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| Philadelphia elementary school forces fifth-grade students to celebrate ‘black communism and Angela Davis' |
| 2021-02-12 |
| [CityJournal] Bad Education In a Philadelphia elementary school, teachers are putting a premium on radicalism, not reading. According to whistleblower documents and a source within the school, a fifth-grade teacher at the inner-city William D. Kelley School designed a social studies curriculum to celebrate Davis, praising the “black communist” for her fight against “injustice and inequality.” As part of the lesson, the teacher asked students to “describe Davis’ early life,” reflect on her vision of social change, and “define communist”—presumably in favorable terms. The William D. Kelley School has long been one of the most troubled in the district. The school’s student population is 94 percent black and 100 percent “economically disadvantaged.” Academically, it is one of the worst-performing schools in Pennsylvania. By sixth grade, only 3 percent of students are proficient in math, and 9 percent are proficient in reading. By graduation, only 13 percent of Kelley students will have achieved basic literacy. Unfortunately, the programs at William Kelley are no aberration. In recent years, the entire Philadelphia public school system has embraced the philosophy of “antiracism.” Last summer, the superintendent released an Antiracism Declaration promising to “[dismantle] systems of racial inequity” and circulated a memo recommending racially segregated training programs for white and black educators. The local teachers’ union produced a video denouncing the United States as a “settler colony built on white supremacy and capitalism” that has created a “system that lifts up white people over everyone else.” The solution, according to the union, is to overthrow the “racist structure of capitalism,” provide “reparations for Black and Indigenous people,” and “uproot white supremacy and plant the seeds for a new world.” |
| Posted by:Flomogum Chereck4299 |
| #8 And I'm just talking mindspace-wise. Lordy, if I'd only foreseen how hideously our glorious expanded universe would compress the mind of everyman [rapper's forehead diamond here], damned if I wouldn't rule the world... or at least myself. |
| Posted by: Maggie Hupomp2614 2021-02-12 21:27 |
| #7 "Boy howdy, our children are dumb." "The trouble, good people, is gum! 'Tis terrible stuff, And to quit it is tough." But today? What a long way we've come! |
| Posted by: Maggie Hupomp2614 2021-02-12 21:18 |
| #6 Back before children, I used to tutor adult illiterates. My students came to us because they finally realized they wanted to know what they hadn’t bothered with as children. If there are any church groups in the Philadephia area looking for a project, adult literacy and pre-GED training — church-to-church — possibly couched in terms of not letting The Man keep their parishioners down, or giving them the tools to succeed... anyway, if you get the parents reading and teaching their children to read, they won’t put up with this crap from the schools. Possibly in time the parents could set up an after-school/Sunday school program for their own children and as an outreach to the community. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-12 13:49 |
| #5 It's difficult to fully appreciate this until you've seen a grown man struggling to fill out a routine job application. Always put in Che quotes. The Right Ones, not the ones where he expresses his real opinion about his African students. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-02-12 13:16 |
| #4 Its not like they need to actually be educated to vote democrat - which is their apparent [acccording to the School District) chief role in society. And now, thanks to Dominion, they don't even have to correctly identify the Democrat on the ballot. Dominion will auto-correct their ballot. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-02-12 12:53 |
| #3 It's difficult to fully appreciate this until you've seen a grown man struggling to fill out a routine job application. |
| Posted by: Matt 2021-02-12 12:37 |
| #2 Short, especially for City Journal, and well worth reading. What the entire school district is doing is criminal. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-12 11:25 |
| #1 Perfect fusion: Race Communism. Blacks = Proletariat Dems = Vanguard Good Whites = Aristo-Bolsheviks Bad Whites = Bourzhuiye / Kulaks Let us build RACE COMMUNISM! |
| Posted by: Ebbusotle Platypus6367 2021-02-12 05:12 |