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NYC Middle School Teacher Encourages Students to Engage in Political Violence: ‘Throw’ Bricks ‘At The People’ With Opposing Views • Ariane Franco, Middle School English Teacher, NYC Department of Education: “This is what I told my students. I was like, ‘Guys, there’s strategic ways to do this [protest].’ You want to…I brought up [a] crazy organization that have done this. Like, they chose which places to throw bricks in. They chose -- and they didn’t do it in their own neighborhood…They didn’t do it to black and brown communities. Doing it to our own community does not make sense.” • Franco: “You got to go after the people who it’s not directly affecting…Throw it [brick] at the people that are actually doing the things that [need to] change.” • Franco: “I tell them -- my kids -- we don’t stand up for the Pledge [of Allegiance]. We do the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, you know, but we keep going on our business. It was a class decision at the beginning of the school year: ‘They’re not talking about me, so I’m not standing up,’ you know?” • Franco: “At one point, when I first started challenging it [the Pledge of Allegiance], I had my kids change the words…It was something like -- I think we added at the end, ‘And we will fight for those who this does not address,’ or something like that. We added to [it] because it’s like, ‘And liberty and justice for all, and we will fight until that is true.’” • Franco: The students and I “would kneel” during the Pledge of Allegiance. [NEW YORK – Sept. __, 2022] Project Veritas released a fourth video in its newly launched Education Series today exposing a public school teacher. Ariane Franco, who teaches English to NYC middle school students, was recorded admitting how she advises teenagers to engage in violence against those who stand in the way of her political agenda. “This is what I told my students. I was like, ‘Guys, there’s strategic ways to do this [protest].’ You want to…I brought up [a] crazy organization that have done this. Like, they chose which places to throw bricks in. They chose -- and they didn’t do it in their own neighborhood…They didn’t do it to black and brown communities. Doing it to our own community does not make sense,” Franco said. “You got to go after the people who it’s not directly affecting…Throw it [brick] at the people that are actually doing the things that [need to] change.” The teacher said the Pledge of Allegiance is not respected in her classroom: Franco: Like, I tell them -- my kids -- we don’t stand up for the Pledge [of Allegiance]. We do the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, you know, but we keep going on our business. Veritas Journalist: Yeah, yeah. Franco: It was a class decision at the beginning of the school year. They’re not talking about me, so I’m not standing up, you know? At one point, when I first started challenging it [the Pledge of Allegiance], I had my kids change the words. Veritas Journalist: Oh wow. How did it go? Franco: I can’t remember. It was something like -- I think we added at the end, ‘And we will fight for those who this does not address,’ or something like that. We added to [it] because it’s like, ‘And liberty and justice for all, and we will fight until that is true.’ … Franco: I used to kneel [for the Pledge of Allegiance] when it first -- when BLM -- like when the BLM- Veritas Journalist: You used to what, now? Franco: I used to kneel. Veritas Journalist: Kneel in the class? Franco: I mean, I couldn’t go all the way, but I would kneel- Veritas Journalist: Would the students do it, too? Franco: Yeah!

James O'Keefe joins Megyn Kelly to discuss the wave of new undercover videos exposing corruption in the education system. O'Keefe breaks down the first three parts of #TheSecretCurriculum series exposing school administrators for their discriminatory hirings practices, political bias, and troubling statements towards their students.

