The phrase "white supremacy" occurs in none of the thirteen chapters of the proposal at https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/index.asp https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/c

The phrase "white supremacy" occurs in none of the thirteen chapters of the proposal at https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/index.asp https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/index.asp. The author seems to have pulled that quote and some other money quotes from a non-affiliated website. People of similar ideological persuasions tend to travel in the same circles (figuratively and otherwise), but it's disingenuous, to say the least, to implicitly attribute quotes from one group to another. There's a cavalcade of non-sequitur woke logic in the Introduction to the official draft proposal. Feel free to read it. But the WSJ article is just another culture war hit piece that barely tries to critique the substance of the proposal, which notwithstanding the voluminous justifications are fairly simple on their face. Because they're simple they should be easy to attack on their own terms. But no one group can stake a claim to rhetorical laziness, and so it's rare to see anybody put in the effort. Anyhow, I'm pretty sure the proposal is a done deal. And in the grand scheme of things I doubt it will matter. The reason the proposal is wrong-headed is because no amount of curriculum tweaking could ever begin to overcome the deficits that a child may suffer from outside school--family, community, etc. Decades of public school investments and analyses have borne this out time and again. But by the same token, a kid benefiting from a more supportive home and peer environment is unlikely to be ill effected. Though, the second order effects might be real, such as an increase in private school attendance. The Catholic parochial schools in San Francisco have grown continuously for many years. (They're much cheaper than secular private schools; often a bare majority or less of the kids are Catholic.) Something like 25% of SF students go to private schools. My kid goes to a Catholic school (partly for legitimate religious reasons), but it was a close call, and we almost sent him to our neighborhood public school. He attended public T-K in SF and we were very happy w/ his teacher and his school. One thing to understand about public schools in California is that they're extremely balkanized. The requirement that all public schools across the state receive identical funding has had the unintended side-effect of increasing parental involvement in those communities where parents are relatively more predisposed to do so, often donating a tremendous amount of time and money. (There are apparently various ways that additional money is used to enhance education without running afoul of budgeting rules.) It's not just an economic class thing as in San Francisco poor and working class Asian families are just as or more likely to involve themselves w/ their children's school as any well-off family in Marin. Private school principals and teachers elsewhere in the U.S. accustomed to dealing with aggressively demanding parents would feel right at home at plenty of public schools in California.