Sydney teacher found to have racially vilified Indian student

This report rather grieves me. I have been to India 3 times and have always admired Indian people for their patience and good nature amid adversity. And a very important person in my life at the moment is of wholly Indian descent. I admire her greatly. See her below:




The Department of Education has been ordered to make an official apology to a former Cronulla High School student after a teacher allegedly described Indian people as “Uber drivers and Deliveroo people” during a Year 12 business studies class.

The teacher – James Anderson – played an educational YouTube video for the class entitled Elements Of Marketing which featured a presenter of Indian descent.

During the video, Anderson is alleged to have mocked the presenter before saying “all Indians are Uber drivers and Deliveroo people, and their service is bad”.

The incident, which happened on March 3, 2021, was complained about by a student who was of Indian descent.

The student and her parents met with the principal following the incident, but filed a complaint with NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal after being unsatisfied with the school’s response.

“As the video was playing, I saw Mr Anderson, while smiling, glance at me a few times and continue to mockingly giggle at the lady and her accent,” the student said during her evidence at the tribunal.

“During the playing of the video which ran for over twenty minutes, I recall a girl in the class asking for the video to be turned off a few times ... but Mr Anderson did not do so.

“I was distressed and uncomfortable that Mr Anderson was looking at me during the video and mocked the Indian presenter, knowing that I am of Indian race. It was embarrassing and hurtful.”

During his evidence, Anderson denied mocking the presenter, but admitted he said something to the effect of: “Don’t assume because she is Indian that she is an Uber driver or works at 7-Eleven”, before complaining about the quality of service provided by Uber and food delivery providers.

He admitted his statements were “inappropriate” and “racial in nature”.

“At the time there was nothing in the nature of any reactions by the students in the class that day to cause me to think that one or more of the students was upset,” he told the tribunal.

On Tuesday, the Tribunal handed down its decision finding the student’s complaint of racial vilification substantiated.

The Tribunal ordered the Department of Education – the first respondent in the case – to issue the student with a written apology which acknowledged the Tribunal’s findings of racial vilification and the harm caused to her.

The teacher remains at the school but received a disciplinary warning and training.

In a statement provided to the Herald, a spokesman for the Department of Education commended other students in the class who spoke up during the incident.

“We reject all forms of racism and are committed to the elimination of racial discrimination in NSW public schools,” he said.

“The matter was reported to the Professional and Ethical Standards Directorate in 2021 and appropriate action was taken.”

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-teacher-found-to-have-racially-vilified-indian-student-20230802-p5dtc7.html

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A Back-to-School Warning

Parents of children going back to school — be warned! Your kids will continue to learn Marxist theories, hyper-sexualization, anti-American propaganda, social justice advocacy, and that capitalism and America are racist. They will be taught to hate themselves, others, and their country.

You would think that with all the legislation passed around the country to curtail these insidious pedagogies, parents could be more assured that teachers would get back to academics. Unfortunately, there is an abundance of evidence that teachers and administrators are admitting they will continue to indoctrinate children by finding ways to get around the new laws.

In fact, when the battle over critical race theory emerged two years ago, over 5000 teachers across the country signed a pledge initiated by the Zinn Education Project saying, “We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events — regardless of the law.” Accompanying The Zinn Education Project pledge is a statement that reads, “The major institutions and systems of our country are deeply infected with anti-Blackness and its intersection with other forms of oppression. To not acknowledge this and help students understand the roots of U.S. racism is to deceive them.” The Zinn Education Project provides training and materials to schools based on the approach to history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s controversial book A People’s History of the United States. In 2019, Dr. Mary Grabar published a book titled Debunking Howard Zinn wherein she identifies Zinn as a communist and provides evidence to expose the lies in his rewrite of American history.

Another example of school officials evading the law is found in a South Carolina law prohibiting the use of State funds to teach tenets of critical race theory. Many South Carolina school districts skirted the law by using federal COVID relief money to continue implementing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Social Emotional Learning, which are all conduits for Marxist critical theories.

Other tried and true ways to equivocate the law are also being implemented. Just as nearly every state in the nation rebranded their Common Core standards a decade ago to sidestep push-back from lawmakers and parents, an Idaho principal and district instructional coach said they would merely rebrand Social Emotional Learning as “behavior adaptations,” and “mental health curriculum.”

Moreover, many districts around the country are doubling down on grooming children into believing they are a gender contrary to their biological sex. Fargo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Rupak Gandhi brazenly said he will not “openly out any student because of one law.” It appears school officials will not only continue to influence children to reconsider their biological sex, but they will continue to do it behind the backs of parents.

There is a ray of hope in California’s Chino Valley Unified School District where parents recently applauded the removal of California School Superintendent Tony Thurmond from its school board meeting. Thurmond spoke in opposition to a proposed local school district policy “to require teachers to notify parents of students that identify as transgender.” Even in very liberal California, parents object to indoctrination and local districts are stepping up to regain control of their classrooms despite pressure from State government to push their anti-parent policies.

Parents, as well as every freedom-loving American, need to be aware of what is happening in government schools with their tax dollars. Parents should start by watching the groundbreaking documentary Truth & Lies in American Education to become fully informed of the array of dangerous philosophies children are taught. Then they can connect with others in their community to fight this battle for the minds of children. It ultimately is a battle of good versus evil.

A parents’ first line of defense should be to protect their children. The toxic agenda in government schools is tantamount to child abuse. Once children are safe, we must work together to protect our countries’ freedom. If we don’t stop the indoctrination of children, we will lose our very freedom. As Abraham Lincoln said, “The philosophy of the school room for one generation is the philosophy of the government of the next.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/sherifew/2023/07/30/a-back-to-school-warning-n2626343

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Proficiency in Math and Reading in Middle-School Students Continues to Drop, National Test Results Show

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, some worry the accelerated academic decline it seems to have started is only getting worse.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test for the 2022–23 school year indicates that 13-year-olds are poorer at reading and mathematics than during the 2019–20 school year.

