How Modern Education Breeds Good Little Marxists

[Anonymous]

High School Teacher: Children Are Taught That Socialism Is Good



Lisa Hunter, a high school history teacher, attended rallies in Washington D.C. on Saturday and told NTD that children at school are taught that America is bad and socialism is good.



"I know that's happening anymore in today's textbooks. In fact, they're teaching how America was bad in our history, which is sad because it's not. It's been a very good country," Hunter said. "Why does everybody want to come here? Everybody wants to come to America because they want freedom."



"That freedom is being lost right now," Hunter stressed.



"It is scary to think of what our children are being taught in the textbooks, that they are being taught that America has done bad things, and we need to change and that socialism is good."



Hunter said she's depressed that children in school and universities are being taught this way. She thought people should "standing up for the truth."



"It might be a long process, but doesn't matter who we're talking to," Hunter continued. "Just keep telling the truth."



"I'm here mainly to support my country to support free elections, which I think are not happening," Hunter added. "And that's why all these people are here."

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[Anonymous]

This won't last. Jim Crow Joe and the slut Veep need youth hating America, and hating whitey.



Trump Nominates Charlie Kirk, Several Others To New Commission That Counters 1619 Project

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President Donald Trump announced 18 individuals who he intends to appoint Friday as two-year members of the President's Advisory 1776 Commission.



Trump first announced the initiative in September and slammed The New York Times' "1619 Project," which pushes slavery to the center of America's founding. The 1776 Commission "will work to improve understanding of the history and the principles of the founding of the United States among our Nation's rising generations," according to a previous press release.



The president previously called the "1619 Project" a "crusade against American history." It has been implemented in schools across the country and criticized by some historians. The president also accused the project of being "toxic propaganda, ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together" and "destroy our country."



While the executive order Trump signed in early November doesn't directly name the NYT's project, it includes similar language that the president has previously used in denouncing the initiative.



"Despite the virtues and accomplishments of this Nation, many students are now taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but rather villains," according to the executive order. "This radicalized view of American history lacks perspective, obscures virtues, twists motives, ignores or distorts facts, and magnifies flaws, resulting in the truth being concealed and history disfigured."

[Anonymous]

There's mind warping child abuse in public schools in North America's public schools.

[Anonymous]

This is from an exclusive private school that brainwashes the brats of rich liberals to be intolerant elitist hypocrites.



Elite NYC Prep School's Faculty Issues Racist Demands



Do you live in New York City?



If not, congratulations. You may have been spared preposterous virtue-signaling Petri dishes like The Dalton School, an "elite" school on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where for a mere $54,000 per annum, young Stephanie or Dylan can spend their days on Zoom because the school, unlike almost every other New York private school, refuses to open because of lazy teachers claiming to be terrified of our latest Chinese import, the CCP virus.



"Go Forth Unafraid" is Dalton's official motto, but that's obviously a misnomer.



The school is terrified of life and exists solely to cater to the wounded "amour propre" of its self-absorbed faculty and the roughly 1,300 K–12 students whose parents desperately hope that Dalton will be their child's magic ticket to the advanced indoctrination and higher fatuousness of the Ivy League.



It's a pathetic ambition, more so every year as the moral bankruptcy of America's higher educational establishment declares itself in ever more putrid profusion, like the gangrenous suppurations of the Emperor Galerius on his death bed.



Even the things you think might be candid in Dalton's PR turn out to be lies.



Consider, for example, its much-ballyhooed "Commitment to Anti-Racism." (Surgeon General's Warning: have some Dramamine or an air-sickness bag handy.)



This desideratum is plastered all over Dalton's web site.



But a closer look shows that it is really just code for the more insidious racism of the woke and malignant charlatans who view every aspect of life through the distorting prism of race. They believe they declare their election by broadcasting their obsession with race.



In fact, they merely underscore their rejection of Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of a world in which people are judged by the "content of their character" not the color of their skin.



Dalton has always been a faintly preposterous left-wing redoubt for the self-absorbed and overprivileged.



But it has lately, under pressure from the very public exhibitions of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other anti-American racialist thugs, turned the corner from progressive fatuousness to preposterous insanity.



