‘Woke’ upthe class
Joe ed. big’s agenda
In his previous role as Connecticut schools commissioner, US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona wanted to ensure that his team was “involved” and made certain that teachers supported the new “woke” curriculum, according to a report.
In an e-mail sent Nov. 1, 2019, and obtained by Fox News through the Freedom of Information Act, Cardona said he agreed with his thenchief of staff, Laura Stefon, that “we need to be involved” in the group creating a critical race theory curriculum.
“I want the new Teacher of the Year [2020] Meghan Hatch Geary on it also, for several reasons,” the thencommissioner wrote.
Hatch Geary, he wrote, “studied Black and Latino studies for her Master’s Program . . . Has created programming incorporating social justice, for race and gender inequalities . . . Her application included more references to the importance of Black leaders in History than anything I have read before . . . She volunteered teaching in Ghana and Ecuador . . . Understands curriculum reduces invisibility for students of color and creates global preparedness for all students . .
“We need teachers behind this wave of our curriculum becoming more ‘woke’ . . . Sends the right message that we are asking the ToY to help us do better.”
Critical race theory dictates that race is an underlying dynamic of all human interaction and views the human experience as a constant power struggle between the races, often with a focus on “white privilege.”
Cardona oversaw the creation of the state’s soon-to-bemandated critical race theory courses.
Along with Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont, Cardona steered Connecticut to become the first state in the nationto require all high schools to offer courses in AfricanAmerican, black, Puerto Rican and Latino studies.
The requirement was implemented by the state Board of Education last December.
Listed under the courses’ learning objectives, the curriculum states the goal is to “analyze how race, power, and privilege influence group access to citizenship, civil rights, and economic power.”