Blake Masters Slams Tucson School District for SPLC Curriculum

Blake Masters, the former Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Arizona, slammed his Tucson school district for its curriculum’s reliance on the Southern Poverty Law CenterThe leftist activist group known to brand conservative organizations, is referred to as. “hate groups” A map showing the chapters of Ku Klux Klan.

“The SPLC is as extreme as it is dishonest. That it is now creating curriculum being taught in American public schools should horrify anyone with common sense,” Masters said Friday in an email to The Daily Signal.

Former Senate candidate raised the issue last week. Tucson Unified School District’s web page regarding curriculum.

“Was doing some homeschool planning with my wife and we wondered what the boys would be learning at the local public school,” He wrote. “So I pulled up the district’s curriculum page. Even I wasn’t expecting direct links to the SPLC!”

“The schools are not what they used to be. Performance is down, indoctrination is up. This is why universal school choice is so important,” Masters are also available.

He stated that Katie Hobbs (the new Democratic governor of Arizona), was a danger to his safety. “focused on mandating gender pronouns in schools.” (Hobbs was the first to publish this article. executive order Arizona bans discrimination in sexual orientation and gender identification. He is expected to veto a bill that requires school employees to call students by pronouns matching their biological sex. Parents must approve. transgender pronouns.)

“So buckle up for a lot of left-wing power grabs & a local media that covers for them,” Masters warned. “Support our Republican majorities in the legislature as they work to block this junk and work to craft a positive agenda that treats Arizona children as human beings, not political instruments.”

Masters highlighted outlines the vision and mission statements of the web page. Office of Curriculum InstructionImmediately, it announces. “Our Curriculum is infused with Multicultural Education.”

“Tucson Unified’s multicultural curriculum uses the Anti-Bias Framework, developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and culturally responsive teaching as a basis for effective anti-bias education at every grade level,” According to the website. “The anti-bias anchor standards provide a set of age-appropriate learning outcomes divided into four domains: identity, diversity, justice and action.”

My book “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center” The history of the SPLC is described, as well as how Klanwatch (a program that monitored the Ku Klux Klan) and other white supremacist organizations, transformed into Hatewatch. This project labels Christian and mainstream conservative groups as Hatewatch. “hate groups,” Placing them on a map together with Klan chapters.

In 2012, a terrorist targeted the Family Research Council’s headquarters in the nation’s capital, entering the lobby with a semiautomatic pistol and then shooting and wounding a guard. The man told the FBI that he found the conservative organization on the SPLC’s “hate map” He had a plan to kill everyone inside the building. Later, the man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment for committing an act terrorist. 25-year prison sentence. While the SPLC condemned this attack, it kept the Family Research Council in the loop. “hate map” Ever since.

After the SPLC fired its cofounder amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal in 2019, a former staffer claimed that the SPLC’s accusations of “hate” Are you looking for a “cynical fundraising scam” This is the goal “bilking northern liberals.”

In 1991, the SPLC created Teaching Tolerance as an education program. Teaching Tolerance claimed that they would have 50,000 new students by 2020. “our community includes more than 500,000 educators who read our magazine, screen our films, visit our website, participate in Mix It Up at Lunch Day, use our curriculum or participate in our social media community.”

Rebranding the education project “Learning for Justice” In February 2021, the website does not mention how many educators have read the magazine or engaged with its content. Learning for Justice published the Tucson Unified Social Justice Framework.

Learning for Justice, among others, has published a Learning Plan critical race theory Grades 6 through 8. This theory is for grades 6-8. “systematically racist,” Despite the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr., and others that led the Civil Rights Act of 1968 to prohibit racial discrimination and legal prohibitions against it.

Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Framework encourages students To “develop positive social identities based on their membership in multiple groups in society,” To “express comfort with people who are similar to and different from them and engage respectfully with all people,” to “recognize unfairness on the individual level and injustice at the institutional or systemic level,” To and from “express empathy when people are excluded or mistreated because of their identities,” Among other things.

This document includes 20 goals for each section at multiple grade levels (K-2 through 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and 8-8). “I can feel good about my identity without making someone else feel badly about who they are.” These goals tend to encourage positivity and empathy. However, others hint at lessons. “systemic racism.” The Justice 13 goal is for grades 9-12 states. “I can explain the short and long-term impact of biased words and behaviors and unjust practices, laws and institutions that limit the rights and freedoms of people based on their identity groups.”

Each section also contains an “anti-bias scenario,” Many of these scenarios are focused on LGBT issues even at young ages.

K-12 Identity Anti-bias Scenario: A teacher who is not biased by the situation. “is teaching a unit on family structure and includes gay and lesbian parents in a lesson. [A student] shares that she has two moms.” K-12 justice involves a teacher creating a lesson for his class “on the effects of family separation” when a student’s uncle gets detained for crossing the border illegally.

A boy who is a 3-5-identity anti-bias situation will be able to identify himself as a girl. “identifies as a transgender girl” Plans and “share her identity with her classmates.” The teacher assists the male student in creating an introduction. “Tiana” And the boy tells his family that it was a great event “went well.”

A teacher will be reprimanded for not following the 6-8 identity scheme. “misgendering” A student. The student “uses they/them/elle pronouns and identifies as a non-binary Latine [sic] person.” One of her teachers is criticized in the document for continuing to teach. “to use their incorrect pronouns,” and recounts the student’s decision to correct her teacher.

The Tucson Unified School District and members of the school board did not respond to the request. The Daily Signal’s Comment requests

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