CONTROVERSIAL GROUPS USE TEACHERS TO GET THEIR IDEOLOGY TO OUR KIDS
lesson materials.
While the focus of parent concern has been on curriculum and daily lesson plans, many parents don't know that the resources teachers use deserve attention as well.
We are aware of at least two resources that inject ideology into Rockwood, through teacher development and through the class lesson plans and materials they get teachers to use:
The Teachers College Reading & Writing Project (TCRWP) and Learning for Justice.
BOTH of them led to the infamous Fallert email, for lesson materials they encouraged teachers to use. Fallert cited parent complaints in that email about specific lessons in 8th grade and 9th grade language arts. The 8th grade lessons were devised from TCRWP. 9th grade materials were from Learning for Justice.
TCRWP
Rockwood purchase records show it has used TCRWP since 2004.
Administrators and teachers have told parents Rockwood uses TCRWP for professional development in all grades K-12, and for lesson plans/materials in middle schools and elementary schools.
Because Rockwood uses TCWRP:
*8th graders have been told to question gender norms
*8th graders have been taught to look for racism in everyday interactions
*students have learned they are oppressed if they are black or female
*students have been told black people are powerless with police
*elementary students were exposed to poor phonics teaching
*teachers were exposed to negativity about schools and our country
You can read what parents had to say about their student's experiences in the links above.
In addition to the lesson content above, there are also several posts on this site about how controversial this teacher resource is, as a whole.
Here are two:
THE Guidebook for teaching ideology
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LEARNING FOR JUSTICE
Missouri lawmakers have been trying to ban this teacher resource from Missouri schools.
Formerly known as Teaching Tolerance, it's described as a social justice and activism program for schools.
If you had a 9th grader during the 2020-2021 school year, your child likely did assignments from this resource during language arts class.
The lessons focused on oppression, racism and privilege, rather than standard academics.
The lessons:
9th grade intersectionality article
Rockwood approved those lessons, and parents complained about them. Their screenshots of the lessons from Canvas are in the links above.
These are the same lessons and complaints Natalie Fallert referenced in her email when she told teachers to change wording and take materials off of Canvas, so parents could no longer see them.
WHAT TEACHERS SEE ON THE WEBSITE
As mentioned above, Missouri lawmakers tried to ban SPLC/Learning for Justice from Missouri schools last year. They're trying again this year in a proposed bill aimed at keeping tenets of CRT out of schools.
Meanwhile, the groups continue to push narrative and ideology, such as: they encouraged teachers to blame white supremacy for the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/teaching-the-historical-context-of-january-6
HERE ARE OTHER ITEMS TEACHERS CAN FIND ON LEARNING FOR JUSTICE.ORG.
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| Learning Plan CRT |
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From Learningforjustice.org:
“Institutional racism exists throughout society and our schools—public, private, small, large, mono- or multicultural. None is immune to it.”
Note: Institutional racism is a tenet of Critical Race Theory.
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"What is White Privilege, Really?"
Learningforjustice.org
“Featured Race & Ethnicity Resources”
Source: Learningforjustice.org:
The website has been updated and the link to the above page doesn’t work, so here are individual links:
Teaching About Race, Racism and Police Violence
Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters | Part I
https://www.learningforjustice.org/professional-development/webinars/whiteness
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