A nonprofit watchdog group previously labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as an “extremist” outfit claims the reputationally marred activist organization, which is currently facing federal charges, is still having their “far left content and materials” find their way into classrooms across the United States.
As previously reported in Law Enforcement Today, the SPLC is in the midst of an ongoing federal case alleging the group which purports to combat the likes or racism and extremism was appropriating donated funds to various individuals and groups which the SPLC says in their mission statement they’re working to “dismantle.”
Aside from the SPLC’s current legal conundrum, the organization has also come under scrutiny for their willingness to designate innocuous groups or companies as “extremists” or an overall existential threat, such as the case with Defending Education which serves as a watchdog group monitoring various school curriculums.
Nicole Neily, who serves as Defending Education’s president, revealed in a Fox News exclusive from earlier in May that despite the plummeting public trust around the SPLC, the group’s materials are still being widely circulated in K-12 schools in over 40 states.
Linking back to Defending Education’s latest report on the SPLC’s longstanding “Learning for Justice” curriculum which was formerly dubbed “Teaching Tolerance,” Neily exposed how the SPLC’s messaging surrounding progressive ideology remains pervasive in schools.
“Learning for Justice offers a range of content, lessons, and other materials for school districts and teachers to incorporate into their teaching methods and to use in the classroom,” Neily noted.
“The content often pushes or reinforces far-left cultural and political ideologies such as leftwing activism, anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, gender ideology and queer theory, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness, and transgenderism.”
To date, there are 42 states alongside the District of Columbia hosting such curriculum in schools, which equates to approximately 199 school districts. Reportedly upwards of 30 different “state government entities” are also complicit in the approved dissemination of said materials.
Instead of curriculums based around core subjects like math and science, or teachings in history that are objective, students across the country are still being subjected to lessons in “queer theory, white privilege, and anti-racism,” according to Neily. The Defending Education president finds the aforementioned troubling since she believes the SPLC materials “intentionally sow division and mistrust between students at a formative stage of their development.”
Also contained within said SPLC-approved materials are calls to action apparently aimed at youths, suggesting students agree to joining alongside “diverse people to plan and carry out collective action against exclusion, prejudice and discrimination,” which in post-BLM and Antifa world sounds awfully like indoctrinating the next generation of would-be rioters.
Defending Education’s Director of Research, Rhyen Staley, finds the presence of SPLC materials in K-12 schools particularly disturbing considering the organization’s history of labeling concerned parents “extremists” or active members of “hate groups.”
“No organization that labels concerned parents as ‘extremists’ and members of ‘hate groups’ should have its biased content used in K-12 schools,” Staley stated, further noting, “District leaders should end the use of this organization’s materials and ideas.”
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