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Posted on 08/12/2020 11:48:13 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Elementary school children returning to a wealthy Pennsylvania classroom in the fall will learn that sympathizing with police officers is racist.
Gladwyne Elementary School in Lower Merion School District, one of the richest in the nation—will require fourth and fifth graders to read Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness, which claims that white people who relate to police officers or decline to watch the news are complicit in racism. The curriculum also assigns A Kid's Book About Racism to kindergarten and first graders.
Elana Fishbein, mother of two boys and a doctor of social work,said, "The book teaches kids not only to defy parents but to hate themselves. . . to hate their parents also because they are white."
The proposed lesson plans emphasize slavery as fundamental to American society.
A Kid's Book About Racism has an exhaustive list of actions it deems harmful and racist. It claims asking questions can be racist and issues a call to action for five- to seven-year-olds to call out and identify racism.
Amy Buckman, a district spokeswoman, defended the move. "The Lower Merion School District fully supports the ongoing implementation of an anti-racist curriculum in its schools and encourages the use of developmentally appropriate books that raise awareness of the very real issues of racism and privilege," she said.
Fishbein said parents privately message her echoing their disapproval of the curriculum, but are scared to speak out for fear of being branded racist.
"If you say anything that's racist according to the school or parent's definition of racism, you're out," Fishbein said. "You're called a racist. No wonder the parents don't talk."
Lower Merion refused to respond to her emails. That silence was more than enough for Fishbein. Her children will attend a private school in the fall.
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1984 is here now!
What about Transvestite indoctrination taught by the PA health secretary?
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Did you expect anything less from the Philadelphia area?
School board recall time
Not surprising. The mainline Pa. is full of rich progressive muddled thinking. Bryn Mawr college, Haverford college and spinoff theorists.
My grandfather was a chauffer for James Crosby Brown abd my father grew up in Gladwyne and Lower Merion schools. Then they were the best we had.
The baronial mansion where the Brown family lived was owned later by Mike Douglass a TV hos, and interestingly Teddy Prendergrass. a black singer, bought it. Story goes he wrecked his car driving up the curvy Mill Creek road while being serviced by his gay lover. Quadriplegic thereafter.
Given today’s moral values they might make that into a kindergarten story
It is a central article of faith among Marxists, that there is no genetic component to ability. That when all differences among upbringing and educational opportunities are erased, then all will be exactly equal in the Marxist Utopia.
Having statistically significant differences between identifiable groups, stubbornly persist, is blasphemy, because it indicates that there IS a genetic component to ability.
Therefore any difference in performance MUST be attributed to organized oppression keeping the less-well performing group down. This oppression MUST be uncovered and eradicated, in their view.
So am I a racist if I tune out the news to watch Family Feud, a gameshow hosted by Steve Harvey, who is Black? I like to be reminded that there are Black Americans who have a sense of humor, unlike the PC left.
If only you could. He's dead now, shot at the ripe old age of 5 by a black murderer.
But it would have been racist for him to be wary of the guy. Gotta be loving caring and accepting to people who want you dead!
As long as people are willing to put up with crap like this from school boards and politicians who think they are all powerful I have no sympathy for them. America has forgotten the government only exists to serve “We the People”.
Cannon Hinnant
Picking off woke, rich white people who basically are pinning “kick me” signs on their rear ends isn’t on their agenda?
No. White liberals annoy them, but no one in either of those groups care enough to do more than roll their eyes at them.
Lower Merion School District hires former ABC6 reporter, producer
By Richard Ilgenfritz Mar 15, 2018
https://www.mainlinemedianews.com/mainlinetimes/news/lower-merion-school-district-hires-former-abc-reporter-producer/article_391af960-5ca6-543d-ac44-c3e4fb3c4c30.html
Lower Merion has a new director of school and community relations, and she might be a familiar face to many watchers of local news.
Amy Buckman, formerly a reporter and producer with ABC6, this week began her new position with the school district.
The board of school directors approved Buckman’s appointment to the position at its Feb. 20 board business meeting. The agenda listed her salary as $105,000 prorated.
Buckman replaces Doug Young, who had served in the position for nearly 15 years. Young left the district for a new position working with professional athletes.
Following her appointment to the position at the board meeting, Buckman said, “I just want to say I’m thrilled and honored and looking forward to serving the board, the administration, the staff, the students and the community in this challenging new role for me as director of school and community relations.”
A graduate of Lower Merion High School, she still lives in the district and has had two children graduate from Lower Merion and another graduating next year.
“And so, on many, many levels, I feel that this is a perfect fit for me, and I think I will serve the community well,” she said.
Buckman, a graduate of Lower Merion High School and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1986, was a longtime reporter and producer for 6abc Action News. Since January 2015, she has served as manager of public relations and special events at Philadelphia Media Network, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com.
“When I left television, I vowed to use my communications skills to work for organizations about which I feel passionate,” Buckman said. “Journalism is certainly one area of great importance to me. Public education is another. I feel very lucky to have this opportunity to work for the district that not only provided me with a wonderful education but has continued to provide high-quality educations for my sons and their peers in today’s very different, technology-rich world. As an alumna, parent, resident and taxpayer in Lower Merion, I’m committed to working with the board, administration, staff, students and community to ensure the district’s success into the future.”
Buckman (LMHS ’82) and her husband, Terry, are the parents of three sons, Jason (LMHS ’11), William (LMHS ’14) and Micah (anticipated LMHS ’19). She serves on the board of trustees of Main Line Reform Temple and the board of the Philadelphia chapter of the Buoniconti Fund. For several years, she served as ticket chair of the Cynwyd ES carnival, and she was the longtime secretary/adbook chair of the LM Football Boosters.
Amy Buckman
"The Lower Merion School District fully supports the ongoing implementation of an anti-racist curriculum in its schools and encourages the use of developmentally appropriate books that raise awareness of the very real issues of racism and privilege," Buckman said.
Not really but it’s the SAME school district.
In the whole country.
The BLM looters could go in there and clean up, and the residents would probably help them carry off their “reparations.”
Show up at local schoolboard meeting with 500 parents carrying pitchforks and torches. I guarantee you that the schoolboard will cave to any demands made by the parents, including firing the morons at Gladwyne Elementary School in Lower Merion School District.
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