Fox News' Aishah Hasnie and Lawrence Jones discuss the Department of Education’s federal guidance on reopening, which includes links to the ‘Abolitionist Teaching Network’
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New handbook exposes an
new handbook, exposes an
alliance that every parent
should know about.
What is that Alliance
Fox NEWS, correspondent, Aishah
Hasnie reports right now
good morning,
good morning to you Steve
its a very important question
that really every parent and
teacher should be asking right
the money. Where does it go?
Well? Some of the money we found
out goes to tried and true
programs to help get kids back
on their feet.
Fox news also found other
dollars of that fund might go to
activists who want to send white
teachers to anti racist therapy
after a turbulent year of
protests and Covid lockdowns
Americas chirp are heading back
to school and there could be new
lessons to learn.
President Joe Bidens American
Rescue plan authorized
one hundred and twenty two dollars billion to the Department
of Education for state education
agencies. Ninety percent of that money will
go to local school districts,
which in turn must reserve at
least twenty percent, to address the
learning lost during the last
school year.
The administration asks they do
that by using evidence based
programs like summer learning
and after school activities,
but thats, not all
inside the Department of EDS,
Covid, 19 handbook, called road
map to reopening safely and
meeting all students needs. The
department recommends schools
use some of the mope towards
race and social emotional
learning.
The manual offers a direct link
to a group called the abolitions
teaching network, who will help
schools transform
network thats dedicated to
not creating schools or
reimagining schools, but
destroying schools
harm black and brown
author and activist, creating
the abolitionist teaching
network in twenty twenty to educators to
fight injustice in their schools
and communities.
If you dont realize white
supremacy in everything we do,
you have a problem
wants to go anti racist
therapy to stop them from what
she calls spirit, murdering black
and brown students.
One of the things that I
bring to this work is a
significant history of trying to
trouble my own racial identity
and trying to help other white
teachers trouble their
internalized white supremacy and
anti blackness.
We also found the group hired
paid activists across the
country whose job they say is
going into schools to dismages,
oppressive structures, mapping,
building groups and coalitions,
creating media and propaganda.
Education cannot save us,
we must save education.
I want us to be feared.
For example, if teachers find
school uniforms to be
oppressive atn with a send in
activist to help abolish them,
you call us we will activist
resident and he or she or they
will find out how they will do
the research they will do. All
the organizing
teachers and parents show up and
we dismantle
and we hope to have hundreds of
them around the country. Doing
this work.
Love has a history of making
controversial statements on
Twitter, like this tweet from
two thousand and twenty in which she writesed
mediocre. Greedy rich white men
are killing us
its unclear how the Department
of Ed chose ATN as the resource
for race and social emotional
learning.
Although Bidens Deputy
Education Secretary Cindy Martin
is an advocate of be Tina, love
last fall, while she was still
superintendent of schools,
invited love to stop student
murdering black student.
There is a legal disclaimer
from the Department of Ed that
says any resources or links they
do offer quote, do not
necessarily reflect the
positions or policies of the
department.
We did reach out to the
department and ATN, but have not
heard back from either
Steve
Steve all right Aishah. Thank
you very much.
We have interesting stuff
joining us right now. First time
we have had somebody in studio
on the couch with us in over a
year Lawrence Jones
Lawrence Good Morning to you
Lawrence. I know thats a lot
for you guys to process. Our
investigative team has been
working on this for weeks,
Steve its fascinating because
everybody wants to reopen the
schools, so the government has
put out this handbook on how to
do it, but then, tucked away it
says to help with race and emotional learning they just
emotional learning they just
mentioned. This one group has
connection to deposit. Is I
secretary of education?
This is not a conversation
about reform,
big question parents that are at
home watching watching this pack
should ask themself. Are they
okay with reforms or be like
this group that want to burn
down the system
Steve? They said that
specifically,
they said that very
specifically in the video. These
are brilliant people,
they know exact. Will he what
they are doing?
The big question as well Brian,
should activists be in the
classroom. Ms love had nor
statement.
I want to play for you guys
that our team grabbed-
and this just shows you the
picture. The big picture, which
is to destroy the system from
within
lets, take a look.
