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Please email this important committee about your concerns over public supported education of children at the following address:
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Below are 3 emails that have been sent to this committee that you may want to read as well as share with anyone else who needs to be encouraged to write their own personal thoughts to these legislators who serve on this committee. Lord knows...they need guidance from WE THE PEOPLE.
Email #1
Dear Committee Members:
We are experiencing an unprecedented crisis with our schools – a crisis of trust. Over the last decade or more, public schools and those who run them have squandered whatever trust parents had in the system. How did this happen and what’s going on?
All we have to do is look at what’s happening in our classrooms. Here are just a few examples:
· Pickens Middle School recently held race-segregated lunch sessions. According to the school principal, this was done to “help students cope being in a predominantly white school.”
· The 2022 SC Teacher of the Year, which many of you proudly paraded around the Statehouse, is busy bragging on Twitter: “We about to get real disruptive in English class this year. My kiddos will be analyzing privilege and oppression with an anti-racist framework. Critical consciousness is about to be a 10. We have to attack systemic racism – my activism is in the classroom.” Activism? In the classroom?
· The book Stamped, by Ibram Kendi – the “anti-racist” guru – is in most public schools, and being assigned in English classes. The book is an endless, and rather racist rant, largely distorting and fabricating history. Here are some quotes:
o “…the only thing extraordinary about white people is that they think something is extraordinary about white people.”
o “Racist ideas …were born in Western Europe in the mid-1400s.” Really? Racism did not exist in ancient Egypt, Athens, or Rome?
o “…using words [like] minority, as if black people are minor, mak[e] white people major.” I would expect this kind of infantile logic from a four-year-old, not from an adult author.
The writer says his book is not a history book, so by his own admission it has no historical value. Then what literary value does it have that it’s assigned in English class? And what books are teachers removing to make room for this nonsense? Shakespeare, Orwell, Dostoevsky? But if parents dare to ask the question, the response is, “Trust us – we’re expert educators.”
· Charleston’s curriculum openly calls for “advocating for change,” how to be a “good agitator,” and a unit on doing a “library race and gender diversity audit” where students fill out a spreadsheet classifying authors by skin color and the content of their…pants!
· A teacher in Mt Pleasant showed his class how to do a privilege walk – an exercise of lining up people to compare their so-called privileges and shaming them.
· On James Island, students are shown videos explaining white privilege and then writing papers about systemic oppression and defending riots.
· Richland School District 2 took to Facebook pushing queer theory and gender ideology, explaining non-binary pronouns, gender multiplicity, and promoting videos on Amaze.com, a website specializing in packaging sexualized content and queer theory for young children.
· Teachers are being brainwashed through staff trainings with seminars like: “Unpacking White Privilege,” “Becoming a Revolutionary Educator,” and being instructed about oppression matrixes. Teachers have sent me screenshots of daily prompts they receive from administrators for using in class, like, “Decentering Whiteness,” and “Fostering Racial Resiliency.”
· York County schools and throughout the State, stock and promote books for children with adult content and pornographic scenes. Here’s an excerpt from All Boys Aren’t Blue – “He reached his hand down and pulled out my d*ck. He quickly went giving me head.” Pornography and pedophilia for 12-year-olds, why not? Some books have actual cartoon images of sex acts. Books given to kindergarteners teach them they can pick their own gender. Do you even let your 5-year-old pick their own food for lunch? “But hey,” we are told, “we’re trained librarians and media specialists – trust us.”
· An activist school counselor testified at the Statehouse recently that she regularly has confidential discussions with students about their gender identity and sexuality. “Don’t like wearing dresses or playing with other girls? Well, you may be queer or trans, and here’s a nice book and a website that tells you all about it. Oh, and don’t tell your parents about any of this.”
· With SEL (Social Emotional Learning), children are being subjected to emotional therapy and psychological interventions – in front of their classmates and by teachers with just a few hours of training on the subject. Any seasoned child psychologist will tell you: you’re playing with fire – you need to really know what the hell you’re doing lest you screw up that kid. CASEL, the provider of most SEL programs, says SEL is a “lever for equity,” “awareness of racial, classed, and gender identities,” “collective agency,” and “distributive justice.” Is that what we’re sending little Susie to learn in school? SEL also scores and tracks your child, building a permanent social record. “How’s Susie doing with social awareness of systemic inequities? Does she exhibit the correct values? Hmm?”
· Combine this with data mining gathered through student surveys, like Panorama, that pry into family life: “Oh, Johnny doesn’t have enough diverse friends? His parents don’t talk enough about race at dinnertime. — Flag him as a potential bigot! We’ll have to keep our eyes on this one.”
“But don’t worry,” we’re told, “this is for their own good – we’re the experts. Trust us.”
How many of you are aware of all this? Would you trust these schools with your child? And if you do know what’s going on, then why are you allowing this to be done to other children?
Since when have schools become our children’s legal guardians, moralists, therapists, sex coaches, doctors, confidantes?
Our school system has been hijacked; hijacked by social activists from top to bottom, and their mission is not to teach academics, or art, history, science, or mathematics, but to turn children into agents of change to advance their social justice agenda. Look at any mission statement from any teacher’s college and that’s what you’ll see. Don’t believe me? The ASCD – a teachers’ organization providing curricula and teacher training in all 50 states – proudly says the following on its webpage:
“As educators, there is much we can do to help students meaningfully pursue a passion for social change. The English Language Arts classroom is an ideal place to do that. ELA teachers … can build a classroom culture that empowers students to be great change agents.”
Change agents? Is that what school is for?
In case you’re not aware, the social activists that have infested our schools are part of a multi-billion-dollar industry. And they come to speak with committees like yours to peddle their garbage and play you for fools. Most parents are now seeing right through these lies; I truly hope you are too.
How many children are we willing to sacrifice to this toxic ideology? This very costly and dangerous experiment on our children has failed everywhere it’s been tried, at every school. By all measures, students are now doing worse, not better. Academics, behavior, standardized testing, even student and teacher satisfaction have suffered, everywhere. Edina Schools in Minnesota – one of the top performing school districts there and in the nation -- went fully woke in 2017, the result: all students did worse, and black and Hispanic students – the supposed beneficiaries of this agenda -- did worst of all. Edina Schools dropped from 5th place in reading proficiency to 29th, and from 10th place in math proficiency to 40th place in the state. In a once coveted school system, the result of the woke agenda is that now one in five students can’t read at grade level, and one-third can’t do grade-level math. Meanwhile, at nearby school districts that did not adopt the woke agenda, reading and math proficiency went up during the same years.
Enough already. It’s high time for the adults – and you are supposed to be the adults – to call bullsh*t on this scam. To purge our schools of this malignant infestation of activism and indoctrination and return schools to their once respected and trusted role of teaching academics. And if you don’t put an end to this, the parents with the ability to pull their children out of public schools will. And who will be left for the activists to indoctrinate? The truly poor and downtrodden, who don’t need it, and don’t want it, but who will remain trapped there.
This is the crisis of trust that you must reverse, starting right now.
Sincerely,
South Carolina Parent
Summerville, SC
Email # 3
Dear SC Committee on Children,
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