{"id":1714301,"date":"2022-10-28T03:17:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714301"},"modified":"2022-10-28T03:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:20:44","slug":"why-are-virginia-students-studying-sexuality-body-size-and-privilege-in-spanish-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-are-virginia-students-studying-sexuality-body-size-and-privilege-in-spanish-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Virginia Students Studying Sexuality, Body Size, And Privilege In Spanish Class?"},"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%2Fwhy-are-virginia-students-studying-sexuality-body-size-and-privilege-in-spanish-class%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=1714301&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>Earlier this month, spies and sleuths walked through the doors of the Central Intelligence Agency\u2019s top-secret headquarters here in the D.C. suburbs for a day of work fighting foreign threats to the United States. Around the corner, on Georgetown Pike, teens shuffled through the doors of classroom No. 1208 at Langley High School for 90 minutes of Spanish II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHola!\u201d the teacher said to them, as they started class.<\/p>\n<p>What the teens got instead of a normal tutorial in Spanish was a surprise lesson on \u201cIdentidad,\u201d or \u201cIdentity,\u201d with students handed a two-page worksheet created by the University of Michigan\u2019s Program on Intergroup Relations. It included a list of \u201cSocial Identity Groups,\u201d not teaching the students about Spanish-language communities, but probing personal, intrusive, and even shaming questions right off a Buzzword Bingo card in identity politics, and asking them to pen their self-identities into a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/inclusive-teaching\/social-identity-wheel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cSocial Identity Wheel.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Michigan<\/p>\n<p>For these teens as young as 14, they faced the task \u2014 in the early morning class of Spanish II on Thursday, Oct. 13 \u2014 of identifying their \u201cSocial Identity Groups,\u201d including their \u201cSexual Orientation,\u201d with this wide array of confusing choices: \u201cLesbian,\u201d \u201cGay,\u201d \u201cBisexual,\u201d \u201cHeterosexual,\u201d \u201cPan-Attractional,\u201d \u201cAttractionality\u201d and, in case those didn\u2019t cover it, \u201cQuestioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For their \u201csex,\u201d these young students had \u201cintersex\u201d among their choices, along with female and male.<\/p>\n<p>For gender, they had \u201cWoman, Man, Transgender, Post-Gender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University of Michigan<\/p>\n<p>Despite body image being such an issue, especially among teen girls, the students were offered a \u201csocial identity group\u201d of \u201cBody Size\/ Type,\u201d with \u201cFat,\u201d \u201cPerson of Size,\u201d and \u201cThin\u201d as examples. One irked Langley mother said, \u201cReally? With all of the body-shaming that girls already feel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Langley High School community, many parents settled in the nation\u2019s capital to affect U.S. and global policy in high-level posts from the White House, Congress, Defense Department, and even the CIA. These parents work at law firms, media companies, and government contractors, but, like youth everywhere, their children experience the same, complicated lives of teens, with depression, anxiety, and growing pains.<\/p>\n<p>In the oversimplification of societal dynamics that activists have increasingly imposed on children, the Spanish II students also had the task of identifying their \u201cSocial Class,\u201d with choices including \u201cPoor,\u201d \u201cWorking Class,\u201d \u201cLower-Middle Class,\u201d \u201cUpper-Middle Class,\u201d \u201cOwning Class,\u201d and \u201cRuling Class,\u201d another judgment on the young people.<\/p>\n<p>To cap off this exercise, their teacher, Teresa Quigley, instructed them to ponder if they were in a \u201cmarginalized group\u201d that is \u201cdisenfranchised and exploited\u201d or a \u201cprivileged group\u201d with \u201cunearned privileged\u201d status in society. Students looked at each other, confused about what they were doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does any of this have to do with learning Spanish?\u201d a local mother asked.<\/p>\n<p>Obtained by Independent Women\u2019s Network<\/p>\n<p>To parents and alumni, this kind of subversion of a simple Spanish lesson is emblematic of the national assault on education that led this week to the results the U.S. Education Department released in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cThe Nation\u2019s Report Card,\u201d<\/a> with historically low performances by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Spanish lesson at a Virginia school is a reminder that, despite Gov. Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s improvements, parents must remain vigilant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":1714304,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1714301","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\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}