The whole sorry story of Dalton's terminal decline was laid out by the novelist Scott Johnston in a couple of blog posts last week. (By the way, I recommend Johnston's novel "Campusland": it's both funny and true.)



Johnston reports on an eight-page faculty memo, signed by all or nearly all of the faculty and added to by some black students, listing a series of demands that are, as Johnston notes, "breathtaking in their wokeness."



The demands begin with the assertion—de rigueur in any academic communication today, much like PBUH after any mention of Mohammed by devout Muslims—that Dalton is guilty of "systemic racism."



Then come the demands. Here is a précis compiled by Johnston:



"Here is just a sample of the demands:



The hiring of twelve (!) full time diversity officers

An additional full time employee whose "entire role is to support Black students who come forward with complaints."

Hiring of multiple psychologists with "specialization on the psychological issues affecting ethnic minority populations."

Pay off student debt of incoming black faculty. (!!)

Re-route 50 percent of all donations to NYC public schools. (Hello?)

Elimination of AP courses if black students don't score as high as white.

Required courses on "Black liberation."

Reduced tuition for black students whose photographs appear in school promotional materials.

Public "anti-racism" statements required from all employees.

Mandatory "Community and Diversity Days" to be held "throughout the year."

Required anti-bias training to be conducted every year for all staff and parent volunteers.

Mandatory minority representation in (otherwise elective) student leadership roles.

Mandatory diversity plot lines in school plays.

Overhaul of entire curriculum to reflect diversity narratives."

Some of these proposals are illegal, since they require treating students differently solely on the basis of race; nearly all are explicitly racist, for the same reason; and some would be financially ruinous if implemented.



Just for fun, I'd like to be in on the meeting when a Dalton development officer explains to his well-heeled mark, er, I mean his well-heeled prospect that the $5 million he is asking for will be split with New York City Public Schools.



That would be a fun meeting, unless, of course, you weren't counting on getting the money.



The sad irony is (though not so sad as to escape the delectation of schadenfreude) that the pursuit of such "progressive" insanity will doom Dalton.



The Revolution always turns on its own. As Johnston puts it, "When progressive institutions embrace revolutionary ideologies, as Dalton has done, they fail to appreciate that the revolution comes for them first. The scaffolding is being built on East 89th Street."



There is also the pushback. Parents are yanking their children out of the cesspit that is Dalton, donors are closing their checkbooks, and I would be willing to wager that serious colleges will look askance at Dalton's experiment with academic hari-kari.



There's also the court of public opinion. Doubtless, the Eloi-like denizens of Dalton expected to be lauded for their "brave" proclamations of "anti-racism."



Most of the comments on Johnston's columns show that these juvenile antics are being met with some portion of the contempt that they deserve. Typical is this bulletin from "Anonymous":



"Your demands are stupid and you people are stupid. Critical Race Theory is a stupid religion and a scam but I actually hope the school meets all of these ridiculous demands just to watch it implode just like Evergreen hahahahaha. CRT is a gift that destroys everything it touches. Enjoy being racist fanatics while you can because the world is waking up to your bullshit gift. You people are the real racists."

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High School Student Sues Over Leftist 'Indoctrination' in Nevada



A high school senior of mixed race is suing a taxpayer-funded charter school in Nevada over the "coercive, ideological indoctrination" that is central to its Critical Race Theory-based curriculum that forces students to associate aspects of their identity with oppression.



In the lawsuit, Clark v. State Public Charter School Authority, filed Dec. 22 in federal court in Nevada, the young plaintiff William Clark and his mother Gabrielle Clark claim their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were being violated. Students were allegedly told that by refusing to identify with an oppressive group, they were exercising their privilege or underscoring their role as an oppressor.



The lawsuit was filed by the Illinois-based group Schoolhouse Rights, whose website describes its mission as supporting "civil rights litigation in defense of students' freedom of conscience in public education and the rights of parents to guide and direct the upbringing of their children."



The student at Democracy Prep in Las Vegas whose mother is black and deceased father was white, claims there was a hostile classroom environment, and that he felt discriminated against in the mandatory, year-long "Sociology of Change" course required for graduation. There is another required class, "Change the World," in which students carry out a political or social work project.



