Posted on 07/13/2021 5:03:58 PM PDT by blam
The Columbia, Missouri, school board voted Monday to accept $5,000 to create lesson plans based on the widely discredited “1619 Project.”
The Nikole Hannah-Jones work has been disputed for its theory that the founding of America was 1619, not 1776, and is inherently racist.
Nevertheless, the mid-Missouri district is taking the cash to push the theories on students.
KMIZ reported:
The Columbia Board of Education consented to an agreement on Monday night with the Pulitzer Center for a grant that will pay teachers to develop a lesson plan using resources from The 1619 Project. No members of the school board commented on the approval, which was voted on as part of the board’s consent agenda.
Under the grant, teams of educators will receive $5,000 each to create lessons that explore key issues in race and other social justice issues. According to the terms of collaboration, the lessons will pull from the journalistic work The 1619 Project with goals of making deeper connections to pre-existing curriculum, developing and practicing media literacy and building empathy.
According to the Memorandum of Understanding with the Pulitzer Center, the grant “would pay for District teachers to evaluate resources from The 1619 Project as part of The 1619 Project Education Network.”
The school employees will “develop standards-aligned units that engage their students in The 1619 Project,” the grant agreement said. The work must be completed by January 14, 2022.
In September, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member Peter Kirsanow blasted the 1619 Project and its interpretation of American history.
“We have seen what I believe to be a corruption of history, a distortion of history,” he told the National Association of Scholars, and that Jones “is using the tools of a 20th century form of oppression, to consciously, or not, present her version...
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Time for some well-placed phone calls from some 10,000 God-fearing patriots.
List the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the Columbia Board of Education here. They would like to hear from you cordially, but firmly.
Stop the Hoax!!
They should buy the book
“1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project”
(Peter W. Wood’s book is a must-read)
College town marxists.
Why would any school district do this after seeing the controversy it creates? Do they all live under a rock? Wonder what the vote was (for-against)?
You can click on the names and see their pictures. They look like the usual colllection of lib riff raft. The board President suffers from crazy eyes
Teaching hate.
List the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the Columbia Board of Education here.
Nice work.
“https://www.cpsk12.org/boardmembers“
Totally true “ a picture tells a story”
In this case racists, want to be hippies, and pillow biters. Bye Bye.
Lesson One: The Barbary Pirates 1400-1790
Dear Columbia School Board,
I would urge caution in regard to support for the 1619 Project. Not that it requires outright rejection, but impassionate scrutiny.
You have a sacred responsiblity that ought not be subject to the whims and wishes of those around you.
Use the diligence with which you have been endowed to question all things, and be open to facts.
Regards,
-FC
“Facts”??? Hahaha...but that’s a nice letter.
No! It’s time for 10,000 Patriots to show up and STOP this madness. You tell them no, and you make them obey YOU.
Why not just teach “Lord of the Rings” as history, in elementary and high schools? It is just as accurate historically as the “1619 Project”, perhaps more so.
1619 is a deliberate distortion and perversion of documented historical fact, throwing in the “sin of omission” as a kicker. The false reading of history pushed by these leftist ideologues, is meant to promote “Critical Race Theory”, and is intended to someday be the seed founding documents of a new faux founding fathers fantasy, based on ignorance, hatred, fear, and juvenile revenge. This results in evil, destruction, and fraud.
Should I try to prove my contentions? Why bother? They don’t, the woke Academics simply dictate the new revisionist history, and tolerate no discussion or dissension. This is fiction, but also an ugly and heinous cycle of lies and fraud.
The “Lord of the Rings”, though fictional, teaches the need for honor, courage, cooperation and brotherhood, while making it clear that free people must defend their freedom.
This might be dismissed as “White Supremacy”, but their false narrative fails to offer any hope for the future, or credible foundation of understanding of history. Tell us the truth, and the truth should set you free! Clearly, freedom of thought and truth are the least of the 1619 Project’s goals.
I have yet to see a teacher change her widdle mind or her politics, based on logic.
Yep.
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