Part of an i-Ready assignment for our third grader in the Palm Beach County Schools:
This is a description of a real-world endeavor that is also valorized by CBS:
“When we actually got into the classroom, the books were just mainly about white boys and dogs,” Dias said. … She started a book drive. The idea was simple, but ambitious – to collect 1,000 books about black girls. … The books began arriving and stacking up. By the time “CBS This Morning” visited, Marley had collected close to 1,300 books. Marley’s favorite among them is “Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson.
Woodson – who won both the prestigious Newbery Award and a National Book Award for “Brown Girl Dreaming” – knows the importance of identifying with characters in a book.
“Seeing a story on a page about a black child written by a black author not only legitimizes your own existence in the world, because you’re a part of something else. ‘Look, I’m here in this book,'” Woodson said.
Maybe one of today’s third graders will grow up to run a taxpayer-funded public library with books that are segregated according to the race and gender ID of the protagonist. #IHaveADream
You send your children to government-run schools, and yet you seem surprised at this?? I am astonished that you would subject your children to an education that is guaranteed to instill all the ills of society that you rightly ridicule daily (having done so for literally years)! Have you lost your mind? You appear to have the financial means to do the right thing for your children, so why aren’t you?
D&D: all over the U.S., private schools are able to indulge progressive passions to a far greater extent than public schools. A private school can engage in Harvard-style race discrimination in admissions. A private school can charge a different price based on the student’s skin color. A private school can teach Rainbow Flagism all morning and the 1609 Project all afternoon. Because the public schools are covered by the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, there is a limit to how far they can go into racism. In Florida, public schools must comply with additional restrictions, e.g., they can’t preach the Rainbow Flag Religion to kindergarteners and they can’t teach high schoolers that everything good about the U.S. is due to Black people while everything bad is due to the existence of white people. Public schools are still able to slip in some of the tenets of the Progressive Faith, but, again, to a lesser extent than a private school.
Here’s a typical private school in Maskachusetts, for example, that has the full range of progressive religion on display in a single page: https://www.thayer.org/about/deib
For middle school kids: “The LGBTQ+ student affinity group is a safe and affirming space for students that identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community to express themselves and share their experiences.” For high school: “Mi Gente/Latinx (Affinity)”
On https://www.thayer.org/about/deib/strategic-plan-for-racial-equity-and-justice they promise to hire and admit by skin color: “a more comprehensive approach requires that we do better to promote racial diversity among our students, staff, and leadership, particularly from the Black community where our numbers have remained relatively static. … review and adapt as needed its admissions criteria to ensure that implicit biases do not erroneously disqualify students for admissions. … Similarly, Thayer Academy will seek to secure broader racial representation among the Board of Trustees, the Academy’s administration, and its faculty and staff and will create benchmarks to measure that progress.”
Palm Beach County Schools wouldn’t be able to do any of the above and even a Maskachusetts public school would find it tough to advertise its race discrimination program.
> […] a real-world endeavor that is also valorized by CBS
Not directly related, but highly recommended, it’s essentially Borat, but related to race instead of country:
“American Fiction”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fiction_(film)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0MbLCpYJPA
In the trailer, the lady standing at 0:23 is essentially the impersonification of “the valorization by CBS”, LOL!