Because the so-called civics curriculum implemented by new management carried the same name as the previous curriculum, parents like Mrs. Clark "were not aware of the turn towards coercive, ideological indoctrination until they began seeing the detrimental effects it worked upon their children," the legal complaint states.



The new curriculum "inserted consciousness raising and conditioning exercises under the banner of 'Intersectionality' and 'Critical Race Theory.' These sessions ... are not descriptive or informational in nature, but normative and prescriptive: they require pupils to 'unlearn' and 'fight back' against 'oppressive' structures allegedly implicit in their family arrangements, religious beliefs and practices, racial, sexual, and gender identities, all of which they are required to divulge and subject to non-private interrogation."



William was directed "in class to 'unlearn' the basic Judeo-Christian principles [his mother] imparted to him, and then [the school] retaliated against [him]."



"Some racial, sexual, gender and religious identities, once revealed," the complaint states, "are officially singled out in the programming as inherently problematic, and assigned pejorative moral attributes by Defendants."



The school principal told Mrs. Clark "that the theoretical basis of the revamped 'Sociology of Change' course is known as 'intersectionality,' and is inspired by political activist, academic and 'Critical Race Theory' proponent Kimberlé Crenshaw," the complaint states. Crenshaw is a law professor at UCLA and Columbia Law School who is regarded as a leading authority on black feminist legal theory and is said to have coined the term "intersectionality."



William Clark was required for assignments the legal complaint says "to reveal his racial, sexual, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities and religious identities," by his teacher who greeted the students by saying, "Hello my wonderful social justice warriors!" Clark was told the next step would be to determine if parts of his identity "have privilege or oppression attached to it." Privilege was defined as "the inherent belief in the inferiority of the oppressed group."



The legal argument the Clarks make is that William is being compelled "to make professions about his racial, sexual, gender and religious identities in verbal class exercises and in graded, written homework assignments which were subject to the scrutiny, interrogation and derogatory labeling of students, teachers and school administrators." The defendants "are coercing him to accept and affirm politicized and discriminatory principles and statements that he cannot in conscience affirm."



The school repeatedly threatened William "with material harm including a failing grade and non-graduation if he failed to comply with their requirements," the complaint states, and refused to accommodate his requests for reasonable accommodation.

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[Anonymous]

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday warned in an op-ed that "insidious lies" about U.S. history are being taught in American schools, praising the Trump administration's effort to counter such anti-American indoctrination.



DeVos specifically called out the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project, which she described as "a debunked reframing of history."



Spearheaded by New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, the project centers around the idea that the United States is an inherently racist nation built upon slavery. It consists of a collection of essays that argue, among many other controversial claims, that the republic's founding ideals of liberty and equality "were false when they were written," and that the primary reason for the American Revolution was to preserve slavery.



A curriculum based on the project, developed by the Pulitzer Center, has made its way into public school districts across the nation, notably in Buffalo, Chicago, Newark, and Washington. According to the center, some 4,500 classrooms have updated their history curricula to include "the work of Hannah-Jones and her collaborators" since August 2019.



"From the beginning, this historical revisionist campaign was intent on infiltrating America's schools and infecting young American minds," DeVos wrote. "It was easier to do because so few students were learning history or civics as they should."



DeVos also highlighted the lack of reasonable knowledge of U.S. history among high school students, pointing to the latest national assessment report which shows that most eighth-graders don't know what the Lincoln-Douglas debates were about.



She then praised the 1776 Commission, a presidential initiative in response to the 1619 Project, for meeting parents' demand to make the pursuit of freedom, instead of slavery, the center of the national narrative again.

[Anonymous]

They should face discipline up to and including dismissal.



Chicago Schools Chief: Half of Teachers Pressured by Teachers' Union Didn't Show up for Work



Nearly half of the teachers in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) district didn't show up when they were ordered to return for in-person instructions after the winter break, a district official said.



Janice Jackson, the CEO of the public school district serving some 340,000 students, said in a Tuesday press conference that a little more than 60 percent of all school-based staff have returned to classrooms as expected. That accounts for about half of teachers and three-quarters of assistant and support staff.



