Here’s more evidence that the phrase “go woke, go broke” might have some truth to it.
A California elementary school paid an organization called Woke Kindergarten $250,000 to train its teachers how to “confront white supremacy” and “disrupt racism and oppression,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported Feb. 3.
Woke Kindergarten has been conducting training sessions at Glassbrook Elementary School in Hayward, south of Oakland, for two years. The program is funded through a federal program assisting low-performing schools, the Chronicle reported.
Not surprisingly, the focus on wokeness and racism has been detrimental to Glassbrook’s students.
The Chronicle reported that English and math scores hit shocking lows in spring 2023, with less than 4 percent of students proficient in math and a little under 12 percent scoring at their grade level in English. Those figures were a nearly 4 percent drop in each category.
According to its website, Woke Kindergarten’s goal is “supporting children, families, educators and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-black and queer and trans liberation.”
Woke Kindergarten is a real organization that sells their services to schools. Their mission is teach kids we can abolish work, landlords, Israel, and borders! One Bay Area school paid them 250k and watched student scores drop. Their “woke wonderings” are sadly hilarious.
University of California, Berkeley education professor Zeus Leonardo told the Chronicle that the idea behind Woke Kindergarten is to make “politics part of the framework of teaching.”
But the program, and its mission, have had mixed reviews from staff. Tiger Craven-Neely, a teacher at Glassbrook, was confused by the program’s objectives of “disrupting whiteness” and the use of the phrase “so-called United States.”
“What does that mean?” Craven-Neely said. “I just want to know, what does that mean for a third-grade classroom?”
An anonymous Glassbrook teacher said the program offered only one viewpoint and “it slowly became very apparent if you were a dissenting voice that it’s not what they wanted to hear.”
However, Hayward Unified School District Superintendent Jason Reimann claimed Woke Kindergarten has been a net benefit.
Reimann told the Chronicle that the organization’s training program is supported by parents and teachers and that school attendance has increased from 61 percent of students chronically absent to 44 percent.
“We are in favor 100 percent of abolishing systems of oppression where they hold our students back. What I do believe is we should pick providers based on their work and how effective they are,” Reimann said.
What kids really need is to be taught basic skills in reading, writing and mathematics, not that all white people are evil and deserve to be punished.
In effect, by teaching students and teachers that certain groups are racist and evil and others are perpetually victimized and subjugated in society, organizations like Woke Kindergarten keep the racist flames from dying out.
By refusing to let our country heal from its racist past, they will never let us take a step forward to a better future.
But they don’t seem to care about the future, given that they are content with American students scoring at ridiculously low levels across multiple subjects.
Any parent who cares about his or her child’s future would serve them best by taking them out of any school that seeks to promote woke ideology, and instead focus on what the schools themselves should focus on: educating.
