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There Is No Apolitical Classroom

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Non-profit, Self-improvement, Education, Business, History

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Do you know what’s going on in your kid’s school? The three R’s – reading, writing, and arithmetic – have taken a back seat to a fourth R. Max Eden, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, explains what that fourth R is, and why it’s so destructive.

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0:00.0

Do you know what's going on in your kid's school?

0:03.0

If not, now would be a good time to take a look.

0:07.0

Here's what you're likely to find.

0:09.0

According to the education establishment,

0:11.0

the purpose of public education

0:13.0

is no longer just to teach the three hours,

0:16.0

reading, writing, and arithmetic.

0:18.0

It is to awaken students to the fact that they live in a country

0:22.0

that has been, remains,

0:24.0

and will probably always be racist.

0:28.0

Here's how the American Association of School Administrators,

0:31.0

AASA, recently described its mission.

0:34.0

At a time of seen inequities,

0:36.0

merely trying to compensate is not enough.

0:39.0

AASA's work must go further and become actively anti-racist.

0:44.0

Being anti-racist sounds simple and laudable,

0:49.0

treat everyone the same,

0:51.0

a version of the golden rule.

0:53.0

What could be wrong with that?

0:55.0

Nothing, except that's not what the educational elite means

1:00.0

by anti-racism.

1:02.0

Anti-racism, in its current formulation,

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