BLM week in schools to ‘celebrate globalism’ and discuss disruption of nuclear family

Public schools
across the country are beginning Black History Month with
Black Lives Matter
week in schools, which includes a national panel on “celebrating globalism” and a discussion on disrupting the nuclear family in one
Washington
school district.

The organization National Black Lives Matter at School’s
BLM Week of Action
runs from Feb. 6-10 and encourages schools, educators, and students to “organiz[e] for racial justice in education” during the annual week.

The national group’s Week of Action 2023 events include a panel on “Celebrating Globalism and Collective Value,” which the group said will “talk about the importance of valuing Black life and how it relates to us collectively,” as well as “building authentic partnerships with all who support creating equitable school communities across the nation and around the globe.”

The group encourages organizations, schools, and school districts to share their agendas for participating in the annual week of action. Several national education organizations, including the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, and the American School Counselor Association, have publicly endorsed the week.

“The goal of Black Lives Matter at School is to continue the ongoing movement of critical reflection and honest conversation and impactful actions in school communities,” the NEA wrote in a
blog post
last month. “Since 2016, thousands of educators nationwide have shown solidarity in their pursuit for equity in education.”

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In the state of Washington, Shoreline Public Schools
hosts a five-week anticipatory program
for BLM Week of Action, with each week featuring a different theme. The school district also said that “equity and justice” are taught in every class during the week.

“During Black Lives Matter at School Week in Shoreline Schools, each lesson taught in classrooms covers a theme of equity and justice in the Black community,” the district says on its website. “Teachers are provided lessons that are appropriate for the grade level they teach, from preschool through high school.”

The themes for the preceding weeks included “Black Women and Unapologetically Black,” “Intergenerational, Black Families, and Black Villages,” “Transgender Affirming, LGBTQ+ Affirming, and Collective Value,” and “Diversity and Globalism.”

The school district described “black villages” as the “disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics and a return to the ‘collective village’ that takes care of each other.”

In Milwaukee Public Schools, attendees to the district’s
various BLM week events
are encouraged to wear “Black Lives Matter or social justice shirts.”

In years past, schools and school districts around the country have marked BLM week with events on white privilege, systemic racism, and other matters commonly associated with critical race theory. In 2021, an elementary school in Washington, D.C.,
encouraged
students to wear different outfits each day, including wearing black and white with rainbow colors to show “you are an LGBTQ+ ally.”

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In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Erika Sanzi, the director of outreach for the parent activist group Parents Defending Education, blasted the BLM week as an “ideological and political” movement seeking to “indoctrinate children.”

“The BLM guiding principles that are taught to students of all ages include being queer-affirming and trans-affirming,” Sanzi said. “They also call for the disruption of the Western nuclear family. This is a movement that is explicitly ideological and political and it is being used in schools to indoctrinate children into supporting causes that they do not understand. It isn’t about black history or solutions to racial injustice, and it has no place as a curriculum in the classroom.”

The Washington Examiner reached out to Shoreline and Milwaukee public schools for comment.