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Students reported her for a lesson on race. Then she taught it again.
(www.washingtonpost.com)
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Good. We need more activist teachers willing to teach the realities of race and racism. It would help if the teacher unions got more militant too.
This isn't activism. It's honesty.
You're correct that it's honesty. Honesty becomes activism when the truth is banned.
I associate activism with an agenda. Activist may or may not be dishonest, but if they are they justify is by the righteousness of their cause.
Teaching children reality in school is not an agenda.
An agenda is a plan or program, often ideological in nature. If your ideology is that children should be taught the truth, then acting in accordance with that ideology is following your agenda. And if you act to teach children the truth in defiance of the prevailing agenda to teach them falsehoods, then that is inherently activism following said agenda.
The concept of an agenda is not inherently good or bad. It is simply following what you believe in through pre-planned actions. Buckling your seat belt is part of an agenda. You take action in line with the ideology that a seat belt will prevent you from flying through the windshield in the case of an accident, because you believe that becoming a lump of meat on the asphalt is worse than whatever injuries you could get from wearing the seat belt. Other people may have opposing views (maybe they want to be crushed into lumps of meat, idk), and not wearing a seat belt is part of their ideology.
The belief that somebody having an agenda is inherently a bad thing is yet another part of the anti-intellectual agenda to bully people into obedience by taking words with important meanings and rendering them into useless fear mongering that can be used as a lash against anybody who dares to speak out. The same thing that happened to "woke" and "politically correct."
It was also done explicitly within the bounds of the law.
So I wouldn't call it activism either.
School policy isn't "law" and can be threatened and changed given a shift in who holds power over the school system. Just because she currently has "protection" doesn't mean she isn't taking a risk with her actions. Policy and law also does nothing to protect her against an individual or group who may decide those regulations don't go far enough and take "justice" into their own hands.
What do you think making this distinction achieves? Cause it sure as shit doesn't help spotlight courageous action taken in the face of adversity. What we don't need is people dismissing the problems and dangers people like this face, trying to ignore them in the name of some perverse "neutrality". That isn't helping.
Activism implies the advancement of an agenda. Reality and the acknowledgement of reality is not an agenda.
When someone else is actively trying to hide or obscure it? It absolutely is activism. You insisting this shouldn't be noteworthy only serves to dismiss the risk to their financial and/physical well-being that people like this willingly take on.
In short, you're not in anyway benefiting the truth, and are in fact diminishing the efforts being made to preserve it.
But most of the teachers unions in places like this don’t support her.
Not all teachers are educating kids. :(