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SHOCKING: MI Governor Admits Promoting This in Public Schools
According to national data, American schools are failing, especially in larger urban areas run by national teachers’ unions. Instead of raising standards, far-leftists are instead feeding social justice into the schools, increasing racial tensions, while promoting more and more gender identities.
On the darker side of their efforts, in line with other dictators who from the beginning of world history have targeted children, an increasing amount of new curriculum is being used to indoctrinate the youth.
One of the worst is Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer who has aggressively pushed for the insertion of critical race theory into her state’s schools. Now her administration is providing controversial material promoting race essentialism to teachers.
Whitmer’s Educator Advisory Council has published a report called “Social Justice and Anti-Racist Educator Resources”. It gives schools and teachers the materials they need to push race-essentialism, ensures that race is seen as a central determinative factor in everyday interactions, and teaches some children that they are oppressed and others that they are oppressors based entirely on the color of their skin.
The report’s opening page includes; “The compilation aims to help colleagues begin, continue, and further their own work to FIRST educate themselves and then bring anti-racist teaching to all grade levels and subject areas.”
To kick off their new instruction, the teachers are told to read an article titled 106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice. This piece, in what appears to be an update in their February 2022 article says, “Our work to fix what we broke and left broken. The work isn’t done until Black folks tell us it’s done.”
In their mission statement, it declares “We, as members of the Governor’s Educator Advisory Council, hear the moral outcry being shouted and felt throughout the world. … We believe education is the key to promoting social justice in society.”
“We realize we are battling two deadly viruses: COVID-19 and the virus of racism,” it continues. “We pledge to promote educational policies, practices, and resources which will help put an end to systemic racism. We will fight for more diversity in all aspects of the educational profession.”
The material references the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It instructs teachers that “whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America’s history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.”
“People of color must always consider their racial identity, whatever the situation, due to the systemic and interpersonal racism that still exists,” and “whiteness (and its accepted normality) also exist as everyday microaggressions toward people of color.”
https://trendingpolitics.com/shocking-mi-governor-admits-promoting-this-in-public-schools-ethom/
***************************************Academic sabotage at NYC’s famed arts high school
Count LaGuardia HS for the Performing Arts is yet another casualty in the war on excellence. How long will it take new Chancellor David Banks to reverse the school system’s bias against achievement?
Students and parents at the “Fame”ous school just learned that its Advanced Placement Calculus class lost College Board accreditation this year. Worse, some teachers have reportedly discouraged kids from taking AP exams.
This, a year after parental outcry supposedly got the school to drop plans to undermine its AP offerings.
AP classes are a huge win for kids, since they can earn college credits if they pass the corresponding test and save big money if they finish faster. How is discouraging them from taking the test helping students?
It’s been a tug of war: Lisa Mars was forced out as LaGuardia principal in 2019 after some students, parents and faculty found her to be too focused on academics. That ushered in new leadership that attacked AP classes as supposedly too stressful for kids and insufficiently creative (or something) for teachers.
The real issue seems to be the woke idea that high achievement is a “manifestation of white supremacy.” A PowerPoint presentation last year told families that “colleges acknowledge that standardized test scores reflect systemic racism rather than student achievement.”
All this is an insane disservice to kids. Banks, who rightly says increasing chances for students to excel is vital to restoring parental trust, should order a review of LaGuardia’s leadership and course offerings.
Any so-called educator who embraced the de Blasio-era assault on excellence should be shown the door.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/04/academic-sabotage-at-nycs-famed-arts-high-school/
******************************************$40,000-a-year Chicago private school boasted of injecting critical race theory into PHYSICS classes as far back as 2016 – and revealed that students' reactions would be 'tracked'
A $40,000-a-year- private school in Chicago had allegedly injected critical race theory into its physics classes as far back as 2016 and tracked students' attitudes to the courses to see to see if they were successful.
Emails from The Latin School of Chicago obtained by The Federalist, a conservative news outlet, revealed that former director Elizabeth Denevi introduced a new curriculum to ninth grad students called 'Social Justice in Physics' six years ago.
According to one email, which was addressed to parents, the course was meant to 'address power dynamics, systematic racism, white privilege and the shortage of people of color and women in the field of science, especially physics.'
The email explained that the course was designed by Moses Rifkin, a physics teacher at University Prep in Seattle who claims to work with white teachers to help them understand 'their privilege and the role they can and must play in working for social justice,' according to his bio on the Learning for Justice, a branch of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The course began with discussing the 'significant underrepresentation of Black American physicists' and asked students to complete a survey on a range of statements regarding race and racism.
The email also stated that the effectiveness of the course would be tracked through the survey as they hoped students would 'reflect deeply' on their lessons.
It is unknown if the course is still ongoing in the school, and The Latin School did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.
The lessons and theory taught are markedly similar to the types of 'equity' instruction that have roiled school boards across the US over the last year, with critics condemning the teachings as divisive and simplistic.
A separate email from a parent in the school, also obtained by The Federalist, showed that the parent was concerned about the course and the questions on the survey.
According to the email, the students were asked to rate the statements with how much they believed in it.
Some of the statements read: 'American society fits my definition of racist, Talking about race makes me uncomfortable and having questions about another race is an example of racism.
One statement read: 'White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society.'
Months after the course was implemented, Denevi went on to co-found Teaching While White, and education group working to help white educators become 'anti-racist in the classroom.'
This year, San Francisco School District recalled three board members over their woke obsessions - keeping schools shut for far longer than other US cities because of 'safety.'
The same board infuriated the city's parents by removing merit-based entry to the city's top public high school, Lowell, in favor of a lottery system to enhance 'equity' by increasing the number of black and Latino attendees.
While depriving students of in-class instruction, San Francisco's School District got stuck into renaming local schools whose current titles were deemed 'problematic' - including one facility named after Abraham Lincoln.
The board also sought to destroy an almost 100 year-old mural by a well-regarded Depression-era artist over its depiction of Native Americans.
Similar incidents have played out across the US this year, with boards in Virginia also roiled by their obsession with 'equity' based topics and race.
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