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The Schoolwork My Kids Are Bringing Home Exposes Public Schools’ Radical Leftist Politics
The Federalist ^ | April 6, 2020 | Beth Feeley

Posted on 04/06/2020 6:44:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

Schools are likely to continue home e-learning efforts in the upcoming weeks as we continue through the pandemic. Parents, use this time to find out what your kids are studying.


“Mom, can you look at this assignment?” A few weeks ago, before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic forced my school-aged children home, I looked at the homework sheet my high school-age child was referring to and quickly realized what prompted the question. The freshman world history reading assignment was about parents raising “theybies.”

Scratching my head, I read through the assigned article, which included definitions such as “gender is a social construct” followed by leading questions asking students to regurgitate gender theory. The next day, my child received an assignment that taught him about critical race theory before he read an article about when black singer Lil Nas X’s song “Old Town Road” was kicked off the country music charts. The class? Physics.

What Are My Kids Learning?

Needless to say, now with my kids home and me overseeing their daily e-learning, this is a great opportunity to take a deeper look at the left-wing theories on race and gender, not to mention climate change, that public schools are pushing on my children.

My 11-year-old middle school son was assigned the following two videos for “Integrated Global Studies” class. The first is an alarmist video that promotes donations to a bogus fund. The second has countless grammatical errors and lacks any sort of sourcing.

Before Halloween last fall, the same school sent out this memo regarding cultural appropriation, sharing a Teen Vogue video and explaining that cultural appropriation is “defined as the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another.” (So I guess the school’s annual “Luau Madness” party is also off).

Over the last several years, my children’s schools have pushed for “equity,” which usually starts with a survey or audit about “school climate.” Of course, the ideologues hired to do the surveys always find that certain groups feel oppressed, and thus interventions are necessary to create what they deem as safe learning environments where everyone feels welcome. But only certain dimensions of identity politics, particularly race, gender, and sexuality, are measured. If you are shy or not cool, you are on your own to figure out how to feel welcome.

Schools also push equity agendas by targeting any disparity between racial groups. These disparities are generally blamed on systemic racism and subsequently require an equity intervention through training programs, such as those offered by Pacific Educational Group, Corwin, or any number of consultants in the multimillion-dollar equity consulting industry.

These groups typically provide courses on how to “address the complexities of dismantling white supremacy” or how to use “critical race theory to establish cultural relevance between teachers and students in the racially complex classroom.” Our neighboring Chicago-area school district even used federal Title I funds — earmarked for low-income students — to send school board members to this type of training.

Equity Programs Hurt Students

My children’s high school defines equity as, “[E]very student should have access to the resources and educational rigor at the right moment in their education regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, language, disability, family background or family income.” At first glance, this looks good. Any decent parent would be horrified if the school were denying kids the resources they need to succeed.

But if you read further, you find language that states equity “confronts systems of advantage and disadvantage based on race, cultural background, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, religious belief, and other forms of identity.” If that sounds like Marxist identity politics, it is.

Equity at its core is based in left-wing critical race theory that assumes institutional racism and oppression pervade every corner of society and necessitate the redistribution of resources based on “oppressed” status. It is sold as a warm, fuzzy idea of helping kids succeed, but it serves as a gateway for training teachers on how racist they are, reducing academic standards, exchanging traditional curriculum with more “culturally relevant” material, and fomenting resentment between groups rather than promoting the safe school climate these equity plans say they so desire.

Equity is even being used as an excuse not to teach during the coronavirus pandemic, such as in Washington state and Philadelphia. If you can’t teach all kids equally, don’t teach at all? Thankfully, these schools are rethinking their strategies after the Department of Education issued this memo. They could look at the KIPP Academies, a leading charter school network, which serves low-income and rural students. It is distributing Chromebooks and even using buses to distribute and pick up paper-based assignments where students lack an internet connection.

The worst failure of equity programs is that they do not improve student performance. Neighboring Evanston district student performance dropped after the school board introduced its radical equity program. This is the same district where teachers heard a presentation on why “meritocracy is a myth.” How does that benefit a child trying to climb the economic ladder?

Schools are likely to continue e-learning efforts in the upcoming weeks as we continue through the pandemic. Parents, use this time when your children are home to find out what they are learning. It will be interesting to see how many parents discover that kids do not have to be in a classroom to learn, and that they have options, especially if the curriculum in their schools is pushing fringe race and gender theories on their kids.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; criticalracetheory; education; gender; gendertheory; highschool; homeschooling; pandemic; parenting; propaganda; schoolboards; wuhancoronavirus
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1 posted on 04/06/2020 6:44:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Good article. Hopefully millions of parents around the country are realizing the same.