The average reading score fell from 260 points to 256 points out of a possible 500. That meant the average dropped from a score of 52 percent to 51.2 percent.

The average math score went from 280 to 271. That means it declined from a score of 56 percent on the test to an average score of 54.2 percent, an NAEP analysis of test results shows.

These falls wipe out decades of educational improvement, putting reading scores one point above 1971 scores of 255 points and math scores five points above 1971's scores of 266, according to the survey.

Matthew Lynch, founder of The Edvocate, told The Epoch Times that the pandemic likely caused these decreased scores. The Edvocate calls for change in education policies in the hopes of improving quality.

"For many students, they were not exposed to quality curriculum and instruction" during the pandemic when schools mostly were closed, Mr. Lynch said. "Most of the education that they received was via distance learning."

And that was largely ineffective, he added.

Though scores have fallen faster since the pandemic began, educational scores have slowly been dropping since 2012, national test scores show.

"The 'green shoots' of academic recovery that we had hoped to see have not materialized, as we continue to see worrisome signs about student achievement and well-being more than two years after most students returned for in-person learning," said Peggy G. Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Educational Statistics, in a written statement.

This decline probably is a result of the widespread use of Common Core curriculum implemented in 2010, said Alex Nester, political director for Parents Defending Education.

Common Core is a set of education standards developed in 2010 by the National Governors Association. The federal government encouraged states to adopt the standards by offering grants.

Common Core has been largely unpopular among parents, many of whom claim it dumbs down standards, uses a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching, and gives the federal government too much power over instruction.

Originally, 45 states adopted Common Core standards. Four since have abandoned them.

"I remember going to school and learning we had to know our math facts," Ms. Nester told The Epoch Times. "You would do the flashcards, and you just had to—from sight—know those facts."

But Common Core emphasizes a "skill-set focus" that doesn't encourage the memorization of facts, she said.

This new emphasis has resulted in students learning less, Ms. Nester said.

In addition, increasing a classroom focus on radical gender ideology and racial issues in schools has taken time away from math and reading instruction, Ms. Nester said.

"You either spend that time in the classroom learning, or you don't," she said.

Students will only get back on track if the billions of dollars schools receive go toward good education programs, Ms. Nester said.

Student Slump

The decline in test scores hit all students, but it hit struggling students hardest, the survey results show.

Those in the Top 10 percentile saw average declines of three points in reading and seven points in math on the test.

Students scoring in the lowest 10 percent lost an average of seven points in reading and 15 in math.

"It's no coincidence that the lower-performing students tended to do the worst [during distance learning] because they needed the most help," Mr. Lynch said. "They're the ones that benefit the most from structured curriculum and instruction."

Boys and girls of all races and in all regions experienced some decline in reading and math scores, the study shows.

The least-impacted region was the South, with only a two-point drop in reading and a seven-point drop in math on the tests since 2020.

More Education Dollars

At the same time, funding for public schools has increased.

In 2019, America spent an average of $13,187 on education per public school child, according to the latest U.S. Census figures. Some areas of the country spent far less on each student, others spent far more.

Teacher salaries, benefits, and other daily expenses made up 86 percent of the expenditure, Census figures show.

But little of this money likely goes to increasing teacher salaries, Mr. Lynch said.

In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has promised $800 million in teacher raises. This amount will raise the starting salary for teachers by $7,000.

Although some other states have given teachers raises, the average teacher has received only a little more pay than they have in the past, Mr. Lynch said.

"I don't see it reflecting in salaries for teachers," he said.

In the 2021-2022 school year, teachers brought home $2,179 less yearly than they did a decade ago, considering adjustments for inflation, according to the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union.

Low teacher salaries, technically in decline due to inflation, make it difficult to attract talent to the profession, Mr. Lynch said.

Because of a shortage of math teachers, he said, "it is extremely hard for a lot of districts to even find quality math teachers."

Good Teachers Mean Good Schools
At the same time, teaching standards have eroded to the point that many people see school as a "babysitting service," Mr. Lynch said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/proficiency-in-math-and-reading-in-middle-school-students-continues-to-drop-national-test-results-show-5437905?ea_src=au-frontpage&ea_med=top-news-18

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Biden Will Withhold Federal Funding From Schools With Hunting, Archery Programs

The Biden administration apparently thinks that young archers are a real threat to safety. And, of course, getting rid of hunter safety classes for high school students must be an obvious way to improve safety. The Biden administration’s interpretation of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) will allow them to deny federal funding for schools with hunting or archery classes. The change will end schools having those classes.

Federal funding for public schools is substantial and hard for schools to ignore, with the average state’s public school receiving about 9 percent of their budgets.

Amazingly, some Republicans supported this bill – fifteen Senators and fourteen House members – and all the Democrats. Democrats and Republicans from states with lots of hunters voted for this bill. But with the bill passing by a 65-to-33 margin, it had votes to spare and would have passed without their support. There was more to the bill than just cutting off funds for hunter safety and archery classes, with money to encourage states to adopt Red Flag laws.

Some of these votes are hard to figure out. Democrat Senator Jon Tester represents Montana, the state with the third highest percentage of the population with hunters. Similarly, Senator Angus King comes from Maine and ranks fifth; Joe Manchin from West Virginia ranks ninth; and Baldwin (D-WI) from Wisconsin ranks eleventh. The most surprising Republican Senators were Alaska’s Murkowski (eighth-ranked state for hunters) and West Virginia’s Capito (ninth).

Biden and gun control advocates know that people who grow up around hunting are more likely to own guns when they get older.

But whether it isn’t banning lead bullets and fishing weights or putting thousands of gun dealers out of business, the Biden administration seems determined to use every option available to eliminate hunting.

