Posted on 11/19/2019 3:50:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Last week we discussed the dangers of the new elementary school "Racial Literacy Curriculum" that is being instituted in Grades K-8 in various schools spanning eight states. This week, we will examine the activism requirements of this curriculum.
Beginning in Grade 3, the Pollyanna "Racial Literacy Curriculum" asks students to become activists in order to achieve leftist goals. The 3rd Grade chapter is entitled "Stories of Activism – How One Voice Can Change a Community." The expected result is for students to understand "how we can be agents of communal, social, political, and environmental change."
Does an 8-year-old need to decide on activism at such a young age? What if a student doesn't agree with being an "agent" of "communal, social, political, and environmental change"? Does the student fail? Does a conservative or capitalist or individualist student learn that his/her ideas are inherently wrong because the curriculum says so? What kind of negligent school puts such pressure on young children?
Most importantly, what is the opportunity cost of this curriculum? Instead of bettering the individual student through mathematics or science lessons, precious time is wasted on leftist conditioning.
We are already seeing the results of older students conditioned by leftist politics. Oregon students walked out of class to protest the right of a Chick-fil-A food truck to sell on campus. These students felt "unsafe" by the Christian politics of the company behind the food truck. School officials indulged them and stated that they will consider "all potential safety concerns. That includes bullying or cyberbullying" — as if Christian political positions are a type of unsafe harassment or bullying.
But Pollyanna takes leftist activism to new heights, fabricating an image of a racist America that children are taught to rebel against.
In Grade 4, students are programmed with "the ability to critique and dispel Eurocentric perspectives that favor a myopic appearance of race." In translation, the indisputable fact that European countries contributed most to the development of civilization as we know it — from engineering to medicine to architecture to law — is taught as racist history because Europeans had white skin. The activism learned in Grade 3 is used to critique the exceptional accomplishments of Europeans in Grade 4. Quite honestly, this is indeed the most racist chapter of the curriculum, teaching students to minimize the achievements of whites based on their skin color.
By Grade 8, after nine years of acute indoctrination, the children are ready to fight on behalf of leftists in America. "[S]tudents will set commitments for rectifying current social ills, such as learning and planning how to carry out anti-racist activism and/or social advocacy in their communities and/or to improve their everyday lives." The 8th Grade chapter is entitled "Racism as a Primary 'Institution' of the U.S. – How We May Combat Systemic Inequality."
Recall the history surrounding the cessation of the horrors of slavery, segregation, and racism in the United States. Who stopped it? White Americans, the same people who this curriculum colors as evil. The Civil War was primarily fought by white Americans, and they fought side-by-side with black Americans. White Americans observed the evils of slavery and couldn't bear the inequity of segregation. White people, the largest demographic at the time, chose to live in equality with countrymen of all colors. But their sacrifice for freedom is effaced by the "Racism as a Primary 'Institution' of the U.S." lesson plans.
More enraging, "social advocacy" of the leftist politics shoved down these children's throats is a scholastic goal of this curriculum. "Anti-racist activism" of this made-up "systematic American racism" is what our children must work towards. An academic goal! Take a moment to pause and ponder on the meaning of this end-goal.
Greta Thunberg's personality is a model for such a curriculum. She skips school, foregoing the opportunity cost of self-betterment, for the betterment of a liberal lie. Indeed, a socialist, selfless act. This is a child that is hailed by leftists as ideal. This is a child that leftists seek to replicate. After ingraining emotional "America is Racist" propaganda into our children, we can expect more and more Greta-like kids to skip school and carry out leftist dirty work, simply concentrating on the subject of race after Pollyanna.
Questions must be asked of the ethical standard of schools that allow activism in lieu of education and leftist curriculum in place of regular social studies. Do the administrators favor political activism over scholarship? Do these educators drink the Kool-Aid and believe that a classic curriculum is racist?
Just a month ago, Seattle public schools declared math racist. The pure objectivity of mathematics, the curriculum that deals with figures, not people, was deemed inconceivably racist. Those schools are now teaching social justice instead of math.
Is the Scientific Revolution racist? Is the Industrial Revolution racist? How about the Agricultural Revolution? Those were all in Europe. Remember how evil "Eurocentric" studies can be.
What value will our children add to society after undergoing leftist brainwashing in elementary school, where they are most vulnerable to suggestion? Which medicines will they invent to save lives? Will they engineer? Will they build? No. You need math for that. But will they fight on behalf of the unoppressed oppressed? Oh, yes, that they will do. Will they shun white races and the gifts to humanity that European races have given us? Apparently. After all, they will need to — in order to pass the 4th Grade.