Jackson said the number of employees who didn't return was "significant, considering the fact that they were pressured" by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), which has been urging teachers and staff to stay out of classrooms since the early days of the CCP virus pandemic.



CPS has informed those who were expected to return but didn't that their absence was not excused, Jackson said, noting that the district has an "absent without leave policy," through which "individuals who are refusing to report to work and who will be considered absent without leave will face progressive discipline."



"We have sent notices to staff who did not return to ensure that our expectations are clear, and we are optimistic that more staff will report to work in the coming days," she said. "If staff choose not to attend and support the students who are relying on them, we will handle those on a school-by-school and case-by-case basis."



Jackson noted that the all-remote learning is failing many students across the city, especially those from black and Latino families.

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Report: California elementary school instructs third-graders to rank themselves based on their 'power and privilege'

Report says third-graders are being taught critical race theory: 'They were basically teaching racism to my 8-year-old'

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A California elementary school is pushing critical race theory on third-grade students, according to a new report. A teacher at an elementary school in Cupertino allegedly instructed third-graders to rank themselves based on their "power and privilege" during a m



A third-grade teacher at the R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School "told the eight- and nine-year-old students that they live in a 'dominant culture' of 'white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian' who 'created and maintained' this culture in order 'to hold power and stay in power,'" according to Christopher F. Rufo, contributing editor of City Journal. The students live in a city where 67% of the population is Asian-American and the median household income is $171,917.





Based on reported whistleblower documents and testimonials from parents "familiar with the session," the teacher read from "This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work," which is rated appropriate for children ages 11+, according to Common Sense Media.





A summary of the book from the Olathe Public Library states:



This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand the role racism plays in separating them from their friends. For the kid who spends years trying to fit into the dominant culture and loses themselves for a little while. It's for all of the Black and Brown children who have been harmed (physically and emotionally) because no one stood up for them or they couldn't stand up for themselves; because the colour of their skin, the texture of their hair, their names made white folx feel scared and threatened. It is written so children and young adults will feel empowered to stand up to the adults who continue to close doors in their faces. This book will give them the language and ability to understand racism and a drive to undo it. In short, it is for everyone.

Rufo wrote in the City Journal, "Students learned that 'those with privilege have power over others' and that 'folx who do not benefit from their social identities, who are in the subordinate culture, have little to no privilege and power.'"



"As an example, the reading states that 'a white, cisgender man, who is able-bodied, heterosexual, considered handsome and speaks English has more privilege than a Black transgender woman," the report stated.



The R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School teacher allegedly pushed the "principle of intersectionality" on the young children and claimed that those who don't hold power are oppressed.



The educator purportedly commanded the students to create an "identity map," where the children listed their "race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics." The teacher then instructed the third-graders to "circle the identities that hold power and privilege" on their identity maps, according to the report. Then the students were allegedly told to rank their "traits according to the hierarchy."



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Rufo said he spoke to some of the parents of children who were being taught critical race theory. A parent who grew up in China compared critical race theory to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.



"[It divides society between] the oppressor and the oppressed, and since these identities are inborn characteristics people cannot change, the only way to change it is via violent revolution," the parent said. "Growing up in China, I had learned it many times. The outcome is the family will be ripped apart; husband hates wife, children hate parents. I think it is already happening here."



"We were shocked," one anonymous parent told Rufo.



"They were basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old," said an Asian-American parent, who reportedly "rallied a group of a half-dozen families to protest the school's intersectionality curriculum."



The parents who were against the "woke" lesson plans reportedly met with the school's administration. "The administration agreed to suspend the program," the report stated. "When reached for comment, Jenn Lashier, the principal of Meyerholz Elementary, said that the training was not part of the 'formal curricula, but the process of daily learning facilitated by a certified teacher.'"

