Carlsbad Unified School District board members unanimously approved a controversial ethnic studies course at one of its high school’s Film Academy last week. The course is part of Carlsbad High School—called Film Academy Ethnic Studies—and will focus on past representations of minorities in Hollywood films as well as “emerging voices” in the film industry. The…
Carlsbad Unified Approves Controversial Ethnic Studies Course
March 16, 2023
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For Teachers Unions, Parents and Children Come Last
December 28, 2022
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Commentary Schools in the Rochester school district in Michigan include in their curriculum a course called “History of Ethnic and Gender Studies.” If my child were attending school there, I would wonder why this is in the curriculum as part of K-12 education and what is taught. One mother, Carol Beth Litkouhi, wondered enough that…
Liberated Ethnic Studies Comes Down the Pike to K-5 Classrooms
June 22, 2022
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Commentary In October 2021, Governor Newsom signed California’s ethnic studies mandate for high schools into law. While many school districts are still deciding on the specific curricula contents for their high school ethnic studies courses, a group of teacher activists have been busy introducing the paradigm in lower grades. On June 10, 2022, the Liberated…
California Agrees to Remove Aztec, Ashe Prayers From Ethnic Studies to Settle Lawsuit
The State of California has agreed to remove Aztec and Ashe prayers from the classroom to settle a lawsuit launched by the Californians for Equal Rights (CFER) Foundation and three San Diego parents. “We are encouraged by this important, hard-fought victory,” CFER President Frank Xu said in a media release on Jan. 14. “Our state has simply gone…
California Settles Parents’ Lawsuit, Drops Aztec Prayers From Public School Curriculum
January 16, 2022
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California education authorities have agreed to drop a policy encouraging public school students to pray to Aztec gods after angry parents filed a lawsuit months ago. Among Aztec religious practices were the cutting out of human hearts and the flaying of victims and wearing of their skin. Paul Jonna, partner at LiMandri & Jonna LLP and…
Parents Sued California After it Required Aztec Prayer in Public Schools: State Now Agrees to Settlement
January 16, 2022
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California education authorities have agreed to drop a policy encouraging public school students to pray to Aztec gods after angry parents filed a lawsuit months ago. Among Aztec religious practices were the cutting out of human hearts and the flaying of victims and wearing of their skin. Paul Jonna, partner at LiMandri & Jonna LLP and…
Critics Accuse Educators of Blatant Deception Over CRT in the Classroom
January 14, 2022
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A webcast of high-level California educators discussing how to teach critical race theory (CRT) has raised the ire of parents, teachers and organizations who’ve been told since early last summer that CRT is not being taught in K-12 schools. The three-hour webcast, called “Demystifying Critical Race Theory | Teaching Critical Race Theory in K-12 Classrooms”…
Parents Were Told CRT Was Not Taught in Classrooms—Then They Saw an Educators’ Webcast
January 14, 2022
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A webcast of high-level California educators discussing how to teach critical race theory (CRT) has raised the ire of parents, teachers and organizations who’ve been told since early last summer that CRT is not being taught in K-12 schools. The three-hour webcast, called “Demystifying Critical Race Theory | Teaching Critical Race Theory in K-12 Classrooms”…
Parent Complains of Anti-American, Anti-Christian Themes and Dark Imagery in Ethnic Studies Program
A mandatory ninth-grade ethnic studies curriculum at a school district in California’s Monterey County pushes dark and controversial political themes and imagery, says a critic of the program. Kelly Schenkoske, a parent of homeschooled children and an opponent of ethnic studies and critical race theory (CRT), told The Epoch Times the ethnic studies curriculum being…
California Teacher Placed on Administrative Leave After Video Emerges of Her Wearing Faux Native American Headdress and Dancing in Class
October 22, 2021
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A teacher at a Riverside, California school has been placed on administrative leave after a video emerged showing her wearing a faux Native American headdress while dancing and chanting in front of her class. Video footage of the clip, which was filmed in the classroom and shared on Twitter, shows the John W. North High School teacher waving…
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