#NYC schools teach BLM agenda inspired in part by Assata Shakur

Big Apple students are this week being taught a Black Lives Matter agenda inspired in part by a cop killer who is one of the FBI’s most wanted suspects.

City schools are joining others around the US in a Black Lives Matter at School “week of action” encouraging a “lifetime of practice” on 13 guiding principles, including being queer- and trans-affirming.

The BLM at School’s home page centers on one inspirational quote — from Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther who fled prison in 1979 where she was serving life for the execution-style murder of a New Jersey State Trooper.

Shakur — the godmother of late rapper Tupac Shakur and also known as Joanne Chesimard — is still wanted by the FBI with $1 million reward.

She was the first woman ever named as a “Most Wanted Terrorist” and is considered likely armed and dangerous.

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win,” Shakur is quoted in large letters on BLM at Schools’ homepage.

“We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains,” the quote continues.

The final sentence about “our chains” is a reference to a key line in “The Communist Manifesto,” written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Shakur “was part of a revolutionary extremist organization known as the Black Liberation Army” when NJ Trooper Werner Foerster was “shot and killed execution-style at point-blank range” at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973, the FBI said.

She was sentenced to life after being found guilty of first-degree murder, assault and battery of a police officer, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to kill, illegal possession of a weapon, and armed robbery. She fled her prison in 1979, eventually making it to Cuba where the FBI believes she likely still lives today.

New York City’s teachers’ union voted in November to endorse the BLM week, although teachers and principals are given wide berth in how they observe it.

The BLM at School group calls itself “a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education” demanding “justice.”

It has a list of demands, including ending “over-policing, out of control suspensions, and expulsions” at schools, mandating black history and ethnic studies lessons for grades K through 12, hiring more black teachers as well as counselors to replace cops.

As well as black-rights issues, the group’s “13 Guiding Principles” also tells “comrades” to be “committed to embracing and making space for trans siblings to participate and lead” as well as help “dismantle cis-gender privilege.”

The group also teaches kids that it is “committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement.”

It instead advocates “supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, and especially ‘our’ children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.”

The Department of Education did not immediately respond to requests for comment.