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Uninformed and Misplaced

In recent weeks there have been suggestions in the national news, and locally here in Guilford, that public school teachers have been indoctrinating their students in a progressive and racist agenda, teaching what critics in town have painted as Critical Race Theory.

In Guilford, there have been direct allegations that what is being taught in our schools is “evil” and un-American.

As the president of the Guilford Teachers’ Association, and as a long-term and proud teacher in the Guilford public schools, let me be clear. There has been no professional development activities in which teachers were told or taught that all White people are racist or that the country is irremediably racist. Teachers have been asked to consider texts and instructional techniques that will be supportive and representative of all students and to approach difficult topics like historical and current racism in open and critical conversations. Teachers in this school system today, as always, strive to help their students develop into reflective and critical thinkers, and to suggest that we are doing anything less or other than that is uninformed and misplaced.

The Guilford Education Association supports the Board of Education and endorses the position on equity and social justice adopted by the board. The teachers of Guilford, who worked long and hard to bring the students of Guilford through this pandemic, support the district goal of making our schools more equitable and more just places for all our students. The teachers of Guilford are here first and foremost for our students. To suggest less or otherwise is offensive and absurd.

Regina Sullivan

GEA President