I remember how it was -- JR
High School Lesson Plans Tell California Students They’re Inherently Privileged If Male, Cisgender, White, Christian
The last sentence below summarizes the misguided belief that underlies the current anti-white craziness. Despite the vast efforts to privilege blacks via "affirmative action", some people still think that the economic and social backwardness commonly experienced by blacks is the result of what whites do. We must not consider that blacks are inherently less capable at dealing with the challeges of the modern world -- as is plainly seen in their usually dismal educational performance
Minorities of European, East Asian (Chinese) and South ASian (Indian) origin all trend to outdo native-born American whites economically so how come they are not held back by the supposed barriers and privileges that American whites suppposedly erect?
Criical Race theory is Criical Race mythology -- A desperate attempt to escape racial reality. The real privileges accrue to blacks. You must not blame them for anything, not even thir own incompetence or extreme criminality
Following requests for comment from The Daily Signal, Desert Sands Unified School District public information officer Mary Perry said “the lesson was not in alignment with the district-adopted curriculum” and “actions are being taken to rectify the situation.”
“The teacher was operating outside the scope of [the] adopted curriculum and had potentially presented a biased position,” Perry said. “Corrective action is underway.”
The Daily Signal so far has not been able to determine which teacher or teachers used or wrote the lecture materials.
Graphics included in the lecture materials for Nov. 15 to 19 warn students that if they “don’t have to think about it, it’s a privilege.”
“If you can use public bathrooms without stares, fear, or anxiety, you have cisgender privilege,” reads one graphic.
Another graphic says: “If, while growing up, college was an expectation of you, not a lofty dream, you have class privilege.”
Desert Sands Unified School District parent Celeste Fiehler posted the lesson plans in the Facebook group Informed Parents of California after another parent made her aware of the ideological content.
Fiehler said in her Facebook post that the materials were used in a ninth grade English class, noting that students were told “no cellphones allowed.”
“Wonder why,” she added in her post.
Fiehler told The Daily Signal on Tuesday that the lesson plans were from an Advanced Placement English class at La Quinta High School, but is unsure which teacher or teachers gave the lectures.
La Quinta High School did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.
‘Check Your Privilege’
The lesson plans appeared to be lifted from a 2014 campaign by the University of San Francisco’s Intercultural Center led by associate professor of psychology J. Garrett-Walker and professor of marketing Sonja Martin Poole.
The “Check Your Privilege” campaign defines privilege as “unearned access to social power based on membership in a dominant social group.”
The campaign’s stated goal is to teach students, faculty, and staff at the university about privilege and to “encourage the use of privilege to advocate for others.”
Kenny Snell, a teacher in the school district and spokesman for Desert Sands Unified School District Recall, told The Daily Signal in an email that his school board recall organization considers any lesson based on “critical race theory pedagogies to be objectionable.”
“Politically biased indoctrination, that divides our students into victims and oppressors, educates them from the annals of Fake News stories from the legacy media, and instructs them in the ways of violent BLM [Black Lives Matter] and Antifa ‘civic activism’ does not belong in public education,” said Snell, who said he currently is not teaching because he is “out on disability” due to a mask mandate.
“If you can expect time off from work to celebrate your religious holidays, you have Christian privilege,” one poster from the University of San Francisco’s Check Your Privilege campaign says.
“If you’re confident that police exist to protect you, you have white male privilege,” says another poster.
“If you cannot be legally fired from work because of your perceived sexuality, you have heterosexual privilege,” reads a third.
Garrett-Walker and Poole did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Signal, nor did the University of San Francisco.
Desert Sands Unified School District did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Signal regarding which teacher or teachers used the lesson plans in question.
Are You a Member of the ‘Oppressed?’
The Desert Sands lecture materials also included a discussion of a TED Talk titled “I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype.”
“Stereotypes are part of a dominant narrative that is perpetuated by the media (film, TV, etc), people in power and oftentimes our elders,” the lesson plans say. “Notice that all of those groups have some kind of power and privilege (economic, political, age) over others.”
The lecture plans then dive into “systems, power, and privilege” discussions. Systems of power, according to the materials, are “the beliefs, practices, and cultural norms on which individual lives and institutions are built.”
These systems of power are “rooted in social constructions of race and gender” and “are embedded in history (colonization, slavery, migration, immigration, genocide) as well as present-day policies and practice,” the lesson plans say. “These systems of power reinforce the structural barriers that are the root causes of inequality experienced by people of color.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/11/california-high-school-students-ordered-check-your-privilege
****************************************More School Choice Needed as Teachers Unions Force More COVID-19 School Closings
For the third straight day last week, the Chicago Teachers Union canceled classes, choosing to return to virtual learning and citing dangers from the omicron variant as its excuse.
To many, this is seen as nothing more than a teachers’ strike and power grab executed by a union that historically supports Democrat politicians. Democrats send federal aid to the union, and the union then uses it to turn out more votes for Democrats. Anyone else see a double problem in this mutual back-scratching system?
When Boston police officers went on strike in 1919, then-Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge called the strikers “deserters” and “traitors,” adding, in a telegram to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.”
