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dd's avatar

BTW, the school bills itself in the "Episcopal Tradition". Its website contains the following paragraph:

"The third and fourth grades read Hebrew scriptures, and the fifth grade focuses on the New Testament. These sacred texts are taught neither as truth, nor as literature. Rather, they are presented as a body of powerful stories that have moved millions over thousands of years and serve as truth to those for whom they are true."

It's interesting that whereas scripture is taught as symbolic and open to interpretation, Critical Race Theory is being taught as unquestionable and absolute. In other words, CRT is taught as a fundamentalist, intratextual enterprise.

Please let your readers know how to help Paul Rossi.

https://www.gcschool.org/about-gcs/episcopal-identity#

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Lightwing's avatar

Exactly. Having escaped from fundamentalist religion myself, I too clearly see the parallels.

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Gretchen Grace's avatar

You make an excellent point

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Wendy's avatar

It's unbelievable to me that anyone anywhere believes in this, much less forces it upon children. And that religious-based schools do this?? The contrast you make between how they approach scripture and how they approach CRT is alarming...and spot on.

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judd's avatar

The irony. The complete cognitive dissonance of these people is baffling. It's inexplicable.

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Madjack's avatar

Modern witch trials. The Puritan strain in American culture rearing its head once again in a ugly and illogical ideology.

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Scott Redmond's avatar

or an acknowledgement that one has persisted through time and the other is fragile (and antithetical to the first)

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