[Anonymous]

Report: California elementary school instructs third-graders to rank themselves based on their 'power and privilege'

Report says third-graders are being taught critical race theory: 'They were basically teaching racism to my 8-year-old'

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A California elementary school is pushing critical race theory on third-grade students, according to a new report. A teacher at an elementary school in Cupertino allegedly instructed third-graders to rank themselves based on their "power and privilege" during a m



A third-grade teacher at the R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School "told the eight- and nine-year-old students that they live in a 'dominant culture' of 'white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian' who 'created and maintained' this culture in order 'to hold power and stay in power,'" according to Christopher F. Rufo, contributing editor of City Journal. The students live in a city where 67% of the population is Asian-American and the median household income is $171,917.





Based on reported whistleblower documents and testimonials from parents "familiar with the session," the teacher read from "This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work," which is rated appropriate for children ages 11+, according to Common Sense Media.





A summary of the book from the Olathe Public Library states:



This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand the role racism plays in separating them from their friends. For the kid who spends years trying to fit into the dominant culture and loses themselves for a little while. It's for all of the Black and Brown children who have been harmed (physically and emotionally) because no one stood up for them or they couldn't stand up for themselves; because the colour of their skin, the texture of their hair, their names made white folx feel scared and threatened. It is written so children and young adults will feel empowered to stand up to the adults who continue to close doors in their faces. This book will give them the language and ability to understand racism and a drive to undo it. In short, it is for everyone.

Rufo wrote in the City Journal, "Students learned that 'those with privilege have power over others' and that 'folx who do not benefit from their social identities, who are in the subordinate culture, have little to no privilege and power.'"



"As an example, the reading states that 'a white, cisgender man, who is able-bodied, heterosexual, considered handsome and speaks English has more privilege than a Black transgender woman," the report stated.



The R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School teacher allegedly pushed the "principle of intersectionality" on the young children and claimed that those who don't hold power are oppressed.



The educator purportedly commanded the students to create an "identity map," where the children listed their "race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics." The teacher then instructed the third-graders to "circle the identities that hold power and privilege" on their identity maps, according to the report. Then the students were allegedly told to rank their "traits according to the hierarchy."



The teacher asked students to create an "identity map," listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structu... https://t">https://t

Rufo said he spoke to some of the parents of children who were being taught critical race theory. A parent who grew up in China compared critical race theory to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.



"[It divides society between] the oppressor and the oppressed, and since these identities are inborn characteristics people cannot change, the only way to change it is via violent revolution," the parent said. "Growing up in China, I had learned it many times. The outcome is the family will be ripped apart; husband hates wife, children hate parents. I think it is already happening here."



"We were shocked," one anonymous parent told Rufo.



"They were basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old," said an Asian-American parent, who reportedly "rallied a group of a half-dozen families to protest the school's intersectionality curriculum."



The parents who were against the "woke" lesson plans reportedly met with the school's administration. "The administration agreed to suspend the program," the report stated. "When reached for comment, Jenn Lashier, the principal of Meyerholz Elementary, said that the training was not part of the 'formal curricula, but the process of daily learning facilitated by a certified teacher.'"

Any so called techer who warp's a child' mind like that should lose their teaching license.

[Anonymous]

Report: California elementary school instructs third-graders to rank themselves based on their 'power and privilege'

Report says third-graders are being taught critical race theory: 'They were basically teaching racism to my 8-year-old'

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A California elementary school is pushing critical race theory on third-grade students, according to a new report. A teacher at an elementary school in Cupertino allegedly instructed third-graders to rank themselves based on their "power and privilege" during a m



A third-grade teacher at the R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School "told the eight- and nine-year-old students that they live in a 'dominant culture' of 'white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian' who 'created and maintained' this culture in order 'to hold power and stay in power,'" according to Christopher F. Rufo, contributing editor of City Journal. The students live in a city where 67% of the population is Asian-American and the median household income is $171,917.





Based on reported whistleblower documents and testimonials from parents "familiar with the session," the teacher read from "This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work," which is rated appropriate for children ages 11+, according to Common Sense Media.





A summary of the book from the Olathe Public Library states:



This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand the role racism plays in separating them from their friends. For the kid who spends years trying to fit into the dominant culture and loses themselves for a little while. It's for all of the Black and Brown children who have been harmed (physically and emotionally) because no one stood up for them or they couldn't stand up for themselves; because the colour of their skin, the texture of their hair, their names made white folx feel scared and threatened. It is written so children and young adults will feel empowered to stand up to the adults who continue to close doors in their faces. This book will give them the language and ability to understand racism and a drive to undo it. In short, it is for everyone.

