{"id":164601,"date":"2021-02-23T14:04:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=164601"},"modified":"2021-02-23T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:29:17","slug":"wisconsin-parents-on-new-social-studies-curriculum-our-children-cannot-escape-leftist-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-parents-on-new-social-studies-curriculum-our-children-cannot-escape-leftist-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Parents On New Social Studies Curriculum: \u2018Our Children Cannot Escape Leftist Messaging\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwisconsin-parents-on-new-social-studies-curriculum-our-children-cannot-escape-leftist-messaging%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=164601&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--><p><span>A Wisconsin school district is re-evaluating its social studies curriculum. Local activists are advocating that the district\u2019s new curriculum include teaching children that \u201cwhite feminism\u201d failed racial minorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the Elmbrook School District in Brookfield, Wisconsin announced that it was reviewing the district\u2019s social studies curriculum, activists in the area circulated a poll asking for input to give to the curriculum review committee. The group calls itself \u201cWhat\u2019s Next, Elmbrook?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A screenshot of the survey obtained by The Daily Wire, which has since been taken down, asks parents to choose which topics they believe the social studies curriculum should prioritize.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Answers were limited to \u201cBlack Wall Street\/Tulsa Race Massacre,\u201d \u201cThe truth about Christopher Columbus,\u201d \u201cPre-colonial education\/turtle island: more about Indigenous history before the arrival of European settlers,\u201d \u201cSegregation in Milwaukee, past and present,\u201d \u201cJapanese Internment Camps,\u201d \u201cThe truth about Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, Fred Hampton,\u201d \u201cRace relations beyond the 1960s\/post-Civil Rights era,\u201d \u201cwaves of feminism and its failures, white feminism (e.g. how the 19th Amendment did not protect black\/brown women\u2019s right to vote, etc.),\u201d and \u201cStonewall\/LGBTQ Liberation\/AIDS epidemic.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_193593\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193593\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-193593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Survey-139x300.jpeg\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"1299\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-193593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Survey via \u201cWhat\u2019s Next, Elmbrook?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>A whistleblower in the district \u2014 who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retribution \u2014 told The Daily Wire that the survey immediately caught their attention as the theme for the revived curriculum mirrored left-leaning talking points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPerhaps it is the time in which we are living that the list of nine topics simply seemed to focus more on left agenda talking points and were equally negative and depressing,\u201d the parent said. \u201cIt seems to me that the agenda is to focus solely on negative culture, redoing or erasing history and planting seeds of doubt on what we\u2019ve traditionally been taught to believe.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Elmbrook School District claims that the survey was circulated only by alumni and activists, though it was posted on Facebook to a school parent group by Liz Beaudoin, the district\u2019s Parent Network Leadership Council\u2019s Director of Communications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn the interest of continuing to advocate for diverse representation in our curricula, I will be emailing members of the Teaching &#038; Learning Committee, who are reviewing the social studies curriculum this week,\u201d Beaudoin said. \u201cI encourage you to join me in sharing your experiences\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The district told The Daily Wire that it appreciates the activism, though it does not support the survey promoted by its faculty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe comprehensive programmatic evaluation \u2026 is essential in ensuring a rigorous, relevant, guaranteed, and viable curriculum for all learners,\u201d said district spokesman Chris Thompson. \u201cWhile we have appreciated the engagement of several alumni and parents in the programmatic evaluation process, the District did not authorize nor endorse the survey promoted by Ms. Beaudoin and the alumni group.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The county where Elmbrook School District resides is the largest Republican-leaning county in Wisconsin and has been a GOP suburban stronghold for years. The district has not supported a Democratic president since 1964. Parents, however, feel they are falling to the whims of left-wing educators and a small, but vocal group of activists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an anonymous post on the \u201cWhat\u2019s Next, Elmbrook?\u201d Twitter page, a fifth-grade teacher said that the current social studies curriculum was failing students by not including \u201cracial and social injustice\u201d studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI am a 5th-grade teacher and believe the education system has let down our Black community. I have failed my students in teaching them the [sic] social inequality because I was never required to learn about this during my time at school. As a teacher, my job is to help students acquire knowledge. This knowledge needs to include racial and social injustice as a standard in the curriculum,\u201d the post read. \u201cWe have to be\/do better for our students and that starts with change.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Parents feel they are losing the curriculum battle, though their conservative viewpoints compromise the majority opinion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur children cannot escape this leftist messaging,\u201d the whistleblower parent said. \u201cAnd as students, regardless of their family or personal values and beliefs, they are forced to listen and agree for fear of being labeled as a hater or racist.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin school district is re-evaluating its social studies curriculum. 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