Posted on 02/16/2024 3:42:01 PM PST by KingofZion
California has grand ambitions for ethnic studies. By 2025, the state’s public high schools — about 1,600 of them — must teach the subject. By 2030, students won’t be able to graduate high school without it....
But even in a liberal state like California, scholars, parents and educators have found themselves at odds over how to adapt the college-level academic discipline for high school students, especially because of its strong views on race and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
Ethnic studies focuses on four groups: Black Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and Asian Americans. It aims to critique various forms of oppression and spur students to take action, often drawing analogies across disparate expanses of time and geography. The Palestinian experience of displacement is central to that exercise, and has been compared by some scholars to the Native American experience.
In reworking ethnic studies for high school, California came up with a 700-page model curriculum that captures much of the discipline’s leftist, activist spirit. But it added the stories of other ethnic groups, including Jewish Americans, while eliminating discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It said lessons should include “multiple perspectives” on political issues.
Now some prominent ethnic studies scholars and educators say the state has bowed to political critics and censored their field. They are promoting a competing vision, which they call “liberated ethnic studies.” It is truer to how the subject is taught in colleges, but more politically fraught. It largely excludes the histories of ethnic groups, including Jews, who are typically understood as white within the discipline’s context. (Arab American studies is defined as fitting into Asian American studies.) And it offers lessons that are critical of Israel — and, some argue, antisemitic.
A number of California school districts are working with curriculum consultants who embrace liberated ethnic studies...
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C’mon San Andreas’ Fault!
Hear hear..
How about instead of wishing for the death of your fellow Americans you instead demand that the illegals who are 100% the reason the democrats are in power be deported
I didn’t wish death on anyone. I just want to see San Andreas erupt. CA has earthquake protocols in place, they’ll be fine.
Sadly, California is in a death spiral. The further left the state’s politburo, ahem legislature, lurches, the more normal Americans leave. That increases the concentration of leftist voters, giving the communists, drug addicts, illegal aliens, race baiters, sexual deviants, welfare parasites, etc. that much more power.
California is at a tipping point. Soon it will be more of a liability to the rest of the USA, than an asset. I told my family and friends they should get used to doing without California grown produce during the drought a few years ago, for communist countries almost always become net food importers.
Some future, patriotic American president, be that person Donald Trump, or someone else, could face a terrible choice: let California secede due to a “fascist” election? Sacramento’s politburo would quickly invite Chinese “peacekeepers” in to build military bases on American soil. Or would said patriotic president do what none since Lincoln has done, that is, wage all out civil war to save the Republic?
I remember how, in my 8th-grade English class, back in 1973 (in northern CA), we were all required to select, read, and report on a book about ethnic minorities - so I chose "A Separate Peace," by John Knowles, and reported on the plight of W.A.S.P.s in modern American society.
Needless to say, I got a lot of flack for that from the teacher.
Regards,
I guess that whites will just allow themselves to be ground up and destroyed.
Such is modern America. Everyone knows that the greater your "victim cred" the more benefits are to be had.
Oh yes, it's called Ethnic Studies. But really, it's See How Those Evil Whites Oppressed My People Studies.
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