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?
Are they “instructed” to inform on their parents?
I went to their website and there's one school in MO taking part in this. It's a private school called New City School and tuition is over $20k per year. No info on # of student but looking at the size of the building on google/maps, it can't be more than 150 students.
https://pollyannainc.org/ (under "News")
Looking at other locations, they all seem to be small private schools.
Oddly enough, the townhall article doesn't include the word "private" in it at all. There have been private schools of all flavors for decades. Townhall(or Marina Medvin, author) is trying to create panic over less than a couple of dozen small private schools.
Wonder what would happen and how would the morons that are pushing this react if an angry, historically literate conservative parent were to bring an English translation of the Nazi children’s book “The poisonous mushroom” to a school board meeting and tell them, “show me how your curriculum doesn’ t line up with this?”
Take it one step further: we all know the outcome of the Nazi propaganda against the Jews.
Are you people pushing for the same outcome?
Wonder what would happen and how would the morons that are pushing this react if an angry, historically literate conservative parent were to bring an English translation of the Nazi children’s book “The poisonous mushroom” to a school board meeting and tell them, “show me how your curriculum doesn’ t line up with this?”
Take it one step further: we all know the outcome of the Nazi propaganda against the Jews.
Are you people pushing for the same outcome?
To retain your parental rights, you need to home school. Also lobby & speak out to state government officials - demand that vouchers be used to return property taxes and other monies you were forced to pay into a collectivist school district so that you have those resources to be a parent, and home school your OWN kids free of the interference of other noisy parents hammering the School Board members and Superintendent for "progressive" changes to the school's operations.
Try using K12.com, to supplement homeschooling. They offer classes online, and young people take readily to online instruction.....
Which is why it's important to support "right to work" and overturning mandatory government union membership.
In Wisconsin in 2011, right-to-work legislation reduced membership, particularly school teacher union membership, significantly. Public-sector union membership rates fell from more than 60% since 2010 to 18.9 percent in 2017.
Public schools were the nation's first socialist entitlement.
Progressives have always controlled teacher training and curriculum development.
Progressives have always pushed for greater and greater secularism. By the 1960s it was nothing more than a nod to God and pure godless humanism for the rest of the day.
Children who attend socialist schools learn to be comfortable with socialism. It only took 1 t0 3 generations to produce voters that gave the nation two Roosevelts and Woodrow Wilson. That **fundamentally** changed the nation!
Children who attended schools that merely nodded in God's direction learned to be casual toward God.
Children who attend godless schools **WILL** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the godless classroom and do their godless homework. How many hours out of a child's life is that?
Please read my post #28.
Public schooling is a socialist-entitlement. They must be eliminated.
I do agree with yo, though. Abolishing the teachers unions would help a little.
Most mothers are never going to give up sending the kids to school, in order to home school. And I’m speaking as somebody who home-schooled all my kids.
People who demand “all or nothing” solutions, will get nothing.
The lesson we need to learn from how the Left was successful, is to look at what SMALL, INCREMENTAL change we can accomplish within a year or two, and all get behind pushing THAT.
The first incremental change we COULD accomplish, is getting the unions out of the schools.
I agree. It would reduce the highly organized political power of teachers. That would be an important move forward.
All conservatives, however, should understand that socialist-entitlement schooling was built upon a corrupt socialist ( progressive) foundation. It cannot be reformed for those reasons. The ultimate goal should be complete shut down of government schooling on every level.
“And can WE do something about it?”
Sure can. They’re call School Board Elections. But most people, especially conservatives, are too “busy” (read lazy) to actually run in one.
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