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Two Seattle-area schools are using the Black Lives Matter movement to push anti-police curriculum to second graders. When asked why the content was chosen to begin with, districts haven’t been especially forthcoming. Among the lessons being promoted, either in the virtual classroom or via third-party resources to parents, students as young as 7-years-old are taught that racist police routinely target innocent Black Americans but don’t suffer consequences because police cover for each other. Content also pushes far-left social justice causes as students are told to become social justice activists. What’s worse, the schools only remove or revise the content after...

King and Kingmaker by: Deborah Lambert, February 01, 2008 If the top-tier Democratic presidential candidates had their way, the homosexual fairy tale book, King and King, would be deemed appropriate for all second graders. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards recently stated their opinions about the controversial book in New Hampshire. [Before dropping out of the race] John Edwards noted that despite his opposition to gay marriage, he was firmly in favor of his children understanding “the difficulties that gay and lesbian couples are faced with every day.” Obama agreed with Edwards, and Clinton reiterated her support for passage...

Rainforests are disappearing at a frightening rate, the students were taught, so they raised $523 for an activist group’s "protect an acre" program. At the behest of their teacher and the group, they trekked into Manhattan to ask a major bank to "stop lending money to projects that destroy endangered forests and cause global warming." Indoctrination and manipulation are deplorable enough when high school or college students are involved. But these were second graders, and the close cooperation between their teacher and radical environmentalists underscores a widening problem. People want to live in a clean, civil and safe world, activists...