{"id":2343768,"date":"2024-09-20T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-org-trains-daycares-to-support-riots-abolishing-police\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T07:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T11:56:06","slug":"wisconsin-org-trains-daycares-to-support-riots-abolishing-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-org-trains-daycares-to-support-riots-abolishing-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Org Trains Daycares To Support Riots, Abolishing Police"},"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\">18<\/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-org-trains-daycares-to-support-riots-abolishing-police%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=2343768&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>A recent training session conducted by the taxpayer-funded Wisconsin Early\u200c Childhood Association (WECA) \u2063raised concerns after it was revealed that daycare workers were taught to promote partisan political\u200b messages, including\u200d support for abolishing the police and\u2062 engaging in &#8220;social justice&#8221; advocacy among very young children. Participants in the training\u2064 received &#8220;diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging&#8221; kits, which included books that critics argue promote divisive ideologies and \u200bracial grievances. <\/p>\n<p>Notably, the training featured Megan Madison, an author of \u200dseveral books aimed at young children, who emphasized that a &#8220;color-blind&#8221; perspective on race is harmful. She, along with\u200c WECA&#8217;s \u2064diversity director, Tanya \u2064Johnson, encouraged\u2063 participants to \u2063teach children about social injustices\u2064 and activism through literature. They cited \u200binitiatives like\u2062 the\u2062 Black Lives Matter movement as examples of actions they want children to understand and engage with.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, including legal experts,\u2063 have flagged potential violations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-embraces-separate-but-equal\/\" title=\"The Left supports &#039;Separate But Equal\">federal antidiscrimination laws<\/a> by the organization and expressed \u200cconcern over the indoctrination of children with \u200bradical ideologies. WECA, which is heavily funded by state and federal taxpayers, has \u200cbeen \u200bcriticized for effectively acting as an extension of government in Wisconsin&#8217;s daycare licensing \u2064process.\u2063 Federal \u2063agencies overseeing these programs have not publicly \u200bcommented on their involvement in funding such training\u200d initiatives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A tax-funded Wisconsin organization trained daycare workers to teach infants and toddlers to participate in violent partisan protests and support abolishing the police.<\/p>\n<p>Daycare workers who participated in an April training from the tax-funded organization Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA) received &ldquo;diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging&rdquo; kits worth $600 each that included board books <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/?p=328354&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">teaching babies race hatred and gender dysphoria.<\/a> The kit came to light this week when a daycare owner who received one <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/?p=328354&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went public<\/a> with what she found inside.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=znjHPt2iXEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the training<\/a>, an author of three of the books in the kit, Megan Madison, told daycare workers that &ldquo;the color-blind approach&rdquo; to race &ldquo;is ineffective and potentially harmful.&rdquo; Madison cohosted the training with WECA&rsquo;s diversity director, Tanya Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Any organization that receives federal funds risks violating federal antidiscrimination law by disparaging Americans based on their race, said Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty attorney Dan Lennington. WECA is essentially a clearing house for taxpayer funds, directing it to daycares for food welfare, daycare worker training, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson opened the training by stating her pronouns and giving a &ldquo;land acknowledgment&rdquo; that asserted parts of the United States actually belong to tribal peoples whom U.S. armed forces conquered long ago. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We respectfully acknowledge the land on which we are holding this training, the traditional land of Ho-Chunk Nation,&rdquo; she claimed. &ldquo;Today we recognize and honor with gratitude both the land and the indigenous people who live and who continue to live on the land now called the United States.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Madison, who led the training with Johnson, thanked Johnson for the land acknowledgment and claimed she lives &ldquo;on Lenape land,&rdquo; or what everyone knows to be New York City. The Lenape were a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penn%27s_Creek_massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">barbarous tribe known for<\/a> attacking unarmed noncombatants, torturing women and children in front of their family members, massacres, and skinning some victims&rsquo; heads while they were still alive. They were also known for murdering people solely due to the color of their skin.<\/p>\n<p>Madison and Johnson went on to encourage daycare workers to adopt &ldquo;race related teaching practices&rdquo; that elevate &ldquo;awareness of race-related injustices and the inclination to take action to stop them.&rdquo; Below are slides presented during their training.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson said the step of &ldquo;recognizing race-related injustices and taking action to stop them&rdquo; is &ldquo;very important.