Posted on 11/05/2021 6:19:36 PM PDT by jazusamo
School CRT Program Targets Babies?
Judicial Watch Tells Court FBI May Have Violated Law in 1/6 Probes
School CRT Program Targets Babies?
If you want a close look at the madness of critical race theory, look at what’s going on in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Maryland’s largest school system. Little of this is connected to reality, and it’s no wonder parents everywhere are objecting.
We received two sets of records related to the teaching of critical race theory, including a training course with information about a book titled “Antiracist Baby” that introduces the youngest readers to “the concept and power of antiracism,” and says it’s the “perfect gift” for “ages baby to age 3.”
The documents also include information from a course titled, “Digital Literacy 3” at Thomas Pyle Middle School. The course’s curriculum includes activities where the children discuss the identification of their gender, religion, and sexual orientation. The course also includes the children using “propaganda” to lead social justice movements.
We received the documents in response to our Maryland Public Information Act request for:
All records related to the development and implementation of a “Psychoeducational Lesson” related to a purported “dual pandemic” of Covid- 19/systemic racism in use by the Montgomery County Public Schools. Such records shall include, but not be limited to, email communications between MCPS officials responsible for formulating and implementing the lesson, including but not limited to those communications of Dr. Cheree Price, in addition to all other policy documents regarding its development.
In a September 29, 2020, email from MCPS intern Benjamin Mourad in the “Student Well Being and Achievement” office of the Office of Student Support & Engagement, to Elizabeth Rathbone, Coordinator of Student Health and Wellness, Mourad provides a list of trainings offered in the summer of 2020 to MCPS staff. This training includes:
In an August 26, 2020, email titled “COVID-19 Update” to MCPS principals, MCPS Associate Superintendent for the Office of Shared Accountability Janet S. Wilson advises the principals that “ Non-custodial parents” who request Zoom login information [for access to school and potential Zoom events, like Back-to School Night] should not be granted connection information:
Additionally, parents should not login to Zoom classrooms and observe class when the child is not with them. If teachers note a parent logging in separately from their student, they should notify their principal who can seek support from OGC (Office of General Counsel) or Compliance as needed.
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To support students at the start of the year, all schools will be required to implement a student psychoeducational lesson during one of the school’s mandatory Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) block before September 18, 2020. This lesson will provide students crisis facts about the dual pandemic (COVID-19 and systemic racism) that is occurring around the country and here in Montgomery County.
Wilson then presents the principals with a “ website for staff, students and families that highlights ongoing professional learning opportunities for the virtual opening of schools. For staff training opportunities are focused around these key areas:
She further notes: “The professional learning opportunities are grounded in equity and social-emotional learning to ensure that equitable environments are established in the virtual and traditional learning spaces. Professional learning opportunities will be updated throughout the year, so please check back frequently.”
In an instructional video for teachers on “Teacher Tips for SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) on Covid19/Social Justice ,” in which the presenter first instructs teachers how to set up Zoom classes for students and how to adjust a feature in the Zoom chat setting to “alleviate the possibility of students saving and sharing the chat for later.” At the 6:30 mark, the presenter, in a slide titled “Covid-19 and social justice surrounding racism,” directs teachers to use a “scripted response”:
We are currently living through a dual pandemic with COVID-19 and the Systemic and Structural racism occurring worldwide. A pandemic is an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population. As you can see from this slide [featuring a Black Lives Matter protest poster], both are affecting lives of people in our community and around the world. Part of what we will discuss today will surround facts about COVID-19 and the Social Justice Movement in our country.
In an October 8, 2020, email to MCPS principals and others about “psychoeducational lessons and curriculum updates,” Wilson reveals that there is a “Social Justice Book club for Grades 4-8.”
In a September 11, 2020, email titled, “Psychoeducational Lesson Drop In support,” MCPS Director of Psychological Services, Dr. Christina Conolly tells MCPS faculty:
We have had a lot of staff members who have questions about the implementation of the social justice slides on the lesson. Please be available to coach and/or co-teach with a staff member that may not be at a place on their anti-racism journey to effectively teach that section of the lesson.
