Tag: ethnic studies
San Francisco School District Parents Betrayed Again
Last week, California parents discovered that the San Francisco Unified School District had proposed a “grading for equity” initiative, dumbing down all students to the lowest common denominator, The Voice of San Francisco reported. Parental outrage hit peak levels after...
Dissension and Chaos: Behind the Curtain of the California School Board Land Acknowledgement Craze
Yesterday I posted two videos that depicted various school boards around California making “Land Acknowledgement” statements at the beginning of their board meetings. Those posts—found here and here—provided very little explanation. Sorry about that… but what was your impression? Questions? ...
New Bill Introduced to Create Content Standards For Ethnic Studies Classes
Over the weekend, a new bill that would create content standards for high school ethnic studies courses and have the state review curriculum and materials for ethnic studies courses was introduced in the Assembly. Assembly Bill 1468, authored by Assemblyman...
I Grew Up With Soviet Communism; Now as a Trustee I See It Embedded in California’s Ethnic Studies
As a school board member in the Ramona Unified School District in San Diego County, when I read the Santa Ana Liberated Ethnic Studies curriculum for the first time, it brought back childhood memories from growing up in the Soviet...
California Teachers Association’s ‘Curriculum’ of Shame
The California Teachers Association just made clear—again—it does not give a fig about your child’s education. Indoctrination? Oh yeah. Education? Nahhhh. At its recent “solidarity conference” at the swanky Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, the union’s leaders paraded a...
California’s Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies Curriculum are a Manual for Future Left-Wing Activists
At what point do constitutional free speech protections cease to be protected? Yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is one threshold – but isn’t “yelling fire” taking place all across the country, on college campuses, in state Capitols, and even...