waste product that stinks. When a teacher gives a 15 question worksheet to ascertain the "racial privilege" of the students.....then that SMELLS LIKE CRT to me.
Morrison was being cute with her BS "not CRT" excuse when caught trying to bend the rules. Go hit the bricks and learn from this experience.
She must be really ignorant or really crafty and crazy like a fox. It’s English class not Political Science or Sociology.
When I see how poorly HS students grammar is these days she should be focused more on critical writing skills than some garbage about assuming one’s place in society. Truly mind boggling. I dare anyone on here to ask a HS student to conjugate verbs or read a classic novel and see how well their reading comprehension is. It’s sad and grades are given out so as to no be so judge-mental. These same kids flame out at a real university not some community college where once again folks are just moved through. Yes, when college Profs actually expect kids to know certain skills that student is a cooked goose.
Parents had better wake up because public schools are becoming nothing more than social activities with sprinkled in indoctrination of garbage that may get you hired at a menial low paying job. I still remember one of my kids Calculus Teacher couldn’t even work a problem out for them. Strictly used the book and only worked problems in the book because she had an answer key in the back of the textbook. I showed her the way I was taught and how to check your answer so you know it’s correct. She said wow that actually makes sense and started teaching other students in her class. The Teacher told her that what she was doing was incorrect because she wasn’t following the Textbook. This is the kind of ignorance being taught.
"gain-of-function" and "CRT" are ambiguously defined to allow teachers like this and the Fauci cucks of the world to play word games without repercussions.
(04-12-2022 02:01 PM)bullet Wrote: [ -> ] (04-12-2022 01:38 PM)banker Wrote: [ -> ]Sounds like the book was an issue also if the worksheet was prep for the reading assignment.
Edit - it’s the story of a black kid going to an Ivy League school that is profiled and arrested.
Topic of the novel isn't really that bad. Its all the indoctrination around it. That this happens to all Blacks all the time.
I have to disagree. K-12 is for learning specific, state dictated, standards. Identify, coping with, or understanding racism are not state standards anywhere I am aware of (maybe CA or NY). Therefore, every minute spent on the topic is one minute taken away from learning required standards in reading, writing, mathematics, and the sciences.
Public education does not exist to teach you opinion and theory, that’s advanced education. We can’t keep “graduating” students that don’t have basic skills and think we have time to make them social warriors at the same time.