BREAKING NEWS: Democratic Party-Controlled California, Governor Adopting A Very Divisive Educational Policy Pitting Most Minorities Against Each Other?
Posted on August. 31. 2020
Californians must mobilize to make ‘CRITICAL’ ETHNIC STUDIES Educational Policy inclusive rather than exclusive.
Excluded from California’s model curriculum are the white ethnic groups (Italians, Irish, Poles, and so forth). Also largely excluded are groups like Jews and Armenians who were persecuted abroad and sought refuge in America. The groups that dominate the curriculum are African-Americans, Latinos, Asan-Americans and American Indians.
By focusing on these four and treating them solely as victims, the curriculum misses the opportunity to convey to students that groups at the bottom of the social and economic ladder can climb, making use of their cultural assets and the opportunities that the country affords them. This curriculum teaches the opposite. It attaches moral opprobrium to success by instructing teachers and students that the Jews and Irish in America have secured white “racial privilege.”
OPEN LETTER TO TEACHERS, PARENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS’CRITICAL’ ETHNIC STUDIES RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA
Date: August 30, 2020 at 9:42:56 AM PDT
To: All and share with teachers present and retired
Dear Friends and fellow teachers.
This Opinion piece was in the Friday, August 28, 2020 issue of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL written by Williamson M. Evers.
And I quote from his opinion piece:
“A year after it was sent back to the drawing board, California’s ethnic studies model curriculum is back. The curriculum is moving toward adoption in March by the State Board of Education. Legislation is also advancing to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement.
Excluded from California’s model curriculum are the white ethnic groups (Italians, Irish, Poles, and so forth). Also largely excluded are groups like Jews and Armenians who were persecuted abroad and sought refuge in America. The groups that dominate the curriculum are African-Americans, Latinos, Asan-Americans and American Indians.
By focusing on these four and treating them solely as victims, the curriculum misses the opportunity to convey to students that groups at the bottom of the social and economic ladder can climb, making use of their cultural assets and the opportunities that the country affords them. This curriculum teaches the opposite. It attaches moral opprobrium to success by instructing teachers and students that the Jews and Irish in America have secured white “racial privilege.”
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“Sociology and social psychology also have much to teach ethnic studies about the role of envy in society. For example, envy of successful Jews and those of Jewish ancestry contributed to the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. The rulers of Turkey during World War I mobilized envy to carry out the Armenian genocide. The prosperity of Japanese American farmers on the West Coast encouraged envious neighbors to seek their internment and forced sales of their property during World War II.”
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“The revised model curriculum in California portrays capitalism as oppressive and gives considerable weight to America’s socialist critics. Yet history and political science show that the state can be used readily under socialist for racist purposes. Obvious examples include the Soviet Union’s 1948-49 purge of “rootless cosmopolitans” -that is Jews – and its 1951-53 Doctors’ Plot attack on Jewish physicians. Under socialism, a bureaucratic elite controls all job assignments, new media, courts and the secret police.”
The proponents of critical ethnic studies are so insulated by Marxism and identity politics that they miss insights from other fields.”
ASSEMBLY BILL 331 WOULD REQUIRE STUDENTS ENTERING NINTH GRADE IN THE FALL OF 2025 TO TAKE A ONE-SEMESTER ETHNIC STUDIES ETHNIC STUDIES COURSE IN HIGH SCHOOL.
If you like or dislike what the ‘Critical’ Ethnic studies entails get in touch with: Governor Gavin Newsom @ 1303 10th Street, Suite 1173, Sacramento CA 95814 Phone 916 445 2841 or FAX (916) 558 3160
Best,
Ellen Chesnut