&rdquo; She also said providing babies, toddlers, and preschoolers books that push leftist activism and racial and sexual grievance mentalities is a &ldquo;key strategy&rdquo; for social justice activists.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have to help children learn to recognize fair and unfair situations related to race and then provide developmentally appropriate ways to help them take action,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;And so I included a picture of the book <em>A is for activist.<\/em>&ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>The board book for babies and toddlers &ldquo;helps children learn about activism &mdash; environmental injustice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for,&rdquo; Johnson said. &ldquo;One of the key elements or strategies for having all these conversations with children is through literature, okay. We can use children&rsquo;s literature as a great way to show representation and have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peloton-employees-undergo-anti-racist-training-that-claims-grandfathered-in-blacklisted-are-white-supremacist-terms\/\" title=\"Peloton Employees Undergo \u2018Anti-Racist\u2019 Training That Claims \u2018Grandfathered In,\u2019 \u2018Blacklisted\u2019 Are \u2018White Supremacist\u2019 Terms\">race-related conversations<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Instead, the pair told caregivers to adopt a &ldquo;social justice approach&rdquo; in daycares that can care for children as young as newborns.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Madison cited participating in Black Lives Matter and pro-Palestinian protests as examples of the outcomes of the &ldquo;social justice approach&rdquo; she and Johnson want daycare workers to adopt. The 2020 Black Lives Matter riots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/crime-and-justice\/commentary\/we-need-congressional-investigation-the-2020-riots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resulted<\/a> in an estimated $2 billion in damaged American homes, businesses, and public property, as well as at least 25 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Later investigations <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/17\/black-lives-matter-spent-at-least-12-million-on-mansions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> BLM organizations <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/18\/blm-paid-patrisse-cullors-graffiti-artist-brother-800k-for-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paying<\/a> a cofounder&rsquo;s brother $800,000 for &ldquo;security&rdquo; and buying million-dollar luxury mansions and business properties. That contrasts with one top goal of the movement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/americans-deserve-know-who-funded-blm-riots-opinion-1787460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to its founders<\/a>: the destruction of capitalism and of the United States as we now know it.<\/p>\n<p>Resources Madison recommended to daycare workers included the 1619 Project, especially a picture book from that project, <em>Born on the Water<\/em>. The 1619 Project, a revisionist history effort from The New York Times, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nas.org\/topics\/1620-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">critiqued by numerous academics<\/a> for presenting <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/08\/23\/slavery-america-not-begin-1619-things-nyts-project-gets-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">factually false information<\/a> and claiming the United States is intrinsically racist.<\/p>\n<p>Madison also recommended a picture book urging abolishing the police, entitled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/691516\/can-we-please-give-the-police-department-to-the-grandmothers-by-junauda-petrus-illustrated-by-kristen-uroda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers<\/em><\/a>? Another recommendation from Madison for childcare workers to share with babies was a picture book about the 13 Black Lives Matter principles, which include affirming transgenderism and abolishing the natural family: <em>How We Can Live: Principles of Black Lives Matter<\/em>. Other resources she listed on a slide for daycare workers include more politically extremist advocacy.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Busy parents relying on day care shouldn&rsquo;t have to worry that their children are being indoctrinated with radical ideologies,&rdquo; Lennington told The Federalist via email. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s particularly shameful that children who are born with an innate sense of colorblindness are being taught a worldview of racial conflict.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/?p=328354&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in a companion article, &ldquo;A nonprofit organization, WECA functions essentially as a private arm of government.&nbsp;To be licensed for business in Wisconsin, daycare providers in certain parts of the state must take&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsinearlychildhood.org\/programs\/pre-licensing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a pre-licensing class<\/a>&nbsp;with WECA. WECA also provides continuing education for daycare providers, who must take at least 15 hours of such training every year to maintain their state license &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;According to WECA&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/75cc071c.flowpaper.com\/WECAannualReport2023ENGfinl\/#page=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parker-america-is-still-working\/\" title=\"PARKER: America Is Still Working\">latest annual report<\/a><\/a>, 95 percent of its $32 million in annual income in 2023 came from taxpayers via state and federal grants.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Federalist comment requests to Johnson and WECA Executive Director Ruth Schmidt went unanswered. The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families declined to say whether the state agency funds any of WECA&rsquo;s DEI personnel or programming. DCF oversees Wisconsin daycares and sends WECA millions each year. The agency also declined to comment on whether funding materials and programs that urge partisan political activity complies with agency policy.