The following article
appeared in Weasel Zippers on February 8th
Via American Mirror:
Students in Prince George’s County,
Maryland are participating in a “Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools,”
which features lessons centered on the “13 guiding principles” of the divisive
Black Lives Matter movement.
Members of the Prince George’s County
School Board voted unanimously to dedicate a week to Black Lives Matter at a
meeting last week, becoming one of the first districts to sign up with a
national movement to infuse Black Lives Matter’s perspective in schools.
“I don’t believe it’s political,”
student board member Amanya Paige told Fox 5. “I believe it is a movement to encourage minorities
and African American students to be proud of who they are and to embrace who
they are because we live it every day. I think that it is important to
understand our culture and understand where we are coming from in order to be
productive citizens.”
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Board member Raaheela Ahmed believes
Black Lives Matter belongs in the district’s schools because it’s “something
that our students and our families see every day, especially being a largely
minority population.”
“We have 60 percent of our students
that are African American, 30 percent that (are) Latino, and this is something
that they see and hear every day – on the news and day-to-day lives. It’s
something that we felt was really needed and necessary at this time.”
The Black Lives Matter week comes as
the district grapples with widespread grade tampering and changes to student
absences that likely helped more than 1,000 students graduate who didn’t
deserve to, WTOP reports. Emails obtained by Fox 5 allegedly show the district’s central office
pressured schools to graduate students who didn’t meet requirements.
Currently about 28 percent of the
district’s third-graders meet or exceed expectations in reading, and about 27
percent for math, according to WTOP.
(Entire article on American Mirror
HERE)
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