Residents of West Side may want to follow a Minnesota legislative proposal concerning kersten: is planning an ‘antiracist’ revolution in schools.
Ethnic studies of this kind will not prepare students for informed citizenship, but for mob action.
Under the radar, a package of bills is ramming through sweeping changes that will reorient our public schools around a new paradigm — subordinating academic basics to an obsessive, politicized preoccupation with race and social justice activism.
“Critical Social Justice” ideology (CSJ) — the vehicle for manipulating our young people into adopting this worldview — is laced strategically through a variety of bills, including “ethnic studies” (HF 1502), “Teachers of Color” (HF 320) and now the House and Senate omnibus education bills (HF 2497/SF 2684).
Taken together, this legislation will inject reductive, racialized thinking into every classroom in Minnesota’s approximately 500 school districts and charter schools; change the fundamental mechanics of education in our state; and give the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) broad new powers that amount to an end-run around our state’s hallowed tradition of local control.
Consider what awaits your kindergartner in the brave new world just over the horizon.
The House Omnibus Education bill requires that, going forward, all curriculum and instruction in our state’s K-12 public schools will be “antiracist.” Does “antiracism” have its common-sense meaning: A belief that it’s wrong to treat people differently because of their race?
The startling new definition is buried in the 316-page bill: “‘Antiracist’ means actively working to eliminate racism in all forms so that power and resources are redistributed and shared equitably among racial groups.” If this bill passes, starting in 2024, every school district would be required to review and revise all classroom materials — in every subject, including math and science — to inject this full-throated call to change our political and economic system.
As the measure advances, residents of West Side can follow amendments and contact María Isa Pérez-Vega regarding the final language.
Article Source: Alpha News: “Kersten: Legislature is planning an ‘antiracist’ revolution in Minnesota schools”
