{"id":255535,"date":"2021-03-19T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=255535"},"modified":"2021-03-19T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:31:01","slug":"an-inside-look-at-californias-radical-new-k-12-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-inside-look-at-californias-radical-new-k-12-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inside Look At California\u2019s Radical New K-12 Curriculum"},"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%2Fan-inside-look-at-californias-radical-new-k-12-curriculum%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=255535&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2080.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>This week, the California Department of Education will vote to finalize the proposed \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/calif-ethnic-studies-curriculum-accuses-christianity-of-theocide\"><span>Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum.<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d If passed, it would bring critical race theory-inspired social studies lessons to k-12 classrooms across the state. While implementation will not be mandatory for all districts, the largest districts in the state, Fresno and LAUSD, have already indicated their intention to make the curriculum a requirement for graduation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s difficult to properly convey how radical this curriculum is. The examples shared below are just the tip of the iceberg. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ca.gov\/ci\/cr\/cf\/cdereceditsesmc.asp\"><span>full curriculum<\/span><\/a><span> reads like a yearlong quest to plumb the depths of every racial grievance, legitimate and otherwise, against America as a whole \u2014 and white Americans in particular. Global history, to the extent it is addressed, is repackaged as a parade of oppression, often focused solely on the pernicious racism of white people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Below are four examples highlighting the radical nature of the curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lesson Plan: \u201c#BlackLivesMatter and Social Change\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Predictably, this lesson (found in the \u201cAfrican American Studies\u201d unit) includes units on police brutality, protest \u2014 referred to as \u201ctactics of resistance\u201d \u2014 and even an assignment for students to prepare an \u201caction plan\u201d just in case an incident of police brutality occurs in their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Teachers are advised to \u201cbegin the lesson by discussing a recent incident in your community where an African American has been subjected to racial profiling or police brutality.\u201d Students are later asked to identify \u201croot causes\u201d leading to the incident, paying special attention to items like \u201cstand your ground, stop and frisk, noise ordinance, police officers bill of rights, cash bail system\u201d and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Teachers are also provided links to additional lesson materials like \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolerance.org\/magazine\/summer-2017\/bringing-black-lives-matter-into-the-classroom-part-ii\"><span>Bringing Black Lives Matter into the Classroom Part II<\/span><\/a><span>,\u201d <\/span><span>which explains how to introduce children of various ages to BLM. Predictably, these linked resources include more overtly biased content than the officially endorsed curriculum, including arguments for why traditional American values like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningforjustice.org\/magazine\/our-new-name-learning-for-justice\"><span>tolerance<\/span><\/a><span> are tantamount to complicity in bigotry (ex: \u201ctolerance is not justice\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cJewish Americans: Identity Intersectionality, and Complicating Ideas of Race\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Initially omitted, and only added after receiving 38k comments from community members, the updated curriculum also addresses the persecution of Jewish Americans, albeit in a somewhat backhanded way. For example, the term \u201cconditional whiteness\u201d appears 6 times in the unit on anti-Semitism, but appears nowhere else in the 441 page lesson plan pertaining to other racial groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The unit on Jewish Americans also conveniently doubles as a vehicle to learn about \u201cintersectionality,\u201d as well as anti-Arab racism. For example, in one exercise students are asked to contemplate, \u201cwhat are the manifestations of antisemitism as experienced by intersectional, Jewish Middle Eastern Americans?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The unit includes extensive discussion of intersectional Jewish identities, including emphasis on Shephardic and Mizrahi jews (Jews of Hispanic and Arab descent), and even highlights Michael Twitty, author of \u201cThe Cooking Gene,\u201d for his \u201cintersectional identity, being a Jewish gay African American.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Near the end of the unit, we are eventually informed that Jews of European descent (read: non-intersectional) can also experience anti-Semitism. We learn that anti-Semitism toward European jews \u201cwas only made possible when Europeans conceived of the idea of race.\u201d Persecution of Jews by non-Europeans goes unaddressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cPreparing Students for Difficult Conversations\u201d&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In a section labeled \u201cPreparing Students for Difficult Conversations,\u201d educators are instructed on how to facilitate what sounds like a maoist-style struggle session for k-12 children. Teachers are instructed \u201chow to establish a safe space\u201d for \u201cdifficult conversations,\u201d how to \u201cacknowledge complicated feelings about race,\u201d and perhaps most Orwellian, how to \u201cbegin to develop a shared understanding of facts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You will be delighted to learn that \u201cPreparing Students for Difficult Conversations\u201d is but the first in an 11 part lesson series, titled \u201cFacing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For this particularly prickly unit, the official curriculum links to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facinghistory.org\/resource-library\/facing-ferguson-news-literacy-digital-age\/preparing-students-difficult\"><span>3rd party website<\/span><\/a><span>, the text for which, presumably, was not included in the official department review and community vetting process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the most frequently linked resources is titled \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facinghistory.org\/resource-library\/facing-ferguson-news-literacy-digital-age\/preparing-students-difficult\"><span>Facing History And Ourselves<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d (which also happens to be the home of the \u201cFacing Ferguson\u201d series). A brief investigation of the site unearths some controversial learning objectives like: \u201c<\/span><span>Students will be able to develop a shared understanding of the basic facts surrounding the events in Ferguson,\u201d as well as links to videos like<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.illdoctrine.com\/2008\/07\/how_to_tell_people_they_sound.html\"><span>\u201cHow to Tell Someone They Sound Racis<\/span><span>t\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> (worth watching, FYI).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cCambodian Americans\u2013\u2013Deportation Breaking Families Apart\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The curriculum also misleads via omission. One glaring example can be found in the sample lesson titled, \u201cCambodian Americans\u2013\u2013Deportation Breaking Families Apart.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><span>Students are taught \u201ckey terms\u201d like \u201cAmerican secret bombing of Cambodia,\u201d \u201cPol Pot,\u201d \u201cKhmer Rouge,\u201d \u201cKilling Fields,\u201d and \u201cTrauma,\u201d yet completely omitted is one very relevant key term \u2014 \u201ccommunism.\u201d Despite its relentless focus on systems of power and oppression over the course of the 20th century, the word \u201ccommunism\u201d appears just one time in the entire document, and only in the context of American involvement in the Vietnam War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I want to stress that the examples I shared above are hardly highlights. If you lined up all 840 pages on a wall and threw a dart, you would likely hit something as radical as anything I\u2019ve listed. Top to bottom, the entire curriculum hammers relentlessly on one central theme: America is corrupt and oppressive, skin color determines identity, and the entire American project must be dismantled. Indeed, it is our \u201cobligation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As of now, this curriculum is only in California. However, these ideas \u2014 including critical race theory \u2014 represent the mainstream in modern education. It is likely that efforts like this are in progress in several states, and eventually will be in all states. The only way to stop it is to start paying attention. Americans need to understand that radical ideology is being smuggled into our classrooms via small print and unaccountable 3rd party resources. Keeping up with the subtle yet persistent drumbeat of k-12 subversion is tedious, which is why it has been neglected. Hopefully we are beginning to comprehend the importance. We need to become as fastidious as the Left is relentless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If you are an educator or parent and you have knowledge about concerning curriculum changes in your state or community, please reach out to me at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:ghowe@dailywire.com\"><span>ghowe@dailywire.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the California Department of Education will vote to finalize the proposed \u201cEthnic Studies Model Curriculum.\u201d If passed, it would bring critical race theory-inspired social studies lessons to k-12 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310814,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2080.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"An Inside Look At California\u2019s Radical New K-12 Curriculum","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2080.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"An Inside Look At California\u2019s Radical New K-12 Curriculum","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255535","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=255535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}