Minnesota student says teacher told her to hide equity survey questions from parents!
SARTELL, Minnesota (PNN) - July 24, 2021 - A Sartell-St. Stephen School District student is speaking out after the school required grade-school children to take an equity survey.
Some students didn’t understand some of the surveys questions, but were told by a teacher they couldn’t repeat the survey questions to their parents, according to a video uploaded by Alphanews.
The survey asked questions that some students didn’t understand. Even after hearing an explanation from their teacher, some still couldn’t comprehend the survey questions.
But a teacher told the students they couldn’t ask their parents for help, according to student Haylee Yasgar.
“My teacher said that I could not skip any questions even when I didn’t understand them. One question asked us what gender we identify with. I was very confused along with a lot of other classmates,” Yasgar said during Monday night’s meeting.
She said students were told they could not “repeat any of the questions to our parents.”
The school district hasn’t yet responded to a request for comment. It’s unclear what value a survey holds if respondents don’t understand the questions.
“Being asked to hide this from my mom made me very uncomfortable, like I was doing something wrong,” she told the school board.
The equity survey is part of a reckoning of how school systems nationwide should teach issues related not only to sexuality but as well as race.
Some parents call the curriculum divisive while supporters say it’s teaching history and showing how racist attitudes and activities such as redlining are embedded into daily life.
Despite being more than 40 years old, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has evolved to a flashpoint between Political Parties over the past year.
CRT holds that the law and legal institutions in the (Fascist Police States of Amerika) are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Amerikans.
CRT scholars - all of whom are dedicated Marxists - claim that many societal problems are rooted in the country’s white majority using laws and other power to suppress the non-white population, whether consciously or subconsciously.
CRT opponents claim its conclusions rely on anecdotes and storytelling rather than a comprehensive examination of evidence. They say its supporters focus on disproportionate outcomes from those individual stories, incorrectly drawing conclusions about institutional racism and white privilege and failing to take into account strides that the nation has made toward racial equality.
Critics say CRT employs heavy use of the Marxist “struggle” ideology and tactic that advocates for the destruction of history, traditions, and culture of a society.
Around the FPSA, there has been a growing movement of parents who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the CRT-derived curriculum being taught in their children’s classrooms.