A California school board member is facing a formal investigation after telling a colleague that she deserved to be 'strung up' for investing in a controversial 'Woke Kindergarten' program.
Hayward School Board member Joe Ramos was questioning the district’s $250,000 splurge on an 'abolitionist' teaching program called Woke Kindergarten on January 24, despite appalling math and English scores at the same school.
He made the comments amid a crossfire exchange with Sandra Escobedo, director of supplemental and concentration services, as she fielded questions about the district’s budget.
The 'Woke Kindergarten' program states its mission as an 'abolitionist early learning ecosystem' that trains teachers to uproot white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression which are barriers to learning.
After spending the federal money on the program Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward saw numeracy among its 474 students fall to a new low of just 4 percent and literacy just 12 percent.
The for-profit company was founded by non-binary early educator Akiea 'Ki' Gross (pictured)
Woke Kindergarten bills itself as a 'global, abolitionist early childhood ecosystem and visionary creative portal' grounded in the idea that the education system as it is, steeped in racism and other oppressive structures, cannot be reformed.
The program aims to support 'children, families, educators and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-black and queer and trans liberation,' according to its website.
Founder Akiea 'Ki' Gross is black and nonbinary, going by they/them pronouns.
According to the website, the head of the organization is “Akiea ‘Ki’ Gross (they/them)” who “is an abolitionist early educator, cultural organizer and creator currently innovating ways to resist, heal, liberate and create with their pedagogy, Woke Kindergarten.”
“I believe the United States has no right to exist. I believe every settler colony who has committed genocide against native peoples, against Indigenous people, has no right to exist,” Gross said in a recent Instagram post. “Y’all the demons. Y’all are the villains. We’ve been trying to end y’all. Get free of y’all.”
“I believe in a free Palestine from the river to the sea,” Gross continued.
The Hayward Unified School District has blown $250,000 worth of federal funding on a three-year contract with the program.
Hayward Superintendent Jason Reimann told news outlets that he defended the district's choice to enroll in the program.
'We are in favor 100% of abolishing systems of oppression where they hold our students back,' he said.
Reimann said Woke Kindergarten was not hired to improve test scores, but that 'helping students feel safe and whole is part and parcel of academic achievement.'
While some colleges and universities like Andrews and Southern are sneaking woke in through the backdoor through DIE Commissars, this school in California is bold enough to state exactly what they want to accomplish—the destruction of your children and the family and the nation.
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“Thinking themselves to be wise they became fools” (Romans 1:22).