Report: California Public School Teachers Being Told to Hide Critical Race Materials From Parents

Report: California Public School Teachers Being Told to Hide Critical Race Materials From Parents

The push for ethnic studies in California’s public schools has been going on for months. We have documented it and noted the anti-American and anti-Israel nature of the program.

The left is not waiting for someone to tell them they can’t implement this. They’re just doing it and even allegedly hiding parts of it from parents.

Christopher Rufo has been leading the fight against Critical Race Theory in education.

He writes at City Journal:

Merchants of Revolution

California public schools are embarking on a new experiment: education as social justice. Earlier this year, the state Department of Education approved an ethnic studies model curriculum, and individual school districts have begun to implement programs that advocate “decolonizing” the United States and “liberating” students from capitalism, patriarchy, and settler colonialism.

This will likely come as a surprise to most California residents, who may be familiar with the movement’s euphemisms—“ethnic studies,” “educational equity,” “culturally responsive teaching”—but do not understand the philosophical and political premises of these programs. As the state and many school districts begin to implement the state ethnic studies curriculum, however, details are emerging.

I have obtained documents from one such program, the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s Ethnic Studies Initiative, that paint a disturbing picture of the ethnic studies curriculum and the activists leading the charge. According to the documents and to sources within the district, the Office of Education held a series of teacher-training sessions on how to deploy ethnic studies in the classroom. The leaders, including district staff, an advisor for the state Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, and a professor from San Jose State University, encouraged teachers to inject left-wing politics into the classroom and to hide controversial materials from parents.

What kind of education program hides materials from parents?

Proponents of this program are coming right out and saying that because of remote learning, they have to be “careful” about what parents can see:

Teachers must be careful, though: Pacheco and the other panelists suggested that local educators hide this revolutionary pedagogy from administrators and families. “District guidelines and expectations are barriers,” said one panelist. “[We] have to be extra careful about what is being said, since we can’t just say something controversial now that we’re in people’s homes [because of remote learning].”

This is being done in public schools with taxpayer money:

Jorge Pacheco, an adviser for the state ethnic studies curriculum, said that teachers must "awaken [students] to the oppression" and lead them to "decodify" and eventually "dismantle" the dominant political structures, which enable "white people [to exploit] people of color." pic.twitter.com/t5ut4mYS8i

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021

The language in the presentation is pure Marxist conflict theory—oppressor-oppressed, praxis, synthesis. Pacheco acknowledged that the Marxist underpinnings "scare people away," but insisted that teachers must be "grounded in the correct politics to educate students." pic.twitter.com/2gUUruIIaM

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021

The panelists advised local teachers to hide this political program from administrators and parents. "District guidelines and expectations are barriers," said one panelist. "[We] have to be extra careful … now that we're in people's homes [because of remote learning]." pic.twitter.com/jgq8A7RGL6

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021

This curriculum will soon become commonplace for millions of California schoolchildren. Earlier this year, the state Department of Education approved a "model ethnic studies curriculum," championed by Pacheco and colleagues, who encourage recruiting kids beginning in first grade. pic.twitter.com/KPqUpDGdnx

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021

The first grade.

This is not education. It’s political indoctrination, being finance by parents who are seen as potential enemies of the agenda.

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