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Left-wing activists trying to hijack kids’ minds with ‘ethnic studies’
NY Post ^ | August 22 2019 | Betsy McCaughey

Posted on 08/22/2019 11:23:31 PM PDT by knighthawk

President Trump said last week that “we are all Americans. We all share the same home” and “the same heart.” He warned that “radical Democrats are trying to tear this country apart” with identity politics.

Left-wing activists are using the same divisive ideology to hijack our kids’ young minds. Across the country, leftists are demanding public schools teach “ethnic studies.” Many of these courses demonize America, label whites as oppressors and indoctrinate students to become “social justice organizers.”

California Democrats are pushing to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement statewide. Their draft curriculum defines ethnic studies as the “experiences of people of color in the United States” and the “forms of oppression” they’ve endured.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ethnicstudies; leftwing

1 posted on 08/22/2019 11:23:31 PM PDT by knighthawk
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Starting next year Illinois is requiring schools teach LGBT History and “must include the roles and contributions of all people protected under the Illinois Human Rights Act.” If I were to suggest a new required course for all students it would be financial planning. Start with checkbook and work up to investing. Meanwhile China moves ahead teaching STEM.


2 posted on 08/23/2019 1:27:07 AM PDT by Stevenfo
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To: knighthawk

Leftist Great Leap Forward by running a Cultural Revolution.


3 posted on 08/23/2019 1:54:34 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: knighthawk

The cancer continues


4 posted on 08/23/2019 2:47:52 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Stevenfo
Science is dead!!!

Viva la Brunch!!

5 posted on 08/23/2019 3:10:45 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: knighthawk

Communisty disorganizers sowing the seeds of disunity


6 posted on 08/23/2019 4:44:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Commitee)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

7 posted on 08/23/2019 6:06:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: knighthawk

Separate Education from the Fed Govt and give it back to the States!!


8 posted on 08/23/2019 6:49:58 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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