'rhode' Island’s ‘Kindness Curriculum’ Backfires: Schools Teach Kids to ‘Check Privilege’ Instead of Reading, Parents Outraged
In an alarming twist on progressive education, the Rhode Island Department of Education has quietly implemented a statewide “Kindness Curriculum” that critics say is less about fostering civility and more about indoctrinating children with radical social justice ideology. Leaked lesson plans for elementary students instruct them to “identify their own privilege” and “call out microaggressions” before they learn basic arithmetic. The move has sparked a firestorm of parental backlash, with many pulling their children from public schools in protest. Ethical critics warn that this is not community-building—it is social engineering. By weaponizing empathy into a tool for guilt and division, Rhode Island is raising a generation that values moral purity over genuine connection. The very fabric of civil society is now fraying from the classroom outward, proving that when kindness becomes compulsory, it ceases to be kind at all. The Rhode of our republic rests on whether parents can reclaim their children’s education from this dangerous experiment.