Posted on 07/05/2021 5:06:08 PM PDT by blam
Several King County, Washington, activist teachers revealed to Crosscut how they inject race and “equity” lessons into their elementary classrooms.
Kent teacher Joanne Barber took advantage of violent Black Lives Matter protests last year “to teach more about race” in her second grade class.
“I am willing to be that teacher that has those hard conversations,” she said. “I would be doing a huge disservice to my students if I didn’t give them information that they could see themselves in.”
She told Crosscut learning that “racial history” is “just as important as reading or math.”
Barber teaches children 7- and 8-year-olds that slavery “led to institutional racism and implicit bias.” She also “weaves race and equity into every subject” and “every day in her class is filled with race education.”
Patricia Shelton, a curriculum developer in the Bellevue School District, told Crosscut, “In Bellevue, we have been working very hard in grades 5, 8 and 11 to de-center the traditional ‘white’ perspective and to center the voices of people of color.”
Shelton’s colleague, equity specialist Shomari Jones, said he successfully removed works such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird because they contained the N-word.
“There were so many instances of students feeling further oppressed by being in a classroom space where these books were being read aloud,” he said. “[These] have continued the racial trauma and racial stamina necessary for a negatively impacted student to endure when attending school.”
Activist teachers and administrators have begun meeting resistance from parents who argue such “equity” education is leftist indoctrination.
Ground zero for that fight has been Loudoun County, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC. Angry parents attended a recent school board meeting to demand answers, only to have board members flee and order police to remove attendees.
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THESE days? nah this shhhhht started in the early 60s
There’s a whole lot of “pay-back” involved in this movement as well. The media and Academy are strongly invested in stirring up racial resentments, ripping off scabs repeatedly when old wounds start to heal. I’m old enough to remember real Jim Crow times and the progress we’ve made toward a genuine color-blind society is stunning. But the Commies’ long-term strategy is “divide and conquer,” as it always has been.
We were getting back to racial progress under President Trump regardless of what the media was saying.
Did you see this article today on American Thinker? Others are thinking the same thing:
Is It a Conspiracy Theory to Say All This Racial Discord Is Intentional?, by Civis Americanus, American Thinker, July 5, 2021
As long as government runs education, the left will prevail. Privatize ed at all levels, and parents need to be vigilant as to what their children are being taught, even in private schools.
This is just vile and hateful. Little children are innocent and too immature to understand. They are taught this garbage by hateful adults. If they were left alone, the kids would get along fine.
Divide the united. They've done an excellent job, and now these Communist want to openly teach the kids, "White people bad" in public schools. They don't even try to hide it anymore. Full frontal assault.
Excellent article — thanks for the link. I agree with it but in addition to our foreign enemies I think home-grown Commies are the ones actively shaking the jar. I’ve done a lot of research on American Communists over the years and recognize their longstanding methodology. They’ve done their long march through the institutions, especially media and the Academy, and they’re no longer even trying to deny their agenda. I saw this day coming back in the 60s when teachers finally achieved their goal of unionizing. It was just a matter of time. The Commies have also done a thorough job of starting to deconstruct American culture with feminism, queer studies, post-colonial nonsense and anti-nationalism, as you point out.
You’re much nicer than I am.
What the heck is that? Looks like a snack you’d buy at the circus. I could be wrong though, it might also just be common trash.
Jesus still loves it though.
Racial History is just as important as Math???
Make sue you bring that up the next time a bridge collapses....
their salaries are paid with your tax dollars stop paying
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