Thanks to the efforts of organizations like Accuracy in Media (AIM) and James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, the spotlight remains fixed on progressive teachers who deliver left-wing talking points to influence their young and impressionable students.
Despite these savvy educators’ ability to subtly influence the youth of America, their hubris when they feel comfortable opening up ultimately becomes their downfall.
Of course, the insidious influence of partisan politics in education isn’t limited to public schools. Across the country, elite private schools, which often cost as much as public colleges and universities, have embraced controversial political agendas intended to demean students who have a perceived social privilege due to their race, gender and socioeconomic status.
Instead of helping kids understand the world without being afraid or resentful of it, Project Veritas got Jennifer Norris, the director of student activities at New York City’s Trinity School (one of its most prestigious private schools) to share her unvarnished agenda.
“I just keep trying to disrupt wherever I can,” Norris said. “And now that I’m in this position, I have so many opportunities to do that.” She proceeds to describe how she feels like a double agent undermining the administration and explains why a “huge contingent” of white boys “are just horrible.”
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Norris tells Project Veritas’ undercover journalist at one point that the white male students may be irredeemable.
When asked if she could save “these Republican white guys,” Norris lamented “I think they’re really awful people. That’s kind of what I’m afraid of with my white students that are rich. I’m like — do you ever have to deal with this? They’re so protected by capitalism. It makes me sad.”
Norris added that as director of student activists, she frequently brings guest speakers to the school to deepen learning.
There’s just one caveat: no conservatives allowed.
The ongoing efforts to expose hypocrisy in education by Project Veritas coincide with Accuracy in Media’s nationwide critical race theory (CRT) investigation. AIM recently exposed school administrators in conservative Iowa for promoting the tenets of CRT despite the fact that a law passed last July that bans CRT in school curricula and mandatory diversity and inclusion training.
AIM’s investigation in Iowa showed that administrators were happy to talk about how easy it was to skirt the Hawkeye State’s CRT ban and undermine the legislature by simply relabeling critical race theory lessons.
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AIM previously exposed how educators in Idaho and Tennessee did the same thing to subvert their CRT bans. That, coupled with the lack of transparency by school officials has led to the rapid growth of the school choice movement.
While obstinate faculty continue to resist the will of the parents by claiming that terms like critical race theory have been co-opted by the far-right, changes for the better are happening.
Sometimes slowly but surely.
AIM has more on what’s changed since they exposed Idaho school administrators boasting about teaching critical race theory on tape:
A lot has happened since the AIM investigation was released. The video itself has had more than 500,000 views, many of which were from Idahoans, and it has had a notable effect in the push for school choice in Idaho.
The specific issue actually potentially up for a vote in the Idaho legislature was the Hope and Opportunity scholarships (H669), which would have been a very limited expansion of choice for a few. That didn’t pass simply because the House Education Committee didn’t even let it move to the floor. The holdup was thanks to a few members of the Idaho legislature who were not willing to stand up for school choice.
But thanks in part to our video, some of those members were not reelected. The Idaho Freedom Foundation discussed those changes here and here.
The House has seen a switch in which conservatives are serving. The Senate, however, has seen a solid core – getting on for a likely 30% to 35% of that chamber from a previous 6% or 7% – of conservatives likely to take their seats.
Thanks to the state’s legislature’s new makeup, real school choice might finally pass in the coming session.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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Shut down Public schools then ALL
Those people need to be found out and fired on the spot. They are the type that think the rules don’t apply to them so the feel free to continue to brainwash our students with their warped line of thinking. Maybe there should be monitors sitting in on each classroom to see if those leftists follow the teaching requirements set by the school boards.
The Republicans need to push very hard for “school choice”. The Libs have owned and ruined public education. They have dumbed down our children in math, science, history and civics. But you can bet our children know how to be a leftwing activist. Competition always birngs the best out of everyone. It also weeds out the inferior competition. If private schools and home schools put the pressure on public schools, then the public school system might shape up. The first step would be to abolish the NEA.