Miseducated: The Decline of America's Schools | Short Documentaries — Transcript

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1. 0:08This ideology and these lessons are
2. 0:10poison for all kids. The design of this
3. 0:12is to put into the minds of kids as
4. 0:15young as kindergarten that you are not
5. 0:18like him. He is not like her. All of
6. 0:21these things are are designed to divide
7. 0:23you.
8. 0:23As teachers and teachers unions continue
9. 0:25to push critical race theory in the
10. 0:27classroom. Critical race theory, the
11. 0:29study of the impact of racism. It is
12. 0:31becoming a flashpoint in American
13. 0:33schools. Black and white children,
14. 0:34Hispanic children, you know why they get
15. 0:36along? Cuz they don't look at each
16. 0:37other's color. So, you're the racist,
17. 0:39not them, not us. Who wants to be a drag
18. 0:42queen when they grow up? The transgender
19. 0:44student at some point during class also
20. 0:46changed clothes and was revealed as her
21. 0:48true gender.
22. 0:49The system's set up to where if you're
23. 0:51teaching anything about gender identity
24. 0:53that you don't even have to notify
25. 0:55parents when it's being taught. Parents
26. 0:57have no idea and they don't know how
27. 0:59radically the sex ed has changed. Here
28. 1:02in America, our kids are taught divisive
29. 1:04racial ideologies, skewed history, and a
30. 1:07new kind of sex education that robs them
31. 1:09of their innocence.
32. 1:12This is the miseducation of our
33. 1:14children.
34. 1:21As parents, we worry about our kids. As
35. 1:23a mom, I worry about my kids, what
36. 1:25they're watching on TV, who their
37. 1:27friends with, what they do when I'm not
38. 1:29around. Our children's health and safety
39. 1:31is always on our minds. We think they're
40. 1:33in good hands at school, but now,
41. 1:35instead of teaching them basic math,
42. 1:37science, and history, schools are
43. 1:38becoming training grounds for political
44. 1:40activism.
45. 1:42I'm Jill Simonian. I have two young
46. 1:43children and I've experienced firsthand
47. 1:46how our school system is being hijacked
48. 1:48to indoctrinate young students.
49. 1:50Racism, white privilege, gender
50. 1:52identity. Words like these have been
51. 1:54thrown around a lot in the media lately.
52. 1:56And in an effort to fight what some see
53. 1:59as privilege and disparity, many school
54. 2:01districts are imposing new curriculum
55. 2:03and policies that actually divide our
56. 2:06kids rather than unite them. How do they
57. 2:08do this?
58. 2:09I wanted to find out.
59. 2:11In Cupertino, California, they were
60. 2:13forcing first grade students to
61. 2:15deconstruct their racial and sexual
62. 2:17identities and then rank themselves
63. 2:19according to their power and privilege,
64. 2:20separating five- and six-year-old kids
65. 2:24into oppressor and oppressed based on
66. 2:26their inborn identity categories. Fifth
67. 2:28graders, in Philadelphia, they were
68. 2:29forced to celebrate black communism and
69. 2:32then they were forced to march into the
70. 2:34auditorium and simulate in a black power
71. 2:36rally. In Buffalo, New York, they were
72. 2:38teaching that, quote, all white people
73. 2:40perpetuate systemic racism. They were
74. 2:42teaching students that white people
75. 2:43derive their wealth from slavery, that
76. 2:46that white people are, quote, unfairly
77. 2:47rich. They were even showing
78. 2:49kindergarteners a dramatization video of
79. 2:52dead black children warning these
80. 2:54kindergarteners that they could be
81. 2:55murdered by, quote, racist police at any
82. 2:58time. This is explicit political
83. 3:01indoctrination. Most of these practices
84. 3:03are propelled by what's known as DEI,
85. 3:06diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI
86. 3:09claims to guarantee fair treatment,
87. 3:11access, opportunity, and advancement for
88. 3:13all.
89. 3:14It is often presented as a new
90. 3:16curriculum, new school policy, or
91. 3:19mandated school activities aiming to
92. 3:21teach children to be accepting and
93. 3:24tolerant of all people. Sounds nice,
94. 3:26right? Well, come to find out, DEI is
95. 3:30rooted in critical race theory. At its
96. 3:32core, critical race theory teaches kids
97. 3:35at an early age that if you are a
98. 3:37minority, then the so-called system is
99. 3:40rigged against you. And if you are
100. 3:42white, you have privilege as an
101. 3:44oppressor and you must acknowledge and
102. 3:46apologize for it. In schools, critical
103. 3:49race theory infuses race into every
104. 3:51lesson plan, regardless of the subject.