What will happen in 24 years, in 2043, when white races are officially a minority group in the United States?
L8r
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Home school.
“A nation is a stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, history, ethnicity, or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. A nation is more overtly political than an ethnic group; it has been described as “a fully mobilized or institutionalized ethnic group”.
From Wikipedia
Training the new cadre of brownshirts.
Come on man I LOVE your posts but let’s not start throwing answers out there that 96 percent of the people can’t do.
Forget what once was with mom not having to work.
It’s NOW
And it’s also running away from the problem.
Can the FEDS do something about this, like Trump? do we WANT the feds to do something about it?
And can WE do something about it?
The DEMS DID THIS
Why CANT WE?!?!?!?
WHAT IS SO MUCH SMARTER AND BETTER ABOUT THEM THAT they dictate ALL of this!?!!?
And I’m guessing it is spilling into red states too
Make the sacrifices necessary either to homeschool or to send your children to a private CONSERVATIVE school.
We did it. It wasn’t easy, but it was WORTH IT in the end!
The solution is to have two school systems - one controlled by liberals - one controlled by traditional conservative Americans.
Sending our children to far left union controlled indoctrinators is a form of violence to our children.
So we surrender the public schools and act as if the FEW children who go the other route won’t be devastated by the voting of the others who were indoctrinated and YOUR kids and all the others in private or home schools will be f..ed anyway in the long run
not an acceptable answer.
running and hiding like bitches isn’t what we are supposed to be about
See “Red for Ed” in Indiana today. Where the schools shut down so teachers can lay siege to the legislature and demand more money. The “Red for Ed” organization committee has even come up with a list of free child care centers where parents can send their kids for the day because the teachers and schools are shirking their responsibilities.
This has been known. An extensive account, cloning of the American mind was published in 1998. That’s twenty years ago
Doh
My friends yawned when I told them. They wonder why their kids are out of control liberals.
It’s because people won’t face that our schools are liberal breeding grounds.
I don’t know who is going to preserve the US but this headline shows some serious obtuseness.
It’s an old dilemma. Progressives are by nature interested in wrecking things, overt control over other’s activities and raw power.
Conservatives, on the other hand delude ourselves into believing that things like “the rule of law” and “limits on judicial power” are real.
The cure will come when WE realize and accept that the rule of law is no longer a thing, and that conservatives, patriots, hell, Americans... Are not in control any more. You cannot continue to be a conservative when there is nothing left to conserve.
This Nation was founded by revolutionaries who wanted to institute those principles that the left has overthrown, and it can only be salvaged by revolutionaries who will overthrow the left, who have gained all the power necessary to subvert the Nation and its laws.
I’ve commented several times recently on “CWII” threads that no civil war is possible, because we are no longer one nation. There isn’t a core set of beliefs, morals, or laws that bind us together. No familial or ethnic ties, no common language. What was once a Nation has been balkanized by the left over decades. We (I) cannot find common ground with those who would deny my right to defend myself and my family, to own the fruit of my own labor, or to decide for myself what God to worship and how to worship Him. I won’t negotiate with them, and they will not tolerate my existence.
The only thing that is left (in my arrogant and unsubtle opinion) is to reorganize with our like-minded, and split the sheets, in the hope that won’t result in our being forced to kill them all.
Public schools were surrendered when they were allowed to unionize.
Have you tried battling the school board over curricula?
How did that work out for ya?
Been there, done that, got the shirt, got the hat.
We made the sacrifices necessary to homeschool our kids.
It wasn’t easy, but it was worth it.
It’s okay to abandon the tax-funded, union-run government schools to the commies. We have an alternative, for which people have gone to jail fighting. The more of us that choose the alternative, the less competitive the government schools become.
Looks like it’s coming to that.
We need to start fighting dirty!
+1
That’s an out.
YOU KNOW that a HUGE majority is being indoctrinated to think a completely different way and WILL BRING YOUR KIDS DOWN with them.
Telling yourself a lie don’t make it the truth.
Our kid had fairness pounded into her head in pre and elementary school. Despite our saying and showing how life is not “fair” she’s getting in trouble in 5th grade for calling out teachers and the principal for favoring certain kids over others in various situations. We thank them each time for their social experiments.
> YOU KNOW that a HUGE majority is being indoctrinated to
> think a completely different way
And your plan to change that is what?
And what lie are you accusing me of?
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
Have a big family and teach them well.
Make the sacrifices necessary.
As long as the teachers where my kids go to school remain non-Leftists, I’m fine. I was smart enough to ask them if they hated the country, and they replied “no”, all of them. Therefore my kids are safe from this left-wing crap.
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