Posted on 07/13/2022 4:53:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Montgomery County to teach Southern Poverty Law Center-inspired ‘social justice’ curriculum
Maryland’s largest school district next school year will teach elementary schoolers how to combat "privilege" and "systemic racism," even as about half of its students lack proficiency in math and language arts.
The Montgomery County Board of Education amended its fourth and fifth grade social studies curriculum to include "Social Justice Standards" for "antiracist" education, according to a July 5 announcement. The revised standards, which were developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, lay out scenarios for students to exercise "antibias," such as responding to a classmate with two mothers or a boy playing with dolls. Students also learn about their "identity" in the context of the "dominant culture" and "recognize unfairness on the individual level (e.g., biased speech) and injustice at the institutional or systemic level (e.g., discrimination)."
The curriculum, which will take effect in 2023-2024 school year, comes as Montgomery County’s most recent report card reveals elementary school students did not meet district-mandated academic achievement goals. Report cards also have not been published since the pandemic.
A mother of a rising fifth grader at Montgomery County Public Schools told the Washington Free Beacon the standards are reminiscent of her upbringing in Poland before the fall of the Soviet Union. She said she doesn't want her children to carry the heavy burden of indoctrination that she had to bear growing up in a communist nation.
"It's robbing children of their childhood," she said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing her job. "I am not against social justice at all. I am not against equality, but I feel like this has to be an organic conversation between a parent and a child. … Adults are pushing their agenda on children. I just don't think this is the right thing to do. It's so disheartening and upsetting."
Democrats and left-wing school officials across the country have advocated for education initiatives to forthrightly teach children about systemic racism. Last week, Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes called the founding of the United States "awful" and said the country must take steps to "repair the harm" through education, the Free Beacon reported. Public school officials in Virginia in 2021 forced teachers to update curricula with lessons on identity and privilege to dismantle "white supremacy" and "systemic racism." One third grade teacher in California asked students last year to identify themselves as "privileged" or "oppressed."
Harold Maldonado, the father of a rising fourth grader at MCPS, told the Free Beacon he is "concerned and appalled" at what his child will be taught and is considering homeschooling.
"We as parents need to wake up and see the writing on the wall because our kids are being taught inappropriate things," Maldonado said. "I want my kid to learn about math and history, and for her to improve her reading, and this is not what education is about."
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a wealthy liberal advocacy group, began its effort to remake America's classrooms in 1991, encouraging "tolerance" education while promoting the work of domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, who founded the Weather Underground, a left-wing, militant group responsible for multiple bombings in the 1970s. In 2018, the SPLC published a report titled "Teaching Hard History: American Slavery," which suggested educators had not given sufficient attention in curricula to the issue of slavery in the nation's history. As part of a network of other left-wing groups, the SPLC has developed the standards now known to push critical race theory in schools.
MCPS is in the process of developing similar curricula for kindergarten through third grade to institute by 2026. Its curriculum office did not respond to a request for comment.
standards developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a wealthy liberal advocacy group, began its effort to remake America’s classrooms in 1991, encouraging “tolerance” education while promoting the work of domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, who founded the Weather Underground, a left-wing, militant group responsible for multiple bombings in the 1970s. In 2018, the SPLC published a report titled “Teaching Hard History: American Slavery,” which suggested educators had not given sufficient attention in curricula to the issue of slavery in the nation’s history. As part of a network of other left-wing groups, the SPLC has developed the standards now known to push critical race theory in schools.
Maryland residents, unlike Virginia, don’t have the character to stop commies from teaching hate to their children.
What is misdescribed as learning is in fact political indoctrintion
What on earth is an "organic" conversation?
Maryland is a leftwing former American state.
No pesticides?
This all started with Obama. In the eight years he was in office, he placed millions of social justice killer bee’s in ALL the federal agencies. These federal agencies have power over state agencies through the department of education (i.e. Department of Indoctrination). The USA is now paying the price for 8 years of an American hating Muslim homosexual president. The collapse is coming soon.
It’s about time we finally had this one way warped conversation at tax payer expense.
We certainly do not want to teach our children how to read or write..or do mathematics..or history..or the US Constitution.
Better we have boys in the girls showers..
Exactly- its as much the parents fault as anyone else
No pesticides? - Could be... and maybe have the conversation at Whole Foods Market. /s
YOU CAN NOT legislate “EQUALITY”.
Either you are DIVERSE and different or we all are Cookies.
EFFORT-—EDUCATION-—DESIRE to ACHIEVE-—are what make successful persons.
THERE is NO MAGIC WAND full of words.
I doubt it. If they really teach "systemic racism" they'll have to teach that Affirmative Action legally discriminates against whites and Asians.
You’re absolutely correct. We moved to this &$(%hole 12 years ago. We quickly discovered that nearly everyone is inoculated against freedom and liberty. The government is so endemic that the people truly believe that they need their oversight.
We homeschooled our kids. Among our friends, we were the only ones who didn’t have our children in a homeschool co-op program.
Homeschoolers have to either join an umbrella group or submit to state government school inspection of their work. We found an umbrella school that was very low key.
Some woman on a chat room said that she appreciated having to undergo an electoral rectal exam (my words) from professional educators. How utterly delusional. Apparently she forgot why she was homeschooling, to keep her children out of the indoctrination centers.
organic conversation: "Having a conversation with another person must feel natural, or what is called an organic conversation. An organic conversation flows naturally and allows each participant to add to the conversation without worrying about what they are going to say next. Your next response is totally based off of what the other person says, although you must keep the purpose of the conversation in mind. Never assume that you what the other person is going to say; this will cause you to miss important information that can help illuminate the other person's needs. You must take a genuine interest in the information they are sharing or they will not understand you and become suspicious of you and your questions. The idea is to direct the conversation without being over-bearing. If the participant senses you are being controlling then they may become uncomfortable and opt out of the conversation all together. "
It's a way to control and manipulate a conversation to achieve an objective. In this context, to achieve a "social justice" objective.
And we’ll see a new wave of blak chillins kicking and cursing at police officers. Ain’t America grand?
So where’s that fat-ass REPUBLICAN Governor when he’s needed to stop this vulgar criminal behavior? CRICKETS!!!
Ping!
That’s why I’m brushing up on my Polish.
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