To stop educational wokeness, force teachers to actually teach

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/to-stop-educational-wokeness-force-teachers-
to-actually-teach/

Closed schools this year have caused kids to fall behind academically,
lose their social lives and plunge into mental-health crises. It has also
allowed wokeness to spread like wildfire. On first glance, the two
problems — the lack of in-person instruction and the rise of wokeness —
may seem unrelated. In fact, they’re closely bound up.

The woke hold that our society is fundamentally unjust and that we must
always strive for greater justice. In practice, it translates into to
abject foolishness, such as the charge that math is racist.

No, that’s not a joke. A consortium of 25 education organizations has
offered “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” which seeks to
“dismantle racism in mathematics instruction.” The group detects white
supremacy in such insidious practices as focusing on the right answer or
having to show your work (i.e., learning).

Lest you imagine this is some fringe group, the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation provides all of its funding. Yes, Bill Gates, who made his
fortune in the world of computers, funds programs to interrogate the
racism of numbers — it’s a perfect illustration of wokeness taken to its
natural conclusion.

And Gates isn’t pushing these bad ideas on the outskirts of society. In
May, Gov. Cuomo partnered with Gates to “reimagine education.” Speaking
about the partnership, Cuomo said, “The old model of, everybody goes and
sits in a classroom, and the teacher is in front of that classroom and
teaches that class, and you do that all across the city, all across the
state, all these buildings, all these physical classrooms — why, with all
the technology you have?”

The comment inadvertently revealed how wokeness and permanent remote
instruction go hand in hand.

There’s a reason there is little to no backlash against crackpot notions —
such as racist equations — and it’s that parents are bone tired. Many
parents are burned out from nearly a whole year of their kids being at
home. Parents have had to teach material to their kids when remote
instruction largely failed. They’ve had to pick up the pieces when camp
was canceled, sports were canceled, graduations were canceled and life for
their kids was put on hold.

Parents had to do all this while doing their own jobs — and being told
that their wish that schools might reopen is tantamount to wanting to
murder teachers.

So when principal Mark Federman of the East Side Community School in New
York City sent out a chart on whiteness with his Martin Luther King Day
message and asked parents to become “traitors” to their whiteness, how
many parents actually read it before hitting delete? It wasn’t until
Christopher Rufo highlighted the story weeks later that it became an
outrage.

East Side Community School had been closed since November. Public middle
schools in Gotham are supposed to reopen this Thursday, but East Side
Community has already informed parents they aren’t ready and will need a
few more days. Perhaps administrators should have spent more time working
on getting kids into classrooms and less preparing charts that look like
they were written by the KKK.

Similarly, when the San Francisco Unified School District’s board voted to
rename 44 district schools, including schools named after Abraham Lincoln
and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the members were woke-ifying schools that
haven’t been open all school year. In the woke world, this kind of
performative move is far more important than the substantive one of
actually educating children.

After an outcry, the board relented and halted the renaming process,
promising to focus on opening schools instead. It’s proof that engaged
parents are a defense against wokeism.

It isn’t a coincidence that a rise in wokeness in our schools has
corresponded with a decline in actual education. Every minute spent on
creating fake outrages and punishing Lincoln is a minute not spent on
academic subjects. In a year full of those empty minutes, wokesters have
found a way to fill the time. Exhausted parents have to find the strength
to fight back now, or when their kids do someday return to school, it will
have been “reimagined” into something else entirely.

Twitter: @Karol



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