Posted on 08/03/2020 7:53:53 PM PDT by Beave Meister
At a Sunday news conference, Illinois State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford (D), along with local leaders, called on the state's Board of Education to "abolish history classes in Illinois schools" because, he said, "current school history teaching leads to white privilege and a racist society."
A news release distributed before the event claimed that "current history teaching practices overlook the contributions by Women and members of the Black, Jewish, LGBTQ communities and other groups."
The lawmaker demanded history classes in the state immediately cease and remain abolished "until appropriate alternatives are developed."
Concerned that current school history teaching leads to white privilege and a racist society, state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford, D-Chicago, will join local leaders today at noon at the Robert Crown Center in Evanston to call on the state to stop its current history teaching practices until appropriate alternatives are developed.
"When it comes to teaching history in Illinois, we need to end the miseducation of Illinoisans," Ford said. "I'm calling on the Illinois State Board of Education and local school districts to take immediate action by removing current history books and curriculum practices that unfairly communicate our history. Until a suitable alternative is developed, we should instead devote greater attention toward civics and ensuring students understand our democratic processes and how they can be involved. I'm also alarmed that people continue to display symbols of hate, such as the recent display of the Confederate flag in Evanston."
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.Our Education System Fosters American Self-Loathing
Spectator ^ | 11-12-19 | Ziva Dahl Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 5:36:27 PM by DeweyCA
The American Federation of Teachers, in its most recent journal, illustrates how postmodern ideology also dominates K-12 education. The issue paints America as under siege by the white supremacist power structure and urges its 1.6 million members to counter the pervasive “hostility and discrimination of people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation/identity, immigrant … or disability status” by being activists in the classroom. Teachers should defy our “racist country” by promoting victimized racial and ethnic groups and focus on the social inequities pervasive in America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3793469/posts
When Obama was senator he and Bill (step on the American flag) Ayers had control of the distribution of funds from the Annenberg foundation which they passed millions on to Illinois and Chicago schools pushing the what soon would be the BLM agenda. Stanley Kurtz tried to expose those radical left study programs over a program held by WGN radio and was threatened by protesters
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Yes. And it was Sandra Smith not Martha McCallum. I was wondering how she kept her cool when faced with such an idiot.
She asked him what has been the reaction to his demands and he gave her a non-answer.
Erasing History (contd.).
PING!
There!
Fixed it!
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