From Thayrone X
This comes my way via a brave insider. We are not supposed to see this, it’s supposed to be internal to the public education system in the A2/Ypsi school system. It’s nationwide! And it’s the brainwashing of teaching staff. Do not let this individual’s efforts go to waste. Pass this on to all you know. And get your kids out of public education, GET OUT. If you’re a teacher and you are not standing up to this, standing against it, bringing it to light, you are in the enemy camp.
Take this very seriously. There is no wiggle room. The is Bill Ayres through and through. The truly sad part of all this is that the children learn nothing. They are only trained to be good little racist progressives.
Pass it on.
Thayrone X
King of the wild broadcast frontier
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Let me start by saying I am a teacher currently working in the Ypsilanti Community School district but previously worked in the Ann Arbor school district. Listening to your show on 5/8/14 I heard your call for information and felt the need to respond with as much help as I could. I do wish to stay anonymous because of the nature of my job and the lack of protection for teachers who don’t think the way the district wants them to. I’ll start with as much info on white privilege as I can gather and also gather as much info on the common core brainwashing I can find.
In Ann Arbor and many other districts across the country the “training” is referred to as equity training and is the responsibility of the district’s and building’s equity teams. In Ypsi the training is referred to as “cultural proficiency training”. Both are billed as helping teachers to understand cultural differences in order to help them better work to close the achievement gap. Any good teacher would agree that an achievement gap of any kind is a bad thing, after all we go to school to help all of our students grow to be free thinking, successful and contributing members of society. These training programs look good to bureaucrats and administrators concerned with public opinion but pretty much focus on only one group, black and brown children.
They always start their “training” process with some sort of activity that is meant to help teachers understand their “white Privilege” through several activities. One is a worksheet in which teachers read a prepared list of scenarios and assign a value based on their feelings about that situation. Ive completed several of these similar to the one I attached entitled “white-privilege”. Though the facilitators say they aren’t, they ARE meant to make white teachers uncomfortable and guilty. This year in fact I witnessed several teachers angry at both having white privilege (sad really) and angry some one would make them do this since “It’s not our fault.”
While in Ann Arbor we even lined up based on our scores on these worksheets so the staff could see how much white privilege everyone has experienced. It was quite humiliating and as you might imagine white males (who are a minority in the teaching field) typically scored the highest. To add insult to injury they even from time to time have teachers write their scores on sheets of paper and display them while in line to show the vast disparity in staff experiences.
There are also homework assignments to go with these workshops ranging from designing lessons to flip the experience for kids just like the ones we hear about teachers getting in trouble for from time to time when they do them on their own, all the way up to racial autobiographies in which teachers write an autobiography sharing their racial experiences from childhood to present. Teachers are made to then present/preform their racial autobiographies and as you may guess white teachers are made to feel guilty yet again and minority teachers share their stories highlighting periods of racism which further highlight the white privilege they don’t have and white teachers do have.
Mixed into these equity trainings are lessons designed to be shared with the students. Skyline has a daily homeroom, or at least they used to which was designed to be used as a rotating 30 minute course that could be a study hall, dissemination of school rules, announcements or the like. It could be an assembly of some kind, or a lesson around some monthly theme. I’ve included the four week rotation around the race card project. Don’t get me wrong, identifying and eliminating racism and negative stereotypes is a good thing. It just happened to be the first complete example of a rotation I could find. There are other lessons such as Cesar Chavez day as well as the open meeting called Griot Cafe in which teachers and I think some students were invited to have “courageous conversations” about, well read the flyer, it’s a discussion about whiteness.
In Ypsi we have a monthly 3 hour workshop in which we do various similar activities discussing white privilege, the plight of the poor black man, how to reach the poor back child, how to be sensitive to their differences, needs, and diss advantages. I unfortunately or fortunately have missed most of them because of various personal reasons so it’s harder for me to comment on what has been done there. I did include the power point they showed us to explain who they were and what they were going to do. The only two I have seen in the building are the two ladies pictured, one a doctoral fellow from U of M and the other a contractor from Allies of Change, not sure if you know much about them but they are a national organization and are Google-able. They have asked us to do interviews with students, design lessons, we have done the race card project this year, which not surprisingly the kids didn’t take seriously.
The really interesting thing in both districts is that both groups of “equity trainers” did observations to observe how you’re class was going. Not much more was shared as to what they were really looking for and whether or not they would be evaluating or grading teachers. I haven’t had an observation so I’m not sure what that means for me or what the outcomes are from the observations. Recently they asked teachers to observe and evaluate each other for which I have included the evaluation form. From the emails we were also asked to create a lesson based on wealth inequality for our students I thought you might find interesting, maybe not but it is something Ann Arbor never did. In Ann Arbor the focus was on the achievement gap and when they say achievement gap they mean black and brown kids so poor, LGBT, Asian, Native American, Muslim, etc were not the focus of the equity team. Ypsi has tried to at least branch out to slightly more. They did acknowledge there were more groups but they would only focus on black and brown and poor kids. White privilege was a cornerstone of both programs.
I’ll see what I can find for you about common core over the week end.
Anonymous Teacher (Loyal WAAM listener)
P.S. I almost forgot, this year I started with Ann Arbor and the welcome back meeting in addition to the puff puff rah rah go get them school board speeches and the superintendent dribble, the entire districts staff was required to watch “The American Promise”. Though a great documentary, it made very clear the focus of the district. You can watch the trailer at
www.theamericanpromise.org (
This site has been taken down.)Here are the “lessons” and “teaching aids”
Source:
http://rattlewithus.ning.com/xn/detail/3305780:Topic:58678
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