How the Pentagon wants to cancel Thanksgiving and teach military kids that America is 'stolen land'

Campaigners person uncovered worrying school materials for nan Pentagon's 160 subject schools that galore work members whitethorn spot arsenic unpatriotic and moreover scary.

Training manuals for its 8,000 teachers counsel that Thanksgiving feasts person nary humanities ground and that America was founded connected onshore 'stolen' from natives.

Though uncontroversial for some, Adam Andrzejewski, who uncovered nan documents via nationalist records requests, calls it a 'perverse' measurement to thatch kids of work members.

His revelations travel arsenic Republicans and Democrats conflict successful nan Senate complete LGBTQ+ troops and different controversies successful nan $886 cardinal defense bill.

Andrzejewski, caput of nan blimpish watchdog OpenTheBooks.com, described a 'secret push wrong nan Pentagon's K-12 nationalist schools to institute extremist ideologies' successful classrooms.

'Encouraging kids to spot analyzable identities up of their shared American ideals is peculiarly shocking erstwhile it's happening to subject families,' he told DailyMail.com.

'It's a perverse measurement to attack children of work members who are deployed astir nan world defending American ideals and principles.'

The military's acquisition wing, DODEA, which runs schools crossed 7 states, 11 overseas countries, Guam and Puerto Rico, declined to remark connected nan report.

Its yearly $2.26 cardinal fund educates immoderate 64,000 students and pays nan salaries of 14,000 employees.

OpenTheBooks.com asked nan Pentagon for copies of acquisition and training materials related to its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program.

Department of Defense educators replied pinch a scope of its texts, including Coaching for Equity by nan California-based consultant, Elena Aguilar.

Aguilar's 416-page book tells teachers that America was founded connected 'stolen lands' done nan 'genocide' of autochthonal people.

On nan yearly Thanksgiving celebration, she writes that location is 'little grounds this humanities feast really occurred' successful nan Plymouth area successful nan early 1600s.

But location is 'plenty of grounds of nan massacres that nan achromatic settlers perpetrated connected nan autochthonal peoples,' she adds.

'History has been sanitized, and nan brutality of colonialism has been erased,' says her school guide.

'This perpetuates nan powerfulness of achromatic supremacy.'

DailyMail.com asked DODEA if nan matter was utilized by each teachers, and whether it reflects charismatic Pentagon thinking, but did not get a response.

Spokesman Will Griffin alternatively referred to nan 'caring, supportive environment' astatine subject schools, their 'culture of precocious achievement' and their 'dedicated educators and resilient, hardworking' students.

Andrzejewski's 16-page study specifications different arguable school guides that shape nan ground of lessons successful classrooms connected subject bases.

They see Ibram Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist, Comprehensive Health Skills for Middle School, and instruction plans by nan left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

The wellness book advances nan conception that biologic activity and gender are abstracted — a constituent that is celebrated among transgender activists but is contested by conservatives and experts successful nan field.

SPLC lessons promote students to go organization activists, and to unit businesses and politicians to execute 'social justice' for minorities, says nan report.

Classroom materials besides see nan notorious 'Wheel of Power/Privilege.'

The widely-shared sketch presents nan world arsenic divided betwixt nan 'marginalized' and nan 'powerful,' pinch slim, educated, English-speaking, consecutive achromatic group astatine nan top.

Students besides study astir 'racial bias,' 'systemic racism,' 'privilege,' and different ideas aligned to nan Black Lives Matter movement.

Taken individually, these materials whitethorn beryllium unproblematic.

But Andrzejewski says they person overwhelmed subject schools and magnitude to nan 'indoctrination' of nan kids of those serving successful uniform.

It's not nan first clip Pentagon educators person travel nether fire.

Its DEI portion was disbanded past twelvemonth nether unit from Republican lawmakers amid allegations that its then-director, Kelisa Wing, made anti-white posts connected societal media.

Andrzejewski says educators still thatch nan aforesaid arguable subjects, but support it nether nan radar.

Many parents support efforts to tackle deep-rooted racism.

Others opportunity America has worked difficult to execute equality and that zealots conscionable want to make achromatic group consciousness blameworthy arsenic a type of 'reverse racism.'

Teachers successful subject schools person spoken retired against nan 'Marxist direction' that acquisition chiefs are touting, according to a Fox News article that does not sanction nan teachers.

They complained astir 'wokeism' successful school materials that for 1 amounted to 'Chinese indoctrination.'

Senators are presently debating civilization warfare issues arsenic portion of nan yearly transition of nan National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The latest type of nan measure would prohibition nan US subject from covering surgeries for transgender troops, and bar its wellness strategy from providing cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers and different activity alteration procedures to subject kids.