Students at a San Francisco Bay Area elementary school, where officials hired a for-profit company called “Woke Kindergarten” to train teachers, continue to struggle with some of the lowest scores, according to a report. in state math and reading.
The school spent $250,000 in federal funds provided by a program intended to help improve the test scores of some of the nation's lowest-performing schools, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, but after two years with “Woke Kindergarten,” student outcomes are supposedly worse. .
In a 4% drop in both areas over the past two years, less than 12% of students at Glassbrook Elementary School in Hayward, California, can read at grade level and less than 4% are proficient in mathematics, according to the Chronicle.
Hayward Unified School District Superintendent Jason Reimann told the Chronicle that hiring “Woke Kindergarten,” which he said was supported by parents and teachers after it was approved by the board, was more about increasing attendance than exam scores. He said attendance is up almost 20%.
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Since Hayward Elementary hired Woke Kindergarten to train teachers, test scores have dropped. (Jeffry W. Myers/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
He said, “Helping students feel safe and well-rounded is integral to academic achievement. I understand it's more money than we would have liked to spend.”
He added: “We are 100% in favor of abolishing the systems of oppression that hold our students back. What I do believe is that we should choose providers based on their work and their effectiveness.”
“Woke Kindergarten” describes itself on its website as “supporting children, families, educators, and organizations in their commitment to abolitionist early education and pro-Black, queer, and trans liberation.”
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The organization also has “Woke” words of the day like “ceasefire,” “abolish,” and “Woke Wonderings” about challenging the “legitimacy of the Supreme Court” and abolishing the police, money, and military.
Another “wonder” asked: “If the United States defunded the Israeli military, how could this money be used to rebuild Palestine?”
“Our reading scores are low,” a Glassbrook teacher, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Chronicle. The funds “could have gotten us a reading interventionist.”
Students line up to enter their kindergarten classroom. (Getty Images/Archive)
The teacher added about the “Woke Kindergarten” training: “It slowly became very apparent if you were a dissident voice that's not what they wanted to hear.”
Tiger Craven-Neeley, another teacher at the school, told the Chronicle that “Woke Kindergarten” coaches told him he should focus on “disrupting[ing] Whiteness” in the classroom.
“What does that mean?” she told the Chronicle. “I just want to know what that means for a third-grade classroom.”
Craven-Neeley, who said she supports discussing racism in the classroom, said her requests for clarification led to her being temporarily banned from attending training sessions.
He added that one of the trainers referred to the “so-called United States” in one of the sessions.
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The school district did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment Saturday night.
An email to “Woke Kindergarten” received an automated response that the founder was recovering from surgery.
