Say goodbye to science and exploration. Say goodbye to making a better future. Say goodbye to the classics. Chicago Public Schools have developed a program called “Decolonized Research Methodology”. There is an epidemic of illiteracy in the CPS, but sure, let’s bring them up to speed on indigenous dental superiority. Don’t believe me.

We saw this article in the Washington Examiner and were intrigued: “Chicago schools teach children to ‘decolonize’ and become anti-Western activists”

All that money they got for Covid couldn’t have gone for remedial reading. From the article:

Chicago Public Schools teachers are instructing their eighth graders to ignore Western academic tradition, “decolonize learning,” and become political activists, according to the district’s new English curriculum.

Known as Skyline, the brand new, $135 million universal curriculum introduced by CPS in 2021 is rooted in critical race theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology. While the bulk of what teachers are using to instruct children is behind password walls and largely inaccessible to parents on the school district website, a teacher inside CPS shared several of the English units with the Washington Examiner that highlighted the left-wing bent of what students there are learning.

“They want to teach [students] to think ‘correctly.’ They want to set them thinking about things like identity as soon as possible and channel their minds on propaganda,” said the longtime CPS teacher, who requested anonymity for fear of professional retribution. “The idea was that we were, for equity’s sake, going to have this curriculum where every student’s got the same thing, and the same thing was heavily infused with a very far left ideology.”

The extensive curriculums follow major themes such as an anti-Western sentiment focused on “decolonization,” far-left activism, and anti-white messaging.

Is your head exploding right now? It should be. Teach students to think correctly. They can’t read. In 1955, Rudolf Flesch wrote the book “Johnny Can’t Read”. Flesch believed that Phonics lessons were the answer. What’s changed in nearly 80 years? Johnny still can’t read and neither can little Malik or little Shining Feather.

We spend an average of $12k per pupil in public schools annually.

We’ve spent more and more every year and our kids have never been more illiterate.

It’s not the money. It’s the system.

Chicago Public Schools spends $29k and has 55 schools with 0 kids proficient in reading. https://t.co/PdcJmQiqTH

— Terry Schilling (@Schilling1776) March 3, 2024

That $135 million Skyline project to teach “Decolonized Research Methodology” will leave the children angry AND illiterate:

Many of the eighth grade units introduce and build off the idea of pitting “colonial academia” against indigenous and African knowledge traditions, such as oral storytelling, in order to break down common societal sources for knowledge, which often includes rejecting the scientific method and other Western academic knowledge structures, arguing that those are only the common sources because of “colonialism” and ultimately need to be replaced.

One unit, called “Research Through a Decolonized Lens,” assigns far-left novels, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, La Relación, and We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement That Restores the Planet in order to “capture past and current colonial violence, settler aggression, and activism of Indigenous peoples globally” and “teach students about how alternate (non-Westernized) axiologies can guide the solving of societal problems.”

“Through their learning of Indigenous knowledge systems, including collectivism and intergenerationality, students are introduced to the Decolonized Research Methodology, a framework designed to decolonize research and study, prioritizing students’ learning and knowledge over proving or disproving of theory,” the curriculum states. “Students will begin to think critically about the transfer of knowledge as a form of power and control.”

NEW: Chicago Public Schools 8th grade English curriculum obtained by @dcexaminer looks to replace Western academics with African and indigenous, while questioning the family unit and turning kids into activists
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— Breccan F. Thies (@BreccanFThies) April 16, 2024

But they got a slick video for the rollout of Skyline:

No matter how much you hate Traditional Family units and Western Values, it won’t hurt kids to learn to read.

Students are introduced to several far-left child activists, including climate activist Greta Thunberg and anti-gun activist Emma González, because “studying youth advocacy provides an emphasis on a key characteristic of decolonized learning: viewing traditionally silenced individuals or groups (in this case, young people) as valid sources of knowledge who have the power to change the world,” the curriculum states.

“Teaching eighth graders to use a decolonizing lens and mindset to view the world is poisonous and divisive, as well as a harmful rejection of the truth,” Rhyen Staley, a Parents Defending Education researcher and former Illinois public middle school teacher, told the Washington Examiner. “Chicago students deserve better, and parents must demand better of the education establishment.”

Western thinking gave us nearly all of the great accomplishments of the modern world. Indigenous populations are part of those accomplishments when they can read and do science. Science is not this White girl’s area of significant strength so God Bless Them All.

If we are going to explore the depths of the great oceans of Earth, if we are going to explore the galaxies and colonize other planets, we need the best of education for every child. That begins with reading. Get your children out of government schools, if you want them to be educated.

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