However, DeForestвЂ™s director of instruction Rebecca Toetz has made it her mission to improve вЂњrepresentation and cultural inclusivity in the curriculum,вЂќ telling K-12 Dive that the effort вЂњis timely in light of the nationвЂ™s reckoning with systemic racism, a dual crisis that ran parallel to the pandemic.вЂќ The argument that the United StatesвЂ™ core institutions - law, education, and more - are systemically racist is a core component of critical race theory, as well as its ideological branches.ДЄs of Monday evening, neither DeForest Area High School nor its parent district has released a statement regarding the BIPOC Student unionвЂ™s email. If we donвЂ™t want to repeat things, itвЂ™s important to teach what was happening in history.вЂќ вЂњDo we teach about racism and historical inequities? Yeah we do, but those are historical facts. вЂњ teaches graduate-level courses and those are not things that we teach,вЂќ said Runez. Back in October, DeForest Area School District superintendent Eric Runez publicly denied that the district was teaching critical race theory (CRT). In addition, this is not the first time that DeForest Area High School has rubbed people the wrong way. If a concept is entirely subjective, it is exceedingly difficult to study it scientifically, let alone subject it to rigorous tests,вЂќ he continued. Second, science hinges on the ability to corroborate findings using converging sources of evidence. вЂњThe problems here are twofold: First, if person A is offended by a statement but person B is not, this would mean it both is and is not a microaggression, a proposition that is patently illogical. Therefore, if a person feels вЂњmicroaggressedвЂќ against, he or she is automatically deemed to be the victim of a microaggression,вЂќ said the late Scott Lilienfeld, who was a professor of psychology at Emory University until his death in 2020. вЂњMicroaggressionsвЂ¦lie entirely in the eyes of the beholder. The child telling is concerned about safety. The child telling wants to keep themselves or others safe.

Despite the increasing outcry against microaggressions among left-wing academics, public figures, and activists, the scientific justification for their prominence is hazy at best. The charts below will help you to work with your child to understand this difference and increase his/her comfort with telling if he/she is the victim of bullying or observes bullying.

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