{"id":58336,"date":"2020-08-17T02:38:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58336"},"modified":"2020-08-17T02:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:38:29","slug":"58336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=58336","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Grade School Requiring Children to Study \u2018Book About Whiteness\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

A grade school in a wealthy Pennsylvania school district is requiring children to study a book called \u201cNot My Idea: A Book About Whiteness,\u201d which claims \u201cwhite people who relate to police officers or decline to watch the news are complicit in racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Washington Free Beacon reported Gladwyne Elementary in Lower Merion School District assigned the book for fourth and fifth graders.<\/p>\n

The curriculum also assigns \u201cA Kid\u2019s Book About Racism\u201d to kindergarten and first graders, the report said.<\/p>\n

Some parents aren\u2019t happy, and the Beacon reported Elana Fishbein, the mother of two boys, wrote to the district superintendent and board demanding the school halt its \u201ccultural proficiency\u201d curriculum.<\/p>\n

“The book teaches kids not only to defy parents but to hate themselves. To hate their parents also because they are white,” she said. “By default, [the kids] are white, and they’re privileged, and they’re bad. [The school] is teaching this to little kids.”<\/p>\n

The new lessons were announced to parents by email. The district claimed its existing classes on equality and race are not sufficient to get its message across to students.<\/p>\n

“Generally, each class also engages in a cultural proficiency lesson; however, we realize that this is not enough,” Gladwyne principal Veronica Ellers wrote in an email obtained by the Free Beacon. “We plan to continue designing lessons that promote anti-racist actions in the upcoming 20-21 school year and beyond.”<\/p>\n

A district spokeswoman, Amy Buckman, said the district wanted an “anti-racist curriculum” for students and insisted on “appropriate books that raise awareness of the very real issues of racism and privilege.”<\/p>\n

Fishbein said it’s not a surprise that few parents are objecting openly.<\/p>\n

“If you say anything that’s racist according to the school or parent’s definition of racism, you’re out,” Fishbein warned. “You’re called a racist. No wonder the parents don’t talk.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grade School Requiring Children to Study \u2018Book About Whiteness\u2019 A grade school in a wealthy Pennsylvania school district is requiring children to study a book called \u201cNot My Idea: A Book About Whiteness,\u201d which claims \u201cwhite people who relate to police officers or decline to watch the news are complicit in racism.\u201d The Washington Free … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-propaganda-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58337,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58336\/revisions\/58337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}