{"id":27857,"date":"2016-03-22T17:41:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27857"},"modified":"2016-03-22T17:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:41:33","slug":"what-are-we-teaching-our-children-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27857","title":{"rendered":"What Are We Teaching Our Children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/03\/16\/first-grade-teachers-in-durham-enroll-kids-in-black-lives-matter-march\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Caller <\/a>posted an article about an event at Central Park School for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Children\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Children-David-Halberstam\/dp\/0679415610%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzem-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0679415610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"amazon\">Children<\/a> in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Durham, North Carolina\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=35.9886111111,-78.9072222222&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=35.9886111111,-78.9072222222 (Durham%2C%20North%20Carolina)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Durham, North Carolina<\/a>. The teachers were allowed to opt out of the event, but parents did not have the option.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Stef Bernal-Martinez, a teacher of 6-year-old children, signed up all the children in her class for a \u201cBlack Lives March and Rally\u201d to take place during the school day, at the city\u2019s downtown Central Park and Farmer\u2019s Market. Ms. Bernal-Martinez describes herself as a \u201cRadical Queer Progressive Educator\u201d and \u201cwhite-passing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chicano\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Xicana<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The event, like the Black Lives Matter movement itself, is less a spontaneous <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Protest\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">protest movement<\/a>\u00a0than a divide-and-conquer campaign by\u00a0elite leftists. Two out of three <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"African American\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_American\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">African-Americans<\/a> prefer the phrase\u00a0\u201cAll Lives Matter\u201d to \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d according to a national August, 2015 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rasmussen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/healthcare\/september_2009\/health_care_reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Rasmussen poll<\/a>. The grade school is predominantly Caucasian, but run by radical leftists. Naturally the school didn\u2019t send the parents consent forms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe all lives matter (including the lives of policemen), but I don&#8217;t like the idea that somehow black lives are any more or less important. The article states that some families that include policemen objected to having their children participate as marchers in this rally as some &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; movement members have called for violence against police officers in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Black Lives Matter promotes antagonism against people of a different race based on their belief of the innate characteristics of the other race. This is the traditional, standard-dictionary definition of racism. Alveda King, the niece of civil rights icon <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Martin Luther King, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Martin%2BLuther%2BKing%252C%2BJr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lastfm\">Martin Luther King<\/a>, says that the tactics employed by the Black Lives Matter movement do not represent the principles for which her uncle stood. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mrs. King\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrs._King\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Mrs. King<\/a> recently said, \u201cOf course black lives matter, all lives matter.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The methods employed by Black Lives Matter have been racially polarizing. Parents at the school have asked for the Durham Police Department to be on hand for the children\u2019s protection. Self-proclaimed radical educators dragging children into this ugly and sometimes deadly melee is wrong by any standard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a few questions for the people who run this school. How well do the children do in the basic subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic? Are the children academically strong enough to spend a day away from their studies and not pay a price? Is this a good use of instruction time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday The Daily Caller posted an article about an event at Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina. The teachers were allowed to opt out of the event, but parents did not have the option. The article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9829,4842,625],"class_list":["post-27857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-durham","tag-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27858,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27857\/revisions\/27858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}