Written by Michael O’Donnell<\/p>\n
The great (or however you deem to spin greatness) PT Barnum lied easily and often. And why not? Where there was a gullible, wild-eyed and unsuspecting audience, there was opportunity. Why be truthful when deception could so easily control the masses?<\/span><\/p>\n Barnum would undoubtedly be proud of Poway Unified School District\u2019s language deception and the district\u2019s plan to implement CRT-like tenets into its Ethnic Studies and Equity curriculum this Fall, despite its continued denial.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Carol Osborne, <\/span>Associate Superintendent, LSS, <\/span>\u201cPoway Unified is not teaching Critical Race Theory\u2026Our focus is on elevating humanity through education, fostering understanding of different perspectives and respect for one another.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And who wouldn\u2019t agree with terms such as \u201celevating humanity,\u201d fostering understanding,\u201d and \u201crespect\u201d? Osborne hopes that parents and community members will do just that\u2026move on\u2026leave the theater\u2026and follow the sign to the egress. In fact, they are counting on this.<\/span><\/p>\n But the devil is in the language details and both Osborne and PUSD administrators know this. The basic premise of CRT is alarming:<\/span><\/p>\n PUSD\u2019s own Racial Equity and Inclusion Plan <\/span>refers to such controversial critical race theorists as Ibram X Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, propagating a hypothesis that systemic racism permeates American society, and advocating student activism as central to its curriculum. Just a sampling of terms, concepts, and literature rooted in CRT and hidden in plain sight on the district\u2019s Ethnic Studies website:<\/span><\/p>\n To think that this focus is anything less than racial indoctrination and race shaming is, at best, disingenuous.<\/span><\/p>\n Thankfully, such indoctrination is not without its detractors, as parents, administrators, teachers, and politicians have successfully fought back. Even entire states have either banned or limited CRT\u2019s influence. People are starting to wake up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But as is characteristic of so many school boards, the \u201cgreater good\u201d is paramount, and woke culture is the god at whose feet PUSD has placed the sacrificial child, the innocent being who has been taught to trust authority, as misguided as it can be.<\/span><\/p>\n Left unchecked, CRT will poison the minds of the young and most vulnerable. It will drive wedges between and among people of all backgrounds and set into motion discordant patterns of behavior and thinking that will have consequences long after the last PUSD board member and district administrator has collected a final pension check.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is therefore vital that the community call out and confront CRT for what it is, an insidious form of racial indoctrination that is slowly poisoning nearly all aspects of society, from government and politics to military and academics (including kids as young as elementary school).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As parents, community members, and anyone else concerned with the safety and well-being of our children, the moment is upon us: speak out, call out, and do not allow PUSD\u2019s deceptive language to distract us away from among the most important local issues of our time.<\/span><\/p>\n The egress is a deceptive play upon words. Critical Race Theory is a deceptive play upon the hearts and minds of our children.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Michael O’Donnell The great (or however you deem to spin greatness) PT Barnum lied easily and often. And why not? Where there was a gullible, wild-eyed and unsuspecting audience, there was opportunity. Why be truthful when deception could so easily control the masses? Barnum would undoubtedly be proud of Poway Unified School District\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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