A hotline recently launched by Arizona’s top education official, a newly elected Republican, gives parents the opportunity to fight the “woke” lessons being taught in Arizona schools, including “inappropriate” sexual content and other radical ideology.
Arizona Department of Education foot Last week’s hotline for the public to report on classroom lessons promoting critical race theory (CRT), gender ideology, and “inappropriate sexual content,” topics that have long faced conservative criticism.
Superintendent Horn believes in empowering parents, which is why he launched the Empower Hotline. No teacher should discuss politics, critical race theory, or social emotional learning with students. Every educational minute is precious to our students. #Education for all pic.twitter.com/aGHndxkmkJ
– Arizona Department of Education (azedschools) March 10, 2023
The Empower Hotline, which “empowers” concerned parents by encouraging them to report lessons that “detract from teaching academic standards,” was a key promise of Republican Superintendent of Public Education Tom Horn’s recent campaign, which aims to prioritize reading instruction. and mathematics while declaring “war” on unnecessary and damaging discussions about emotions and identity, according for the Arizona Republic.
The Department of Education’s website allows Arizona residents to report “inappropriate lessons that detract from the teaching of academic standards,” which includes topics such as those associated with CRT programs and “social and emotional learning” programs accused of promoting “wake-up” notions of race, gender, and sexuality.
Some say critical race theory is graduate study, and it’s not taught in K-12 schools. The evidence is to the contrary, calling on teachers to “teach academics,” Horn said. [and] Not to use their power over the captive public, to promote their personal ideology.”
“This is unprofessional behavior,” he added.
he is too Certain Teachers who “as long as they teach academics, there is nothing to worry about.”
“I want to make sure we eliminate distractions, and teachers immediately teach academics the way they are supposed to do it,” He said.
The head of the Arizona Schools explained how the establishment of the hotline gives Arizonans the opportunity to “report the teaching of inappropriate lessons that rob students of precious minutes of teaching time in core academic subjects such as reading, math, science, history, and the arts.”
He also claimed that the effort was intended to stop dividing students by “irrelevant” criteria.
He said, “I believe we are all individuals, brothers and sisters under the skin, entitled to judge what we know, what we can do, our character, and our ability to appreciate beauty.” “Race has nothing to do with it.”
According to Horn, who was sworn in as superintendent of public education in January, the CRT has “learned the opposite, that race is primary.”
“They divide students into ‘oppressed’ and ‘oppressed’ based on the race they were born into, which doesn’t make sense,” he said.
The new effort, which allows investigators to be sent to schools and disciplinary action taken for offenders, has also been met with criticism.
Arizona Education Association President Marisol Garcia criticized the hotline, calling it “disrespectful” to teachers and their profession.
“Arizona seems to be giving Florida DeSantis a run for its money now for being the most fascist white supremacist state in the country,” said teacher Sari Beth Rosenberg.
If you would like to contact the Arizona Empower Hotline, available at 602-771-3500, or through email at enable@azed.gov pic.twitter.com/FMRwMFfJgY
— Sari Beth Rosenberg (@saribethrose) March 11, 2023
On Wednesday, Horn to explain that during the pandemic, when children were learning online from home, a “parents’ revolt” arose when parents expressed their anger after seeing what their children were learning at school.
As a result, he promised to fight “abusive” and “toxic” practices that “distract academics.”
The order comes as wake-up initiatives seek to integrate gender ideology and queer theory into the educational system, including spreading sexually explicit and pro-LGBTQ propaganda in elementary and kindergarten classrooms.
In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued An “assessment tool” for teachers and principals to measure their commitment to “LGBTQ inclusiveness” in the classroom.
The tool asks guiding questions about school staff and their commitment to queer theory, including encouraging sex education teachers to have a gender-neutral anatomy, referring to a boy as a “body with a penis” and a girl as a “body with a vagina.”
Earlier this year, parents were in the second largest school district in Wisconsin informed Their Kindergarten children will undergo a week of ‘Gender Identity’ programs where they will learn about the ‘spectrum’ of genders and sexual orientations.
Actress and education advocate Sam Sorbo Accused Today’s schools “abuse children” while criticizing the “insanity” surrounding gender ideology in schools.
She warned that “your children have been stolen from you by a system that seeks to destroy them,” and called on parents to “save your family” by considering “homeschooling” instead.
Meanwhile, the battle over CRT in schools has led to nationwide tensions in recent years.
The theory promoted by many leftists, Claims That American institutions—government, economy, and culture—are based on a racial hierarchy, with whites at the top and blacks at the bottom, and even those that appear race-neutral are, on closer examination, rooted in racism.
As a result, it is urging reform in almost all of its institutions.
In January, A.J Washington Post piece Accused Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (FL-R) for being a “white supremacist” for banning an AP African American Studies course, which allegedly contains extremist content, from Florida schools.
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