If Democrat-dominated public schools no longer teach children to read, write, and do math, it could be that educators have different goals.

The New York Post reports from California:

The Merced City School District in the Central Valley — one of the state’s lower-performing school districts based on test performances — has signed a $270,000 agreement with Fresno-based School Yard Rap, which describes its approach to learning as “edutainment.”

School Yard Rap founder Brandon Brown boasts that his edutainment “helps eradicate a lot of hate and ignorance in the country.” It does this with lyrics instructing kids that “History books have a white male skew.”

The contracts include a summer “Rap Camp” and an “African American Affinity Group,” which is only for 100 African American students, raising questions about whether the program complies with federal law. …

“It is illegal for the government to offer benefits solely on the basis of race,” Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said.

Never mind what’s illegal. The important thing is to affirm and promote the preferred culture. Refraining from teaching the three R’s will help achieve this objective.

Only about 13% of students meet math-proficiency benchmarks…

This is not a bug but a feature, when you are trying to grow an underclass dependent on welfare and therefore beholden to the Democratic Party.

On a tip from R F.