This is an adapted excerpt from Kenny Xu’s new book “School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them.”
When she arrived, Hilda Maldonado’s top priority was to entrench bilingual learning into the county’s curriculum, a program she had spent most of her career advocating for as part of her woke agenda. On March 22, 2021, she introduced the first of many proposed “dual language immersion” programs she would institute, starting in McKinley Elementary School. This program follows a “90:10 model,” in which kindergarteners are instructed 90 percent in Spanish and 10 percent in English; first graders are instructed 80 percent in Spanish and 20 percent in English; second graders are instructed 70 percent in Spanish and 30 percent in English; and so on. The slogan unveiled was: “Go slow to go fast.”
