{"id":78741,"date":"2021-07-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78741"},"modified":"2021-07-15T07:02:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:02:42","slug":"one-evening-at-a-school-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78741","title":{"rendered":"One Evening At A School Board Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE: A group of parents are gathered at a school board meeting in “Anytown, USA” – a medium-sized city in a swing-ish state. The city voted for Trump in 2016, elected a Democrat cityi council in 2018, and was nearly statistically tied in 2020. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While these meetings are normally somnolent affairs dealing with abstruse board policies and contracts, this is the exception. The district’s contract with a curriculum consultant who’s been training the staff on “inclusive teaching” is under discussion. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audience is orderly, but the tension is palpable as school board president, Doctor Karen Gossleiten-Prigg, addresses the audience.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Questions? OK – you, over at the microphone to my left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE MEMBER 1: Why is the district teaching Critical Race Theory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: We’re not teaching “Critical Race Theory”. Indeed, the entire term “CRT” is a creation of (clears throat) conservative media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You, over on my left…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE MEMBER 3: But Ms. Gossleitein-Prigg…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: …That’s Doctor <\/em>Gossleiten-Prigg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE MEMBER 2: (Over snickers in the audience<\/em>) …Doctor <\/em>Gossleiten-Prigg, I brought a series of CRT press clippings to show the audience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AUDIENCE MEMBER 3: You’re telling me there isn’t a certrain…tone <\/em>to the discourse when it comes to this subject?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Right, but that’s not Critical Race theory. You ,over on my left…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Audience members 2,4,6 and 8, standing at the mic on GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG’s right, start to rustle a bit. <\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE MEMBER 5: So you’re saying that the district doesn’t teach critical race theory?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: That’s correct. You on my left…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Audience members 2,4,6 and 8, start to audibly complain <\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE MEMBER 7: So if you’re’ not teaching Critical Race Theory, what are <\/em>you teaching them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Glad you asked. What we are proposing is a set of standards, a framework if you will , for teaching the history of this country. You, on the left…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE MEMBERS 2,4,6 and 8 (Agitated<\/em>) Hey! What about us? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: You’re on the right. You on the left…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE MEMBER 9: So you’re not teaching Criticial Race Theory? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Of course not. CRT doesn’t exist. Again – we’re creating a framework for teaching history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE MEMBER 9: So where are kids being taught that “whiteness” is a deterministic unavoidable state that makes one uncontrollably racist, and that every group of “white’ people is in and of themselves a “structure” that just can’t avoid hating other races? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: Oh. That’s not CRT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIENCE MEMBER 9: So where does it come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSSLEITEN-PRIGG: History!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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