{"id":120699,"date":"2021-02-08T10:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120699"},"modified":"2021-02-08T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:57:42","slug":"utah-school-allows-parents-to-opt-out-of-black-history-month-curriculum-reverses-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utah-school-allows-parents-to-opt-out-of-black-history-month-curriculum-reverses-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah School Allows Parents To Opt Out Of Black History Month Curriculum, Reverses Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futah-school-allows-parents-to-opt-out-of-black-history-month-curriculum-reverses-course%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120699&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-548929059-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The director made the announcement concerning the opt-out for parents on Friday via the school\u2019s Facebook page, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.net\/news\/education\/north-ogden-montessori-charter-school-to-allow-students-to-opt-out-of-black-history-month\/article_dfaf1d50-49d0-5503-9138-162a7e01d902.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Standard-Examiner<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHirokawa wrote that he \u2018reluctantly\u2019 sent a letter to families stating that administrators were allowing them \u2018to exercise their civil rights to not participate in Black History Month at the school,&#8217;\u201d The Hill reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hirokawa, \u201ca few families\u201d requested an opt-out from the curriculum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_2-wrapper\">\n<p>Hirokawa, an Asian-American, told the Standard-Examiner he believes there\u2019s \u201ca lot of value in teaching our children about the mistreatment, challenges, and obstacles that people of color in our Nation have had to endure and what we can do today to ensure that such wrongs don\u2019t continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As reported by The Daily Wire\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/d-c-public-schools-use-black-lives-matter-curricula?%3Futm_source=twitter\">Chrissy Clark<\/a> last week, Black History Month curriculum in D.C. public schools will include Black Lives Matter (BLM) content.<\/p>\n<p>BLM is a radical left-wing activist movement that has called for the defunding of police officers nationwide, the \u201cdisruption\u201d of the nuclear family \u201crequirement,\u201d and the advancement of far-left gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cD.C. Public Schools announced Monday that it is participating in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com\/\">Black Lives Matters at School<\/a> Week of Action, a program that includes among its priorities \u2018disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement\u2019 and allowing everyone \u2014 including elementary-aged students \u2014 to \u2018choose their own gender,&#8217;\u201d Clark reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHirokawa told the Utah news outlet that the school, which serves elementary and middle school students, incorporates Black History Month into social studies and history lessons, with a particular effort this year to highlight the achievements of African American figures in U.S. history,\u201d The Hill noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director made the announcement concerning the opt-out for parents on Friday via the school\u2019s Facebook page, according to the Standard-Examiner.\u201cHirokawa wrote that he \u2018reluctantly\u2019 sent a letter to families &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892863,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5765,4212,4919,5007,3924,5764],"class_list":["post-120699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-allows","tag-black","tag-history","tag-parents","tag-school","tag-utah"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}