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作为家长捍卫教育组织,在目前仍在持续的以色列危机中,我们对在美国出现的公然的反犹太主义反应感到不安。不幸的是,助长反犹太主义和煽动分裂的仇恨可以追溯到一个听起来天真无邪的名字:种族研究。 为了帮助家长、倡导者和政策专业人士与您的孩子或您孩子的学校进行对话,我们整理了以下种族研究解释。 学校可能对种族研究特别感兴趣,因为教师和管理人员正在努力寻找谈论以色列战争的方法。与此同时,阅读和数学成绩创下历史新低。学校不应宣扬政治,而应专注于学术并改善所有美国儿童的教育。 种研究通过兜售“殖民主义”和“白人至上”的错误信息,往往专门针对犹太人,声称所有犹太人都是白人或“接近白人”,并非法占领以色列。由于犹太人的散居和通婚,犹太人有多种肤色和背景。以色列是犹太人民的祖国。但是,无论一个人的信仰如何,教师都不应该将课堂用作政治演讲台或针对任何种族、宗教或背景的学生。 “种族研究”听起来像是包含学习不同文化以及教导宽容和接受的课程。不幸的是,“解放”或“批判”的种族研究在如今的幼儿园-12年级学校中更为常见。这个版本的重点是白人至上、系统性种族主义、特权、与“抵抗”运动的联系,以及教导学生成为活动分子。不允许观点多样性,它是批判种族理论(CRT)的另一个名字。 学校课程可能包含“解放种族研究”,这是一种旨在将学生转变为进步活动分子的种族研究形式,并“为黑人、奇肯克斯/拉丁裔、亚裔美国人、美洲印第安人/土著和低收入青年提供参与社区进步、社会正义和变革的技能。”这些课程并不是关于真正的多样性、促进理解或探索历史的不同部分(所有这些在教育中都很重要)。解放民族研究有一个独特的目的,那就是向学生灌输分裂的意识形态,并将他们变成活动分子。 与批判种族理论一样,种族研究将学生分为强大的压迫者和被剥夺权力的受害者,并根据肤色、有时是性别和性取向而不是个人特征对他们进行分类。种族研究迫使学生接受其预定的“真理”(或正统观念),并阻止甚至压制探究和异议。这是其议程的一部分,旨在将学生转变为积极分子,而不是教导他们成为独立、批判性的思想家。 了解更多关于种族研究的信息…
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