A bipartisan trio of NYC Councilmembers is demanding federal and metropolis investigations right into a woke Higher West Facet faculty the place fifth-graders pantomimed getting shot by police throughout a twisted dance routine.
“That is outrageous however unsurprising. Leftists have lengthy used our public faculties for political indoctrination, and that is one more new low,” Republican Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino mentioned within the wake of The Submit’s entrance web page story in regards to the efficiency at PS 075, The Emily Dickinson College.
Paladino referred to as for the federal Division of Training together with the Division of Justice to analyze NYC faculties. Neither company returned requests for remark.
The scholars had been dancing to the tune “Glory” by John Legend and rapper Frequent, whose lyrics seek advice from the Ferguson, Missouri, riots that erupted after white police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed black teen Michael Brown after he allegedly tried to grab the cop’s firearm.
The scholars collapsed to the bottom in unison to those lyrics: “That’s why we stroll by way of Ferguson with our fingers up/When it go down we girl and man up/They are saying, ‘Keep down,’ and we get up/Pictures, we on the bottom, the digicam panned up.”
Democratic Queens Councilmen Phil Wong and Republican Staten Island Councilman Frank Morano additionally referred to as for the Metropolis Council Training Committee to probe woke indoctrination in Massive Apple faculties in gentle of the incident.
“The Council’s Training Committee ought to study how political activism is making its method into our lecture rooms, as a result of this type of messaging solely undermines respect for the courageous women and men of regulation enforcement who hold our communities secure,” mentioned Wong, a member of that committee.
“The classroom needs to be a spot the place kids be taught to learn, write, suppose critically and respect each other, not the place they’re used as props to push a political agenda. Having 10- and 11-year-olds fake to be shot by police is as offensive as it’s irresponsible,” Morano mentioned.
The pinnacle of the Police Benevolent Affiliation — the nation’s largest police union representing over 21,000 NYPD officers — bashed the college for what it referred to as brainwashing college students to hate regulation enforcement.
“The saddest half is that these youngsters would possibly someday need assistance from a police officer, however they’ve been pumped so stuffed with hatred and worry that they’ll hesitate to succeed in out. Anti-police indoctrination in our faculties makes everybody much less secure,” PBA President Patrick Hendry mentioned.
Dad and mom on the faculty had been outraged and demanded accountability, and mentioned that this occasion wasn’t the primary time academics injected their virulent far left views into the classroom.
“What made this particularly regarding to me was the influence I noticed by myself daughter. She got here dwelling expressing emotions of guilt about being white and adopting anti-ICE and anti-Trump views, although discussions about ICE, immigration enforcement, or the president’s insurance policies had been by no means a part of our conversations at dwelling,” one enraged mother or father informed The Submit.
Extra reporting by Tina Moore.