Rufo wrote in the City Journal, "Students learned that 'those with privilege have power over others' and that 'folx who do not benefit from their social identities, who arPortland.i feubordinate culture, have little to no privilege and power.'"



"As an example, the reading states that 'a white, cisgender man, who is able-bodied, heterosexual, considered handsome and speaks English has more privilege than a Black transgender woman," the report stated.



The R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School teacher allegedly pushed the "principle of intersectionality" on the young children and claimed that those who don't hold power are oppressed.



The educator purportedly commanded the students to create an "identity map," where the children listed their "race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics." The teacher then instructed the third-graders to "circle the identities that hold power and privilege" on their identity maps, according to the report. Then the students were allegedly told to rank their "traits according to the hierarchy."



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Rufo said he spoke to some of the parents of children who were being taught critical race theory. A parent who grew up in China compared critical race theory to the Chinese Cultural Revolution.



"[It divides society between] the oppressor and the oppressed, and since these identities are inborn characteristics people cannot change, the only way to change it is via violent revolution," the parent said. "Growing up in China, I had learned it many times. The outcome is the family will be ripped apart; husband hates wife, children hate parents. I think it is already happening here."



"We were shocked," one anonymous parent told Rufo.



"They were basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old," said an Asian-American parent, who reportedly "rallied a group of a half-dozen families to protest the school's intersectionality curriculum."



The parents who were against the "woke" lesson plans reportedly met with the school's administration. "The administration agreed to suspend the program," the report stated. "When reached for comment, Jenn Lashier, the principal of Meyerholz Elementary, said that the training was not part of the 'formal curricula, but the process of daily learning facilitated by a certified teacher.'"

I feel bad for white American kids from working class families. Their country hates them.

[Anonymous]

Trump's 1776 Commission Calls for National Unity Around America's Founding Values





President Donald Trump's advisory 1776 Commission on Monday released a public report, fulfilling its task to revisit the nation's founding history in an effort to reunite the Americans around its founders' principles.



Americans today are "deeply divided" about the meaning of their country, its history, and how it should be governed, according to the commission, which was created in the final year of Trump's first term, amid an increasingly popular trend of portraying the American story as one that based on racism and oppression.



"Neither America nor any other nation has perfectly lived up to the universal truths of equality, liberty, justice and government by consent," the report reads, following an re-examination of the principles and ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. "But no nation before America ever dared state those truths as the formal basis for its politics, and none has strived harder, or done more, to achieve them."



The authors dedicated a large portion of the report exploring challenges to American's founding principles. Some of these are historical, such as slavery, which is fundamentally incompatible with the idea that "all men are created equal." Others are more contemporary, such as progressivism, which holds that the Constitution should constantly evolve to secure evolving rights; fascist and communist movements seeking a totalitarian government with no respect for individual rights; and modern identity politics in favor of a system of explicit group privilege in the name of "social justice."



"The arguments, tactics, and names of these movements have changed, and the magnitude of the challenge has varied, yet they are all united by adherence to the same falsehood—that people do not have equal worth and equal rights," the report states.



The report warns of the dangers of modern political movements departing from America's founding principles, noting that many of the historical movements were successful because they help up those principles, rather than breaking from them.



"Great reforms—like abolition, women's suffrage, anti-Communism, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Pro-Life Movement—have often come forward that improve our dedication to the principles of the Declaration of Independence under the Constitution," the authors wrote.



The report calls for a "national renewal" of education to teach the future American citizens the founding principles and the character necessary to live out those principles. A patriotic education, according to the authors, doesn't mean ignoring the faults in the nation's past, but rather viewing the history in a clear and wholesome manner, with reverence and love.



American colleges and universities are doing the exact opposite, the report warns, noting that they've become "hotbeds of anti-Americanism, libel, and censorship," with the intention to "manipulate opinions more than educate minds."