A PowerPoint presentation titled “ Family Guidance to the Psychoeducational Lesson ,” includes the following slides for parents:
In a PowerPoint presentation titled the “ 3rd through 5th Grade Psychoeducational Lesson ” a slide labeled “COVID-19 and Social Justice” includes the claim that, “People in African American and Latinx communities have been more likely to get sick from COVID-19 because of how racism and unfairness impacts their lives.” [Emphasis in original]
In a presentation titled “ High School Psychoeducational Lesson ,” a link is provided to the “ Educator and Caregiver Learning Guide from Disrupt Texts ” for the book titled “Antiracist Baby.” In the book the authors note, “To White caregivers … Racism is a problem that was invented by White people, and it is the work of White people to dismantle it.” The authors add that it is the responsibility of White caregivers to “study Whiteness,” and advise that, “Indigenous, Black and People of Color are not ‘minorities’ but ‘People of the Global Majority’ (PGM).”
In a September 15, 2020, email exchange with the subject line “Message about SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) and Psychoeducational lesson,” Wilson and other officials discuss parents wanting their children to opt-out of Black Lives Matter lessons.
Wilson writes: “I want to put on your radar that this [opting out] may be related to the anti-racist curriculum initiatives.”
MCPS Area Associate Superintendent Cheryl Dyson , replies: “Agree, Janet and Diane. I’ve heard directly from principals and directors. Some principals have parents who want their child to opt-out from the Black Lives Matter lesson.”
Area Assoc. Superintendent Diane Morris then responds: “Yes, I think so.”
The next reply, from MCPS Chief of Engagement, Innovation, and Operations Derek Turner, is entirely redacted, as is a “high importance” reply by MCPS Admin. Services Manager Felicia Yorro.
The new records include a draft activity assignment titled “ Personal Identity Character Sketch ” in which students were told to “focus on the intersectionality of your culture and another way that you identify yourself (your race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, class or another identity factor not listed here).” The assignment was adapted from the book “ Courageous Conversations .”
A slide titled, “Five Approaches to Social Justice Activism” includes the section “ Food, Festivals & Fun :”
Activism at this stage is based on cultural events and “celebrating diversity,” usually through cross-cultural programs and activities. Events tend to focus on surface-level cultural awareness, and often actually contribute to the stereotypes they are meant to challenge. People at the Food, Folks, and Fun stage might host an International Fair, a Multicultural Night, or a Diversity Fashion Show. Although these events have the potential to bring people together across difference, they do not have the potential to address injustices such as racism, sexism, classism, or homophobia.
The handout further notes that, “charitable giving” to such organizations as Amnesty International is a route people often choose “that will ease their own conscience, but don’t want to associate in any deeper way with a particular cause.” The handout also discusses volunteerism and is critical of “savior syndrome,” which it defines as when, “wealthy kids are sent into poor neighborhoods to do service-learning, but never discuss how their relative wealth is connected with the relative poverty of the people inhabiting those neighborhoods.” [Emphasis in original]
A draft presentation created by Montgomery County Public Schools Secondary Literacy Instruction is titled “Digital Literacy 3, Quarter 2: When Justice Isn’t Served ” and features a “No Justice No Peace” logo, and features the following slides:
The “Digital Literacy 3, Quarter 1” presentation features several “ Graphic Organizers :”
A presentation titled “ Social Justice Movement: Making a Difference ” includes:
A presentation titled: “ Researching Important Leaders and Organizations ” includes:
This material details how extremist race politics and CRT are being used to target children for political ends. Politics should immediately be removed from the curriculum of Montgomery County Schools. These CRT-laden teachings have no place in any American classroom.
Judicial Watch Tells Court FBI May Have Violated Law in 1/6 Probes
The FBI and Justice Department are playing games with the truth regarding their actions on January 6, in particular their collecting personal, private information about American citizens.
