LEFTIST HATE GROUP MEETS
'WEEKLY READER', Online
teachers' resources gives Progressives open door to school children, by Bob
Unruh, 3/2/17, WND
Remember the Southern Poverty Law
Center? The nonprofit started out fighting the KKK. But now, it’s
advocating homosexuality and transgenderism, and going even further to condemn
and label as “haters” those who don’t support that agenda because of their
faith.
It’s the group that put Dr. Ben
Carson, one of the most respected men in America, on a list of “haters.” It’s
the group formally linked in a federal court case to domestic terror after
describing an ordinary Christian organization, the Family Research Council, as
a “hate” group, inspiring a man who intended mass murder to launch an attack.
Now SPLC is being used as an
online resource for school teachers and children across America by Newsela. The company describes itself as “an education technology startup
dedicated to transforming the way students access the world through words.”
“Our team combines powerful
technological know-how with real-world experience earned in the classroom, the
newsroom, and the boardroom. We publish high-interest news and nonfiction
articles daily at five levels of complexity for grades 2-12 using a
proprietary, rapid text-leveling process. By combining relevant and interesting
nonfiction content with standards-aligned assessments, Newsela gives educators
the primary solution to dramatically improve students’ literacy skills for the
21st century.”
Essentially, Newslea offers
online lessons to teachers, who can use then as an ongoing resource much like
the “Weekly Reader,” the Scholastic publication for school children that
dates to about 1928. It offers library resources “news” on a variety of
topics and various “text sets” for teachers to use. An announcement from
Newslea explains it is offering a “new program” to “teach empathy and
diversity.”
“This coming at a time when our
country is seeing an uptick in bullying and hate-crimes in schools, and an
increasingly divisive tone when it comes to the ‘other.’ The program entitled
‘A Mile in Our Shoes’ is designed to help kids across the country begin to
soften their tone and broaden their horizons.” For that effort, Newslea says
it is “is partnering with Teaching Tolerance (a project of the Southern Poverty
Law Center).”
“Newsela will feature text sets,
quizzes, webinars and more designed to help educators better teach empathy and
the value of diversity. The text sets will feature important articles and
essays relating to veterans, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, refugees, enslaved
Americans, women’s rights/groundbreaking women, people with disabilities,
African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, Native
Americans, and more,” the group explains.
Under its “Text set: A mile in our
shoes: Supporting articles,” Newslea reveals its agenda, with titles
including “Children start believing gender stereotypes as young as 6,” “Opponents of affirmative action are
using a flawed theory” and “Implicit racial bias often begins as early as
preschool.”
Under SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance instructional materials, which it posts not on the
SPLC site, but on the Tolerance.org site, SPLC boasts of “webinars [that] offer
helpful guidance and great ideas, from our highly experienced teaching and
learning specialists and from
other educators in the Teaching Tolerance community.”
For example, one seminar talks about
“extreme prejudice” and warns of “anti-Muslim rhetoric” following the Muslim
terror attacks in Paris, San Bernardino and other cities.
“The truth is, even before the Paris
attacks, the California chapter of CAIR, released survey results showing more
than half of California’s Muslim students endure bullying based on their
religion,” it states.
But SPLC’s source has
been rejected by the FBI “due to questions
about the Hamas ties of its top leaders” and was named an unindicted
co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest terror-financing
case in American history. The United Arab Emirates classifies CAIR as a
terrorist organization.
Also among the SPLC teaching
tools recommended by Newsela, which boasts of being used in three-quarters of
U.S. schools and by over 10 million students and 1 million teachers,
are titles such as “Confronting implicit bias,” “Teaching Black Lives Matter,”
“Developing Empathy,” “Understanding Equity Literacy” and “Engaging Families
Through Home Visits,” which instructs school teachers how to set up
times to go to students’ homes, “sit down on a couch, have a normal
conversation, [get] tours of the home, check out the kiddos’ selection of
toys.”
Despite WND’s response to Newsela’s
invitation for an “interview with our CEO,” the organization declined to
respond to WND’s request for comment by publication.
‘Reckless labeling‘
WND has reported extensively on the
SPLC agenda, including when in 2016 SPLC President Richard Cohen, who
is paid more than $300,000 a year to run the nonprofit, was named in an Alabama
Bar Association complaint for allegedly making “unethical statements” about two
conservative justices on the Alabama Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Roy
Moore, who have been in the organization’s crosshairs.
The complaint alleged Cohen
repeatedly violated Rule 8.2 of the Rules of Professional Conduct, which
states, “A lawyer shall not make a statement that the lawyer knows to be false
or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity concerning the
qualifications or integrity of a judge, adjudicatory officer or public legal
officer, or of a candidate for election or appointment to judicial or legal
office.”
Liberty Counsel, which also has been
targeted by SPLC, said in a report last fall that by “falsely and recklessly labeling
Christian ministries as ‘hate groups,’ SPLC is directly responsible for the
first conviction of a man who intended to commit mass murder targeted against a
policy organization in Washington, D.C.”
“On August 15, 2012, Floyd Corkins
went to the Family Research Council with a gun and a bag filled with ammunition
and Chick-fil-A sandwiches. His stated purpose was to kill as many employees of
the Family Research Council as possible and then to smear Chick-fil-A
sandwiches in their faces (because the founder of the food chain said he
believed in marriage as a man and a woman). Fortunately, Mr. Corkins was
stopped by the security guard, who was shot in the process. Corkins is now
serving time in prison. Mr. Corkins admitted to the court that he learned of
the Family Research Council by reading the SPLC’s hate map.”
WND
reported a video showed Corkins
entering the FRC offices and confronting Leo Johnson. Corkins later was sentenced to
prison for domestic terrorism. It was during an interview with FBI officers
when Corkins named the Southern Poverty Law Center as his source of
information.
Central to the case, according to
the government’s document, was that Corkins “had identified the FRC as an
anti-gay organization on the Southern Poverty Law Center website.” FRC officials repeatedly have
explained that they adhere to a biblical perspective on homosexuality but are
not “anti-gay.”
Liberty
Counsel also has sued on behalf of Alabama
Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker over the speech restrictions included in the
Alabama Canons of Judicial Ethics as well as a procedure that automatically
suspends a judge if there has been an accusation against him.
“These provisions are being used by
the Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies on the Alabama Judicial Inquiry
Commission in an attempt to intimidate, silence, and punish Justice Parker for
his originalist judicial philosophy and protected speech,” the legal
organization explained.
WND
reported Liberty Counsel has pointed
out that under the standard SPLC uses to call group’s “hate” organizations, the
Catholic Church would qualify, as well as virtually every major Christian group
in the world.
The SPLC’s “hate” label also would
have applied to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton before they “evolved” to
become ardent supporters of “same-sex marriage,” noted Liberty Counsel Chairman
Mathew Staver.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/leftist-hate-group-meets-weekly-reader/
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