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Hate In The Classroom

         America’s public classrooms have become a battle ground, pitting parents against radical ideologues that challenge traditional and biblical values.  Since education should be about reading, writing and arithmetic, how did this sea-change happen?

         The now discredited Southern Poverty Law Center has an education arm called “Learning For Justice”, which, as you might imagine, is a progressive’s dream list.  SPLC lesson plans on issues such as queer theory, white privilege, and anti-racism have supplanted traditional coursework in history, social studies, and other core classes—teaching children to view themselves and others through the lens of identity politics, and that America is forever stained by its original sin.

         Their far-left content has worked its way into K-12 classrooms across the country.  Their materials have been found on school district websites, district-wide curriculums, teacher training sessions and school equity policies.  The group Parents Defending Education released a report exposing the SPLC and how it is influencing education across the country.  Some of their key findings were:

• According to the 2020 National Sex Education Standards (NSES) document, the standards were “further informed by the work of …the Social Justice Standards.”
• Second Step social and emotional learning program used in schools across the country “curated a set of Learning for Justice lessons” to be taught in “tandem with your Second Step implementation to incorporate diversity, equity, and social justice work into your classroom’s SEL plan.”
• In 2022, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) added “equity revisions” to its NY Social Emotional Learning Benchmarks which aligned the benchmarks with “Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards.”
• Cambridge Public Schools (MA) incorporated the Social Justice Standards into its Junior Kindergarten through Fifth grade Physical Education curriculums.
• Princeton Public Schools’ (NJ) Equity webpage notes that the district used a grant to update its Early Childhood “library and humanities curriculum based on the Social Justice Standards, a road map for anti-bias education at every stage of K-12 instruction.”

         This is just a small sampling of findings. So how was the SPLC able to infiltrate so many education entities with their propaganda?  Through the teachers unions, the NEA and the AFT, as well as the American School Counselor Association.   A spokesperson for Defending Education stated that “by promoting and integrating Learning for Justice content and standards into mental health programming and curricula, the teachers’ unions and ASCA are giving the far-left organization credibility.  This is deeply troubling for a variety of reasons, especially since the SPLC has put parents on its ‘hate map’ for simply raising concerns with their local school districts.”

         A federal grand jury has indicted the SPLC on bank and wire fraud and conspiracy charges for allegedly giving $3 million to KKK members. The Department of Justice says the SPLC was using donor cash to prop up the “hate” they allegedly to want to “dismantle”.  The SPLC has pled not guilty to the charges.

         Parents, now more than ever, it’s imperative you know what is being taught in the public schools because you are literally fighting for your child’s heart and mind.

         Those are my thoughts. I’m Janet Parshall.