Last week the Atlanta public school system reiterated its support for a controversial partnership with the left-wing New Georgia Project (formerly headed by Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams), reaffirming its commitment to working exclusively with it to “educate” students and recruit them for political activism.
According to the NGP website, its mission “is to build power with and increase the civic participation of the new Georgia majority– Black, Latinx, AAPI and young Georgians.” And last month North Atlanta High School advertised that NGP would be on its campus registering students to vote. Yet when the conservative-leaning Greater Georgia group contacted the school and asked for the same access to support registration efforts, the school refused.
In explaining the refusal, the taxpayer-supported public school cited the existing partnership with the left-wing group and refused to allow Greater Georgia on campus to register students for the remainder of the school year.
“This development comes after Greater Georgia exposed a coordinated effort with APS and NGP to indoctrinate students with a radical ‘voting rights’ curriculum,’” Greater Georgia says in an email. “The lesson plans in ‘Democracy Class Atlanta’ are intended to ‘train up the state’s next generation of progressive champions.’ Students are encouraged to adopt partisan views based on organizers’ goals to convert these people into members, activists and organizers who show up with us on our campaigns.’”
“With over 2,000 students, North Atlanta High School is the largest public high school in Atlanta,” the Greater Georgia statement continues. “If they truly cared about civic engagement, school administrators would invite a range of groups to help register this tremendous number of future voters, instead of turning groups away,” said organization chair and former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler. “The truth is, Atlanta Public Schools are not interested in civics, or basic voter registration. Instead, they are working with the liberal New Georgia Project to indoctrinate and transform students into progressive activists. In their quest to turn Georgia blue, APS and NGP will silence those that don’t promote their ideology. Every parent deserves to know what is being taught to their kids – and reject the partisan indoctrination that is replacing real civics education.”
