{"id":598866,"date":"2021-07-21T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598866"},"modified":"2021-07-21T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:06:22","slug":"biden-admin-linked-radical-handbook-instructing-teachers-to-disrupt-whiteness-as-part-of-school-reopening-guidance-admits-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-linked-radical-handbook-instructing-teachers-to-disrupt-whiteness-as-part-of-school-reopening-guidance-admits-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Linked Radical Handbook Instructing Teachers To \u2018Disrupt Whiteness\u2019 As Part Of School Reopening Guidance, Admits \u2018Error\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\">36<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-linked-radical-handbook-instructing-teachers-to-disrupt-whiteness-as-part-of-school-reopening-guidance-admits-error%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=598866&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\/06\/Teach-Facts-Not-Feelings-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration has admitted the Department of Education made an \u201cerror\u201d after Fox News revealed that the DOE promoted a radical handbook from the Abolitionist Teaching Network as part of its COVID-19 school reopening guidance. The &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/biden-admin-promotes-radical-group-critical-race-theory-schools\">Fox News report<\/a> added that the ATN instructs teachers to \u201cdisrupt whiteness\u201d and that an ATN founder sees it as her mission to \u201ctrouble [white teachers\u2019] internalized White supremacy and anti-Blackness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ATN handbook, titled&nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/documents\/coronavirus\/reopening-2.pdf\">Guide for Racial Justice &amp; Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning<\/a>,\u201d is linked in the Biden administration\u2019s Department of Education \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/documents\/coronavirus\/reopening-2.pdf\">Ed COVID-19 Handbook<\/a>\u201d which is designed to guide teachers in \u201creopening safely and meeting all students\u2019 needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The guide promotes the \u201chistoric American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP),\u201d and provides \u201cresources\u201d to schools looking to spend the $122 billion in ARPA funds earmarked for public schools to help correct the \u201cdisproportionate impact of COVID-19 on students of color, students from low-income backgrounds, students with disabilities, English learners, students who are migratory, students experiencing homelessness, students in correctional facilities, and students in foster care\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of that mission, it seems, is to introduce teachers to radical educational materials, including the guide for \u201cabolitionist teachers,\u201d whom the handbook defines as educators looking to \u201c[b]uild a school culture that engages in healing and advocacy.\u201d That mission, the ART says, \u201crequires a commitment to learning from students, families, and educators who disrupt Whiteness&nbsp;and other forms of oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbolitionist Teaching Network\u2019s mission is to develop and support those in the struggle for educational freedom utilizing the intellectual work and direct action of Abolitionists in many forms,\u201d the group\u2019s website states, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/biden-admin-promotes-radical-group-critical-race-theory-schools\">per Fox News<\/a>. \u201cBut in the materials referenced by the Department of Education, the group outlines how \u2018Abolitionist Teachers\u2019 should guide students toward \u2018Abolitionist\u2019 social and emotional learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p><em>In addition to finding educators committed to disrupting Whiteness, the guide states that teachers should remove \u201call punitive or disciplinary practices that spirit murder Black, Brown, and Indigenous children.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The guide notes that social and emotional learning \u201ccan be a covert form of policing used to punish, criminalize, and control Black, Brown, and Indigenous children.\u201d It also states that the standards for such learning are \u201care rooted in Eurocentric norms\u201d and don\u2019t \u201cempower, love, affirm, or free\u201d those children.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>ATN has made headlines before. According to a previous Fox News report, a Biden Department of Education deputy, Cindy Marten, formerly of the Unified San&nbsp;Diego School District, welcomed one of ATN\u2019s co-founders, Bettina Love, to give a \u201cdiversity training seminar,\u201d while she served as San Diego school superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>In that seminar, Bettina Love reportedly \u201csaid public schools didn\u2019t see Black people as humans, were guilty of systemic \u2018anti-Blackness,\u2019 and \u2018spirit murder babies.&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1339939517281619971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1339939517281619971%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Freport-seattle-tells-teachers-bankrupt-your-white-privilege-schools-commit-spirit-murder-of-black-children-every-day\">According to Christopher Rufo<\/a>, who tracks \u201canti-racism\u201d training nationwide, Love defines \u201cSpirit murder\u201d as the concept that public schools \u201cmurder the souls of Black children every day through systemic, institutionalized, anti-Black, state-sanctioned violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reference to ART in its materials, the Department of Education notes that \u201c[s]chools are microcosms&nbsp;of society; therefore, culturally responsive practices [and] intentional conversations related to&nbsp;race and social-emotional learning \u2026 are the foundation for participating in a democracy and should be anchor tenets in building a schoolwide system of educational opportunity,\u201d and links to ART\u2019s handbook.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after Fox News published their report, the DOE admitted that&nbsp;\u201cThe Department does not endorse the recommendations of this group, nor do they reflect our policy positions. It was an error in a lengthy document to include this citation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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