If you thought schools were for learning about truth, you are just so yesterday

Governor Newsom recently signed a new, even more radical, ethnic studies requirement by saying “we expect our students to one day build a more just society.” Let that sink in: we’re not expecting students to seek truth, to get smarter, to think more critically. Rather, we view their education experience as a training ground for left-wing activism. Vive le Revolution! Is this what California taxpayers signed up for? The Daily Mail reports. 

California has become the first state in the nation to make ethnic studies a required class for high school students after five years of debate. 

The requirement would apply to students who graduate in 2030 and was created and approved by the state Board of Education in March after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar measure last year until it was 'inclusive of all communities.' 

During the bill signing on Friday, Newsom said students 'must understand our nation's full history if we expect them to one day build a more just society.

Ethnic studies courses address institutionalized systems of advantage, and address the causes of racism and other forms of bigotry including, but not limited to, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, xenophobia, antisemitism, and Islamophobia within our culture and governmental policies. 

Educators can create and utilize lessons rooted in the four foundational disciplines to make connections to the experiences of all students, alongside the sample key themes of:

1) Identity

2) History and Movement

3) Systems of Power

4) Social Movements and Equity  

The bill was authored by State Assemblyman Jose Medina with the help of an advisory committee made up of teachers and educators.

Williamson Evers, a former US assistant secretary of Education, continued to speak out against the curriculum, saying it 'is still full of left-wing ideological propaganda and indoctrination.

'It still force feeds our children the socialist dogma that capitalism is oppression.'

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