{"id":310950,"date":"2021-03-25T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=310950"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:31:09","slug":"minnesotas-new-social-studies-curriculum-would-racialize-first-graders-teach-high-schoolers-about-the-evils-of-whiteness-capitalism-and-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesotas-new-social-studies-curriculum-would-racialize-first-graders-teach-high-schoolers-about-the-evils-of-whiteness-capitalism-and-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota\u2019s New Social Studies Curriculum Would Racialize First-Graders, Teach High Schoolers About The Evils Of \u2018Whiteness, Capitalism, And Christianity\u2019"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fminnesotas-new-social-studies-curriculum-would-racialize-first-graders-teach-high-schoolers-about-the-evils-of-whiteness-capitalism-and-christianity%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=310950&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-3523.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The Minnesota Department of Education released a draft of its new social studies curriculum standards, which place a new emphasis on diversity, equity, and gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The social studies curriculum is up for state-wide review during the 2020-21 school year as part of Minnesota\u2019s 10-year cyclical curriculum review. The Department of Education\u2019s standards committee has dubbed the new framework a \u201cmore inclusive approach to social studies education.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/education.mn.gov\/MDE\/dse\/stds\/soc\/\"><span>copy<\/span><\/a><span> of the standards, the committee wants to begin social studies classes with a land acknowledgment. Land acknowledgments tell students that they are learning on land that was conquered by Americans, though once belonged to Native Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMinnesota is the contemporary and ancestral home of the Anishinaabe and Dakota peoples, and social studies education on this land will acknowledge and honor their contemporary and historical voices,\u201d the draft reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Under the new standards, learning about social justice curriculum begins in the first grade. Six and seven-year-olds may be taught about systemic discrimination and how groups have fought against such discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Students will] learn to recognize unfairness, stereotypes, and bias on the individual level (e.g., biased speech) and injustice at the institutional or systemic level (e.g. discrimination),\u201d the curriculum reads. \u201c[Student will] explore how individuals and groups in the past have fought against bias and discrimination through social justice movements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The standards insist that fourth-graders investigate how race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, and geographic location shape the opinions of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In fifth grade, students are asked to \u201cinvestigate how groups (example: women, religious groups, civil rights groups, indigenous peoples, LGBTQ) have advocated for access to greater rights.\u201d Fifth-graders must also learn about the ongoing debate about renaming buildings following the death of George Floyd and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Elementary students are asked to \u201canalyze how different perspectives influenced past decisions to name places and impact changing place names today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Middle schoolers may soon be exposed to learning about racism in relation to the criminal justice system in Minnesota, the evils of capitalism, and social justice activism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The standards ask sixth-graders to \u201cdescribe the goals, offenses, penalties, long-term consequences, privacy concerns of Minnesota\u2019s juvenile justice system and evaluate the impact on Black, Indigenous, Person of Color (BIPOC) communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sixth-graders are also asked to assess the goals of activists in their \u201cquest for their voice to be heard.\u201d The standards specifically address the activism of anti-war, racial minorities, immigrants and refugees, women, LGBTQ, and indigenous people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In seventh grade, students may be asked to describe how profit can be used as \u201can incentive for people to exploit others or the environment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>High school students undergo the most intense social justice indoctrination. At one point in the curriculum, freshmen are taught about the evils of \u201cwhiteness, Christianity, and capitalism,\u201d and asked to question the country\u2019s founding documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the standards, ninth-graders must \u201cdescribe the tactics used by the United States government to claim indigenous and Mexican land, including but not limited to an analysis of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and its relationship to whiteness, Christianity, and capitalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The same students learn about how Euro-Americans allegedly used \u201cwhiteness\u201d and traditional gender norms to keep people enslaved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIdentify how Europeans and Euro-Americans developed new legal justifications for slavery and settler colonialism in the Americas by creating new racial categories (i.e. Whiteness), and new ideas about gender,\u201d the curriculum reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Other lessons include an explanation of how \u201csystemic inequity\u201d created barriers to accessing credit, explain how race is a \u201csocial construction\u201d used to \u201coppress people of color,\u201d and learn to embrace gender ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Students will] explain the social construction of race and how it was used to oppress people of color and assess how social policies and economic forces offer privilege or systematic oppressions for racial\/ethnic groups related to accessing social, political, economic, and spatial opportunities,\u201d the curriculum reads. \u201c[Students will] develop a respectful awareness about how ideas and norms about gender have changed over time, and how members of the LGBTQ+ community have responded to persecution or marginalization by building coalitions in order to promote gender equality\/equity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instructors are told to teach about the failure and successes of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments during the Reconstruction era. The curriculum asks teachers to \u201cconnect this history to persistent discrimination and inequity in the present.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ninth-graders must also question why the United States\u2019 founding documents included only the voices of white people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Students will] analyze the founding documents of the United States, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as historical sources, asking who created them, whose voices were absent, and whose interests were articulated,\u201d the standards read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the Department of Education\u2019s webpage, the committee will delay making a second draft until it has paid \u201cfull attention to issues of diversity and equity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ylNXk6dEzcg\"><span>virtual committee meeting<\/span><\/a><span>, the department\u2019s Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Teaching and Learning Bobbie Burnham said that the standards will be developed with an emphasis on the \u201clived experiences\u201d of young, marginalized students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe committee has articulated the need to make standards and supporting benchmarks more meaningful by attending to the race, ethnicity, identity, and lived experiences of young people in relation to civic life and acknowledging voices and experiences of marginalized youth,\u201d Burnham said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A second draft is slated to be released in early June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Department of Education released a draft of its new social studies curriculum standards, which place a new emphasis on diversity, equity, and gender.The social studies curriculum is up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311156,"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-3523.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Minnesota\u2019s New Social Studies Curriculum Would Racialize First-Graders, Teach High Schoolers About The Evils Of \u2018Whiteness, Capitalism, And Christianity\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310950","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-3523.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Minnesota\u2019s New Social Studies Curriculum Would Racialize First-Graders, Teach High Schoolers About The Evils Of \u2018Whiteness, Capitalism, And Christianity\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310950","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=310950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}