If you’ve never heard of SAU 16 in Exeter, New Hampshire, then you’ve missed an opportunity to watch the decline and fall of civilization. It’s not quite as bad as Loudon County, Virginia, but if I had to guess, SAU 16 sees them as a role model for shoveling woke social justice garbage at kids.
Except that the folks in Loudon are pushing back a lot harder. A lesson for the parents in Exeter? As is this.
Grokster Ann Marie Banfield is out of the country but still on the job. She sent me this. It is a Field Trip permission slip she received (presumably from a parent in Exeter). Note the purpose -to meet student activists – with the note “no chaperones needed.”
Also, from Ann Marie.
So your school district has been slipping for several years academically. What do you do? You send the 1st graders to the DEIJ director to learn how to become political activists!! I’d suggest a few parents join your kids on this field trip and video tape it. Just let them know you will be videotaping the presentation!!
That permission slip for parent approval – remember, these are first graders – caused a bit of a stir that produced this follow-up from the School/District.
And then this from Ann Marie.
SAU16 in damage control. They are working to turn 1st graders into political activists!! As I said years ago, Competency Based Ed is a way to change the values, attitudes, and beliefs in students. I rest my case. Nothing academic about this.
Rumor has it one of the teachers pretending to teach 1st grade is on the Zinn Ed Project list to teach CRT, even if it means they’d get arrested. If you recall, some states have passed laws (or tried) that would restrict aspects of critical race theory in public education.
I was not able to confirm or deny the rumor before publication, but it would not surprise me, given that this field trip is effectively a social justice activist training primer for six and seven-year-olds under the cover of a history lesson.
History as reimagined by the politics of the left.
HT | Ann Marie Banfield