The only possible claim for lead poisoning is if people eat the lead pellets from shotgun shells. Even then, the levels would be so far below any plausible health standards that it is hard to see anyone taking them as credible risks.

The Clinton administration looked into this and dismissed concerns about lead poisoning from bullets. You can see two letters written in 1999 and 2000 by Dr. William L. Marcus, then-senior science adviser at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water. In those letters, Marcus wrote that the “assertion that the use of lead-based ammunition is hazardous is in error,” as studies of adult shooters at outdoor ranges have not shown increased blood lead levels, and those shooting at “indoor properly ventilated firing ranges have shown no increases in blood lead levels.”

Marcus also noted, “Indoor ranges, when cleaned using prescribed protocols, have shown no increases in the blood lead levels of range personnel, and that lead does not pose an environmental threat when used in ammunition.”

A later 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study and the North Dakota Department of Public Health concluded that lead is so prevalent in meat harvested through hunting that pregnant women and children should never eat it. Unfortunately, other sources of lead poisoning weren't accounted for, and obviously, there are multiple sources of lead in the environment (the mean level of lead in the blood in the US is three micrograms, not zero). In addition, the highest level of lead in the blood for one of the 738 people sampled in the North Dakota study was less than what the government defines as elevated, even for children.

Given this skepticism of the underlying safety risks of lead, the Biden administration’s regulations look to be just another excuse to restrict gun ownership.

Finally, Biden’s Zero Tolerance Policy drove 1,826 licensed gun dealers out of business due to a compliance inspection in 2021 and 2022. Compare that to the 96 that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives put out of business in 2020. The numbers for 2021 were lower in part because it undoubtedly took the BATF time to implement the new rules. Biden claims that this policy revokes the licenses for “rogue gun dealers [who] feel like they can get away with selling guns to people who aren’t legally allowed to own them.” But these gun dealers aren’t selling guns out of the back of their stores to criminals. Biden is putting them out of business for trivial, inconsequential paperwork mistakes.

And it is much more than these regulations, such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies that make it costly for firearm companies to raise funds to the pressure Biden is putting on banks and other financial institutions not to do business with gun makers.

Biden is using the power of government regulation to crush industries that he doesn’t approve of from oil and gas companies to those in the firearms industry. Companies that are forced out of business now won’t be instantly replaced even when a new less hostile administration is elected. But the higher costs of guns means that the poor and the most vulnerable are going to find it much more difficult to defend themselves and their families.

https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2023/08/01/biden-will-withhold-federal-funding-from-schools-with-hunting-archery-programs-n2626470

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Gov. DeSantis issues direct challenge to Kamala Emptyhead to 'set the record straight' about curriculum

Last month, Harris seized on Florida's new curriculum standards, claiming state officials want to "gaslight" students by teaching them "that enslaved people benefited from slavery."

The curriculum, of course, does not teach that.

Rather, one specific standard says teachers should examine "the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation)." The added "benchmark clarification" explains that "instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."

Harris' claims set off a firestorm against DeSantis, which has included being attacked by fellow Republicans who also criticized the curriculum.

What is DeSantis doing now?

On Monday, DeSantis invited Harris to Tallahassee to discuss the standards with prominent scholar Dr. William Allen, a former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights who helped craft the standards.

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Allen is a descendant of slaves and has defended the standards vigorously.

"It's past time to set the record straight," DeSantis wrote in a letter. "In Florida we are unafraid to have an open and honest dialogue about the issues. And you clearly have no trouble ducking down to Florida on short notice.

"So given your grave concern (which, I must assume, is sincere) about what you think our standards say, I am officially inviting you back down to Florida to discuss our African American History standards. We will be happy to host you here in Tallahassee," he continued. "I will ask Dr. William Allen — instrumental in the development of our impressive new standards — to join. We welcome you, of course, to bring Randi Weingarten or someone else who shares your view about the standards."

DeSantis said he is prepared to meet as early as Wednesday. Harris is actually speaking in Orlando on Tuesday, so meeting would not be logistically difficult. She is traveling to Wisconsin on Thursday.

Indeed, a short turnaround time is not difficult for Harris because, according to CNN, Harris' team "quickly arranged" the trip to Florida, where she launched her attack against DeSantis and the new curriculum.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/desantis-challenges-kamala-harris-debate-curriculum

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Australia: Qld schools’ ban on religious knives deemed by Supreme Court to be racial discrimination and invalid

An old controversy.

Queensland’s weapons legislation barring Sikhs from carrying religious knives on school grounds is racial discrimination and is therefore invalid, the state’s highest court has found.

Sikh man Kamaljit Kaur Athwal has won a fight against the State of Queensland over a provision in the weapons act prohibiting the possession of a knife on school grounds for genuine religious purposes.

Initiated Sikhs are required to wear or possess five articles of faith at all times, including a ceremonial sword known as a kirpan, typically worn sheathed and concealed beneath clothing.

Under Queensland law, there is a reasonable excuse to possess a knife for genuine religious purposes, such as the Sikh faith.

But that does not extend to schools, with the legislation stating: “however, it is not a reasonable excuse to physically possess a knife in a school for genuine religious purposes”.

In 2021, Mr Athwal made an application to the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that the Weapons Act was inconsistent with the Racial Discrimination Act and was therefore invalid.

In September last year, Justice Sue Brown dismissed his application.

But the Court of Appeal has this week overturned the decision, finding the provision directed at Sikhs affected “their exercise of freedom of movement and freedom of religion in a significant way”.

“An initiated Sikh, who may be a student, a parent of a student or a teacher, is given the choice of committing an offence against (the weapons act), never entering a school or contravening the tenets of their religious belief by entering a school without physical possession of their kirpan,” the appeal judges wrote.

“By making provision that is directed at their religion, s 51(5) in its substantive operation provides for Sikhs to enjoy the rights to freedom of movement and freedom of religion to a more limited extent than persons of other ethnic groups.