105. 3:54It divides children solely based on
106. 3:57race. The activists play this really
107. 4:00clever game. All the materials that
108. 4:01they're presenting to parents, all the
109. 4:03materials that they're presenting on
110. 4:04their website, all the materials that
111. 4:06they're sending home with students,
112. 4:08they're all couched and and camouflage
113. 4:10in this very nice rhetoric. It's about
114. 4:13culturally responsive teaching. It's
115. 4:15about social emotional learning. It's
116. 4:17about a diversity, inclusion, and
117. 4:19belonging. All things that as neutral
118. 4:22nouns are good, but once it becomes
119. 4:24fully institutionalized in K-12 schools,
120. 4:27you have now a generation of tens of
121. 4:29millions of American kids that are going
122. 4:31to be growing up in a world that is
123. 4:34filled with ideology. They'll start not
124. 4:36to think of themselves of individual
125. 4:37human beings, but as a collection of
126. 4:40group identity traits.
127. 4:44I think that our country has entered a
128. 4:45period of racial retrogression. We're
129. 4:48actually in some ways going backwards.
130. 4:51You you see those old pictures of water
131. 4:53fountains that are separated by race.
132. 4:55And now you're seeing new pictures of
133. 4:57public libraries being separated by
134. 4:59race. And there is no way that we are
135. 5:01going to be making progress as a country
136. 5:04by re-normalizing racial segregation.
137. 5:07Critical race theory is only the
138. 5:09beginning. Many school curriculums are
139. 5:11now embracing a new kind of sex
140. 5:13education. Now, while age-appropriate
141. 5:15sex education is important, many schools
142. 5:18are introducing radical curriculum to
143. 5:20kids as young as five. For example,
144. 5:24kindergarteners are being pressured to
145. 5:26question their gender and are exposed to
146. 5:28ideas that are beyond their maturity
147. 5:30level. In many cases, by the time they
148. 5:33reach age 10, their sex education is
149. 5:35less about health and more about
150. 5:37learning adult sexual practices. In
151. 5:402012, the National Sex Education
152. 5:43Standards were established by an
153. 5:44organization called SIECUS. When you
154. 5:46examine the national standards for K
155. 5:48through second grades, the lessons start
156. 5:50with defining gender identity and
157. 5:52stereotypes. By third through fifth
158. 5:54grade, children are expected to discuss
159. 5:56sexual feelings and learn about hormone
160. 5:58blockers for transgender kids.
161. 6:00And by the time they reach grade six
162. 6:02through eight, children are expected to
163. 6:04define sexual acts and know how to
164. 6:06access an abortion. Since the inception
165. 6:09of these national standards, over 40% of
166. 6:12school districts have adopted these
167. 6:13directives. That's almost half of all
168. 6:16schools in the country. And that number
169. 6:18continues to grow year after year.
170. 6:20SIECUS is the organization that is used
171. 6:22to bring in a lot of the standards and
172. 6:25the type of things we should be teaching
173. 6:28in our K through 12 schools. If you go
174. 6:30on to their website, it's very,
175. 6:32um, shocking what you may find because
176. 6:34they endorse and help sell a lot of
177. 6:36types of sex toys.
178. 6:38And this is the organization
179. 6:40advocating the types of sex education to
180. 6:43be used in our schools. Correct, yes.
181. 6:45These organizations are partnering with
182. 6:47our school district, but first of all,
183. 6:48the parents don't know who these
184. 6:49organizations are. And who are these
185. 6:52supposed trusted adults that are giving
186. 6:53advice to their kids and what do they
187. 6:55represent? This book was in the health
188. 6:57framework for California in May of 2019,
189. 7:01but parents found out what was in the
190. 7:03book because there's, um, training on
191. 7:05how to have sadomasochism,
192. 7:08bondage, restraint,
193. 7:11blood play,
194. 7:12sex thing, anal sex, using ropes, cords,
195. 7:17cuffs,
196. 7:18and we just couldn't believe that they
197. 7:21were recommending this to be a statewide
198. 7:24read for 9th through 12th graders. What
199. 7:26do you say to people across the country
200. 7:29that say, "Oh, that's not happening in
201. 7:31my neck of the woods. That doesn't
202. 7:33happen here." There is a lot going on
203. 7:35behind parents' backs nationally because
204. 7:38of these different agencies that are now
205. 7:40partnering with school districts. These
206. 7:41outside agencies, um, are reaching out
207. 7:45to kids on many virtual platforms, um,
208. 7:47and we have Amaze videos, cartoons.
209. 7:51So, it's on YouTube.
