“Woke Kindergarten” Founded by Anti-Israel and Anti-American Activist Resulted In Lower Test Scores ‘Unexpectedly’
“Gross has also called for police to be defunded and abolished, condemned capitalism, said the government should ‘free them all’ from prisons and accused the former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang of supporting genocide.”
To absolutely no one’s surprise, including its antisemitic founder’s, “woke kindergarten” has resulted in lower test scores.
A Bay Area school struggling to boost low test scores and student attendance is paying $250,000 for an organization called Woke Kindergarten to train teachers to disrupt racism and remove those barriers to learning. Its test scores fell even further. https://t.co/TumgU7EaR3
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) February 3, 2024
It’s no wonder when you check out their website (archived) and learn what they are about.
woke kindergarten is a global, abolitionist early childhood ecosystem &
visionary creative portal supporting children, families, educators and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-Black and queer and trans liberation.
That any school district, even one in California, spent a quarter of million taxpayer dollars on this actual hate messaging is horrifying. What on earth were they thinking? Clearly not about test scores or the children’s academic learning, this is loathsome indoctrination. By a person with loathsome views:
The founder of the “Woke Kindergarten” consultancy recently awarded a $250,000 grant: “I believe Israel has no right to exist. I believe the United States has no right to exist. I believe every settler colony who has committed genocide against native peoples has no right to… pic.twitter.com/bxIPIBZdd3
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The San Francisco Chronicle reports (archive link):
A Hayward elementary school struggling to boost low test scores and dismal student attendance is spending $250,000 in federal money for an organization called Woke Kindergarten to train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression and remove those barriers to learning.
The Woke Kindergarten sessions train teachers on concepts and curriculum that’s available to use in classrooms with any of Glassbrook Elementary’s 474 students. The sessions are funded through a federal program meant to help the country’s lowest-performing schools boost student achievement.
But two years into the three-year contract with Woke Kindergarten, a for-profit company, student achievement at Glassbrook has fallen, prompting some teachers to question whether the money was well-spent given the needs of the students, who are predominantly low-income. Two-thirds of the students are English learners and more than 80% are Hispanic/Latino.
. . . . District officials defended the program this past week, saying that Woke Kindergarten did what it was hired to do. The district pointed to improvements in attendance and suspension rates, and that the school was no longer on the state watch list, only to learn from the Chronicle that the school was not only still on the list but also had dropped to a lower level.
The decision to bring in Woke Kindergarten, rather than a more traditional literacy or math improvement program, aligns with the belief by some parents and educators that the current education system isn’t working for many disadvantaged children.
The solution, these advocates say, is for educators to confront legacies of racism and bias in schools, and to talk about historic white supremacy, so that students feel safe and supported. As such anti-racism programs have spread, several more conservative state legislatures have moved to restrict or ban them.
This idea of “abolitionist education” is toxic and very damaging to students in the near- and long-term. How could it not be?
The San Francisco Chronicle continues:
Woke Kindergarten, aimed at elementary-age students, is founded on the relatively new concept of abolitionist education, which advocates for abolition, or “a kind of starting over,” said Zeus Leonardo, UC Berkeley education professor. The idea is that certain things can’t be reformed, tweaked or shifted, because they are inherently problematic or oppressive. It’s not about indoctrinating or imposing politics, “but making politics part of the framework of teaching,” Leonardo said.
But some Glassbrook teachers have questioned the decision to bring in the program, saying Woke Kindergarten is wrongly rooted in progressive politics and activism with anti-police, anti-capitalism and anti-Israel messages mixed in with the goal of making schools safe, joyful and supportive for all children.
. . . . The Woke Kindergarten curriculum shared with schools includes “wonderings,” which pose questions for students, including, “If the United States defunded the Israeli military, how could this money be used to rebuild Palestine?”
In addition, the “woke word of the day,” including “strike,” “ceasefire” and “protest,” offers students a “language of the resistance … to introduce children to liberatory vocabulary in a way that they can easily digest, understand and most importantly, use in their critiques of the system.”
Teacher Tiger Craven-Neeley said he supports discussing racism in the classroom, but found the Woke Kindergarten training confusing and rigid. He said he was told a primary objective was to “disrupt whiteness” in the school — and that the sessions were “not a place to express white guilt.” He said he questioned a trainer who used the phrasing “so-called United States,” as well as lessons available on the organization’s web site offering “Lil’ Comrade Convos,” or positing a world without police, money or landlords.
. . . . Woke Kindergarten was founded by former teacher Akiea “Ki” Gross, who identifies as they/them and describes themselves as “an abolitionist early educator, cultural organizer and creator currently innovating ways to resist, heal, liberate and create with their pedagogy, Woke Kindergarten.”
They established the for-profit company in 2020 in Maryland, although the Woke Kindergarten website says it is “primarily community sustained” and relies “primarily on donations.”
Fox News, in an article published in 2021, has more on this Gross person.
A section of the Woke Kindergarten website titled, “Yerr, It’s Ki,” describes the founder with the following: “Ki (they/them) is an abolitionist early educator, coach, consultant and creative entrepreneur currently innovating ways to unlearn, heal, liberate and create with their pedagogy.”
Early education applies to children 8 years old and younger, according to the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a nonprofit group for teachers, parents and other educators.
Social media accounts attributed to Gross and Woke Kindergarten often use the words “f—” and “s—.” Gross even claimed complaints about the swearing caused organizers to drop them from a paid speaking appearance earlier this year.
