NYC kids need real books, not woke BS

"What You Do not Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood" has made its means onto the NYC colleges' Fifth-grade studying listing.
Dottir Press

Anastasia Higginbotham, a white Brooklynite kids’s e-book creator, is aware of what New York Metropolis youngsters have to study. Not math or English or science. Nope: They want classes on racism. And queerness. And liberation. 

All are themes in her “What You Don’t Know” — a e-book that has garnered town Division of Training’s stamp of approval and is now on a Fifth-grade studying listing. 

In case you don’t suppose studying about queerness and liberation is acceptable for 10-year-olds, you then (within the creator’s opinion)“cling to the oppressive, dying establishments of patriarchy and white supremacy.” 

Look: New York is failing its college students educationally. Half of scholars statewide fell beneath benchmarks in studying,and 40% beneath math benchmarks, as of this winter per an enormous dataset analyzed by Renaissance Studying.The state Board of Regents simply canceled its US historical past examwhile pushing down requirements for different assessments it oversees. Public-school enrollment within the metropolis is in freefall. 

And these tendencies most harm black and Hispanic college students, the very teams on whose behalf Higginbotham and her collaborators profess to be offended and anxious. 

Anastasia Higginbotham created the controversial e-book “What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood.”

Giving youngsters a e-book or two on racism or gender within the mixture of assignments is acceptable, however many kids really feel they’re being force-fed a monotonous food plan of ultra-woke claptrap.

Our children want instruction, not indoctrination (the e-book actually glorifies AOC and different Squad members). Particularly now, as town struggles to beat a studying deficit attributable to the disastrous COVID insurance policies inflicted by the identical coalition that foists propagandistic nonsense like this on our youngsters. 

If Anastasia Higginbotham truly cared about serving to black and brown individuals, she’d be within the entrance traces demanding higher, extra rigorous colleges in New York, free from political interference. 

That she isn’t tells you every part you have to know.