{"id":8384,"date":"2026-01-09T18:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:49:19","slug":"social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u20135 Charter Schools, \u2018Social Justice First,\u2019 and Renee Nicole Good vs. the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8397 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Justice-Renee-Good.jpg\" alt=\"K\u20135 classroom where Social Justice slogans on the board crowd out basic reading, writing, and math lessons.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Justice-Renee-Good.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Justice-Renee-Good-500x263.jpg 500w, https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Justice-Renee-Good-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Social-Justice-Renee-Good-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>K\u20135 charter schools sound harmless until you see a mother choose a school that advertises her six\u2011year\u2011old will be raised with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15447429\/renee-nicole-good-anti-ice-warrior-minneapolis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social justice first<\/a>\u201d instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic.\u00a0When that same mother is anti\u2011ICE \u201cwarrior\u201d Renee Nicole Good, shot dead in a street confrontation with a federal agent, the lesson plan stops being theoretical and starts colliding with the law.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Social Justice has become a marketing slogan for K\u20135 charter schools that promise activism, equity, and \u201ccritical thinking\u201d long before kids can reliably read a full page on their own. When Renee Nicole Good proudly put her six\u2011year\u2011old into a school that boasts it puts \u201csocial justice first,\u201d she turned her family into a live\u2011action case study of what happens when <a href=\"https:\/\/southsidefamilyschool.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Justice lessons<\/a> grow up and run straight into badges, guns, and traffic laws.<span class=\"inline-flex\" aria-label=\"Renee-Nicole-Good.odt\" data-state=\"closed\">\u200b<\/span><span class=\"inline-flex\" data-state=\"closed\">\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/social-justice\/#K%E2%80%935_Charter_Schools_and_Social_Justice\">K\u20135 Charter Schools and Social Justice<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/social-justice\/#From_Social_Justice_Lessons_to_Street_Activism\">From Social Justice Lessons to Street Activism<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/social-justice\/#Protest_Rights_vs_Breaking_the_Law\">Protest Rights vs. Breaking the Law<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/social-justice\/#When_Social_Justice_Meets_the_Law\">When Social Justice Meets the Law<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/social-justice\/#Outro\">Outro<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<h4 class=\"mb-2 mt-4 font-display font-semimedium text-base first:mt-0\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"K%E2%80%935_Charter_Schools_and_Social_Justice\"><\/span>K\u20135 Charter Schools and Social Justice<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">K\u20135 charter schools like <a href=\"https:\/\/southsidefamilyschool.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southside Family Charter School<\/a> wrap Social Justice into their mission statements with promises of \u201ccritical thinking,\u201d \u201cpolitical and social activism,\u201d and \u201cadvocating for children and families.\u201d On paper it sounds noble, but when a school openly centers Social Justice for five\u2011 to eleven\u2011year\u2011olds before they have strong reading, writing, and math skills, it tells you what the adults value most in that classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, the U.S. does not dominate the basics the way it dominates the culture war. In the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/gpseducation.oecd.org\/CountryProfile?primaryCountry=USA&amp;treshold=10&amp;topic=PI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PISA<\/a> tests of 15\u2011year\u2011olds, American students scored about average in mathematics, while other education systems outperformed them by wide margins. Even in reading and science, where U.S. scores are slightly above the international average, countries like Singapore, Korea, and Japan still leave American students behind.<\/p>\n<p>So when a K\u20135 charter school advertises Social Justice, political activism, and equity work as the center of its mission, it is doing that on top of a system where too many kids still struggle with <a href=\"https:\/\/schoolboardleader.com\/global-study-sheds-light-on-u-s-student-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">basic math and literacy<\/a>. Turning elementary classrooms into training grounds for causes instead of locking down fundamentals looks a lot less noble once you remember how far American students already lag behind the top performers in the world.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"mb-2 mt-4 font-display font-semimedium text-base first:mt-0\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_Social_Justice_Lessons_to_Street_Activism\"><\/span>From Social Justice Lessons to Street Activism<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Renee Nicole Good was not just a Minneapolis mom; she was part of an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/08\/us-news\/renee-nicole-good-was-minneapolis-ice-watch-warrior-who-trained-to-resist-feds-before-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICE Watch<\/a>\u201d network that trained activists on how to monitor and resist federal immigration enforcement. Media accounts and sympathetic organizers describe her as a \u201cwarrior\u201d who believed confronting ICE in the street was a moral duty, not a fringe hobby.<\/p>\n<p>On the day she died, Good had just dropped her six\u2011year\u2011old son at the social\u2011justice charter school before joining a <a href=\"https:\/\/dallasexpress.com\/national\/renee-good-anti-enforcement-agitator-ties-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planned confrontation<\/a> with ICE on a Minneapolis street. Video and official descriptions show vehicles stopped in the roadway, cameras rolling, and Good positioning herself between the agent\u2019s car and the open lane while her allies filmed the encounter.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"mb-2 mt-4 font-display font-semimedium text-base first:mt-0\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Protest_Rights_vs_Breaking_the_Law\"><\/span>Protest Rights vs. Breaking the Law<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Minnesota, like every state, protects the right to protest in public spaces, but that right does not include shutting down traffic whenever a cause feels urgent. Even the ACLU\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-mn.org\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/protestrights.