Ethnic studies will turn schools into extremist boot camps (Minnesota)

[Nevilledog]

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Teresa
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The day before our MLK holiday, @StarTribune editors decided to run this. It is beyond.
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8:13 AM · Jan 16, 2022

https://www.startribune.com/ethnic-studies-will-turn-schools-into-extremist-boot-camps/600136277/

Minnesota parents: In the midst of the Twin Cities' ongoing crime surge, do you want your children taught that the sense of disorder in carjackings and "smash-and-grab" looting is merely a social "construction"? That the work of the men and women of our police departments — charged with stemming this crime wave — is rooted in slavery and "oppression"?

Do you want your kids to be trained to view themselves and their classmates as members of "racialized hierarchies" based on "dominant European beauty standards"?

To disdain their families' religious beliefs as the source of "caste systems" used to "justify imperialism, colonization, warfare and chattel slavery"?

Do you believe our public schools' mission is to train our kids to "resist" America's "systemic" abuse of power against "marginalized," oppressed groups?

If the Minnesota Department of Education's (MDE) proposed new social studies standards are adopted — having begun the formal rule-making process — this is what our children will be learning for the next 10 years.

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[Ocelot II]

1. Katherine Fucking Kersten. Why the Strib keeps running her hateful, racist crap is beyond me.

I hope she gets righteously scorched in the comments section.

[Nanuke]

2. Embarassment

For all Minnesotans. What’s with the Strib?

[LuckyLib]

3. The paper has given her decades of space to toss her drivel into the wind.

She’s been screaming about social studies as leftist propaganda in our schools. Her 15 minutes of fame should have been over ages ago.

[keep_left]

4. This is yet another retread of hers, in this case...

...a column she wrote not long ago on the specter of (gag) "Critical Race Theory". Kersten is so lazy. This is what you get when you give these people sinecure jobs at the Star-Tribune and the American Experiment "think" tank.