Ramona Bessinger

Dear DOGE – Why Is The U.S. Government Funding “Media Literacy” Informers And Indoctrination?

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on February 17, 2025 22 Comments

DHS, Defense, and State are all involved. I know, I took the trainings. Do Secretaries Noem, Hegseth, and Rubio know?...

DHS Is Training Teachers To Develop Student ‘Disinformation’ Informers – I Know, I Took The Training

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on February 19, 2024 68 Comments

I'm a Providence, Rhode Island, high school teacher. You may remember me from when I blew the whistle in July 2021 on how a new Critical Race Curriculum was creating racial hostility in the Middle School where I taught at the time, and the subsequent retaliation and harassment. I'm blowing the whistle again, this time as to Department of Homeland Security funding for training of teachers on combatting so-called "disinformation" as part of supposed "media literacy" programming through the University of Rhode Island, called Courageous RI. The training is not what it purports to be. It's all about training teachers to teach students to become "disinformation" informers. I know. I took the training.

Victory – I’m A Teacher Who Blew The Whistle On CRT In Schools, Suffered Retaliation, But Now I’ve Prevailed

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on July 24, 2022 30 Comments

After spending 9 months in a windowless basement after involuntary transfer to a school that didn't want me, the Providence School District has given up fighting my legal grievance. Starting September I will have a permanent classroom assignment. Now, I can continue to teach children...

Parents Are Fighting A Racialized ‘Equity Audit’ In North Kingstown (RI) And So Far We’re Winning

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on March 10, 2022 32 Comments

My name is Ramona Bessinger, I am a mother and a teacher. I’ve been teaching for 23 years; over 12 years at Middletown High School, and 8 years teaching English Literature grades 6 through 12 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Ramona Bessinger: I’m A Middle School Teacher Facing Retaliation After Blowing The Whistle On Critical Race Curriculum

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on October 03, 2021 37 Comments

I am a Providence, Rhode Island, public middle school teacher with 22 years experience teaching English at the high school and middle school levels. After blowing the whistle on radicalized and racialized curriculum changes that have increased racial tensions and distorted education, I have been the subject of escalating retaliation, some of which is racially-tinged, from colleagues and administrators.

I’m A Middle School Teacher And See How Critical Race Curriculum Is Creating Racial Hostility In School

Posted by Ramona Bessinger on July 13, 2021 193 Comments

I have been a public school teacher for the past 22 years, with the past seven in Providence, Rhode Island. I have had the honor of serving public school children and their families as an English teacher first at the high school level, and currently at the middle school level.

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