Ethnic Studies is Just Glorified Grievances Studies & Antithetical to Civics Education

According to the LA Times, "California is deleting the often-used In Lak’Ech affirmation from its model ethnic studies curriculum to settle a lawsuit from a San Diego group that claims the affirmation constitutes an Aztec prayer." Why does it take a lawsuit? Progressives encourage students to pray to ancient gods, but not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They encourage the edification of other cultures but balk at the notion of American Exceptionalism. Ethnics Studies is just Grievances Studies and not only a drain on the budget, but it is prioritized over other subjects, like STEM and is antithetical to Civics Education.

The Washington Board of Education adopted a resolution of intent to establish an ethnic studies graduation requirement within the current credit framework (not as an additional credit requirement.) Meaning something else has to give, like Civics classes, or better yet math!

According to Saint Paul Public Schools “Ethnic Studies” is the critical and interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity with a focus on the experiences and perspectives of people of color within and beyond the United States. Ethnic studies analyzes the ways in which race and racism have been and continue to be powerful social, cultural, and political forces, and their connections to other axes of stratification, including gender, class, sexuality, and legal status.

Consider that in Illinois circa 2014 watchdog Open the Books found  that for most school districts, pension payments are one of the top give annual expenses, Its founder  Andrejewski asks a rhetorical question.  "Are we going to educate children or provide lavish lifetime benefits for administrators and teachers? There’s not enough taxpayer money to do both. There are 100,846 retirees pulling out of the system and only 162,960 active educators paying into the system. The retirees are pulling out loaves of bread and the current employees are only putting in slices. Sooner or later, the system will run out of bread."

 

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the total number of students transported at taxpayers expense since 1980 has been relatively constant, but the expense per transported student in 1980, on an adjusted basis was $198, but by 2008 it exploded to $854 and  $982 by 2017 while sales of buses increased 45% between 2010 & 2019. 

Ethnic Studies has produced Critical Race Theory and while it claims to have coined the term #DIE - Diversity, Inclusion & Equity, it merely bastardized the term: The Church urges everybody to develop and share their unique God-given gifts, while wokeisim wants maximum benefit for the least effort.

The Church invented DIE.  James Joyce character Here Come Everybody is often used to illustrate the fact, notwithstanding the Church has saints for mixed races, for Native Americans, for Climate Change and my favorite, Saint Drogo, patron saint of coffee and ugly people.  The Church's DIE encourages each individual to work to reach his or her highest potential.  CRT's DIE wants the biggest benefit at the lowest effort.

Saint Drogo - Patron Saint of Coffee and Ugly People- Photo: onbekend / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 4.0

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Here are some of the consequences of the Woke DIE, not including ANTIFA or BLM:  In 1965 25% of African American Children were raised featherless.  Today, its 75%.  Very soon the African American nuclear family will be extinct .  Then there is the #BlackGenocide:  Planned Parenthood kills millions of preborms, mostly African American.  The same people promoting CRT and Ethnic Studies rightly worry about the protection of the seven sea turtles in the endangered list, but do not seem to care about the extinction of the African American family or the Genocide.

Black Genocide

 #DIE  is antithetical to Civics Education. Even  FBI Director Christopher Wray says is a National Security Imperative.  And the is right: The purpose of  civics education is to teach students to work together and take practical action, to contribute to a better society.  Civic education is an important and effective tool that facilitates students to participate in the democratic processes and typically covers Values., Citizenship Education and Nationalism., Human Rights.

Law and Order: Respect For Constituted Authority., Responsible Parenthood., Traffic Regulations., Inter-Personal Relationships., Culture.

 Destruction is fun and easy.  Parents know that children do this everyday..  Construction is a serious job for adults. Ethnic Studies is more like taking a whole & chopping it up.  Or turning #EPluribusUnum & turning it into  #ExUnoPlures.  Might be fun, but does not enable graduates to responsibly participate in the democratic process.

How about replacing Ethnics Studies with Responsible Civic Studies focused on harvesting diversity to make the whole stronger, a look at world history & the United States Exceptionalism for example?  The  Diversity Bandwagon conforms to the Pareto Rule:  Very few of those who extol the virtues of diversity have no clue as to what it takes to harvest the output of a diverse workforce.  It is conflicting, time consuming, frustrating but worthwhile 

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