. . . . Gross has also called for police to be defunded and abolished, condemned capitalism, said the government should “free them all” from prisons and accused the former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang of supporting genocide.
Woke Kindergarten describes its 60-second clips as “big concepts for little people.” Another, titled “Good Trouble,” leans on the famous line from the late civil rights icon and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.
“Sometimes it’s good to get into trouble,” the narrator states, later hinting that Black and Indigenous Americans are not “free” and need to “get into trouble” to change that.
. . . . Other districts that have referenced Woke Kindergarten videos include Seattle and Gig Harbor in Washington, Buffalo N.Y., and the Wheeler School in Rhode Island, according to Parents Defending Education.
More on this “woke kindergarten” cancer:
Here are the materials on the "Woke Kindergarten" Insta.
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Whenever a erudite white claims to be woke I instantly surmise that, due to their insulation, they have adopted such a stance in hopes the negroes don’t eat them first.
As it happens, the eloi are generally the first ones eaten by the morlocks.
I’m no great fan of blacks, but it’s just plain insulting how these wokesters keeping grouping them in with queers and trannies.
Because those queers and trannies have been using the came Civil Rights legislation to culminate power as clients for the Democratic party.
*same
standard marxist victimology
It turns out that the way you get a racial group with an average IQ of 86 to do as well as white people with an average IQ of 86 is get them to act like white people.
Hayward is east bay same as oakland. 50% black males don’t finish high school. So blame whites.
lol
Were these under-performing non-white children born stupid, or did their parents raise them that way??
The eternal question Professor Higgins!
This assumes a two-parent household for these underachieving kiddos; a fact not in evidence.
answer: raised that way.
Those people who want to close the achievement gaps even further might consider that we’re already devoting immense resources toward underachieving groups. Perhaps they should consider that the gaps can’t get much smaller, but they could easily get a lot larger.
Oh they can get smaller…but the only way to do it is to deliberately bring the high achievers down.
But they’re doing that already. That’s how they’ve gotten the gaps down to where they are. They can’t improve the performance of the low ones, so all gains have been by decontenting the instruction of the better ones. In no way has public education gotten better in the past 40 years. It’s all the mixing up and perversion of what used to work.
You think they are above just changing the scores and giving a penalty to scores based on race?
Just ask Diana Moon Glampers, the “Handicapper General” from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”.
Just watch network television (I rarely do), but between the commercials and the programming, it’s clearly aimed at reducing, not improving, the intelligence of the current white majority.
That’s been the mission of American government education for the past 50 years
Doing this crap they make up is so much easier and weaker. Anyone can convince kids to act childish the way these “so-called” adults do.
It takes a lot more effort and skill to actually teach people valuable life skills that they won’t realize they can use until they grow up.
nooo
it would be unexpected ifff the test scores honestly went up
Not by anyone who isn’t a Leftist
Seems to me every Cultural Marxist Seminaries are only pushing Transgender, race warfare and class division
This is not how you educate children. This is how you create real insurrectionists. IOW, if you wanted to create an actual rebellion, this is how you would start.
Marxist brainwashing 101-no wonder it results in lower test scores
“…train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression and remove those barriers to learning.
Sounds like this approach puts up barriers to learning. So as they grow up, any setbacks will be the man’s fault.
‘It’s not about indoctrinating or imposing politics, “but making politics part of the framework of teaching Leonardo said.’
Um if politics is part of the framework, isn’t that indoctrination (Islam)?
So glad I don’t have school age kids!
These pro-Muslim supremacist/terrorist propaganda lies that are parroted by and taught to young people, are as evil and despicable as the anti-Jew propaganda that was produced by the German National Socialist regime, before and during WWII.
Jews are the indigenous people of the region, as their presence pre-dates the founding of the wretched, supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent and pathology-laden ideology of “Submission” by millennia. Arab Muslims are the invaders, having originated in Arabia and conquered other regions.
What we’re witnessing are Muslim supremacists’/terrorists’/Islamofascists’ evil efforts — gleefully aided by European, leftist dhimmis and American Dhimmi-crats — to not only commit physical genocide against Jews, but, to commit historical, cultural and theological genocide against them, by brazenly erasing Jews from the history of the middle east and replacing them with an obnoxiously and offensively fictitious propaganda narrative that absurdly alleges that Muslims are the alleged “indigenous” people of the region, instead of conquering invaders from Arabia.
What I don’t understand is why Woke KINDERGARTEN, a group that teaches Europeans are colonizers, uses a GERMAN word meaning child holding area in their name? You can’t make this shit up.
1. All kindergarten is inherently woke – woke comes out of kindergarten.
2. The US is a kindergarten nation.
So a couple of things I noticed about these groups. One, they do not realize that Blacks and Hispanics are not indigenous here either. So what do they want, we send all the blacks to Africa, hispanics to Mexico, whites to Europe and England? Second, there was a time in history with no police, no landlords, no money. Roving bands of guys who did not want to farm or raise animals frequently massacred those who did farm and raise animals and stole them so they could eat. I am betting they really do not want to go back to that.
Why the uproar? It’s a minority owned business that needs to reward its owners for those terrible days they spent as slaves back in the 1990’s.
Pardon me while I puke.
Wait, what? They refuse to fund catholic schools, but they throw money at this farce?
No wonder our children are thoroughly screwed up.