Posted on 08/08/2022 4:24:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
While most may not realize it, North Carolina is ground zero for the battle over woke primary education at the state level. The state education board is majority progressive with one appointed member an anti-racist activist who openly supports the Black Panther-founded Rainbow Coalition of the 60s. The North Carolina State Board of Education meeting room prominently displays the Robert Wood Johnson Health Equity Infographic as an official logo. The elected Republican education superintendent supports CASEL Social Emotional Learning and employs the leftist tactics of redefining terms when supporting equity practices in education, assuring citizens that “[educational equity] does not mean ensuring equal outcomes.”
In February 2022, NC conservative state board of education member Todd Chasteen resigned, stating that the board’s direction was moving, “away from education towards activism.” He also wrote about the contested 2021 Social Studies Standards, expressing his frustration that “the board passed Social Studies Standards by a slim majority, standards that many of us concluded, and thousands of parents agreed, were unproductive, regressive and unhelpful to the students of this wonderful state.” Among the controversial concepts (including “Whiteness” and “Systemic Racism”) passed in the Glossary of the Standards was “Gender Identity.”
In fact, radical concepts behind “Gender Identity” have long been included in North Carolina’s educational system, and not just at the local level. Currently the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) is reviewing and updating its Healthful Living Standards. The administrator overseeing these standards is Chief of NC Healthy Schools, Ellen Essick, Ph.D. Dr. Essick introduced the “Genderbread Person” and the “Gender Unicorn” as early as 2015 on behalf of the NCDPI as legitimate educational resources during the state education agency’s Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement and other education meetings.
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How did the left become so insane? How do they even make it through a single day?
“From a young age I was prepared for the world to be evil and cruel, but I was never prepared for it to also be this gay and stupid.”
The main question is how long have they been ingrained in the public schools ??
Covid may have been a blessing in disguise, at some level..
Parents started noticing what was actually taught in schools, instead of blithlely assuming their schools had the best interests of children in mind.
Depending on the region here……Buncombe County ( includes progressive Asheville) to say, Macon County …..you will, I think, find a vast difference…..
There are folks on FR a lot more knowledgeable than I about NC….
…but I know, especially in the small mountain towns scattered throughout WNC ( where there are literally churches saturating the region ( mostly Baptist)
….these parents, made aware, will fight for their children!
And this is also MAGA country!
Since the 60s when God was kicked out of the public schools. It is the lefts’ firm belief that you cannot pray on public grounds, which has been struck down every time, but continues to persist.
“Flying Gender Unicorn”?
Looks like we might as well accept a new civilization needs to be built.
The old one is done, kaput.
If you think November will turn this around think again. Republicans were completely routed in last week’s election in our county.
And it was not because of cheating. The people want this nonsense.
Nope!
We press on!
And the MAGA republicans won big time!
And we continue to press on towards the goal!
How do they persuade anyone to believe their garbage?
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