Lesson one: How to stomp on a scab’s face. Lesson two: How to set up a giant inflatable rat. Lesson three: How to slash tires.

Via EAG News:

Every day our staff at EAGnews wrestles with the following questions: “What are our children being taught in school?” and “How is the information they’re learning going to change America?” […]

One of the books recommended in the third-grade teaching guide is “Si Se Puede/Yes We Can!”

Zaner-Bloser includes this book – with its very familiar title – in its “Rights and Responsibilities” unit.

Most Americans would probably expect a unit about citizen “rights and responsibilities” to be firmly rooted in the Constitutional principle of individual rights – as described by the Bill of Rights – and checks on the power of government.

But that’s not the goal of the “Si Se Puede” book and lesson plans.

According to the Zaner-Bloser guide, the “central question” for students to grapple with is, “How can we work together as a community to stand up for our rights?”

You can already see where this is going.

“Si Se Puede” tells the story of a 1985 SEIU-led janitors strike in Los Angeles.

The acronym SEIU refers to the Service Employees International Union, one of the largest and most radical far-left labor unions in the country.

So that’s the kind of “community” Zaner-Bloser authors are referring to.

In the teachers’ guide, the authors say the janitors went on strike “for more money because their wages [were] too low to be fair.”

Keep in mind, this unit is geared for 8- and 9-year-olds who have no understanding of how the labor market works, let alone any knowledge of the economic principle of supply and demand.

And yet they’re being told that the janitors weren’t making a “fair” wage.

That’s not all they’re being taught. In the guide, teachers are told to introduce students to the vocabulary word of the week – “protest.”