{"id":1461341,"date":"2024-03-07T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1461341"},"modified":"2024-03-07T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T03:20:00","slug":"california-school-district-pays-children-1400-to-become-racial-and-social-justice-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/california-school-district-pays-children-1400-to-become-racial-and-social-justice-warriors\/1461341\/","title":{"rendered":"California School District Pays Children $1,400 To Become &#8216;Racial And Social Justice Warriors&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">California School District Pays Children $1,400 To Become &#8216;Racial And Social Justice Warriors&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The Long Beach Unified School district in California <strong>is funneling money to a progressive activist group <\/strong>which is paying students $1,400 each to become <strong>racial and social justice warriors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/https-3A-2F-2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2Fpublic-2Fimages-2F47c35f2e-83ef-4a23-bdfa-542a948c6df2_2400x1502.jpeg_80.jpg?itok=qaTelJ9k\"><em>Californians for Justice (CFJ) is using taxpayer money to reward high schoolers in Long Beach for learning \u201crestorative justice practices.\u201d (Photo illustration by The Free Press)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The district paid $900,000 for a one-year contract to Californians for Justice (CFJ), a &#8220;youth-powered&#8221; non-profit that pushes racial justice ideology on children, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/californians-for-justice-paid-1400-highschoolers\"><em>Free Press<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Of that, <strong>$60,200 was allocated <\/strong>to pay 33 students and 10 families or parents $1,400 each to participate in CFJ&#8217;s training programs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the contract, the program exists to &#8220;provide assistance to teachers, administrators and selected students in building strategies to support cultural understanding and change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-exclusively-obtained-free-press-77862008_80a.jpg?itok=kDRRJguZ\"><em>Facebook \/ Californians for Justice<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On CFJ&#8217;s website, the group claims to have &#8220;trained hundreds of youth of color in Long Beach to be community leaders and organizers,&#8221; adding that it &#8220;provides leadership development opportunities throughout the school year and summer to ensure our youth leaders gain the political education and valuable organizing skills they need to lead social justice movements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s so fun! You get paid good, you can have a fun time,&#8221; one of the students posted recently to Instagram.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Cxdie2BR3Ki\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Cxdie2BR3Ki\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View this post on Instagram<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Cxdie2BR3Ki\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Californians For Justice (@cal4justice)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A spokesman for the Long Beach School District framed the paid program as &#8220;internships&#8221; which are to ensure &#8220;equitable participation in CFJ programs, embracing diverse perspectives in education.&#8221; Quite diversity word salad there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teachers have serious concerns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four teachers from the Long Beach district voiced concern over the program, with one telling the<em> Free Press<\/em> that paying kids to participate is a &#8220;<strong>horrible propaganda strategy.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am shocked and horrified at such a fact,&#8221; another teacher told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, one of CFJ&#8217;s major donors is a descendant of Levi Strauss &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/californians-for-justice-education-fund\/\">Walter Haas fund<\/a>. Other donors include the Rockefellers, an the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>One major donor is a descendant of Levi Strauss, Walter Haas fund<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fsIlNiHVfs\">https:\/\/t.co\/fsIlNiHVfs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Real_Fly\/status\/1765762167473643698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the report, <strong>Long Beach has paid CFJ nearly $2 million since 2019<\/strong> to work with them. In 2021, the organization ran three professional development seminars in Long Beach high schools, during which participants were encouraged to embrace the role of &#8220;student voice,&#8221; and to &#8220;advance a district wide Equity Agenda&#8221; in conjunction with teachers and admins, the 2021-2022 contract read.<\/p>\n<p>Per the latest contract, CFJ will be hosting 15 more of these trainings during the 2023-2024 school year.<\/p>\n<p>One teacher told the <em>Free Press<\/em> on condition of anonymity that the workshops have become open forums for students to complain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The way that they are handing scripts to students, even the words coming out of the students\u2019 mouths it just feels like indoctrination and not information,&#8221; she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Another teacher, Jay Goldfischer, agreed &#8211; saying &#8220;They&#8217;re teaching them parroting,&#8221; adding &#8220;which is the exact opposite of how you empower children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CFJ defended itself <\/strong>in a statement to the <em>Free Press<\/em>, saying &#8220;Our agenda is not hidden and is simple: we want the Long Beach Unified School District to be a place where every student is represented honestly in classrooms and curricula, and where they are safe to be in critical dialogue supportive of democratic participation across differences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 03\/07\/2024 &#8211; 17:20<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/california-school-district-pays-children-1400-become-racial-and-social-justice-warriors\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/california-school-district-pays-children-1400-become-racial-and-social-justice-warriors<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California School District Pays Children $1,400 To Become &#8216;Racial And Social Justice Warriors&#8217; The Long Beach Unified School district in California is funneling money to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-68a1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}