{"id":1712176,"date":"2022-10-26T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712176"},"modified":"2022-10-26T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:48:47","slug":"nyc-activist-group-that-used-children-to-attack-moderate-parents-turns-on-its-adult-boss-for-being-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-activist-group-that-used-children-to-attack-moderate-parents-turns-on-its-adult-boss-for-being-white\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Activist Group That Used Children To Attack Moderate Parents Turns On Its Adult Boss For Being White"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fnyc-activist-group-that-used-children-to-attack-moderate-parents-turns-on-its-adult-boss-for-being-white%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=1712176&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>Teens Take Charge, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a> far-left activist group that used children to hurl accusations of racism against parents who wanted to keep schools open and nearly succeeded in ending the city\u2019s tradition of rigorous merit-based magnet schools, apologized Tuesday for harming children, and said the group itself was racist.<\/p>\n<p>A lead player in the education culture wars of the last few years in the nation\u2019s largest school district, the group advertised itself as an organic group of largely minority children and lobbed rhetorical bombs, while leftists claimed that any rebuttals amounted to attacking children. In reality, the group was part of a nonprofit called The Bell which was run by a white man named Taylor McGraw. In its apology, TTC said it has separated from The Bell and McGraw after \u201csome of our community members were harmed by the white norms he perpetuated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It got a new \u201cInterim Adult Executive Director\u201d named Thivaya Saraswati, \u201ca queer, Tamil woman,\u201d who wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenstakecharge.com\/\">letter<\/a> that she \u201clearned TTC wasn\u2019t the radical utopia I thought it was,\u201d and that \u201cpart of our growth as an organization is to acknowledge the harm that\u2019s taken place at TTC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a culture at TTC that was harmful to staff and youth, especially to Black &#038; Brown youth. This included: a deep rooted hustle, time-scarce culture that led to severe burnout; a lack of centering the most marginalized youth, which contributed to standards rooted in white supremacy and left several Black &#038; Brown organizers feeling disposable; the deradicalization of grassroots organizing models and values during the transition to a nonprofit structure; explicitly racist remarks by a handful of youth organizers with no systems to address these harmful incidents; and white leadership perpetuating racial inequity with our organization,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe harm compounded over time, resulting in tension and a sense of disillusionment so strong, some organizers wanted us to shut it down altogether,\u201d it added. \u201cTo the youth and adults who joined this organization eager to fight for change and justice but experienced harm in the process, we\u2019re deeply sorry. To the Black &#038; Brown youth hurt by the culture at TTC, we\u2019re deeply sorry. To the Black Femme members of last year\u2019s Steering Committee, we\u2019re deeply sorry. To the TTC founders, from whose radical vision TTC strayed, we\u2019re deeply sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGraw did not return a request for comment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Wire<\/a> on the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Maud Maron, a former New York school board member and Democrat city council candidate who was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teenstakecharge\/status\/1188179568659709952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked<\/a> by TTC for disagreeing with its stance that tests are racist because too many Asians excelled, told The Daily Wire the group has much to atone for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should apologize \u2014 to people whose lives they derailed and who suffered real consequences because of their viciousness,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re apologizing to the wrong people about the wrong things. It was a little Maoist terror cell that went after parents like me who were simply advocating for better education for kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maron said it was bad enough that the group allowed itself to be \u201chuman shields\u201d for attacks on people trying to save the school system from being dumbed down. The recent \u201capology\u201d doesn\u2019t fix anything, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApologizing for the fact that Taylor McGraw is a white dude is an idiotic thing to apologize for,\u201d Maron said. \u201cHe ran the organization exactly according to its own logic\u2013a bunch of kids who are supposed to attack adults who aren\u2019t sufficiently leftist\u2026 now watching them attack the guy who coordinated their vicious attacks is pretty interesting,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Asian parents were particularly shocked by TTC not only because their children stood to be harmed from an attack on educational rigor, but because those who fled Communist China saw reflections of the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/the-child-soldiers-of-the-culture-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Guard<\/a> in the way adult activists cultivated and used children as ideological soldiers. Parents who advocated for mainstream ideas\u2013like the idea that it is proper to use a math test to decide who gets in to schools like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/williams-black-education-decline-walter-e-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stuyvesant<\/a>, one of the most rigorous math schools in the country\u2013found themselves at the center of outlandish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/08\/meta-arguments-about-anti-racism\/615424\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggle sessions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group conducted activism that curiously <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/teens-take-charge-likely-violating-federal-tax-law-experts-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mirrored teachers unions<\/a>\u2018 agenda, and experts said its political activities may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/whoops-leftist-teen-group-says-teachers-union-is-behind-protest-asking-kids-to-skip-school\">violated<\/a> nonprofit tax law. An email obtained by the New York Post suggested that then-schools Chancellor Richard Carranza was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/26\/nyc-doe-wants-competitive-school-admissions-opposers-to-get-louder\/\">working with<\/a> groups like TTC to flood public comment sessions to drown out the voices of parents like those affiliated with <a href=\"https:\/\/placenyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PLACE <\/a>(Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education), a group co-founded by Maron and popular with Asian parents and others who believed \u201cequity\u201d initiatives were designed to displace them and lower standards at the few remaining high-performing city schools.<\/p>\n<p>TTC often had children speak at contentious education meetings, relying on their youth to give their messages emotional appeal and make it harder to challenge them. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teens Take Charge, a New York City far-left activist group that used children to hurl accusations of racism against parents who wanted to keep schools open and nearly succeeded in ending the city\u2019s tradition of rigorous merit-based magnet schools, apologized Tuesday for harming children, and said the group itself was racist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1712179,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1712176","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=1712176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}