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Unbelievably, Woke Springfield STILL Isn’t Done Indoctrinating Children
State Representative Mary Flowers (D-Chicago) has filed a jaw-dropping bill , HB 80, that doesn’t propose merely “standards” or “guidelines” or even a type of curricula. Oh no, Flowers is going for the whole enchilada. If passed, her bill would mandate the teaching of specific books on race and feminism: 20 non-fiction books and 9 fiction. Every book is written by a leftist. There is not one book in Flowers’ list by either a person of color or a colorless person who criticizes or dissents from leftist assumptions on race or feminism.
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Tagged Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, and Do, Anne Wortham, Ben Crump, Between the World and Me, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Brown Girl Dreaming, Candace Owens, Carol Swain, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards, feminism, HB 80, Heather MacDonald, Hood Feminism, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, Ijeoma Oluo, Jacquelyn Woodson, Jason Riley, Jennifer Harvey, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, John McWhorter, Larry Elder, Layla F. Saad, Mary Flowers, Me and White Supremacy, Michelle Alexander, Mikki Kendall, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, race, Raising White Kids, REACH Act, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rich Lowry, Robin DiAngelo, Shelby Steele, So You Want to Talk About Race, Ta-Nehesi Coates, The New Jim Crow, They Can’t Kill Us All, Think, Thomas Sowell, Wesley Lowery, White Fragility, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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A Story of Actual Racial Injustice in an Illinois School District
Here’s a story of actual racial injustice that happened in a liberal North Shore school district: District 113. As you read this, imagine if the Hispanic community in Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois had known this story as it was taking place.
In 2007, District 113, which is composed of Deerfield and Highland Park High Schools, received a federal grant of thousands of dollars because Highland Park High School (HPHS) had failed to make “Adequate Yearly Progress” (AYP). AYP is a tool for measuring how well a district’s students perform on standardized tests under the controversial No Child Left Behind …
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Tagged 1619 Project, Adequate Yearly Progress, Al Sharpton, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Critical Race Theory, Daniel Bergner, Deerfield High Schools, Glenn Singleton, Hans Bader, Highland Park Country Club, Highland Park High School, Institutional racism, Malik Pemberton, Nikole Hannah-Jones, No Child Left Behind Act, North Shore Country Club, Robin DiAngelo, School District 113, The New York Times Magazine, White Fragility, White Privilege, whiteness
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Wait Till You See What the National Education Association Is Up To
The first weekend in July, the National Education Association (NEA) held its annual Representative Assembly in Houston, an assembly consisting of “nearly 7,000 delegates.” The National Education Association is a “progressive” political activist organization that masquerades—er, I mean, identifies as an educational organization. The NEA’s Code of Ethics says, among other things, this:
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Tagged Black History Month, Black Lives Matter, Climate change, Equality Act, Gender Sexuality Alliances, GLSEN, immigration, John Piper, LGBTQ+ inclusive, National Education Association, Roe v. Wade, Stonewall LGBTQ Scholarship, student loan forgivenes, White Fragility
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