of seventh-grader Jordan Banks and how he navigates his worlds at home and at a prestigious private school where he's one of the few minority students.
"It is inappropriate instructional material," said parent Bonnie Anderson, who is white."The books don't come out and say we want white children to feel like oppressors but that is absolutely what they will do."Jerry Craft's graphic novel "New Kid."released a statement from Craft in response to the petition. The association said dissenters"claim the book teaches critical race theory and therefore should not be taught in schools.
In his statement, Craft said nothing will deter him from his goals of"helping kids become the kind of readers that I never was; letting kids see themselves on my pages; and showing kids of color as just regular kids." "As an African American boy who grew up in Washington Heights in New York City, I almost never saw kids like me in any of the books assigned to me in school," according to Craft's statement."Books aimed at kids like me seemed to deal only with history or misery."Critical race theory, the academic study of racism’s pervasive impact, is considered by some parents and conservative activists to be leftist indoctrination.
Educational material that focuses on the role race, and institutional racism, plays in everyday American life is crucial, said Darius Benton, who teaches communications at the University of Houston-Downtown.
Sad thing is, young kids don't care about differences until parents teach them to.
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This is probably not CRT based on the article, but I don’t know what’s in the book. Based on the article, nothing wrong with the reading. But we likely are kept from the full story.
Does this surprise anyone?
Just with the title. WTF.
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Wow Trump took the lid off the sewer. They don’t even hid racism any more it’s in your face
That book sounds racist
They should take away all stories about cyber bullied and cyberraped children too. It should all be hidden . We shall not educate our children and communities of unlawful activities
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What's next? Roots? The Confessions of Nat Turner? Uncle Tom's Cabin? Etc. Etc. Etc.
Hey Texas, thanks for the book suggestion. I think I’ll order this one for my kids!
The enemy of Texas are books... But tons of thoughts and prayers for the wounded of mass shootings in the schools.
This is the same Texas that tried to entirely eliminate the Civil Rights movement from American history class, remove any mention of Rosa Parks, and pushes the highly detrimental abstinence only sex ed? I'm so shocked.
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