Fox News Digital obtained leaked lessons from a first-year education course in Illinois, and the content will leave you disgusted.
While President Donald Trump’s 2024 election was widely hailed as a death blow to DEI, it would appear that leftist influence in education is still alive and well. Thanks to leaked PowerPoint slides provided to Fox News Digital by a student whistleblower, everyone can see the left-wing talking points on hot-button political issues being pushed in the EDUC 201 “Identity and Difference in Education” course at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
The outlet specifically made note of the week 15 material, called “Living in Uncertainty: Understanding Immigrant, Migrant, & Refugee Student Populations.” It reportedly contained “25 slides promoting leftist talking points on immigration. The course is taught by Professor Gabriel Rodriguez in the school’s college of education.”
“The first slide features a photo of a person holding a sign at a demonstration that reads, ‘No human being is illegal,'” the report reads. “The fifth slide is called ‘Language Matters,’ and polices students’ language about immigration and immigrants.”
“Embrace using humanizing language when talking about immigrant communities that don’t have documentation – consider using the language of ‘undocumented,'” one slide reportedly says.
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“Using terms like ‘illegal immigrants,’ ‘illegal aliens,’ or ‘illegals'” is harmful, the slide says, explaining that using those terms is “dehumanizing and degrading,” that they reinforce existing negative stereotypes about immigrant communities and connect immigration with criminality, that they fuel perspectives that immigrants have no rights and that they facilitate “scapegoating communities for larger systemic issues.”
ADVERTISEMENTExplaining the difference between immigrants and refugees, the presentation insists, without making the distinction between illegal and legal immigrants, that, “Immigrants migrate to pursue better opportunities (e.g., work, education).” Refugees flee other countries to avoid “persecution, conflict, or violence.”
The informational slides even quote PBS News claim that there are only 13.7 million illegal aliens in the United States, and indicate a significant increase following 2019. Coincidentally, this was when former President Joe Biden was elected, and his poor handling of the border, coupled with his significant cognitive decline, was a driving factor in President Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection.
“Between 2007-2019, number of undocumented immigrants held steady at around 11 million, but since then the numbers have increased by almost 3 million,” the slide reads.
Another slide titled “Shifting Support for Immigrant/Refugee Student Populations in Schools” pushes a series of headlines indicating that stricter immigration policies, such as those being enacted by the Trump administration, have a negative impact on students and academic performance.
“The slide reinforces that the anti-immigrant/refugee climate increases discriminatory practices, makes students feel unsafe and increases absenteeism, among other negative ramifications,” Fox News reported.
At one point, the slides specifically address Trump, including a screenshot of Rodriguez’s study referencing “White supremacy and xenophobia brought on by … Trump.” He even quotes one of his own study subjects, an “undocumented Latinx student” named Jose, to push the narrative that students are too fearful of deportation to study properly.
“I can’t think of any other time when my grades have mattered the most than after this election,” reads a quote credited to the student. “If anything happens to me at least I have good grades, [to] build on my case. Maybe if I’m excellent they won’t kick me out. The fear is so real. Right now, we don’t know what’s going to happen. My parents tell me, ‘Do well in school.’ So really, I’m worth a grade right now. I want to excel in academics. Hopefully, I’m one of the good ones.”
Additional slides instruct students on dealing with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at schools and “Internalized Oppression.”
One student indicated that it was clear that the instructor wanted them to take these lessons into their own future classrooms.
“So in the lectures, my professor would constantly say, ‘you as educators, you as future educators, you need to do this, you need to know this,'” said the student, who remains anonymous. “That’s one thing that he says, just over and over, like ‘we as future educators,’ kind of reminding us like, oh, we need to use this when we go to teach later on.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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