Lincoln High School in Seattle teachings on white supremacy leads to controversy. (School photo courtesy of the school district website; quiz images provided by a parent in the school district)
Posted on 02/16/2024 10:52:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy. The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.”
Lincoln High School in Seattle teachings on white supremacy leads to controversy. (School photo courtesy of the school district website; quiz images provided by a parent in the school district)
As part of the Black Lives Matter at School Week, World Literature and Composition students at Lincoln High School were given a handout with definitions of the “9 characteristics of white supremacy,” according to the father of a student. Given the subject matter of the class, the father found it odd this particular lesson was brought up.
The Seattle high schoolers were told that “Worship of the Written Word” is white supremacy because it is “an erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other.” By this definition, the very subject of World Literature and Composition is racist. It also chides the idea that we hyper-value written communication because it’s a form of “honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard, full of misinformation and lies.” The worksheet does not provide any context for what it actually means.
“I feel bad for any students who actually internalize stuff like this as it is setting them up for failure,” the father explained to the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.
The father asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution against his child by Seattle Public Schools. He said the other pieces of the worksheet were equally disturbing.
The worksheet labels “objectivity,” “individualism,” and “perfectionism” as white supremacy. If students deny their own racism — or that any of the nine characteristics are legitimately racist — is also white supremacy. Denialism or being overly defensive is a racist example of an “entitlement to name what is an [sic] isn’t racism and that those with power have a right to be shielded from the stresses of antiracist work.”
The father argues the concepts are “incoherent and cannot stand any sort of reasoned analysis.” And he notes that it’s set up to ensure students accept every concept without ever questioning the claims.
“How is a 15-year-old kid supposed to object in class when ‘denial and defensiveness’ is itself a characteristic of white supremacy? This is truly educational malpractice.”
Another aspect of the white supremacy lesson at this Seattle school involved a video titled “Getting Called Out: How to Apologize” by Franchesca Ramsey. It’s reportedly presented in the context of white students expressing what the teacher views as “white supremacy.”
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It is worse than educational malpractice - it is child abuse.
actually it is pure unadultered racism to say that blacks cant or shouldn’t learn to read or write.
All the old KKK Democrats are really starting to show their true colors recently, between things like this and the new kill all the jews rhetoric
Exactly.
Heads I win…Tails you lose!
creating the basis for a race war, just one more of the tenants of a deliberate Marxist radical democratic plan for a societal breakdown into chaos
Just today’s example that Democrats are still the party of racism. They don’t try to hide it anymore. They proudly propose it. Keep em on the plantation where they belong.
I swear, it seems like everything and everyone is racist these days. It’ll never be enough with these commie malcontents.
I think it’s racist to keep coming up with accusations of racism over the most idiotic things that can be conjured up as ‘racist’!
“They” keep telling us we are SUPREME. We should accept the compliment, say “thanks” and move on.
You would be crazy to be still living in Seattle and having your kid in a public school there.
Black kids have been vilified for being excellent students.
Barack Obama, quoted in “Acting White” By Roland G. Flyer in Education Next, Winter 2006
“Go into any inner-city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that
government alone can’t teach kids to learn.
They know that parents have to parent, that children can’t achieve unless
we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the
slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.”
—Barack Obama, Keynote Address, Democratic National Convention, 2004
Item 6: Paternalism and Power hoarding.
A perfect description of Democrats.
So all engineers are racist!!!!!
A non-literate culture.
What could go wrong.
And yet the propaganda and test materials are WRITTEN!
Don’t you love THAT (you supremecist).
Who would allow their children to be taught this BS?
If this is any indication of what the opposite of white supremacy means, I’m starting to think white supremacy might not be such a bad idea.
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