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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: guilttrip; nea
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To: rktman

I understand why this is a problem, but it’s also a waste of time, which is just as big a problem. Nine years from now, a lot of these kids will emerge from high school without having learned anything of value. They cannot be considered educated in any way that is faithful to the meaning of the word. No normal person ever thinks about the example given in the last paragraph of the excerpt. The Left always lifts up and advances abnormality. Always.

Oh, and “folkx”? To hell with that, too.


41 posted on 01/16/2021 10:54:35 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: rktman

We’ve all seen this movie before, most Black and Hispanic kids can’t keep up with average Whites and Asians. But instead of acknowledging the obvious reality playing out under their noses, our willfully blind unionized education specialists pretend the underlying cause is anything and everything except a fundamental difference in basic intelligence. They then promote expensive and self-serving remedies like Head Start, Free Breakfast and Lunch, Midnight Basketball, New Math, etc. Then, when nothing works to improve abysmal performance, they turn to suppressing the records of White and Asian achievement. Next, after creating a fraudulent record of accomplishment, the SAT is revised to provide an artificial boost for middling students to make them seem competitive to elite colleges. Yet, after the well prepared Whites and Asians are denied admission in favor of impostors, the sad reality is revealed as the woefully unprepared Blacks and Hispanics can’t keep up, and no matter how many special remedial classes or tutorials the colleges offer a shocking number of Black and Hispanic students drop out.
That’s the reality!
And, as long as the elementary school system keeps making up fraudulent excuses for Black and Hispanic under-achievment, that reality will continue to furnish the hidden agenda for blaming Whites and Asians for the undeniable shortcomings of dullards, cowards, and fools.


42 posted on 01/16/2021 10:59:48 AM PST by Knocker (Tell the truth and run like hell)
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To: rktman

Leftist ideology so blinded the “teacher” that they failed to notice the class was full of Asian children!


43 posted on 01/16/2021 11:00:33 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: rktman

You’re right. New York and Illinois are striving to become caulifourkneeuh #2 and caulifourkneeuh #3.


44 posted on 01/16/2021 11:00:57 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: FormerFRLurker

The Asians kids will learn—never trust adults, ever.

Good lesson!


45 posted on 01/16/2021 11:01:24 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
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To: rktman

Laying a load of guilt on the light skinned kids, and training the dark kids to see themselves as entitled victims of the light skinned kids.

If the schools didn’t do this, we would already have 3 generations of kids grow up to be non-racist and color blind.


46 posted on 01/16/2021 11:03:37 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: rktman

I’d figuratively have the schools heads if they pushed that crap on my kids. It is 100% anti-God.
If you have a problem with who you are; take it up with God. Until then, be thankful for what you have, and work on yourself to do better for yourself.


47 posted on 01/16/2021 11:05:57 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: rktman

Why would parent subject their children to this? Have you given your children to the state?


48 posted on 01/16/2021 11:10:46 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: SpaceBar

Is that the same painting on Harold Ford’s wall?


49 posted on 01/16/2021 11:13:03 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: pinkandgreenmom

“My classes are filled with projects about white privilege and guilt”

I would think creating an racially negative atmosphere would be a violation of federal law.


50 posted on 01/16/2021 11:15:07 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Knocker

Sort of like being reinforced since CRA ‘64 that ‘they’ don’t measure up/are oppressed and need help to make it. Constantly and consistently repeated with trillions spent to do so. No wonder there’s a divide.


51 posted on 01/16/2021 11:15:29 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from the inside? Check! WTH? Screwed, blued and tatooed.)
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To: rktman
When the government has convinced the people that none of them have a right to advantage, earned or not, then only the government will have the right to advantage.

That is how 'oppressed' categories are being led to slaughter right alongside the aggressor/'privileged' categories.

The un-privleged, by rooting for this lunacy, are agreeing to this even as they cheer it on since it benefits them in the short term. When government eventually tells them they have no privilege either, they will have already agreed in principle.

The only ones with privlege at that point will be the powerful, and they will not give it up because they will hold all the power (i.e. government has legal monopoly on initiation of use of force,) and it will be the usual human-history-cycle of a thugocracy.

That is the direction, but alas, I preach to the choir.

52 posted on 01/16/2021 11:17:34 AM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: rktman

This teacher would do this to my kid once!!!


53 posted on 01/16/2021 11:19:31 AM PST by eeriegeno
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To: rktman

“the existence of a racially hostile environment that is created, encouraged, accepted, tolerated or left uncorrected by a recipient also constitutes different treatment on the basis of race in violation of title VI.”

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/race394.html


54 posted on 01/16/2021 11:21:05 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Pajamajan

STUPID PARENTS THAT GO ALONG WITH THIS CRAP DESERVE IT


55 posted on 01/16/2021 11:23:37 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: rktman

Here are my suggestions:

Don’t ever put your kids in public schools

Put them in a private or parochial school

If you can’t afford the tuition, home school if possible

Find a co-op parents group that school kids and accept voluntary help in lieu of tuition.

If those suggestions fail, buy legitimate educational material for your kids.

And instill in your kids to NEVER, EVER VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT OR A REPUBLICAN (until the GOP is purged of RINOs).


56 posted on 01/16/2021 11:25:51 AM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: rktman

Get your children out of public schools. NOW.


57 posted on 01/16/2021 11:34:24 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (I have a burning hatred of anyone who would vote for a demented, pedophile, crook and a commie whore)
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To: stanne

A screwl that accepts federal money is controlled by federal laws. The screwl board can only change where they get the money from before they change the rules. Changing the money source is double taxation.


58 posted on 01/16/2021 11:36:47 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (I have a burning hatred of anyone who would vote for a demented, pedophile, crook and a commie whore)
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To: Pajamajan

and everyone expresses outrage but nobody ever withdraws their children.


59 posted on 01/16/2021 11:39:50 AM PST by tunedin
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To: rktman

Well, that’s one of the most HOPEFUL articles I’ve read in a while. Engaged parents fighting back against leftist lunacy. I wish more parents were aware & fighting!


60 posted on 01/16/2021 11:45:43 AM PST by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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