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While the Southern Poverty Law Center faces federal indictment for fraud, it’s worth understanding the full scope of the damage it has already done — specifically inside America’s classrooms.
The SPLC was founded in 1971 to ostensibly fight for civil rights across the South, but by the 1980s, the group was already being described as a fearmongering, money-raising machine. In the decades since, the organization has only grown more radical, and its influence has spread well beyond its own programs. The SPLC runs a curriculum called Learning for Justice (formerly known as Teaching Tolerance) that has been embedded in K-12 schools across the country. A new investigation by the pro-parent group Defending Education has mapped just how deep that reach goes. Standards and materials from this curriculum have been adopted by state agencies, education institutions, teachers’ unions, professional associations, consultants, and education companies in over 150 school districts across 43 states.
So what does their “Learning for Justice” curriculum actually teach? One resource titled “Why Talk About Whiteness?” claims that the normalization of whiteness is a cornerstone of how American institutions function. Simply acknowledging white privilege without taking action to address it is harmful and counterproductive. Students are taught to identify injustice at the systemic level and to plan and carry out collective action against it. A Fox News panel reviewing the materials called it what it is — a full-force playbook for communism delivered to children beginning in kindergarten. That’s right, these concepts are introduced even in pre-K classrooms to children who can’t yet write their own names!
One panelist noted that while fourth and fifth graders can barely read at grade level, they are being trained to be the next generation of protesters — kids who hate ICE, distrust law enforcement, and view America as fundamentally corrupt. The SPLC’s sex education standards call for eliminating what they term “cisnormative and heteronormative” approaches — meaning the exclusive promotion of LGBT ideology starting in early elementary grades. This SPLC curriculum certainly helps explain how schools are spending the time they should be spending on reading and math.
Many conservative organizations have been fighting back against these SPLC curricula, and the DOJ’s indictments are quickly diminishing the SPLC’s influence, but parents need to know what is in their children’s classrooms — and act on it!
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