Elementary school teachers in New York City are giving their students radically progressive lessons from a woke consultancy that offers an anti-Israel nursery rhyme.
Giuseppe Rebaudengo and Anna Battaglia, who teach third grade at PS 705 in Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, have written on social media about teaching materials from Woke Kindergarten, which calls itself a “global, abolitionist early childhood ecosystem & visionary creative portal.”
One lesson the firm developed after Hamas’s brutal October invasion of Israel reimagined the children’s song, “The Wheels on the Bus,” into a Palestinian resistance poem titled “The Wheels on the Tank.”
“The wheels on the tanks go round and round, all through the town,” the poem reads. “The people in the town they hold their ground, and never back down.”
The woke rewrite includes illustrations of Palestinian kids throwing rocks at Israeli tanks. Also embedded is the pro-Palestinian movement’s war cry calling for the destruction of Israel.
“The bombs in the air go whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, all through the skies,” the words continue. “From every river to every sea the people cry, cry, cry. Free Palestine till the wheels on the tanks fall off.”
Woke Kindergarten advertises kid-friendly language that discredits Israel as a “made up place” that has “settlers called Zionists who are harming and killing the Palestinian people,” the New York Post noted. Beyond peddling anti-Israel activism, Woke Kindergarten prides itself on inventing a new pedagogy that advocates gender confusion, kids protesting, the eradication of borders, as well as “pro-black and queer and trans liberation.” One section of the website said it wants to help kids become “little comrades.”
One of the Brooklyn teachers publicly thanked the consultancy company for providing her with ideas for her classroom curriculum.
“Thank you to @WokeKindergarten for your resources and voice on this matter,” Rebaudengo wrote on social media. “Your work has supported us in creating these series of lessons.”
Rebaudengo and Battaglia have a documented past of putting indoctrination above education.
“It is our duty as educators to ensure that our students, your children, our future, become social justice warriors working towards meaningful change in their community,” Rebaudengo wrote on Facebook in 2020, the Post reported.
In her LinkedIn bio, Battaglia admits that she believes it is her responsibility to spark conversations with kids, as young as eight years old in Brooklyn, about complicated and mature subjects such as race and gender.
Part of her work aims to “address the dynamics of oppression and privilege and recognizes that society is the product of historically rooted and socially constructed group lines that include intersections of race, class, and gender,” the bio reads.