10 Apr 2022 2:06 pm
you don't say anything not composed by consensusB.See » 10 Apr 2022, 1:00 am » wrote: ↑ The guy who brought us CRT panic offers a new far-right agenda: Destroy public education | Salon.com
Christopher Rufo used "critical race theory" as a Trojan horse. Now he wants to sack the city and win the war
"Earlier this week, the man who's been widely credited with single-handedly willing the "critical race theory" panic into existence (even if the truth is a bit more complex), laid out a new set of marching orders for the right: Defund public universities, discard academic freedom, remove credentialing requirements for K-12 teachers and generally foster so much anger against public schools that it drives a nationwide popular movement to privatize education.
The man in question is Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. Since he helped elevate CRT into a national culture war in 2020, Rufo has frequently been cast (or cast himself) as the new master strategist of the right, playing three-dimensional chess as he lays out his battle plans publicly and counts every media mention of them as a win.
In the spring of 2021, he famously crowed on social media that he'd "successfully frozen" the CRT "brand" as the overarching ideology behind almost everything conservatives dislike. This January he tweeted about his new goal to "bait the Left into opposing [curriculum] 'transparency,'" in order to trigger conservative suspicions that public schools have something to hide."
Removing credentialing requirements for 12-12 teachers?? Why? you may ask. Maybe it has something to do with their plan to have taxpayer paid vouchers so parents can squirrel their kiddies away at private "institutions" full of UNQUALIFIED AND UNCERTIFIED housewives / "teachers" ... and where, incidentally, no one has to take an end of year test to prove they've actually LEARNED anything.
MEANWHILE, what I said: