Dr. Angela Grunewald's November 2nd Response To Parents, Is Either Deliberately False, Or Uninformed By Reality

 

In a post made to the Edmond Public Schools website, Superintendent Dr. Grunewald addressed what she characterized as "negative and sometimes false comments" made by parents at the 11.1.21 Board Meeting.  On the playground we used to say, "It takes one to know one."  Dr. Grunewald's response to parents in this missive is either deliberately false, or - worse - uninformed by reality.  Here's how we know.

GUEST POST: Dear Dr. Grunewald, If You Think You're Not Allowing The Teaching of CRT, What Do You Call Social Emotional Learning (SEL)?

https://truthinamericaneducation.com/social-emotional-learning/great-social-emotional-learning/

A special guest post by Edmond Public Schools parent Emily Wright.

Critical Race Theory is the Next Common Core For Oklahoma Students - But Much Worse

Critical Race Theory. What's that about and how could it be worse than Common Core for Oklahoma's students?

Good questions! 

Let's start with the first:

Critical Race Theory is an ideal developed from Marxist theory that essentially asks human beings to see the world through a lens that sees people as either oppressed or oppressors based on their race and identity. This gets even more complicated when attempting to determine how oppressed one is - a factor determined by something called intersectionality. For example, if we are comparing three individuals - a black woman, a white man and a gay, black woman - the gay black woman is the most oppressed and the white man is the most oppressive.