While the situation in Chicago is different from the Boston police strike, the refusal by teachers to return to classrooms is causing a different kind of harm to children and parents. There is the mental and emotional damage caused to children, in addition to challenges associated with learning from home and the financial and child care pressure on parents.
The federal government has supplied $5 billion to Illinois for the purpose of keeping schools open and in-classroom teaching. As in many other states, Illinois has been using the money for other purposes. While this is technically allowed, politicians should demand the money back if states and cities don’t use the money for the purpose for which it was intended.
Could the fact that most private and religious schools remained open during the pandemic be because they didn’t have union bosses dictating to them?
There may never be a better time to break the power of the teachers unions, and what is likely the last monopoly in America, the public school system.
School choice is the answer. Competition works in every other field. It can also work in education. Currently, there are 27 voucher programs in 16 states and the District of Columbia, according to Education Commission of the States. More are needed, and now is the opportune moment for voters to pressure politicians into creating them in other states that don’t offer them.
“Illinois offers K-12 students and their parents several types of school choice, including two private programs, charter schools, magnet schools, home schooling and intra-district public school choice via an open enrollment policy,” according to edchoice.org. More parents should investigate and take advantage of them.
The intellectual, moral, and patriotic education of our children are keys to maintaining the country we have enjoyed for more than two centuries. Other countries, especially China, are way ahead of us when it comes to math and science. They send many of their top students here to be educated at our best universities, and many then return to China to apply what they’ve learned in ways that further the interests of their country, interests that are often counter to our own.
One of the definitions of “monopoly” is “an exclusive privilege to carry on a business, traffic, or service, granted by a government.”
The education monopoly has long exceeded its sell-by date and needs to be broken up. This will allow parents, not government, to decide which system best suits their children. Education choice puts children first, ahead of government and unions.
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One good effect of Covid on education
In some respect, COVID-19 has produced a few silver linings. Our children were forced into remote learning at home. Stripped of the essential need for in-person learning, children suffered miserably.
Nevertheless, from the ashes of the destructive consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures comes a welcome revelation. Parents have been forced to become a more integral part of the child’s education.
What happened was these now “engaged and enraged parents” see through the injustice that is being perpetrated on their children. The woke culture has taken over the classroom. American children are being indoctrinated by the woke left.
It is a corrupt ambition to change the way our society thinks. Children were being forced to study lesson plans that promote division in our country. Children are being divided into social classes and by race. Our kids were being used as pawns in a deceitful game.
The intention was to transform our great democracy into a communist nation. If not for being “unmasked by COVID-19”, the radical progressive left would have probably continued to brainwash our children. Not any longer.
The curtain’s been ripped back. Parents across the U.S. are outraged, none more so than one aggravated father. During one school board meeting, a dad tore into his local school board. He began his rant by telling the board how disgusted he was with their performance.
"Let me tell you right now you sad little betas, you are seen as weak minuscule men. And I tell my [unintelligible] men like you, those aren’t men. You will be weak, minuscule men the rest of your lives, and I’m not going to let you influence the boys in this community to be little cucks. You understand? This is a city of men, not betas, not gender-identified people. There are men and there are women and there are betas and there are alphas and this omicron crap is a joke."
"Take the mask off, take a deep breath, go do some yoga … this is psychological damage. And I know you’re looking at me bro cause you know what I’m saying is truth. You know it, and you’re going to go home and sleep on this and it’s going to bother you. And I’ll be back in two weeks, bro. I’ll be back every two weeks cause I own my own business, I homeschool my kids, and I can do that because no one else signs my checks. We sign their checks and you best bet that I’m going to run a boatload of people against you guys. There ain’t gonna be no easy peasy election next time. … you guys are toast. I don’t care what you did in your community because this is enough. You can go do all the good you want but when you poison my kids’ mind, it’s done. You’ve crossed the line. So I’m letting you know, we’re pissed and it’s enough."
Certainly, he is not alone. After seeing how teachers’ unions and school administrators have been manipulating classroom curriculum, parents like this dad are showing up at board meetings like never before. They are voicing their anger. They’ve had enough.
Children’s minds are being poisoned with socialist propaganda. The objective is to create a generation of people who are constantly afraid. Children are being brainwashed to live in fear as they grow into adults. It’s about the power of mind control.
Communities of parents across America are standing up for their children. They are exposing the internal corruption within the school boards. School board members are being recalled and chastised with the power of the vote for their deceitful culpability in this charade.
While the powerful left-controlled teachers’ unions are hugely responsible, school boards across the country have been complicit. However, because of the COVID-19 lockdowns, parents now are well aware of what’s going on. They are furious.
Because of a virus, there are going to be a ton of bad things the world must recover from. However, there are going to be some silver linings from this dark cloud. The world can act and honor the memory of those who unnecessarily died.
Our own nation is becoming more aware of how terrible health decisions gave the virus a stronger hold. Furthermore, we’ve watched corrupt bureaucrats take advantage of a devastating crisis. There have used a deadly virus to force compliance and exercise control.
However, COVID-19 has also exposed things. It’s revealed the corruption in our school systems. It’s ignited a battle between awakened parents and corrupt, complicit school boards. With more parents like this angry dad taking action, American parents will win.
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