30 Teachers For a Broader Definition of “Intifada”. Hide the Kids!
Malkin today points out that Stop The Madrassa – the organization that helped bring about the dismissal of Debbie Almontaser as principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy, and continues to push for the school to reveal it’s curricula, as required by law – has posted an open letter which 30 educators sent to Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein demanding Almontaser’s reinstatement.
The open letter claims that KGIA was attacked by “a small group of fear-mongering bigots.”
(Ed. note — I seem to recall several million New Yorkers upset by Almontaser’s defense of the “NY Intifada” t-shirt. Why do such groups always seem to claim that the opposition to their opinions is “small”? I have no doubt they believe the opposition is a bunch of bigots, but do they actually believe most folks are on their side?)
The letter goes on to say that “the treatment of Debbie Almontaser represents a threat not only to our rights as educators and citizens in a democratic society; it is also an attack on…” blah blah multicultural blah jihad something something class struggle imperialism.
I skipped ahead to see who signed — all of the signatories are employed, one way or another, as educators. STM pointed out the most prominent ones:
William Ayers, terrorist;
and Michael Klonsky - founder of the communist October League, which morphed into the Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist (yes — this is not one of the Marxist groups who claim “the wrong guy was always in charge”. These are actual Leninists). Klonsky’s behavior won his several state dinners in China.
I researched some of the other signers. Bear in mind that all of these people have been formally endowed with the responsibility to help raise our children.
Enjoy!
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First, the signatories:
Bernadette Anand, Bank Street Graduate School of Education
Gary Anderson, Steinhardt School of Education, N.Y.U.
Rick Ayers, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education
William Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago
Carmen Colon, Association of NYC’s Educated Communities
Kathleen Cushman, Education Writer
Lisa Delpit, Center for Urban Education and Innovation, F.I.U.
Michelle Fine, The Graduate Center – City University of New York
Ofelia Garcia, Teachers College, Columbia University
Maxine Greene, Teachers College, Columbia University
Kris D. Gutierrez, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA
Paula Hajar, Bronx Charter School for Better Learning
Annette Henry, Education Program, University of Washington, Tacoma
Jay P. Heubert, Teachers College, Columbia University
Mike Klonsky, Small Schools Workshop
Susan Klonsky, Small Schools Workshop
Kevin Kumashiro, University of Illinois at Chicago
Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carol Lee, Northwestern University
Sally Lee, Teachers Unite
Linda Levine, Bank Street Graduate School of Education
Tara Mack, Education for Liberation Network
Edwin Mayorga, New York Collective of Radical Educators
Deborah W. Meier, Steinhardt School of Education, N.Y.U.
Jon Moscow, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
Arwa Nasser, United Nations International School
Donna Nevel, Center for Immigrant Families
Pedro A. Noguera, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, N.Y.U.
Gary Orfield, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, UCLA
Granville Leo Stevens, Independent Parents Organizations
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Let’s start with Kevin Kumashiro:
Kumashiro is the Founding Director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education. The site explains, “There are many approaches to anti-oppressive education, some that contradict or critique others. This is not surprising.”
(Ed. note – Like when someone defends the rights of a terror supporter to teach an oppressive, violent ideology, because to fire her would be oppression as well! Is that what he means?)
His site also points out that:
“…the field of anti-oppressive education constantly problematizes its own perspectives and practices by seeking new insights, recognizing that any approach to education–even its own–can make certain changes possible but others impossible.”
If your child comes home using that word, you know where he/she heard it first.
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Edwin Mayorga of the New York Collective of Radical Educators is a fourth-grade teacher at P.S. 87, on the Upper West Side, who pushes Marxism on his nine-year-old students. Here is the NY Post on Mayorga:
“Mayorga described how he had piloted the Katrina curriculum with his fourth graders at PS 87 and pronounced it a big success.
Leaving nothing to chance, the Katrina curriculum provides teachers with classroom prompts designed to illustrate the evils of American capitalism and imperialism. For example, one section of the curriculum is titled, “Two Gulf Wars,” and suggests posing the following question to students: “Was the government unable to respond quickly to the crisis on the Gulf Coast because the money and personnel were all being used in Iraq?”
Again — he is teaching this to nine-year-olds. In a tax-supported school.
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Gary Anderson, of the Steinhardt School of Education, N.Y.U.?
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Rick Ayers? Bill’s brother. Enjoy:
“With his brother, he joined the radical group Students for a Democratic Society. In 1967, when he was 20, he turned in his draft card and fled to Canada, where he worked to organize other draft resisters and Army deserters. He returned to the United States and entered the Army, then went AWOL in 1970 rather than be sent to Vietnam.
Ayers went underground for the next seven years until President Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam draft violators.”
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Anyone up for helping me research the rest of these folks?
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April 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
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