![]() Walden also claims the board “never voted to adopt or authorize” the contested gender transition policy, whose heading is dated August 2015, “or any of its constituent elements,” which additionally determine access to restrooms, locker rooms, field trips, “overnight trips” and “gendered activities” such as sports. Horne says the plans on how to do that are still in the works.Arizona’s largest school district is flouting state law and its own governing board by covertly instructing students how to assert a different gender identity at school without their parents knowing and hiding evidence of its misdeeds, according to an outspoken member of the board.įormer President Trump aide Stephen Miller’s America First Legal is representing Rachel Walden in her Maricopa County Superior Court lawsuit against Mesa Public Schools and Superintendent Andi Fourlis, which alleges they schemed to circumvent the Arizona Parents’ Bill of Rights after the community learned it was blocking parental notification. Horne says he is also working on changing the formula for determining school letter grades, adding he wants to make sure schools are getting credit for improvements in scores and penalize schools for teaching CRT. The state superintendent says he plans on opening a hotline for parents to call in, with complaints that they can investigate. “I don’t know anybody who joins me in opposing critical race theory who thinks we should not teach about the horrors of slavery, of Jim Crow, what happened in Oklahoma and so forth,” he said. history compared to what he believes is critical race theory. Horne says he believes there is a difference in teaching what happened in U.S. The Zinn Education Project website says teachers pledge to “tell the truth” and not lie to students. Horne also mentions a petition that more than 200 Arizona teachers signed saying they’d defy the laws and legislation if “states took action against CRT.” It never has been taught in K-12 schools and to be honest with you, most educators had never heard about it until about three years ago when it became a media story or something that parents were all of a sudden being told about,” Garcia said. “Critical race theory is not taught in K-12 schools. School districts in Tucson have denied teaching CRT, as other public schools and educators have. When asked what Horne’s evidence is that it’s being taught in K-12 schools, Horne said he saw it in Tucson's curriculum. CRT is typically taught in university-level courses. They teach that race is primary, and they emphasize racial divisions.”Ĭritical Race Theory, or CRT, is the study looking at how race and racism shaped American law and society. “Critical race theory is opposite of that. What’s important about an individual is what you know, what can you do, what is your character, what is your ability to appreciate beauty, not what race you were born into, which I believe is completely irrelevant to anything,” Horne said. We’re all brothers and sisters under the skin. “I define it as the opposite of my own values, which is we’re all individuals. “What’s your definition of critical race theory?” ABC15 asked Horne. He told ABC15 he does believe that if kids are having emotional problems, a social worker or counselor should be in schools to help students talk about it. ![]() Horne believes schools are focusing too much on it and that is time that could be used for academics. “With my students, if somebody came in and was having a bad day and he threw their backpack in the back of the classroom, maybe figure out like, ‘Hey, you need a few minutes, sit right there.’ That is social-emotional learning,” Garcia said. They didn't sign up to be a psychologist and deal with feelings,” Horne said.Īrizona’s largest teacher’s union president, Marisol Garcia, says social-emotional learning, or SEL, has been around for a long time and that there’s now a name to it. “I'm getting complaints from teachers who say they want to teach academics. Horne believes those distractions include social-emotional learning, a method where teachers help students process feelings and work on their social and emotional skills. “It’s because they’ve had all these distractions,” Horne said in a one-on-one interview. In the month he's been in office, Horne says he has been trying to improve low student test scores. Superintendent Tom Horne says he is working on some plans and will send them to the State Board of Education for consideration.
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