New York City Public Schools BLM website, discussing how to instill the principles of the BLM movement in young children. (Photo credit: Website screenshot)
Recently, a New York Times bestselling author recommended a book called Black Lives Matter at School, due out in December 2020, as “a great resource for building an anti-racist school system. Some analysts say this means that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has gone beyond street protests and has begun to reach out to the U.S. K-12 Education system so that public school children are indoctrinated with the idea of Black Lives Matter from an early age.
“The curriculum outlines the successes achieved by Black Lives Matter in challenging academic racism in the school movement, and it will inspire hundreds of educators to join Black Lives Matter’s anti-racism education efforts in schools,” the book’s blurb reads. The introduction also claims that action to promote the book is “imminent.
The book, “Black Lives Matter in Schools,” emphasizes that for Black Lives Matter to become a reality, Black Lives Matter principles in schools should not be limited to history and social studies or discussed only in action weeks, but must become part of a broader school Culture that permeates all disciplines, including social studies, English art, math, science, Music, art, world languages, theater, etc., and be truly valued in education. “This work is going to be done nationwide all year round.”
A school’s BLM Week event in February this year was promoted. (Photo credit: Twitter screenshot)
“One school day” becomes “100 school week”
According to sources, the Black Lives Matter movement in schools began in Seattle in October 2016. In one Seattle school, some teachers organized a “Black Lives Matter Day in Schools,” and the news quickly spread across the country, spreading from one school to hundreds of schools nationwide. As a result, Black Lives Matter Day in Schools became Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools, held the first week of February each year, setting the tone for Black History Month.
By 2018, school districts in more than 20 major cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle, are scrambling to incorporate Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools into their curricula and get more students to participate.
The National Education Association (NEA) endorsed and adopted the resolution, and Black Lives Matter co-founder Opel Tometi issued a public letter of support describing it as “a new explosion of racial justice in schools across America.
“Black Lives Matter in New York City Public Schools Website Needs and Guiding Principles
The “Black Lives Matter in New York City Public Schools” website states that their four basic “demands” are: First, the abolition of “zero tolerance” discipline and the implementation of restorative justice, a disguised form of racial justice. Restorative Justice, which disguises the condoning of drugs and violence in schools and transforms the traditional punitive and corrective school approach into a restorative one, in order to end the punitive culture of criminal justice; two, hire more Black teachers; three, require (all) K-12 students to take courses in Black history and ethnic studies; and four, fund counselors instead of school security because “the increased number of school security guards has created a punitive and oppressive culture.”
There are also 13 “Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles” that encourage teachers and younger students to discuss various Black Lives Matter tenets, such as identifying “transgender,” “cool kids” and “black villages,” describing them as “collective villages that interfere with Western nuclear Family dynamics and return to taking care of each other. In fact, participating public schools have incorporated Black Lives Matter propaganda into the curriculum for elementary school students, encouraging them to question the importance of the nuclear family.
In addition, the curriculum plans to explain to second, third and fourth graders the “necessity of the Black Lives Matter movement,” which aims to teach students how to overturn what the Black Lives Matter believes is oppressive (e.g., prisons, immigration laws).
Former U.S. President Donald Trump once said, “The left has deceived, distorted and tarnished the American story. There is no better example than the New York Times’ 1619 Project. This project rewrites American history and teaches our children that our country was founded on the principles of oppression, not freedom!”
Parents React to Black Lives Matter Expensive in Schools
On August 20, 2020, a parent named Matt Moss tweeted a video less than 2 minutes long: “On the fourth day of my kids’ online class, they have been integrated into Marxism. I spoke with the principal today and she told me in no uncertain terms: the school is working with Black Lives Matter.”
The video, which received nearly 600,000 views and 19,000 retweets, has received positive reactions from parents across the country and has generated discussion among some Chinese.
Netizen 1: “Our school is supporting Black Lives Matter Gui too?”
User 2: “My granddaughter’s school requires black clothing to support the Black Lives Matter movement, which is ridiculous.
Netizen 3: “Some teachers in New York schools described the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots as the ‘civil rights movement’ and compared Black Lives Matter to Martin Luther King Jr. Luther King, Jr. They compared Black Lives Matter to Dr. Martin Luther King. In contrast to Martin, Black Lives Matter is the exact opposite; Black Lives Matter is violent, appeals to a specific skin color, and is anti-Christian in its beliefs.”
Many conservative parents see the Black Lives Matter curriculum as a political tool for radical teachers to “brainwash” their students. Black Lives Matter classes have been boycotted by a number of conservative parents in high schools across the United States.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has noted, “They want to redefine education at all levels to make it a shell of their propaganda.” And parents were reminded that parents must take special care.
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