210. 7:53Amaze is telling kids, um, that you can
211. 7:55be both genders, neither gender,
212. 7:57anything in between, very similar to
213. 7:59this book. And it also goes into other
214. 8:03videos about puberty blockers
215. 8:05that if you're unsure of your gender,
216. 8:08don't worry, you can stall and give
217. 8:10yourself more time to decide and it's a
218. 8:13choice. Now, it's important to see that
219. 8:15they're talking about this as a choice.
220. 8:18Um, so we have all these new pronouns
221. 8:21that can be created and made up by kid
222. 8:24who's 3 years old. And according to our
223. 8:27laws and policies, we have to affirm
224. 8:29whatever that kid says that they are.
225. 8:32And when they're getting teachings like
226. 8:33this starting even in preschool, you can
227. 8:35understand and see, um, that kids want
228. 8:39to be different, creative, special, and
229. 8:42they're going to start identifying,
230. 8:44especially when we're using the word
231. 8:46choice.
232. 8:47So, kids are being encouraged to
233. 8:48question their gender.
234. 8:50How, if anyway, is this tied to social
235. 8:54justice and critical race theory? Well,
236. 8:56in critical race theory, the
237. 8:58non-conforming genders are
238. 9:01aligned with, um, different minority
239. 9:04groups. So, when you look at
240. 9:06non-conforming genders as being the
241. 9:08victim, the marginalized, then who would
242. 9:12want to be a biological gender that's
243. 9:15considered the privileged mean
244. 9:17oppressor?
245. 9:18Okay, so this is incentivizing kids, um,
246. 9:21to identify as a non-conforming gender
247. 9:23so that they can play the role of the
248. 9:25victim.
249. 9:26These extreme ideas have infiltrated our
250. 9:28schools and even the way our children
251. 9:30learn history has been politicized.
252. 9:33Curriculums are now designed to
253. 9:35emphasize the failures of our American
254. 9:37history while downplaying its many
255. 9:39successes. You may have heard of the
256. 9:401619 Project, which claimed that
257. 9:43America's founding was not for
258. 9:44independence in 1776, but rather when
259. 9:47the first slaves arrived in Jamestown in
260. 9:491619, putting race at the forefront
261. 9:53rather than our liberty and freedom.
262. 9:55Rewriting the narrative of our nation's
263. 9:57history drives home the idea that
264. 9:59America was never great, never something
265. 10:01to be proud of. History is about
266. 10:03narratives and which narratives you
267. 10:04choose and how and which you want to
268. 10:06amplify or minimize certain things. And
269. 10:09so, the language that I like to use is
270. 10:11that the the headlines of American
271. 10:14history are often times being placed in
272. 10:16the footnotes and the footnotes of
273. 10:18American history are now being placed in
274. 10:20the headlines. A lot of times
275. 10:23the the district leaders will say, "Hey,
276. 10:25here here's a program where there was a
277. 10:29a Hispanic hero or or a black hero and
278. 10:32we'll blow it up into some in into a big
279. 10:34lesson when it might be a really
280. 10:37colorful story, but there's only so many
281. 10:39hours in the day and the way that the
282. 10:41curriculum is set up is it will come
283. 10:43like at the expense of something massive
284. 10:47in American history like
285. 10:49like like something that has to do with
286. 10:51the founding fathers.
287. 10:52Mhm. And so, as almost like a PR stunt,
288. 10:55it'll be like, "Oh, look at how
289. 10:57multicultural are we are." All of this
290. 10:59is happening in the schools. It happened
291. 11:01with you.
292. 11:02Mhm.
293. 11:03You left. Yep.
294. 11:05Do you regret it?
295. 11:07I don't regret not being in teaching
296. 11:09right now because it's not an
297. 11:12environment that is healthy for
298. 11:15teachers, students, or for learning. I
299. 11:19was told
300. 11:20that
301. 11:21behaviorally I needed to have different
302. 11:23expectations for children based upon
303. 11:25their race. I was told
304. 11:28that that expecting my students to show
305. 11:30up on time
306. 11:32and to turn in assignments on time, that
307. 11:34was a a sign of my white privilege. I
308. 11:37was told these things that have nothing
309. 11:38to do with academics. That if I can
310. 11:40teach my students not history, but to be
311. 11:44activists, then they'll have a shot at
312. 11:46life.
