Two years ago, Glassbrook Elementary School paid $250,000 in federal grant money to Woke Kindergarten, a company that indoctrinates children in radically far-left, racial essentialist propaganda.

The company's website states that it's designed to support "children, families, educators and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-black and queer and trans liberation."

Why did the school pay for this radical program? "[T]o train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression and remove those barriers to learning," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Evidently, school officials bought into the lie that racism is somehow preventing children from learning correctly. But they were dead wrong.

"[T]wo years into the three-year contract with Woke Kindergarten ... student achievement at Glassbrook has fallen, prompting some teachers to question whether the money was well-spent given the needs of the students, who are predominantly low-income," the Chronicle notes.

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According to one anonymous Glassbrook teacher, it appears Woke Kindergarten's "anti-racist" trainers are also anti-free speech.

"It slowly became very apparent if you were a dissenting voice that it's not what they wanted to hear," the teacher told the Chronicle.

Even more radical than the Woke Kindergarten program itself is its founder. Akiea "Ki" Gross is her name, and she's a non-binary, pro-gay, and pro-transgender activist who hates the police. She hates the police so much that in 2020 she published a children's video on YouTube in which she said, "I feel safe when there are no police."

"Gross has also called for police to be defunded and abolished, condemned capitalism, said the government should 'free them all' [inmates] from prisons and accused the former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang of supporting genocide," Fox News notes.

She's a full-fledged, pro-criminal leftist, but one with undue influence thanks to school officials like the ones in San Francisco.

Though in fairness, local parents also had a role in Woke Kindergarten receiving a whopping $250,000 contract from the school.

Woke Kindergarten is a self-described "global, abolitionist early childhood ecosystem and visionary creative portal supporting children, families, educators, and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-black and queer and trans liberation."

The woke program attempts to provide so-called "anti-racism" lessons to elementary school teachers.

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Zeus Leonardo, a UC Berkeley education professor, claimed that the Woke Kindergarten agenda is not about indoctrinating children, "but making politics part of the framework of teaching."

However, teachers at Glassbrook say that the curriculum is "wrongly rooted in progressive politics and activism with anti-police, anti-capitalism, and anti-Israel messages mixed in with the goal of making schools safe, joyful and supportive for all children."

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The organization's website features a "woke wonderings" section that proposes radical ideas such as challenging the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, abolishing the police, eradicating borders, defunding all militaries, abolishing money, eliminating landlords, and diverting U.S. aid from Israel to rebuilding Palestine.

The Woke Kindergarten website has a "Woke Words of the Day" section that teaches young children about ceasefires, work strikes, anti-racism, and protesting.

The website features a guide called "So you made it to a protest! A sensory guide for kids." The guide for children has images of protests for "Free Palestine," Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, and prison abolition. The guide offers kids with advice on how to protest, such as "speaking your truth," wearing sunglasses and head coverings, and chanting. The guide has an image that reads: "Police do not keep us safe."

Unacceptable use of substandard metrics in policy decisions which mandate large reductions in animal-source foods

Abstract

Many recent very influential reports, including those from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Risk Factor Collaborators, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health, and the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, have recommended dramatic reductions or total exclusion of animal-source foods, particularly ruminant products (red meat and dairy), from the human diet. They strongly suggest that these dietary shifts will not only benefit planetary health but also human health. However, as detailed in this perspective, there are grounds for considerable concern in regard to the quality and transparency of the input data, the validity of the assumptions, and the appropriateness of the statistical modelling, used in the calculation of the global health estimates, which underpin the claimed human health benefits. The lessor bioavailability of protein and key micronutrients from plant-source foods versus animal-source foods was not adequately recognised nor addressed in any of these reports. Furthermore, assessments of bias and certainty were either limited or absent. Despite many of these errors and limitations being publically acknowledged by the GBD and the EAT-Lancet authors, no corrections have been applied to the published papers. As a consequence, these reports continue to erroneously influence food policy decisions and international dietary guidelines, such as the World Wildlife Fund's Livewell Diet, and the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023.

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