Parents Defending Education
Fellow American,
I’ve shared with you many stories of “woke” policies damaging
our children.
From Critical Race Theory to “social emotional learning” to
racially segregated spaces, radical and divisive ideas are being
forced on kids as early as kindergarten.
But did you know that woke school policies threaten the core
of education — reading, writing, and arithmetic — as well?
The Oregon Department of Education recently encouraged teachers
to register for training that encourages “ethno-mathematics." Among
the principles being taught in the training: the idea that empha-
sizing correct answers in math is part of “white supremacy.”
Yes, you read that right: encouraging kids to find the right
answer to a math problem is racist.
Oregon middle school teachers are being encouraged to use a
toolkit called "Equitable Math" for "dismantling racism in mathe-
matics."
"The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequi-
vocally false, and teaching it is even much less so," the toolkit
reads. "Upholding the idea that there are always right and wrong
answers perpetuate objectivity as well as fear of open conflict."
Amazingly, the toolkit says teachers should "come up with at
least two answers that might solve this problem."
Take Springfield Public Schools as another example. In one of
the activities in their “Induction Equity Training” the teachers
used beads to represent individuals’ races and placed the beads
along a pipe cleaner.
The participants were encouraged to choose between various
color beads to place on the pipe cleaner in response to questions
like “My primary doctor identifies as…,” “The majority of my close
friends identify as…,”The majority of my mentors identify as…,” etc.
At the end of the activity, they were encouraged to discuss
questions like “How might this activity help you better address
Anti-Racism and White Supremacy?” and “Do you now have strategies to
expand your community so that the colors on your pipe cleaner may
diversify?”
Fellow American, I know you believe as I do that our children’s
education should be based on scholarship and facts that nurture
their development into happy, resilient, free-thinking, and educated
citizens.
America’s classrooms should focus on rigorous instruction in
history, civics, literature, math, the sciences, music, art, and the
ideas and values that enrich our country --not Critical Race Theory,
gender ideology, and “woke” math.
But instead, our kids are at the mercy of a new educational mis-
sion at war with basic American values and our kids’ happiness and
ability to succeed in life. Many schools have already embraced this
campaign, and many more are preparing to embrace it.
Schools are increasingly moving way outside their lane without
the consent of the students, parents, and communities who's inter-
ests the schools are supposed to serve.
Parents Defending Education is fighting back -- with your help
Fellow American. Our children’s hearts, minds, and education are too
important to sit in silence. You are not alone in being disturbed by
these destructive developments -- and it is time to join together
and stop the madness in our schools.
Together we’re speaking out against the extreme, harmful, ideo-
logical agenda infiltrating our schools … and fighting to restore a
healthy, non-political education for our kids.
Thank you for standing with us!
Nicole Neily, President
Parents Defending Education
I thought that this was very well written and with God's help
maybe we can get our teachers and children's educations back on the
path to getting a real unbiased, fulfilling learning experience.
Conservatively,
John
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