Education

Politicized Curriculum

The authoritarian worldview of Critical Consciousness including critical social justice, gender ideology, and sustainability are infused directly into curriculum for all subjects from pre-school through the university level. This also includes supporting curriculum and workshops from third party vendors as well as reading lists with books to read and discuss in class. All the while, they are excluding teaching the history of communism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, because it is too similar to the current American Cultural Revolution and their authoritarian plan to completely transform society and the way you live.

Episode Clips

• "Students were asked to consider environmental challenges and solutions from three lenses: the technical, the behavioral, and the normative. The technical lens solves problems through science and engineering. The behavioral lens tries to understand why people and institutions act the way they do and inspire change through action, while the normative lens considers the ethics surrounding these decisions and desired results."
  De Witte, Melissa. "Learning different approaches to sustainability", Stanford Report, 27 June 2023, https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/06/27/learning-different-approaches-sustainability/
• "The Sustainability Across the Curriculum Program, formerly known as the Penstemon Project, supports faculty to integrate sustainability across the curriculum in every school and department at SCU."
  "Sustainability Across the Curriculum", Santa Clara University, 16 July 2018, full article: https://www.scu.edu/sustainability/academics/acrossthecurriculum/, video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN2vuoh810o&t=3s
• Howard Zinn does not believe in objectivity. He only believes in political activism.
  https://www.c-span.org/video/?171876-1/depth-howard-zinn
• The impact of Howard Zinn and the 1619 project on US education.
  Grabar, Mary. "The Influence of Howard Zinn’s Fake History", Hillsdale College, National Leadership Seminar, 15 October 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYaFvELaU
• "Nikole Hannah-Jones, journalist and the creator of The New York Times' 1619 Project, speaks to UN News on her work which aims to place the consequences of slavery in the United States, and contributions of Black Americans, more at the centre of the national narrative."
  Hannah-Jones, Nikole. "History in many ways is about power", United Nations, 1 April 2022, https://web.archive.org/web/20220410114908/https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1l/k1lwbon6a0
• The lack of healthcare coverage today is claimed to be cause by past slavery.
  Hannah-Jones, Nikole. Et al. "'The 1619 Project': Nikole Hannah-Jones on confronting the truth about slavery", CBS Mornings, 22 August 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xzNyrFhzew
• Xi Van Fleet discusses how people don't recognize communism today because it is not taught in schools.
  Penny, Taylor. "Mom who survived Maoist China rips Virginia Democrats' 'ignorant' opposition to teaching evils of communism", Fox News, 28 February 2023, https://www.foxnews.com/media/mom-survived-maoist-china-rips-virginia-democrats-ignorant-opposition-teaching-evils-communism
• Description of the Social Identity Wheel exercise for students.
  Ormsby, Catalina. Et al. "Social Identity Wheel", University of Michigan, 5 July 2017, https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/social-identity-wheel/
• Roald Dahl's children's books are being censored.
  Dickerson, John. "Penguin to publish 'classic' Roald Dahl books after 'censorship' backlash", CBS News, 24 February 2023, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roald-dahl-penguin-original-books-censorship-backlash/
• Mark Twain's books are being removed from school reading lists.
  Hall, Gray. "New Jersey lawmakers looking to remove Huckleberry Finn from schools curriculum", ABC News, 23 March 2019, https://6abc.com/mark-twain-the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/5213307/

