Centennial Elementary School outlined the ideas in an instruction guide for kindergarten and first grade students on BLM.
Obtained by the parent activist organization Parents Defending Education, the instruction guide provided definitions for various terms that the school deemed the “Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles” for their Black Lives Matter Week.
Among the listed principles was “globalism,” which the school described as “our ability to see how we are impacted or privileged within the global black family.” Also listed were “transgender affirming,” “Black families,” which was defined as “a space that is family friendly and free from patriarchal practices,” and “Black Villages,” which is “the disruption of western nuclear family dynamics and a return to the ‘collective village’ that takes care of each other.”
The school also included an FAQ on BLM, which cited the U.S. government as a source that “supporting BLM is not political” and said the school’s goal in promoting the movement was “not to teach children what to think; rather to expose them to different perspectives and opinions so that they learn to value and respect diversity.”
Centennial Elementary previously found itself in national headlines after a picture of the school’s sign advertising a “Families of Color Playground Night” went viral.
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Erika Sanzi, the outreach director for Parents Defending Education, said the school’s BLM instruction guide was “indoctrination at any age,” adding that it “borders on abuse with students this young.”
“It is preposterous and wholly inappropriate to teach 5- and 6-year-olds that they must commit to being trans affirming and queer affirming and in favor of disrupting the nuclear family,” Sanzi said. “If a parent wants to raise these subjects at home, that is one thing, but in a classroom, it is nothing more than social engineering and a theft of childhood by the state.”
Attempts to reach Centennial Elementary by phone were unsuccessful.
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