“No other group finds their freedom of religion or freedom of movement limited in that way, by a law directed to a unique feature of the ethnic group’s religious beliefs.”

The appeal judges set aside the earlier order dismissing Mr Athwal’s application.

A declaration was made that section 51(5) of the Weapons Act 1990 is inconsistent with the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and was therefore invalid under the Commonwealth Constitution.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/qld-schools-ban-on-religious-knives-deemed-by-supreme-court-to-be-racial-discrimination-and-invalid/news-story/1d8ddadac45e29633573d620d335c339

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Thousands of British primary school children are given US-style lessons on 'white privilege' with pupils as young as five being taught controversial race theories

Teachers in thousands of British primary schools are being told to teach pupils as young as five about controversial race theories, with guidance arguing that children are 'never too young' to talk about it.

The Key, a national information service which boasts a £30 million turnover, had provided anti-racism resources for more than 13,000 schools and educational trusts in the UK.

Primary schools pupils are taught about American police brutality and that white children are 'strongly biased' in favour of 'whiteness', in US-style lessons on 'white privilege', it has been claimed.

Teachers are told that while topics like police brutality in the US may not seem age appropriate, they 'are likely to have heard about these issues in the news or discussed them at home.'

Guidance from the information service points towards the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man who was murdered by police in Minneapolis in 2020.

Critics have slammed the initiative after claiming that the material is backed by controversial critical race theory, which accepts that racism is entrenched in society.

Authors and academics claim that the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has led to British schools importing anti-racism material.

Tomiwa Owolade, author of This is not America, told The Times that theories that originate in the US do not 'reflect the actual experiences of British children and ethnic minority people in the UK'.

He added: 'Critical race theory came out of American constitutional law. It's the argument that after the end of segregation, America had still failed to improve the lives and conditions of black people.

'That very particular context simply doesn't apply to the UK, because we've never had segregation institutionalised in the UK.'

Campaigners and academics also claim that the research behind the instructions given to teachers for race-related discussions references racial division in the US.

In the guidance, one document titled, 'How to talk to pupils about racism', teachers are told that their pupils are 'never too young' to talk about it.

An infographic in the guidance, which uses data collected in the US, shows that white five-year-olds are 'strongly biased in favour of whiteness'.

The same infographic compares this with the attitudes of their black and 'Latinx' (Latino) classmates, who show no preference towards their own racial groups.

The guidance also urges teachers to not 'shy away from more difficult topics' when discussing differences between people in their classrooms.

Teachers are also encouraged to insist that disadvantaged white children have 'white privilege', even when they 'may not accept it'.

Guidance says that if this is challenged by a pupil who may say 'but I'm gay, poor, female', teachers should say that this 'doesn't erase their white identity'.

Staff are further instructed to 'decolonise' lessons plans and avoid teaching 'white savior narratives', such as centering white abolitionists when teaching children about slavery.

This also includes widening music curriculums to ensure that at least 50 per cent of the musicians or composers are from an ethnic minority background.

Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of Don't Divide Us (DDU) and the report's lead author, told The Times that discussions on race with children were important, but criticised the use of critical race theory, which is 'incompatible with educational aims and a democratic society'.

She said that lessons on race should be had 'in an impartial way and through the disciplines', adding: 'The problem is that this is being done in ways which circumvent that impartiality and in classes with children of a very young age.'

Defended its guidance for teachers, managing director of The Key Michael McGarvey said: 'Our job is to support schools with any challenges they face, including engaging with complex topics such as promoting equality and addressing racist or prejudiced attitudes.'

The Key was founded in 2007 as a government pilot to provide 'up-to-the-minute sector intelligence' for education leaders, with more than 120,000 school leaders are said to use the services.

The company provides packages of digital resources, which can cost up to £2,451 per school, boasts that it provides 'reliable, relevant and authoritative knowledge that's ready to use'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12358779/Thousands-British-primary-school-children-given-style-lessons-white-privilege-pupils-young-five-taught-controversial-race-theories.html

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Memphis cops thwart mass shooting at Jewish school by taking down 'former student' armed with a gun as he fired shots and tried to force his way inside

Staff at a Memphis Jewish school have been praised for their quick thinking after they blocked an armed man from entering and then called the police, leading to him being stopped shortly after.

Workers at Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South called police at 12:20pm on Monday to report that a man with a handgun had tried to get into the school, and fired his gun outside.

Michael Masters, CEO of the Secure Community Network, told Jewish Telegraphic Agency the suspect was a male in his 40s who tried to enter the school but was prevented from doing so due to a security system.

Congressman Steve Cohen told The Daily Memphian the suspect was Jewish, and a former student.

On finding the entrance blocked, he fled, but the school shared security camera footage of the suspect and told police he was driving a maroon Ram pickup truck with California tags.

The man was pulled over around three miles from the school.

When he got out, he confronted police with his handgun, and was shot. He has been taken to hospital, and remains in a critical condition.

'Today is a great example of very alert, vigilant officers trying to protect the city,' said Assistant Police Chief Don Crowe.

'I personally truly believe that we have avoided a tragedy. I think the suspect was going to harm somebody before the day was over.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12358425/Memphis-cops-thwart-mass-shooting-Jewish-school-taking-former-student-armed-gun-fired-shots-tried-force-way-inside.html

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Florida university fires professor over dubious racial bias studies, damage to school may be ‘catastrophic’

A Florida university has fired a professor after an investigation concluded he "demonstrated extreme negligence" in the data management of racial bias studies that could cause "unalterable" damage to the school's reputation.

In a scathing five-page termination letter penned by Florida State University's (FUS) Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, James Clark informed criminologist Eric Stewart that decades of his research "once thought to be at the forefront" of the profession were shown to contain "numerous erroneous and "false narratives."

"My specific concerns are related to the details of your behavior and the extreme negligence and incompetence that you demonstrated in the performance of your duties," Clark wrote.

