The nation's largest social studies organization is openly leading the charge.
It was a revealing speech Tina Lane Heafner gave at the National Council for the Social Studies' 2019 conference in Austin, Texas. And a disturbing one. American taxpayers don't know the NCSS—or Heafner—but they should. It's the nation's largest professional association devoted to social studies education, with 24,000 members. Heafner is its president. And it's conspiring to do more than insert critical race theory into our nation's schools.
Heafner wasted no time getting specific about how this mission might manifest itself."For too long, social studies educators have been complicit with an educational system that has responded to the minority experience with either active suppression or chronic apathy," she said."NCSS can lead in defining a new vision for social studies in American schooling."
Heafner wasn't finished talking about the mission to transform social studies teaching—and the country."The reluctance to acknowledge our racialized identities, to confront injustice and to dismantle racism in social studies, suggests neutrality," she added."Yet there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. One either endorses the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist or racial equality as an antiracist.
What Heafner was saying to social studies teachers was simple: ignore the taxpaying parents in the community who disagree with our political agenda. Ignore their censure and judgment and ill-informed opinions and remember that, thanks to tenure, we teachers are accountable to no one but ourselves. We know what's best for their children and our country. After all, we're the experts on civics.
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