Which is perfectly in-line with leftist dogma.
MADISON, Wis. – CREATE Wisconsin, a teachers training program sponsored by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, has more than one item on its questionable agenda.
First and foremost is its fascination with the concept of “white privilege,” and the theory that it causes millions of minority children to struggle in school and be unfairly placed in special education programs. […]
But CREATE Wisconsin is about much more than education. It seems clear that most of the people behind the program have a dim view of the United States, its history, and its socio-economic system. If they’re not avowed Marxists, these folks are the next best thing.
They obviously expect K-12 teachers who attend their events to incorporate radical political messages into their daily lessons, regardless of the grade level they teach. Their goal seems to be the political indoctrination of students into their leftist movement. Perhaps they consider that a necessary first step toward an eventual social revolution that will recreate America in their preferred image.
For instance, CREATE Wisconsin encourages teachers to treat early American history as a hostile invasion of blood-thirsty Europeans who were determined to exterminate native populations and steal the continent for themselves.
As if history were that simple to understand, interpret or teach. If history teaches us anything, it’s that there are two sides to every story, and usually a degree of right and wrong on both sides. But that fact seems to be lost on the CREATE Wisconsin crowd.
Perhaps the best example is a first Thanksgiving role-play exercise designed for K-5 students and posted on the CREATE Wisconsin website.
The exercise is designed around the following story, which supposedly symbolizes what the arrival of the Pilgrims must have been like for Native Americans who lived near the site of the Plymouth settlement.
“One day, when you are home alone, a strange object comes slowly into view in the sky. You’ve never seen anything like it before. It is a strange shape and very large. It lands in your own back yard! Soon very strange-looking people get out; they are dressed in clothes very different from yours and talk to each other in a way you cannot understand.