EXCLUSIVE: SPLC's 'far-left' 'anti-racism' curriculum found in classrooms as early as kindergarten: watchdog

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EXCLUSIVE: As the liberal activist organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) faces federal fraud charges, an education watchdog warns that the group continues to integrate its "far-left content and materials" into classrooms as early as kindergarten in more than 40 states across the U.S. Nicole Neily, president of Defending Education, which was once labeled an "extremist" group by SPLC, told Fox News Digital that "unbeknownst to parents, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been poisoning pupils’ minds around the country for years with its toxic curriculum." Defending Education published a new exposé detailing how an SPLC education program called "Learning for Justice" (formerly "Teaching Tolerance") has been integrated into K-12 lesson plans and materials in 169 school districts in 42 states, plus Washington, D.C. According to the watchdog, the program reinforces "far-left cultural and political ideologies," including "anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, gender ideology and queer theory, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness, and transgenderism." Neily said that due to SPLC’s integration in schools, "issues such as queer theory, white privilege, and anti-racism have supplanted traditional coursework in history, social studies, and other core classes," which she said is "teaching children to view themselves and others through the lens of identity politics, and that America is forever stained by its original sin." CRITICS SAY K-12 ETHNIC STUDIES PUSH TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT CISHETERONORMATIVITY, BLACK PANTHER PARTY According to Neily, the materials "intentionally sow division and mistrust between students at a formative stage of their development," adding that "it is deeply disappointing that administrators and educators believe this is an appropriate use of finite classroom time and resources." The SPLC did not respond to requests for comment on Defending Education's report. The report reveals that SPLC’s website and documents can be found on school district w…