References

• Climate science has a history of being political and not grounded in reason and evidence.
  Newman, Alex. "Era of ‘Unquestioned and Unchallenged’ Climate Change Claims Is Over", The Epoch Times, 11 October 2023, https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/era-of-unquestioned-and-unchallenged-climate-change-claims-is-over-5503316
• Climate crisis predications have been wildly inaccurate for decades. Science should be able to make predictions, but climate science can't.
  Perry, Mark J. "50 Years of Failed Doomsday, Eco-pocalyptic Predictions; the So-called ‘experts’ Are 0-50", American Enterprise Institute, 23 September 2019, https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-eco-pocalyptic-predictions-the-so-called-experts-are-0-50/
• Howard Zinn’s personal marxist philosphy of global government. His history books are written from this perspective.
  Zinn, Howard. "Howard Zinn's Personal Philosophy", Big Think, 23 April 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBrd1gsyf0
• A biased history book written from the perspective of a marxist that is taught in US schools.
  Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States, 1980.
• The 1619 Project is a history based on political activism that is taught in US schools.
  Hannah-Jones, Nikole. "The 1619 Project", The New York Times, 14 August 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
• Anti-communist education is needed in US schools.
  Lindsay, James. "Anti-Communist Education", New Discourses Bullets, Episode 45, 13 April 2023, https://newdiscourses.com/2023/04/anti-communist-education/
• Comprehensive Sex Education curriculum that indoctrinates critical consciousness and is used in schools around the world.
  "It's All One Curriculum", International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2009, https://www.ippf.org/resource/its-all-one-curriculum
• "A focus on pleasure in sexual health education can increase condom use and enhance positive attitudes toward safe sex, according to a new international study led by the University of Oxford."
  Lam, Vivian. "Sex ed needs to talk about pleasure and fun. Safe sex depends on it and condom use rises", The Conversation, 11 February 2022, https://theconversation.com/sex-ed-needs-to-talk-about-pleasure-and-fun-safe-sex-depends-on-it-and-condom-use-rises-176572
• “Ask participants to take a slip of paper and complete the following sentence: ‘I get pleasure from ………………’. The slips should be placed in the box, shuffled, redistributed and read out in turn by participants. This exercise can be repeated the following day, focusing on sexual pleasure.”
  "Toolkit how to become a sexual pleasure champion and trainer a few helpful steps", The Pleasure Project, p.83, April 2023, https://thepleasureproject.org/trainers-toolkit/
• “...aims to support academic learning and curriculum by infusing it with emotionally, organizationally, and instructionally effective interactions.”
  "The Classroom Assessment Scoring System", Teachstone, Accessed 19 October 2023, https://teachstone.com/class/
• “'I feel_______when________because______ '' As in the example of the I-Message, SEL asks both teachers and students to share of themselves in ways that are personal and vulnerable. This can be scary for everyone.”
  Stuart Valdes, Kristin. "The Power of CLASS and Social-Emotional Learning", Teachstone, 3 December 2019, https://info.teachstone.com/blog/class-and-social-and-emotional-learning
• Children's picture book that indoctrinates critical consciousness.
  Gravel, Elise. Blais, Mykaell. Pink, Blue and You, 2022.
• Shakespeare is being removed from school curriculum in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion.
  MacGregor, Amanda. "To Teach or Not To Teach: Is Shakespeare Still Relevant to Today’s Students?", School Library Journal, 4 January 2021, https://www.slj.com/story/to-teach-or-not-to-teach-is-shakespeare-still-relevant-to-todays-students-libraries-classic-literature-canon
• Flood, Alison. "'Hurtful' Harper Lee and Mark Twain dropped from Minnesota curriculum", The Guardian, 12 February 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/12/hurtful-harper-lee-mark-twain-dropped-from-minnesota-curriculum-to-kill-a-mockingbird-duluth
Alexander, Harriet. "REVEALED: How 'woke' English teachers have cancelled Shakespeare because of his 'white supremacy, misogyny, racism and classism' - and are instead using his plays to lecture in 'toxic masculinity and Marxism'", Daily Mail, 15 February 2021, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9263735/Woke-teachers-cut-Shakespeare-work-white-supremacy-colonization.html
• Brown, Lee. "William Shakespeare ditched by woke teachers over ‘misogyny, racism’", New York Post, 16 February 2021, https://nypost.com/2021/02/16/shakespeare-ditched-by-woke-teachers-over-misogyny-racism/
• This book speaking out against transgenderism was completely banned from Amazon for everyone.
  Brown, Elizabeth Nolan. "How the Controversy Around When Harry Became Sally Boosted Its Popularity", Reason Magazine, August/September 2022, https://reason.com/2022/07/18/when-harry-became-sally/
• Haring, Bruce. "Amazon Under Fire For Erasing From Its Sales Site Book Critical Of Transgender Movement", Deadline, 27 February 2021, https://deadline.com/2021/02/amazon-under-fire-for-removing-transgender-study-1234702507/