The authors specifically called out historian Howard Zinn and the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project for preventing students from seeing the humanity, goodness, and benevolence in America's historical figures. Instead, they present their young readers with a distorted version of American history.



"Historical revisionism that tramples honest scholarship and historical truth, shames Americans by highlighting only the sins of their ancestors, and teaches claims of systemic racism that can only be eliminated by more discrimination, is an ideology intended to manipulate opinions more than educate minds," the report reads.



The renewal of American unity will depend on every American willing to stand up against tyranny in their everyday life, the author said.



"Above all, we must stand up to the petty tyrants in every sphere who demand that we speak only of America's sins while denying her greatness," the report states. "At home, in school, at the workplace, and in the world, it is the people—and only the people—who have the power to stand up for America and defend our way of life."

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[Anonymous]

If you want to get out of work, play the race card.



Chicago teacher says in-person schooling allows white people to kill black families: 'If we do not speak up, nice white parents will get us killed'



A Chicago public school teacher says that in-person schooling amid the COVID-19 pandemic permits "nice white parents" to kill black families.



In an essay published Monday in the Education Post, Chicago public school teacher Mike Friedberg said that the city is catering to white parents' demands in reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic.



The essay, titled, "Are We Going to Let 'Nice White Parents' Kill Black and Brown Families?" explained how Friedberg feels that white people are comfortable sacrificing the lives of black and brown families in order to force a return to a normal way of life.



"A new COVID-19 strain is more contagious than ever," he wrote. "The Trump administration's sheer neglect in the face of this deadly pandemic is enraging. Federal inaction has cost lives, and we are far from getting back to a daily normal life. Schools are no exception to this situation. Given the plans to offer vaccines to teachers over the next several weeks, it does not make sense now to force children and staff back into the building."



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A Chicago public school teacher says that in-person schooling amid the COVID-19 pandemic permits "nice white parents" to kill black families.



POLL: Have you gotten the COVID-19 vaccine yet?

What are the details?

In an essay published Monday in the Education Post, Chicago public school teacher Mike Friedberg said that the city is catering to white parents' demands in reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic.



The essay, titled, "Are We Going to Let 'Nice White Parents' Kill Black and Brown Families?" explained how Friedberg feels that white people are comfortable sacrificing the lives of black and brown families in order to force a return to a normal way of life.



"A new COVID-19 strain is more contagious than ever," he wrote. "The Trump administration's sheer neglect in the face of this deadly pandemic is enraging. Federal inaction has cost lives, and we are far from getting back to a daily normal life. Schools are no exception to this situation. Given the plans to offer vaccines to teachers over the next several weeks, it does not make sense now to force children and staff back into the building."





Friedberg added, "Students, parents, and teachers are fearing for their lives," and pointed out that the city is "catering to the minority of parents" who demand school reopening.



"As the reopening debate gets hotter," he explained, "we are seeing a new breed of 'nice white parents' emerge. The parents who wished to open school buildings are disproportionately white. In meeting after meeting, I have witnessed black and Latinx parents voice concerns."



Recent findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that "students and teachers may be able to safely return to in-person instruction, even in communities with widespread coronavirus infection" so long as safety practices — including masking, social distancing, and proper disinfection protocols — are put in place.



Friedberg argued, however, that many Chicago-area schools are not "adequately equipped to take all the necessary preventative and protective measures."



"Here in Chicago, I have spoken with scores of teachers who do not have adequate HVAC systems in their buildings," he explained. "Some teachers were given air purifiers that only cover 500 square feet, vastly smaller than most classrooms. ... If we open schools in communities with higher positivity rates, especially when those schools are not adequately supplied with protective measures, the risk to staff, students, and families is much higher."



He added, "I do not want to risk my students' lives or my own."



Making an argument for remote learning, Friedberg said that he and his colleagues have been "working harder than ever" in order to deliver students and their families "high-quality instruction."



"Students can still learn remotely and have an engaging, rigorous curriculum," he added. "As an instructor, this is what I'm doing for my students, including focusing on research-based student choice activities. As a parent, that is what I am witnessing for my own children."



