March 11, 2022 – Germantown, WI – Our schools’ declining academic scores and the rise of discipline issues suggest that current classroom content fails to educate children and foments conflict.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), which have usurped classroom focus, are at the heart of this because they teach students that:
Their country is irredeemably racist, and too fragile and afraid to honestly teach our entire, unvarnished history.
If they are white, they are oppressors and “guilty”; if not, they are oppressed and “victimized.”
They may have the wrong body and should consider radical procedures, with or without parental knowledge.
If they are uncomfortable in “mixed” bathrooms, etc., and want gender privacy, they are bigots.
If they work hard to earn something, it is unfair to those who didn’t work to achieve the same reward.
The house they go home to is on stolen property – again without historical context.
That it is okay to disrespect, censor, name-call and threaten those with whom they disagree.
As we face school board elections, we need to understand the ramifications of the CRT/SEL focus in our schools and know which candidates will deal with these tough issues, and refocus on academics. In Germantown, they are Russ Ewert, Michael Loth, and Brian Medved.
Jean L. Merry
Germantown, WI’
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