SPLC pushed its way into K-12 schools and is more of a threat than you realize

The caller indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) by the Department of Justice (DOJ) has spurred a flurry of involvement implicit the past mates of weeks, including a House Judiciary Committee hearing focused connected examining the "role that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has played successful distorting civilian rights argumentation successful caller years."  

While it is improbable the proceeding volition output thing new, it volition bring much-needed vulnerability to the malicious enactment that has engaged successful left-wing lawfare for years and corrupted our K-12 schools.  

For good implicit a decade, the SPLC has leveraged its presumption arsenic a civilian rights enactment to person schoolhouse districts to usage its Learning for Justice (formerly Teaching Tolerance) standards, resources and lessons successful the sanction of "social justice." In fact, pursuing the radical justness protests of 2020, salient leftwing organizations, including the SPLC, seized connected the accidental to steamroll a far-left governmental docket successful K-12 education. 

The nonprofit’s programming has been sold to highly empathetic educators arsenic captious to reducing "bias" and "hate," fixing the accomplishment spread and addressing intelligence wellness issues. The ideas being peddled by the SPLC — "anti-racism," "White privilege" and "Whiteness" — spread quickly throughout every facet of the K-12 acquisition strategy via the Colleges of Education, activistic teachers and administrators, associations, teachers unions and consultants. 

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The Southern Poverty Law Center has wide power successful education. FILE: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, left, and SPLC interim President and CEO Bryan Fair are shown successful a divided representation arsenic the Justice Department pursues charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images; USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images)

Currently, the SPLC’s power connected K-12 is monolithic but besides hard to quantify. Even though hundreds of districts use its contented in lessons, in curricula, as resources on racial justness webpages, and person adopted the organization’s social justness standards, it is hard to nail down the totality of the organization’s impact.  

What besides makes its usage hard to gauge is the undocumented usage by teachers erstwhile they present Learning for Justice contented arsenic supplemental materials oregon usage it to steer dialog connected arguable topics. 

Unfortunately, the power cognition does not extremity there.

For example, fashionable Social Emotional Learning (SEL) programs specified arsenic Second Step, Panorama Education, and the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence's (YCEI) RULER person integrated the SPLC’s lessons and standards into their curricula and platforms. Tens of thousands of districts crossed the state person contracts with these entities.

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Additionally, the far-left nonprofit’s programming and contented are pushed through professional development, teachers unions, nonrecreational organizations specified arsenic the American School Counselor Association and the Association of Alaska School Boards, Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) and state Departments of Education. 

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In reality, upwards of thousands of districts person knowingly and unknowingly played a relation successful the proliferation of divisive SPLC contented that often shames children based connected immutable characteristics similar contention and ethnicity and promotes a verifiable anti-Western ideology. Despite the assertion that these concepts are meant to combat injustice, they actually create hostility, resentment and angst betwixt individuals.  

What besides makes its usage hard to gauge is the undocumented usage by teachers erstwhile they present Learning for Justice contented arsenic supplemental materials oregon usage it to steer dialog connected arguable topics. 

Regardless of the ineligible outcomes that await the SPLC, the DOJ’s indictment of the left-wing nonprofit has brought long overdue attention to the organization. For years, the SPLC has enjoyed unquestioned credibility wrong the K-12 acquisition system. Hopefully, the indictment, proceeding and further vulnerability volition bring into question the SPLC’s authority.

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In the meantime, parents, assemblage members and legislators request to analyse their ain schoolhouse districts for these politically biased contented and materials. Moreover, schoolhouse districts request to purge from lessons, curricula and resources immoderate contented that has originated from the organization. 

No kid should beryllium forced to larn from an enactment that fights "bias" and "hate" by advancing their ain biased left-wing ideology and labeling acrophobic parents arsenic members of a hatred group. 

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