2 posted on 04/06/2020 6:47:38 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: Kaslin

LOL did you think there was American history with the true events ???


3 posted on 04/06/2020 6:48:22 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: edwinland

As with everything else, they don’t “all” have to get it, but if enough of them do, it will change our education system.


4 posted on 04/06/2020 6:49:34 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Kaslin

An opportunity for parents to liberate their kids from the Communist kiddie brainwashing and indoctrination program.


5 posted on 04/06/2020 6:51:22 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

K-12 “education” is a deep swamp of political correctness.
Even the military “kids” have been infected, clapping for the Navy ship guy who got fired for putting our military and country at risk by making a political statement instead of picking up the phone and making a private call.


6 posted on 04/06/2020 6:52:19 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Kaslin
You can save them--and probably other children as well. Just keep telling them the truth.

My 6th grader: Do you know what they're teaching us? That humans are killing the oceans and destroying the planet and we're all going to die from global warming!"
Me: "Do any of the children believe that?
My 6th grader: "Some do!"

My other 6th grader:"The only teachers at my school who don't try to tell us what to think are the Republicans."

7 posted on 04/06/2020 6:52:19 AM PDT by Savage Beast (There is no limit to the heights of heroism and saintliness to which people can ascend.)
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To: Kaslin

“Give me the children for 10 years and I will make convinced national socialists of them all!”


8 posted on 04/06/2020 6:54:38 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Kaslin

if the parents are just now noticing this, their kids are already probably lost.

were was mommy and daddy 5 years ago?


9 posted on 04/06/2020 6:56:20 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Kaslin

The picture shows modern Poland on the screen. I’ll bet the question they are being asked is, “Identify all the provinces that had Polish death camps in them.”


10 posted on 04/06/2020 6:57:03 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Scratching my head, I read through the assigned article, which included definitions such as “gender is a social construct” followed by leading questions asking students to regurgitate gender theory. The next day, my child received an assignment that taught him about critical race theory before he read an article about when black singer Lil Nas X’s song “Old Town Road” was kicked off the country music charts. The class? Physics.

11 posted on 04/06/2020 6:57:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin

Did you notice that the brand at the bottom of the monitor looks like “AOC”?


12 posted on 04/06/2020 6:58:08 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Tennessee Nana

15 years ago my daughter’s history textbook had more pages on the Black Panthers and CA politics than the Cival War. I can only imagine what the next 15years will bring.


13 posted on 04/06/2020 6:58:25 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Kaslin
Equity at its core is based in left-wing critical race theory that assumes institutional racism and oppression pervade every corner of society and necessitate the redistribution of resources based on “oppressed” status.

Equal opportunity is a good thing. But that's not what the Left wants.

The Left wants Equal Outcome. And you can only get that through tyranny and gulags and mass murder. That's the plan. That's always been the plan.

14 posted on 04/06/2020 6:59:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Savage Beast

I quizzed my kids, too.

They knew pretty much nothing about American history or civics - but they DID know all about African kingdoms, rain forests, the Ozone layer and how bad it was that we bombed Japan in World War II.

... and THAT was 25 YEARS ago. I can’t even IMAGINE how much worse our “public” schools have gotten since then.

So maybe there’s a silver lining in this whole virus disaster... now that they’re forced to do their schoolwork at home, parents can see EXACTLY what kind of bullshit the leftist “teachers” are trying to fill them full of. Hmmm.


15 posted on 04/06/2020 6:59:34 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: cuban leaf

At least Chinese gave us something useful. A wake up call. The Skrewels will not be happy.


16 posted on 04/06/2020 6:59:52 AM PDT by MGunny ( Al)
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To: cuban leaf

At least Chinese gave us something useful. A wake up call. The Skrewels will not be happy.


17 posted on 04/06/2020 7:00:23 AM PDT by MGunny ( Al)
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To: Kaslin

It would be very interesting to know, this October, if grade 2-12 school teachers notice an increase in students’ skills compared to this past October....

And I DO hope parents are seeing the indoctrination and propaganda in K-12 lessons.

Maybe our Lord is using this to remind us of the importance of family for children and society.


18 posted on 04/06/2020 7:01:04 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Kaslin

My question is why someone employed by The Federalist even sends her kids to public school in the first place. Everyone knows public schools are left-wing propaganda enclaves. I know that, and I don’t even have children.


19 posted on 04/06/2020 7:01:04 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.)
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To: cuban leaf

Excellent point.


20 posted on 04/06/2020 7:04:03 AM PDT by edwinland
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