Just like in the good old days in the Soviet Union.
“At This Manhattan Middle School School, Sixth-Graders Are Asked To Surveil Friends and Family for ‘Microaggressions,’” by Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon, July 27, 2022:
A New York City public school encouraged students as young as 10 years old to keep a list of all the “microaggressions” they witnessed, both at school and in their own families, according to materials from the school’s curriculum reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The same students were also asked to list their gender identity—”cisgender,” “nonbinary,” or “trans”—as well as their sexual orientation on a graded worksheet.
The sixth-grade humanities curriculum from Lower Manhattan Community Middle School, where just 31 percent of students are white, required students to read Tiffany Jewell’s This Book Is Anti-Racist, one of only five books assigned for the 2021-2022 year. The book contains 20 lessons on “how to wake up, take action, and do the work”—including the work of confronting the police, which Jewell suggests white students can do without ending up “in jail or harmed.”
“If you are a Black, Brown, or Indigenous Person of the Global Majority, you will need to decide how each outcome could end for you,” Jewell writes in a chapter called “Choosing My Path.” “White people, this is not something you need to do because you are at the center of the system.”
The book also asks students to surveil their friends and family for racist behavior. “Grab your notebook,” one “activity” instructs readers. “Look and listen for the microaggressions around you. Write them down and note your observations.” Another activity asks students how “folx” in their families “resisted” or “contributed to racism,” defined as the “systemic misuse and abuse of power by institutions.”
The curriculum, which went into effect August 2021, came as parents across New York City were mobilizing against critical race theory in public schools—and as education officials across the country were denying that there was any such thing.
“Critical race theory is not taught in elementary schools,” Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, asserted in July 2021. Parents “are bullying teachers and trying to stop us from teaching students accurate history.”
One month earlier, New York Regents chancellor Lester Young stated that critical race theory “is not our theory of action” and assured parents that “we are not preparing young people to be activists.”
Jewell’s book belies that assurance. “We will work together, in solidarity, to disrupt racism and become anti-racist accomplices,” the preface reads. “There are many moments to pause in this book so you can check in with yourself and grow into your activism.”…
mortimer says
Pavel Trofimovich Morozov (1918-1932), better known as Pavlik, was a Soviet youth praised by the Soviet press as a martyr. His story, dated to 1932, is that of a 13-year-old boy who denounced his father to the authorities and was in turn killed by his family. His story was a subject of reading, songs, plays, a symphonic poem, a full-length opera, and six biographies. His politicized and mythologized story was used to encourage Soviet Block children to also inform on their parents.
Even Stalin wasn’t pleased with this, though. He supposedly said, “What a little swine, denouncing his own father.”
The teachers are now communist indoctrinators.
The American neo-Marxists are repeating the same tragic strategies that turned the Soviet Block into a huge prison camp.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Mortimer. All totalitarian thugs–in Hitler’s Nazi Germany, in Stalin’s Soviet Union, and Mao’s Communist China have encouraged this. Ugly stuff.
GFF says
Yep, how predictable, if you just happen to be George Orwell:
cf. Parsons (a proud daddy) p152 1984.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
First they sow gender confusion, then they destroy the traditional family, then they demonize opponents to their schemes, then the children denounce their parents and the communists turn all these youths into Young Red Guards. I am amazed that so many teachers are going along with this.
No wonder the teachers’ bosses don’t want parents to become involved in creating the curricula!
Parents need to attend every meeting of their local school boards.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
At this point, it is better to homeschool or find a good conservative private school.
Infidel says
Better idea – school pods, like they had in 2020. Let 5 families in a neighborhood come together, hopefully w/ the parents having different areas of expertize, and let the kids rotate b/w parents as a class over the week – Monday w/ parent A, Tuesday w/ parent B and so on. On Monday, A teaches Math, Tuesday, B teaches Geography, Wednesday C teaches English, Thursday D teaches Science and Friday E teaches Computers… Something like it. As time goes on, mix it up, so that that group of 5 kids or more get proficient in their line of interest
James Lincoln says
Interesting idea, Infidel.
somehistory says
Well, as a White person, if I had kids in that “school” system, they would no longer be in that school. and…no need to even open he book from snakes intent on destroying the children. If I had been born with a darker skin tone, I would do the same.
