{"id":1842753,"date":"2023-02-11T04:04:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842753"},"modified":"2023-02-11T04:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T09:05:42","slug":"smeared-by-msnbc-for-refusing-to-teach-kids-to-hate-each-other-colorado-school-district-hits-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smeared-by-msnbc-for-refusing-to-teach-kids-to-hate-each-other-colorado-school-district-hits-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Smeared By MSNBC For Refusing To Teach Kids To Hate Each Other, Colorado School District Hits Back"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fsmeared-by-msnbc-for-refusing-to-teach-kids-to-hate-each-other-colorado-school-district-hits-back%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=1842753&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-->\n<p>After being targeted by a dishonest corporate media smear campaign on behalf of left-wing teachers unions, Colorado\u2019s conservative Woodland Park School Board and parents are fighting back and correcting the record.<\/p>\n<p>The school was chartered by Home to Merit Academy. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/13\/how-rural-colorado-parents-created-a-no-politics-public-school-in-just-one-year\/\">Parents<\/a> for education in valor and responsibility, the Woodland Park School District earned the ire of the propaganda press after it decided against using Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019 book \u201cBetween the World and Me\u201d In its teaching. According to district leaders, the book was in violation of state and local social studies. <a href=\"https:\/\/civicsalliance.org\/american-birthright\/\">Standards<\/a>The aim of the teaches children \u201cso they may become worthy of their ancestors by becoming full members of the American republic \u2026 self-reliant citizens who respect the dignity and the rights of their fellow Americans, who love their country, and who cherish our liberties and our laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These standards, of course, cut against left-wing narratives, so MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LwHi8OemwTA\">He aimed his fire at him<\/a> Last week, the conservative district. \u201cEven in states that aren\u2019t laying down edicts about teaching about race, local school boards are pursuing that agenda,\u201d Hayes said, \u201clike in Woodland Park, Colorado, where a school board member grilled a high school teacher about one of the texts taught in a history elective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayes was referring to a board meeting on Jan. 25 during which the school district\u2019s Vice President Dave Illingworth <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gh7T96t08-g?t=2348\">interviewed<\/a> an applicant for an empty board position, quoting from Coates\u2019 book and asking the interviewee if he agreed:<\/p>\n<p><em>In his 2015 book \u2018Between the World and Me,\u2019 Ta-Nehisi coates, among other things, writes \u2018The power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, white people would cease to exist.\u2019 This is my question: Would you agree? Is it appropriate, or even legal to teach children to see a person&#8217;s skin color as inherently dangerous or bad?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t grilling a teacher,\u201d The Federalist was told by Illingworth. \u201cI was talking to somebody who had applied to serve on the Board of Education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that was just the beginning of the media\u2019s lies.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes was more concerned about advancing left-wing narratives that getting the facts correct, and Hayes invited Coates. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XWDeBHmxjcs&#038;t=35s\">Protect<\/a> He was unopposed by the live audience. Illingworth, of course, wasn\u2019t invited \u2014 but he and other Woodland Park parents and leaders aren\u2019t letting the smears slide.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Woodland Park Wants To Indoctrinate Their Children<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>While the MSNBC host claimed that removing Coates\u2019 book from Woodland Park curriculum was meant to suppress black history, Illingworth rejects that assertion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t that the book was removed from classrooms or removed from the library or any sort of order went out \u2026 to discourage people from reading or anything like that,\u201d Illingworth said. \u201cIt just wasn\u2019t a good fit for the standards that were adopted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with the aforementioned American Birthright Social Studies (ABSS) standards \u2014 which Woodland Park adopted in addition to state requirements and which require social studies to cultivate love, not hate, for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being targeted by MSNBC, Colorado\u2019s conservative Woodland Park School District is correcting the record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1707,"featured_media":1842756,"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":[6024,4810,6208,7948,4247,3746,5688,7397,3924,9888,5834],"class_list":["post-1842753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-colorado","tag-district","tag-hate","tag-hits","tag-kids","tag-msnbc","tag-other","tag-refusing","tag-school","tag-smeared","tag-teach"],"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\/1842753","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\/1707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}