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https://freebeacon.com/campus/pennsy...indergartners/
Amy Buckman, a district spokeswoman, defended the move. "The Lower Merion School District fully supports the ongoing implementation of an anti-racist curriculum in its schools and encourages the use of developmentally appropriate books that raise awareness of the very real issues of racism and privilege," she said.
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Just like public school staff aren't allowed to assert the existence of god in the context of official school communications, they should not be allowed to assert invented and similarly controversial political beliefs such as the existence of racial privilege or systemic anti-minority racism within the domains that it is implied to exist (by the book, etc).
Such assertions always carry with them an implication of a demand for resources, a demand for political rent, etc. In other words, they are meant to extract a material benefit to a specific group. They are not assertions about the world that are meant to provide a simple objective education.
Public school tax monies should not be allowed to be used for political propaganda toward extracting resources from one group for the benefit of another, or for political opinion shaping in any single direction.
Doing so is a partisan abuse of public money and is anti-democratic.
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