This is demonic, sullying of young brains. And Parents should do more ***bullying** to keep the so-called teachers from infecting their kids with this devilish trash.
Parents should do their kids the biggest favor, a true gift, and take them out of all public schools. Pronto.
CogitoErgoSum says
I’m old now and it’s hard for me to think back to the 6th grade but I can recall classes in arithmetic, English, geography, spelling, art, and music. We also had time for a physical education class and, since I attended a parochial school, we had a class about our religion. I’m trying to think in what class learning about “microaggression” would be taught. Maybe it would be religion and that makes me think these children are now being taught a new religion – which is not supposed to be taught in the public schools.
somehistory says
Yes, it is their religion…worship of the original snake, the father of lies, and they are continually coming up with more deceit to corrupt the minds and souls and spirits of the children.
this religion and its relative, the cult of submission, are the only religions allowed now in public school.
I recall having a social studies class and we learned about different cultures and practices of people in different countries and settings, but never that one was better than another or that my culture was oppressive.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, I forgot to mention that we had an American history class also. I don’t recall ever being taught that the U.S. was aggressive and evil. We even recited the pledge of allegiance every morning after our prayers. We respected and loved our country and we were taught to treat everyone we met, regardless or race or religion, with respect and, yes, the love of Christ …. and that would mean turning the other cheek to microagressions – though we would not have ever heard of that word.
somehistory says
I recall the thing about ‘stepping on someone’s toes,” and that meant, usually, hurting their feelings by a thoughtless remark. some times, it was in reference to actually the physical toe. We were taught to apologize and the other person was taught to let it go, eps after the apology.
It wasn’t seen as being “aggressive” and, like you, never heard that microaggression nonsense.
I was bullied once to my limit of tolerance, while the teacher was out of the room and I was trying to put a zipper in a skirt due that day. Finally, I turned to the girl and said, ‘ok, you want to beat my can (her words), let’s go outside where you can try.”
she backed down, said she was joking and went home and told her mom that I was her best friend. Her mom worked with mine, and I found out the next day that I had a ‘best friend’ that I had not told my mom about. And I did get the zipper in on time.
CogitoErgoSum says
That’s a great story. Shows it’s good to have a backbone and not be a snowflake who runs crying for help all the time. You earned some respect. It’s tough being a kid but it’s even tougher when you are taught to go out and look for reasons to cry or to fight.
somehistory says
thank you, I appreciate the feedback. I couldn’t believe that she told her mom I was her best friend. I was very shy, so didn’t make friends easily. She never bothered me after that, and before long, I had to quit school to help my mom at home.
No one had ever told me what to do if bullied, but she just got on my last nerve that day. More kids should be encouraged to be nice when possible, but stand up for themselves if necessary. It’s a different world today. For a kid to be considered tough, they are taught to bully others rather than just stand up for what’s right.
gravenimage says
Good for you, Somehistory.
Westman says
Do your parents listen to Talk Radio or TV Fox News? Be sure to write that down. And do they believe in a magic man in the sky? We can’t be “educated” and have that!
I’m amazed at what “educators” produce or allow in the behavior of children. Nobody gets more direct time with children than teachers nor have more opportunity to influence.
And how about the macro-aggression in children? Here’s a little experience from a week ago: I work on a farm during the summer. While setting water gates, in a residential area, to send water down to a field, a young boy of about 7 approached, and in an angry voice, asked what I was doing. I explained that I was our water turn and I am sending water to a field that needs irrigating. I got back in my vehicle to move to the next gate and the child raises his middle finger with scowl on his face – truly angry with the world. At first I was about to laugh at the absurdity, then I thought, what prison will someday be his home and what mother will grieve?
When I was a child my parents would have expected such behavior to be corrected, on the spot, and for them to be informed. Today, the parents, teachers, and peers, might be the cause. Everything from the nation’s history, its churches, and families is under attack and hardly is there praise or a kind word.
