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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Another day, another far-Left street protest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">It gets hard to keep up with the current “thing” as activists switch out causes like the average person changes underwear. Last month’s pro-Palestine protest is yesterday’s anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protest is today’s pro-Iran protest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">But the issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Even more concerning is how K-12 schools have been infiltrated by organizations to serve as fertile recruiting and training grounds for the next generation of far-Left activists.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Leveraging (liberated) ethnic studies courses as an access point, these outside groups hide behind “history” and “culture” to advance their radical ideology and recruit students and staff into their ranks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">School districts, in order to comply with California’s Assembly Bill 101 (2021) which mandates that students in the class of 2029-30 complete one semester of ethnic studies, have been hiring far-Left organizations to assist in developing and implementing these course curriculums, as well as running professional development trainings and conferences for teachers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">For example, an early July </span><a href="https://www.xicanxinstitute.org/summer-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">ethnic studies conference</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> in Arizona features a “Pre-Institute Field Day on the Border” which includes “visiting a desert surveillance tower with local organizers.” The participants will “examine how the same technologies are used against Palestinians.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">On May 13, 2025, Stockton Unified School District’s board </span><a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/susd/Board.nsf/goto?open&;id=DFJRPV6F023F" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">approved</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> spending $28,000 to send ten ethnic studies educators to attend the institute.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">One of the institute’s </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/xitotucson/p/DKk82TWSPMe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">sessions</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">, titled “Education as a Front, A Weapon &; A Tool,” includes panelists such as the chair of the Association of Raza Educators (ARE) and co-founder of </span><a href="https://www.liberatedethnicstudies.org/guadalupe-carrasco-cardona.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> (LESMC), and the director of Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">According to the description on Instagram, the “panel of educators and organizers will share tactics on how we can join forces by highlighting their work in the streets and in the schools, and help us identify critical fronts for cross movement solidarity.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Both ARE and AROC openly engage in far-Left street activism. ARE’s Instagram is filled with protest propaganda, including a February 23, 2023, </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/raza_educators_la/reel/DGa7kIVvqKw/?api=Selesaikan+latihan+online+untuk+menghasilkan+uang%E3%80%90GB777.BET%E3%80%91.dprv&;hl=zh-cn" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">post</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> which shows members of ARE following ICE agents to their “home base.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Additionally, AROC helped organize the blockade of the </span><a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/pro-palestine-protesters-shut-down-bay-bridge-during-apec-summit" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">Bay Bridge</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> in 2023, and </span><a href="https://www.araborganizing.org/page/port-of-oakland-shutdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">boasts</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> about shutting down the Port of Oakland in 2024 in support of Palestine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">In 2023, San Francisco Unified School District </span><a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&;id=CU2NLP607BD5" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">approved</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> a four year agreement with AROC to provide “workshops in classrooms related to leadership development and cultural empowerment.” AROC is a </span><a href="https://www.tides.org/partner/arab-resource-organizing-center-aroc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">fiscal project</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> of the Tides Foundation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Not only are teachers being trained to advance far-Left activism, but the ideology has been embedded in ethnic studies curriculums, including how students are graded.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">On June 18, 2025, Carlsbad Unified School District’s board </span><a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/cusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&;id=DH9QS96AAC48" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">approved</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> a year-long elective ethnic studies course which includes units on studying and engaging in activism. Grading rubrics included in the draft document reveal that students are assessed on how well they advocate for “justice in speech and perspective” and recognize “equity as essential.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">In other words, students are taught to identify oppression and injustice (critical consciousness) and to act on it (praxis).</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.newsmax.com/politics/critical-competency-consciousness/2023/12/07/id/1145144/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">Critical consciousness</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">, a primary concept in ethnic studies, teaches students to view everything using an oppressor — oppressed binary lens. The goal is to get the youth to constantly seek out new social justice causes to which they can attach themselves.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">For example, a 2023 Pajaro Valley Unified School District board </span><a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/pvusd/Board.nsf/files/CSZQCT67A8B9/$file/June%2028%20(23)%20Board%20Slides_%20CRE%20(1).pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">presentation</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> reveals how the district integrated into its “Ethnic Literature and Studies “ course an “Ethnic Studies Praxis Story Plot” that replaces a traditional plot diagram with one steeped in critical consciousness. Students are taught to read stories in a circular fashion, moving from exposing the problem and recognizing the oppressed and oppressor classes, to “resistance and revolution” and how to apply the lessons to their own social justice activism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Instead of seeking out meaningful resolutions and solutions, these courses, such as in Carlsbad and Parajo Valley schools, create perpetual social justice activists who bounce from one cause to the next in an effort to tear down the “oppressive” system and foment “revolution.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">While far-Left ethnic studies consultants make millions in consulting fees to advance their anti-Western Civilization ideology in schools, they are simultaneously turning K-12 students into the next generation of campus and street revolutionaries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">As liberated ethnic studies expands its tentacles across the country, parents, board members, administrators, teachers, and policymakers must grapple with this destructive ideology masquerading as “culture” and “history.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The metastasis of these far-Left recruiting and training programs in our K-12 schools must be stopped.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">American families deserve schools that teach children to read, write, and do math at the highest of standards — not indoctrination into social justice activism.</span></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-weight:400">Rhyen Staley is the Research Director for Defending Education. He holds a master’s degree in elementary education and has over a decade of classroom experience in both public and private schools.â¯He has over 25 years of volleyball coaching experience from Women’s Division I down to junior high.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight:400">The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</span></em></p>
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