Dr. Carol Swain says BLM 'week of action' curriculum is destructive to the black community

Political Scientist Dr. Carol M. Swain, a former Vanderbilt and Princeton University professor, blasted the new Black Lives Matter curriculum that public schools are teaching across the country.

"The curriculum put forth by Black Lives Matter and being embraced in too many places is really destructive of the black community and the black family and racial justice," said Swain on the Laura Ingraham Show.

Public schools across the United States are embracing Black Lives Matter's 'week of action.' The BLM created curriculum included a set of 'guiding principles.' A few examples of these principles included; disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure, fostering a queer?affirming network free of heteronormative thinking, and doing the work required to dismantle cis-gender privilege.

"It doesn’t help Black people," Swain said on Fox News. "It doesn’t help white people. It doesn’t help America. And I would strongly encourage everyone who cares about education to go to the Black Lives Matter website and learn more about them and their principles, because there's nothing there that advances our society in a way that's beneficial."

Thousands of educators over twenty cities are participating in the Black Lives Matter 'week of action,' which first originated in Seattle, WA back in 2016.

Swain took a particular issue with the transgender and queer affirming curriculum.

"It talks about queer-affirming culture, transgenderism. And you think about how can that be a guiding principle that's productive for our children?" she asked Laura Ingraham.

"And one thing that really disturbs me is -- this is not a principal but one of their goals is zero tolerance for discipline," she said. "The last thing the Black community needs in schools is a situation where there is no discipline. Part of the problem that affects the community is the disrespect for authority. That is why there's so much turmoil in the Black community."

The 'BLM at School' website lists a set of demands that included; "end 'zero tolerance' discipline and implement restorative justice, hire more black teachers, mandate Black history and ethnic studies in K-12 curriculum, and fund counselors not cops." The group emphasized, "These demands will begin to insure safety and equity in our schools."