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Public school in Minnesota requires English course aimed at eradicating white privilege
Fox News ^ | 11/2/17 | Caleb Parke

Posted on 11/02/2017 5:49:31 PM PDT by markomalley

A public high school in Minnesota implemented a required, race-based English course aimed at eradicating “white privilege,” but it wasn’t billed that way to students or parents, according to a public policy organization.

“Pre-AP English 10 constitutes an abuse of parents’ trust, taxpayers’ money and — most importantly — vulnerable children,” Katherine Kersten, a senior policy fellow for the Center of the American Experiment, told Fox News. “Edina citizens should hold district leaders accountable for substituting political indoctrination for a real education.”

The Minnesota-based think tank started researching Edina public schools after they heard students, parents, and teachers in Edina complaining about the aftermath of the 2016 election, when 80 staff members — most teachers — co-signed an editorial in the student newspaper bashing President-elect Donald Trump and aligning themselves with the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton.

“Many of you [students] have made clear ... that right now, you don’t feel physically safe,” the article read. “Know that we will do all that we can ... to fight for you,” and that “we will teach rebellion against a broken world.”

Kersten discovered a required 10th grade English course adopted in 2013 by Edina, focused on colonization, immigration, and social constructions of race, class, and gender. Kersten published a broader finding in a cover story titled: “Whose Values? Educational excellence threatened by ideology in Edina schools.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: academicbias; apenglish; edina; whiteprivilege

1 posted on 11/02/2017 5:49:31 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Going to teach Ebonics? Or how to speak like an immigrant?


2 posted on 11/02/2017 5:52:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~)
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To: markomalley

Teachers used to be competent and UNDERpaid. Now they are INcompetent (or, worse, intentionally destructive) and OVERpaid.


3 posted on 11/02/2017 5:54:14 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY.)
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To: markomalley

The Center for the American Experiment is a fantastic conservative think tank in our crazy, liberal-leaning state. They published an extensive article on this issue which can be read at their website: https://www.americanexperiment.org/


4 posted on 11/02/2017 5:54:38 PM PDT by Dan C (We are what we repeatedly do - excellence therefore is not an act but a habit. Aristotle)
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To: SkyDancer

How many people were fired?

Yeah, that’s what I thought.


5 posted on 11/02/2017 5:56:01 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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To: markomalley

Many naïve white people in todays America resemble many naïve Jews in 1934 Germany. They’re targets and they don’t get it.


6 posted on 11/02/2017 5:58:49 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: markomalley

Edina’s trying to shake the ages old moniker of “The Cake Eaters”.


7 posted on 11/02/2017 6:00:18 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: markomalley

FTA: “Kersten discovered a required 10th grade English course adopted in 2013 by Edina, focused on colonization, immigration, and social constructions of race, class, and gender.”

I recognize no elements of English in that course description. Bet the students can’t even properly use an apostrophe, a sorely needed remediation just about everywhere online.


8 posted on 11/02/2017 6:00:47 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: markomalley

As the Democrat Party is made up of the weak, the lazy, the criminal, and the stupid, they’re just creating more Democrats to increase their constituency in Minnesota.


9 posted on 11/02/2017 6:07:52 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: markomalley

Left wing “teachers,” i.e., indoctrinators like these POS moonbats in Minnesota should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. They should be educating the students, not poisoning their minds with lies and other communist crap.

My first cousin is an elementary school teacher on Long Island, New York. She is a conservative and told me that she can’t stand most of her fellow “teachers.”

She also told me that when she retires in a few years, her retirement party will only include family members. None of the other “teachers” are going to be invited.


10 posted on 11/02/2017 6:13:30 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: markomalley

Sue for fraudulent misrepresentation.


11 posted on 11/02/2017 6:25:53 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: laplata

Exactly.

What will come next is the systematic expulsion of whites from civil society such as whites being denied jobs, kids beaten up and expelled from school and white girls and young women being forced into prostitution.


12 posted on 11/02/2017 6:42:35 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: markomalley

If you are in Edina, MN, and your children would be taking AP English, and you are not homeschooling, Chesterton Academy is an EXCEPTIONAL place for your children to be. My guess is that many of the caring parents send their kids there or to the Parochial school and Calvinist schools in town.


13 posted on 11/02/2017 6:49:27 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

You are correct. The “people” behind this are vile, evil scum and we can put nothing past them. They would also round us up and haul us away if they could get away with it.

But this time the “Jews” are armed.

I have Jewish friends who are very upset that people can’t see it.


14 posted on 11/02/2017 6:58:34 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: markomalley

Izn’t MN one of the wbitest states in the country?


15 posted on 11/02/2017 7:05:01 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: T-Bird45

Bet the students can’t even properly use an apostrophe,
= = =

The Apostrophe(with an ‘s’),can be used to donate possession, or ownership.

So the apostrophe must go the way of Harvey and Kevin.


16 posted on 11/02/2017 7:57:31 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: Gay State Conservative

Sorry about the low resolution. Many copies have been deleted from YouTube, which appears to favor complaints of Mooslims against us.

Minnesota first state to fall to Somali Muslims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG7jgtDZql8

Muslims Establishing No-Go Zones in America • 1/14/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAJGXI5l88


17 posted on 11/02/2017 8:06:13 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Gay State Conservative

Here’s a well done video with good resolution.

Minnesota: Next Radical Muslim State of Somalia (Full Compilation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foRBGGQipLo


18 posted on 11/02/2017 8:27:35 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: laplata

I don’t believe as many whites are naïve as you think; outside of some young whites (safely in a pack) marching with unassimilated trash at some urban demonstrations, I’ve never seen whites so completely segregated from blacks in my lifetime - across the country. This is in part caused by the fact that they rarely rub elbows anymore; black urban cores are now surrounded by growing rings of Hispanic and Asian buffer zones, and many blacks are altogether out of the private-sector workforce. Whites simply aren’t allowed to publicly state the reasons why they rarely venture anywhere they may encounter blacks, especially young ones.


19 posted on 11/03/2017 4:09:51 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

I see your point.


20 posted on 11/03/2017 8:16:39 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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