A New York City elementary school is under fire for sharing a woke Black Lives Matter coloring book with kids. It gets worse as these books feature “queer and transgender affirming” lessons as well as teachings on revolutionary politics.
Students at PS 321 in Brooklyn’s Park Slope — which teaches children from kindergarten through fifth grade — got the “What We Believe: A Black Lives Matter Principles Activity Book” coloring book last week as part of a Black History Month lesson.
The book prominently features the 13 “guiding principles” of the BLM movement and uses various drawings to convey its message. Under the title trans affirming principle, the book says that “we know that cisgender (not trans) people in our society have privilege, and we want to uplift trans people, especially black trans women who often experience violence.”
Meanwhile, the book also lists the BLM movement’s national demands. These include a push to “fund counselors, not cops” and “mandate black history & ethnic studies.” Unfortunately, some parents insist the coloring book didn’t actually teach their kids about black history and instead presented controversial ideas “as fact.”
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“It’s not necessarily true. It’s not like every black person believes in these principles,” the mom of a fourth-grade student said. She added that the book doesn’t go “into enough detail, and there is no mention of specific people. It just feels very vague.”
Other parents took issue with another principle titled Empathy. They frowned upon the use of the word “comrades” to describe how people should understand and engage with others. Some interpreted it as a communist term and an attempt to promote political propaganda.
“Using the word comrades comes from Communist times,” a fourth-grade mom whose grandparents fled China for the US said. “They are using words that I don’t think are appropriate for elementary school.”
While parents acknowledged that some of the lessons look harmless, such as the importance of forgiveness, they argued that others were akin to revolutionary politics. The “Black Villages” principle, for example, describes “disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement.”
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And the “Intergenerational” principal calls for a “communal network free from ageism.” PS 321 and the city’s Department of Education didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment Thursday.
In a statement, a DOE spokesperson told the Free Press: “Anytime parents have a concern about resources used in school, we encourage them to share their concerns with the school principal or district superintendent.”
The incident is another reminder of the war being waged in classrooms for the minds of the young ones. In recent times, more educational materials are being used to spread political propaganda and parents have been crying out.
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Many believe that teachings about controversial topics like critical race theory and gender-affirming rights should be missing in curriculums. They believe that we owe it to the kids to let them be kids, but not everyone agrees. Some think that kids have a right to make such decisions regardless of the dangers involved.
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