Friedberg pointed out that if people kowtow to the demands of white parents, then those voices will be placed above the demands of those from black and brown parents.



"Are we really at a point where not wanting our students to die, and not wanting to die ourselves, is a point of debate?" he asked. "This is completely absurd. We are putting the voices of white parents above black and brown parents, as well as teachers and all school staff, including disproportionately women of color."



He concluded, "As a teacher, I fear for my own life and the lives of my students and their families. I can't teach from the grave, nor can kids learn from there. If we do not speak up, nice white parents will get us killed."

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Fifth graders forced to celebrate 'black communism,' hold mock 'Black Power' rally for Angela Davis, define 'communist' in 'favorable terms'



A Pennsylvania school is under fire after fifth graders were reportedly forced to celebrate black communism and hold a mock "Black Power" rally amid Black History Month celebrations.



What are the details?

Students in one Philadelphia elementary school were allegedly forced to celebrate "black communism" and endure a mock Black Power rally in order to "free" Angela Davis, outspoken radical political activist, from "jail."



Christopher Rufo, a contributing editor at the City Journal, detailed the alleged activities — which he says were outlined by whistleblower documents — and said that he spoke with a school source that corroborated the details.

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6th grade choir teacher separates kids into 'privileged' and 'targeted' groups in lesson on 'oppression'

Parents, be aware

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A middle school choir teacher in Minnesota recently taught a class full of sixth-graders about various "types of oppression" by separating students into "privileged" and "targeted" categories, during what the school called a "social-emotional lesson."



The revelation is just the latest example of educators and administrators force-feeding critical race theory and progressive political ideology to young, impressionable students — often while the social engineering campaign goes completely unnoticed by parents.



What are the details?

Far from receiving musical instruction, students at Sunrise Park Middle School near St. Paul, Minnesota, recently received a heavy dose of intersectional brainwashing from their choir teacher, Odelis Anderson, according to lesson plan documents obtained by TheBlaze.



Then, according to the lesson plan, which the school confirmed as real in an email to TheBlaze, students were asked to view a chart describing different types of oppression as well as "privileged groups" and "targeted groups" and assess which category they belonged in.



The chart listed five types of oppression for the students' consideration: Racism, sexism, religious oppression, heterosexism, and xenophobia.



The "privileged groups" outlined in the chart consisted of individuals who are white, male, Christian, heterosexual, and were born in the United States. The "targeted groups" described individuals who are any ethnicity besides white, who are female, who are Muslim or have any religious affiliation besides Christianity, identify as LGBT, and were not born in the United States.



Anderson, whose LinkedIn profile touts her commitment to offering "socially diverse and just education to ALL learners," presented the lesson to students over video conference last month. The school's overarching district, White Bear Lake Area Schools, offers distance learning options amid the coronavirus pandemic.



TheBlaze reached out to Anderson with a request for comment about the lesson plan, but she has yet to respond.



What else?

In an email exchange with TheBlaze, White Bear Lake Area Schools director of communications Marisa Vette confirmed the details of the lesson plan in full.



In the email, Vette explained that the purpose of the lesson was "to help students understand that everyone is different and everyone experiences the world differently," adding, "We wanted our students to listen to each other's perspectives and put themselves in others' shoes."



She also noted the activity is a part of a series of "social-emotional lesson" conducted by the school during the homeroom hour "a couple times a week," in which students are instructed about a number of topics, "including self awareness, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making."



With the homeroom hour being dropped amid the school's distance learning program, teachers have conducted the lesson during their first-period classes, she explained. Thus the reason for choir class featuring the "social-emotional" content.



"It is our responsibility to ensure that each of our students' needs are being met," added Superintendent Wayne Kazmierczak in a statement. "We know from listening to our students that our continued and sustained commitment to educational equity is a critical part of how we achieve our stated district mission and close gaps that currently exist in our student outcome measures."



In an introductory note, Anderson told students, "Last week, we talked about how hard it is to talk about race, and the level of difficulty is different for different people. For people who are privileged, it's much easier to talk about race and other issues. For people who are not privileged, it's much harder. Today, we will look at different types of oppression, and whether each of us is in the privileged group or the targeted group."

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