Posted on 10/31/2020 9:16:41 AM PDT by karpov
The Minnesota Health and Education departments defended a children's book about racial injustice after a law enforcement trade organization in the state claimed it demonizes police officers.
The two agencies issued a joint statement praising the book “Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice” after it was slammed by the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association (MPPOA), the Minnesota Star Tribune reported Friday.
The agencies said they recommend the book, which won multiple awards and was authored by psychologists, because it seeks “to help children process a difficult set of issues.”
However, MPPOA sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz (D) claiming the book is being used to “instill fear of police officers in young children.”
“Language in this book leaves the impression unchecked that police officers routinely pull over, arrest and kill black people without consequence,” MPPOA President Brian Peters wrote in the letter. “It says cops are ‘mean to black people’ or ‘shot them because they were black’ or police officers ‘stick up for each other’ to help police officers get away with doing bad things.”
“This book encourages children to fear police officers as unfair, violent and racist,” he continued.
MPPOA called for the state to cease recommending the book as a form of instruction and request “a follow-up conversation on the approval process of this book.”
The MPPOA, which represents 10,500 active law enforcement officers, cited the book being used for a book report assignment in a 4th grade class in Burnsville, Minn.
“Our members deserve better from the state than to see their profession demonized,” Peters wrote to Walz.
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Presenting difficult Adult issues to children is called child abuse and is a crime. Every human being knows that.
Political Correctness is a shit sandwich, time to stop eating it.
I am waiting for a politician to give Americans CHOICES versus state monopolies.
The biggest state monopolies are in health-care and education.
Give Americans the choice to divert what they already pay in huge premiums and taxes to other places, where they have control and choice
Fourth graders simply do not have to face this bull stuff.
More mind numbing propaganda from the ‘government must
control everything’ crowd.
This is the main cause of the strife we are seeing in the
streets today. That and the willingness of billionaires
to finance the mayhem.
School should be for core learning, not peripheral propaganda.
It sounds as though Minnesota is copying the Palestinian indoctrination of school children model.
Since MN wants to disband the cops, why should they bother to complain; it’ll all go away when they’re gone.
MN. The scumbag state.
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But schools are so important we must keep them open even when we lock down the small businesses resturants, bars etc. is the new mantra coming from Fauciland. Already the rage in Europe and coming to the USA after the election.
The physicist Richard Feynman compared psychologists to witch doctors.
Oh, look! No waiting at the Kenya Airlines desk.
Also used in Tacoma, WA, as I know from a user who was in the classroom.
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