"As outlined in the Notice of Intent to Terminate letter, you demonstrated extreme negligence in basic data management, resulting in an unprecedented number of articles retracted, numerous other articles now in question, with the presence of no backup of the data for the publications in question," he added.

As reported by The College Fix and corroborated by the letter, Stewart had previously refuted the evidence of FSU's misconduct inquiry committee's lengthy investigation and stated the reports "indicate that the misconduct claims were rejected by multiple panel experts."

However, Clark's termination letter to Stewart suggested the criminologist did not take "any meaningful steps" to remedy the situation in the four years since the issues came to light and did not attempt to re-create any of the studies.

"You have not pursued any remedial action, and you have even refused to cooperate with your FSU colleagues and coworkers who requested to work with you on these matters," the letter continued.

He had been at the school for 16 years at the time of his departure.

Stewart left his post in March following the lengthy investigation that began when six race-related studies he co-authored were retracted.

In one paper, Stewart, who made $190,000 per year at FSU, falsely claimed there was a correlation between a criminal's race and the public's desire to see harsher prison sentences for said criminal. However, an investigation revealed no correlation and that the sample size had been increased to yield Stewart's desired outcome.

Justin Pickett, one of the study's co-authors, previously claimed that the "identified discrepancies" in Stewart's work could not be attributed to "researcher error."

"Scientific fraud occurs all too frequently….and I believe it is the most likely explanation for the data irregularities in the five retracted articles," Pickett said.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/florida-university-fires-professor-dubious-racial-bias-studies-damage-school-catastrophic

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Teachers Union Files Legal Challenge Against Restrictions on Race and Gender Lessons

A teachers union in Tennessee filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s education department over its restrictions on curriculum surrounding race, sexual orientation and gender identity.

According to ABC News, the Tennessee Education Association and five public school educators are behind the lawsuit against the 2021 law. The law was implemented to keep devise ideology, like Critical Race Theory and gender theory, out of public schools.

The law reportedly requires an "impartial discussion of controversial aspects of history" as well as "impartial instruction on the historical oppression of a particular group of people based on race, ethnicity, class, nationality, religion, or geographic region." Specifically, the law prohibits teaching that a person “by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, is inherently privileged, racist sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously” and other concepts regarding “systematic racism.”

In a statement, Tanya Coats, the president of the Tennessee Education Association, claimed that the law “interferes with Tennessee teachers’ job to provide a fact-based, well-rounded education to their students.”

The lawsuit reportedly claims that “Tennessee educators have been faced with the threat that a student or parent will trigger an enforcement proceeding under the Ban's ill-defined standards, resulting in termination, license revocation, and reputational damage, for teaching lessons they have taught for years,” adding that it has impacted field trips to historical sites.

On X, the teachers union claimed that students in the state will fall behind because of the law.

During the 2021 bill signing, Gov. Bill Lee’s (R) press secretary said that he “believes Tennessee students should be taught history and civics with facts, not divisive political commentary,” The Tennessean reported.

Since then, other states, like Florida, have passed laws prohibiting this kind of divisive curriculum in the classroom

https://townhall.com//tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/07/29/teachers-association-sues-over-law-restricting-race-education-n2626293

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A Back-to-School Warning

Parents of children going back to school — be warned! Your kids will continue to learn Marxist theories, hyper-sexualization, anti-American propaganda, social justice advocacy, and that capitalism and America are racist. They will be taught to hate themselves, others, and their country.

You would think that with all the legislation passed around the country to curtail these insidious pedagogies, parents could be more assured that teachers would get back to academics. Unfortunately, there is an abundance of evidence that teachers and administrators are admitting they will continue to indoctrinate children by finding ways to get around the new laws.

In fact, when the battle over critical race theory emerged two years ago, over 5000 teachers across the country signed a pledge initiated by the Zinn Education Project saying, “We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events — regardless of the law.” Accompanying The Zinn Education Project pledge is a statement that reads, “The major institutions and systems of our country are deeply infected with anti-Blackness and its intersection with other forms of oppression. To not acknowledge this and help students understand the roots of U.S. racism is to deceive them.” The Zinn Education Project provides training and materials to schools based on the approach to history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s controversial book A People’s History of the United States. In 2019, Dr. Mary Grabar published a book titled Debunking Howard Zinn wherein she identifies Zinn as a communist and provides evidence to expose the lies in his rewrite of American history.

Another example of school officials evading the law is found in a South Carolina law prohibiting the use of State funds to teach tenets of critical race theory. Many South Carolina school districts skirted the law by using federal COVID relief money to continue implementing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Social Emotional Learning, which are all conduits for Marxist critical theories.

Other tried and true ways to equivocate the law are also being implemented. Just as nearly every state in the nation rebranded their Common Core standards a decade ago to sidestep push-back from lawmakers and parents, an Idaho principal and district instructional coach said they would merely rebrand Social Emotional Learning as “behavior adaptations,” and “mental health curriculum.”

Moreover, many districts around the country are doubling down on grooming children into believing they are a gender contrary to their biological sex. Fargo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Rupak Gandhi brazenly said he will not “openly out any student because of one law.” It appears school officials will not only continue to influence children to reconsider their biological sex, but they will continue to do it behind the backs of parents.

There is a ray of hope in California’s Chino Valley Unified School District where parents recently applauded the removal of California School Superintendent Tony Thurmond from its school board meeting. Thurmond spoke in opposition to a proposed local school district policy “to require teachers to notify parents of students that identify as transgender.” Even in very liberal California, parents object to indoctrination and local districts are stepping up to regain control of their classrooms despite pressure from State government to push their anti-parent policies.

Parents, as well as every freedom-loving American, need to be aware of what is happening in government schools with their tax dollars. Parents should start by watching the groundbreaking documentary Truth & Lies in American Education to become fully informed of the array of dangerous philosophies children are taught. Then they can connect with others in their community to fight this battle for the minds of children. It ultimately is a battle of good versus evil.

