The state of Maryland has had a drop in its education scores recently, but this is not causing any alarm to those on the boards of the school system. It seems their new priority for education is anti-racism and if that is being taught then parents can feel good about the quality of their children’s schooling. In short, they are prioritizing anti-racism over education.
According to RedState.com, the Washington Free Beacon published a report revealing that the district paid an “antiracist” consulting firm almost $1 million for a survey designed to make sure teachers were teaching six-year-old students enough about antiracism…”Not surprisingly, parents whose kids attend schools in the district aren’t very happy about this and have argued that the county is prioritizing wokeism over, you know, education.”
Parents are furious over prioritizing anti-racism over education.
“They’re spending so much funding on this, and test scores are down,” said former Montgomery County school administrator Dee Reuben. “Parents are livid. I hear this every day—parents are afraid to speak out because they’re afraid of the repercussions that will happen to their kids. Academics is going down the tube, and I think that is a shame considering we were one of the top school systems around—it breaks my heart.” Montgomery County literacy readiness in 2021 plummeted between 30 and 40 percent depending on grade level. Only 54 percent of MCPS high school students test at or above the proficient level, said The Washington Free Beacon.
The article continues:
Max Eden, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Free Beacon that the MCPS survey is “a transparent pretext for the school district to further implement critical race theory ideology as its operating system.”
“This survey is designed to ascertain, ‘Is the school district woke enough?'” Eden said, adding that “the answer will obviously be ‘No. The school district is not woke enough.'” According to Eden, MCPS will use the survey results to justify paying “vendors who are making a killing off of pushing critical race theory into classes” while claiming that such “culturally responsive education … has nothing to do with critical race theory.”
Our Take:
Prioritizing anti-racism over education = It’s more important to produce woke children instead of educated kids.
We agree with the phrase quoted above that this is not anti-racism but “wokeism.” The elites do not truly care for respect for all cultures and true racism, but they want toleration and even endorsement of wickedness and sin. Making inroads into our children’s hearts as early as possible is their priority. They are willing to sacrifice true education to increase their socialist agenda. The parents of these districts are afraid of standing up for their children’s education for fear of backlash and repercussions coming on their kids, but if we do not take a stand for the next generation, who will? It is time for us, as parents, to take a stand to protect our children from this evil, come what may.
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