Minnesota’s legislature adopted a law in 2023 that requires “Ethnic Studies” to be embedded in every K-12 class, from Geometry to English. American Experiment polled the Ethnic Studies proposal, and found that it was popular with many Minnesotans. This is because they thought Ethnic Studies means learning about other cultures–how Dutch children wear wooden shoes, and so on.
The reality is entirely different. The bill that Tim Walz backed and signed into law represents an effort to radicalize our children and turn them into far-left activists. And the same effort likely will come to your state soon.
Minnesota’s Department of Education soon will release detailed requirements for Ethnic Studies instruction, but in the meantime, American Experiment’s Katherine Kersten explains what is in store for our kids:
The department’s standards and benchmarks, approved in January, require first-graders to “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power” and “use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.”
Fourth-graders must “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.” High-school students are told to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” and are taught to view themselves as members of “racialized hierarchies” based on “dominant European beauty standards.”
So the curriculum incorporates the whole leftist political and cultural agenda. The Walz administration is relying on a committee of far-left activists to design the Ethnic Studies implementation framework. It will be heavy on “settler colonialism,” the Left’s current buzzphrase. Apparently “settler colonialism” is the greatest evil in world history, but out of all the countless conquests and invasions that have occurred over the last 5,000 years, it seems that the only “settler colonialists” who are to be reviled by our kids are the United States and Israel. Imagine that.
There is much more at the link. The public schools have become, in some areas, a training ground for anti-Americanism. Don’t assume it can’t happen in your community. The teachers’ unions are the driving force behind this evil, and educators everywhere are looking for opportunities to turn schools into leftist indoctrination centers. Ethnic Studies is one more battleground in this war.
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