California Turns Up the Volume of Diversity Narrative in School Textbooks

These days, many public schools have been turned into leftist propaganda factories that Pol Pot would have envied. They teach kids that America is evil and diversity is the highest good. They train students in the violent tactics we have seen at work in the Occupy movement and the anti-cop Black Lives Matter.

California has been delving into creative interpretations before. In 2012, Sacramento decreed that textbooks would soon include information about the many Sikh contributions to the state. That year also saw the addition of gay history for the schools, in which the law required “a study of the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other cultural groups.” Also in 2012, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that encouraged social studies teachers to present material about the bracero program in California.

Once upon a time, California students of all backgrounds were taught traditional American values of hard work and patriotism. For a remembrance of those bygone days, see Victor Davis Hanson’s The Civic Education America Needs.

Back then, people believed in assimilation, where foreign people were welcomed to this nation in exchange for their accepting American values. Now citizens are supposed to be happy in a balkanized country of separate ethnic tribes, even though that ideology magnifies conflicts.

According to recent changes, state students will get even more diversity propaganda as a result of a big rewrite of educational diversity standards. Apparently not enough high school graduates aspire to careers as community organizers.

Interestingly, the Sacramento Bee story included a photo of farm organizer Cesar Chavez as a diversity icon, even though he actively promoted immigration enforcement to help his legal workers. That fact has been effectively submerged in the media’s black hole of inconvenient history.

California’s new public school history curriculum reflects state’s diversity, Sacramento Bee, July 29, 2016...