People march in New Orleans, LA, July 4, 2020, to protest the Orleans Parish School Board’s demand to change the names of two educational institutions to oppose naming them after racists.
“Anti-racism” is growing in the United States, with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s most populous and largest city, at the forefront, where an elementary school even asked fifth-graders to celebrate “black communism” and mimic a rally by the extremist group One elementary school even asked fifth-graders to celebrate “black communism” and simulate a rally by the extremist group Black Power in honor of Angela Davis, a political radical and leader of the Communist Party USA and the Black Panther Party.
According to whistleblower documents and sources inside the school, a fifth-grade teacher at the William D. Kelley School, a public elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, devised a social studies curriculum designed to praise Marxist Davis’ struggle against “injustice and inequality.
Davis, a lifelong Marxist, was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union. As part of the lesson, the teacher asks students to “describe Davis’ early life,” reflect on her views on social change, and “define communist,” presumably in complimentary terms.
At the end of the session, the teacher led the 10- and 11-year-olds into the school auditorium for a mock “Black Power” rally to “free” Davis from prison. Davis had been incarcerated on charges of conspiracy, kidnapping and murder.
Students marched on the stage carrying signs that read “Black Power,” “Jail Trump” (even though Davis had been in prison more than 40 years before Trump became president), and “Free Angela.” The slogans read “Black Power,” “Imprison Trump” (even though Davis had been in prison more than 40 years before Trump became president) and “Free Angela. They chanted African and ancestral power, and then chanted “Free Angela! Free Angela!” .
While students at the William D. Kelley School were engaged in such activities, the school ranked last in academic performance in the entire state of Pennsylvania and was one of the worst performing educational institutions. Only 3 percent of the school’s sixth-grade students excel academically and 9 percent excel in reading. By graduation, only 13 percent of students have basic literacy skills, even as the entire Philadelphia public school system has embraced an “anti-racist” philosophy.
It is an absolute tragedy that students graduate with little to no basic literacy skills. One teacher at the school, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, expressed deep pessimism about the future of public education: “I have come to realize that no policy has done more harm to African-Americans than the public school system and the teachers’ unions.”
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