> Lastly, I think your hypothetical about the high school principals is very far-fetched, no? Unless it's not a hypothetical, in which case I'm truly horrified.
Not hypothetical at all. It is happening now at Kenwood High School in Clarksville, TN. These three administrators ran roughshod through both the student body and the faculty th…
> Lastly, I think your hypothetical about the high school principals is very far-fetched, no? Unless it's not a hypothetical, in which case I'm truly horrified.
Not hypothetical at all. It is happening now at Kenwood High School in Clarksville, TN. These three administrators ran roughshod through both the student body and the faculty throughout the 2021-2022 school year. Students were berated daily about their choice of clothing and often sent to in school suspension for infractions. During pep rallies, students who had been in either ISS or OSS were sent to the auditorium to watch a movie instead of socializing and building school spirit. To keep a lid on what was happening in the school, they would cancel requests for substitutes and shuffle teachers around during their planning period to ensure the classes were watched. Any student that fell behind in class was pulled from the class and sent to digital learning, where they would have to finish the course online at the school. For students with IEPs and 504s this can be disastrous as there are no inclusion teachers in the classrooms hosting digital learning, and there was no differentiation in how material and assessments were provided, even if the student had specific accommodations requiring such differentiation. The list goes on and on. So, I have witnessed this through my wife who teaches there.
"Not hypothetical at all. It is happening now at Kenwood High School in Clarksville, TN"
This is horrifying, but is it evidence of the administrators "holding back students of color from performing at their best to ensure the students continue to fall in the politically ascribed roles of CRT"?
It sounds as if there are enormous problems at that school, but you haven't pointed to any evidence of racism or CRT-infused activism here.
For example, school assemblies, even pep rallies, are used to present guests to the students who are moving forward in their academic careers. All students to have been given ISS or OSS are explicitly excluded. It doesn't matter why. There are students that get suspended for wearing pajamas when they have no clean clothes, or wearing their hoodie in class because they want to hide the fact that they don't have facilities to bathe because they live in a car. These administrators are actually harsher to these students than previous admins. They are ensuring the cycle of poverty continues by robbing these students of their dignity and possibly their future. At the very least, they are not receiving equal access to educational opportunities. As for the digital learning with no accommodations for 504 and IEP students, that is the very definition of students with disabilities not being given their rightful services, services that are fundamental to breaking poverty cycles. If that's not what CRT is supposed to fight for, then what is it?
> Lastly, I think your hypothetical about the high school principals is very far-fetched, no? Unless it's not a hypothetical, in which case I'm truly horrified.
Not hypothetical at all. It is happening now at Kenwood High School in Clarksville, TN. These three administrators ran roughshod through both the student body and the faculty throughout the 2021-2022 school year. Students were berated daily about their choice of clothing and often sent to in school suspension for infractions. During pep rallies, students who had been in either ISS or OSS were sent to the auditorium to watch a movie instead of socializing and building school spirit. To keep a lid on what was happening in the school, they would cancel requests for substitutes and shuffle teachers around during their planning period to ensure the classes were watched. Any student that fell behind in class was pulled from the class and sent to digital learning, where they would have to finish the course online at the school. For students with IEPs and 504s this can be disastrous as there are no inclusion teachers in the classrooms hosting digital learning, and there was no differentiation in how material and assessments were provided, even if the student had specific accommodations requiring such differentiation. The list goes on and on. So, I have witnessed this through my wife who teaches there.
"Not hypothetical at all. It is happening now at Kenwood High School in Clarksville, TN"
This is horrifying, but is it evidence of the administrators "holding back students of color from performing at their best to ensure the students continue to fall in the politically ascribed roles of CRT"?
It sounds as if there are enormous problems at that school, but you haven't pointed to any evidence of racism or CRT-infused activism here.
For example, school assemblies, even pep rallies, are used to present guests to the students who are moving forward in their academic careers. All students to have been given ISS or OSS are explicitly excluded. It doesn't matter why. There are students that get suspended for wearing pajamas when they have no clean clothes, or wearing their hoodie in class because they want to hide the fact that they don't have facilities to bathe because they live in a car. These administrators are actually harsher to these students than previous admins. They are ensuring the cycle of poverty continues by robbing these students of their dignity and possibly their future. At the very least, they are not receiving equal access to educational opportunities. As for the digital learning with no accommodations for 504 and IEP students, that is the very definition of students with disabilities not being given their rightful services, services that are fundamental to breaking poverty cycles. If that's not what CRT is supposed to fight for, then what is it?