by Luke Rosiak at DailyWire
Thousands of teachers have pledged to continue teaching based on critical race theory even if state laws ban it — contradicting those who claim nothing like that has ever been taught in schools.
The Zinn Education Project, named after the anti-American and factually challenged historian Howard Zinn, has collected signatures from more than 4,200 teachers who “Pledge to Teach the Truth: Despite New State Bills Against It.”
The pledge says:
A recent bill introduced in the Missouri legislature exemplifies a rash of similar bills — in Texas, Idaho, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Arizona, and North Carolina — that aim to prohibit teachers from teaching the truth about this country: It was founded on dispossession of Native Americans, slavery, structural racism and oppression; and structural racism is a defining characteristic of our society today….
We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events — regardless of the law.
Teachers and education officials have increasingly expressed scorn at the desires of parents who entrust their kids to them, telling themselves they have a moral obligation to belabor a sense of pervasive oppression to impressionable young people.
The list includes teachers from conservative states such as Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Idaho, as well as places like Sea Girt, New Jersey, a 97%-white beachfront town with an all-Republican government and a median home price of more than $1 million.
Their desire to flout the will of parents also extends to flouting the law. In Tennessee, Liz Jarvis, an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher at Cornerstone Prep in Memphis, said she will not abide by a bill that passed the State House, should it be signed into law. “To be frank, the bill will not make it harder for my personal classroom because I plan to ignore it,” Jarvis said. “Who’s going to enforce it?”
The names of the teachers who state an intention to break prospective laws, grouped by state and city, are below:…
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