The San Francisco teacher who raised red flags after his school district spent a quarter of a million dollars to train its elementary teachers how to be “anti-racist” has been placed on administrative leave.
How BizPac Review reported, two years ago, Glassbrook Elementary School paid $250,000 in federal grants to Woke Kindergarten, a company that indoctrinates children with radical far-left racial essentialist propaganda.
The goal was to “train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression, and remove these barriers to learning,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The program even includes a “woke word of the day” to teach the “language of the [so-called] resistance” to children.
The result? English and math scores plummeted, “with less than 4% of students proficient in math and just under 12% at grade level in English, a decline of about 4 percentage points in each category ,” The Chronicle revealed.
Bay Area school cuts $250,000 to 'kindergarten woke' program: Literacy and numeracy rates plummet https://t.co/ayn6vwH7uB road @BIZPACRevision
— Based on BPR (@DumpstrFireNews) February 4, 2024
The national outrage was fast and furious and, according to district spokesman Michael Bazeley, “it has taken its toll.”
The school and district have received dozens of “threatening and racist” messages, Bazely told The Chronicle.
“I don't think any faculty or staff member wakes up expecting to be dragged through the mud of the national media,” he said. “They have been very resilient, but it has taken its toll.”
Wrapped in the national spotlight, the district took swift action: It suspended the teacher who dared to speak out.
The Hayward Unified School District teacher who initially spoke to The Chronicle about his concerns, Tiger Craven-Neeley, “said district officials called him into a video conference Thursday afternoon and ordered him to hand over keys and laptop and that he did not return to his class on time. Glassbrook Elementary until further notice,” the San Francisco Chronicle now report “They didn't give any details about why he was put on paid leave, other than to say it was 'allegations of unprofessional conduct,'” Craven-Neeley said.
The teacher with whom she shared her concerns about Woke Kindergarten's PD @sfchronicle has been placed on leave, just after the story was published. @jilltucker reports:https://t.co/mWI1JuuNhh
— Karen Vaites (@karenvaites) February 10, 2024
According to the outlet: “The suspension came less than a day after a divisional staff meeting at the school, which included discussions about the Woke Kindergarten program, media coverage of it, and Craven's participation- Neeley in media coverage.”
It's a clear case of “retaliation,” Fox News contributor Guy Benson told X.
“Retaliation for questioning a crazy program that is actively harming children,” he wrote. “Other way round”.
Retaliation for questioning a crazy program that is actively harming children. Upside down. https://t.co/2FTjSHiAyU
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 10, 2024
Others agreed.
“Political retaliation is fine,” noted one user, “if it's done by liberals.”
“Glad I found the real bad guy here,” said another.
Political retaliation is fine, if it's done by liberals. https://t.co/wcfz89CAT7
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) February 10, 2024
Glad we found the real villain here https://t.co/8nMICmjbYP
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) February 10, 2024
When the story first broke, a district spokesman claimed the elementary school was off the state watch list and that attendance and suspension rates were improving. The Chronicle reported the spokesperson that “the school was not only on the list, but had been downgraded,” leading some to question whether “the district spokesperson who lied about the district was off the state hit list was also delisted. ?”
“That's an excellent question,” responded literacy advocate Karen Vaites.
This is an excellent question: https://t.co/4yneyKD3h9
— Karen Vaites (@karenvaites) February 10, 2024
Craven-Neeley, one user said, made a rookie “mistake”: “Her mistake was shaming people who insist this kind of nonsense doesn't exist.”
His mistake was shaming the people who insist that this kind of nonsense doesn't exist. https://t.co/I9wHnEnL2J
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) February 10, 2024
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