A parents’ first line of defense should be to protect their children. The toxic agenda in government schools is tantamount to child abuse. Once children are safe, we must work together to protect our countries’ freedom. If we don’t stop the indoctrination of children, we will lose our very freedom. As Abraham Lincoln said, “The philosophy of the school room for one generation is the philosophy of the government of the next.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/sherifew/2023/07/30/a-back-to-school-warning-n2626343

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Canadian principal’s suicide after alleged bullying for his ‘whiteness’ in CRT training sparks investigation

A Toronto school board and an education minister announced they are launching investigations Thursday into a professional development training after a former principal died by suicide following a lawsuit in which he alleged emotional distress from antiracist trainings and the fallout that followed.

The sessions included concepts from critical race theory.

Before his death, Richard Bilkszto, a 60-year-old former principal, sued the Toronto District School Board for emotional distress after he attended a training where he was accused of being a racist.

Bilkszto alleged in his lawsuit that Kike Ojo-Thompson – who runs an equity firm called the KOJO Institute – said that Canada was racist and has “never reckoned with its anti-Black history.”

When Bilkszto disagreed with the instructor and challenged her comments, he was condemned for appearing to undermine a Black woman, the lawsuit said.

“We are here to talk about anti-Black racism, but you in your whiteness think that you can tell me what’s really going on for Black people” Ojo-Thompson said, according to the lawsuit filed by the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.

Ojo-Thompson was not directly sued by Bilkszto – it was directed at the district.

She has denied the allegations in FAIR’s lawsuit and did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

The principal also alleged he was called a “White supremacist” for sharing his beliefs.

The fallout from the training catapulted into further issues relating to the matter, and the family believes it was a hostile environment that took a serious toll on Bilkszto’s mental health.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce called the allegations raised by Bilkszto “serious and disturbing” Thursday.

A spokesperson told Fox News Digital that his staff will launch a review and present action items to ensure “this never happens again.”

“I offer my heartfelt condolences to Richard’s family and friends, as we remember an educator that truly went above and beyond for his students,” he added. “No staff member should ever be subject to harassment while in their place of work.”

The family released a statement following his death, listing the district’s KOJO training as part of the principal’s emotional distress.

KOJO, who ran the training in question, is an equity consultant which promulgates critical race theory. CRT holds that society is rigged against certain groups on the basis of skin color.

It decries the idea of succeeding by merit as a “myth,” and ranks races into privilege categories, with White people considered unfairly privileged.

Using this lens, its original theorists believed that only present-day discrimination can combat the deeply embedded systemic oppression they believe were intentionally built into every societal structure and system.

“We know that anti-Black racism is operating within education because of the outcomes we see for Black students,” Ojo-Thompson said. She further claimed that racism is embedded within all systems, and offers consulting to corporations, governments, etc.

During a follow-up session a week later, Ojo-Thompson allegedly recalled their disagreement from the first session and used Bilkszto’s efforts to challenge her claims as a “real-life” example of someone supporting White supremacy.

“[N]avigating the whiteness of the education system is a daily hardship,” Ojo Thomson has said. “The dominance of whiteness is not natural but the result of the legacies. Equally, the subordination of Blackness is also not natural.”

As other examples of KOJO’s CRT, the company’s slide deck on instituting an equity agenda criticizes “Eurocentric/Anglocentric curriculum,” “assimilationist culture,” and “school disciplinary policies.” The slide deck suggests that institutions – such as the educational system – can be wielded to influence society and the district’s community.

It asked, “How are institutions leveraging their power and proximity to inform the community’s narrative?” KOJO also calls for the elimination of disparities through “[w]ork that is focused on the systemic and structural context.”

Ojo-Thompson also believes in another idea central to critical theory, which is that individuals can belong to multiple categories of oppressed groups. The term for the concept is called “intersectionality.”

“With every identity that is subordinated due to the legacies, we face discrimination and oppression in a way that is interlocking. Each form of oppression impacts the others,” Ojo-Thompson said.

The Toronto district was contacted for comment, and referred to a previous statement, in which they announced the “investigation into the circumstances surrounding the tragic passing of Richard Bilkszto.”

The district will be using an outside agency, King International Advisory Group, to conduct its investigation.

“Our intention is for this investigation to be conducted in a professional, sensitive and respectful manner,” the district said.

The KOJO Institute previously released a statement, which said, “The death of Richard Bilkszto is a tragedy and all of us at KOJO Institute offer our condolences to his loved ones.”

It denied all allegations and added, “This incident is being weaponized to discredit and suppress the work of everyone committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/canadian-principals-suicide-after-alleged-bullying-for-his-whiteness-in-crt-training-sparks-investigation/

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Staff at Britain's 'wokest university' that excluded white people from classes now to push bias tests

This sounds a lot like the self-criticism and "struggle" sessions in Mao's China. It is ineffably authoritarian

A university that barred white members of staff from free tai chi classes also encourages lecturers to take a 'unconscious bias' test, it can be revealed.

Woke toolkits for employees at King's College London tell academics there is a difference between being 'not racist' and 'anti-racist'.

If they are white, they should understand they have 'benefited' as a result of their racial identity, it advises.

The toolkit, which is not mandatory, surfaced amid a race row engulfing the university after it hosted stress-busting martial arts lessons exclusively for non-white staff – just days after a former senior lecturer labelled the institution one of the 'wokest' in the UK.

Dr Kai Jager, who quit his job last year, said the material forces academics to 'conform' to woke ideology. He added: 'These university programs are aimed to impose conformity to this ideology and to turn scientists into woke activists.

'But the very foundation of scientific knowledge is that it is based on evidence and thus open for criticism and different perspectives. Diversity programs often result in less diverse viewpoints.'

