Katherine Kersten, reporting for the Minnesota Star Tribune, writes:
Do you believe in the American dream — the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, that belief may soon bar you from getting a license to teach in Minnesota public schools — at least if you plan to get your teaching degree at the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus.
In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U’s College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of “the American Dream” in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. Instead, teacher candidates must embrace — and be prepared to teach our state’s kids — the task force’s own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.The task group is part of the Teacher Education Redesign Initiative, a multiyear project to change the way future teachers are trained at the U’s flagship campus. The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers’ lack of “cultural competence” contributes to the poor academic performance of the state’s minority students. Last spring, it charged the task group with coming up with recommendations to change this. In January, planners will review the recommendations and decide how to proceed.
The report advocates making race, class and gender politics the “overarching framework” for all teaching courses at the U. It calls for evaluating future teachers in both coursework and practice teaching based on their willingness to fall into ideological lockstep.
The first step toward “cultural competence,” says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize — and confess — their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China’s Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi.
Read the Initiative.
Hat tip: Mike Gallagher
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
“TASK GROUP” is code for infiltration unit.
“The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers’ lack of “cultural competence” contributes to the poor academic performance of the state’s minority students.”
And by minority, they mean muslim….and by “cultural competence” they mean sharia law and donning the trash bag……
I’ve seen the mess up there in Minneapolis, it’s like third world locusts have descended with salivating jaws.
What planet am I living on?
FFS… Now I need to take an extra blood pressure pill.
This is going on in NM as well. This is why truly qualified people cannot teach our kids, because they wont buy into the party line and push this garbage.
My husband is a physicist and he desperately wanted to teach after retiring from his job as a scientist working for a government contractor. He was confronted with the “qualifications” to become a teacher and he was appalled at the spin that is required to be adhered to if one wants to teach in this state (NM). There was no interest in excellence or achievement. There was only a lot of political correctness and anti American values, which are currently masquerading as education. If this is what is required in order to teach our kids then it is no wonder that they cannot read or calculate or do anything else that is required in order to be successful. They spend all of their time in school being told how deprived they are and how we (their parents and grandparents and our religious values) are to blame for how terrible their lives and the lives of everyone else in the world are. We, Americans are being vilified to our children and it is happening every day in the schools. Those of us who are sick of the public education agenda in this country are attempting to educate our children ourselves, and the government is trying to limit our ability to do so. We as a Nation had better wake up and pay attention to what our children are being taught. We are now seeing some of the results of this betrayal of our children, and we will see much more in the years to come. I think this indoctrination is responsible for Columbine and all the subsequent violence we have seen such a surge in in the last few years. Children need to feel secure with their parents and they need to believe in them and in the values they are being taught both at home and at school. When you have such a massive disconnect between the two, you breed mistrust and anger. The net result is the type of violence and self loathing that engenders Columbine and all the others. Mary
My daughter was teaching special needs children in Fl but realised that she was in a no win position. She had twenty three students that all had special problems and most were different form the other kids in her class. Each on has to be taught differently and evaluated on a gov. form. She was having trouble with so many kids with so many different needs and was having problems filling out the varying forms. She went to the principal to ask for help and was told that her program was a federal grant and that there would be no more money or help. They said that she was not filling out the forms for some kids correctly and that she must get it right or the state would not get the money. She complained that her kids were doing better than they had ever done under any other teacher but was told that, that is not important. The forms are what is important. She resigned a week later. She is in graduate school to become a double major PT/OT. Teachers are a dying breed.
Moonbats desire the complete control of the flow of information. Look at how they installed Obama in the White House and continue to prop up the inexperienced buffoon. This could only be done by controlling the media. Now the Hitler/Stalin Youth march to Obama songs as Socialism trickles down from higher educational institutions.