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California school official compares reopening schools to ‘slavery’ and ‘white supremacist ideology’

2021-02-27 | 🔗
Former professor Carol Swain reacts to the comments on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Rachel as parents fight to get their kids back in the classroom, the vice president of one of Californias school boards just compared opening schools prematurely to slavery. That seems like a very white supremacist ideology to force people to comply with. You know conform laughter without thinking about all of their intersecting factors and barriers that exist for all families. Its privilege, I dont want to be a part of forcing anybody to do anything. They dont want to do thats what slavery is im not going to be a part of it. Rachel here to react is Dr Carol Swain Dr Swain. Welcome when I saw this. My first reaction was that by her definition of slavery, forcing anybody to do anything they dont want to do thats slavery, I guess, as a mom, I engage in slavery all day long. I cant imagine how frustrated parents must be to hear this kind of language from a board
member at the school board about getting their kids back into the classroom. Well, it is so absurd and the individual who made that statement. She is an elected official and shes, clearly parroting the views of the teachers union, rather than paying attention to the wishes of the parents, and if you look at the data, the children who are most hurt by being out of school to are blacks, Latinos and poor, whites, Rachel, yeah, absolutely and by the way, also those with special needs. Yes, Rachel have been really thrown off for the whole year, just regressing, so parents have complained and the school board the District superintendent put out this statement. He said she behaved in manner. The board does not condone, nor
does her behavior represent our values. Please note that the school board trustees are not district employees, they are elected officials. The school district does not have the authority to release duly elected trustees if their positions, so in other words she will stay in that position. Despite making those statements, I want to move to another topic with you that the that I think you have so much knowledge on and that is some teachers are canceling Shakespeare because of racism and homophobia and classism. Dr Seuss reportedly has been canceled from a Virginia school system because of its racial undertones. What do you make of you know canceling Dr Seuss, but also you know, Shakespeare well for Shakespeare. There has been a battle against western civilization, going back many decades to nineteen. Eighty eight Jesse Jackson led a protest at Stanford University. They protested western civilization for being too your
yo centric and euro centric and white male dominated weve, seen the fruits of that, and you can trace the attacks to the critical race theory and its intent to destroy all things that are traditional and its focus on white people in particular, and so the White culture, its being canceled by the elites, and, unfortunately, the Democratic Party has pretty much endorsed this whole agenda, its so destructive not just to minority children, but also to any child, and it itself is racism. Everything about it is racist and it means that poor children would get theyll get a worse education, because theyre not being exposed to the basic skills that they need to be successful. Rachel yeah were doing a disservice to our childrens education. When we to these kinds of things really quickly the Louden County, Virginia public schools
did the not respond to Fox news request for comment. If on this story, I want to thank you again, Dr Swain, for joining us. This.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-08.