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Are your children “woke” yet? They may be soon, if some educators have anything to do with it.
Buffalo Public Schools’ ‘Woke’ Education
Fatima Morrell is an associate superintendent of culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives for Buffalo Public Schools in New York. She has created and implemented curriculum that pushes Black Lives Matter ideology to students, forces teachers to complete “antiracist” training and teaches students that “all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism,” among other leftist ideas.
Investigative journalist, filmmaker and a contributing editor for City Journal, Christopher Rufo wrote several articles on Critical Race Theory and “woke” education within schools. Rufo explains in his article, “Fail Factory,” that “Buffalo school administrators have adopted fashionable new pedagogies: ‘culturally responsive teaching,’ ‘pedagogy of liberation,’ ‘equity-based instructional strategies,’ and an ’emancipatory curriculum.’” All of those terms add up to “woke” education, according to Morrell. …