by Selwyn Duke, The New American:
If the “teaching in school today will become the politics of tomorrow,” as the apocryphal saying goes, there’s much cause for alarm. A case in point is a bisexual Nevada middle-school teacher who claims that white people are “problematic,” education is “inherently racist,” and that our response should be to “start a riot.”
The only saving grace with “educator” Jennifer Leja, of Hyde Park Middle School in the Clark County district, is that she’s not exactly subtle. In fact, reported Fox News last Thursday, in a series of TikTok videos, the teacher sang “start a riot” in support of the following propositions (as presented by Fox):
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- “Dress codes are sexist”
- “Education is inherently racist”
- “History is white-washed”
- “White teachers are problematic”
Though white herself, Leja nonetheless castigated the “white majority” in education. For this means, relates Fox, that “‘everything in education from our suspensions and our detentions to the way that we handle conflict, from our textbooks to our curriculum, everything is going to be handled with a White perspective rather than a multicultural one.’”
Regarding suspensions and detentions, Leja was likely alluding to the notion that the system is “racist” because black and Hispanic students are suspended (and expelled) and sent for detention more than white kids are. Of course, unmentioned is that whites and boys suffer these punishments more than, respectively, Asian-descent youths and girls do. But, oddly, no one calls these phenomena racist or sexist.
(Note: The Barack Obama administration, also singing Leja’s tune, actually pressured school systems to equalize the punishment between whites and blacks/Hispanics — but not between Asians and whites or boys and girls.)
According to Fox, Leja then lamented that her school’s teaching staff and administration are “all white” and prescribed an affirmative-action solution: “Hire more minority educators and … encourage students who are BIPOC to try to go into more higher education fields.”
Leja further stated, according to Fox, that
- “teachers are either the most woke humans on the planet or the most garbage humans — there is no in between”;
- Christopher Columbus was a “Christian colonizer”;
- not only is the education system inherently “racist,” but that “many of the things we’re required to teach continue to perpetuate racism too”; and
- that she was close to getting into fisticuffs with another teacher — whose sin was “misgendering” a student.
Here’s the kicker: Leja posted her woke videos, reports Fox, back in October 2021. Apparently, though, they’re only making news now. Yet is this surprising? Insanely woke teachers are now common enough, after all, so that a Leja may not stand out.
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