<\/p>\n<p>The full training is below on YouTube.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introduction to Race-Related Teaching Practices (RRTPs) English\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/znjHPt2iXEI?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist. Her new book with Regnery is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.&#8221;  A happy wife and the mother of six children, her ebooks include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/a2Jzp\">101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation<\/a>.&#8221;      An 18-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media including Tucker Carlson, CNN, Fox News, OANN, NewsMax, Ben Shapiro, and Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural.  Joy is also the cofounder of a high-performing Christian classical school and the author and coauthor of classical curricula.    Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-banned-from-christian-campus-for-criticizing-identity-politics-settles-case\/\" title=\"Professor settles case after criticizing identity politics on Christian campus\">traditionally published books<\/a> also include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1486730068&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin organization funded by taxpayer money has trained daycare workers to instruct infants and toddlers on engaging in violent partisan protests and advocating for the abolition of the police. During an April training session organized by the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA), participating daycare workers received \u201cdiversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging\u201d kits valued at $600 each. These kits contained board books that promote concepts of racial animosity and gender dysphoria. The contents of these kits were revealed this week when a daycare owner publicly shared her findings.<\/p>\n<p>In the training session, Megan Madison\u2014an author of three books included in the kit\u2014told attendees that a \u201ccolor-blind approach\u201d to race is \u201cineffective and potentially harmful.\u201d Madison co-led the training with WECA\u2019s diversity director, Tanya Johnson. According to Dan Lennington, an attorney with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, any organization receiving federal funds could be violating federal antidiscrimination laws if they disparage individuals based on race. WECA acts as a conduit for taxpayer funds directed toward daycares for various purposes including food assistance and staff training.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson began the session by stating her pronouns and offering a &#8220;land acknowledgment,&#8221; claiming that parts of what is now known as the United States rightfully belong to tribal peoples who were historically conquered by U.S. forces. She stated: \u201cWe respectfully acknowledge the land on which we are holding this training, traditionally belonging to Ho-Chunk Nation,\u201d expressing gratitude towards both the land itself and its indigenous inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Madison expressed appreciation for Johnson&#8217;s acknowledgment while noting she resides on what she referred to as &#8220;Lenape land,&#8221; which corresponds to New York City today. The Lenape tribe has historical notoriety for violent acts against unarmed civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders encouraged daycare workers to implement teaching practices focused on race-related issues that foster awareness about racial injustices while promoting action against them. Johnson emphasized that recognizing these injustices is crucial; she described providing young children with literature promoting leftist activism as a vital strategy in social justice efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Madison cited participation in Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests as an example of how they envision implementing their social justice approach within daycares\u2014a movement associated with significant property damage during riots in 2020 along with numerous fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>Among resources recommended by Madison were materials from The 1619 Project\u2014a controversial historical initiative criticized for inaccuracies\u2014and picture books advocating police abolition or outlining BLM principles related to transgender affirmation and family structure redefinition.<\/p>\n<p>Lennington remarked that parents should not have concerns about their children being exposed to radical ideologies while attending daycare programs designed primarily for care rather than political indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>As reported previously, WECA operates similarly to a private governmental entity; it requires certain childcare providers in Wisconsin undergo pre-licensing classes through its program while also mandating ongoing education hours annually tied directly back into state licensing requirements\u2014all funded predominantly through taxpayer dollars amounting up to $32 million annually according to their latest report.<\/p>\n<p>Requests from The Federalist seeking comments from Johnson or WECA&#8217;s Executive Director went unanswered; similarly unaddressed was whether state funding supports any DEI initiatives or personnel within WECA\u2019s framework overseeing childcare facilities across Wisconsin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2343769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5127925890_f319655b30_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[41307,41305,41306,36625,4124],"class_list":["post-2343768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-community-activism","tag-daycare-training","tag-police-abolition","tag-social-justice","tag-wisconsin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5127925890_f319655b30_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343768","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\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}