Education authorities in Santa Clara County, California, last year instructed teachers to teach “ethnic studies” and told them how to hide the content from their students’ parents, according to reports. The curriculum is based on a Marxist theory of “anti-oppression” that claims the U.S. was founded by “settler colonists” who committed the Holocaust and advocated “white supremacy. The school board in Santa Clara County last November said it was “a very important issue.
The Santa Clara County Office of Education conducted a training session for teachers last November on its Ethnic Studies Initiative, and City Journal reporter Christopher Rufo tweeted about it. Christopher Rufo, a City Journal reporter, tweeted and reported on the video. According to the report, the training opened with a “land acknowledgment” that Santa Clara County and all of its public schools were built on land taken from Native Americans. We acknowledge that Santa Clara County and our schools occupy land that was not given to us by the Muwekma Ohlone Nation, an Indian tribe, and that the skies, land and waters where we work and learn belong to this independent and autonomous nation and Native people,” the video says.
Jorge Pacheco, president of the California Latino School Board Association and advisor to the controversial Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Jorge Pacheco, an advisor to the controversial Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, speaks in the video that follows. According to Rufus, Pacheco said the teaching materials for teachers are based on the work of Paulo Freire, a Brazilian Marxist known for his pedagogy of the oppressed theory.
In his speech, Pacheco explored the concept of “settler colonialism,” a system of oppression introduced to the United States by Christopher Columbus, the navigator, according to Rufo. He expressed to the trainees the importance of making students aware of this oppression and leading them to believe that “white supremacy,” “patriarchy,” “classism “classism,” “genocide,” “private property,” and “God” are all part of the “system of oppression. system of oppression.
Pacheco also said in his speech: “The children are the subject, and you should make them aware of the oppression that they have not noticed before but are actively participating in. And then, how do we destroy and dismantle those systems?”
Pacheco also said that the district’s guidelines and expectations are obstacles to the Race Studies Initiative. He advised teachers to be “extra careful” when teaching at a distance because the students’ parents may hear the lecture. He said, “[We] have to be extra careful about what we say because we’re in someone’s home (meaning students are listening at home) and we can’t say things that are controversial.”
Most of the vocabulary and concepts used in the video speech come from the aforementioned Marxist Freire’s “critical theory,” which looks at society through the lens of the struggle for the rights of the “oppressor” and the “oppressed. This theory looks at society through the lens of the struggle for the rights of the “oppressor” and the “oppressed. According to this theory, almost all the ideas that have been the cornerstones of Western civilization, such as rationalism, the rule of law, and the right to private property, have become tools of oppression.
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