{"id":18839,"date":"2022-01-11T14:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18839"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:06:05","slug":"the-word-equity-has-become-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/01\/11\/the-word-equity-has-become-toxic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word \u201cEquity\u201d Has Become Toxic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The school board in Bozeman, Montana passed a policy to \u201celiminate achievement gaps and meet the individual needs of all students\u201d which explicitly had the term \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com\/news\/education\/bozeman-school-board-passes-controversial-equity-policy-with-the-word-equity-removed\/article_220be97e-f697-5d62-a2a9-b8a9dd0b24f0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equity<\/a>\u201d removed because of its connection to Critical Race Theory\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTrustee Lisa Weaver said the policy was succinct and clear without using \u201cextraneous words that have become divisive\u201d and she was grateful for the work that had been done on it since it was originally introduced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018The people who are supporting the removal of the equity language are not supporting racism,\u2019 Weaver said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn mid-June, the policy went through first reading and board discussion without much fanfare. At the June 28 board meeting, the policy revisions were tabled after dozens of people raised concerns with the word equity and what they said were connections to critical race theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Increasingly parents have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com\/news\/education\/bozeman-school-officials-revise-policy-after-outcry-over-equity\/article_fae71683-f34a-5290-9f3a-f9c8d06ab610.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noticed<\/a> that \u201cequity\u201d is a <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1470827122512080902.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">euphemism<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/cbQI5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racialist indoctrination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WINNING: Parents in Bozeman, Montana, have forced the school board to retract its &quot;equity,&quot; &quot;privilege,&quot; and &quot;oppression&quot; policy and adopt a race-neutral &quot;student success&quot; policy in line with the Montana Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>This is another huge victory for the parent movement. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZuBjz8ZbSw\">pic.twitter.com\/ZuBjz8ZbSw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1470827122512080902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Even then, this was passed not without pledges to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com\/news\/education\/bozeman-school-board-passes-controversial-equity-policy-with-the-word-equity-removed\/article_220be97e-f697-5d62-a2a9-b8a9dd0b24f0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">add it back in<\/a> in the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhile the policy passed unanimously, a handful of board members expressed disappointment with some of the edits during their discussion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTrustee Douglas Fischer said the district\u2019s inability to put the word equity into its institutional framework is an example of the problem they\u2019re trying to address, systemic inequity and systemic racism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018We have said over and over that words matter but yet here we have an equity policy without the word equity in it. It troubles me,\u2019 said Fischer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Notice, further, how they are dismayed that this is a \u201cstudent success policy\u201d and not an \u201cequity policy\u201d. They make it very clear that students succeeding and \u201cequity\u201d are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com\/news\/education\/bozeman-school-board-passes-controversial-equity-policy-with-the-word-equity-removed\/article_220be97e-f697-5d62-a2a9-b8a9dd0b24f0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">completely different things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018I think this policy has evolved into a different policy. I don\u2019t consider it an equity policy. This is a student success policy,\u2019 Lusin said. \u2018\u2026 To apply this policy, put it in action in the classroom will require diversity, inclusion and equity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This will be a long multi-generational fight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bozeman-montana-school-policy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bozeman-montana-school-policy.jpg 553w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bozeman-montana-school-policy-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Word 'Equity' Has Become Toxic\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The school board in Bozeman, Montana passed a policy to 'eliminate achievement gaps and meet the individual needs of all students' which explicitly had the term 'equity' removed because of its connection to Critical Race Theory\u2026 \" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bozeman-montana-school-policy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The school board in Bozeman, Montana passed a policy to \u201celiminate achievement gaps and meet the individual needs of all students\u201d which explicitly had the term \u201cequity\u201d removed because of its connection to Critical Race Theory\u2026 \u201cTrustee Lisa Weaver said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/01\/11\/the-word-equity-has-become-toxic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[19,24,48],"class_list":["post-18839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18841,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18839\/revisions\/18841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}