The anti-racism toolkit teaches staff how to be an anti-racist 'ally' and suggests they read books including What White People Can Do Next and Me and White Supremacy.

Other recommended reading includes Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Action and Activism, in which activist Sophie Williams says 'not being racist is not enough'.

Staff are also encouraged to examine their prejudice with an 'implicit and unconscious bias test'. The term 'unconscious bias' is used to explain when learned stereotypes on race, gender or sex are made without conscious awareness.

A demand for reform by the Black Lives Matter movement has seen universities adopting the training to make staff and students aware of their biases.

At Kings's, the toolkit also encourages staff to find out more about a student-led initiative to 'decolonise' the university.

Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, described the training materials as 'infantile' and said they were 'seemingly designed for Year 10s in set three English rather than university lecturers'.

He added: 'It's disappointing to see how infected KCL has become by the woke mind virus.'

King's became embroiled in a race row over its martial arts classes that barred non-white staff. Academics were invited to take part, but were asked 'how do you identify in terms of your heritage/ethnicity?'

The question added: 'We are asking this to ensure participants are all from global majority backgrounds... the sessions are intended specifically for those who experience racism.'

The term 'global majority' is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as 'the group of people in the world who do not consider themselves or are not considered to be white'.

Dr Jager added: 'The woke movement likes to hide behind noble words like tolerance, inclusivity or diversity, but actively purges anyone who deviates from its orthodoxy.'

King's said it was 'proud to be a university which fosters an inclusive environment... where everyone can feel they belong regardless of their background or political views', adding: 'As a place of learning, we have a whole range of voluntary materials and resources for staff to engage with these issues and learn more.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12350113/Staff-Britains-wokest-university-excluded-white-people-classes-combat-chronic-stress-triggered-racism-face-having-bias-tests.html

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University to undergo free speech training, pay $80,000 in settlement for allegedly issuing 'no-contact orders' against student, instructing peers to report her 'harmful' Christian, political views

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will pay $80,000 in a recent settlement agreement with a graduate student who accused the school of wrongfully issuing "no-contact orders" against her and instructing her peers to report her "harmful rhetoric."

Maggie DeJong and Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit against the school after the student claimed she was discriminated against for sharing her Christian and conservative political views.

Three of the school's professors have been ordered to undergo First Amendment training as part of the settlement agreement. Additionally, the university has been required to revise its policies and student handbook to protect students' political, religious, and ideological views.

In February 2022, school officials issued "no-contact orders" against DeJong after some of her peers reported her comments about religion, politics, critical race theory, Black Lives Matter, Marxism, censorship, COVID-related regulations, and the criminal justice system.

Students accused DeJong of "harassment" and "discrimination," claiming her rhetoric had "harmed and offended" them, according to the ADF's lawsuit.

Examples of DeJong's so-called "harmful rhetoric" included social media posts where the student shared others' quotes, including one from January 6, 2021, that read, "Storming the US Capitol is a set back for our cause. It undermines the purpose of the PEACEFUL protest. To the very small minority of protesters trying to break into the Capitol, please stop. We are better than this; we cannot destroy this country like BLM riots!"

DeJong also shared a quote from pastor and author John MacArthur: "Those who dare to take an unpopular stand, declare truth in a definitive way — or worst of all, express disagreement with someone else's teaching — will inevitably be marked as troublesome. Compromise has become a virtue while devotion to truth has become offensive."

DeJong was prohibited from having "any contact" with the peers who reported her and was never allowed to defend herself.

In a Wednesday statement, ADF legal counsel Mathew Hoffman said, "Public universities can't punish students for expressing their political and religious viewpoints. Maggie, like every other student, is protected under the First Amendment to respectfully share her personal beliefs, and university officials were wrong to issue gag orders and silence her speech."

"As a result of Maggie's courage in filing suit, SIUE has agreed to take critical steps to comply with the law and the U.S. Constitution and move closer to accepting and embracing true diversity of thought and speech," he added.

SIUE Chancellor James T. Minor noted that the school is "unequivocally committed to protecting First Amendment rights and does not have policies that restrict free speech nor support censorship," Fox News Digital reported.

"For decades, universities have embraced the challenge of vigorously protecting free speech while at the same time creating a safe learning environment for the expression of diverse views," he continued. "Protecting these two principles can create tensions. For example, while the First Amendment protects free speech (no matter how offensive), it does not protect behavior on a campus that creates a pervasively hostile environment for other students. We accept that balancing these two deeply valued principles of free speech and a safe environment, in real-time, represent inherent complications for administering prudence."

Minor encouraged people to "see beyond the sensationalism of clickbait, media reports and headlines in search of a more complete understanding of the facts."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/university-to-undergo-free-speech-training-pay-80000-in-settlement-for-allegedly-issuing-no-contact-orders-against-student-instructing-peers-to-report-her-harmful-christian-political-views

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How big tech and big money made our schools go woke

Few issues have emerged as cultural flashpoints quite like Critical Race Theory. Better-known as CRT, the ideology — which places race and racism at the center of learning — has become a cornerstone of academic curricula nationwide. Some parents embrace it, others despise it – and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis tried to ban it from Florida public schools entirely.

In his new book “School of Woke,” author Kenny Xu explores the intriguing path CRT has navigated to reach this critical juncture and the roles that big tech, big money and political elites have played in the process.

In the summer of 2018, Merrick Garland, who had just lost his bid to become a Supreme Court Justice, walked his daughter Rebecca Garland down the aisle of the luxurious St. Vrain wedding venue in Longmont, Colo., her arm clutched in his.

He was leading her to her about-to-be husband, Alexander “Xan” Tanner.

Xan Tanner, then 27, was the wunderkind cofounder of Panorama Education, a New York Times-profiled full-service “analytical software and services company” based in Boston, Mass.

A millionaire and a Mark Zuckerberg acolyte, Xan Tanner sat at the pinnacle of what was increasingly becoming the height of liberal fashion — Yale grad, big-tech CEO, education activist.

