This proposed curriculum also makes excuses--the tired, typical ones--for why LaShanda and Tyrone can't learn: "...demands that teachings foster critical consciousness about historical and contemporary forms of bias and oppression. It wouldn't have anything to do with LaShanda texting all period long during biology class or Tyrone hanging with his homies on a street corner instead of attending class, would it?
Some people with actual common sense are against this travesty, saying it: "...promotes too much emphasis on racial identities and schisms rather than the boosting of basic academic skills in a city where more than half of students in grades 3-8 failed their state math and English exams." Ya think? The idiots who thought this up should be JAILED for criminal acts of denying these kids an education which would allow them to do college work and have marketable skills--not spout the latest slogan about how the white man kept them down.
The Department of Indoctrination (one could hardly call them the Department of Education!) will also appoint their own kapos to ensure the other teachers will go along in this criminality: "...will create a panel of 60 teaching fellows who will craft compliant practices for adoption across the citys system of 1.2 million kids."
And, to complete the encircling ring around the brains of their captive audience, "...The DOE will also require book vendors to diversify their offerings if they expect to do consistent business with the department." And the NYC public libraries will receive a revised list of recommended readings to further reinforce this garbage. No doubt Heather Has Two Mommies and I'm a Boy on Mondays and a Girl On Thursdays will be on the list.
If THIS is what a few people who are completely out of their minds but who also are in charge of what your kids learn are doing, it's definitely time to pull them out of these demonizing thought factories called public schools and find the money to send them to private schools or home school 'em.
This nonsense is nothing more than nazi propaganda recycled for a new generation.
Look up “The poisonous mushroom” online; there is a college that has an English translation online; this children’s book is a graphic example of how the kids in nazi Germany were taught hatred of Jews — and hatred against non-Germans and others that were deemed racial inferiors was part of the curriculum as well.
This nonsense is no different; substitute “Jew” for “white” or “rich” and see what you get.