« Fox & Friends

Philadelphia school teacher on whether critical race theory should be taught in schools

2021-02-03 | 🔗
Christopher Paslay discusses how race is taught in schools on ‘Fox & Friends.’
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Plus zero percent interest for twenty four months on all smart beds. Only for a limited time when I noticed my, we have been talking to you for a while how schools across the country have been pushing to adopt thrill race theory in education programs even for preschoolers. This comes as the San Francisco arts Department changed. Its name because quote acronyms, are a symptom of white supremacy culture. I never thought of it. That way here to discuss is Philadelphia School teacher, Christopher Paisley, a new book out its called exploring white from a facility Christopher Good morning. Thanks for having me Ains Steve regarding race, interesting sliding scale depend on which school and district you are in on certain cases, its very reasonable. They are teaching the basic things. Dr Martin Luther king, you know, judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin,
and then you have things more radical, which is hang in certain schools. Like you mentioned a school in Kuper teen know California had third graders deconstructing their racial identity, which definitely can be something that is questionable, so its a sliding scale. Some stuff is good. Some stuff is a little more radical Steve. Absolutely we have got a San Francisco public School teacher wrote an op ed on Bernie Sanders in the Chron Ghel San Francisco and said I puzzle and fumed as an individual. As I stroke to be my best possible teacher. What did I see? What did I think my students should see a wealthy, incredible, well educated and privileged white man showing up for perhaps the most important rift actual of the decade in a puffy jacket and huge mittens? They are talking about bonders at the inauguration yeah. I mean its interesting, its definitely its an interesting situation, because I have a masters degree in multicultural education and the way it used to be
it usersed to be. We try to find a common bond and try to come together. You know we focus on race because we have to, but we try and get past race to the person, so we can understand each other and communicate, and now it seems like everything is about just polarizing. You know you have one group in camp another group on this side. Whites are privileged, inherently racist people of color are victims, people are oppressed in certain situations. Students of color are learning, they are not the captain of their ownership and I think thats very unfortunate, because I think we need to get back to a place where we focus on race, because you have to you have to get past that eventually and communicate and come together. So we can continue to make progress and do things like that Steve its really something because it seems like its everywhere. In fact, coming in about fifteen minutes, we are going to talk about how Montgomery County in Maryland is spending half a million dollars on an anti racist audit says their goal is to become an anti racist school system.
They are starting at preschool, interesting, stuff, Christopher Paisley, his book is exploring white fragility. Thank you very much, sir.
Transcript generated on 2021-02-04.