CogitoErgoSum says
At 7 years old I never would have dreamed of acting that way to an adult. I was afraid of any adult I did not know. That kid must have been taught to act that way – or maybe he’s had no upbringing at all. That kind of behavior is becoming widespread and will just turn the country into a land full of savages.
Westman says
His older brother, a year or two older, attempted to correct his behavior but to no avail. The child, sadly, will likely grow up as an opportunist bully.
somehistory says
Probably so. His teachers are most likely afraid of him. I had some ten and eleven year old boys that I had to take to a special school. You might not believe the language they used in threatening me, and they even took screwdrivers and scissors onto the bus with hem.
Kids are not being raised…they are, like the kid you encountered, raising themselves and of course they know less about that than do the adults.
It’s truly sad.
gravenimage says
Very disturbing, Westman. Glad to hear that his older brother was not like this, though.
gravenimage says
NYC: Public school tells sixth-graders to surveil family and friends for ‘microaggressions’
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Well, *this* is chilling. And it their family and friends are not racist, which they probably are not? Will they have to make something up lest they be deemed racist themselves?
And telling grade school students to “confront the police” is both grotesque and may put them in danger. Remember the thug who taught his toddlers to attack police?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYl9kGkDhIk&ab_channel=JasonWhitlock
The police are *very* patient here. But if these kids were older and more of a threat, but with the same attitude? Police might act in self defense and not even realize how young the attackers are until it is too late. In fact, these Leftist thugs are hoping that this will happen so they can yell ‘police brutality!’.
And this book is one of only five assigned for the entire school year. This works out to about one book every two months. Although given its disgusting content, I suppose we should be glad there are not more of them assigned…
Jim says
I think the East German communist government used citizens as informants against others, neighbors, family, friends, co-workers. A lot of the Stasi informant records have been preserved and people can look up the records made of them in this massive spy system. I think the Nazis also did this. Sow distrust of others, so that they cannot join together to resist, because they do not know if they can trust the others. A good idea for the dictators, not so good for the non-communist population. Or for people who simply want to be left alone. The left in our country are showing their allegiance and their predecessors in doing this.
somehistory says
Yes, sow enough distrust and the government can install as much tyranny as they wish and the public will be afraid to make any effort to resist for fear they’ll be next to be killed.
gravenimage says
Check out this disturbing school in the Seattle area:
https://www.westsideschool.org/blog/p/~board/westside-stories/post/blmweekofaction
The worst thing is the little boy with the coloring page with the Black Panther’s fist–whoever thought this was appropriate to give to little children to color is grotesque. Also note that the only colors this child used were black and red–he probably worried than anything else would be deemed racist.
They start kids with the indoctrination in Kindergarten, including “restorative justice”. This often involves bullies and victims apologizing *to each other*, while the bullies laugh.
They also use Tiffany Jewell’s book about confronting police in the fourth and sixth grades.
The indoctrination even extends to PE.
And Seattle is mostly white.
somehistory says
g, that is truly disgusting. and quoting the terrorist who
” was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), and was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout”
Little kids have no chance today. More parents should take their kids out of school….just about any parent can teach the kids what they need to know, and many have friends who would be willing to help fill in any gaps. It would certainly beat this awful sullying of the children’s minds.
Hoi Polloi says
I worked at my children’s school in various positions for a few years merely to fill in and help out. My experience was that in the US, lower level teachers very much have an adversarial attitude toward parents. I think the situation was ripe for furthering the aggressive approaches we’re now seeing. As to upper level teachers, social science teachers have long been increasing the amount of opinion vs. fact in their curriculum.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
[Hmm. Thought I completed this reply.] This started over a century ago: “In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.” -Joseph Sobran. There is no way now it can be attributed to sloth or incompetence, it is now glaringly intentional.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
The “Coasties” get very offended and upset when they hear that those in “Flyover Country” do not want those coastal values taught to their children in school. Gee, I wonder why?