NYC Assistant Principal Becomes Second School Official to Reveal Discriminatory Hiring Practices, Child Indoctrination Strategy … If Candidates Answer ‘Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Question’ Incorrectly ‘They Are Just an Automatic Not Hire’ • Todd Soper, Grade K-4 Assistant Principal, Neighborhood Charter Schools, NYC Department of Education: “We have very specific questions, and ultimately our Diversity-Equity-Inclusion question, our DEI question is -- it's very telling if somebody has done a lot of work within themself, within the profession…if people don’t answer that question right, they are just an automatic not hire.” • Soper: “If they [candidates] say that diversity is about -- if they say something that lends itself to be colorblind, which could happen, like, ‘Oh, it's like, you know, like everyone is equal.’ Those things that are well intentioned statements, but they're missing the depth of understanding of how the intersections of our identity live out in the world. So, that person wouldn’t get hired.” • Soper: “Our students’ lives matter based on the color of their skin, and how that intertwines into the context of the world. So, if you're not willing to embrace fully that aspect of our students -- and that means talking openly about race and talking about injustices in the world, then I don't know if you're going to be able to fully fulfill your [teacher] responsibilities.” • Soper: A teacher “didn’t want to teach Black Lives Matter” ideology to her students and left the school. “She would’ve probably been fired eventually just based off of mindset. But yeah, she left.” • Soper: “We have always and will continue to embrace diversity on all levels. So, the same way we embrace identities that are based off of ethnicity, skin tone and gender, we also embrace orientation…Like for kindergarten, for Pride month, we got -- every kid had a mirror and we talked about -- a read aloud about an animal, or about a boy that said he wanted to be a mermaid. It’s a way to start, like, ‘You should be whoever you feel like you should be.’ That was kind of the message of [the] read aloud.” • Soper: “It's delicate, right? So, in kindergarten and first grade, they [students] are five and six [years old] -- but I think we start with the umbrella theme of, ‘Embrace who you are. You have to love who you are, and each part of you is beautiful, whatever you feel.’ As kids get older and the idea of gender becomes more salient, which happens more towards fourth grade…the conversations deepen as the kids get older.”

Project Veritas' Media Relations Manager fields questions from NewsNation about Parts 1 and 2 of the recent #TheSecretCurriculum videos exposing school administrators from New York City and Connecticut. Stay tuned for PART 3 launching today!

Local Connecticut Fox affiliate, FOX61, makes LIVE On-Air retraction regarding their false statement that Project Veritas has been caught deceptively editing numerous times and have paid legal settlements for that false claim. These statements were then corrected on a live broadcast.

James O’Keefe gives Trinity School NY Director of Student Activities the opportunity to comment on undercover recordings which show her boasting about sneaking a political agenda into school activities while disparaging students based on their race.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong walks back condemnations of Project Veritas and launches Civil Rights investigation into Cos Cob Elementary School's (Greenwich, CT) Discriminatory Hiring Practices after release of The Secret Curriculum Part One

Kate Dias, President of the Connecticut Educator's Association, warns educators about the presence of Project Veritas in the state in a leaked internal email. In the email, Dias instructs educators to "Keep Meetings Closed" and to "ensure your members are the only people present." She further instructs educators to "not comment" on the Greenwich video released by Project Veritas earlier in the week, telling them, "Don't feed the beast." Dias did not answer the phone when Project Veritas attempted to reach out for comment.

Prestigious NYC Private School Director Touts ‘Sneaking’ Her Political ‘Agenda’ into Classrooms: ‘Disrupt Wherever I Can’ … ‘I Felt Like a Double Agent’ … ‘Huge Contingent’ of White Boys ‘Are Just Horrible’ • Jennifer Norris, Director of Student Activities, Trinity School NYC: “I just keep trying to disrupt wherever I can. And now that I'm in this position, I have so many opportunities to do that.” • Norris: “I don’t hide how I feel, but I can’t pretend I’m [not] promoting an agenda even though I clearly am with all the stuff I’m doing.” • Norris: “There’s always groups of teachers who want to do these [activist] things, but the administration just wouldn’t let us. So, we’ve been just sneaking things in [through] the cracks.” • Norris: “When I first started there [at Trinity School NYC], I hid my whole life. I felt like a double agent or something.” • Norris: “Unfortunately, it’s the white boys who feel very entitled to express their opposite opinions and just push back. There’s a huge contingent of them that are just horrible. And you’re like, ‘Are you always going to be horrible, or are you just going to be horrible right now?’ Don’t know…I think they need to go. I think they’re really awful people…They’re so protected by capitalism. It makes me sad.” • Norris: Trinity School NYC is “definitely a school where conservatives would not feel comfortable.” • Norris: “I’m in charge” and “I won’t” allow Republican perspectives on campus. “Not on my watch.” • Norris: “I talked to the [Trinity NYC high school] principal and I was like, ‘So, if I’m running this, I’m 100% democratic with the students. I will tell them the [speaker] options and they are voting.’ I’m not going to just be like, ‘These are our speakers for the year.’ I want to make sure the kids are engaged and care. So, I do put a lot of it on them, but I said, ‘There are some speakers I am not even going to put on the plate for them [students], and if that’s a problem, I cannot be in charge of that.’ And he [principal] was like, ‘No.’ He said, ‘This isn’t the time for both [political] sides.’ He said, ‘We’re not in that place in our society.’”

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