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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I was thinking the same thing. Are we going to sit back and let impressionable kindergarteners be white shamed?
“1984 is here now!”
No, 1984 has been here for the last 50 years, as so-called conservatives sit on their fat asses and refuse to attend schoolboard meetings. At these schoolboard meetings, conservatives can insist that public schools be run as demanded by conservatives.
How can that happen? Well, conservatives can run for schoolboard seats who are voted in by conservative voters. That will require that conservatives postpone the kitchen remodeling project and Saturday night barbecue and start organizing.
I for one support this notion. If everyone that doesnt support democrats has to be "a racist" then at least we should all learn how to do it correctly.
Lower Merion is mostly uber left, except for Bryn Mayr and Bala Cynyd.
And Ardmore.
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