{"id":1580045,"date":"2022-07-30T07:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1580045"},"modified":"2022-07-30T07:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T11:18:47","slug":"california-school-district-paid-20k-to-organization-called-woke-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-district-paid-20k-to-organization-called-woke-kindergarten\/","title":{"rendered":"California School District Paid $20k to Organization Called &#8220;Woke Kindergarten&#8221;"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fcalifornia-school-district-paid-20k-to-organization-called-woke-kindergarten%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=1580045&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><\/div>\n<p><b>EXCLUSIVE \u2014 <\/b><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">A<\/span><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\">California<\/a><br \/>\n school district paid an education consultancy organization called &#8220;Woke Kindergarten&#8221; $20,000 for a monthlong<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/teachers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher<\/a><br \/>\n training program on &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; and anti-bias curriculum in<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/public-schools\">elementary<\/a><br \/>\n school.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hayward Unified School District contracted Woke Kindergarten at its district board meeting this week in order to continue training staff at Glassbrook Elementary School in anti-racism, a phrase commonly associated with<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/critical-race-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critical race theory<\/a><br \/>\n.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/community-family\/philadelphia-protections-transgender-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PHILADELPHIA ADDS SWEEPING PROTECTIONS FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH TO CITY CODE<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>The district&#8217;s contract abstract says teachers and staff will &#8220;learn how to use Woke Kindergarten&#8217;s resources and pedagogical approaches in practice as a way to disrupt whiteness, white dominant\/settler colonial narratives and anti-Blackness in the Glassbrook community.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland-based consultancy group was founded by Akiea Gross, a self-described &#8220;abolitionist early educator, cultural organizer and creator&#8221; who is &#8220;currently innovating ways to resist, heal, liberate and create.&#8221; Gross identifies as a &#8220;Black, queer, nonbinary and trans abolitionist&#8221; who uses they\/them pronouns.\n<\/p>\n<p>On its website, Woke Kindergarten says it is a &#8220;global, abolitionist early childhood ecosystem and visionary creative portal&#8221; that is &#8220;supporting children, families, educators and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-black and queer and trans liberation.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Gross&#8217;s organization markets itself as &#8220;the only abolitionist early childhood ecosystem&#8221; of its kind.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a sampling of some of the organization&#8217;s slides, trainees are told that &#8220;liberation is the goal, abolition is the journey.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Another slide juxtaposes details of school rules and routines with prison rules, claiming that &#8220;school is like prison&#8221; because both have an &#8220;authoritarian structure&#8221; and dress codes, require walking in lines, and maintain a regimented schedule for eating and other activities.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prison industrial complex manifests in early childhood in a variety of ways and anti-racist teaching and reform just isn&#8217;t disruptive enough,&#8221; the slide says.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hayward Unified School District, located just south of Oakland, did not respond to a request for comment.\n<\/p>\n<p>The contract was first noticed by the parent activist group Parents Defending Education. Erika Sanzi, the parent organization&#8217;s director of outreach, called Woke Kindergarten &#8220;ideological indoctrination&#8221; that has &#8220;no place in a kindergarten classroom or any classroom.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a single month, 20,000 in public dollars are being spent on a consultant dedicated to abolitionist education that describes itself as pro-black and queer and trans liberation,&#8221; she told the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>. &#8220;The organization literally teaches 5-year-olds that they can identify as a boy or girl or neither or a tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE \u2014 A California school district paid an education consultancy organization called &#8220;Woke Kindergarten&#8221; $20,000 for a monthlong teacher training program on &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; and anti-bias curriculum in elementary school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1580048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[],"class_list":["post-1580045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/1580045","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=1580045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1580048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}