A woke educator at elite Brooklyn Technical HS is “brainwashing” youngsters by swapping classes on Steinbeck and Hemingway for tomes on gender fluidity and anti-Israel propaganda, outraged dad and mom advised The Put up.
The parental complaints about Tenth-grade English Language Arts trainer David Whitman comes as antisemitism considerations warmth up on the Fort Greene faculty for presented college students. Simply final week a swastika was discovered etched into the chalkboard of a Brooklyn Tech classroom, a college supply advised The Put up.
Unable to take away the hateful carving, staffers hid it with a bunny sticker.
“With course curriculum that’s biased towards the Jewish neighborhood, it’s no shock {that a} swastika would present up on the faculty,” United Jewish Academics President Moshe Spern advised The Put up.
Whitman’s curriculum reads like a woke indoctrination guide with required tomes corresponding to “Humorous Boy” — the story of a female Sri Lankan boy “attempting to interact his truest self” — and a worksheet entitled “The Splendor of Gender Fluidity in Africa.”
“Colonialism has performed a serious function in exporting homophobia, transphobia and extra throughout the African continent and its diaspora,” the textual content scolds.
The one basic on the studying checklist is Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” however even that’s studied with a woke method.
“The play is interpreted via a post-colonial lens on account of its themes of indigenous subjugation, particularly the enslavement of the island’s native inhabitant Caliban,” Whitman’s syllabus declares.
One other assigned studying was a 2023 New York Occasions column referred to as “The Eight Genders of the Talmud,” which argues that the traditional Jewish commentary on the Torah promotes transgenderism.
“Maybe unknown to many who observe Judaism right this moment, our most sacred texts replicate a multiplicity of gender,” Rabbi Elliot Kukla wrote within the op-ed, which Orthodox Jewish students strongly refuted.
Each dad and mom and college students had been aghast by the lefty lesson plans, which they stated defies President Trump’s 2025 govt order banning federal funds from supporting the educating of “gender ideology.” NYC faculties get about $2 billion in federal cash yearly, based on the DOE.
“Schooling turns into indoctrination when a trainer replaces info with ideology and pushes private bias disguised as studying. He doesn’t have permission to brainwash my little one,” one mum or dad advised the Put up.
Added former Brooklyn Tech mum or dad and Citywide Council on Excessive Faculties member Linda Quarles: “[Whitman] clearly has an ideology they’re attempting to push on the youngsters. The youngsters don’t prefer it, they don’t want it.”
And college students on the Tech — considered one of solely 9 specialised NYC excessive faculties for presented college students — agreed.
“It’s extraordinarily boring, tedious and redundant,” on scholar advised The Put up.
A part of the course’s classes on colonialism embrace films and books on the Israeli-Palestinian battle, all from the Palestinian perspective, with zero pro-Israeli works provided on the syllabus, dad and mom stated.
College students should watch the movie “No Different Land,” an Oscar-winning documentary in regards to the Israeli Protection Forces clearing out properties within the Palestinian Masafer Yatta settlements in an effort to construct a brand new army coaching floor.
Jewish dad and mom fear the one-sided narrative will radicalize college students towards Israel and Jews and will put a goal on their youngsters’ backs.
Dad and mom have raised the problem to the college’s principal and vice principal, however they are saying their considerations have been dismissed.
“As public educators, we’re delicate to the truth that there are a lot of completely different backgrounds, views, and experiences in our courses, and we’re all conscious that we as educators can’t share our private political stances with our college students,” Brooklyn Tech Assistant Principal Jess Rhoades Bonilla wrote in an October electronic mail to oldsters.
After The Put up reached out for remark, Bonilla advised dad and mom this week the film would “more than likely not be screened,” a supply stated.
“Whereas we’ve not heard of any complaints at this faculty concerning content material round gender, the principal of this faculty has labored hand in hand with involved dad and mom to handle points they’ve raised in different cases,” a Division of Schooling spokesperson advised The Put up.
“That’s bulls–t. We had a gathering with the principal and the principal didn’t take part in any respect. He stated he didn’t even know the subject for the assembly . . . I undoubtedly don’t suppose they care about our considerations,” a mum or dad advised The Put up.
Whitman and Bonilla didn’t reply to requests for remark by The Put up.