In the latest move, we filed a response to Justice’s effort to block our request for records of communication between the FBI and several financial institutions about the reported transfer of financial transaction records of people in DC, Maryland and Virginia on January 5 and January 6, 2021.
This comes in our lawsuit against the FBI ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:21-cv-01216)) for:
All records of communication between the FBI and any financial institution, including but not limited to Bank of America, Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Discover, and/or American Express, in which the FBI sought transaction data for those financial institutions’ debit and credit card account holders who made purchases in Washington, DC, Maryland and/or Virginia on January 5, 2021 and/or January 6, 2021.
In its motion for summary judgment, the Justice Department, despite previously admitting to the existence of these records, refused to “confirm or deny the existence of records” about this surveillance of American citizens.
We argue in response that the Justice Department should not be allowed to shield “improper activity:”
In this case, the FBI appears to have conducted an improper, broad sweep of financial records, not just those of persons it had reason to believe were involved in the events of January 6, but many more Americans. Detailed media reports not only indicate that the FBI sought financial records, but also set forth in detail the specific criteria and scope of the records obtained.
Bank of America reportedly “actively but secretly engaged in the hunt for extremists in cooperation with the government” and, following the events of January 6, gave the FBI financial records of their customers who fit the following profile:
Our suit shows how the FBI is corruptly trying to hide that it used the January 6 incident as an excuse to conduct unlawful surveillance of the American people’s bank transactions.
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You have to Home School. The Hitler program for your children are not healthy for their mind. The CRT is the same method used in Germany to brain wash all the youth. Also the treatment of perfectly innocence people who went to D.C. to share a short time to hear President’s Speech and to show him that we stand behind him is a perfect match to the Nazis. I can see Gulogs going up already. Scary times. Parents must protect their babies.
Pat-a-cake from an intersectional perspective reinforces the partiarchy, promotes racist stereotypes, and suppresses genderqueer identity in favor of cis oppression.
So how did I do? I’ve been trying to learn to speak pure Woke gibberish.
Sitting here chuckling!
He wasn't able to read by the Seventh Grade and we were concerned. Several attempts over the years had gone by so we had a meeting at the school with some of his teachers present.
They said they had done all they could for him and we asked he be held back a year to help him one more time. The answer shocked us:
We have a "No fail" policy and cannot do that. So I asked if he couldn't read in the 8th grade could he be held back? The answer was the same "No Fail" policy. I kept going till the answer was the same for the twelfth grade ad I asked if he would be able to graduate with being able to read and got the same answer
We took him out of the Monkey County school and my wife quit nursing at an ER to teach him how to read at home. She used Phonics and after one year he was able to read at his grade level (tested).
Oh and Monkey County said he would never go to college. He went to Valley Forge Military college and graduated as a fine young cadet in an Air Force outfit. He did join the Airforce and after that became a police officer and SWAT Team member in Marietta.
We are glad we Homeschooled to this day and are glad we escaped Montgomery County.
He wasn't able to read by the Seventh Grade and we were concerned. Several attempts over the years had gone by so we had a meeting at the school with some of his teachers present.
They said they had done all they could for him and we asked he be held back a year to help him one more time. The answer shocked us:
We have a "No fail" policy and cannot do that. So I asked if he couldn't read in the 8th grade could he be held back? The answer was the same "No Fail" policy. I kept going till the answer was the same for the twelfth grade ad I asked if he would be able to graduate with being able to read and got the same answer
We took him out of the Monkey County school and my wife quit nursing at an ER to teach him how to read at home. She used Phonics and after one year he was able to read at his grade level (tested).
Oh and Monkey County said he would never go to college. He went to Valley Forge Military college and graduated as a fine young cadet in an Air Force outfit. He did join the Airforce and after that became a police officer and SWAT Team member in Marietta.
We are glad we Homeschooled to this day and are glad we escaped Montgomery County.
I love to hear good HS success stories like that.
I love to hear good HS success stories like that.
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