CALIFORNIA TEACHES KIDS TO BE WOKE

 

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Notable & Quotable: California Teaches Kids to Be Woke

‘They demonstrate their mastery of the subject matter by teaching about social justice to middle school students.’

September 17, 2019
Students protest gun violence in Los Angeles, April 20, 2018. PHOTO: RONEN TIVONY/ZUMA PRESS

From “Woke History Is Making Big Inroads in America’s High Schools” by John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations.com, Sept. 17:

 

At Santa Monica High School . . . students organize and carry out “a systematized campaign” for social justice that can take the form of a protest, a leaflet, a workshop, play or research project. They demonstrate their mastery of the subject matter by teaching about social justice to middle school students.

Students at Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale are assigned to write a “breakup letter with a form of oppression,” such as toxic masculinity, heteronormativity, Eurocentric curriculum or the Dakota Access Pipeline. Students are asked to “persuade their audience of the dehumanizing and damaging effects of their chosen topic.”

Students at schools in Anaheim, San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco are taught how to write a manifesto to school administrators listing “demands” for reforms. Some conduct a grand jury investigation to determine who was responsible for the genocide of the state’s Native Americans. And one class holds a mock trial to determine which party is most responsible for the deaths of millions of native Tainos: Christopher Columbus, the soldiers, the king and queen of Spain, or the entire European system of colonialism. These are just a few examples of the ethnic studies courses taught at 253 California schools.

 

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