more propaganda and indoctrination in california public schools. received info about this from a middle school teacher today. this shit needs to stop!

A PETITION TO SCHOOL BOARDS

In light of recent events in which there have been multiple instances of police brutality against Black communities, we wanted to bring to your attention the problem of anti-Blackness in America; specifically, how we can fight to be anti-racist and encourage a productive dialogue on race and identity among our student bodies.

One of the core foundations of a student’s mindset is shaped through the educational process. We are sure you can agree that the education system is of absolute importance in the lives of America’s children, and while it has been very successful in many of its endeavors, it has also been drastically underutilized as a tool to combat racism.There are many reasons why we believe high school is the optimal time frame to introduce students to such difficult, but necessary topics.

Firstly, completing high school represents a culmination of a student’s core educational studies— this core should educate students regarding how to be anti-racist in the classroom. K-12 education encapsulates teaching students about the most basic, fundamental components that are seen as integral to their academic pursuits, regardless of whether they choose to continue further educational paths post-graduation. While math, science, history, and English are all considered “integral academic pursuits”, so is learning to be anti-racist. We all live in America, and it is undeniable that this country was built upon the foundations of slavery, followed closely by sharecropping, then segregation, then the War on Drugs, and the list goes on and on.

While chattel slavery has been abolished, modern-day slavery in the form of systemic racism is deeply entrenched and has only festered and worsened in the past few years. We live and experience our daily lives in this type of society, and it shapes the way we think about the world at an unconscious level from the very moment we are capable of speaking and interacting with others. As a result, we must strive to understand the perspectives of Black/Brown communities and do everything in our power to educate those who come through our school systems.

Additionally, high school is an optimal time to incorporate anti-racist narratives into curriculum because it is the last time they will be enrolled in mandatory schooling. Not everyone chooses to attend college after 12th grade, and implementing anti-racist texts as a school requirement ensures that the majority of students passing through our school systems will have received some exposure to diversity in the classroom. Numerous colleges around this country offer ethnic studies programs as well as courses on issues of social justice, but the problem is that these course offerings create a self selected group of individuals. Students studying these topics in college are the ones who specifically already want to do so, and are more likely to already be engaged in anti-racist activism or allyship. As a result, this leads to the development of ignorance among the rest of the student body. As we know, apathy or ignorance can be a very dangerous force to reckon with in regards to the power racial oppression has in America. Learning about these concepts in high school under the proper guidance of well-trained, qualified teachers can help expand exposure to such an important topic.

Due to the reasons stated above, we propose that:

I. A minimum of at least one book in every English/Literature and Comprehension class be by a person of color AND about a person/people of color’s experience(s)

II. Teachers must have autonomy to choose books from the recommended list provided OR if the chosen text accurately portrays the cultural and racial diversity of our society.

III. At least one of the mandated books be about the Black experience, due to the anti-Blackness that has existed since the inception of our nationThe fiction books adopted as part of this curriculum are published post-civil rights movement (~1960s), to ensure that issues of race are taught with contemporary, modern-day context in mind

IV. This implementation be enforced not only in all standard English classes, but alternatives for standard English classes such as AP/IB programs

V. These texts be analyzed to the same extent that any other traditional text would be analyzed in the classroom

VI. A voluntarily task force composed of teachers be created to issue guidelines that ensure these texts are taught with proper tools to ensure racial sensitivity

https://www.diversifyournarrative.com/

need to dig on funding…

FBI agent who found Hillary Clinton's emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop calls agency's handling of case 'immoral' and reveals how he fought for weeks to have them investigated

An FBI agent who found the messages that led to the Hillary Clinton email investigation being reopened days before the 2016 election said the way the bureau handled the case was 'not ethically or morally right'.

John Robertson feared he would be made a 'scapegoat' when he found the new emails less than two months before voting day, in the wake of DailyMail.com's revelation that Anthony Weiner, whose wife Huma Abedin was Clinton's top aide, was sexting an underage girl.

Robertson watched nervously as the bureau did nothing for a month until he went outside the chain of command and spoke with the US Attorney's office overseeing the case.

The only advice from his bosses was to erase his office computer, which meant leaving no record of his investigations, a new book says.

As Robertson put it: 'To this day don't understand what the hell went wrong', the Washington Post reported.

The claims add another layer of intrigue to the investigation of Clinton's emails which has become one of the most divisive episodes of the 2016 election.

They appear in October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election, which will be published on September 22 by PublicAffairs.

The book, by Washington Post Justice Department correspondent Devlin Barrett, is said to be a 'comprehensive, revealing and dramatic look inside the bureau's role in the 2016 presidential election'.

Central to the account is the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State which dogged her campaign and led to an investigation by the department's Inspector General.

The inquiry was handed over to the FBI and former director James Comey closed it with no criminal charges on July 5, 2016, and rebuked Clinton and her staff for being 'extremely careless'

But he reopened it on October 28, more than a month after DailyMail.com revealed Weiner's sexts with a high school girl.

The FBI seized Weiner's computer and the agent who was tasked with going through it was Robertson - who found yet more Clinton emails.

Comey closed the investigation for a second time on November 6th but by then, Democrats argue, the FBI had handed the election to Donald Trump.

October Surprise reveals Robertson's frustration and anxiety began to fester in September after he found around 600,000 emails from Abedin including many that were to or from Clinton.

They were on Weiner's laptop, which he examined in his office at the FBI New York office's C-20 unit, which is tasked with investigating sex crimes against children.

But he couldn't examine the messages, even to determine how many were Clinton's, because the subpoena that was used to seize Weiner's laptop was too narrow and did not allow it.

Late in September Robertson notified his bosses about his discovery, but after that he heard nothing.

He later told internal investigators: 'The crickets I was hearing was really making me uncomfortable because something was going to come down.

'Why isn't anybody here? Like if I'm the supervisor of any (counterintelligence) squad … and I hear about this, I'm getting on with headquarters and saying hey some agent working child porn here may have (Hillary Clinton) emails. Get your a** on the phone, call (the case agent) and get a copy of that drive, because that's how it should be.

'And that nobody reached out to me within, like, that night, I still to this day don't understand what the hell went wrong'.

Robertson hoped the prosecutors in the Weiner case - Amanda Kramer and Stephanie Lake at the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York - could help him.

He hoped their bosses could 'kick some of these lazy FBI folks in the butt and get them moving', the book says.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8748293/Hillary-Clinton-email-whistleblower-tells-frustration-FBI.html