But what was behind his fortune?

The New York Times may have described Panorama in cagey language in its coverage of the Tanner-Garland wedding, but the reality is that Panorama Education is not a software company at all but rather an educational technology company whose lead business model is data, particularly data about children.

Along with his fellow Yale graduates Aaron Feuer and David Carel, Tanner created a student-surveying platform that focuses on the mysterious concept of “social-emotional learning,” which Panorama defines rather vaguely as “supporting the whole student.”

Yet what’s curious is his quick rise to riches.

There’s nothing technologically savvy about Tanner’s product, which could have been created on SurveyMonkey. But strangely, Zuckerberg chose Tanner out of many potential investment opportunities and elected to fund him. Tanner ended up raising more than $16 million personally from the tech billionaire and $76 million from others by using Zuckerberg’s name between the years 2017 and 2021, as Forbes reported.

Zuckerberg had a very intense interest in “fixing” public schools, and his $1 billion Startup: Education fund, which he established in 2012, was actively looking to invest in educational do-gooders like Tanner. The fund was made to “[improve] education for the nation’s most underserved children.” Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, believed that they could “solve” education in America by leveraging what he knew best — the power of big business.

But the Facebook CEO needed loyal servants for his cause.

And Xan Tanner, with his prestigious background and social-justice bona fides, fit the profile. Tanner himself had plenty to gain from a partnership with Zuckerberg — in particular, money, and lots of it.

His path to riches was to run a child-research firm with Mark Zuckerberg’s money attached to it.

But as soon as Tanner took the job, Zuckerberg asked him to tackle what had previously been an intractable problem: how to persuade America’s public-school boards to give the fund access to private data about their children. After all, the last time Zuckerberg spent big money on education — in a widely publicized takeover of the Newark, NJ, public schools, in 2012 — he watched his $200 million disappear into a black hole of mismanagement and graft.

“There was $20 million that went to consultants who received, in general, $1,000 dollars a day for carrying out various management reform efforts,” wrote Dale Russakoff, a journalist who documented Zuckerberg’s attempt at school reform.

Another $89 million went into a teachers’ contract, which had little direct effect on learning. The New York Times excoriated Zuckerberg’s gift as one that “slowly melt[ed] into an ocean of recrimination.”

The national embarrassment convinced the fledgling philanthropist that he should exert his influence in subtler, more under-the-table ways in the future. And one of those ways was through conduits such as Tanner.

Still, how was the young Yale grad going to get his foot in the door with the notoriously hard-to-crack school boards? After years of keeping his nose to the grindstone, pitching, and trying to persuade the school board to adopt his Zuckerberg‑backed surveying product, Tanner found the answer: go woke.

Tanner’s pitching strategy was to convince schools that they needed data on “racism” at their institutions to help children with their “social-emotional health.” (The 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act mandated that schools find some way to address social and emotional wellness in students.) The company targeted the most progressive districts in the nation, such as those in El Dorado County, California, the city of Boston, and Washington, DC.

Promising that the districts would gain insights into the state of racism among local fourth graders, Panorama secured the contracts, which ranged in value from the hundreds of thousands to the millions of dollars, by asking questions such as “How clearly do you see your culture and history reflected in your school?” and “How often do you feel that you are treated poorly by other students because of your race, ethnicity, gender, family’s income, religion, disability, or sexual orientation?”

These questions, when answered by emotional nine- and 10-year-olds, would usually swing toward the direction of critical race theory — averring that our institutions and our schools retain and abet racism.

As revealed in new documents leaked from Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), in northern Virginia, Panorama had signed a five-year, $2.4 million deal with FCPS to conduct surveys among students about ways in which they were being targeted because of their race and gender. This included transgenderism: Panorama asked questions such as “Some people describe themselves as transgender when their sex at birth does not match the way they think or feel about their gender. Are you transgender?”

The surveys were not optional for students, meaning that students had to sit down for at least an hour, probably more, to take this survey, conducted on behalf of a for-profit business.

But because Tanner positioned himself as the ur-woke surveyor, progressive school boards let him in. In fact, local governments eventually showered Panorama with more than $27 million in payments between 2017 and 2020. Other organizations quickly noticed Tanner’s business model and followed him.

In Loudoun County, Fairfax County’s immediate neighbor, students were asked to take “social-emotional” surveys conducted by the University of Virginia and the Virginia Department of Education. UVA went even further than Panorama when it came to injecting sensitive political issues directly into the bloodstream of the school day, asking Loudoun County ninth graders: “During the past 12 months, did you ever seriously consider attempting suicide?” and “During the past 12 months, did you ever feel so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row that you stopped doing some usual activities?”

Data-mining children by asking traumatizing questions may appear to be an exercise in futility. But rest assured, the progressive school administrators had a purpose for these surveys. Coincidentally enough, soon after the contracts were signed, school boards, including those in the District of Columbia Public Schools, started reporting things such as “Black and at‑risk students were less satisfied with their schools than their White, Asian, and not at‑risk peers.” Their evidence? Right there in the footnote: Panorama Education.

Armed with “data” on “racism,” activists and special interests could walk up to the front of the aisle and loudly crow “systemic racism” at the district and demand reparations and policy changes — usually to persuade weak-willed administrators to give them more money and power.

All the while, the Garland family, woke educational bureaucrats, and billionaire elites cashed in on the grift. Elite progressives got rich and politically influential by going woke.

So Merrick Garland must have been very pleased that his daughter was going to marry Xan Tanner. He fit every quality that Garland must have wanted in a son-in-law: elite, liberal, a natural at playing at the elite liberal game of kowtowing to the forces of social justice and bowing down to the Zuckerbergs of the world.

Most important, Tanner understood the business purpose of propagating Critical Race Theory: to land the contract.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/29/how-big-tech-and-big-money-made-our-schools-go-woke/

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