PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL GROUP PROVIDES WHITE PRIVILEGE TRAINING TO TEXAS SCHOOL TEACHERS:

School districts spending millions on ‘white privilege’ training for teachers

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

BY STEVE GUNN

SAN FRANCISCO – There’s no question that the Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco-based education consulting company, is a successful for-profit enterprise.

It’s a standing tribute to American capitalism, and the success that entrepreneurs of all races can experience in a free market economy.

Of course PEG’s overt mission is to improve educational opportunities for black and other minority children.

The company sells the notion that the American education system is unfairly based on traditional white cultural norms (white privilege in schools) to the benefit of white students and the detriment of minorities.

The product it sells to schools involves training for teachers and other staff members, so they can better understand and relate to the needs of minority students.

One might assume that PEG’s founder and president, Glenn Singleton, who is a black man, wants better instruction for minority kids so they can follow his path and become successful participants in the American economy.

Yet PEG has working relationships with a number of radical progressive academics who condemn American capitalism and society in general.

These academics seem intent on convincing minority students that the education system, and American society in general, are biased against them. Instead of motivating students for success, they seem like they want to convince them they are victims of an unjust society that requires radical transformation.

A capitalist company challenges capitalism

The fact that PEG takes advantage of the free enterprise system to make a lot of money is beyond dispute.

EAGnews.org recently surveyed a small sampling of school districts that contracted with PEG during the 2014-15 school year, to determine how much they paid for the consulting services.

Eighteen school districts reported paying PEG a combined $1.56 million in that one year. Seven of those districts paid the company six figures:

Lawrence, Kansas – $125,575

Osseo, Minnesota – $208,800

Bellevue, Washington – $153,600

Pittsburgh – $123,324

Baltimore County, Maryland – $138,930

Corvallis, Oregon – $105,055

St. Paul, Minnesota – $369,828

That’s a pretty significant haul for PEG, in and of itself. Then consider that PEG listed 183 districts across the nation as clients on its website last year. If they all pay similar amounts to the districts in our survey, PEG may be a very profitable enterprise, indeed.

Yet PEG has used speakers at its national conferences who condemn the ideals of private property and profit, and dismiss the notion that minority students (like Singleton once was) can work hard and succeed on their own.

One keynote speaker at the PEG’s Summit for Courageous Conversations back in 2009 was Antonia Darder, a professor who has worked at several American universities. She once gave a speech entitled “The Neoliberal Restructuring of Cities, Education Policy, and Possibilities for Social Transformation Through a Marxist Lens.”

Darder clearly has a dark view of capitalism and its impact on the nation and world.

“We must remove the blinders and see capitalism as the generator of scarcity,” she wrote in The Critical Pedagogy Reader. “Seldom do we find with the resounding praises paid to technology a discussion of how technology revolutions have exposed the wretchedness of capitalism – millions of people dying from starvation alongside unprecedented wealth.”

Another speaker at the 2009 summit was Gloria Ladson-Billings, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She clearly has a passion for using the classroom to indoctrinate students in leftist activism.

“This aspect of culturally relevant teaching links it closely with a critical pedagogy that argues for students and teachers alike to participate in a collective struggle,” she wrote in a published paper. “Thus, students must be challenged to ask questions about the ways that whole groups of people are systematically excluded from social benefits.”

A speaker at the 2013 PEG Summit was Sonia Nieto, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who seems to share Ladson-Billings’ point of view.

“Despite their invisibility, questions about equity and social justice are at the core of education,” Nieto wrote in one of her books. “As such, education is always a political undertaking.”

Another speaker at the 2013 conference was educator and author Lisa Delpit. According to an article published by The Nation, Delpit is known for “introducing math concepts through problems with cultural resonance for disadvantaged kids, such as calculating the probability that the police will stop-and-frisk a black male, as compared to a white male.”

All four of the previously mentioned speakers are supporters of Bill Ayers, a Marxist educator and former member of the radical domestic terrorist group Weather Underground, which was accused of blowing up U.S. government buildings.

Ayers is a leading proponent of using the education system to recruit new radical activists.

“We share the belief that education is the motor force of revolution,” Ayers was quoted as saying in a 2006 speech to the World Economic Forum in Caracus, Venezuela.

In 2008, when then presidential candidate Barack Obama was being questioned by the media regarding his longtime friendship with Ayers, Ladson-Billings, Darder, Nieto and Delpit all signed a petition in support of Ayers, according to writer Kevin Groenhagen.

“We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack,” the petition reportedly said.

Those speakers, and many others, are brought to PEG conference to speak directly to teachers and administrators – the people who educate America’s children on a day-to-day basis.

What sort of message are those local educators receiving? That they should be pushing children to overcome barriers so they can soar in America’s free enterprise system, like Glenn Singleton did?

Or are they told they should be sharing a message of victimization, anger and alienation to struggling minority students throughout the nation?

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COMMENTS:

FIRST....start w/all of you parents out there FUNDING their kids' education at the universities of higher learning......Why all the garbage courses that have infiltrated the freshman (oops....not sure if I can say fresh"man") year? WHITE privilege out the wazoo....

If you are a parent, please ensure your kids are WORKING while in 8-12th grade....also, have them work during college. There are several of us out there that did some of that and did not hold the line while our kids were at university. JUST FREE ADVICE.

Our students really don't have a clue about paying for THEIR education. Just ask any BERNIE voter.

Because the parents of some of these students are radical liberals.

Not to mention the Professors are Radical Liberals....

Exactly, but you can innoculate your kids against the Socialist/Communist crap before they get to school age. That is where I feel parents are failing today. Kids need to know that nothing comes for free, and that as an American, the rest of us expect that they learn in school, and get an education which will support them and their families. Education prior to the system is key...

Regards

Impossible...they have the worldview of your children by Kindergarten--- (Lenin stated he only needed children for FOUR years--and we give them over 12 years) Heather has two mommies worldview--cr*p put into minds of 5 year olds to destroy Reason/and Natural Instincts (Common Sense)---to warp their perceptions of male/female for the NWO (where mother and father don't exist--State is god and mommy and daddy.

John Dewey and the Humanists/sodomites knew to get children into irrational (group (non) think) institutions, that peer pressure (herd instincts) would overtake all the common sense learned in the real life (family) interactions----sitting for 7 hours or more in artificial institutions which program--through social engineering will, in fact, flip Good and Evil and destroy the only rational religion (Christianity--The Age of Reason/US Constitution) in the history of mankind and reduce the kids to little irrational sodomite/Marxists who believes Up is Down, Slavery is Freedom and Vice is Virtue. (It is the embedding of Marxist.Freudian Lens being FORCED on all children starting with satanic cartoons and "preschool". Desires and belief system is now instilled by the sodomite/Marxists in our children if they are in public indoctrination systems and watch satanic programs.

That is why we homeschooled ours.

Susan, don't give up the good fight.

There are really ways to protect the kids today.

Some of them are so silly and simple that you will laugh at me.

Do you remember the "Little Red Hen" kids story?

There are more kids stories which teach sound values, Christian Values, and smart thinking. The key is making sure that the kid gets a dose of that type of rationale every week. Hard to do, I'll admit, but not impossible. There are still great kids out there, they just need parents who brook no nonsense, and are stern in the values they expect their child to have. Don't give up!

The stated purpose of this organization is this:  "PEG transforms educational systems into racially conscious and socially just environments. Our solutions nurture the spirit and infinite potential of all learners, especially students of color and their families."

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