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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OK everyone, it’s really time to put a stop to all of this!
I applaud Ms Fishbein for her courage. One woman who refuses to be shut down. Hope others will join her.
WE lower taxes on rich upscale people and then they turn into leftie nut cases. We need more taxes on these people not less.
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Abolish Government Schools!!!
Has anybody alerted AntiFa/BLM about this target “rich” environment?
Amy needs to be gone.......
There is no legal defense against her ilk in America gone lawless
Save for later, are the schools there going to open?
that’s great! Blazing Saddles should be required viewing.
They should also have a Woke Supremacy class to cover modern day Supremacy movements.
What? Teach ‘em how to be good white supremacists??
You pull your kids out of public school, and the money coming to the school district from the state. You can control what your children are taught
Antifa and BLM don't give a shit about this. They would probably applaud a commitment to teaching kids anti-racism, but this sort of thing isn't real high on their agenda.
Does anything good come out of the Lower Merion School district?
This is the THIRD time in many years, they have been on the forefront of some really weird, controversial situation.
The first was the school issued laptops that were actually spying on the kids at home. even when the kids thought they were turned off, someone at the school could turn them on and monitor the kids activities at home.
56,000 Photos Taken in Student-Laptop Scandal
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/webcamgate-56000-shots-taken-via-student-laptops/1895795/
Here’s a link to all the FR articles that were keyworded with *Lower Merion* about that debacle.
http://freerepublic.com/tag/lowermerion/index?tab=articles
I don’t remember the second very clearly but there was something amiss there a few years later.
And now this.
So, they’re going to teach the little ones of nonwhite heritage that we whites are supreme and are better than them?
Make no mistake they will try to push this in all public school,districts.
Based on the educators in my neck of the woods, the kids are already getting the Whitey lessons at home.
I wonder what the differences are between them? Ha Ha.
Is it racist to watch Dan Ratherbiased vs Don Sucka Lemon?
I used to live in Gladwyne back in the early 2000’s and I am not surprised by this at all. These folks are well insulated from Philly’s crime and violence. In fact, the only non-whites I remember in that neighborhood were pro athletes, pro sports coaches, and the occasional celebrity. I’ll bet over 80% of the parents in Gladwyne send their kids to Haverford (boys) or Baldwin (girls).
Go down the hill a bit into the rest of Lower Merion and things get a little more colorful.
#EndWhiteShaming
Talk about systemic racism
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