It might be the last place you would expect a backlash against a ‘left-wing agenda’.
But a ‘radical’ new ethnic studies course is proving too much for liberal Bay Area parents, who have launched a revolt against the introduction of what they claim are ‘Marxist’ classes in local schools.
Those opposed to the plans say children as young as 14 are being ‘indoctrinated’ by an ideology that does not represent their community.
The fierce backlash in Palo Alto, the birthplace of Silicon Valley, is part of a new culture war raging across California as the true blue state becomes the first in the US to require all students to take an ethnic studies course.
Even lifelong Democrats have set up lobby groups opposing ‘ideological’ classes that they say ‘sow bigotry’, ‘glorify violent movements’ and ‘equate capitalism with racism
They have also been embroiled in allegations of antisemitism.
In one Bay Area school, an ethnic studies teacher sparked fury after presenting a lesson that inaccurately claimed the United Nations considered the creation of Israel illegal.
It also included a slide depicting a hand manipulating a puppet, recalling antisemitic tropes about secret Jewish control of government, the media and finance.
Linor Lava, a founding member of the Palo Alto Parent Alliance, whose son is an incoming senior, told DailyMail.com that the proposed curriculum was ‘frankly scary’.
She said that while the Bay Area was liberal, most parents did not agree with the ‘extreme ideologies’ set to be taught in schools.
‘It doesn’t represent a huge swath of the community,’ she added.
The dispute is a flavor of what lies ahead across America, as states including Oregon, Vermont and Minnesota plan to introduce K-12 ethnic studies in the coming years.
It centers around differing interpretations of what ‘ethnic studies’ is.
One is an ‘inclusive’ approach, which advocates say offers students an opportunity to learn about both the contributions and struggles of California’s ethnic groups, but crucially avoids pitting communities against each other.
It is this form of ethnic studies that has been supported by Governor Gavin Newsom and state legislators.
Parents in Palo Alto and elsewhere, however, fear that out-of-touch educators are in fact ushering in an ideological and ‘divisive’ version that reduces history to ‘oppressors versus the oppressed’ and ‘seeks to create a generation of activists’….
From the Daily Mail
When are California voters going to wake up and realize that there’s something rotten going on in the state? Save your children now!
The ones who care have already left. If you are still in California, you’re going to watch it turn into a third-world hellhole. How do you like paying for healthcare for illegal aliens? How do you like paying for transgender prisoner surgeries? How do you like your public schools teaching gay and bi and trans are superior ways of identifying? How do you like criminals not being prosecuted? How do you like a fast food lunch costing almost $18 now? How do you like gasoline at $6.50? How do you like high state income and sales taxes? How do you like state budget deficits?
How do you like it that your girl Kamala is going to be the next POTUS?
They voted for this! All this racism and gay stuff was fine I guess until “antisemitism” got involved?
The so-called, subversive “Ethnic Studies” movement, like the subversive, evil DEI and Critical Race Theory– is evil, Marxist, highly destructive, and anti-American. It should be investigated by Congress– and flat outlawed– made illegal in every state. Period.