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3rd graders forced to 'decontruct their racial identities' in class assignment Children then required to rank themselves according to their 'power and privilege'
city-journal.org ^ | 1/13/2021 | Christopher Rufo

Posted on 01/16/2021 9:36:17 AM PST by rktman

An elementary school in Cupertino, California—a Silicon Valley community with a median home price of $2.3 million—recently forced a class of third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.”

Based on whistleblower documents and parents familiar with the session, a third-grade teacher at R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School began the lesson on “social identities” during a math class. The teacher asked all students to create an “identity map,” listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics. The teacher explained that the students live in a “dominant culture” of “white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian, English speaker[s],” who, according to the lesson, “created and maintained” this culture in order “to hold power and stay in power.”

Next, reading from This Book Is Antiracist, the students learned that “those with privilege have power over others” and that “folx who do not benefit from their social identities, who are in the subordinate culture, have little to no privilege and power.” As an example, the reading states that “a white, cisgender man, who is able-bodied, heterosexual, considered handsome and speaks English has more privilege than a Black transgender woman.” In some cases, because of the principle of intersectionality, “there are parts of us that hold some power and other parts that are oppressed,” even within a single individu

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Third grade? Why wait? Guilty 'em early, guilt 'em often. That way they have new recruits to fill in the pantyfa/$blm PROtester gaps in the future. AKA buydung's brown shirts.
1 posted on 01/16/2021 9:36:17 AM PST by rktman
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Look for more of this in the CCP Biden regime.


2 posted on 01/16/2021 9:38:50 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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As many people here need to get on their school boards as possible

All except for you liberal shills, that is.

Shill
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3 posted on 01/16/2021 9:38:58 AM PST by stanne
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Predators


4 posted on 01/16/2021 9:39:21 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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It’s obscene.


5 posted on 01/16/2021 9:40:38 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Key point from the article:

At the school, where the majority of families are Asian-American, the students have exceptionally high rates of academic achievement and the school consistently ranks in the top 1 percent of all elementary schools statewide.

Tiger Moms (and dads) need to fight this oppression.

6 posted on 01/16/2021 9:41:41 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Child abuse.


7 posted on 01/16/2021 9:42:39 AM PST by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quiality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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Communists!


8 posted on 01/16/2021 9:42:59 AM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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Cupertino is where Apple is HQ’d.


9 posted on 01/16/2021 9:43:34 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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What kind of insidious brainwashing is this?!

If I had a child they’d be out of that school in an instant.


10 posted on 01/16/2021 9:43:35 AM PST by Skywise
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didn’t they teach somewhere in the 1930’s about racial superiority?

you can mark my words that the 2020’s will be the most volatile decade for the world since the 1940’s.


11 posted on 01/16/2021 9:45:24 AM PST by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, if the Democrats don’t cheat)
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Indoctrination


12 posted on 01/16/2021 9:46:11 AM PST by hoe_cake ( Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution)
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Because everything old is new again.


13 posted on 01/16/2021 9:47:06 AM PST by jazminerose (How many tanks in the street does it take to convince America he “won”?)
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Obviously if any such privilege existed the White would then get a higher grade. But the opposite is done. Duh


14 posted on 01/16/2021 9:48:02 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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It is not legal to ask a student their religion (unless it is a religious school). That is discrimination. This teacher needs to be fired and then sued.


15 posted on 01/16/2021 9:49:03 AM PST by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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“you can mark my words that the 2020’s will be the most volatile decade for the world since the 1940’s.”

The history and social studies we were taught in the 1960s/70s will be totally erased soon.


16 posted on 01/16/2021 9:49:35 AM PST by hoe_cake ( Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution)
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We kids established rank and privilege on our own. Didn’t need any help from the grownups.


17 posted on 01/16/2021 9:50:25 AM PST by Cboldt
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“has more privilege than a Black transgender woman”

And even less “privilege” then a blonde, blue eyed Scandinavian woman, flashin’ down the street with her shades on.

Yeah. So what. Yer born with whatcha got. Ain’t got enough? Take it up with yo parents.


18 posted on 01/16/2021 9:52:46 AM PST by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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Kids are almost better off without education if this is what’s considered education.

There are plenty of online homeschool programs, forget the state run indoctrination centers.


19 posted on 01/16/2021 9:53:40 AM PST by Irenic
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20 posted on 01/16/2021 9:54:07 AM PST by SpaceBar
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