I have been teaching now for
nineteen years
and I have been doing this work
of completely disrupting systems
in elementary schools and school
systems for those nineteen years,
making sure that were teaching
Sbl through a model of equity,
its important for a network
like this to be diligent and
explicit about that fight
against white supremacy,
a lot of people talking about
crt and progressive policies
embedded within schools and in
the culture.
This is why I say its hard to
get rid of it because its
already there
they have been teaching it for a
while,
as he says, I have been teaching
for nineteen years and I have been
putting this stuff out.
These are activist teachers that
have a doctrine they believe in
that they are now promoting to
other teachers,
Brian while in denial
watch other networks, say crt
doesnt exist looking to find
something to run against for
political reasons.
When they push on this
curriculum, they say we didnt
tell you to click on hyper link.
We didnt tell you thats part
of it thats a choice.
What I would say not just CRT
progressive world view marxist
world view
its the belief that America
cannot be reformed.
You cant fix some of the issues
that we may have that you have
got to burn the system down
thats what they truly believe
Ainsley. Another thing I will
say about this is that you see a
conversation here just like
with black lives matter where
people have legitimate
grievances and they want to come
to the table and talk about
those issues.
But the organization itself is
very flawed.
We see this in Cuba right now.
The cuban people who stood with
black lives matter. They said why
arent you standing with us.
We thought that you wanted
justice for black people.
We are afro cuban and do you
know what they say?
Well, its really not communism.
There.
Socialism has been good for you,
so you see this infighting
people believe in this stuff, but
they dont know what the people
stand for and thats what the
chaos is
Ainsley Lawrence. My question is
this: is the Department of
Education with a recommendation
for opening up our schools
talking about covid
and then, if you scroll through
the email that I guess was sent
out to seventy four thousand school districts,
you scroll down to page nine,
and then there is this section
with that hyper link and you
click on it and its to this
organization.
What does that have to do with
reopening our schools?
It doesnt, but they use race
as a guide
and, as you Aishah correctly
pointed out, they put at the
bottom of the page.
Look this doesnt necessarily
reflect our viewpoint,
Brian. Why do you put it in
there
thats the only link that
gives them some sort of guidance.
Like I say guys, we cant run
from this. At this point.
There is staffers. There is
teachers, there are people that
are in academia, thought leaders
that are everywhere now
putting this in the school,
its just, not a matter of
banning it. The question is: what
do parents do back at home?
They need to look at what their
kids are reading.
You have got to beat them to the
punch. Have these conversations
at home,
Brian beat your school to the
punch.
The problem is you dont
know you send your kids to
school and trust the teacher is
going to be teaching them
something you agree with
thats exactly right.
They are not.
You cant just put the burden on
the teachers,
so the audience they are
probably freaking out right now,
because they have heard and
wondering if their kids,
they can email us at friends at
Fox NEWS.
If they have syllabuses,
examples bring it to us.
Our research will pick Teo part
and see if its a part of that
network
Steve Lawrence dont. You think,
given now that this has been
revealed now just now for the
first time that parent need to
ask the school district. Hey.
Are you consulting with this
abolitionist teaching network
for Social Justice
Lawrence? They need to ask the
schools but also ask the
teachers,
because, as you see, this
teacher said, I have been doing
this for nineteen years
so its not a matter.
You think we heard about CRT nineteen
years ago.
These are people already there.
They recruit these teachers,
they teach them this philosophy.
Again, I continue to say
reforms need to happen.
Interestingly enough, this group
is anti school choice, but they
are Pro teachers Union,
Brian. The students who want to
get an a and teachers want to
keep their job.
Do they have to go along with
this in order to keep their job,
and they have to go along with
this in order to get an a
thats where they are going to
need some help from the outside
to help with the curriculum,
its not just that its the kids
as well
as I reported on in Loudoun
County, the kids arent turning
on the teachers,
never turning on the parents,
the burden of proof is the
parents. Now
the parents have to prove that
this is wrong now,
so this just shows you
Brian, oh, my goodness,
Ainsley. Thank you Lawrence
Excellent Job
Lawrence. We will continue to do.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-02.