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What Is Your Child Really Learning in Middle School?
American Thinker ^ | 07/15/2015 | Eileen F. Toplansky

Posted on 07/15/2015 7:37:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Recently, ION Television cited Oman Frame in their "Everyday Heroes" segment for his work on race, gender, and class.  Those last three words caught my attention, since white privilege is a constant meme in the academic world. 

Frame teaches 7th and 8th grade in southwest Atlanta.  He is a charismatic man who bonds easily with students of either race.  Martha Caldwell also works with Oman Frame.  She wrote "Inquiry into identity: Teaching critical thinking through a study of race, class, and gender."  Comments about their workshops for middle school students include this from a parent:

To say that these two dynamic teachers caused the scales to fall from the eyes of our white children of privilege would be an understatement. Both our children became increasingly aware of the vastly different lives others live, and the hugely uneven playing field that results when society bases its treatment of people on distinctions like household income, skin color, gender, or sexual orientation. Their concern continues to propel them to act in ways that reject the dehumanizing biases of the status quo. I fully expect this to continue for the rest of their lives.

A student responded by writing:

Race, Class and Gender was an amazing class for me. It helped me in so many ways, from seeing the oppression I face to the oppression others face to helping me grow stronger emotionally. It's given me a sense of identity and pride in myself, where I came from and the progress I've made. Now I see the world so differently.

Frame and Caldwell believe in dynamic dialogues.  


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: education; middleschool; publicschool

1 posted on 07/15/2015 7:37:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Your children are learning liberalism in middle school. That’s the short answer to the question. All this talk of race awareness, gender awareness, issues of white privilege, etc are all ways of teaching everything from a liberal perspective.


2 posted on 07/15/2015 7:42:57 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SeekAndFind

Everything is the white man’s fault.


3 posted on 07/15/2015 7:43:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

the most important lesson will be to watch their backs


4 posted on 07/15/2015 7:45:11 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Sex, drugs and rock & roll rap.
5 posted on 07/15/2015 7:59:15 AM PDT by moovova
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To: SeekAndFind

What is it about me being white that forces black men to be baby daddies and not husband’s and fathers?


6 posted on 07/15/2015 8:04:17 AM PDT by tbpiper
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RE: Sex, drugs and rock & roll rap.

You mean, they don't teach this anymore?


7 posted on 07/15/2015 8:09:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: tbpiper

Typical of the public school propaganda: put your children
in a private school or home school.


8 posted on 07/15/2015 8:13:00 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: SeekAndFind

Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!!


9 posted on 07/15/2015 8:42:42 AM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: SeekAndFind

10 posted on 07/15/2015 8:49:20 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: SeekAndFind
Children in the middle elementary years (grades 4-6) in the sweet spot of education, where the children's minds are like dry sponges, your children are learning how to think amorally.

That is without morals.

Ever wonder how a young man can go into a school or a movie theater and shoot up people and have absolutely no remorse for his action - ever wonder why and how that happens?

They have learned specific critical thinking skills which "allow" the kids to switch off any semblance of a conscience. These type of classes have been developed by the likes of Bill Ayers.

Ya take a kid who has a disturbed childhood and drug use to the mix and you got yourself a killer trained like a manchurian set to kill at some point in the future.

That is what our public school critical thinking classes are doing for us.

When someone acts in a manner in which their conscience is not in proper gear, they are said to be acting as psychopaths.

11 posted on 07/15/2015 9:02:40 AM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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To: SeekAndFind

I see 3 ‘students’ in that picture giving the sign of the devil. Evil personified. I thank God I never had a child. Unless a parent spends all their effort deprogramming their children when they get home, there is no hope for them. Even if they put forth the effort to do so, there are so many other avenues the filth travels you would have to raise the child in a bubble - and then the police would jail you for ‘child abuse’ for not allowing your child to be abused. Life has become absurd. Come quickly Lord Jesus.

Also, how many even see the devil sign being displayed in that picture??? Raise you hand if you do, please.


12 posted on 07/15/2015 9:15:31 AM PDT by Tomato lover (Jesus wants to give you forgivness, repent, accept Him as the risen Lord and be saved)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just training young minds to get them ready for the Revolution.

Most of them will be killed by rational people when it happens.


13 posted on 07/15/2015 9:19:04 AM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Daffynition
You failed to mention THE most vital subject area: MARXISM and OBEDIENCE TO YOUR RULERS!
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14 posted on 07/15/2015 11:28:48 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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