This person is not fit to teach students at any level, especially at primary and secondary grades. That is what I thought as I read this:
"If you are not serious about being an agent of change that helps
stifle the oppressive systems, go find another job. Because you are a
political figure."
The speaker was Kim Radersma, a former high school English teacher in California and
Colorado. Radersma is currently working toward her Ph. D. in critical
whiteness studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.
Critical. Whiteness. Studies.
Radersma was leading a breakout session for educators at the National White Privilege Conference recently held in Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, an epicenter of white privilege, if there is such a thing. A city filled with white liberals who stifle racial integration at every opportunity.
Radersma argued that teachers must fight against the oppressive
structure in education and society. She said anyone who is going into
teaching and education must be a political figure.
"Teaching
is a political act, and you can't choose to be neutral. You are either a
pawn used to perpetuate a system of oppression or you are fighting
against it," Radersma said during the session. "And if you think you are
neutral, you are a pawn."
What sane parent would want his or her children in a class taught by Kim Radersma? Or any teacher, for that matter who believes this, and who thinks it mandatory that teachers must be political in what and how they teach children. It is leftist indoctrination writ large, increasingly a role held by public school teachers.
Radersma unwittingly makes an excellent argument in favor
of home schooling and parochial schools, and against sending children to
the indoctrination camps that some public schools have become.
"Being a white person who does anti-racist work is like being an
alcoholic. I will never be recovered by my alcoholism, to use the
metaphor," Radersma said. "I have to everyday wake up and acknowledge
that I am so deeply imbedded with racist thoughts and notions and
actions in my body that I have to choose everyday to do anti-racist work
and think in an anti-racist way."
Oh please. Spare us the self-heroism and false drama, Kim Radersma. And stay away from our children with your foolishness. And as for your PhD in critical whiteness studies, it's horsehit that passes for eduction in the humanities departments of universities that will teach anything in order to keep the tuition money flowing.
Full article here.