313. 11:48What are they seeking to accomplish? Why
314. 11:50are they pushing this so hard? Political
315. 11:52and and religious leaders have known for
316. 11:55centuries, really since the beginning of
317. 11:56civilization, that forming children
318. 11:59between the ages of 0 and 6 is really
319. 12:00essential. Critical race theorists based
320. 12:03in academia, what they did quite
321. 12:05ingeniously is very simple. They took
322. 12:07Marx's old dichotomy between the
323. 12:09oppressor and oppressed and they they
324. 12:11took that basic same framework, the same
325. 12:13idea based in Marx's conflict theory,
326. 12:16but they replaced it with racial
327. 12:18categories. They say that no no, the new
328. 12:20oppressor is not an economical
329. 12:21oppressor, it's a racial oppressor.
330. 12:23Would you say that the majority of
331. 12:25parents are not aware that their
332. 12:27students are being taught leftist
333. 12:28ideologies? Someone who is confident
334. 12:30that their school district was
335. 12:31a-political 10 years ago shouldn't be
336. 12:33confident today. It's not just Berkeley
337. 12:36and Brooklyn and Seattle. Critical race
338. 12:38theory is now in schools in North
339. 12:40Carolina and Missouri and Texas and
340. 12:42Florida, states that are nominally
341. 12:45controlled by conservative politicians,
342. 12:48but those specific institutions are
343. 12:50controlled by in many cases dedicated
344. 12:54ideological activists. Sending our
345. 12:56children off to school is not as simple
346. 12:57as it used to be. We want our children
347. 12:59to be educated, not indoctrinated.
348. 13:01Schools should celebrate traditional
349. 13:03values like hard work and service to one
350. 13:05another and pride in our country, not
351. 13:08progressive ideologies. So, what can we
352. 13:10do about it? Fortunately, many states
353. 13:13are banning critical race theory in
354. 13:15schools thanks to parents standing up.
355. 13:18Critical race theory is teaching that
356. 13:19white people are bad.
357. 13:20That's not true.
358. 13:22That would teach my daughter that her
359. 13:23mother's evil.
360. 13:25Mhm.
361. 13:26And who are you to educate my children
362. 13:28or any of my children
363. 13:29in life issues?
364. 13:32That's our job. You going to
365. 13:33deliberately teach KIDS THIS WHITE KID
366. 13:35RIGHT HERE got it better than you
367. 13:37because he white? You going to perfectly
368. 13:39tell a white kid, "Oh, the black people
369. 13:40are all down and suppressed." HOW DO I
370. 13:42HAVE TWO medical degrees if I'm sitting
371. 13:43here oppressed? This isn't a political
372. 13:45indoctrination camp, okay? It's public
373. 13:47education. We want to teach education,
374. 13:49not left-wing ideas that aren't backed
375. 13:51up by facts or science. You are not the
376. 13:53moral authority over our children. We
377. 13:55the parents are. This is emotionally
378. 13:57abusive to our kids and I don't care how
379. 14:00much grant money you are being offered.
380. 14:01Grow some integrity and deny this
381. 14:03hateful agenda. They're morally teaching
382. 14:05me about sexuality and how to identify.
383. 14:09I don't want to hear about sexuality
384. 14:10during class in front of other students
385. 14:13because that should be a private thing.
386. 14:14You know and I know I'm not the only
387. 14:16parent fighting this all across America
388. 14:18right now. Schools are trying to poison
389. 14:21our children's minds and as long as I'm
390. 14:23standing here on this good ground earth
391. 14:25of God, I will fight. As parents, we
392. 14:28have a right and a responsibility to be
393. 14:30involved in our children's education.
394. 14:33It's up to us to attend local school
395. 14:35board meetings, review the materials
396. 14:37being taught in classes, talk with and
397. 14:39question teachers and principals why
398. 14:41certain perspectives are included in
399. 14:43pillar subjects. Be brave. Speak out.
400. 14:46Our children and our country are
401. 14:48depending on us to protect and preserve
402. 14:50the ideals that make us who we are as
403. 14:52Americans. We can no longer allow this
404. 14:55kind of miseducation. It is the most
405. 14:57important battle we must fight for our
406. 15:00children.
407. 15:02Daddy teaches you can be anything in
408. 15:05this world that you want to be, right?
409. 15:07Don't Daddy teach you that? Yeah, and it
410. 15:08doesn't matter if if you're black or
411. 15:11white or any color. Doesn't matter if
412. 15:13you're black, white, brown, yellow.
413. 15:15Yellow.
414. 15:16Right?
415. 15:17Black. And and how we treat people is
416. 15:19based on who they are and not what color
417. 15:21they are.
418. 15:22and if they're nice and smart. See, this
419. 15:25is how this is how children think right
420. 15:27here. Critical race theory wants to end
421. 15:29that. Not with my children. It's not
422. 15:31going to happen. My baby's going to know
423. 15:33that no matter what she wants to be in
424. 15:35life, all she has to do is work hard and
425. 15:37she can become that.