Posted on 09/17/2020 8:16:12 AM PDT by Betty Jane
My friend who works at Charter School that has fallen under the spell of a Woke Principal has been given a mandatory reading list. They must choose one. I'm looking for suggestions to offer to counter the woke list.
Here's the List:
Raising White Kids
Blind Spot
Culturally Responsive Education in the Classroom
Stamped- Racism, Antiracism and you
White Fragility
Gone With The Wind
LOL. I don’t think that will go over well.
THE WOKE SUPREMACY: An Anti-Socialist Manifesto by Evan Sayet
Red Tails
It might not be specifically "anti-woke", but it is good for any case of totalitarianism and government mandated self-delusion.
https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Record-Straight-American-History/dp/1932225277
Thanks. Keep them coming. I don’t know if they will be open to these suggestions but mu friend is livid. It so disappointing to see this happening there. Forcing staff to read propaganda is evil. My daughter went there as alternative to the regular liberal indoctrination. That was 15 years ago. They worm their way into everything and destroy them.
Animal Farm
Harrison Bergeron
1984
for older kids:
Atlas Shrugged
Tell your friends to remove their children. This is the garbage you can see. There is so much more. It is a lost cause.
I know it’s lost and it makes me so sad. The reason I chose that school for my now grown daughter was because they taught kids to read, write and do math with no agenda. Most of the parents were conservative and left the regular public schools. There were a couple of liberal teachers, but most were not. They sent their own children there. Now the good ones are mostly retired and the staff is liberal. And being forced to read this BS.
1984 by George Orwell. He disects virtually every aspect of ‘wokeness’ with a book that predicted a future woke dystopian society that we may be going to
Heather McDonald’s book War on Cops refutes aall the BLM claims with facts.
“Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand.
My Grandfather’s Son-Clarence Thomas
Anything by Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams.
The Black Book of Communism.
The Gulag Archipelago
The Devil and Karl Marx
Free to Choose
The Screwtape Letters
Cicero's The Republic / The Laws
The Declaration of Independence
P. J. O'Rourke, "A Parliament of Whores" and/or "All the Trouble In The World"
The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell.
Thank you all for your suggestions. I have relayed them. We’ll see what happens.
1985
The Gulag Archipelago
Productive Christians In An Age of Guilt Manipulators
More Guns, Less Crime
Diary of Ann Frank
I, Pencil
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