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protest guide<\/a> for Minnesota admits that a protest which blocks vehicular or pedestrian traffic without a permit is illegal and exposes people to arrest, no matter how passionate the message is.<\/p>\n<p>State law goes further when officers are on scene. Minnesota Statute <a href=\"https:\/\/getshek.com\/criminal-defense\/obstructing-legal-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">609.50<\/a> makes it a crime to \u201cobstruct, resist, or interfere\u201d with a peace officer who is performing official duties. The same statute lets prosecutors bump the charge up to a felony if the conduct creates a risk of death or serious bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal defense attorneys in Minnesota spell this out with very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssdpa.com\/blog\/minnesota-statute-6095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simple examples<\/a>. Standing in the way of an officer, ignoring lawful commands, or physically blocking a vehicle can all be treated as obstruction of legal process, not \u201cpeaceful protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"mb-2 mt-4 font-display font-semimedium text-base first:mt-0\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"When_Social_Justice_Meets_the_Law\"><\/span>When Social Justice Meets the Law<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">When Social Justice education leaves the safety of the classroom and spills into the street, the grading rubric changes from feelings to force. A mother who sends her child to a \u201csocial justice first\u201d charter school and spends her free time confronting ICE in traffic is no longer just debating ideas; she is testing her ideology against statutes, squad cars, and officers with lethal authority.<\/p>\n<p>Renee Nicole Good\u2019s confrontation with an ICE agent did not happen in a vacuum. It followed years of Social Justice messaging that paints law enforcement as an enemy to be blocked, filmed, and \u201cresisted,\u201d instead of as an authority with the power to arrest or shoot when things go sideways.<\/p>\n<p>When Social Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/halbergdefense.com\/protesting-laws.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tells activists<\/a> that disrupting traffic and surrounding officers is \u201cdoing what\u2019s right,\u201d it skips the part where metal, momentum, and human fear can collide in the middle of the road.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prose dark:prose-invert inline leading-relaxed break-words min-w-0 [word-break:break-word] prose-strong:font-medium [&amp;_&gt;*:first-child]:mt-0\">\n<h4 class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Outro\"><\/span>Outro<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">When a mother decides that Social Justice activism comes before the three R\u2019s, before basic manners, and before teaching a six\u2011year\u2011old to respect the law, that choice lands on the child long after she is gone. Teaching a first\u2011grader that \u201cresisting\u201d police and immigration officers matters more than learning to read, write, and sit still in class starts to look less like virtue and more like moral negligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Southside Family Charter School and its peers are not neutral in that equation; they sign up to be institutional partners in turning elementary classrooms into training camps for street politics instead of places where children master the basics they actually need. Their \u201csocial justice first\u201d branding tells parents exactly where academics rank on the priority list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">The Progressive fantasy that blocking traffic is \u201cspeech\u201d instead of intimidation ignores what it feels like to be trapped in a car with kids while strangers pound on the doors and windshield. Most drivers are not looking for a fight; they are trying to get home without becoming internet content or a courtroom defendant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Yet again and again, panicked motorists find themselves charged while professional protesters treat highways and city streets as their private stage. They gamble with everybody else\u2019s safety as if it were free, confident that video clips and sympathetic headlines will cover the tab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">Renee Nicole Good chose that culture when she signed her son into a \u201csocial justice first\u201d school and then drove into a street confrontation with a federal agent. She was not ambushed on a sidewalk; she drove into a situation built on the belief that her cause outranked everybody else\u2019s safety and the law\u2019s clear limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:pb-2\">In the end, she fought the law the same way she had been taught to fight ICE and border enforcement, and the law did what it always does when ideology collides with metal, fear, and momentum in the middle of the street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewneo.com\/2026\/01\/09\/minnesota-hub-of-the-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No wonder Rebecca \u2013 Good\u2019s spouse \u2013 later blamed herself for Good\u2019s death<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I made her come down here; it\u2019s my fault,\u201d Rebecca said, her face covered in blood after having attempted to help Renee. \u201cThey just shot my wife.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Similar Topics<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/category\/progressivism\/\">Progressivism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/category\/immigration\/\">Immigration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/category\/woke\/\">\u2018Woke\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; K\u20135 charter schools sound harmless until you see a mother choose a school that advertises her six\u2011year\u2011old will be raised with \u201csocial justice first\u201d instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic.\u00a0When that same mother is anti\u2011ICE \u201cwarrior\u201d Renee Nicole Good, shot dead in a street confrontation with a federal agent, the lesson plan stops being &#8230; <a title=\"K\u20135 Charter Schools, \u2018Social Justice First,\u2019 and Renee Nicole Good vs. the Law\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/social-justice\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about K\u20135 Charter Schools, \u2018Social Justice First,\u2019 and Renee Nicole Good vs. the Law\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52,245,88,57,110,232,66,273,115,105],"tags":[246,90,114,233,55],"class_list":["post-8384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woke","category-metoo","category-2026-midterms","category-child-grooming","category-democratic-party","category-famous-american-women","category-immigration","category-progressivism","category-rule-of-law","category-transgender","category-trump","tag-2026-midterms","tag-child-grooming","tag-democrats","tag-immigration","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8400,"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmismusingstech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}