{"id":453721,"date":"2022-05-27T02:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T23:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-kids-need-real-books-not-woke-bs\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T02:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T23:22:46","slug":"nyc-kids-need-real-books-not-woke-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-kids-need-real-books-not-woke-bs\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC kids need real books, not woke BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a370b4246f1f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a370b4246f1f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-kids-need-real-books-not-woke-bs\/#%E2%80%9CNYC_kids_need_real_books_not_woke_BS%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;NYC kids need real books, not woke BS&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNYC_kids_need_real_books_not_woke_BS%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;NYC kids need real books, not woke BS&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Anastasia Higginbotham, a white Brooklynite children\u2019s book author, knows what New York City kids need to learn. Not math or English or <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>. Nope: They need lessons on racism. And queerness. And liberation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s in her \u201cWhat You Don\u2019t Know\u201d \u2014 a book that has garnered the city Department of Education\u2019s stamp of approval and is now on a 5th-grade reading list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t think reading about queerness and liberation is appropriate for 10-year-olds, then you (in the author\u2019s opinion)<strong> <\/strong>\u201ccling to the oppressive, dying institutions of patriarchy and white supremacy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Look: New York is failing its students educationally. Half of students statewide fell below benchmarks in reading,<strong> <\/strong>and 40% below math benchmarks, as of this winter per a massive dataset analyzed by Renaissance Learning.<strong> <\/strong>The state Board of Regents just canceled its US history exam<strong> <\/strong>while pushing down standards for other tests it oversees. Public-school enrollment in the city is in freefall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And these trends most hurt black and Hispanic students, the very groups on whose behalf Higginbotham and her collaborators profess to be offended and concerned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Anastasia-Higginbotham.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Anastasia Higginbotham\" class=\"wp-image-22430724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Anastasia-Higginbotham.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Anastasia-Higginbotham.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/Anastasia-Higginbotham.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Anastasia Higginbotham created the controversial book \u201cWhat You Don\u2019t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Giving kids a book or two on racism or gender in the mix of assignments is appropriate,  but many children feel they\u2019re being force-fed a monotonous diet of ultra-woke claptrap.<\/p>\n<p>Our kids need instruction, not indoctrination (the book <em>literally <\/em>glorifies AOC and other Squad members). Especially now, as the city struggles to overcome a learning deficit caused by the disastrous COVID policies inflicted by the same coalition that foists propagandistic nonsense like this on our kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Anastasia Higginbotham actually cared about helping black and brown people, she\u2019d be in the front lines demanding better, more rigorous schools in New York, free from political interference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That she isn\u2019t tells you everything <em>you <\/em>need to know.\u00a0\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Not math or English or science. Nope: They need lessons on racism. And queerness. And liberation.\u00a0 All are themes in her \u201cWhat You Don\u2019t Know\u201d \u2014 a book that has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":453722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/newspress-collage-22392395-1653605685264.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1653591849&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[129646,98294,17209,14580,43,4953,74212,4937],"class_list":["post-453721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-26-22","tag-board-of-regents","tag-books","tag-children","tag-editorial","tag-new-york-city","tag-public-schools","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}