Petra Lange, who teaches English at West Des Moines’ Valley High School, boasted on a Zoom call this week about what she sees as a “clever workaround” to the state’s new law.
She explains at length what concepts are illegal to teach at great length, then encourages her students to ask as many questions about the subjects as possible.
Lange feels that she can educate her students about CRT without actually “teaching” it with this strategy.
“I literally put the law in front of them, gave them access with a link, and I said I need to just let you know there are now concepts that it is illegal for me to teach you about according to the state of Iowa,” she said.
“So I went through those ten defined concepts with them, um, so that they could see what the law was – and they immediately, by the time I think we were on the second or third one, they’re like ‘but is it legal for me to ask questions?’” Lange added.
“I was like ‘this is only for me, you can ask as many questions as you like;’ and then I took him to the part of the law that said this law doesn’t prohibit me from answering questions,” Lange continued as she laughed. “I said, ‘so if there is any question that you have about these defined concepts, you can ask them, and then I can answer them.”
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